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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-01-05

as premium the Spencer feeder, a
simple rubber tube to use in any pail
| believe. In 1903, DR.. Rea and o. H
Manufacturing company returned to
the nipple and rubber tube but had
the arrangement Independent Of the
pail, which idea was elaborated in
1905 by R Kappa and Pirochi of Italy,
but encountered with valves, end now
Miss M. Spilled of Denmark returns
to the Small idea as follows:
On the pail hung on the wall is nip
pie with fat rim (see in illustra.
tom, attached to this by a closing
device and hinged similar to one of
the kinds used on milk bottles ca
is a metal nipple with a fiat rim CO
to correspond to the fixed nipple rim
% and with a catch for the closing
device a., on this the rubber nipple
90 is placed.
Between the two rims 1 and is
placed a rubber diaphragm 60 with
some small Sits In it, SO that when
closed it holds back the milk, but
when the calf sucks the Sits in the
rubber open and let the milk through.
If this plan is a permanent success
the objection to the Small system
is done away with and we have at last
a calf-feeder that Is possible to keep
clean; but the question remains wheth,
er in spite of all this, it will be done
properly in everyday practice. And it
cannot be denied that there is dan,
ger in unc1ean feeders which may per
haps after all be as great as that of
the calves drinking too fast
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-01-05

large square hall, formal reception
room, behind it a big living room that
was also library, then a den, and
| back Of all a Gregorian dining room,
with windows high above the ground,
on the top floor Jim had a studio like
! every other one l ever saw-perhaps
| a little mussier. Jim was really a
grind at his painting, and there were
| cigarette ashes and palette knives
and buffalo rugs and shields every
where. 1t is strange, but when l think
of that terrible house, 1 always see
| the halls, enormous, covered with
| heavy rugs, and stairs that would
have taken six housemaids to keep
IN proper condition. l dream about
| those stairs, stretching above me in
a Jacobs ladder of shining wood and
Persian carpets, going up, up, clear to
| the roof.
| The Dallas Browns walked; they
lived in the next block And they
brought with them man named Har-
| bison, that no one knew Anne said
he would be great sport, because
| he was terribly serious, and had the
most exaggerated ideas of society and
| loathed extravaganza, and built
| bridges or something, She had put
away her cigarettes since he had been
with them-he and Dallas had been
college friends-and the only chance
she had to smoke was when she was
! getting her hair done. And she had
singed off quite lot-a burnt offer
ing, she called it.
(TO BE CONTINUED)
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-01-05

years, and that they descended from
the cattle of the Frieslanders who, sew
eral hundred years before Christ, In.
habited the country north of the rivers
WAL and the Rhine. That would seem
to be far enough back.
In comparatively modern times we
find fmportations Of these cattle play
ing an important If not fundamental
part in the foundation of both the
shorthorn and the Ayrshire breeds, as
may be readily ascertained By refer
ence to the history of those breeds
In continental Europe these cattle and
their onshoots have stamped their
impress in every direction and are
found In more countries. occupying
greater territory, and producing more
milk, butter and cheese than all the
cattle OF other breeds combined.
This breed has spread from its place
Of origin far eastward, even to Rus
STA, where at the mouth of the River
Dwtna, on the edge OF the Arctic
circle, 1t is represented by a breed
called Kolmogorian. which is the most
highly valued in it's section South
Africa, Australia, New Zealand and
indeed most sections of the world
where dairying is done, have substan-
tial representations OF the Holsteins,
and in their purity, too. Quarantine
laws appear to be responsible for their
absence in any large number in Eng
land.
Under a system of advanced registry
testing, through the experiment sta
tons, which has been largely develop
ed since 1894, the Hostein breed now
has a wide foundation stock about
which there is tndisputable evidence
OF their ability at the pail, and of their
prepotency; and I believe that It In
more satisfactory to the average in.
vestor In this breed to know, beyond
question, what several generations Of
ancestry have done as dairy producers
and as breeding cattle than to depend
entirely upon appearance and immedi-
ate qualities as he Is obliged to do In
selecting imported stock
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-01-05
UNION OF THE BLUE AND GRAY
Veterans of Civil Strife is Sug-
gested by Leslie's.

