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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-03-26
Ohio Republican PIatform.

With few additions and with the
elimination of matters referring exclu-
sively to state affairs. the platform
adopted by the Republicans of Ohio
might with judgment and propriety,
be chosen as the voice of the party
when its representatives assemble at
Chicago in national conference.
Words cannot be framed to express
a stronger Endorsement of the Presi-
dent and of his policies than is con-
tanned in the Ohio announcement.
Reference is made TO these policies, in
Guiding both those which have already
been put in effective operation. such
as the rate bill. and those for the legal
enactment of which all the energies of
the administration are bent, such as
the employers liability law, greater
navy and merchant marine, an expan.
Sive system of internal waterway i'm.
provements and a national board Of
health.
The tariff is disposed of in SEN
tence. which is an unequivoca declara-
ton for revision by the next Congress
assembled for that purpose on n pure
~ protective basis that will take into
account the interests of the producers,
farmers. wage earners and manufac-
turers. 1t covers the ground without
waste of words.
The demand that the civil and politi-
cal rights Of the colored man De re-
spected in conformity to the letter and
with the Recommendation that in those
States where these rights are withheld
the representation In Congress and the
electoral college be reduced, will be
heartily approved by every citizen who
believes in justice and equal opportun-
ity.
Reverting to local issues, the plat
form briefly reviews the record of the
present administration for economy
and efficiency and makes many recon-
mendations, including the extension of
the merit system, competitive bidding
for supplies in state institutions.
compulsory primary election law, SUI
pervision of state banks and trust COM
panies, the abolition of child labor, inn
provement of public highways, the
restoration of the canals and the re-
peal of the bill authorizing political
parties to make the approval or dis
approval of proposed constitutional
amendments a part of their ticket.
The platform declares likewise in ia
vor of a law whereby the people In
political subdivisions shall have di-
rect voice in the matter of grants and
franchises for the use of the streets,
highways and other public property.
This is opposed to the pet scheme of
Tom Johnson, who is supposed to be
sponsor for bill now before the legis-
lature the purpose of which is to per-
nit new company to succeed to ex-
pired franchise rights without the con-
sent of the peOple-TOledO Blade.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-03-26
NUBBINS OF FARM NEWS.

Farming in New Mexico has been given
great impetus during the past few
years by the work of the farmers insti
tutes and many unproductive values have
been turned into rich grain and fruit
fields.
Frank Donnelly of the town of Oak
Grove, Barron county, Wis, was bitten
four weeks ago by vicious boar, and
blood poisoning set in. from the effects of
which he died after three weeks of suf-
fering.
Forty young Indians have been received
at the government Indian agricultural
school at Wahpeton, y. ID. Most of the
young students are from Fort Berthold
but a few of them are from the Sisseton
reservation.
A movement has been started for the
organization of the various farmer ele-
vator companies in South Dakota. \
meeting has been held in Sioux Falls and
about 30 per cent of the managers have
expressed themselves as favorable to the
plan.
Prof. Shepperd recently shipped to Rus
STA samples of North Dakota corn for
the purpose of aiding corn growing in
that country. The Russian experiment
stations are doing the same thing as our
own. endeavoring to push the corn limits
northward.
Because of the heavy demand for pris-
on Irvine the warden of the Minnesota
State prison has been authorized to work
the prisoners overtime for three hours
each day, allowing each man who works
% cent. for the three hours. The supply
of Irvine now on hand has already been
sold.
At a meeting in Sioux Falls the indie
pendent elevator men of South Dakota
organized what is known as the Farmers
Grain Dealers Association of South Da-
kota.
About 1000 delegates attended the
meeting of the Farmers Grain Dealers
Association at Fort Dodge, Iowa, where
problems connected with the business were
discussed. Old officers were reelected.
The corn huskers of Iowa formed a
union last fall and put up prices, but in
some places the farmers baked and turn
ed their pigs into their corn fields This
broke up the union and prices now range
from 3 to cents per bushel for husking.
The Minnesota drainage commission
has let contracts for work aggregating
$4,000 in cost, to be done this season.
Beekeepers of southeastern Minnesota
and southwestern Wisconsin met at WI
mona and took action looking to lower
freight rates. The pure food laws were
condemned Heavy losses in bees during
the past winter are reported.
Judge Hunt in the federal court at
Helera Mont. after sentencing four cat
tlemen to pay fines ranging from 500 to
$3.50. and TO serve from two to ten days
in Jail. said the time for light sentences
has passed. and hereafter stockmen con-
victed of Illegal fencing viii be given am
pie time to reflect.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-03-26
AYeraEa Must Re Raised.

