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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-10-29
Gathers Seed in October.

The first of October we go into the
cornfeld with sacks and gather seed
corn, taking the best ears from the 0eSt
stalks. This field selection of seed is
important. So much of the corn falls
down when the wind storms come. but
some stalks do not fall, and seed should
be selected from the latter; that is,
from the stalks that have good root
development. In selecting seed ears at
the crib, we cannot tell anything about
the stalk that produces those ears.
There is as much individuality in ears
of corn as there is in people. 1t is very
necessary to see the stalks upon which
our seed ears grow, and we should
select ears from only such stalks as
have the characteristics that we desire
in the stalks of the following crop.
Experiments in selecting seed from
tall and short stalks at the University
Of Illinois have developed two types Of
stalks, with an average difference of
20 inches in height. Both kinds yield
the same amount of grain, and the
shorter stalk Is much to be preferred
Hence, the ACCESSIBILITY of selecting
seed ears from short or medium stalks.
We tie the seed ears in a string and
hang them up in an open shed, where
they may dry out thoroughly
A. Rowe, Jacksonville, III.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-10-29
Use of Spraying Materials.

White arsenic is rarely adulterated.
so that it is usually about 9S per cent
pure. Paris green contains but little
more than one-half as much arsenic
and the arsenate of lead pastes now on
the market contain from 40 to 30 per
cent of water, and are only a little
more than one-half as strong In arsenic
as paris green. In other words, one
should use about pounds of paris
green for l pound of white arsenic, and
pounds of arsenate of lead paste for
l pound Of paris green or pounds of
the paste for l pound of white arsenic.
On this basis the user should use about
: L. pounds of white arsenic made
up according to either formula in order
to have about the same amount of ar
senic as would be contained in the 10
pounds of arsenate of lead to be used
IN 100 gallons of water. If the arsen-
lie of lime is correctly made, as it can
be by the formulas, so that there is
little or no free arsenic In the solu-
tion, it would be safe to use it in place
or the arSenate of lead, and it would be
much cheaper. But there is always
some risk from using the arsenite of
lime in water; it is safer to use it with
the Bordeaux Mixture.-M. V. Singer
land in Rural New Yorker.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-10-29
Consider the Consequence.

A Democratic paper lectures Penn
sylvania manufacturing concern for
giving notice to it's men that it will
shut down if Bryan is elected. If such
is its purpose its notification is mat
ter of business, and may be of service
to those who will have time to look
elsewhere for job. The concerns that
give notice Of this kind will not be one
in a hundred of those that will neces-
sarily shut down if the next President
is Bryan, the free trader, the free sill
yer apostle, the advocate of the public
ownership of railroads and other issues
calculated to disturb business to its
foundations. The emergency currency
plank in the present Bryan platform is
a greenback utterance. Not many firms
will announce that they will stop if
Bryan is elected, but thousands may
find it compulsory to stop if the chronic
agitator, a man of proved fallacious
Judgment, is invested with the powers
of the presidential office,
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-10-29
Fatfening Turkeys.

The necessity for having turkeys in
good, plump condition before market
ing is pretty generally understood
among farmers. But there is consid-
cradle misunderstanding as to the cor
rect way to go about the matter.
Turkeys, If taken Alright, are easily
fattened; in fact, easier than most
other fowls. But one must go at IT in
the right way. If turkeys have had
free range all summer, you cannot fat
ter them with any satisfaction in an
Enclosure. The change will cause them
70 fret and refuse to eat, and thus you
will lose instead Of gain. Teach them
to come up every evening at least, and
then stuff them with all they will pos
sibly eat. You will soon find them
ranging at short distances only and
coming up even between feeding times.
Don't try to fatten the turkeys on
corn alone A close diet Of new corn
often results In bowel troubles for The
turkeys, just as 1t does for hogs, and
a sick turkey is usually a dead turkey.
desirable for several reasons. Equal
parts Of wheat, oats and corn make
good ration. Be sure and give them
all they will eat Of these grains, and,
to hurry matters along, it is desirable
TO give an occasional mash feed Of
equal parts of corn meal and wheat
mfddlings, which makes very rich
feed. especially if quantity of ground
beef scrap or green cut bone is added.
AS the turkey takes on fat the flesh
turns to rich golden color. If allowed
free range while the fattening process is
going on, the flesh gains in flavor and
tenderness in a way it cannot II the
birds were fattened in close quarters.
Agricultural Epitomist.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-10-29
as Mr.. Bryan, tried and seasoned, love.
TO make

