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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-11-17
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Get all the feaves you can for the
scratching pens.
We need new breeds when the
are better than the ones we have.
Lice prevent hens from laying and
Young chicks from thriving.
Milk-fed chicks have become q
standard fancy meat product on soma
city produce markets.
How hens do like sweet apples.
Good for them, too. Share them be-
tween the hens and pigs.
If you have any little potatoes, the
hens can make good use OF them
Boil them up soft. and feed ration
now and then.
The April-hatched pullets should
now be laying They certainly are, TX
thew have been given the proper feed
and care.
II is not good policy to allow the
Young and old stock to run together.
and tbe cockerels should be separated
from the pullets.
The run of stuff TO market these
DAVIS is made up mostly of old hens
and venerable ROSTERS.
Start the incubators for the early
hroilers provided you have suitable
Mace to rear the youngsters.
In some places chickens are pur-
chased, confined and finished for mar
ket on milk and ground feeds, the
mill; constituting the larger portion OF
the diet
Let's begin to codd1e our hens with
the first Whit Of frosty weather.
That softens them and makes them
tender for the real cold that Is CON-
ing
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-11-17
Says World is Going Mad

with the decadence of our youth, near
proximity to nation Of madmen.
by comparing the lunacy statistics
of 1869 with those of 1909, four de-
cades having interviewed, by reflections
are sad indeed. A terrible but real
curse Is in store, and an insane world
looks forward to me with certainty in
the not far distant future.
In 1869, out of a population of 22,-
223,299, there were 53,177 registered
lunatics in England and Wales, there
being one 1unatic in every 418 of total
population, whereas in 1909, out of a
population of 35,756,615, the number
of registered lunatics was 1851 ma
king on an average one lunatic in
every 278 Of population. So that in 40
years all enormous increase in lunacy
is seen. Surely a dreadful future for
nations still unborn to have to cope
with.
These are the facts, and sad to re-
fleet upon. They must be accepted.
They cannot in any way be chal-
lenged."
Doctor Wins1ow's phraseology is
sometimes unhappy, as when he
writes, for instance:
81 have breathed the atmosphere of
Iunacy for over sixty years, and the
conclusions 1 arrive at are pessimistic
in the extreme"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-11-17
CHAPTER VIII.-Continued.

He glanced at me in a half embar-
raised, half triumphant way. much as
he used to do in the first Castle
Wyckhoff house party days, when he
was about to tell me of his latest clue
in regard to the identity of the real
Agatha
We'll, to be quite frank with you"
he said, the truth of the matter is
that Agatha First won't let me alone!"
Meaning" I said, that she's in
love with your"
Well, of course" he replied, re-
moving his eye-glass and polishing it
desperately as is his custom when he
pretends to be embarrassed, 81
wouldn't like to say that exactly. I
couldn't say positively, that is. but
to a man of my experience in such
the indications are"
20 rot!" l interrupted, rudeIy, 1
fear, but really the old boy is quite
too insufferably conceited to encour-
age It's an old failing of his
What makes you think SOP 1 asked
after a moments consideration. AL
though ] couldn't quite believe that
Agatha First was actually in love
with him, still / wanted to hear his
reasons for the conclusion. l didn't
want to believe it, that was certain
I thought We had trouble enough on
our hands as it was, without having
10 reckon with a broken heart on the
part of Miss Endicott And as this
contingency assumed an air of prob
ability to my mind, I inwardly vowed
again never to undertake another
matchmaking project. Cad, no! Let
people marry themselves hereafter
without any interference from me-
had had all l wanted of the thing this
time.
What makes you think so?" I re-
peated.
Arch shrugged his shoulders. Cant
help It. She's after me the whole
time! I suppose she can't help fancy
ing q MAI of my-er-if l may So
my attractions. daresay I'm a revela-
ton to her in comparison with the
American college youths she has
probably been used to. Experience
and intellect does count. you know,
Wilfred. Besides, the results show"
But I cut him short again.
The results show" I said sternly,
that you're just enough of a chump
to heed her mania for amusing her
self with you-for I can't think she is
in earnest" I had to tell him that
for his own good, though l could have
wished l felt surer this was the fact.
Her fondness for flirting with you
f1atters you so much that you'd run the
Just for the sake of having that
egregious vanity of yours pleasantly
tickled, as her apparent fancy for
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-11-17
HERO IN LAUGHABLE RESCUE
Telephone Operator Risks HIS Lie
to Save Mere Bundle OF Ctoth-
ing-Baby at Home.

