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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1918-01-24
WAR ON
POTATO
BEETLES
Arsenical PoisOns Should be Applied
to Plants When Insects Are
Young.

Everything is against the potato
beetle. He cannot demand due legal
notice before being evicted; he has no
recourse to any civil or military law;
he is neither an ornament nor an eco
nomic necessity, and he has a bigger
appetite for potato vines than any 9TH
er living organism. Hence none of US
can find any excuse for allowing our
potato plants to be stripped bare by
these pests.
Many lose half their crops simply be
cause they neglect to spray in time.
Whatever foliage is gnawed by the po-
tato beetle means so much less food
for the tubers at the roots. The starch
is made in the leaves of the potatoes;
consequently if these are destroyed
smaller yields result Every farmer
who plants five or six acres or more of
potatoes should own a special spraying
machine, which can be bought for from
$50 T. SIS.
Arsenical poisons should be applied
to thu plants when the beetles are
young and in the soft stage, according
to advice from J. G. Milward, agricul-
tural experiment station, University
70 Wiconsin. Mr.. Milward states that
paris green can be applied to advan-
tage With weak solutions of limewater
or bordeaux mixture. Half strength
bordeaux mixture is made by adding
four punds of blue vitrol and five
poundsof lime to 100 gallons of water.
The wax solution of bordeaux mix
ture ued with the paris green pre-
vents gsenical poisoning of the pota-
to plans and also retards injury from
flea BEETLES and grasshoppers.
Some farmers are deceived into
thinking that they have the potato
bugs uner control when the large ones
disappear from the plants. However,
the lare beetles merely go into the
ground, develop wings and return as
maturensects in a short time. At this
stage tey are hard to control, which
makes important to keep daily watch
for the atching of new eggs.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1918-01-24
COW TESTING
ASSOCIATIONS
These Organizations Have Proved of
Great Benefit in Australia.

The cow testing association has DEM
onstrated beyond question of doubt its
possibilities Of usefulness to the dairy
men. 1t is, in our opinion, one of the.
most promising means of increasing
the proitableness of the dairy busi-
ness.
The systematic use of the scales and
the tester will pick out the most and
the least profitable animals as no eye,
however expert it may be, can. It has.
again and again been shown that even
the best judgment and experience.
sometimes go wrong in attempting to-
select the best cow But there is no
disputing the scales and the tester rec
ords of facts.
The mere finding out Of the facts
about ones cows, important though
this is, is not the greatest benefit to be
obtained from the COW testing associa-
ton. The careful and accurate work
necessary to obtain a correct state
mentof the debts and credits against
COW tend to develop in her owner
habits of studying his whole business
in the same careful and detailed n an
ner. The Importance of this pr 5e Of
the work should not be overlooked.
Most of US know altogether TOO lit
tie about our business. q are went
to resent any suggestio We don't
know our own busir rs better tn "a
any one else. Blu suppose we stop
and ask ourselves feH questions Ike
these: How much does it cost me 70
feed COW year? What Is The yalve
Of the labor expended On her? Wba
sum of N oney does hring IL dying
the year? How many Of us ccnld m
swer thesg questions even anproxi-
mateIvz
We venture e say thai 40 nan could
join 2 COW testing association and car
~ 20 the 5rk carefully and well
/, wita3ag5 materially increasing his
an age Of his own business, partic-
! uiary of his COWS, nd materially add
I ing &c his prodts.-Sydney Farm Jour
nal.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1918-01-24
SCIENTIFIC
FARMER TOBE
New York Newsboy Chooses This Pro-
fession With an Eve to the Future.

