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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1913-06-12
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like to see discovered, standardized. and codifed
in Washington.
There is one and only one best way for
cleaning streets; best way for arranging
school curricua; best way for conserving
the public health. These best ways once they
discovered and firmly established, are just
effcacious IN one form of city government as they
in another
There is not at the present time, city in
this country which is systematically finding and
using the best ways for conducting its various
municipal departments
We believe that the only reason for this scat
tered and disorganized state of things lies in the
inability of our many cities to find common
meeting ground on which to thrash out the good
they have discovered from the bad they have not
known how to avoid.
AS things are at present. we offer the distress
ing and unnecessary spectacle of whole people
struggling with a universal problem in sporadic
patches incoherent and unrelated; and of
ton which has failed to make common cause,
among its separate parts, of question which is,
more than almost any other, national one.
we need cooperation. We need concentration.
We have failed to establish a central reservoir for
the knowledge, independently come by, of the
many cities solving their difficulties in their own
way; we have failed to provide central source
to which these cities beset by problems they are
not able to solve, come for help
The arrangement involves foolish waste
Here are countless cities all over the country,
q
credit to their day and generation, which follow
uncharted way to excellence in some one or
two particular branches of government.
One city learns we'll say. how TO a fire
department with the minimum of waste and the
maximum of efficiency. Another turns up good
working solution of checking the spread of dis
ease Still another learns how to lay pavements,
and another how to conduct its schools.
Each OF these cities has discovered for itself
a fact of primary Importance to all cities; yet
they cannot give 1t even to their neighbors, be-
cause they have official place of exchange!
/ The situation is absurd that which OBJ
tanned in the dawn of economic inteTrelations,
when every man caught and cooked his own food,
prepared the skins for his clothing, and was,
in every phase of his activities, sufficient unto
himself.
Now what want to do is precisely analogous
to the secondary economic period, when two men
divided their labors, and one caught and cooked
for nourishment for two. and the other per
formed like service in clothing the pair Each
halved his effort, and doubled his result
1t is in fact, remarkable to me that this much
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1913-06-12

Some beautiful colors will be included.
Sow the seeds in the window early.
The plants terminate quickly, and
may be shifted into pots as they be-
come larger. Transplant to rich gar
den soil as soon as danger from frost
is over, and they will bloom nearly
as soon as those started from tubers-
Some may not develop sufficient
root growth to keep through the Win
you will have the pleasure enough
during the one season to repay the
small cost.
Try one variegated variety, thus
getting a whole bouquet with no two
alike from the same plant.
De not try to make too many roots
by subdividing. It is better to have
one strong than two weak plants.
Plant deep, stake. and feed well.
Dahiias require q sunny location in
a literally MANFRED sandy loan.
Their position should be such as to
receive plenty of air, and spreading
space, and the sun for the best part
of the day. The soil should be kept
loose or stirred by liberal cultivation,
especially after rain, Under no con-
sideration allow the soil to become
baked. If the soil has a tendency to
be stiff or contains clay deposits it is
well to incorporate well into the soil
where the dahlias are to be planted
some coarse material such as sand,
wood or coal ashes, or in fact any
thing that will give the soil perfect
drainage
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1913-06-12