st. Iouis.-No moving picture film
ever depicted more thrilling scene
than that witnessed by crowd OF
men. women and children at the foot
of Miller street. A bare-headed wom-
an was wheeling baby cart across
the Iron Mountain railroad tracks and
q train was bearing down upon her.
Save the child" was the cry of
dozen persons.
Then game the hero.
Bob L.auri, recently employed as a
telephone operator in the police de-
partment, ran toward the track. He
reached the rails just in time to
snatch tie woman and her precious
burden from in front of the train.
I'm not hurt" he said, as the
crowd gathered about and offered as
sistance rs the baby safe?"
ooh, yes" cried the mother. "The
baby is safe-at home" And she
showed the crowd that the buggy con-
taine5 only e bundle of clothing.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-11-17
A SPARKLING Novelist.

A New York editor, at the Century
club, told story about Robert w
Chambers, the well-known young nov
elist
Chambers went one summer" he
said, ito Sunapee with his brother. At
the Ben Mere Inn the aristicratic old
ladies in rocking chairs, seated on the
cool piazza that overlooks the lake,
were very much stirred up by Mr..
Chambers arrival. Whenever he ap-
peared they gathered about him and
talked books.
"Char2bers was always ready for
them. He had always on his lips some
witty saying to double them up.
"'Oh, Mr.. Chambers cried an old
lady one day, I admire Lorraine" so
much, I've read 1t eight times!
Madam answered Chambers, with
a bow, I would rather hear you say
you'd bought eight copies"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-11-17
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SELECTION OF GOOD LAYERS
Not Unusual for WeII-Conducted Farm
to Secure Average of 200 Eggs
Per Hen Per Year.

important development in this indus
try has been the breeding by careful
selection of races CT hens that are ex-
ceptional layers, says an exchange.
It is not unusual for well-conducted
farm to average nearly 200 eggs per
hen per year, and the tendency is to
improve upon this figure. Several
years ago in Australia an egg-laying
contest was held extending over an
entire year, a great number of breeds
being pitted against each other, and
the average Of the winning pen of
six pullets, veraging from seven to
twelve months old, was 218 eggs per
hen for the year. At many of the
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-11-17
Section of Cheap Poultry House.

the inside covered with netting tc
keep the hens in The cut shows only
20 feet of this house.
A heavy prepared roofing paper is
more economical than shingles on
these rather fiat roofs. The shingles
rot quickly, and leak quicker than
they decay. The sides are covered
with cheaper grade of roofing The
sun gets into these narrower houses
better in winter than would be posi-
Bile with wider ones, and we find the
more sun the more eggs and health
Ter fowls. Every day, unless stormy
the front is let down, and plenty Of
fresh, pure air is obtained without
draft
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-11-17
SELECT GOOD LAYING STOCK
Use of Trap Nests is Sure Way to
Determine Which Are Layers
and Which Are Drones.

