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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-01-26
HEN HAS HARD TASK
Experiment With Pheasant's
Eggs Quite Expensive.
Domestic Fowl Compelled TO Sacriflce
Its Own Progeny in catching
Law Will Protect English
Bird for Years.

Jefferson City, Mo.-More work for
the patient Missouri hen.
In addition to her other duties, she
is now expected to hatch out pleas
ants.
The pheasant Is a sort of everybody
works but-mother bird, which viii not
sit-or is 1t seton its own eggs
while In captivity. 1t being manifest
that George can't do it, there is no
way out Of 1t except to shove the IN
welcome task onto the hens.
That is what State Game Commits
Bioner Tolerton is doing in his effort
to introduce the English pheasant in
Missouri. 1t will be a thankless task.
too, for as soon as a pheasant is large
enough to get about, the first thing he
does is to go out foraging for chicken
feed. He will even steal from his own
foster mother.
In his efforts to accustom pheasants
to the Missouri climate Tolerton is
sending pheasants free to all farmers
and poultry raisers who ask for them.
The result is that colonies of the
gaudy birds are now to be found in
many parts of the state
Farmers already are loudly com
planning that the pheasants are rob
bling their chickens of feed. For this
there is no remedy, as it is unlawful
to Kill pheasant in Missouri.
Almost any one who asks for pleas
ants can get them from ToIerton.
There are only few simple condi.
tons. First of these is that, no mat.
ter how many pheasants you raise
you will not be permitted to kill one
even for your own table.
You must keep an exact account OF
the eggs laid and you must either send
these eggs to the state poultry farm
at Jefferson City or set them under
your hens and send the young birds to
the game commissioner for distribu
ton in the state.
Here is where the hen gets the
worst of It. After she has taken all
the trouble to hatch out the pleas
ants they are taken away from her
Worse than that, she might seek con.
ISOLATION In Matching out a few chill
dren Of her own, but even this pleas.
ure Is denied her. For. until the
young pheasants are two months old
the only food on which they will
thrive is fresh hens eggs.
Biddy's nest is robbed to feed them
and she must bear the double inius.
tice to bringing into the world crea.
lures for which she has no natural
affection and OF seeing them thrive on
the ruins of her fondest hopes for a
posterity which would do credit to the
great Missouri hen family.
At the experimental farm near JEFF
ferson City $50 hens are working over.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-01-26
TRANSPLANT a Whole Srove.

Commack, L. IA remarkable feat
of forestry is being performed by a
firm of WestbuTy nurserymen in re-
moving q full-grown cedar trees from
the estate of former Senator CARL S.
Rurr. Jr., to the new plant of the
Doubleday-Pag company at Garden
City.
The trees, which are all about il
years old and average 20 feet in height,
formed a handsome grove on the Burr
estate
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-01-26
colored reports came in shares f1uctu-
ated in a most surprising way.
FOOLS HIS HENS WITH SIGN
Delaware PouItryman Makes Chickens
Lay by Posting False Quotations
on Board.

Glendale, Del-Carey Palmer, well
known as a poultry raiser, is respon-
sible for the story of how he is keep
ing his hens laying during the win
ter
Palmer noticed that whenever eggs
assumed a high price his hens would
stop laying, and, after thinking the
matter over, he determined that the
price had great deal to do with the
work of the hens.
When eggs took their recent jump
Palmer put up a large sign in his
henhouse. reading: Eggs, 10 cents a
dozen"
He declares that the sign has done
the work and that, while eggs are
bringing As cents a dozen, his hens
are laying every day without any
hesitancy.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-01-26
RUSSIAN INVENTS X-RAY EYE
With 1t Person Can Stay at Home and
Witness Performance Going
On at Theater.

