Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1885-05-08

| extensive farmer IN Iowa county,
employs six hired hands, and keeps
over two hundred head of cattle.
Prairie du Chen has eight flowing
wells that throw water sixty feet
above the ground. Two wells over
1000 feet deep run a large Touring
mill, another supplies the water
works and five hydrants for the city.
Stock yards, stock-farms and foun-
tains are supplied by others. One
1,000-foot well, 10-inch diameter,
throws more water daily than any
well in Europe. So says the Cour-
Ter.
Truth is mighty and must prevail.
SO, also, must Mishler's Herb Bitters
prevail over all forms of kidney and
liver disease. Dyspepsia and indi-
gestion likewise yield to the magic
of its power. Read what Willard
Mosier, of Barclay street, New York,
says: after suffering torments from
dyspepsia and indigestion | found a
complete cure in your remedy. My
wife was also cured of severe neural
gia."
The fifth annual festival of the
Wisconsin Sheep breeders and Wool
growers Association closed at Ripon
on the I'd. The first premium was
awarded to Mcconnell & Stone,
whose 200 pound ram yielded 81
pounds. The second premium was
given t. Mcconnell & Bros ram,
l73 pounds; fleece, 293 pounds. The
third premium was awarded to j.
B. Morrison for fleece of 81 pounds.
Prizes for best shearing were award
ed as follows: Stephen Barrett,
hartford; Alfred Ottowo, Berlin; and
Bel Iarrabee, of Ripon.
The executive committee of the
Iowa County Agricultural Society,
at their meeting last Friday, fixed
the time of holding the next fair, at
Dodgeville, on Sept. Is, 16 and II,
instructed the treasurer to pay the
discretionary premiums awarded by
the judges at the last fair, and
changed the regulations SO that any
member who pays $3.50 shall be
entitled to compete for all premiums
offered by the society, except sweep
stakes. Those who pay but 81 are
restricted to competition in classes
E, III, |, j, X and L.-Chronicle.
The Richland Republican is re-
sponsible for the following wolf
story: The biggest job of wolf kill
ing we have ever heard of was done
last week in the town of Ithaca by
l.. w. Dorgan, of Bear Creek, and
f. w. Brewer, of Boscobel. In two
days these hunters succeeded in cap
turing twenty-one young wolves.
They found them in deps in three
litters, two of eight each and one of
five. They were about half grown
and of the gray wolf species. Mr..
Brewer has several blood hounds
trained for wolf hunting and with
these they tracked the wolves to
their dens. The boys received a
bounty Of s2l0 for their capture
s. for each wolf from the county
and like sum from the state.
Among the strangers in town last
week was Mr.. w. D. Harmon, of
Pipestone, Minnesota, who came
for the purpose OF purchasing
Adonis," the bay thoroughbred
horse owned by W. S. Ross. After
a thorough overlooking of the ami
NAL Mr.. Harmon bought him. and
seemed well pleased with his new
property "Adonis " is well-known
by our citizens as very handsome
saddle horse. He is by the famous
Canada out of "Kittie Stacy"
and has one of the longest and
purest pedgrees of any horse in the
state. He is to be used by his pres
ent owner as a hurdle racer, for
which he is we'll fitted as he is nat
urally good jumper. He will be
missed the coming autumn on the
race tracks of the surrounding fairs,
as he is well known as running
horse. We wish Mr.. Harmon good
luck with his purchase.
We hear great complaint from
farmers, gardeners, and others, on
account of the devastations of
mice during the past winter. Fruit
trees by the hundred have been
girdled; shrubs, rose bushes, rasp-
berry and blackberry canes de-
stroyed, and the havoc committed is
simply surprising. This is a new
visitation for this region, and if the
little pests are to remain with US
they may become as much a curse
as were the chinch bugs. Some of
our farmers claim that the damage
has been done by new conner, "a
short-tailed, fiat backed, broad
bodied little imp never before seen
in this locality; while Others claim
that the destruction is the work of
the common field mouse, and that
this voracious little marauder has
been increasing in numbers most
wonderfully for several years past
owing to the fact that so much of
our land is being planted to clover
and grass, furnishing nesting places
for the. mice which did no. exist
when the land was titled and planted
annually.-Platteville Witness.