view Iofh 4NeWSDOy InOOSeS Inns FRO
fession With an Eye to the Future.
A New York city newsboy, Isidare
Greenberg by name, who has sold
papers for thirteen years, is about to
enter Cornell to take up the study of
scientific farming He said some sensi-
bic things to reporter the other day
who questioned him about the choice
of his profession and asked him why
he did not take up law or medicine.
This was his reply:
'The woods are full of lawyers and
doctors, and then you've got to remem-
Der that scientific agriculture is the
coming thing. I've stood on that cor
ner down there many long afternoon
looking and listening and thinking it
all out.
1--WE watched the faces of the thou
sands of men and women who passed
me in the crowds, and it struck me
that lot of them were playing los
ing game. They were prisoners of the
city, serving a life sentence.
II knew that the day would come
when I'd have to quit the game on the
corner, and | kept wondering what
I'd do. The outdoor life has made me
hard as nails. I wanted to find some
thing that would keep me out in Gods
fresh air-something that l liked and
that would be paying proposition.
"And then it all came on me that all
the wealth in the world comes out of
the ground. They've left the open
places of the earth and have crowded
into the markets in the cities, and
they are stepping on each other and
narrowing themselves, mentally and
physically, while they grub for pay
dirt
pretty soon, some day, they are
going to go back home-back to the
forests and the farms-and when the
back to nature movement starts the
man who has specialized in scientific
agriculture is going to have his day.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1918-01-24

"First--To provide the largest a.
mount of work practicable under the
conditions.
"Second.-To apply his work at all
times to such enterprises and in such
manner as will result in the creation
of the greatest values.
"Third.-So to distribute this work
throughout the season that (a) the far
mer and the working members of his
family may be continuously employed;
(b) they may do maximum proper
ton Of the farm work themselves, thus
saving the expense of hired labor, and
(c) minimum of work stock and i'm
piements may be required to farm
given area with given type of farm
ing"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1918-01-24

stand at present. We will get out
week from next Wednesday. Hope
that we won't have any more new cas-
es because it is getting tiresome stick
ing around inside all the time. We
can't go anywhere or see anyone un
less there is an officer with US. We do
have fairly good times, because there
are about 80 of US together, but it
isn't as though we could get out and
roam around the camp.
We get mail every day and in fact
twice a day and one of the sargeants
goes over to the canteen for us every
day so that we are kept in pretty good
shape. Believe me he is kept busy
hauling over candy because we all
crave sweet meats to take the place
of the pies and cakes that we do not
get at mess. That is the only thing
about the meals that we don't like, a
side from that we get good substantial
food, we'll cooked and plenty of it. Well
we go out for drill in a few minutes,
SO will have to get this in the mail
box while | have time.
Your Son, NJ. L. Carey.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1918-01-24
STAYSFOR
WOVEN WIRE

There usually some trouble in put
ting up woven wire, especially the
light wiz used for chicken fences, in
such way that it appears neat and
substantial. This is sometimes avoid
ed by use of more POSTS than are ne
cessary fir the support of the fence.
To avoid this excessive number of
posts andat the SINE time make the
fence nea and Elective the method
of placing light stays between the
posts aroused with good effect.
These tags ar, merely strips of
one inch by one nch material of a
length eqlal to the height of the fence
These stnps are n.tched at the ends
and are tlen placed along the fence at
strand ofthe fence being put into one
notch anc the bottom strand into the
other.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1918-01-24
FOOD PRODUCTION ENDANGERED
BY FREIGHT EMBARGoEs.

During the last weeks Of December,
1917, absolute embargoes were placed
on rail shipments of phosphate rock
from Florida. This fact was widely
reported in the daily press. yet few
people realized its true significance. II
the embargo continues Il will force the
closing of many fertilizer factories all
over the United States, and will render
impossible maximum production OF
times of war. An embargo of this kind,
necessary though 1t be, vitality affects
the handspring of our national welfare.
The first big effect of such an en-
barge is to cause the closing OF sll de-
partments OF many fertilizer plants.
However, the big effect OF this en-
barge on rock phosphate movement is
on the farm itself, where fer
tilizer is needed for the work of food
production. Labor is short, greater
production can only be secured through
higher acre yields produced by using
what labor We have on land SO ferti-
LIED as to make it productive. In this
light. then, a continued embargo on
rock phosphate, however necessary It
may be from the transportation view
point, is a great national calamity. RI
affects both our agricultural produc-
ton and the ability OF our country
to win the war speedily and certainly.
What can you do TO help? Many
things!
Order spring supplies now-tertiliz-
ers and farm machinery; feeds and
seeds; lime, and other needed ma
terialS.
Unload as soon as the car arrives,
taking from the car whenever possible.
Do your part now, and trust that the
other man will also do his. This Is the
spirit of true cooperation, and is the
only solution of difficulties caused b.
freight congestion.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1918-01-24

