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Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-09-01

scribes long list of accomplishments,
most of which have not yet been
achieved and never will be under the
plutocratic bred policies for which the
Republican party is famous.
But. after all, the Republican party
has had to turn tail and run for cover
from the righteous wrath of an in
jured people. 1t declares its cardinal
policy of protection to have been a
failure and promises to revise it latter
election" What the promise stands
for no one knows. The organ of the
Protective Tariff League with joy de-
clares that it means revising the tariff
higher while reformer La Toilette and
reformer Cummins, the father of the
Iowa idea" of tariff reform are salts
fed.
The disastrous effect of tariff protec-
ton leads many people to doubt the
honesty of Republican profession and
to hope for real tariff reform that will
curb the trusts.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-09-01

Since it has become usual for young
er sons of the English aristocracy to
engage in the automobile business it Is
extremely difficult for the ordinary
purchaser to distinguish between the
professional chauffeur and the aristo-
cratic driver who occasionally exhibits
car to a client. There are at least
thirty young Englishmen of noble fam
lilies studying the fine points of motor
ing and taking customers for trial runs
with the result that some amusing
mistakes are made.
Recently young cousin of the Duke
of Beaufort was instructed by his en-
ployer to exhibit a car to one of the
London newly rich the wife of a re-
tired tradesman. The young man
made himself agreeable, and when the
car returned to the big house in Bel
gravia, the customer alighted and,
pressing half crown upon the chauf-
feur, said
There, my lad and take care not 20
spend it foolishly!"
The young man drove back to his
employer, a son of Lord NEangattock,
and Indignantly recounted his expert
ence
We'll, you cap consider yourself
Jolly lucky" was the consoling re-
JOINER. THE last time 1 saw the lady
she gave me only shilling.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-09-01
Give Pigs Strong BODY.

The pig should be taught to rustic
and develop stamina and trait of char
acter and also to make the best of his
opportunities BY this it is not meant
to starve him, but make him healthy
and vigorous. The highly-cohditioned,
pampered pets that we see at heshows
are fine things to look at, but they
would be little practical utility to the
average pork grower who does not find
1t profitable to stuff his animals on
high-priced concentrated rations. In
most instances the prize winners at
six months of age are physical wrecks
when yearlings. OF course there is a
great temptation for US to show great,
big, overgrOwn and highly-fitted pigs
at six months of age. We don't want
some other breeder to scoop all the
prize money, and there Is always a
demand for that kind Of highly-pam-
pered pigs. But the sooner we wake
up to the fact that the grass-grown
pigs are the ones that make the best
breeders the sooner will we be on the
right track to success.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-09-01
THE OLDEST LIVING THING.
1t Is Said to BE a Huge Cypress Tree
R.2Rn Years Old.

1t Is Said to BE Huge Cypress Tree
$500 Years Old.
The statement recently made that
there are yews in England which are
the oldest things on earth is not cor
rect, says a writer in the st. Louis
Globe-Democrat These yews are old
very, very old, there Is no doubt about
that; some of them were stalwart trees
even before Caesar landed on these
shores. There is one now standing in
the churchyard at Portugal, in Perth
shire, which Decandole, nearly a cen
fury ago, proved to the satisfaction OF
botanists to be more than twenty-five
centuries old, and another at Hedsor,
in Buclas, which is 3,240 years old.
How Decandole arrived at an apparent
ly correct estimate OF the enormous age
of these living trees is a simple thing
and the principle is doubtless known
today to all. The yew, like most trees,
adds one line, about the tenth of an
inch, to it's circumference each year.
He proved this after an investigation
cAltllllllIS ONCl oCNCLoA JOd1Eo anu p" =
know now, hundred years later, that
his deductions were correct.
The old yew at Hedsor has a trunk
twenty-seven feet in diameter, proving
it's great age, and it is in a flourish
ing, healthy condition now, like its
brother at Portugal.
Their years are few, though, COM
pared with those Of the trees l had iE
mind when l made my first assertion
that the statement printed about them
in a scientific journal was incorrect.
IA oha chapter Of his writings Hum
boldt refers to gigantic boabab tree
in central Africa as the oldest organic
monument in the world This tree
has a trunk twentynine feet in diam
eter and Adanson, by series Of care
full measurements, demonstrated con-
clusively that it had lived for not less
than $3.50 years.
Still, it is not the oldest organic
monument in the world, as Humboldt
declared, for now Mexican scientists
have proved that huge cypress tree
standing in Chepultepec, with a trunk
rs feet and 10 inches in circumfer-
ence, is older than it-older, too, by
more than a thousand years-for it
had been shown, as conclusively as
these things can be shown, that its age
is about 6,260 years. To become inn
pressed with wonder over this one has
only to dwell on that duration for a
little while in thought.
Yet it is not so remarkable when one
stops for a moment to remember that,
given favorable conditions for its
growth and sustenance, the average
tree will never die Of old age-its death
is merely an accident. Other younger
and more vigorous trees may spring up
near it and perhaps rob its roots Of
their proper nourishment; insects may
kill it, floods or winds may sweep it
away, or it's roots may come in contact
with rock and become so gnarled and
twisted because they have not room to
expand in their growth that they liter
ally throttle the avenues of susten-
ance; but these are accidents. If such
things do not happen tree may live
on for century after century, still ro-
bust, still f1ourishing, sheltering, with
its widespread branches, the men and
women of age after age.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-09-01
Kill or tho BOOSTERS.