St Petersburg Rosig. of the
Institute of Technology, has announc-
ed in a public lecture a discovery
which, he says, is the most remark
able ever made by scientist. It
is nothing less than an electro-tele-
scopic apparatus, which gives the user
what might be termed Roentgen ray
eye.
With it, says the professor, an en-
ployer sitting in his office is able to
see other parts of the building, or a
theater performance can be watched
at home, while generals are enabled
to watch the movements of an enemy
as we'll as those of his own forces.
The details for the moment are
withheld
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-01-26
SCRAPED BOTTOM OF OCEAN

noted for the number and beauty Of
the shells to be found there and in the
older days as many as 1000 species
were to their credit. But in this lot of
material there are hundreds of new
species and many new genera. The
dredging was at various depths even
down to $4,000 or 10000 feet. The
speaker described the place as a para
disc for the shell collector Great
tree snails abound, some of them
nearly as large as a pint measure,
with enormous quantities of minute
shells, all with colors that vie with
those of the tropical birds and foliage,
while the seas are carpeted with the
richest of shades and patterns, the
naked mollusks taking on brightness
of tints that is permissible In a coun-
try where the brilliant hued corals
form the background.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-01-26
Poultry FEEDING system.

We follow the same system of feed
ing throughout the entire year, with
but little variation. When grass is
not available we substitute beets or
mangels grown for the purpose, and
during the winter months a little
oats is given, says a writer in an ex-
change. Occasionally a few acres OF
small grain is sown, and when it be-
gins to ripen the hens are taken out
to the fields and allowed to harvest
the grain at will. This is a very
cheap and satisfactory way to feed in
part. The hens under these condi-
tons always have access to the beef
scrap and bran mixture and little
corn is given occasionally.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-01-26

ton with the laying pens. If two
gates are used, one opening inward
in front of the nest, the other open
ing outward at the back or the side,
so that the hens may go into another
yard after laying, the poultryman
may know which hens have and have
not laid. Thus he may avoid the
trouble usually connected with ordi-
nary trap nests. By practicing this
method and breeding from the best
layers only the average egg yield of
the flock may easily be raised.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-01-26
Young at the Business.

General Howard was an invited
guest at dinner given by a boys
patriotic club YOU eat very well,
my boy" said the general to doughty
young trencherman- IF you love your
flag as well as your dinner you'll
make d good patriot"
Yes. sir" said the boy; but I've
been practising eating II years, and
amt owned a gun but six months -
Success Magazine.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-01-26
A Sample Quip.

Thomas w. Lawson's Thanksgiv.
ing proclamation was a very good
piece Of oratorical writing" said a
Boston banker. Lawson is always
full of quips.
Not long ago I attended the fu
neral of a millionaire financier-one
of those real high financiers' whose
low methods Lawson loves to turn the
light on.
Il arrived at the funeral a little
late. took a seat beside Lawson
and whispered:
How far has the service gomez
Lawson, nodding towards the cler.
gyman in the pulpit, whispered back:
Just opened for the defense"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-01-26
To Insure Success,

AS in every other line of endeavor
success in the poultry business de-
ponds upon the individual No one
who is shtftless and Indifferent will
find the raising Of chickens profitable.
1t is business which requires not
only tact, but perseverance and per-
sistence. There is much more to do
than simply gather up the eggs after
the hens lay them, and when some
persons find by experience that con-
siderable work of systematic kind
is necessary they give up.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-01-26
ste,ooo,ooo Worth of Salmon.

Seattle. Wash.-The combined sal
mon packs of Alaska, British Column
bia and Puget sound for the season of
1910 show an aggregate output of
&. 69O.5S6 cases, the lightest lean
year on record, according to the final
figures compiled here yesterday. The
salmon packs run in cycles of four
years, there being three lean" years
and one fat" year. The last fat
wear was 1909. The 1910 salmon pack
brought TO Alaska and the Pacific
northwest Gamers is approximately
s19,000,000.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-01-26
IP2UJIgA s TRY
llIH$Jy6>1| 4 IS =