The veterans of the Civil strife are,
rapidly decreasing in numbers, but a.
national encampment of all survivors
of both sides of the conflict would be.
Imposing for its very size. Such an
event has already been prefigured by
smaller gatherings of Grand Army vet!
Grams and confederates in celebrations
Of lesser Importance, and on frequent
occasions when the same impartial
hands have placed flowers on the
graves Of the heroes of both north and
south, says Leslie's Magazine A
great national encampment calling
together from every state in the Union.
The veterans Of blue and gray would
furnish most dramatic Illustration of
| country united in sentiment as well
IS by the constitution. In the mind
If the new generation which has
;rown up since the war there exists
10 feeling of sectional hatred or dis
rust, and if the men who fought one
mother can now meet together as
lrothers about one campfire, Mason
md Dixon's line will once for all be
wiped off the map. The discussion
tself Of such an encampment will do
;ood, but we can see no insuperable
,arrier to the full realization Of the
proposal of Commander-tn-Chief Van
SAINT at the recent encampment at
Atlantic City of the Grand Army Of the
Republic.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-01-05
Three Veterans EIope.

Three giddy couples with aggregate
age of 408 years started the little
town of Sawtelle, Cal, by running
away and getting married. Two of
the bridegrooms were inmates Of the
Soldiers Home at Los Angeles, and
all three were veterans of the Civil
war
The three brides were widows OF
former comrades Of the bridegrooms,
and two of the couples met at funeral
services. The couples and their ages,
as compiled at the marriage license
office, are as follows:
Patrick Curtin, aged seventy, and
Mrs Kate Rees, aged seventy; VIII
liam H. Cole, aged sixty-six, and Mrs.
Caroline Clark, aged sixty-three;
Benjamin H. Hoag, aged seventy
seven, and Mrs. Marie F. Grover
aged sixty-tWo. Total ages of BRIDE
grooms, 213; total age Of brides, 1885,
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-01-05
Profit in Good MIX,

Our farm is located Just outside Of
town, and we sell the milk from our
dairy to private customers, which
brings us more profit than to make 1t
up as butter, says a writer in the
Farm Journal. People are beginning
to appreciate good milk, and are will
ing to pay better price for 1t than
the average milk that is put on the
market The milk from my dairy sells
at cents a quart in Binghamton.
The dairy consists of % purebred reg
istered animals, with II COWS in milk.
The average test in butter fat is
slightly over five per cent. during the
summer and now averages 81 per
cent I intend to build new barn
for my cows, where they will have
the best light and ventilation, two
things extremely needed for the
health of all animals. When I have
that l shall enlarge my herd to about
40 head.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-01-05
WHEN 4 MAN
MADDIES 6&S1
BWE1RIlY7 NOBE[ETS N1N[5ElATNT Al
cHLI77OP. OF TIE CIRCULAR STAIRCASE
TIE MAN IN LOWER TEN, ETC.

so hard later-the situation would
have been bad enough without that
complication.
They went abroad on their wedding
journey, and stayed several months
| And when Jim came back he was fat
ter than ever Everybody noticed
| it. Bella had a gymnasium fitted up
! in a corner of the studio, but he would
not use it. He smoked a pipe and
painted all day, and drank beer and
| would eat starches OF whatever it is
| that is fattening. But he adored
Bella, and he was madly jealous of
her. At dinners he used to glare at
the man who took her in, although it
did not make him thin. Bella was
flirting, too, and by the time they had
been married a year, people hitched
their chairs together and dropped
their voices when they were men
toned.
Wen, on the anniversary of the day
Bella left him-oh, yes, she left him
finally. She was intense enough about
some things, and she said it got on
her nerves to have everybody chuckle
when they asked for her husband.
They would say, Hello, Bellal How's
Bubbles? Still banting?" And Bella
would try to laugh and say, He
swears his tailor says his waist is
smaller, but If it is he must be grow
ing hollow in the back" But she
got tired of it at last Well on the
second anniversary of Bella's depart
ure, Jimmy was feeling pretty glum,
and, as I say, l am very fond of Jim.
The divorce had just gone through
and Bella had taken her maiden
name again and had had an operation
for appendicitis. We heard after
ward that they didn't find any ap-
pendtx, and that the one they showed
her in glass jar was not hers! But
if Bella ever suspected, she didn't
say. Whether the appendix was anon
ymous or not, she got box after box of
flowers that were, and Of course every
one knew that 1t was Jim who sent
them.
To go back to the anniversary; I
went to Rothberg's to see the collec-
ton of antique furniture-mother
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-01-05

