Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1883-11-29

old and for boy of his years this is
quite an enterprise.
Saturday was another regular field
day in town. The vehicles upon the
streets were many and trade Astounding
What will it be when the railroad
comes?
| There is well and authenticated re-
port in town that John Petty, of Harri-
son, has struck lead' over ON Platte
near Hough's saw-mill. Good for John
George G. Bonus. who is now lively
travelling man for the Dubuque Novelty
Iron Works, swung around to his old
moorings last Friday. His headquar-
tiers are now at lie Mars, Iowa,
where he has taken his family.
The Creamery, Spaulding, Hunt &
jackson, proprietors, closed down for
the season last Saturday. This is the
second season of this enterprise in
Potosi, and it terminates with satisfac-
ion to the owners and increased conf
dence IN its future prosperity. The
farmers who were suspicious for while
OF this invasion of their old time pre-
negative in making butter. now yield
the point and say they have realized
more clear money the present summer
from their dairy products, than they
ever did before in any two seasons, and
express their willingness not only to sell
their cream hereafter, but declare they
intend to increase the number and quail
ity of their mich cows, and their pres
ent limited faculties for the production
of cream. Most of them as yet have
but two or three valuable COWS giving
milk of superior quality and richness,
such as is required to yield any sufficient
quantity of cream to make their keep
ing profitable; the remaining of their
herds are simply seallawags, a deterior-
ated specie of the bovine race, which
are the outgrowth of long neglect, hard
ships and inattention. They are neither
fit for the dairy or the SHAMELESS and
cannot SO be made. Their milk is scanty
and void of nourishment and is of such
tenuous blue-john quality that given
entire to their own offspring produces
nothing but a scrawny, blear-eyed,
blatant calf; and, as the stream never
rises above the fountain, these calves in
time take the places in the barnyard of
their mothers-ill-shaped, beggarly ele-
ments of the animal kingdom, fit only
for types and images such as appeared
to Pharoh in dreams to denote the COM
ing of seven years of famine. And now,
as then, they are the forerunners of
evil and should be disposed of at once
and their places filled with that other
fat type, whose presence forshadowed
plenty. Good pastures as well as good
animals is another diSsido natuYna.
You can't make gilt-edged butter
possessed of those choice qualities
of color, flavor and sweetness,
such as commands the highest
price in market, unless the ami
NAL has the material to extract it from;
neither can you get the flow and rich
ness of milk unless you furnish an
abundance of such food as nature with
your aid and permission, is willing to
supply for all her dependents. Grapes
do not grow upon thorns, nor figs upon
thist!es; neither does COW give milk
and cream which is not generally cared
for. More depends upon suitable pas
lures, where the animal can fill itself on
clover and the tame grasses in the short
est space of time, than most are aware
of. Milk thus produced is pure. health
full and rich, and butter made from it
commands its own price in any market
and at all seasons. But am DEPRESSING
from my text. This is an item on cream
cries and not an article on cows, as it
/ will certainly prove to be if | allow my
vagrant pencil to run. To make long
story short, may add the Potosi Cream
cry has become fixed institution. 1t
has the capacity and means for manu-
featuring and handling thousand
pounds of butter daily, but as
yet has been unable to procure
the raw material to bring it up to
that standard of preferableness and
usefulness, the proprietors desire. The
past has already demonstrated the fact
that the interest of the farming COM
munity lies in its prosperity, and this
class should prepare themselves to meet
its demands-and that means an in
crease of dairy stock and increased
facilities for its keeping and improve
ment.
Messrs. Spaulding & Co. have shipped
this season, up to date of closing or
during a run of six months, an average
of thirty-five tubs of butter a week,
containing 60 pounds each or POO lbs
weekly, aggregating over twenty-five
tons of the choice article of butter. In
return they have been enabled to pay
their patrons from fifteen to twenty-five
cents a gauge for cream OF the equiv
alent for one pound of butter, while the
homemade article has gone begging
at ten and twelve cents per pound.
Cash has taken the place of barter and
the farmers selling cream have each re-
ceived from 800 to $500 in money in
place of the truck and trade which they
have heretofore been accustomed to
take. This is an important item of in
come which, with little trouble and
expense can be easily doubled and
thribbed in another season.
L. r. Seaton made a short visit to
Milwaukee last week for the purpose of
interviewing the State Board of Phar-
macy. The interview was successful
and he returned with the documents.
which empowers him to retail castor oil
and compound salts, SIENNA, pikery, al
loes et ominist8n physicua.
John Kreuger. the British Hollow boy.
who is not unknown of fame, spent
I tha Sabbath IN, +aXvr and a. =