as Mr.. Bryan, tried and seasoned, loves
to make.
Yet all who have come in personal
contact with Mr.. Taft have long .ncwn
the extraordinary vitality of the man.
He has been powerful from his youth.
His college mates were familiar with
his physical force and on the bench it
was his practice for years TO leap t.
the aid of colleagues when they began
to show signs of 0verwork
That strength of body qualities one
for the presidency would be the most
foolish Of arguments Still, the execu-
tive must have unusual vital force or
he would early break down under the
burden of the duties of his Office lie
must have strength not only for his
work, but also sufficient to throw off
the sense of his responsibilities WIZ 1
rest and recreation are imperative.
In Mr.. Taft the country will have n
President who is a powerful man both
physically and mentally. That he is dcs-
tined to become one of our strongest
Presidents is clear to all who have come
in contact with him.-Toledo Blade,
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-10-29
Real Mother of Trusfs


Bryan proposes to ''bust the trusts
by busting the tariff, which would
mean putting this country on a free
trade basis, and would effectively
bust American industry generally,
together with the opportunity for work
ing men and women to earn and obtain
American wages. A neat reply to Bryan
on this point was made at a meeting
held by the National Commercial and
Industrial League in New York, by
Edward Vroom, an actor, and who has
also gained recognition as an effective
political speaker. AS Bryan Is some
thing Of an actor himself, there was
fitness in his being so called down."
Mr. Vroom who has just returned from
England abiding to 'Dr." Bryan's nos
trum for curing trusts spoke as fol-
lows:
DR.. Bryan proposes to cure all our
ills with his anti-tariff pill as he for
merly proposed to do with his free
silver pill. He tells us that our pro-
tective tariff all in the interest of
the trust-that the trust would never
have been created if the tariff had not
existed. He chooses to ignore the fact
that in free trade England the trust
was first established; that free trade
England was the mother Of the trust
that in Birmingham and Liverpool in
Manchester, Bradford and the other
manufacturing centres of the British
Isles the huge textile, rubber and in
Vulnerable other trusts have been ere
ated and have f1ourished for years
where no protective tariff exists"
That is plain truth, and effectually
punctures the notion that free trade is
inimical to trusts.-Troy Times.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-10-29
Would ParalYze InduSfrY

The business men and the employed
wage Garner can see no benefit in a
change to Organism and they have
little sympathy with man whose
hope for success is based in a large
measure on having as many men IN
employed as possible. The unemployed
are being gradually absorbed by in
creasiag industry, and they will think
cd of idleness by precipitting a tariff
scare that would close the mills and
paralyze industry.-Jersey City Jour
nal.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-10-29
Iron Vonin for EoxHIa

iron Is perhaps the very best stimu-
liant that a fowl can have. and a good
tonic may be made up as follows: To
a quart of water add half a pound of
sulphate of iron and three or four drops
of sulphuric acid. When the iron crvs-
tails are dissolved the tonic is ready
Tor use, and will keep any length of
time
The amount to use is a tablespoonful
IN every quart Of drinking water. The
water containing this tonic must not be
put in iron or metal vessels. If this
is given to adult birds it will impart
tone to the system and give them a
bright, healthy appearance The egg
yield will be increased and the color of
the yolk brightened.-A. F. J. in the
Agricultural Gazette.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-10-29
No More Now than Then.

Do the people Of our State desire to
see the Dingley tariff law revised by
the Democratic party under the leader
ship of William J. Bryan, a man who
first came into notice as a member of
Congress, through his laudation of the
principles of free trade? We do not
think so; neither do we believe that
they have any more confidence in
Bryan and his policies than they did
when he first came before them twelve
years ago as the inspired advocate of
a fifty-cent dollar.-Augusta (Me.)
Journal.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-10-29
Sent Democrats Confederate Money.

Some unkind person or persons sent
the Democratic National Committee
$4,000 in Confederate money-just tied
it up in an express package and sent
it along to help out on the payroll for
next week.
A careless clerk, whose eyesight grew
unsteady at the unexpected appear
ance of all the money in the world,
rushed into Mr.. Mack's Office, without
making a careful examination of the
bills, and reported the glad tidings that
the Standard Oil Company had devoted
years earnings to the cause Of De-
mocracy.
Mr. Mack held down his startled
emotions long enough to take a look at
the treasure. 1t is admitted that there
are exceedingly unkind persons in the
world.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-10-29
Different.

"Cheer up, old man." said the con-
selling friend. You know, love laughs
at locksmiths.''
yes, l know replied the detected
lover. But her father amt a lock-
smith; he's a boilermaker." Detroit
Free Press
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-10-29
Thrown Down.

