The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1867-12-06

unable to give you aay information on this
point. Stone, mud and earthern houses
are much used by gophers, rats, frogs,
wolves and muskrats.
IL. Q.-What are the dimensions of
your lime casks, and what is the price of
lime? What the kind and cost of full with
with which it is burned? Are experienced
lime burners needed, and what compensa
ton would their services command
An reply to question eleventh, Twill
say, and know it to be fact from my
experience, that our lime casks
arc about the size of ordinary pieces Of
chalk, sometime larger and what little
lime is used, is sold for about two bits a
bushel. We do not use fuel to burn it. but
pour on water, AND let it burn itself. They
will give you the stone, and for the price
of cask, is about one dollar and a half
tor new one but almost anyone will
give you an old barrel that will do to hold
lime.
II. Q.-Are teams in demand What
would man generally earn per day with
good team OF four oxen, or TIVE or three
horses, and which are most used ? Does
prairie grass make hay suitable for such
teams and if not, what have you that
does 1t Is not easy to get prairie lands
INTO herds grass, red top and clover?
A.-Teams are in demand, and much
used, and man could probably earn all
he could make, deducting his board and
II you had both oxen and horses, it would
be well to work one and let the other rest,
and actsa aoersa. Prairie grass does make
good hay, and in this respect our cattle are
regular Nebuchadnezzars. Herds grass
red. top and clover are easy to get into our
pralries; but 1T is much easier to get them
into weeds.
49,. Q.-What is the usual cost of rail
fence per rod What of ditch or sod
fence; and are these much in use t? Could
not hedge fence from prickly thorn, be
easily raised for inside or cross fences, and
how many years would probably be required
to raise one sufficient to resist ordinary
beasts?
Aft you hook the timber, (which is
common, it does not cost much; but if you
buy it, it will cost you deal-know moth
ing of sod fences Hedge fence of prickly
pears could be raised and would probably
take a'good many years to raise them.
a. Gas timber is said to be scarce,
what Is used as its substitute for fuel, and
what part of the year is fire necessary for
the slttng-room Is coal much used
hat Is the cost offuel, whether of wood or
coaH In how many years could timber, To-
Gusts, Wanuts, or other wood be raised
sufficiently large for fences, &C. ? Are the
spontaneous and cultivated berries and
fruits OF New England common, easily rails
ed or not? Could the seeds of fruit,
shrubberry, berries and grasses be readily
obtained IN your commercial village?
A.-As TO question fourteenth, coal is
much used as substitute for wood, and the
part OF the year necessary for the fire 81
the winter. Boal costs about bit bushel.
delivered. Governor Duncan will let you
dig what you want, at one cent a bush
eel, from his coal banks, If YOU will dig It
yourself, which is cheap, 'Hior new coun
Try There are great many gooseberries
and mullen stalks in this country, also dog
tennel, gimpsen weeds, and poke berries.
The seeds of fruit shrubbery, berries, &c,
could be got by bringing them with you.
10. Q.-l am told that the farmers In
the West seldom or never manure their
lands, and often leaves their cattle I'M
soused throughout the winter. Are these
things true ? And if so, would not dit
ierent course promote the value of both
lands and cattle Could one readily pro-
cure stock for a small farm at reasonable
rates, IN most parts Of that country, which
Is learn adapted to most all kinds of
grain. ?
Alt is true that we never manure our
land III this country, and it is also true that
cattle are unhoused in the winter, they
beng reasonable beings, and not asking to
be housed when their owners are not 1t
is probable that different course would
produce different result.
10. Q.-What are the common prices
OF rent, board, grain, meats, hay, potatoes,
groceries, clothing, glass, nails, salt p
Also, OF horses, oxen, cows, sheep, hogs,
alive and dead ? Also of household fur
nltnre, such as sofas, tables, bureaus, bed
steads, &c? Are common articles Of this
kind much higher than in the East?
Am answer to question sixteenth.
would say that from the best information
can get, the prices are about $500, $50. 25
$500, 1851, l2, from l 4 to $3.50,
about $200S, II l2, $500, SI.I2, $l3..
OF, -, to $500 Porter CLAY asks $40
for the Irish, so does Pat Henderson sl2,
So, So. ST. Common articles of this kind
are not higher than in the East.
II. u suppose that many of your
common traders purchased their stocks in
Chicago. Alton, St. Louis and other towns
on the Western waters; but that those who
Zeal more extensively purchase in the At
lantc cities. If in the latter, by what
route, and at what expense of time and
money do they transport their goods home,
and send off their produce =? What time is
usually occupied in steam boat passage
from New Orleans to St. Louis, Peoria or
Rock Island? Does the same proceed to
the places, or are boats of lighter draft
required ? What is the price of freight
per ton, or 100 bis. in ordinary stages of
water?
A:-Some of our merchants do buy their
goods IN the East, and they usually bring
them here by the Lakes and New Orleans.
though Levi brought his this way last sum-
mer by the Ohio river, and was three
months on the road However. this is
not, | think proper test, as he was sick,
and had heap of bad luck, and it must
have cost him heap of money. Steam
boats are. about ten days coming from New
Orleans to st. Louis, when they are not
blown up or snagged on the way. The
f.. z Miller left the same day Taggart did,
and has not yet got home, although Tag
CART has been at home two weeks So that