Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, W.T. [i.e. Wis.]) 1843-1844, 1844-08-31
For the Herald

Mr.. EDIroR: Being favored with BIRDS
eye view of the Hurricane country lately
and no body can take more accurate survey
unless he can see through trees and bushes as
easily as through spectacles--I will furnish
you with description Of that region for the
benef, of new corners. 1t embraces part Of
Towns 8 and 4 North Of Range and 4
West.-
Its superfne soil came from the upper end
OF the bolt; other parts Of Grant are shorts and
bran compared with it-But the world is E.
qualizcd; to offset the fertility of The soil, an
impenetable ma, of underground is contendng
for the possession Of the country. II would
seem that all the brush and saplings of West
ern Wisconsin had made general rendez'
vous here to escape the devouring element
which uiumphs over the verdurs of the Prai-
ries among the "rising generation" recogni-
zed my old friends, the walnut. maple and
cherry-The bushes close in upon you as if TO
choke your narrow path; they knock off your
hat and grab at your clothes-I thought the
i'll bred oaks must have descended from the
old patriarch that caugh. Absalom by the
wool. This juvenile growth is Of recent ORR
gin, fully proving tina, when the annual fires
are extingushed, an immense forest will sud-
denly exclude the light of Heaven fom West
ern Wisconsin, aud roll back upon Us the
gloom of Dark Ages. Since the fire has been
prohibited from depreda'ing in the district. the
wind has entertained a grudge against it,
Last June severe hurricane sprang upon il,
like "a wolf on the fod'' and murdered the
timber shockingly. The thickes has choked
ou, the grass-no domestic animal except The
mammoth ranges here. He cords up oak trees
in his stomach and folders on black jack.
The settlers intend TO noun. his back and
make their escape should the timber hem
them in hopelessly. The old ,rooden horse
of Troy would have been in his element here
and if the settlers can find any OF his colts,
they will make their fortunes.
No farmer should go to the Hurrica ne unless
he can use the mastock and grubbing hoe topper
feciion and "cow" briarpatch by boarding it.
But Notwithstanding these difficulties, Hur.
ricane. considering its recen, settlement, is a.
head Of any neigbbolhood 10 Grant in The farm
ing line. 10 proof Of this, need only advert
TO the perfection that MIR. Chandley has CARR.
ed the whea, growing business. had the
pleasure of Witnessing the performance of his
ihreshing machine. the first of these noble To-
ven,ions ever saw. II is SO simple as all
powerful machines are, that i, ought TO have
/ been invented as soon as wheat vast is
nothing but a wheaigin. Ii consists of a
cylinder armed with iron spikes; these spikes
work closely between corresponding spikes Sc,
iIsso an inclined plane. This plane is placed
Under the cylinder and may be called the under
jaw Of the machine. The turning Of the cyl
inder barely picks It's teeth. The cylinder
runs by band connected with ,runnel head,
a, the frighiful rate of 500 revolutions q min.
ute. yet i, keeps lis dander down. The sheaf
is thrust 10 head foremost between the eylin-
der snd planet disappears in an instant
Straw aud chsff is hustled on, at the other end
of the machine, as completely siripl as II
they had been in gambling shop playing
cards. The grain is thrown with violence a.
gains, plank fender, from which it rebounds
like shot. Il reqnires four horses and four
men to set il 10 motion and send it Mr.. c.
thinks he can ,hresh SO bushels per hour, DO,
would no, be afraid to bet 100 bushels. were
he betting nsn--ghal he can get ou' 30 bush
els at the least. J. i. NJ.
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