Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-05-07
NUBBINs OF FARM NEWS.

A cure for 'locoed" cattle has been dis
covered by the experts of the government
Agricultural Department.
Robert Mcclure, Pennsylvania farm.
er, is the father of twenty-one children
of whom eighteen are living.
The lumber cut of the United States
last year was the largest on record, be.
ing 1850, 10000 board feet.
Green bugs are reported in Oklahoma
but the State board of agriculture says
thai they have done little damage this
year.
The Iowa experiment station is making
an apple storage experiment to find out
the best method of keeping apples fol
winter use.
A herd of 100 cows at the Illinois East.
ern hospital has been condemned as tuber
cular This action followed tests made
by State inspectors.
The st. Paul road is planning to abol
ish the baling rate on wool shipments tc
the East, which will save the shipper
about 10 cents per 100 pounds.
About $4,000 acres of land along the
western border of Utah have been dis
covered overtopped with salt. The value
of the lands is estimated at S40O,OOO,O00
A freak horse covered with long curly
hair was sold recently on the Chicago
horse market The animal resembled a
buffalo in color and had a swinging walk
like a bear.
Secretary Wilson has advised the park
authorities of New York City to grow
potatoes or corn in Central Park to get
a stand of grass. Potatoes will proba-
bly, be the crop grown.
Reports from all sections of Minnesota
and the Dakotas state that a more favor
able season for seeding has not been
known in years. The seeding of small
grains is well on toward completion.
A man Of Birmingham, Ala, has pur-
chased the Rodriguez ranch of All 200
acres in the State of Durango, Mexico,
for S1,2O0,0OO. Included in the deal are
$4,000 head of goats and 5000 cattle.
Prince Victor Naryan of India is in
the United States to take course in ag-
riculture at Cornell university. After
completing his course he will go South
and get experience in the tobacco fields.
The Wisconsin experiment STATEN has
proved that sugar beets can be grown
successfully in northern Wisconsin. In
tests they yielded 1888 per cent of sugar.
Thirty farmers in Grant and Haskell
counties. Kansas, have entered into con-
tract with the Agricultural Department
to give thorough test to some species of
dry land alfalfa which experts have just
picked up in Peru, South America. The
department has furnished them with
enough seed to plant ten acres each. If
the experiment succeeds, there will soon
be seed enough to supply all the arid dis
tricts.
The Red River valley, in Minnesota,
will grow thousands of acres of new
clover this year, and there will also be a
larger acreage of oats and barley, with
a corresponding decrease in flax acreage.
The farmers there are preparing to go
more extensively into stock raising.
The Department of Agriculture an
nounces that the average condition of
winter wheat on April / was 91.3 per
cent. against 800 per cent ON April ],
1907: S9.1 on April /, 1906; 916 on
April 1, 1905. and $50, the ten-year av-
erage. The average condition of rye on
April / was S9.1. against 90 on April 1,
1907, and ten-year average Of S96.
In the federal court at Helena, Mont,
Judge Hunt signed a memorandum order
dismissing the suit of G. p. Whaley
against the Northern Pacific Railway
Company, instituted for the purpose OF
quoting title to a large tract of land in
the Bitter Root valley. The case hinged
upon the Stevens treaty with the Indians,
who coded the land to Congress and the
railway company later claimed it under
a land grant The case was tried orig
inally in the land office, the railroad win
ming in each decision. Judge Hunt held
that the plaintiff had not acted in good
faith. Several suits of similar nature
involving other tracts were dismissed ar
the same time