Professor P. c. Holden In his A B G
Of Corn Culture, says that while the
average yield of corn In the United
States is less than twenty-five bushels
per acre. yet there are hundreds and
thousands Of farmers who produce
sixty and seventy, and often eighty and
ninety bushels per acre. Il have in
mind" he says, scores of instances
where of two fields, just across the
road from each other, or perhaps ad-
joining, but on different farms, one
yielded more than seventy bushels and
the other less than twenty, yet the
land values were the same and the la
Dor required to produce the twenty
bushel crop as great as to produce the
seventy-bushel crop. If one man can
produce sixty and seventy bushels pr
acre, the other man can do it also, and
not only that, but must do Ii. il we are
to achieve our agricultural possiblli-
ties"
Test your corn carefully, and if II
is found defective send away at once
for supply, but test that also.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-03-26
The dminisfratiOn's Record.

i do not rise at this time for the pur-
pose of defending the present admin
istration. 1t needs no defense with the
American people. Its record will IL
lumine the pages of United States his
tory and mark an epoch in popular gov
ernment. To it the student of the flu
ture will point as the period when the
people came into the possession of their
own by establishing as facts the there
tofore theories of a republic where by
legislation and administration it was
declared that special interests must not
prevail when in conflict with the com
mon good and that Federal law is en-
acted for no class or financial cCHdi-
ton, but for the people-not the rich
people, not the white, not the black,
but all of the people. rich and poor,
great and small white and black.-Con-
gresham Townsend of Michigan.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-03-26
Industry of Bees.

When you eat a spoonful of honey
you have very little notion as to the
amount of work and travel necessary
TO produce it. To make 1 pound of
clover honey bees must deprive $1,000
clover blossoms of their nectar, and TO
do this requires 2,750,0o0 visits to the
one bee TO collect enough nectar to
make 1 pound of honey must go from
hive to flower and back 2,I50OOO times.
Then, when you think how far these
bees sometimes fly in search of these
clover fields. oftener than not one or
two miles from the hive, you will be-
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-03-26
Care OF the Young Calf.

When a young calf is taken from its
dam, there is more or less difficulty in
raising it. Some mistakes are usually
made, the result being scours. The nat
ural food Of the calf is fresh, warm
milk, and tire milk given 1t after 1t Is
parted from the COW should also be
fresh and warm. IL skim milk is used
there will be a lack of cream. which
is important, so far as the welfare of
the calf is concerned. One who has
been successful adds raw egg, well
shaken, with the milk, at each meal.
Flaxseed meal, cooked until a jelly
Is formed, may be used with the milk,
a gill at each meal being sufficient at
first Do not overfeed, but give lit
tie milk at time and often, at a tenn
perature of 95 degrees.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-03-26
Specfes of Al6larfa,

There are about eight species Of
alfilaria growing In the United States,
region. The most valuable and the
one that has made such progress on
the ranges is the red stemmed alfilaria
(Erodium ccutarium). This species IS
a hairy, slightly viscid. erect or as
cending herbaceous winter annual from
six to eight inches high. Its flowers
are lilac or purple. and the plant pos
sesses generally pronounced musky
odor. During the winter it forms a
compact, many leaved rosette from ten
to twelve inches in diameter, from
which the stems are thrown up during
the spring months.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-03-26
Cutting Back Trees.

In highly interesting experiments at
the Woburn (England) experimental
fruit farm in cutting lack apple trees
when planted the ultimate result was
found TO be that trees not cut
back until the end of the first year con-
tinued to form wood in subsequent
years. and the crop borne by them dur
ing the first ten years was only one
third of that borne by those which were
cut back when planted.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-03-26
A Windbreak.