In keeping chickens much depends
on the breeding stock. There are sew
eral advertised methods of telling
what hens viii produce eggs that will
hatch out good layers, but about the
safest way is to use eggs from hens
that are known to be hardy. The only
absolutely sure way of making selec-
ton for breeding stock, according to
the experts Of the Maine agricultural
station, is by means of data obtained
from the use Of trap nests. Only In
Vestlgators and an occasional poultry
man, however, can afford the equip,
ment and the expense involved in
operating trap nests, but every pouI-
tryman can, by observing his young
STOCK during the fall. select the pull
lets that are beginning to lay and OBJ
tain for the next seasons breeding a
pen OF birds with the function of egg
production strongly developed.
The work done by the pullets from
September to February or March is al
pretty good indication of their use
fulness, and their eggs are available
for breeding during the pullet year.
While the chickens from such eggs
are generally not so large at maturity
as those from older hens, they do not
appear to lack constitution or vigor,
and there is no apparent reason why
they are not desirable for breeding
purposes.
Pullets which begin laying first or
the ones that start when quite young
are generally the best breeders 1t is
not the largest birds of any particular
breed that are the best, but usually
the medium-sized fowls. Early laying
Is an indication of a strong Bird by
using the eggs from such fowls, it will
not take long to produce a strain of
layers that will fill the egg basket In
winter, as we'll as in the early spring.
A good layer usually has long body
and is especially wide and deep in
fluff.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-11-17
-MG cAAaHm aesnz1M 0Am AazzM

your society undoubtedly tickles 1t!
Your old falling again! Pom my word,
old chap, I thought better of you!
Better of your prudence and foresight
Why, l couldn't have had less of an
eye oct for my own interests myself
in the days when you and l were con-
tending suitors for the hand of one of
the Agathas, and you insisted that it
should be the heiress and no other,
and bullied me 80 because l didn't
take the same view! And the Lord
knows you made enough fuss about
that!"
But when I reported the result of
my remonstrance to Dearest, she said
| hadn't been half severe enough with
him, and it was with difficulty that l
persuaded her that speaking to him
herself would only make matters
worse and Terhune more obstinate
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-11-17

to reap rich harvest for their sur
plus ofshoots, for the imported off
shoots will be very expensive for sew
eral years to come. besides, after
transporting the offshoots on the
backs of camels across the burning
sands Of the Sahara desert to the
ocean liner, lying upon the docks at
both ends of the line, then transport
ed by rail to the indicated farms, the
plants will certainly be considerably
weakened, and will require year of
tender nursing. Even though the
plants cost $50 each, and not more
than one-half survive the rough treat
ment, there yet remains a fortune to
TIE enc who engages in the date bust
ness in this favored location.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-11-17
Animals in Denver Department for
Ten Years Run Away From Life
of Ease on Ranch.

Denver-The story of Larry and
Spot, two horses which were for ten
years at the fire station Of Blake
street, between Eighteenth and Nine
teenth streets, will appeal to all low
ers of horses.
Both the horses were large, white
animals with black spots. They were
the pets of the boys at the station.
For ten years they had run to every
fire In their district and they had
learned to answer the call Of the
gongs with almost as much intelli-
gence as the fremen themselves.
They were never more delighted than
when they were in the harness and
making their way, full speed, down
the street, their bodies quiyering with
the excitement and joy of the run.
But Larry and Spot were not young
when they were put upon the fire
wagons, and So after ten years Of
hard service, they began to show their
age and had to be sold. The fremen
when they saw that they must part
with their old animal friends were as
sad as If two of the boys were leaving
them.
A farmer living about twenty miles
from Denver was the buyer of the
horses, and the night he went to the
fire station to get the animals the
heart of every fireman sank. Larry
and Spot were led away with dropping
heads
There was many a fireman who had
been around the station for years, and
who had come to listen for the nicker
of NE creatures, who felt bit lone
some that night.
Larry and Spot, however, were not
ready to give up their old friends, and
the next morning at daybreak the men
were awakened by the stamping OF
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-11-17

plants should be at least thirty feet
apart each way when twelve or fif-
teen years Of age, they will have fifty
good plants to the acre to dispose of.
but when one considers the profit to
be derived from the first offshoots
which may be expected from a Ave
year-old plant, one will be tempted to
leave the plants fifteen feet in the
row for few years at least A con-
sentative estimate places an average
of four offshoots to the plant five
years old, and an average of one off
shoot to the plant a year for the next
five years. The offshoot always bears
fruit Identical with the parent tree.
In this way the parties who plant the
first Seeding orchard will be in line
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-11-17
His Literal Answer.

