Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-05-12
NuBB1Ns OF FARM NEWS.

n cure LUZ ioCoeu cattle mas Deeu us.
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, 1856, 900 board feet.
Green bugs are reported in Oklahoma,
but the State board of agriculture says
that they have Gone 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 to
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 $t00,000,000.
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 bear.
Secretary Wilson has adv ised the park
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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 more favor
able season for seeding has not been
hnown in years. The seeding OF small
grains is well on toward completion
A man of Birmingham, ~ Ia, has pur-
chased the Rodriguez ranch of al 200
acres in the State of Durango, Mexico,
for 81 100000. 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 station 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 win soon
be seed enough to supply all the arid dis
tricts.
The Red River valley. in Minnesota,
win grow thousands of acres of new
cover this year, and there will also be a
larger acreage of oats an barley, with
a corresponding decrease IL fax acreage.
The farmers there are preparing to go
more extensively into stock raising.
Tive Department of Agriculture an
nouuces that the average condition of
winter wheat on April 1 was 9I.3 per
cent. against 500 per cent on April /,
1907. SOL on April j. 1906: GIG on
April /. 1905, and S6-2. the ten-year av-
erage. The average condition of rye on
April was S9-1. against 92 on April ],
1907. and a ten-year average of 500.
In the federal court at Helena, Mont.
Judge Hunt signed memorandum order
dismissiug the suit of C. z. WhaIey
against the Northern Pacific Railway
Company, instituted for the purpose OF
ouietinx title to large tract of land ia
the Bitter Root valley. The case hinges
npou the Stevens treaty with the Indians.
who ceded the land 10 Congress and the
railway company later claimed il under
land grant. The case was tried orig
iually in the land Office. the railroad win
ming in each decision Judge Hunt held
that the plaintiff had not acted ia good
faith Several suits Of similar nature
involving ether tracts were dismissed ~
the sane time.