The sly young pullets like secluded
nests.
Eggs should be kept dry at all
times.
An expensive hen house will not al
ways insure profits.
II the hens and chicks are confined
to a yard, green food must be fur
nished them.
The demand for dressed chickens
and fresh eggs is still keen and al
ways will be.
More money can be lost with chick
ems, relatively speaking, than with
sheep or pigs.
The profits from the poultry often
come from feed that would otherwise
be thrown away.
In no business more than in poul-
try keeping are the little details OF
such Importance.
Better visit the chicken house at
night and listen for wheeling or rat
Ting in the throat.
More people are now putting in a
good part of their time producing
pouItry than ever before ana prices
were never so good.
Don't fail to free your setting hens
from lice When the chicks are out
see that they are free from lice If you
would have them thrive.
Salesmanship Is one Of the keynotes
Of success in the poultry business as
well as in any other line.
When we consider the capital In
vested, the poultry on the farm is
pretty good dividend payer.
The south slope Of hill IS ine
location for a poultry house. The
next best Is spot sheltered from
cold winds by buildings on the north
and west,
Treat your fowls with kindness and
they will show their appreciation By
keeping your egg basket 1iled- A
half-scared-to-death hen is never
/ prolific laying hen
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-01-26
Details of Homemade Brooder.

layer of cotton batting between them
and stitch them together, and you
have a hover blanket. Tack this to
the hoop and push it down in the
cheese box until the blanket touches
their backs. Make another blanket
to throw in loose on top of the other,
cold nights and cold or stormy
weather.
Cut long strip of pasteboard for a
door that can be showed down inside
the brooder between the hoop and the
inside wall, passing over the exit and
close 1t for the first two weeks at
night and other times when the chicks
seem cold.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-01-26
Want Lake Trout Hatchery.

Nadison.-The Wisconsin state fish
commission at its semi-annual meet
ing decided to ask an appropriation
of s25, 900 for the propagation of
axe trout at some place on the
shores of Lake Michigan.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-01-26
VIII Not Come TO Madison.

Madison.-Senator La Toilette has
decided not to leave Washington for
Madison, in order to be present when
reelected to the United States SEN
ate. The senator declined to state
the reason for not coming here.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-01-26
Game Rooster Gives Alarm

A farmer near Brookdale, N. J., was
awakened by the frantic Growing of a
game rooster, and on turning out dis
covered a thief making off with bag
full of prize chickens After a hard
fight the thief was captured. A game
cock never fails to give an alarm by
Growing loudly whenever a stranger
or dog approaches the chicken yard.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-01-26
BROODER THAT is HEATLESS
Excellent Shelter May Be Secured
from Ordinary Cheese Box Ar
ranged With Cotton Batting.

Take an ordinary cheese box and
remove the cover and bottom With
in one or two inches from the bottom
Of the side wall cut a hole for exit
large enough for the attendant to
thrust in his hand, says a writer in
the Farm and Home. Take a wooden
hoop and place around in the cheese
box to get the proper size so it will
slide in not too easily, and nail the
hoop together.
Take two pieces OF cheesecloth the
size and shape of the hoop, put a thin
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-01-26
Woman Accidentally Shot.

Fond du Lac.-Mrs. F. Blair was
accidentally shot through the heart
when a fringe on her dresser caught
the trigger of a revolver lying near.
The bullet pierced the woman's heart
and she NAV die.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-01-26
Demand New Fair Ru idinps-

La Crosse. Directors of the La
Crosse Interstate Fair association
have announced the annual fair will
be held here in September, provided
business men subscribe $4,000 to
build new pig, sheep and poultry
sheds.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-01-26
Can't Spell Spinach.

Springfield, Mass.-In $4,000 at.
tempts 10 spell words given out in a
spelling match between the grammar
school grades of the Lee public
school $4,000 errors were made. Spin.
ach was missed Sc times, and the pa.
pills had an equally hard time with
macaroni.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-01-26
time laying eggs for young pheasants


to eat.
The pheasant in its present stage
of Americanization is not a revenue
maker for anybody. The law forbids
it from being used as food and the
regulations surrounding the distribu-
ton of the birds prevent even the
most opulent from breakfasting on
bacon and pheasant eggs. The hen,
on the other hand. is the states great
est wealth producer and her friends
can't see why she should be showed
into the background by an imported
fowl whose beauty is of about as
much practical value as is that of the
aurora borealis.
Commissioner Tolerton says that
the pheasant is one of the greatest Of
game birds and that in time the spe-
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-01-26
King Manuel Gets Diary.