Agnes-What are you writing, Min
nie-your will?
Minnie-No; I'm writing my won't
George proposed last night, and 1 told
him I'd answer to-day.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-10-29
Can,f Hurf aJoe.v

All the Democratic orators are throw
ing bricks at Speaker Cannon, but there
is hardly anyone in the country better
able to take care Of himself.-Philadelr
phia Press.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-10-29
Weighed in the Hand.

.Some grocers," remarked the Gus
toner, have an off-hand way of weigh
ing sugar, but 1 notice you're not one
of them"
loft hand way? How do you mean?'
asked the grocer.
Il noticed you kept your hand on the
scales just now while you measured
out five pounds for me."-Philadelphia
Press
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-10-29
A Had Blum der.

She-Cook has given notice.
He-Why?
She-She says you spoke in brutal
manner to her on the telephone yester-
day.
Yesterday? L thought was
speaking to you London Opinion.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-10-29

Home" to the boy and girl does not
mean simply a place in which TO eat
and sleep and work
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-10-29

Some men have not yet learned that
brains count more in farming than long
legs and brute force.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-10-29

A woman often goes about her work
with headache that would send man
to bed and set him to bowling so he
could be heard a mile.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-10-29

After taking observations of the
Wright trial flights at Fort Myer the
Navy Department has set forth the re-
quirements of aeroplanes that will be
acceptable to that department for use
in scouting and dispatch bearing. They
must be able to float ON the water and
rise from it without extra aid. They
mrst ne supported wholly by the air
without the aid of a gas bag. Each
machine is to carry two persons and a
sufficient amount Of fuel for continu
Gus flight of 200 miles for four hours
at an average speed of forty miles an
hour. They must be able to light with
out damage on either land or water
and float ON the water without wetting
any of the supporting areas.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-10-29

If you sin against your stock, be sure
your sin will find you out in reduced
profits.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-10-29

No sensible man would take chances
on breeding poor, starved animals, nor
should he think of using immature ard
shrunken grain for seed.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-10-29

Ever since the passage of the pure
food law, manufacturers have COM
planned of the injustice of denying
them the use of the small amount of
preservatives necessary to keep certain
kinds of food products from fermenta
ton or other form of deterioration.
Professor Wiley of the Bureau of
Chemistry in the Department of Agri-
culture has appointed pure food COM
mittee, to represent the different States
having pure food laws, the object of
which will be to harmonic the State
laws with the laws of the government.
The committe will also, without doubt,
define what is a safe amount of preser-
vative to be used. 1t is said that there
has been an increase of ptomain-poi-
soning since the pure food law went
into effect, but perhaps the statement,
like some of the food products, can
best be taken with a grain of sailor
of boracic acid.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-10-29
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CcI5

brought near it, not even a lighted pipe
or cigar.
1t has given excellent satisfaction
When used at the roots of trees, after
removing the earth for that purpose,
IN destroying root lice and other de-
predators that work near the roots.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-10-29

The food limit Of every COW should
to give profit on what she eats.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-10-29

If hen lays an egg a week the
year through, it will just pay for her
feed and every extra egg will yield
profit.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-10-29

Some men enjoy being grouchy and
their highest ambition is to destroy
something others have created.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-10-29

The greatest value of sheep in an
orchard is found probably in their be-
ing used as a means of fertilizing or
chards that are bearing
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-10-29
SSSSSSSSSSS

Give the young chickens the run OF
the place.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-10-29

1t pays to be honest with the chill
dren from the start, because they are
sure to find us out In time, and then
respect takes wings
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-10-29

One tenth of the area of Boston con-
sists of parks
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-10-29

If you want to get a good catch Of
clover next season, give the fields
which are to be sown good coating
Of manure.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-10-29

The team should be fed the heaviest
meal in the evening, for they have
more time then to enjoy it.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-10-29

The Secretary Of the Navy has writ
ten a letter to Robert Conklin, master
of arms at the United States naval
training station at Newport, commend
ing him for his fesrless action in jump
ing overheard fully dressed and res
cuing from drowning Woodward Phelps,
a 6-year-old boy, at Newport, Aug. %
last.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-10-29

