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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-09-13
Dig Ont the MILK Pail.

OF course everybody washes their
milk pals and cans and pitchers, but
not everyone digs out the deposit that
forms in the corners and under the
overhanging rims. Yet these deposits
contain an assortment of the germs
that have grown in the previous patches
Of milk. They are like chunks Of yeast
and start up sOuring in the milk in the
same way that yeast makes bread fer
ment. Even though the germs are
scalded to death new ones soon fall on
the deposit and then conditions are as
bad as ever. Cleanliness of every hid
safe
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-09-13
Change.

when old Uncle Weatherby was a
poor farmer he used to go up to town
and eat pie with a carving fork. The
people smiled"
you don't say
''Then later on be began eating it
with tablespoon. The people laughed"
Il don't blame them"
From that he changed to a knife.
They roared."
"Great Scott. And IS he still stick
ing to the knife?''
@No. Since they foynd oil on his
farm and rated him as millionaire
he eats pie with his fingers and every
body mods his approval and says ne is
hizarren
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-09-13
The College Bred Farmer.

Prof. L. H. Bailey, director of the Cor.
nell university college of agriculture, in
the third of his series of articles for The
Century, gives the result of his inquiry
among his students as to what practice
use they expected to put their education.
OF the ITO replies received, seventy-eight
were those of students reared on the farm.
Of these, sixty-eight desired to go into
practical farming and then to teaching
and experimental work. OF the sixty-nine
students reared in town or city, forty
four wish to go into practical farming
fourteen into teaching, eight into. land
scape gardening and the rest undecided.
Of the fourteen women students, two
want to become practical fal1ners and
twelve teachers of nature study and agri-
culture. OF the eighteen foreign students,
fifteen wish to return to the farm and
three to enter experimental work. Prof.
Bailey says that the agricultural college
is now teaching from the farm rather than
from the academic point OF view
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-09-13

Josh Drone is the LATEST man in
seven states" drawled the storekeeper
at Bacon Ridge.
whats he been doing now?" asked
the cheese counter loafers
''Wa-al, you know he was always so
lazy he waited for the lightning to
split his kindling wood:"
Yep"
And the food to wash his windows?'
yep"
''Wa-al, now he's read somewhere
that in the east hailstones thrashed a
farmers wheat and ever since he has
been sitting in an easy chair praying for
A hailstorm.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-09-13
New Volcanic Island Visited

Officers Of the revenue cutter service
were able to explore on July 20 the new
volcanic island in the Bogoslof group Of
the Bering sea, although it was still very
hot from the action of the volcano which
threw it up ten days prior to that. A
great column of smoke and steam contin-
ued to rise over this newborn isle At
the northern end the land Sses abruptly
TO 400 feet, and on the west to a height
of 700 feet. Notwithstanding that, the
surface was still warm and soft the ex-
plorers assembled to the summit
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-09-13

Prof. W. H. Brewer of the Sheffield
scientific school, addressing the national
convention Of veterinary surgeons, said he
wanted to see the time come when horse
meat would be freely eaten, and he
thought that there was less chance of dis
ease in its use.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-09-13
An 4 Milf.

Yer honor" protested the seedy
prisoner, dis is jist a case o perlice
Deyse tryin' ter keep me
down, yer honor. You amt goin' ter
let 'em keep me down. are YER"
Certainly not, replied the magiS-
trate. I'm going to send YOU up for
ninety days. "-Philadelphia Ledger.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-09-13
The Country,s Prosperity

Statistics recently published by the
Bureau of Labor at Washington speak
eloouently of the widespread prosperity
of the country. The slack" in the labor
market is all taken up and the supply
of laborers is not equal to the demand.
If men are Idle 1t is from choice and
Iot because of lack of employment.
Two years ago the people Of the coua
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-09-13
The Usual Way.

Which hen is it that cackles so
much louder and longer than all the
reSt?" asked the farmers wife
It's that big Speckled one over
there" said the hired man. The one
that lays those measly little eggs about
the size of a bantam'S. Detroit Free
Press
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-09-13
Salt for Poultry.

Salt is as essential for poultry as
for humans or animals, but it is not
wise TO feed it by itself. The better
way is to use it to season the food
whenever that can be done The warm
mash in the winter, whether fed morn
ing or night, gives one an opportunity
to supply several condiments which
could not be so readily given to the
fowls in any other way.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-09-13
To Cure Mango in Horses.