A windbreak consists of one or two
rows of trees planted primarily for
the purpose of checking the force of
the wind. The term shelter belt" Is
applied TO larger groups of trees which
form forest conditions and serve a
protective purpose. Any species which
is adapted TO the region may be used
for windbreaks. Where evergreens
will succeed, however, they are more
desirable, since they afford better win
ter protection than deciduous trees. A
windbreak consisting Of a single row
should be composed of densely grow
ing species, with branches close to the
ground
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-03-26


Large Earnings of a Small Farm.
The dairy department of the Illinois
Experiment Station has recently pub
lished a bulletin giving the methods
that were used, whereby Il dairyman
in Illinois realized gross income Of
2,150 from a ninety-six-acre dairy
farm. The owner of this farm, Charles
Foss, began dairying in 1900. His cows
the first year averaged about ITO
pounds of butter fat. The first four
years he received an average annual
Income of 800 from his COWS, $500
from his hogs and $500 from his grain
Last year his income from the same
farm was 5000 for hogs, S1,15O from
his dairy and enough from other
sources TO run his gross income up to
50, 150 Three years ago Mr.. Foss
started out to follow the advice given
by the dairy department of the Hi
MOI ton, and as result his four
teen COWS that year averaged $500
pounds of milk, containing pa pounds
of butter fat, while the following year
the fourteen COWS averaged 7,105
pounds of milk, containing 80 pounds
of butter fat; the third year the same
COWS, during 1906, averaged SO57
pounds of milk, containing 307 pounds
of butter fat per COW.
The increase in the yield of milk was
due largely to the better feeding meth
dds employed, and especially TO the
fact that silage was fed during the
winter and soiiing crops were provided
for use during the summer drought,
thus preventing a reduction of the milk
flow BY weighing and testing the
milk. Mr.. Foss was able to sell the low
producers and by the use of the silo
he was able to balance his ration with
out greatly increasing the cost.
Three hundred and seven pounds of
butter fat means 35S pounds of butter.
This means an income of $3.50 per
COW when butter sells at an average
of % cents per pound. 1t is pointed
out in the bulletin referred to that a
herd of twenty-five or more cows could
easily be kept on the same income
would amount TO 1854. Adding TO
this the value of the hogs and other
products produced on the farm, the to-
tai income would be S3,714 from the
ninety-six acres, or S3SS6 per acre a.
pure-bred sire Is being used In this
herd, the idea being to keep up the
number by raising heifer calves from
the best COWS.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-03-26
4 TOuch.

by the use of little cleyerness, ="
began Brokeley, Il know way to Sc
cure very excellent substitute for
gold"
How asked Markley, eagerly.
ASK for silver Haven't got a half
dollar or 50 about you. have your
Philadelphia Press.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-03-26
Nothing TO BE Gained

Here's doctor who says that wo-
men could live TO be hundred years
of age if they'd take proper care Of
themselves.
The world would never find it out,
however, If they did they'd never tell
their Houston Post.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-03-26

Gunner-Harker appears to be in a
good humor to-day.
Guyer-No wonder. He smashed a
dozen records last night.
Gunner-Great Jupiter, Bowling
records?
Guyer-No. the records Of his wife's
photograph. Now he can get some rest
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-03-26

Tommy-Do you believe it is fortu-
nate to be the seventh son?
Micky-Naw I'm the seventh son.
Tommy-But the fortune tellers say
the seventh son has all kinds Of luck
handed down to him.
Micky-Huhl All 1 have handed
down to me is six brothers old clothes.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-03-26
Progressive.

The Friend suppose your son Is
making satisfactory Roadway at col
lege?
The Father Ga football fanl-You
bet he is. You just ought to see him
bucking the center.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-03-26

This government report states that
the American Indian is very elusive"
remarked the boarder who is always
reading the papers.
HIM grunted the comedian board
er as he stirred up his oatmeal; 1T
must allude to the Indians on the
grcenbacks and the new ten-dollar
gold pieces
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-03-26
A Year Later.

Before our marriage" remarked the
freight payer of the combine, Il had
a light heart"
and now" queried the alleged bet
ter half.
81 have a light pocketbook,' he re
Dlied
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-03-26
For Pigs on Pasture.

At the Iowa Experiment Station Il
ration Of corn alone on timothy pas
ture produced the cheapest gains in
weight of any of the rations fed TO
pigs on pasture, but the mixed rations
produced the greatest total net profits
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-03-26
And Ont of Mimi

Said He-Just look at Miss De
Styles get-up. Doesn't she look out
of sight?
Said She (enviously)-Yes and the
rest of the adage, too.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-03-26
,,e,n,inex, nna GoaI,ne...

Dusty Dan-Dc parson said as how
sinners would be washed as. white
as snow.
Soiled Sam-Gee! If OATS right
we'd better be gettin' out Nv de sinner
class.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-03-26
A big Difference,

First Passenger lin street carl
wish you'd get off at the next corner
Second Passenger the car?
First Passenger-No; off my foot
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-03-26
A. the Florists.