1t has been reported that District
Attorney jerome of New York had
been asked by William Nelson Crom-
well, organizer of big trusts and coun-
sci for the government in the purchase
of Panama Canal rights, to investigate
charges of blackmail against one Alex
ander L. Bacon, who claims to have
found evidence that a part at least of
the $40,000,000 paid for those rights by
the United States went to Cromwell
indirectly. The story told was to the
effect that American financiers had
bought largely the stock of the French
company prior to the purchase by the
American government. 1t was said
that the Cromwell syndicate had net
ted S36, 100000 in the deal. BY order
of the SECRETARY of War an investiga-
ton has been begun at New York of
charges brought by Presidnt Brothers
of the Balanced Cable Crane Company
of Baltimore, who claims that he was
deprived of a contract for Panama Ca
nal work, although he was the lowest
bidder.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-10-29

In commercial fruit growing the de-
mands regulate the supply to a great
extent, whereas in the private trade
the supply largely regulates the de-
mand
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-10-29

The army board of physicians which
was ordered by the department to ex-
anime Colonel w. L. Stewart the ex-
lied officer at Fort Grant, who came
under the displeasure of President
Roosevelt, has reported that Stewart is
suffering from heart disease, and is
blind in his right eye. these ailments
having been incurred in active service.
The doctors are of the opinion that
the colonel is unfit for active ser
vice
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-10-29

Mite traps are being used success
fully by some. They are so arranged
that when the mites seek seclusion
after their nightly feast they are
trapped.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-10-29
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The great white plague costs the peo-
pie Oh the United States over billion
dollars each year. This statement was
made by Prof. Irving Fisher of Yale
before one of the sections of the tuber-
culoS2 congress. He estimates that
consumption kills 13S.COO every wear in
the Un!Ied States. This is equal to the
deSchs from typhoid fever. scarlet fever.
diphtheria, appendicitis. meningitis.
diabetes, smallpox and cancer all nut
together. Then again, it generally takes
three years TO die, during which time
the poor victim can earn little or moth
ing. Finally the scourge picks out its
victims when they are young men and
young women, at the very time they are
beginning to earn money. The mini
mum cost of such items us DEBTORS bills,
medicines nursing and loss o. earnings
before death amounts to over S2.400 in
each case, while the earning power
which might have BEEN" If death had
not come. brings the total cost to at
least $4,000. If this is multiplied by
1AG 1oo'OpO uedlIS, we Illlti lile Noob 10
bigger than the almost incalculable sum
Of $1,OO0,0O0,O00. Prof. Fisher esti-
mates that over half of this cost gener-
ally falls on the luckless victim him.
self, but the cost to others is over S440,-
100000 year. AS a matter of self
defense it would be worth while to the
community, he shows, in order to save
merely a quarter of the lives now lost
by consumption, to invest $5,50O,OOO,OOO.
At present only a fraction of per cent
of this money is being used to fight the
disease. Five million people now liv-
ing in the United States are doomed to
fill consumptives' graves unless some
thing is done to prevent it. AS each
death means anxiety and grief for a
whole family, he estimated that there
will be over 2G,0OO,OOO persons rendered
miserable by these deaths.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-10-29

Postmaster General Meyer has sent
circular letter to postmasters
throughout the United States instruct
ihg them to conferw with the local school
authorities, with view to arranging
talks or other method of instruction
on how to address letters, and on the
working of the postal system. The oc-
casion for the letter is the fact that
last year more than thirteen million
pieces Of Matchmaker were sent to the
dead-letter office, most of them, of
course, because they were not proper
ly addressed.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-10-29

Sheep can never be pastured on rape
safely vile it is damp either from rain
or dew. In order that the sheep can
not go onto the rape early in the morn
ing it is essential that the gate be
closed each evening
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-10-29

The hog pasture should be gotten in
better shape by sowing grass over
badly rooted places, and the fence
should be mended so that the young
pigs do not break out.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-10-29

In the juvenile court Judge De La
cey rendered a decision maintaining
the constitutionality Of the act to reg
ulate child labor in the District Of Co
lumbia, and decided that newspapers
In the sense in which they are named
In the act are not merchandise. The
boys may sell papers out of school
hours.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-10-29

Director Leach, OF the mint, has re-
su1ned the purchase of silver at the
rate of $4,000 ounces a week for the
subsidiary coinage.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-10-29

a pumpkin cut in halves and placed
before the fowls will soon be nothing
but rind. A good way is to stick them
on nails in the walls of the house, as
the fowls will get desirable exercise in
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-10-29

There is enough back-breaking work
to do without using the scoop shovel
to unload grain. Put in a portable
dump elevator. The team will do the
rest, and it will take few minutes
to crib a big load of corn.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-10-29

The business Of growing market fruit
and that Of growing fruit for private
trade is an altogether different propo-
sition and the selection Of varieties
must be made according to the line of
growing that is to be followed.