In all policies of insurance these,
among a host of other questions, oc-
cur: Age of father. If living?" Age
of mother. living?" A man In the
country who filed up an application
made his fathers age, '1f living" one
hundred and twelve years, and his
mothers one hundred and two. The
he had secured an excellent customer:
but, feeling somewhat dubious, he re-
marked that the applicant came of a
very long-lived family. "Oh. you see,
sir" replied he, my parents died
manv years ago, but, If living would
be - as there put down" Exactly
l under>tand," said the agent
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-11-17

experiment stations in this country
similar tests are conducted from time
to time, and it is not unusual for one
pen Of selected fowls to produce an
average of $50 eggs apiece, while the
record for individual hens, a much
disputed honor, is considerably above
that figure. The Orpingtons appear to
be quite as good layers as any other
breed The Brown Leghorns, while
not quite so prolific layers, require
relatively small rations and therefore
are considered very economical egg
producers. A good layer will produce
five or six times her weight each year.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-11-17
Emperor Francis Joseph Can Speak
IL Languages-Several Other
Crowned Linguists.

Vienna.-No monarch of the pres
ent time possesses such linguistic at
tainments as the Emperor Francis Jo-
seph. He speaks twelve languages:
German, French, Hungarian, Czech,
Polish, Servian, Croatian, Ruthenian,
Dalmatian, Roumanien, Italian and
Hebrew. He Is less at home in Eng.
hsh.
Another capable crowned Hnguist is
Kaiser Wilhelm, who talks fuently in
five languages besides his own: Eng
lish, French, Latin, Polish and Rus
sian. The car of Russia speaks Eng
lish, German and French, besides be-
ing well versed in the various Rus
sian dialects
King Victor Emmanuel Of Italy has
not the gift of languages and has not
succeeded in fully mastering French
and German, although he CALAMITY
sticks to his studies. Alfonso of Spain
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-11-17
FINDS QUEER TRIBE

Immediately afterwards to undergo
ceremonial washing.
These people lived in little huts,
all OF which were raised about ten
feet from the ground, access being
obtained by notched pole. These
little huts we found to be divided into
two, one-half being used for domestic
enthusiastically pigs, which pre-
sumably, also climbed the rough lad
der-and the other half by the people
themselves. These natives are not
dwarfs. We noticed that some of the
women had the middle finger of the
left hand cut off.
eve had no means of discovering
the meaning of this, although it was
clear that the mutilation was made
during youth. Many of the men, too,
had the upper portion Of one Of their
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-11-17
Fire Horses "Con7e Back"

boots outside Of the firehouse. One Of
the men sneaked down to the front Of
the station. There strange sight con-
fronted him. Larry and Spot were
standing at the entrance with their
noses over the chains, waiting to be
admitted.
Some Of the fremen, when they were
told Of the incident by their comrade,
ran down to the entrance and petted
the horses. Larry and Spot were ad-
mitted and the fremen communicated
with the farmer who had purchased
the animals. He arrived later and
took the horses back to his ranch.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-11-17
Pays Old Beard Bill.

Scranton, Pa-Thirty-n years
ago Martin Padden left Carbonate,
owing for a couple months board and
paper of tobacco. Lately he re-
turned and sought Martin Flynn, a
well-known hotel man of this city, son
of the man to whom he owed the board
bill, for the purpose of paying.
When quizzed, Padden, who in his
younger days was sailor, stated tina.
he came from "a miles the other side
of New Orleans simply to pay these
bills, remarking that he was an old
man, with not long to live, and wanted
to be square with the world.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-11-17
Boy Grleved for Cat.

New York.-Frank Allighietta, ten
years old, has had his first square
meal in three days. A big Maltese
has been his pet for years. Three
days ago the cat was taken by the
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty
to Animals. The lad began pining
to such an extent that he could not
eat. His family was on the verge of
summoning doctor, when the cat
turned up. How 1t escaped the So
ciety agents is unknown. The sight
of his old companion was a tonic for
the boy, who ate with his family for
the first time in three days.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-11-17

romance; 1t is clear enough to us
in thought; but we are not used to con-
slider anything clear until we are able
to formulate it in words, and analytical
language has not been sufficiently
shaped to that end. 1t is not that
there is anything blurred or indefinite
in the impression left with US, 1t is
Just because the impression Is so very
definite after its own kind. that we
find 1t hard to fit 1t exactly with the
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-11-17
Importance of Mater.