A horseman who has had trouble
with horses in this way says he cures
mango readily in the use of the follow
ing: Take one quart melted hogs
lard, add one teacupful Of kerosene oil,
two cupfuls dry flowers of sulphur
mix these all together thoroughly while
the lard is warm. When nearly cold,
add one ounce of carbolic acid crystals.
Melt the crystals and stir very thor
oughly in the mixture. Apply warm
by using a swab and rubbing it in very
thoroughly twice a week. When ap-
piled for mango, use freely and rub
in very thoroughly"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-09-13
No Dizziness AnyMhere

PA" said little Willie, looking up
from his book, what is "a comatose
state'?'
well, my son" replied Willie's pa.
"just at present there isn't single
comatose state in the union; all hus-
Ting and prosperous. -Philadelphia
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-09-13
Weather Projection for stocb

Ali kinds of farm stock should be
protected from storms, even in sum
mer. They should be brought home
from the fields and put under shelter
until the storm subsidies. This will be
very little trouble. as they will readily
do so. they requiring but & short time
to understand that they are better off
by sc doing.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-09-13
The shrevvd borrower.

''Trimble came into my Office to-day
and asked me for So
"Of course you refused him."
No l let him have it Immediately.
He was smoking one of those rope
stogies and | wanted to get him out
and get the window OPEN Cleveland
Plain Dealer.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-09-13
Modest.

"Rimer had a poem accepted by
Scribbler's Magazine"
Eyes. and he's taken to the back
woods"
What for?"
HE says he hates like thunder to be
lionized Philadelphia Press.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-09-13
ApDIes Rafting on Trees.

Throughout the big producing sec,
tons of Illinois the long continued damp
and hot weather has produced an alarm
ing amount of bitter rot. Heroic efforts
are being made to stamp it out by picking
the rotten fruit.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-09-13
Anfisfrenuous.

Rickett-I say, Easyun, how did you
happen to marry a widow?
Easyun-Oh, I did my counting as 1
do everything else-along the line Of
least resistance.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-09-13

You are taking great deal of in
terest in this investigation"
"Yes," answered the statesman. II
have to give it close personal atten-
ton. / want to make sure it doesn't
develop anything l don't care to have
known. Washington Star.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-09-13
Grating Wax.

A grating wax used at the Maine
experiment station is composed of one
half pound raw linSeed oil, one pound
beeswax, four pounds resin. Melt to-
gether and pull like candy.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-09-13
Cart Before the Horse.

1t was great mistake for the people
of Russia to attempt to secure a perfect
government before 10-cent magazines were
Inter Mountain.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-09-13
Rape for Fall Pasture

The merit of rape as a fall pasture
crop for hogs depends entirely on its
growing chances before killing frosts
occur. Give it fifty days of growing
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-09-13

Sir Andrew Fraser, Governor of Ben
gal, virtual ruler of 100000 people,
is the active president of the Calcutta
IN. C. A.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-09-13

N. Dlcasse, ex-Minister of Foreign
Affairs of France, intends to visit this
country for a short trip.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-09-13
Cabbage Snakes.

The so-called cabbage snake Is not
a snake, but a many-legged worm Of
the Myriapoda or thousand-leg family
of insects. They are frequently thrown
beds, or in gardens in the spring, ac-
cording to a recent bulletin from the
Kentucky Agricultural Experiment Sta
ton. 1t lives upon insects and is not
harmful to man, and is easily seen, be-
ing about two inches long.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-09-13

weather and rape abundantly repays
for the labor and total cost where
either hogs, sheep, or calves are to be
" a catch crop. Planted in succession,
beginning early in the season. rape
yields a succession of crops truly re-
markable for their abundance of green
feed
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-09-13
The Democratic Keynote.