Flora-Is there much money in the
flower business?
Florist-At least there are a few
scents
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-03-26
The Usual Way.

Mrs. Brown--Where did Mrs. Close
wad go for her winter suit?
Mrs. Jones-Through her husband s
pockets.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-03-26
New old Friend,

| 81 suppose you met an old friend
you hadn't seen for years. as usuaiT
"N't'all. mdear. Met mol fr'nd I
nevr met b'for'! !"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-03-26

gin to get small idea of the number
Of miles one of the Industrious little
creatures must travel in order that you
may have the pound of honey.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-03-26

Ringbones on horses are often caused
by letting the toes grow too long.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-03-26

Some of the leading growers prefer
to trim fruit trees this month rather
than early spring.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-03-26

Buttermilk saved from the last
churning makes a good starter for the
cream for the next churning.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-03-26

The value of the worlds railways is
calculated at $27,775,00O,OOO-
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-03-26

Let the sheep do their own grinding
when it comes to feeding oats.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-03-26
SSSSSSSSSSS

Good feed all the year improves good
blood
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-03-26

The best way to make the farm
profitable is to keep animals and sol
In healthy, vigorous condition.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-03-26

Prof. Wiley of the agricultural de-
partment declares enough cornstaks
go to waste in this country from
which alcohol could be made sufficient
to drive all the machinery of our fac
tories besides furnishing the requisite
power for all the railroads and steam
boats of the country, run all the auto
mobiles, light and heat all our houses
and furnish light for the streets of
every city In the union. VIII ever an
enormous waste be devised?
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-03-26

Here is a good idea for the hog
breeder: Put a peck of sand in tight
bags and sew up, then If the sOws far
row on cold or wet days you can put
the chilled pigs into blanket lined
basket on the sand bag which has
been previously heated in the kitchen
oven. The little pigs soon dry off In
this way.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-03-26

A person in the country never real
ICES how smoky the city is until he per-
chance spends day or two there. The
dense atmosphere OF the metropolis al
ways recalls the story Of the English
man who lived in certain seaport
that was extremely foggy, and once in
shingling house the fog was so dense
he shingled right over the peak on into
space.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-03-26

According TO the most recent returns,
there are in Switzerland about a quar-
ter of a million beehives, or one 10
every twelve inhabitants. The yield
of scientifically constructed frame
hive often reaches 100 pounds of honey
per season. The yield from a "skep," or
old-fashioned straw hive, is much
smaller. The honey harvest may be
taken at some four pounds per head of
the resident population.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-03-26

Be up-to-date in your farm methods.
Know what manufacturers are doing
chinery, and study the best Of the farm
literature to know what agricultural
experts are finding out about the cult
walton and growing of crops.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-03-26

Five million dollars have recently
been spent in Australia on Fencing TO
keep the rabbits from agricultural land.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-03-26

If there is not a cool balance struck
between the feed bucket and the milk
pail you better serve notice on your
cow that her room is better than her
company Get rid of the Improbable
COW.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-03-26

Perhaps a little carpenter work
Just such as most any farmer can do
will add considerably to the comfort
Of the COW stable the pig pen or the
hen house Better attend to it now
before severe weather sets in.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-03-26

Do you know whether your logs are
getting heavier or not? Don't guess at
1t Have some scales and drive them
Oh them once in while so that you can
know about 1t. That's the way to find
out whether your money is counting or
not
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-03-26

There is one crop which is produced
In a weedy field that most people fail
to take into account. This is crop
OF rabbits.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-03-26

The winter time Is the busy season
for getting ideas for next season work.
Do lots of reading, lots of thinking,
lots Of planning.
The Washington times., 1908-12-13
WANT WILSON PRESIDENT

DENVER, Col, Dec 13.-As soon as
GovernOr-elect Shafroth goes lnto Of
tice on January l he viii appoint new
members on the board OF trustees of
the Colorado Agricultural College.
which viii be instructed to offer Sec
retary of Agriculture Wilson the DO
sitiOn OF president of the institution.
10 succeed the Rev. Barton o. Avles-
worth. against whom serious Charges
have been filed
The Washington times., 1908-12-13

The Famous American Beauty
as grown by Guide reaches It's perfection
1t Is the highest type OF horticulture.
1914 F.-Advt.