tanned community want Some OF THESE wants
will best be supplied with the cooperation OF pfl-
vate enterprise Satisfaction of others necessarily
will be deferred until methods to meet them can
be evolved or additional sources obtained But
it should become the city S business to nave them
supplied either by public effort or private eHort
under terms and conditions that will adequately
protect the public interest
Granting these things, then-and they nave
been pretty well established as fact by the work
of the bureau--it would seem that even if city
government along constructive lines were dlfhcult
to get it would be worth making fight for. But
we in this country in the position of standing
starving in the midst of plenty for lack Of the
enterprise to reach out and take what we need
Countless cities all over the country, even ham
pered as they are by want of codified and acces-
sibe traditions and precedents have contributed
out of their dearIy-bought experience improved
and tested methods of conducting city. These
methods in practice now in these several
cities. Many more would come in their turn II
sufficient interest were aroused but even without
waiting have an embarrassment of riches
fit to our hand
And yet, in all the United States, there is not
one governmental bureau of information, not one
available source of finding out these things under
either state or federal government When man
goes into office and is idealstic enough and en-
thusastic enough to want to fill his Office we'll,
and with benefit to him and it, he must write to
the bureau of municipal research here private
agency and ask/What he may do. We are mere
for that purpose it is true and we are working
with might and main to prepare ourselves for his
questions but the fact remains that he should
be instructed under the authority of the govern
ment Of which he is a part, and not by an indie
pendent and unofficial bureau
Now you will begin to see why we are so anx-
ious that President Wilson will agree to our sug-
gestions about Washington.
There, in city already under federal control,
where local politics do not exist and where
tional politics not subject to yearly or bi-
yearly upheaVals-there is the finest kind of
opportunity for putting theory to the test of
practice.
There is the whole machinery of federal gov
eminent to conduct research for which
would have to pay millions of dollars, and for
which they would not have to pay a cent and to
conduct it under men trained to observe and to
coordinate significant and important facts
So They Are Friends.
Those two girls tell each other everything"
Everything but what they really think OF each
other"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1913-06-12
GOOD TIMES IN CANADA
BUSINESS PROSPERiNG, TRADE
INCREASING AND FINANCES
IN GOOD SHAPE.

The present Tightening up OF money
must not be looked upon as being IN
any sense brought about by financial
stringency. It is really more a period
of stock-taking resoTted TO by the
banks to ascertain the true condition
Of the finances and trade of the coun-
try- Legitimate business enterprises
are not affected Throughout the
States there are those who if allowed
to continue borrowing, would inev-
itably be means towards precipi-
than they feel now. In Canada, the
conditions are excellent. and it is
safe to say business was never bet
Ter. The pulse of trade is carefully
watched by the Finance Department
Of the Dominion government, and it
is illuminatiYe to read portions of the
address Of Hon. W. T. White, the
Finance Minister, delivered a few days
ago before the House Of Commons.
Mr.. Whites remarks are in part as
follows:
1t falls agreeably to my lot to ex-
tend my most hearty congratulations
TO the House and the country upon
the prosperous conditions which it
continues to be our good fortune to
enjoy / am happy to announce that
the outcome of the last fiscal year,
which ended on March 81, viii prove
even more satisfactory as rejecting
by far the highest pitch to which our
al rr1rrayi{v- hoc OF
have every expectation that when the
books are closed, it will be found that
the total revenue viii have reached
the splendid total of s168, 100000, or
an increase over the year 1912 Of
over $32 100000 Some indication of
the magnificent growth Of the Domin-
ion may be CLEANED from the fact that
this increase in revenue during the Pc
Rod of one year almost equals the en-
tire revenue Of the country seventy
years ago.
The augmentation of revenue to
which I have referred has not been
irregular. spasmodic or intermittent
in its nature, but has steadily charac-
terized each month of the entire fiscal
year. It was of course mainly derived
from Customs receipts. but the other
sources of revenue-exCise, post office
and raiIways-also gave US very sub
stantiaI increases
That in a period OF great finan-
cial stringency not only have we not
been obliged to resort to the con-
gested markets of the world, but have
been able to reduce SO substantially
1929, 900 0001 the debt of the Domin-
ion, must be a matter of qualification,
both to the House and to the people
of Canada
4 believe that during this period
of exceptional money stringency the
credit of the Dominion as reflected in
the quotations of its securities has
maintained itself among the highest
in the world"
Owing TO the favorable state of it's
finances Canada was in a position to
pay off a heavy loan in cash without
recourse 10 the issue of bills or Sc
curities.-Advertise
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1913-06-12
JUDGING THE VALUE or EGGS
Color of Shell Should Not Be Taken
into Consideration in D<tersnin-
ing Worth of Contents