With the thought in mind that water
is by far the chief element enterir 7
into the composition of an egg, is it
any wonder that the water supply for
the poultry should receive the most
careful attention, first. last and all the
time? In fact, water composes such
very large per cent. of all poultry. live
stock and dairy products, that no In
telliaent farmer can afford to overlook
the smallest detail in regard to It's
cleanliness, freshness and purity every
day In the year; every hour In the
d.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-11-17
GOOD FARM POULTRY HOUSE
Minnesota Woman Gives Description
of open-Front Style of Structure
for Chickens.

Our main henhouse is built Of hem
lock boards. The open-front style of
house is liked best, and the one shown
in the illustration cost about 60 cents
per running foot, writes Mrs. D. E.
Grover of Freeborn County, Mimi, in
Homestead. This house is so feet
long, 8 feet high in front, Az feet in
the back and II feet wide. In every
20-foot pen section of the front is
hinged to let down to admit fresh air.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-11-17
DR.. Forbes WinsIoW, Lunacy Expert,
Takes Pessimistic View OF Future
Pace Is Rapid.

notwithstanding to DR.. Forbes
Winslow, who acquired international
celebrity by his sedulous ins1stence on
his theory that Jack the Ripper" was
a homicidal maniac, the world is 60
ing mad.
Doctor Winslow considers that the
rate of progress to that contamination
is shockingly rapid. In book of remi-
niscences published recently this ex-
pert In criminal lunacy says:
by a simple arithmetical calcula-
ton it can be shown the exact year
when there will be more insane per-
sons in the world than sane. We in
England are gradually approaching,
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-11-17
Art Leads Language and Science

The fact is that art Is working far
ahead OF language as we'll as of sci
ence, realizing for us, by all manner OF
suggestions and exaggerations, effects
for which as yet we have no name:
nay, for which we may never PERTAINS
have direct name, for the reason that
these effects do not enter very largely
into the necessities Of life Hence
alone is that suspicion OF vagueness
that often hangs about the purpose OF
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-11-17
Entrance for Hens.

highly satisfactory, says American Ag-
riculturist 1t consists of a frame set
in the poultry fence. From the top
two doors, each followed out toward
the center, are hung by freely moving
hinges or leather straps. The hen
walking along the outside will see this
opening and push her way through.
The doors will fall of their own weight
behind her.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-11-17
expressions of our philosophers
speech.-Robert Louis Stevenson.
Off the Key.

II WISH" said Uncle Chanticleer.
the reformed rooster, that I could
overcome the neighbors' objection to
my growing IN the morning. There
are other disturbances they don't seem
to mind
YES" replied the watch dog. What
you want to do is to learn to make q
noise like a milk wagon or an owl
ar"-Washington Star.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-11-17
Clean the Droppino Boards,

If dropping boards are used, clean
them often and add dust, which will
act as an absorbent If no dropping
boards are used, have boards placed
around underneath the roosts to keep
the manure from being mixed with
the litter. Add layer of dry earth
every few days. This compost should
be removed at stated intervals
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-11-17
For Healthy Fowls.

If you would have healthy fowls
you should not feed or water them
in filthy vessels, nor should the feed
be thrown among the filth for the
fowls to pick at. If the feed is a.
mash it should be fed in a clean re-
ceptacle and if grain it should be
strewn on board of some other clean
place.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-11-17
NInety-Pound Sponge.

London.-A consular report from
the Bahama islands describes what is
termed the worlds biggest sponge"
1t is perfectly round and Is six feet In
circumference and two feet In d.
amteter. When taken from the water
1t weighed between eighty and ninety
pounds.