London.-A tin box containing 90
small volumes of King Manuels diary
has been forwarded to him at Wood
Norton. 1t appears that the king has
kept a diary since his early infancy.
Each volume is bound in morocco
leather, and has a silver lock and key.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-01-26
Salt for Poultry.

Salt is as essential for poultry as
for human beings or animals. But it
is not wise to feed it by itself The
better way is to season the food when
ever that can be done The warm
mash in the winter gives 81 excel,
lent opportunity to supply 1t.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-01-26
Glover Hay for ScratchIno

Glover hay makes a capital scratch
ing material for fowls IN confinement,
they will not only scratch in it, but
consume the leaves and any remain
ing seed, and as it is rich in protein,
it provides material for the growing
chick, also material for the use of
the laying hen.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-01-26

Washingt0n.-It is announced that
Charles D. Norton, secretary to the
president, will retire from that posi-
ton in the near future and return
to Chicago to engage in business.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-01-26
die and feast
PARROT SCARES AWAY RATS
Washington Poultry Raiser Adopts
Unique but Effective Plan to Drive
Away Hawks and Rodents.

A poultry farmer living in Washing
ton has several parrots on his ranch
as policemen to drive away hawks
and rats. The parrots are in deadly
fear Of the hawks and rats, and when
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-01-26
New Bank for Shell Rock.

Madison.-State Bank Commits
Toner NJ. C. Bergh has approved the
rticles of incorporation of the Bank
{ Shell Lake, Washburn county. Its
pital stock Ia $4,000.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-01-26
Veteran of Two Wars Dead.

Waupaca.-Capt. James H. Hub
bard, veteran Of the Mexican and
civil wars and first chaplain of the
Wisconsin Veterans home, is dead,
aged Sc.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-01-26
owes 1t Ike WeSHnn

Bristol, Pa.-Over 20 years of age,
w. K. Davis of Jefferson avenue
walked from Kensington to Bristol in
four hours, and could have hiked 10
miles further.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-01-26
Poor onInIon Of Men.

Not only are most men worthless
while alive. but they are so thin.
skinned that you can't make a rag
Of them after they are dead.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-01-26

one appears begin to screech and yell,
Get out, get Quit" The rats had al
most broken up the poultrymans bus
mess when the parrot idea struck him,
since when he says he has had no
trouble
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-01-26

Constipation causes and seriously agra.
Yates many diseases. 1t is thoroughly cured
by DR.. Pierce's Pellets. Tiny sugar-coated
granules.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-01-26

Jefferson City, Mo-More work for
L. : = Z !
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-01-26
YOUNG Chicks.

There is no better way to feed
young chicks during the first two days
of their lives than to feed them moth
ing.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-01-26

when they are having a good time
stabbing sinners
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-01-26

cies will be so plentiful in Missouri
that pheasant hunting will be per-
mitted.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-01-26
Communinas by the Wayslde.

Adam ZawfoX-Jovver git through
a winter 'thout wOrkin'?
Job Sturkey-Yeh; 1 spent one win.
ter in a Workhouse.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-01-26
MEALlNG WITH HIS DRINK.

See here, my dear sir! Didn't
tell you not to drink with your meals?'
But, doctor, be reasonable. l have
to eat some time"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-01-26

Petrtfied creeds always have the
sharpest angles.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-01-26
a Medical Compromise.