self away on Jack Manning, or Max.
or some other"
Nothing Of the sort" | said coIdly,
land the fact that you didn't marry
me does not give you the privilege of
abusing my friends. Anyhow, don't
like you when you speak like that"
Jim took me to the door and stopped
there to sigh.
Il haven't been WELL" he said, heav-
lily. Don't eat, don't sleep. Wouldn t
you think I'd lose flesh? Kit"-he
lowered his voice solemnIy-'T have
gained two pounds!"
I said he didn't look it, which ap-
peared to comfort him somewhat, and
because we were old friends, l asked
him where Belle was. He said he
thought she was in Europe, and that
he had heard she was going to marry
Reggie Wolfe. Then he sighed again,
muttered something about ordering
the funeral baked meats to be pre-
pared and left me.
That was my entire share in the af,
fair. | was the victim, both of cir
cumstances and of their plot, which
was mad on the face of it. During the
entire time they never once let me
forget that got up the dinner, that I
telephoned around for them They
asked me why l couldn't cook
when not one Of them knew one side
Of range from the other And for
Anne Brown to talk the way she did
saying l had always been crazy
about Jim, and that she believed I
had known all along that his aunt was
coming-for Anne to talk like that
was sheer idiocy. Yes, there was an
aunt. The Japanese Butler started
the trouble, and Aunt Selma carried
it along
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-01-05
LATEST FEEDER FOR CALVES
Danish Woman Makes Improvement
on Small Idea That Is Possible
TO Keep Clean.

Anyone familiar with the raising OF
calves knows the difficulties in teach
Ing the calves to drink, writes J. H
Monrad OF Denmark in Hoard's Dairy
man.
But, having taught the calf to drink,
the worry over its tendency to drink
too fast remains. 'Tis true, floating a
little hay or straw in the milk may put
a brake On this tendency, but in our,
too bacteriology, wide-awake 90
days, this plan seems less attractive.
In the latter part of the sixties, last
century, the idea of applying the prin-
ctple of the infants feed bottle was
drst suggested, l believe in England
Cd by Tucker, where an apparatus
trated in Sheldon's Dairy Farming"
and consists of solid, low cylindrical
pail with cover inserted inside sew
era1 inches down; in the center Of this
Is metal tube to which rubber tube
Is attached on the under side and q
rubber nipple on the upper side. Since
then We have had many others, Of
which l mention the Small feeder
(1S86), a tin can with fat back, to
hang on wall with tin nipple on
which is the rubber nipple. This had
the great advantage of only a
short nipple to clean and was very
convenient to the calf, but had the
drawback of leaking milk; in 1903 in
Switzerland wooden teat was sug-
gested as being easier to keep clean;
In 1891, Hoard's Dairyman gave
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-01-05
PRISONS USED AS A REFUGE
Poorer Glasses of japanese Glad r.
Find Shelter and Food Behind
Bars of Jail

In Japan there are people who
make sham confessions in order to
obtain a period of the comparative
warmth and comfort of JAPANESE
prison. The Japan Mail says: THE
police slang of the capital has words
to describe and distinguish these per
sons. 'Messikui,' or the rice Grim
inal, will steal some small article
from shop front in such a way as to
be seen doing it. He then makes a
bolt Of it, pursued by the master of
the shop or some faithful kozo. but
presently allows himself to be caught
and handed to the police He has to
do time for his pretended theft, but
his rice is secured for a period. and
when that period has elapsed he will
allow himself to be caught again.
The 'unandon,' or 'eel-bowl Grim
lnal,' is wilier than the one just men
Toned. He does not actually commit
crime, such as will put him into the
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-01-05