Raising ROSTERS doesn't pay. The
pullets are what we are after, and we
should bend our efforts to raise as
many and as fine pullets as we possibly
can. In most all focks there are about
30 per cent of young cockerels flying
and scrapping about and eating their
heads off Now, pullet won't do this,
for she will pay it all back, with a
goodly profit as soon as she reaches the
laying age. But the ROSTERS eat and
grow and grow lanky and muscular and
strlngy, and when they arrive at 8
months of age they represent very lit
tie, If indeed any more at all, than they
did at s weeks in the way Of profit. Be
sides, some die before maturity and are
thereby a total loss, although they
passed the frying size in safety. The
proper thing TO do now is to apply the
thinning-Out process and get rid Of all
the roosters, young and old, hut very
few Of the finest.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-09-01
Our Merchant Marine.

The Panama Canal will be of but
cept for warships and the coasting
trade, if the American merchant ma
rine is to continue in the decrepit
state that Republican policies have
brought it TO. When Democratic poll
cies prevailed the United States had
the finest merchant ships af1oat and
our Baltimore clippers were seen ON
every sea. But persistent tariff pro-
lection for Infant industries" and es-
pecially for the Ship Building Trust
has driven our flag from the oceans by
making it Improbable for Americans
to build and own ships for foreign
trade. 1t costs 80 per cent more
to build a ship in the United States
than it does in England. but the law
will not allow prospective ship owner
to buy his ship where he can buy it
cheapest. so he cannot compete with
the cheaper built foreign ships.
The Republican policy is TO overcome
this unnatural state of affairs by pay
ing subsidies to American ships, either
as direct ship subsidy. or as al ex-
ira subsidy for carrying the mail to
foreign ports.
Under such policies our taxpayers
are doubly taxed; they pay the tariff
tax Oh all they buy. either u the gov
eminent on imported goods. or TO the
trusts and manufacturers who can de
mand high prices for their products
because they are protected by the tariff
from competition from abroad Then
the tax payer would also have 10 pay
The ship subsidy as wei as the freight
50 that both these expenses would
make the freight rete BIZ an American
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-09-01
Breeding Sheep.

The poorest class of sheep on the
market to-day is the ill-cared-for lot
raised in the agricultural states, says
ii. A. Chandler in the Breeders Ga
zette. These breeders, as a rule, use
good rams, but they fall far short of
giving the flock proper attention. The
whole bunch is put in a pasture In
the spring and allowed to remain theirs
until winter, while with q few hours
work patch of rape could have been
planted or the fence repaired so they
could have had a change of pasture.
Sheep need little attention, the same
as any other stock or business. When
they are well cared for they cap the
climax for profits. Farmers in the
Middle West should breed more regis
tered sheep Of the mutton breeds. The
rangemen come East for their rams,
and we should be producing fifty head
where one is raised now.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-09-01

at the climax of get-rich-quick prosper
ity in 1907 the food-purchasing power
of wages was nearly per cent greater
than the average of $4,000.
But that is last years birds nest.
The cold statistical fact is that during
the past eleven years the Dingley tariff
has raised wages in many lines with
one hand and robbed all the wage earn
ers with the other.
And now, when the top-heavy fraud
has tumbled, wage earners by the hun
dred thousand are out of work, and the
this is the year in which the Republican
party must give an account of it's stew
ardship.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-09-01
ship much higher lhan the rate charged

ship much higher than the rate charged
by foreign ships.
How can the American merchant
marine prosper under such conditions ?
Instead of paying subsidies, why Lot
try free trade in ships so that any
one can buy ship and sail it under
the American flag?
The United States will never have a
profitable merchant marine until the
tariff is revised so that it would not
weigh heavily on that industry. With
free ships and tariff for revenue only.
American pluck and ingenuity would
successfully compete on the sea with
all nations.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-09-01