It is curious fallacy that the
brown egg is better than the white.
The difference in color is merely the
indication of the strain of the bird
and nothing else, says leading au-
thority
1t is a fact that, generally speaking,
brown eggs are preferred over white
ones, and dealers have learned to ca
ter to supply this demand at small
cost. If their customers want brown
eggs, they supply them as long as
they have them in stock and then
color the white ones to fill out.
1t is very easy matter staining a
white egg a beautiful delicate brown
by dipping it in weak coffee or an
alyne dye. Eggs coIored in this way
sell just as readily and please the
customers as we'll as though they had
bought genuine brown eggs.
There is quite a difference. how
ever, in the lucrative value of very
light colored yolks and those which
have a rich reddish yellow color. The
pale yolk indicates poor feeding
and bad conditions, but the reddish,
yellow yolk indicates that the hens
have been fed on the right kind OF
rations, and are therefore better food.
Iron in the food gives color to the
yolk Of the egg, and anaemic persons
whose diet embraces eggs should al
ways select those of the rich reddish
color, because they contain more iror
than the pale ones.
Judging the value of the egg as
food, therefore, do not take the color
of the shell as an index of its food
value, but it's contents.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1913-06-12
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cult question, at the present stage OF our work
but should say that it will
I'VE are deeply interested in the laying out OF
cities Much more depends it than beauty,
valuable as that is. Yes, think that If our plan
natures there will be need for ughness IN
our cities-at least not that ugliness which comes
from ignorance
I'VE need ideals of public service in municipal
governments, and We need ideals of plain business
efficiency. When We get them we shall begin 10
have some idea of how much citys government
controls it's whole social and political destiny
said Mr. Bruere.
AS matter of fact, suppose DO not neea
to dwell at any length On the value OF good nlu-
nicinal administration I am not apt to find any
body who would dispute the fact with me, But
I think l can allow myself to insist upon one fac
tor in it's value which l do not find to be very
widely known.
IF you say to the average man that the AFFAIRS
of the city should be conducted with as much
business sagacity and economy as the affairs OF
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1913-06-12
GERMAN TESTS WITH SILAGE
Green Alfalfa Loses 80 13 Per Cent
In Weight-Corn Stcver Deterio-
rates Slightly.

German experimenters found that
green alfalfa put into an unwalled pit
in July and taken out in March had
decreased in weight by practically
33 Is per cent. The outer layers were
more or less moldly, and in some
places the silage was partially charred.
Beet leaves and tops sliced in the
stock on the ground in October con-
tanned 6.556 Kilograms of dry matter,
and about 1922 Kilograms at the end
Of January Corn slower silage made
in an iron concrete silo suffered only
a slight loss in nutriment as shown by
experiments, and this loss was Offset
by increased palstsabflity, something
which always counts for much.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1913-06-12
Clean Water Insured.

near the south side of the building, a.:
the hens scratch the litter toward the
front of the house. A hen faces the
light usually when digging in the
straw for her feed and the result is
that the litter works back.
Care should be taken not to use
watering devices Of any kind which
have parts that cannot be readily
cleaned. A dirty drinking vessel is
frequently source of disease among
the fowls and should never be per
nitted III any poultry house.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1913-06-12
POULTPYNOTEs
lAWGNA y 9a9ao