was looking for a sideboard for IA
/ theirs birthday in March-and I met
Jimmy there looking into a worm-hole
the end of a match, and looking his
nearest to sad. When he saw me he
came over.
I'm blue today, Kit" he said, after
We had shaken hands. Come and
help me dig bait, and then let's go
fishing. If there's a worm in every
hole in that bedpost, we could go into
the fish business. It's good business"
Better than painting?" l asked. But
he ignored the gibe and swelled up
alarmingly in order to sigh.
This is the worst day of the year
for me-" he affirmed, staring straight
ahead, and the longest. Look at that
crack clock over Their. If you want
to see your life passing away, if you
want to see the steps by which you
are marching to eternity, watch that
clock marking the time. Look at that
internal and staying quiet for 60
seconds and then jumping forward to
catch up the procession. UGH"
See here, Jim,' l said, leaning for
ward you're not we'll. You can't go
through the rest of the day like this
know what you'll do You'll go
home to play Grieg on the pianola,
and you won't eat any dinner" He
looked guilty.
Not Cries" he protested feebly.
/ Beethoven"
You're not going to do either" I
said with firmness. You are going
right home to unpack those new
draperies that Harry Bayless sent you
/ from Shanghai, and you are going to
order dinner for eight-that will be
two tables of bridge. And you are not
/ going to touch the pianola."
He did not seem enthusiastic, but
! he rose and picked up his hat, and
stood looking down at me where
sat on an old horse-hair covered sofa.
L wish to thunder I had married
you.' he said savagely. You're the
/ finest girl l know, Kit, without excep-
! ton, and you are going to throw your
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-01-05
CHAPTER II.
The Way 1t Beqan,

1t makes me angry every time l think
how [ tried to make that dinner a
success. 1 Cancelled a theater en-
gagement, and I took the Mercer girls
in the electric brougham father had
given me for Christmas. Their chauf-
feur had been gone for hours with
their machine, and they had tele-
phoned all the police stations without
success. They were afraid that there
had been an awful smash; they could
easily have replaced Bartlett, as Lol-
lie said, but 1t takes SO long to get
new parts for those foreign cars.
Jim had a house well uptown, and 1t
stood just enough apart from the
other houses to be entirely madden
ing later. 1t was three-story affair,
with basement kitchen and servants
dining room. Then, of course, there
were cellars, as we found out after.
ward. On the first floor there was a
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-01-05

a member of Company D of the same
regiment and that he is the only man
In the Eleventh that l have heard of
since we were discharged at Fort
Hamilton, on Long Island. In 184S."
Mr.. Hickok is one of the thin line
Of survivors Of the Mexican war. He
volunteered for the service In the win
ter of 1857, in Ohio. when I re-
turned home in 184S," he said, Il was
80 emaciated with disease that my
mother did not know me-"
Mr.. Hickok had settled down to the
life of merchant in Wisconsin, with
out further thought of war. One day
he read current newspaper account
Of the first battle of Bull Run. 81
could not stay at home" he said, $50
l shut up my business, paid off my
men, went to La Crosse, Wis, and
raised a volunteer company of 102
men. Only eight of them are living.
l was a captain in the Eighth Wiscon-
sin infantry, the regiment that car
ried the live eagle, old Abe"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-01-05
Big Money From Tested Cows

Big Money From Tested Cows.
One dairyman produced $4,000
worth Of milk from 90 COWS, or 500
per COW, while a neighbor bestowed
twice as much labor on 30 COWS and
sold only $1,000 worth of milk, or
s45 per COW, barely paying expenses,
while the first man made a profit Of
over $1,000, says the bulletin of the
University OF Illinois. Yet the second
man said he had no time to spend a
few minutes each day weighing and
testing the milk from each COW. In
stead, be spent four long, weary years
in raising and harvesting the crops
on a 160-acre farm, and feeding and
milking 40 cows to make as much
profit as his neighbor did in one year
with half the cows, half the land and
half the labor.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-01-05
ASK THE SALVATION ARMY

go down the street with two strings
of horses bonneJs stretched from the
top OF the cover to the tailgate. so
hustled down and asked for one be-
fore they were all gone"
His case is typical of hundreds OF
Others said an army worker. Our
collection wagons are veritable curl
osity shops on wheels Household
goods and clothing comprise the bulk
of the Dad, but it is topped off by
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-01-05
DAHNN{01Es
~SNsR ~ "
Naa}H .yy-LlB

