Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1858-06-12

81 NtiUDl. AhAVi1oALAAS, S-1LI4O ~ Al EA4N4l
GROVE.
The following notes on Grant County
,a eoiei from the Wisconsin Farmer,
49, we're written by Prof. HoYF. 1t will
b. remembered that in February last, he
Ie4lreI at the places named upon the
n',. Of agriculture. We excuse hi,
batteries aud apologize for his criticisms
Oh Potosi ana Beetown. Did he know
Poosi As well as We do, he would find
even more TO approve than condemn.-I
Rigid efforts are being made to reform theI
evils that have long been driving the place
obstruction The main evil is yet to
attack and bring down. The chief trouble
with Potosi aH1 Beetown is that many of
those who would be leaders of reform have
moved away. But let Il e notes Of Prof
Il0Ir be real:
Hazel Green, like many other places
y>ited during the winter, WAS mongolia at
s5e at the time of our necessity, except
With The means of conveyance furnished
ie 0atare, anl so, leaving our baggage be
hal, We made or way tbither at the rate
eta1out five knots an hour. Stopped at
d 4. a. Tcwnsends for dinner, and were
auII, entertained 10y his household. Mr..
T. is one Of Tie largest farmers Of theI
oanty, ana showed, ty-his splendid or
hard, that fruit is not impossible in
IaFayette, if It's cultivation is judiciou5l,
pH8eyered in. The way thence to Ben
ton WIS over pleasant farming country,
and presented not few fine improved
i farms. At Z. ne rested for time at the
hspilable hearth of Father Mazziochelli,
aal completed the remainder of the liz
miles just i'll time for our appointment;
which through the enterprise OF friend
Bolericb had been so thoroughly an
louaccd md provided for, that within
thirty minutes We found oarself talking to
a church-iuIl of intelligent and interested
auditors. Stopped at the house Of MIR, B.,
ani the following day, after survey Of
tie village and visit TO the Corn Planter
Factory of Sherman & Mason, and the
aourishing Academy, we started for
Plattcville, which place we reached
lafiIy through the kindness Of our host,
and partly by oar oeUn Conveyance. The
distance, las between all the important
town in the Mining dstriet) is about fiji
teen miles, and the prairies over which we
/ passed as beautiful as any in Wisconsin,
Ihs Platte Mounds loom up in the distance
like Young mountains, and make the weary
traveller feel, though distant, eternally
near. The village of p. is so much pleas
] aper than any of the mining towns, that
ltslines BY contrast, and seems a Jewell
Owing to the impossibility of getting a
suitable hall, and the supposed discovery
that there was no such place as Charlotte
IN existence, we gave notice in Sne Grant
County Herald of an Invention of our ap-
rmtments for Lancaster and Beetown,snd
postponed our lecture at P. until our re-
turn from
Potosi, where we arrived on the follow
ing day, after a wearying walk aud sn
ague ct by the way,-the hardest place
We have vet seen in Wisconsin. lis
streets are crooked as the "worm of the
still, and its inhabitants, at least some OF
them are real patrons of that bona tide in
sltutlon, as We legitimately conclude from
The ruffianly disturbance Of The meeting
oy certain DR.. , whose sense OF
RIopriety and selfrespect were all lost in
BIS inordiate love of the "critter." We
we're complimented, however by the pres
eAce Of many worthy gentlemen of the
Immediate vicinity, and from several miles
distant, and were cordially entertained by
William w. Wright, Esq. so we'll known
ID that part of the State, and to agricul-
'oflss generally, for his zeal on behalf of
scientific farming, and the application OF
mechanics thereto. His fine array of plows,
h,affows, rakes, drills, mowers, reapers,
'afeshers and mills, with stables full OF
SP'endld mules to man them, is well worth
VISIT and cannot fail to be beneficial to
LIS neghboIhood and county.
The following day friend w. conveyed
Is to Platteyille, where we had the pleas
Gt' OF addressing brilliant audience in
'Ae beautiful chapel Of the Platteville
academy. This excellent institution, I'M
Ssf The management of ]. L. Pickard, Esq.
i : perhaps, the best institution of its kind
u Inc State, and like the one at Milton, i
Oased upon the philanthropic and christian
pwpaclple Of educating the sexes together
y heartily commend it to all parent