Mr. Bryan's address in New York was
not very impressive. Its Importance lies,
of course, in the fact that Mr. Bryan,
as the probable choice of his party for
the presidency two years hence, took
occasion to formulate, or to restate, his
political creed, which expresses the
floating and not very logically related
opinions and purposes, convictions and
prejudices finally becoming coherent as
his party's policy.
The address was not free from the
faint of petty partisanship, as where
he ascribed to the Republican party
solely-and under the eyes of Tam
many at that all the evils of that cor
rupt alliance of bossism and business
which Republicans are fighting as sim
cerely and more effectually to-day than
Democrats. This reminds us that Mr..
Bryan is politician at all times.
SO far as his political proposals are
concerned, the most ralical is his ref
erthce to government ownership Of rail
roads, a problem so enormous, so COM
plicated and so far from critical that
Mr.. Bryan's views upon it may we'll be
deemed as academic as Mr.. Bryan's SEN
timental friendliness for theoretic So
cialism.
The tariff passage was expected, and
all the congratulations on liberty, plu-
tocracy and democracy.
The address was protestant through
out, but it was singularly lacking in
practical assurance and defniteness.
Its ideas are familiar, some of them
worn with much use, and, spread before
the reader In columns of print, they
must seem nutritious and disappoint-
ing, even to his sympathetic followers.
No wonder those who were standing
during It's delivery wandered away long
before its close.-Chicago Post.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-09-13

Eva-YeS, at first my chaperon in
sisted upon light in the parlor. Why,
Jack actually kissed her in mistake for
me.
Edna-Gracious And what did she
say?
Eva-Nothing. only now she insists
upon the parlor being dark every night.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-09-13

The insurance loss on the Palace hotel,
San Francisco, has been adjusted at ST.
3O2,61O, distributed among ninety-eight
companies. Earthquake damage was fixed
ct per cent, the rest to fire.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-09-13

In buying COW try to buy the COW
that the seller wants to keep. She Is
the good COW.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-09-13

! try were busy and yet more than 8 per
cent more men are employed now than
at that time and the average wages are
more than per cent higher than TWEEN
| ty-four months ago. Wages per hour
last year were 10 per cent higher than
| they were ten years ago. OF course,
food supplies cost more, for the ten
dency is always for an advance in foods
during eras of great prosperity.
| Last year more than million Euro
| pean laborers came to this country, and
| another million are coming this year.
| They are quickly assimilated, and the
| cry is for more laborers. Employment
agencies all over the country are asking
| for more and there is a shortage in ey-
cry section. Even Canada is trying to
divert the emigrants to the Northwest
and every man willing and able to work
has no difficulty in finding it.
This year the farmers again have
| bumper crops. Perhaps never before IN
the history of the country have the agri-
culturists been blessed with such q de-
gree of material wealth. This gives a
| substantial foundation to the country's
prosperity, and unless there should
come a period Of wild speculation there
| is not a cloud in the financial skies The
square DEAF policy of the national adj
ministration gives a feeling of security !;
there are no internal or international
complications, and from whatever
standpoint the situation is viewed, it
gives promise of a peaceful and fruit
| full future.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-09-13

lots so that they can be sent to mar
ket early.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-09-13
Married Teachers Must Resign.

The Boston school authorities have de-
cided that the marriage of woman
teacher shall be equivalent to her resigna-
ton. a new rule provides that girls shall
not be whipped, nor boys in the kinder
garten or high school grades. Otherwise
no pupil is to be punished in sight OF
another, and the only form Of whipping
permitted is with a rattan upon the hand.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-09-13

Egg shells furnish material for new
shells. Do not feed them, though, I'M
less finely pulverized, for there is dan
ger of teaching the hens to eat eggs.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-09-13

Whenever the swinging motion of a
hoe is made as popular as the swinging
motion Of 8 baseball bat, then boys
can't be kept from the garden.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-09-13

1t never pays to be next year farm
er, and yet it pays as we'll as it does
to be a last years farmer. Don't put
off any farming for tomorrow that can
be done today
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-09-13

One cannot be too good to ones horse
when it comes to making stalls. Nat
urally one would think that the wider
the stall the more comfortable the
horse would be. But the wider stall
may be dangerous after all. The horse
is more apt to try to roll in a wide
stall, and is more in danger of getting
fast than he would be in a narrow stall.
A medium width is best.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-09-13

The corn grower seldom whines be
cause the weather Is too hot
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-09-13

Separate sheep and cows. They don't
do we'll together. The cows are par
ticularly sensitive about the places in
the pasture where the sheep have
trampled the grass down and left their
droppings. Many farmers pasture their
cows and sheep together, but they al
ways do it at a loss.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-09-13