Sorghum is an excellent feed for
dairy COWS.
A sorghum dairy ration will in
crease the flow of milk.
1t will pay any farmer or dairyman
having more than three good COWS to
buy a good hand separator.
The ideal ration for the dairy COW
should include a mixture OF grains,
or alfalfa hay and cut silage.
The cows ration must be governed
by her ability to eat, digest and as
simulate her food and convert it into
milk
If conditions in and about your COW
stable are bad, look out for visit
from some member of the dairy and
food commission.
You cannot expect to get good fla
vored milk or butter II COWS are kept
In a filthy stable and fed on poor, IN
wholesome feed.
Heifers with their first calves are
nervous and can be induced to give
down their milk only by careful and
judicious treatment.
It is not advisable to return the calf
to heifer after it has been weaned.
By doing so a habit is formed that
will remain with the cow through life.
Ropy or stringy milk is fermenta.
ton and should not be confused with
garget. 1t develops after milk Is
drawn and is caused by bacterial
growth.
Have q regular stall for each COW,
put the mixed feed in the trough be-
fore opening the stable door; each one
will then go into her own stall and
can be haltered without confusion.
SKINNED milk, used pure, fresh and
warm from the separator can be
turned to almost as much profit as the
cream from the milk, which viii great
" increase the net profits in dairy
ing
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-01-05

convict side Of the prison, but allows
himself to be found looking in suspi-
c1ous places, underneath the broad
yerandas of temple, or in the gar
den of private house He gets into
prison all right, but he secures the
more generous treatment of the house
of detention, which is to the fare of
the convict jail what a dish of cells
is to bowl Of plain rice.
1.-THE kuruma' is criminal who
makes a sham confession In order m
sneak free railway ride. The Asasi
tells Of case connected with mur-
der, known as the 'decapitated cornse
case which took place last year. A
man gave himself up to the police in
Sendai as the perpetrator of the
crime. He was brought to Tokyo and
his story was investigated 1t was
found to be pure fabrication"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-01-05
SOME HISTORY OF HOLsTEINs
Cattle in America Are All Descend.
ants OF or Direct importations
From Holland.

The cattle called Holsteins in Amer
lea are all descendants of or direct i'm
portations from Holland and nearly all
OF them are from the provinces of
North Holland and Friesland, where
are found the types most pleasing to
Americans; writes Stanley Milward In
the Farmers Review. The antiquity of
the breed is so good, that history re-
cords no period when the shores of
the North sea and its inflowing rivers
were not noted for their great black
and white cattle. The Netherland
herd-book states that the pedigree Of
these cattle dates back over 1000
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-01-05
Monument TO Father corby.

There was dedicated at Gettysburg
a monument to Father Corby of the
Eighty-eightb New York-later gener-.
al of the Order of the Sacred Heart at
Notre Dame, Ind.-who, standing on a.
rock under fire in the late afternoon
of July 2, 1863, gave dissolution to the
Irish brigade and incidentally the 9TH.
er troops Of CaldWens First division
of Hancock's Second corps before they
plunged to the relief of Sickles They
left one-third Of their number on thea
field
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-01-05
Grading Cream.

The Kansas Agricultural college
grades cream as follows; First grade
cream, 80 or more per cent. Of butter
fat. second grade rs per cent. and
less than go; third grade. having less
than 25 per cent. butter fat. Dreamer
les Ike to get high-testing cream, say,
90 and above. They make more but
ter from this, as the overrun is
greater.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-01-05
Alma Mater.

1t may not be generally known that
the term alma mater" which is uni,
versally applied to colleges and uni
versities where men receive their
scholastic training, is of purely Cath
oiic origin. 1t had its source at the
University of Bonn. and drew it's in
spiration from the beautifully chiseled
statue of the mother Of Christ-known
as the Alma Mater-placed over the
principal portal of that celebrated
seat of learning.-Rosary Magazine.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-01-05
Germany Buys Aerop;anes.

The German war Office has acquired
aeroplanes Of five different types.
These comprise the Wright, Sommer,
Farman and Ayatik biplanes and the
Ettrick monoplane Various tests Of
a far-reaching character will be made
with these machines and the govern
ment will then make extensive pur-
chases for the army.