using 1t in the trenches? Every sol
der on going to the firing line takes
with him one or more burlap bags
During the day, as the embellishments
are Worn down by continuous shell
fire, these bags are filled with earth
or sand and then at nightfall are
thrown up to repair the parapet.
Here it is not question of convent
ence-lt is a question of necessity.
The boys in the trenches must have
first call on the burlap supplies.
The larger bags even have certain
advantages, When emptied they may
be used to carry crops from the field
TO the bin or crib; n 200-pOund bag
holds two bushels of potatoes. Very
few men ever carry two sacks of pO-
tatOes In single trip, even though
each sack contains but one bushel
On the other hand most men can cas-
lily carry two bushels when they are
In the same bag, and hence do this
part of their work more rapidly. SO
it happens that the large bag becomes
a very real labor saver, and this at q
time when all farmers must cut cor
ners to make most productive Il labor
supply all too short.
There are other advantages for the
larger bag. It is much more useful
as wrapping material than are the
smaller sizes. It can be cut up for
packing purposes, and used in other
ways. Once a farmer becomes accus-
toned to this size he never returns to
the smaller sizes. Whole states in the
south have for years used nothing but
the 200-pound size.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1918-01-24
IMPROVING The
1918 WHEAT CROP
Top Dress With Manure and Fer
tiiiZer and Increase the
Yield.

The bureau OF crop estimates of the
United States department OF agricul-
ture reports an increase OF four per
cent in the acreage of fall-sown wheat,
as compared with that sown In the fall
Of 1916. This would be highly en-.
that much of this Is in poor condition.
Is in fact ten per cent under the aver
age condition of the last ten years. IN
less the coming spring is. remarkably
favorable for the development of win
ter wheat, the 1918 crop will be even
smaller than that of 1917.
We have but one more chance for
increasing our 1913 bread-grain CROP
and this is by top-dressing either with
fertilizer Or with manure. In the lat
ter case the work may be done at once,
the manure being spread thinly and
evenly, preferably with the manure
spreader. Manure so used protects
the wheat from winter injury, and at
the same time stimulates growth in
the cold weather OF early spring. Every
day gained at this season is just so
much crop insurance.
When fertilizer is used it must be
applied just as growth starts in the
early spring. 1t is then that available
plant food is most needed, and when
it is most efficient in causing the
plant to ''tiller out" and increase the
number of seed-bearing stems. Ferti-
lizer used at this time may change
crop failure to crop success, and Is
certain to give results when the wheat
was sown late, or when 1t was sown
with an insufficient supply OF plant
food
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1918-01-24
4 VALUABLE TEAM

Fertilizers like
profitable
when they
handled
Study closely. organic matter
tage sufficient
seed
The OF
will
The better preparation
ding Of OF
applied in sufficient
When take the lines
would not be profitable beyond
remember the fact the
5 time
the
the the the yield Recall furthermore
good could
The will
most
for production.
High priced worth help
sbes the nd
tiizer.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1918-01-24
IMPROVING THE
1918 WHEAT CROP
Top Dress With Manure and Fer
tIIizer and Increase the
Yield.