| Parched meal is good for chicks t.
/ pick when two or three days old.
/ Chopped-up onion tops make geo
/ chick medicine at this time of year
/ Duck raisers claim that a hawl
will never attempt to steal a duckline
Eleven dozen eggs per year is a fai
! average fer hens and pulIets kept il
/ large focks.
Little things in poultry keeping ar
( like pieces of lead; they weigh NOR
than you think they will
Better keep the hens in the housi
on cold, rainy days, or they viii ge
/ soaked and take rheumatism.
Do give the later summer. k1atcbe,
chicks a chance to eat their meal
without being run over by the uthe
birds
During breeding season use TIVE
/ cocks, keeping one penned up three
days while the other is running will
the hens.
If you are looking for birds to i'm
prove the egg laying qualities of you,
flock, patronize the breeders tina. ar
breeding for eggs.
Turkey eggs may be Matched III tht
incubator very nicely, but unless 20,
have a number Of hens it as hard t,
! get enough fresh eggs to fill a ma
chine
Trap nests and numbered leg bands
constitute the only sure means OF find
ing out which hens are doing the work
The vices of feather pulling and egs
eating are always more common il
overcrowded focks, than in quarters
where there is plenty Of space for the
fowls to exercise.
You can rightfully expect more fer
tile eggs from hens that get plenty o.
green food than from those that lived
on dry grains al winter.
It's all right for chickens to scratch
but they need q little extra encour
agement to make fve-pound puiletf
by Thanksgiving time.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1913-06-12
DALLAS GAIN FAVOR
Center of Floral Attraction at
Agricultural Fair.
Flower of Today Ras Much More of
Grace Than Did Earlier Types
Many Things in Culture to
Urue to It's Success.

Fashion moves in cycles. even N
Flora's realm. and the flower over
which people raved a generation ago
is again before US. the center of floral
attractions at the agricultural fair.
But the dahlia Of today has much
mere of grace than did the earlier
types; and in its culture there are
many things to urge to success.
It pays to be neighborly with
dahlias A single root will soon null
tiply to a dozen; and if each Of half
dozen neighbors purchase some choice
variety. at the end of the first or sec.
ond season the exchanges can be most
profitable.
For those who like single varieties
there is a bonanza in a seed packet.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1913-06-12
Disappointed Tourist

city of cheap side shows. London of
gloom, fog and influenza. and Egypt q
land of awful smells and moth-eaten
camels.
This wealthy manufacturer" is not
unique among travellers His brethren
of every nation make travel melan-
choly or, if you are patient, humorous
They are not to be pitied. because they
are all really happy in their scorn.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1913-06-12
WATER FOR POULTRY HOUSE
important That Convenient Place
Should Be Provided for Chickens
Small Stand Is Best.
(RY J. HALPIN.l

A convenient place should be pro-
vided in every poultry house for water.
1t is best to construct a small stand
about one foot above the floor and
place the water dish on this The
stand can be constructed in the parti-
ton SO that the hens in two pens can
drink from one dish. 1t is, however,
usually better to give each pen a sep
arate drinking dish. The water stand
should be placed where it is light.
and also where it is convenient to
empty the dish and refill it. AS a rule
the water dish will keep cleaner if
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1913-06-12
Handling Capons.

An expert says that the one grea
mistake in raising capons is in mar
keting them too early and not having
enough fat on them. After capon
izing, keep them growing until they
reach full size, which will take fron
ten to twelve months, then fatter
them. This can be done in two weeks
by shutting them in small, darl
coop and feeding three times daS
all they will eat of cOrnmeal anC
middlings mixed with milk.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1913-06-12

Chinese emperors in the sacred field
near Picking?
This curious ceremony was obseTv-
ed for the purpose OF impressing upon
the Chinese people the Importance Of
tilling the earth and sticking to the
farm. The emperor. accompanied by
his retinue, was accustomed to pro-
coed in great state to the sacred field
At each of the four corners Of the field
stood a pavilion. where the seeds Of
wheat and other cereals were kept. In
the middle Of the field numbers of
magnifcentig attired courtiers held
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1913-06-12

aloft many-colored flags, while thou
sands of farmers looked on, each hold
ing some agricultural implement in his
hand
Placing his left hand on the plow,
and holding a whip in his right hand,
the emperor began the ceremony. By
Encouragement, the officers did their
allotted share, some welding hoes,
and others scattering seeds out of bas-
kets, as If sowing them, while the en-
peror was busy with the pillow. which
was hitched to a richly caparisoned
bullock, draped in yellow, and led by
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1913-06-12
Should Tiohten stave suo Hoop.

