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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1898-08-25
RYE FOR PASTURE.
In Many Respects Its Value Is Greater
Than That of Amy other
Northwestern Crop.

Rye is one of the most valuable
plants that we are likely to have in
this northwestern country, and espe-
cially in sandy soils. But it has not
as yet been generally grown for such
use, and it does not matter very much
whether it is wanted for sheep. cattle.
swine or horses. it is highly useful in
any case. There are but few sections
in all the northwest, says Prof. Shaw
in Farm, Stock and Home. where it
will not stand the rigors of the win
ter, and there is no kind of soil on
which it will fail to make more or
less growth, unless it is soil soaked
with water in the winter, or unduly
impregnated with alkali And after
the rye has served its purpose in pro-
viding pasture there are but few To-
calities in which il cannot be followed
by another crop the same season.
When winter rye is sown for pasture
lt should always be as early as Sep
TENDER, and if it is to be pastured in
the autumn, it should be so,vn as early
as the 1st of August. But. it is evil
dent in dry seasons it may not germi-
nate thus early. The difficulty may be
obviated sometimes by narrowing and
rolling the land alternately after il
has been plowed. Moisture viii in this
way be brought to the surface And
when the crop is pastured in the fall
it should not be eaten too bare to-
ward the approach of winter When
thus eaten. and a hard winter follows,
the produce of the rye viii be much
less the following season. And when
rye is sown so late that it enters the
winter in a weak condition, the results
the following spring will also be disap-
pointing. The growth viii be much
more feeble than that of rye which
has gone into the winter in a strong
and vigorous condition Because Of
this late sowing many who have sown
rye have been led to under-value it as
a pasture. 1t may be sown in with
corn at the last cultivation. but the
plan that would make it follow small
grain is a grand one for then the
blowing Of the land buries an army of
weeds and thus greatly helps TO clean
the land.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1898-08-25
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tach the evener of the rear team to
one end, the upper end for conven-
fence, and that of the forward team
to the lower end. This will work per-
fectly with a team of four horses.
If but three are used the central
hole should be one-third of the dis
tance between the end holes and the
single horse attached to the long end.
For six horses use the evener as de
signed for four horses for the two
leading teams. then use the three
horse evener inverted for the wheel
horses. BY drilling the central hole
two-tifths of the distance between the
end holes, this evener will be adapted
10 five horses worked in the awkward
fashion of three abreast and two on
the lead, or, as they are less often
used, two on the pole and three on the
lead,-American Agrculturist.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1898-08-25
FACTS FOR FARMERS.

Don't cultivate the corn too late.
You will cut the roots.
We would advise feeding calves from
tin or galvanized pals.
If the calf Will not drink and some
viii not-starve il to it.
Oycrripe grass is woody. not fit for
animals. Cut when il blooms
Cut the grass when the bloom is on
and you Will preserve the aroma.
When the rains cease be sure to cul-
tivate and make the surface fine
Don't put salt on hay. Il has no pre-
serratiye effect and makes the hay
moist
The preservation Of good aroma in
hay makes it all the more palatable to
the animal.
Clover hay is a hundred per cent.
better than timothy for all purposes
in feeding stock
80 need Of buying hay caps from
people who sell those things Get
cheap muslin and paint it.
4 tread power run BY big dog or
calf. will do the churning on most
farms. and save lots Of labor
1t looks now ~ if wheat would be a
good price for thernext crop. Don't
sell early if you can help it.
The only way to buy binder Irvine is
TO club together and demand a reduc-
ton in price. The sellers Of binder
Irvine are getting rich off the fsrners
Western Plowpan.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1898-08-25

Notice j. hereby given that the following
described lands and village and CITY lots in
were sold by the treasurer Of said conntv IN
me ms lsth ana 10Th DAYS Of May, 1895. for the
delinquent taxes of 1895
The amount set opposite each description,
+ the amount OF tax interest and charges
due thereon computed up to the last day of
redemption.
Now, therefore. unless the taxes and
charges are paid. on or before the
TWENTN-FIRST DAY or MAY. 1899.
the same will be conveyed by tax deed 10 the.
purchasers according To the provisions of
law
APPROXIMATIONS. -e east ne northeast sc
southeast " west NV northwest sw south
west, north. south com commencing cor
corner. acre. add addition blk block I'D
bounded. ftieet. sec section, und undivided.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1898-08-25
CONVENIENT EvENER.
Especially Designed for EquaIizinR
Draft when n Number of Horses
Are Driven Tandem.

A very convenient evener designed
to equalize the draught when the
horses are driven tandem may be
made as follows: Take fat piece of
iron 1h inches wide by three-eighths
of an inch in thickness and II or Is
inches long. Drill half-inch hole at
each end and another midway be-
tween. Fasten this iron to the load
by means of bolt or clevis through
the center hole in such a manner that
the iron shall be upright and be free
to move forward and backward. At
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1898-08-25
Marketing EARLY Potatoes.

