The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1893-09-28
AMONG FARMERS.

Grape growing is becoming Wiscon
sin industry. A Mansion man expects
5000 gallons of wine as the yield of hii
vineyards.
lightning struck among flock oil
Liberty during the storm of last week
and killed one Of them.
Charles Hall has purchased the boiler
and engine used in loading pulp wood in
this city. He will use it in pressing hay
and doing other work about the farm.
The rain Of last week was quite general
and has made fail blowing possible,
though the soil is not yet sufficiently
loosened in soft places to make plowin g
easy.
/ A farmer of Rutland, Dane county, re-
Gently sold the product OF three acres of
tobacco, receiving therefor $40. Verify,
1t Is more profitable to minister to mans
acquired appetite than to his needs.
LIN W Ahetidtc udb COucluueu IQdI MS
clover will hardly pay for the threshlng
and hence will use it all for fodder ex-
cept the product of a few acres. Tom ad-
mlts that as clover farmer he is not en-
| titled to premium.
L. IL. Cooney of Cato sold his farm to
L. Milander. Mr.. Cooney Is chairman OF
Cato. He will probably purchase an
other farm before the opening of spring.
de will dispose of his personal property
by auction October u.
J. Hall and Berlin Hall have formed a
partnership under the firm Maine of Hall
Bros, and will deal In hay. In couple
OF weeks they will use the former ware
house of Truman & Cooper They are
enterpr1slng young men and are well
skilled IN the business in which they have
entered.
People will be surprised to learn that
the exhibit of apples of Wisconsin prod
uctIon attract more favorable notice than
do the apples OF any other state at the
Worlds Fair. The apples exhibited at
our county fair this fall surprised peo-
pie by their unusual excellence. In small
fruits the state is rapidly coming to the
front.
A farmer of Hartford, this state, thresh-
ed 100 bushels of white clover seed as the
yield. of Is acres. In Adams county the
clover yield is particularly good. A far
mer near Frindship lately sold the yield |
OF eleven acres, sixty six bushels, for 1880, |
"a good thing for second crop The |
yield of clover in this county is particu-
larry poor.
A herd of COWS in Dane county have
been found whose milk tests only % per
cent. of butter fat. If the owner of that !
herd should offer their milk for sale he |
would be subject to fine for selling
milk. thought was in it's natural |
state. He should be fined for keeping
his stock in such condition that their |
milk is SO impoverished.
Some years ago it was thought tobac-
co could not be raised in this state. Now |
Ia sections of it the finest quality Of to-
bacco in the country is raised. Wiscon-
sin Is rapidly becoming a state of vast
and varied resources, and it soon will be |
quite evident that it was blessing when |
1t was discovered wheat could not be
produced here with profit. The dairying
interests have grown in consequence of
the abandonment of wheat. A little pres
sure of necessity has induced people to
study their climate and soil and the re |
suit will be that the agricultural inter-
ests of the state will run in those lines in
which there is maximum of profit.