The writer has Just returned from o
trip Of inspection Of young orchard,
says w. Paddock, In a Colorado bulle
tin. The call was urgent, but the prin-
cipal source of trouble proved to be too
much whiffietree. A careless hired man
had succeeded in barking number Of
trees In ten-acre apple orchard, and
then in many instances pear blight had
gained entrance. The injuries were thus
extended. Some OF the trees were dead,
but In a majority Of instances the
blight had died out, and the trees were
making heroic efforts to heal the
wounds. But a wound which extends
half way around a trunk Is slow IL
healing, and there is danger Of the
trunk breaking at that point during
windstorms. The loss OF a 5-year-old
tree is considerable, 50 the owner was
advised to bridge graft over the
wounds. This can be easily and quick.
ly done by fitting clons over the wound
One end of the cion is slipped under
the healthy bark on the lower edge Of
the wound and tne Otner END under the
bark at the upper edge. Two or three
cions VIII usually be enough for small
trees. Both edges Of the wound where
the cions are inserted should be well
protected with grating wax, and if the
wound is small the entire surface
should be covered. This work is done
in the spring Of the year at the time
ordinary gHfting is done.
The coins may unitealong their entire
length when the wounds are fresh, but
more often they do not do so, conse-
auently the tree appears to have several
trunks as It gets older. Such trees live
as long and are as strong SIS though no
Injury had ever oYertaken them.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-09-01
Wall Street and Politics.

The Steel Trust is reported to have
but 90 per cent of the capacity of its
plants producing, and yet the shares
are constantly enhancing in price in
Wall Street. The Steel Trust common
stock dividend for the last quarter was
one-half of 1 per cent or at the rate of
2 per cent per annum. The stock is
now quoted at 10, so it pays a little
over per cent, but whether that divi-
dend is now being earned is very doubt
full. The price of steel has been cut,
but wages are the same. so that the
profits must show a large decrease from
last year, with not much over 30 per
cent of the business. Why does the
Steel stock advance 50 greatly under
such circumstances? 1t must be caused
by manipulation pure Snd simple, and
that must be influenced by something
that is expected to happen in the fu-
tdre. Is it the promise of the Repub-
lican leaders that the tariff which pro-
Tets the Steel Trust from foreign com
petition is to be increased, instead of
revised downward? Or will wages be
put down after election" so that the
trust can pay larger dividends!
There are other instances Of the evil
dent manipulation of the price of stocks
in Wall Street that have even less ap-
parent reason for advancing just now.
Is the job already put up for gen
eral wage reduction after election"
also an increase of railroad rates? 1t
certainly locks that way.
There will be a Bryan scare" due
about Sept. u. and stocks may tumble
for the Republican managers W. need
something 10 brighten the corporations
into furnishing more Doodle to finish
the lob of saving the country"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-09-01
Improving CnttIc Grndes.

The man who buys good breeding
Dull and allows him to stand In his
community at nominal fee is a public
benefactor and deserves the most en-,
enlargement of any man in the commu,
nifty. Not long ago l had the pleasure
or visiting friend of mine who pur-
chased a pure bred Guernsey bull, and
while there he drove me around and
showed me no less than 100 fine grade
COWS from his bull and asked me what
value l would estimate that his bull
had been to that community. promptly
said, Zone thousand dollars and the
bull is good for number of years at
the present time"-I. NJ. Kelly.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-09-01

That great and prolific English paint.
er, ]. VI. W. Turner. bequeathed
to the British nation when he died, in
of which was in 1902, estimated at
100000. These pictures consisted
of So oil paintings, 135 finished water
colors. and over 10000 studies and
sketches.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-09-01

As a result of its war with Russia
the area of Japan's territory was raised
from $4,000 square miles TO 2S3,OOO
square miles. and her population in
creased by 100000.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-09-01

How often does the henhouse need
cleaning? AS often as 1t gets dirty.
And by dirty we do not mean simply
reeking with accommodations of drop
pings and filthy scratchinss, No, we
never saw a henhouse yet which could
be kept clean short ftwo cleanings
week. Be~faithful during the warm
weather or the lice and mites will get
the upper hand.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-09-01

Mrs. Joyce-What are you wasting
so much time over that gas bill for?
Mr.. JOYCE was just congratulating
myself that we don't have TO buy gas
by the ton.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-09-01

If alfalfa is sown with a nurse crop,
1t is best not to SOW too much grain,
and If it is the intention to remove the
crop before it natures, it is better to
seed with oats.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-09-01

Some of the finest apples and peaches
In the world come from Idaho aud Ore
gon. They are entirely free from worms.
The growers are extremely vigiant In
fighting insects.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-09-01

Dairying gives profitable employment
for the whole family every month in
the year.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-09-01

Opportunity for dairying appears In
the increased demand for pure milk in
the large cities.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-09-01

A tester in the dairy is a good thing,
but the basis of rich milk is the feed
box
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-09-01

In bohemia courtships are abnormal
Is long. In that country engagements
frequently last from fifteen to twa2ty
years.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-09-01