The bureau of crop estiInat ties Of the
United States department OF agricCl.
ture reports an increase of four per
cent in the acreage Of fall-sown wheat.
as compared with that sown in the fall
Of 1916. This would be highly en-.
cOuraging. were it not for the fact
that much OF this is in poor condition,
is In fact ten per cent under the aver
age condition Of the last ten years. I'm
less the coming spring is remarkably
favorable for the development Of win
ter wheat, the 1918 crop will be even
smaller than that Of 1917
We have but one more chance for
and this is by tOp-dressing either with
fertilizer or with manure In the lat
ter case the work may be done at once,
the manure being spread thinly and
evenly, preferably with the manure
spresder. Manure so used protects
the wheat from winter injury, and at
the same time stimulates growth in
the cold weather of early spring. Every
day gained at this season is just 80
much crop insurance.
When fertilizer Is used it must be
applied just as growth starts in the
early spring. 1t is then that available
plant food is most needed, and when
it is most efficient in causing the
plant 70 "t1lIer out" and increase the
number OF seed-bearing stems. Ferti-
lizer used at this time may change
crop failure TO crop success, and Is
certain to give results when the wheat
was sown late, or when it was Sown
with an insufficient supply Of plant
food.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1918-01-24
VAS FEELING ALL RUN DOWN

Louis Buckner, Somerset, Va,
writes: 81 was feeling all run dowra.
tired, with pains in my back. After
taking Foley Kidney Pills I felt like
a new man" Backacher rheumatic.
pains, stiff joints, sore muscles, swol-
len ankles, and sleep-disturbing bIad--
der ailments yield quickly to this time
tried remedy. Sold Everywhere.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1918-01-24
SUCCESS OF
SEALSALE MEANS
BIGYEAR'SWORk
Executive Committee of Wisconsin
Anti-Tuberculosis Association
Issues Statement of Appre-
citation.

Wisconsin is now facing and must
plan for the biggest year thus far in
its organization fight for better health
Iconditiops and against tuberculosis and
allied preventable diseases. This is
the obligation which the people of Wis
consin have imposed on the Wisconsin
Anti-Tuberculosis Association by the
increased financial support given in
the 1917 sale of Red Cross Christmas
Seals, returns from which are still
coming in, according to the expressed
opinion of members of the executive
committee of the State Association.
Following meeting of this committee
for receiving a tentative report of
the seal sale and for the transaction
of other business, the following state
ment was issued:
"While seal sale reports are far
from complete at the present time,
there is every indication that the in
crease over the 1916 sale will proba-
bly, run from 40 to so per cent. The
fact that in some cities as in Milwau-
kee, people are still making remit
tances for seals received through the
mail sale makes a great deal of de-
lay in the submitting of final reports
by campaign managers. Forty-one
managers, however, have sent in their
remittances and only one of the forty
one reported lower sale than in 1916.
One community sold the same number
of seals as in 1916, two made fair sales
that had no sales the preceding year,
and the balance made increases rang
ing from 13 to 1852 per cent. The Az
erage increase was 1877 per cent but
this of course, will not hold turnout
the state. ;,
CAS- members of the executive COM
mittee of the Wisconsin Anti-Tuber-
culosis Association we are deeply i'm
pressed by the splendid responsiveness
of the people of the state to the appeal
Of the anti-tuberculosis campaigns
war needs and by their recognition of
the Importance of that campaign as a
war measure.
Doubtless half of our increased sale
has been directly due to the great pa
triotic impulse which is teaching peo-
pie that giving is an opportunity for
service and which is demonstrating
that the more often people give the
more largely and the more willingly
they give. The other half, we believe,
is the normal gain which has made
possible the growth of the work year
by year ever since the beginning of
the state movement.
an expressing to the people of Wis
consin our appreciation of their inspir-
ing endorsement of what has already
been accomplished and of the incentive
to push forward in the fight which
their increasing support gives, we wish
also to assure them that we are equal
ly appreciative Of the large RESPONSE
bility which this increased support
carries with it. Plans are already un-
der way for the biggest, broadest and
most extensive health educational
work in the history of the state asso-
citation and for meeting the new and
imperative health demands that are
sure to be made upon the association
during the coming year"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1918-01-24
TRENCH WARFARE
DEMANDS BURlkp
To Save BurIap, Fertilizers and
Other Commodities Must Be
Shipped in Large-SiZcd
Bags.