A man needs all his Sunday school
training to teach a calf to drink. The
inclination of the calf is to do what
he believes to be right. When the
teacher does as we'll along the lines of
what he knows to be right he will be
better teacher. 1t requires self-con-
troll when a calf gives a snort and fills
ones watch pocket full of milk.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-09-13

Sometimes the things we do the best
are not worth doing at all One Of the
hardest things we often do seems most
easy. 1t is in shaking hands with trou-
BILE before we meet it.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-09-13

Long and hard pulling makes wind
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-09-13

Many farmers are thwarting the rat
nuisance by placing concrete founda-
lions under their cribs and granaries.
The expense is a little more in the be-
ginning, but there is saving in the
long run
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-09-13

The dairy ration should be paIatable.
1t should be nutritious. 1t should be
digestible, abundant and as inexpen-
sive as possible after the other essen
tials are secured. But we should never
lose sight of the fact that no ration
is ever good enough or cheap enough
to coax a profit out of a worthless cow.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-09-13

That dairyman who in addition to all
his other necessary work pumped by
hand the daily water supply for his
herd Of twenty cows operated his bust
ness at a tremendous economic disad-
vantage There is a saving that is
wasteful ana economies that are ex-
pensive.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-09-13

The chicks should have varied ra-
ton as we'll as the older fowls. 1t
helps digestion and undoubtedly they
enjoy the change. 1t has been said
that a bill of fare is as necessary in
the poultry yard as in our own house
hold, for best results, and it certainly
Is true.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-09-13

Whenever a man does anything that
he knows to be radically wrong he won
ders what he has against himself that
leads him to do such a thing. We are
constantly getting into trouble in this
manner.
The heavily padded collar is not the
thing for hot weather. 1t is all right
in cold weather when heavy drawing is
at hand, but when warm weather comes
there should be a different collar ar
rangement.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-09-13

Have you ever tried having summer
collars for horses in summer and winter
collars for winter? 1t IS a good plan
and leads to fewer sore shoulders.
Horses shoulders are not the same
shape or size in winter that they are
In summer.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-09-13

Some of the very accurate writer's
are given pain because western farm
ern farmers insist on calling it dehorn-
ing. The correct writer says it is
"dishorning." Whatever it is, it means
removing the horns, and most farmers
understand what that Is.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-09-13

A Missouri farmer has tried baling
clover hay as he made 1t. He cuts his
clover one day and rakes it up and
bales it the next and stores it in sheds,
leaving small spaces between the bales
for air. He reports results as satisfac-
tory.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1906-10-18
FROM
THE DARK CELL
Continued from Page one).

local jail. He was placed i'm the dark
cell, as matter of discipline, early one
evening. All he had with him was
bucket and it was the bucket that en-
ablcd him to get out As he was
taken into the cell he must have quick
~ sized up the situation before the
closing of the door made everything
black, and in one glance he evidently
saw how to work.
He used the bucket handle" said
High Sheriff Henry "and screwed the
door hinges so that he was able to set
the door aside. The screws were placed
on the door many years ago, before my
term, and l had always supposed that
they were so fastened that manipulation
from the inside was impossible They
are so fastened now. But this Porto
Rican found them in the dark and
with the handle of his bucket be moved
them. In the Jail yard he got a wooden
form and set it up against the wall.
1t reached just high enough so that
he could get his fingers on the top of
the wall and that was enough for him.
He scaled the wall and jumped down ON
the other side. 1t was a wonderful
escape
1--WE got him back eight days later
and l didn't punished him at all. The
dark cell is fixed now"
The high sheriff "sized up the re-
cent robbery and murderous assault as
probably the work of Colon, as soon
as he heard of the crimes. He stated
to Star representative several days
ago and before the crime had been
laid at the door of Colon, that it looked
like Colons work, or that of his partner
whom the sheriff also expects to have
for a lodger again ere long.
! Colon is a very unwelcome customer
in the Jail. He has to be watched con-
stantly. On one occasion he made a
sudden attack on the luna of his gang
striking him on the mouth and telling
him to the ground. The guard con-
tracted a loathsome disease from the
bruise made by the prisoners hand
mo one is safe within six feet of him
even when he is in jail" said the
sheriff.