Don't let the workday drag out to
fourteen and sixteen hours. Ten hours
Of field work is enough and will ac-
complish as much in the long run as
q longer day. Try it and see.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-09-01

Stop worrying over the troubles of
yesterday and get ready to overcome
those of tomorrow.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-09-01

A flock of lively chickens in an or
chard will pick up thousands of in
sects, worms and the eggs that hatch
them. Scatter grain occasionally to en-
courage scratching.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-09-01

No one would think for a minute
that he had right to invade a bit Of
woodland upon farm and carry OF
frewood, and why should 1t be thought
that the wild fruit growing In such
place is any the more public property2
Anything growing upon a mans land
is his property, and should not be dis
turbed or taken without his express
permission.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-09-01

Rotation of garden crops is the best
method Of keeping vegetables in health
and freedom from parasites.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-09-01

Good wool, as we'll as good mutton
depends largely upon the quality of the
feed. Succulent food makes the best
wool, cleanest, brightest, softest and
strongest.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-09-01

If pigs are given all the salt and
charcoal they want there will seldom
be any occasion for ringing.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-09-01

The Indian empire has the cheap
est postal service in the world
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-09-01

Summer-laid eggs can be kept for sew
eral weeks by dipping them in a water
glass solution. This is a preparation
which is supposed to make the shell air
tight.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-09-01

The growing of balanced ration of
food for the dairy affords the dairyman
an opportunity TO practice rotation of
crops that will improve and build I'D
his fields for future crops instead Of
exhauSting his fields.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-09-01

other State. Snow is a mighty use
ful thing as covering for winter
wheat, but decidedly Improbable as a
fattening food for farm stock.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-09-01

1t is possible for the breeding sow
to be too fat, but more farmers make
the mistake of keeping them too poor.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-09-01

1t is so easy to neglect the fowls
during the SUMMER months that one
must have a special interest in order
to keep them up to the mark.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-09-01

If you are going to sell off the old
fowls, pen them up i'll small coops and
stuff them for a week or two before
you take them to market. 1t will pay,
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-09-01

If we all stopped for a moments
sound thinking before starting out on a
new enterprise it would save some of
us the trouble of retracing our steps.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-09-01

Up in Minnesota, where they raise a
great deal of barley, it is fed to the
cattle with fairly good results, but
there is nothing on earth that will put
fat oil a steers ribs like shelled corn
and alfalfa
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-09-01

Maryland farmers are demanding a
law requiring that all cases containing
cold storage eggs be labeled such, and
that restaurants, hotels, dining rooms,
etc, be required to hang signs on the
walls, III order that the. customer may
know what he is getting-whether cold
storage eggs, fresh eggs or just eggs.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-09-01

There is always the opportunity to
sell first-class dairy butter for fancy
prices. Success in this line Of the
dairy business must be brought about
by studying and practicing the most
improved methods that are employed
By the best creameries.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-09-01

The Babcock test is all right, but
some dairymen need something to test
their ability to properly feed their
calves
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-09-01

The growing of first-class, high-grade
dairy heifers to sell to the best dairy
men affords an opportunity for the
grower to make a good profit.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-09-01
SSSSSSSSSSS

There is never an overproduction of
choice fruit.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-09-01

The Vegetable Growers Association
Of Lawrence, Tenn, and other associa-
tons in that part Of the State have
contracted to dispose Of the cante-
loupes grown Oh $500 acres TO one
firm This methed Of handling the
crop has proved very satisfactory,
both as to prices and In freight rates.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-09-01

The grape is the only fruit that pro-
tests against late pruning by bleeding. J"
Raspberries, blackberTies, gooseberries
and currants can be pruned after they
are In full leaf, or even In bloom, with
out apparent hurt
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-09-01

Because the hehs are not allowed
free range in the summer months is
no reason why they will not become
infested with life.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-09-01

Small chicks are great bug eaters.
They will do a great deal of good in
the garden until large enough to
scratch vigorously.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-09-01

1t takes courage to adopt new meth
DDS of farming in an old fogy neighbor-
hood, but success will soon change pub
lie sentiment.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-09-01

The boys may not say much when
they are forced to work sixteen hours
a day without a share in the profits,
but they suddenly run off to the city.
It shows they have been doing some
strong thinking.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-09-01

Because sheep will make better use
Of poor pasture than any other stock,
do not try to raise them on one that is
absolutely bare.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-09-01

A straw-covered shed open TO the
south makes an ideal shelter for cat
tie In winter More Of these sheds
are seen throughout Iowa than any
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-09-01

Use sifted coal ashes instead Of plas
ter for striped squash bug. They are
cheap, easily handled and are not In
furious to tender foliage, though ap
piled in large quantity when the dew
Is upon 1t.