You had two doctors in eonsalta-
ton last night, didn't your"
Yes"
What did they say"
We'll, one recommended one thing
and the other recommended something
else"
"A deadlock, eh?T
mo, they finally told me to mix
emr'-CIeveland Plain Dealer.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-01-26

Take LAXATIVE BROMO Quinine Tablets
Druggists refund money If 1t fails to cure L. w.
GROW ES siEnatureis on each box. 25c.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1911-03-06
CHIHUAHUA FACES
PROSPECT Of
FAMINE
STATE CAPITAL CUT OFF
FROM FOOD SUi'p. Y
Railways North and South in
Hands of Rebels With No I'M
mediate Prospect of Restora-
tion of Communication.


IBy Morning Journal Special Leased wirel
El Paso, Texas, March 5--That con-
diticns In the city Of chihuahua are
rapidly becoming serious has been
known and understood In this city for
several days, as El Paso is the base
for many supplies that are required
by that city. and the control of the
Mexican Central railway which SEEM
ed to pass into the hands of the revo-
lutionists the latter part of February,
cut off this source of supplies alto
gether. Information is current in
this city that supplies are so limited in
the city of Chihuahua that coffee Is
selling at 81 and sugar at 81 per
pound with other necessaries In the
same proportion.
The fact that the railway south of
chihuahua Is also under the control of
the revolutionists is attested by the
action OF the Wells-Fargo Express
company in instructlng its agent In
Ciudad Juarez to receive no express
shipments of any character for deliv-
cry on the Mexican Central at any
point between Ciudad Juarez and
Zacatacas, distance of nearly 1000
miles. That the Chihuahua situation
is grave Is still further indicated by
the fact that Colonel Rabago went out
of Juarez this afternoon with 700
soldiers and a construction train over
the Mexican Central and the Juarez
report is that his Instructions are to
clear tho Mexican Central and repair
the track clear through to Chihuahua
in order that freight trains may be
run out of Juarex to Chihuahua with
needed supplies.
Officials of the Mexican Central
and Mexico Northwestern in Juarez
declare that those roads are in the
hands of the federal government and
being operated by the government ex-
cluslvely. That fact is also understood
by the revolutlonists and they are ap-
parently making renewed efforts to
destroy as much railway property as
possible, and are keeping both lines
in q completely demoralized condition.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1911-03-06

NOR that General Torres had been
captured.
Lieutenant Emilio vego also was
captured.
An expedition was sent from TORN
against the rebels holding Ladura and
the attack was made so quickly that
'he rebels we're completely surprised.
Many rebels are reported to have been
Killed. BESIDES regaining prisoners.
the federal force captured an entire
pack train.
General Torres is now at the Otales
ranch, directing the situation. II is
said that two rebel bands are operat-
ing on the Yaqui river while another
has been seen in the vicinity Of Esper-
anza.
Further dispatches say tat Com
missario Chiapa OF MoeteMnla, start
ed north a few days ago with mere
force to give Blanco battle. This force
numbers SEQ. incMding the regulars
and Indians who are reported 10 have
Killed maa. rebels in the fecapture Y.
Sahuaripa.
A force Ct fedetals left Naeo ,cnls! /
and Will arrive nj Aqua Prieta be,e re
midnight. II is made up half pr regp-
lars and half Of nationals Tho force
VIII either assist IN guardlng Aqua
Prieta or join Colonel Mora, who is
operating in the Ajo mountains. The
rebel band under Cabrai. Bracamenti
ond Lopez, and the federals under
Mora were near each other In the
Ajos yesterday but today the Cahral
force was In Bocachi and the others
were on the west slope Of the moun-
tans.
Blanco has cut the wires between
Bavispe river and Ysahel. showing he
has advanced about twelve miles west
of Tigre camp.
On the west slope Of the Ajo noun
tains rebel bands have cut the fedora,
wires between Boccachi and Nacozarl.
II the rebels move west to Cananea,
they will find the town well fortified.
II is reported that the federals have
six machine guns well placed to re-
sist an attack.
The government plans to wage n
campaign against Blanco.
Other bands at Altar and Boeeaehl
are not considered well organized.