Jute for burlap comes from India
that is it used TO. Just now this all
important fiber either stays in India,
or on its way to our shores gets no
further than the European battlefront.
Because of the resulting shortage fer
tilizers have to be shipped in large
bags, ten to the ton, instead of u, 16,
and even 20 to the ton, as was form
erly the common practice. To men
unaccuStOmed TO handling these heav-
Ter packages this means Inconvenience
and even actual hardship.
Using the larger bags economies
burlap-in fact saves Is million yards
for more urgent needs. What farmer
would not be glad TO share this in
convenience if he but realized that
one Of the big reasons for the hurlap
shortage is that our soldier boys are
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1918-01-24
REDUCING SOFT CORN LOSSES.

The 1917 corn crop is very poor in
quality. Much of it is soft, so soft
that it fails TO keep in storage. A re
cent crop report from the United States
Department of Agriculture Indicates
an average condition of 752 for the
1917 corn crop over against an 81 per
cent average for the last ten years;
this valuing mature corn at 100.
Early froSts and cold, late growing
seasons are responsible for much of
the soft corn loss in the corn belt. We
cannot control the weather but by
proper cultural methods, we can hasten
maturity Of the corn by from one to
two weeks, thus ripening the crop be-
fore the arrival of disastrous frosts.
Cutting short the growing season Of
the crop seven to fourteen days will
in the majority of cases, make nine
ears out of ten rketable instead of
two ears out Of three as during the
past season
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1918-01-24

A wise woman always let's herself
get the worst of an argument with an
egotist
When a man is really in love he
thinks there is but one woman in the
world.
Some people never know when to
stop and others never know when to
begin.
The man who marries an orphan
can't hlamA his troubles OF his WAS
nS0sH.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1918-01-24
HAD THE GRIP THREE WEEKS

With January comes lagrippe.
Lingering colds seem to settle in the
system, causing one to ache all over,
feel feverish and chilly, tired, heavy
and dropping. Mrs. Lizzie Tyles, Hen
derson, KY, writes: my daughter
had lagrippe for three weeks. I gave
her Foley's Honey and Tar and now
she is all right" Sold Everywhere.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1918-01-24
Balanced Plantfood ENSURES Crops.

Never judge a mans good or bad
qualities by what his neighbors say
about him.
Once in while there is man so
good natured that he is nice to his
wife's relatives.
What goes up must come down-as
many an airplane chauffeur is discov-
ering.
A shrewd man may be both wise and
honest, but the chances are that he is
13thsr. sgIAI.k NiI$
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1918-01-24
F Arm
ORGANIZATION

A worker in the federal office of
Farm Management has this to say up
on organization in farming:
"TR greatest profit in farming re-
quires the creation Of the greatest
value at the least expense. But the
deliberate creation of values is the re-
suit If labor intelligently applied.
Hence the objects to be attained in the
organization Of the farm business are:
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1918-01-24
Proper Varieties Essential.

One great cause for the large amount
of soft corn produced is the planting
OF varieties which are not adapted to
climatic conditions under which they
are grown. In our feryOr for bigger
crops, we have often gone South for
large yielding varieties which require
longer growing seasons than prevail
in most sections of the corn belt. Most
of these varieties are large-eared and
weigh heavily because they contain a
larger percentage of moisture than our
northern grown varieties, and thus
misiead the farmer but not the grain
dealer, for much of the grading is done
on basis Of moisture content.
Balanced PIantfood Insures Crops.
Perhaps the biggest reason for the
large amount of soft corn produced in
1917 and in other years, is the lack
Of sufficient available plantfood in the
soil to give the crop quick start to
enable it to take advantage of every
growing day and to properly fill the
ears and hasten maturity. All other
conditions being equal, the use of suffi-
cient amounts of a weIl-balanced, avail
able plantfood will shorten the grow
ing season Of a corn crop from ten to
fourteen days. This ten to fourteen
days often means difference between
a crop OF marketable ears and q crop
which is hardly worth harvesting.