Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1885-06-04
Personal MENTION.

in Lancaster.
While in the city over Sunday and
Monday, Hon. X. M. LaFollette was
the guest of Banker Meyer.
VIM. Andrews. one of the pillars Of
Cassville. and an old line Repu blican,
was in the city Decoration day.
Frank and Henry Herstman treated
the guests of the Grand to a pleasant
ride amid the scenery of Grant, Sunday
afternoon,
! w. G. Chandler, editor of The HER
AID, is in Florida this week looking
after the shearing of the sheep on his
sheep ranch there.
j. Mccormick, dealer in all kinds of
farm machinery. has been doing land
office business this week, load after
load of machinery leaving his sheds for
the country.
Mr.. o. j. Arnold, one of the substan-
tial men of Mt. Ida, called at THE HER.
AID Office Decoration day to pay his
subscription, and found it paid nearly
year in advance. Such instances of
forgetfulness as this are by no means
common.
Our pleasant blacksmith neighbors,
Hurley e. Dasch, have erected a tall
Sioux-Indian looking chimney over their
works. This is the vent to another forge
just lighted on account of increasing
business, at which new full-hand takes
his place this week
Prof. Freeman. of the State Univer-
sity, will deliver his popular lecture,
"Across the Atlantic and Up the Rhine"
at the reunion of the alumni of the Lam
caster High School, on Friday evening,
June 18th. A small admission fee OF 10
cents will be charged. No one should
fail to hear him.
w. j. Dyer, of Fennimore, desires us
to say that no will give Sl5 for tho best
colt shown at the next fair, sired by
Mambrino Swigort or Victory, and $40
for the second best. He also reports
the sale of black yearling stallion,
sired by Mambrno Swigert. to Ed. Car
ter of Livingston, for 800.
1t is hardly necessary to call the read
er's attention to the advertisement of
of VIM. T. Dewey. on the first page.
Mr.. Dewey is brother of Ex-Governor
Dewey. OF this state. and formerly resid-
ed in Lancaster. There can be no ques-
ton of the reliability and honorable
character of his dealings, and his ex-
tenslve list of lands and properties can
not fail of attraction TO capitalists and
those thinking of locating west
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NOTHING LIKE SAND. w. A. Gra-
ham. of this county, writessto The
Prairie Farmer that he keeps hi.
hogs IN good condition by feeding sand
to them. He says: I'm comm "a with
great many other farmers. have lost
hogs by disease; perhaps il was the so.
called hog-cholera. At times my hogs
restless, aud would oct for
stones to chew, or dig into stone W Ill.
for mortar 1t occurred to m thtt they
needed something not supplied them [
thought it might be sand. and gave them
some on trial. They at once ceased
mining for stones and mortar, seeming
satisfied when they hal sufficient food
aud drink. A few years ago had som5
sixty shotes which manifested discon-
tent and desire to root for stones. [
partitioned of the enI of my hor pen
for bin, by setting up 2xi pieces, and
ceiling on the bin side, beginning nearly
four inches above the floor on the other
side. This left space of four inches
for sand to work in from the bin, out of
which the hogs could get it. without
wasting. About December l. put
five loads of sand into the bin. mixing it
with twenty pounds of salt, five pounds
copperas, and five pounds sulphur. By
April LIST following, the hogs had eaten
the five loads OF sand, and were all the
time healthy and contented Since
then whenever | have attended to the
supply of sand, salt, ETC., have never
had sick or restless hog. if well fed. /
do not know the ingredients in the mix
ture in the proper proportions, but as
long as the hogs are satisfied, that is
immaterial | believe a bushel of SCOT
to the ton of sand would be of much
benefit, but do not think hogs need
ashes"