Unless owners of stave silos tighten
the hoops as the warm spring weather
progresses the silos may be partially
or completely ruined, is the warning
issued by Prof. c. A Ocock of the
college of agriculture Of the UniVer-
sity of Wisconsin.
Loose hoops not only allow the
slaves to warp, thus making the walls
no longer alright, but the whole silo
may be weakened to such an extent
that a high wind will cause it to col
lapse. A stave siIo once down or
twisted out of shape can scarcely ever
be successfully restored
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1913-06-12

A wealthy manufacturer of Chi
cago is reported to have returned from
Europe disguised because the Alps
could be lost in the Rocky mountains,
because Venice smells to heaven, be-
cause Monte Carlo gamblers are pix
ers" as compared to the average
American travelling man. because his
only memory Of Berlin is of stale beer
and rotten cigars. because Paris is a
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1913-06-12

But it is rather a pity they cannot be
induced to see America first and all
the time.
Men and women who travel abroad
and then complain because things are
not as they are at home are Illogical,
but not numerous. 1t is complained
that We spend too much in Europe
The drain on our resources would be
considerably lessened if travellers who
are disguised with the Louvre be-
cause they cannot get ham and eggs
for breakfasht would stay where they
can get what they like
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1913-06-12

two of the emperor's bodyguard.
When the emperor finished his stint
at the plow, the royal princes went
through a similar performance, and
after them nine Of the highest court
iers took turn. Thus the ceremony
was completed, and the royal plow-
man and his train returned to the pai
ace.
Now that so many other ceremonies
have been done away with, the world
mildly wonders whether there viii De
another spring plo"ing-fouth's
Companion.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1913-06-12

private industries, ne VIII
naturally say yes, OF
course; but if you go fur
Their and suggest to him
that sound municipal
regime can save him more
than money and time; that
it can lift the whole level
Of his social community and
that it can help to conserve
everything about him, from
his business interests to his
health and his peace OF
mind, he is apt to think
either that you are trifiing
with him, or that you lean
toward 'paternalism' and
should be subdued.
City government should
and can be made to mean
much more than clean
streets or a capable fire de-
partment. 1t means the es-
adjustment and preserva-
ton of healthy relationships
in every phase Of the city S
existence.
TT has in it's hands the
health, the intelligence, and
economic capacity of every
citizen. It can be so organ
lied that it will take leader
shin in filing every aScer-
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1913-06-12
Making Horses Comfortable,

The horse that is compelled to fight
flies constantly cannot get in q full
days work, or at least if it does there
is less stamina, which eventually
tells on the life work of the animal
Neither can it do it's best with an i'll
fitting harness. The horse that i:
comfortable and in good spirits is the
one which makes the record.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1913-06-12
SET EXAMPLE TO SUBJECTS
Ceremony of Spring Flowing by
Chinese Emperor and His Court
Had a Deep Meaning.

Nov that China has become a re-
public, and the old order of things is
changing so rapidly, will any one
make it his business TO attend to the
important ceremony OF the early
spring blowing, which from time i'm
memorial has been performed by the
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1913-06-12
MUM.

mollusk came to first parent to be
named
'Er-oyster." announced Adam, after consd-
ering a moment.
Now divers other creatures, having got theirs,
lettering about to pick up what of
ISOLATION they might and number of these
burst out laughing hereupon.
Just think how mum you'll have to be-" they
ieered.-Puck
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1913-06-12
How to Make GRATING Wax

Grating wax is made by melting
1 pounds Of resin, 2 pounds of bees
wax and / pound Of unsalted tallow,
pouring the liquid into a bucket OF
cold water, and pulling like molasses
candy until the grain is smooth; then
form into balls and store in cool
place until used. 1t may be softened
by throwing into hot water when
needed for use.