TO those who are unfamiliar with POI
tato growing, the high prices which
early potatoes command might seem
to make it an object TO dig a large part
of the crop and market it while the
price is up. But there are several draw
backs in marketing potatoes early
The weather is hot, and while the skins
of potatoes are tender, they will rub
off their jackets if handled freely, and
the potatoes are then almost sure to
rot. Hence they are never sent far or
in large quantities. In digging po-
tatoes early there is great waste. as
only few of the largest are of mark
etable size, and those that will sell
would grow still larger if left few
days longer in the hill We have seen
growers put their hand into potato
hill and pull off those potatoes that
they found large enough, leaving the
small ones to grow. But this is only
practicable on a small American
Cultivator
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1898-08-25
Town >, Range i. smelser.
Village of Elmo

lots H. Il. 49, 3iE Witham. ..... IS
Town g. Range {. Park Add to Platteville
lot S........... 10 John Rollins. , IS
Out Lots Carts Add to Platteviue
lot 2.......... rs HlGeo W Chapman - 6d
fl on " sideof
lot and all
of I.,,.....s, 40 f5iMargaret Medley II 04
Redans Add 10 platteville.
out lot l...... l5JB Mccoy. ...... 81 %
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1898-08-25
ScrOfula, a Vile
Inheritance.

Scrofula is the most obstinate of blood
troubles, and is often the result of an
inherited faint in the blood. 5. S. S.
is the only remedy which goes deep
enough to reach Scrofula; it forces out
every trace of the disease, and cures
the worst cases.
Ny son, Charlie, was afflicted from infancy
with scrofula. and he suffered so that ID was
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1898-08-25

impossible to dress him
for three years. His
head AID body were a
mass of sores, and his
eyesight also became
affected. No treatment
was spare that we
thought would relieve
him. but he grew worse
until his condition wa 5
indeed pitiable. / had
almost despaired Of his
ever being cured. when
by the advice If a friend
we gave him ;. :. :.
lSwift's Specidc1. a de-
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1898-08-25
Give Him a Chance.

John" she said, you ought TO pun
ISL that boy"
What's the matter with him?" he
asked.
Hes altogether too dictatorial,' .
she replied. He wants to rule every
thing"
"Oh, we'll" he said, "let him enjoy
himself while he may. He'll marry
some time and that'll end it, Chica-
go Post.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1898-08-25
tjIHEIsEME1 LANDS.
Notice for Tax Deeds
OFFICIAL.

OFFICE OF TIRE COUNTY CLFRK j
LANCASTER GRANT Co WIS. !
July u lSqS |
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1898-08-25

liar hooks are put in each lower cor
ner, TO which the sacks are attached
The grain is then shoveled from the
bin into the box.-Orange Judd Farm
ar
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1898-08-25
FILLING GRAIN SACKS.
Wherever the Device Here Described
Is Used Work Can BE Done
Neatly and Quickly.

The accompanying illustration shows
a convenient device for filing grain
sacks. Strong iron hooks fasten the
box 10 the edge of the bin. while sim
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1898-08-25

lot 9 less q Il x
r right %
WaV
Fro tional sec
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1898-08-25

> I'D BanGeld est IL
&lTony Saedel / -
Rapge$ Poaosis
S5l Joseph Gerhart z 70
Potosi. (In Lots)'
8 IN Dewey ..,.... 5 %
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1898-08-25

cided Improvement was the result. and after
he had tasena dozen bottles. no one who knew
Of his former dreadful condition would have
recognized him. All the sores on his body
have healed his skin IS perfectly clear and
smooth, and he has been restored 10 perfect
health MRS. : : MABRY.
800 Elm ST., Macon, Ga.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-06-18

81 miles or an average of S135.0O0 a mie
The road reaches an altitude of 1856 feet
IN croSsi..g the Andes t. tn pliteau of Lake
Iltlcacd, and here where it ends the al
titude is higher than the top of Fujiyama.
the sacred snow-capped peak of Japan. 1t
has branch lire Of l22 miles going over
the plateau to within TWO days of Cuzco
the famed capital of the 1ncas. This rail-
road vas built when Peru rich and
when she was squandering fortunes On such
things. 1t is the work of the American en-
gineer. Meiggs, and is one of the great en-
g1neering feats of the world. There is talk
OF extending it into Bolivia, and it may
sometime be a part of transcontinental
line reaching TO Paraguay and the ArgAn-
tine. At present it belongs to the Peruvian
corporation. the English syndicate which
took Peru's railroads in consideration of re-
Living the country OF its foreign debt, but
1t is managed by an American. Mr.. Victor
h. McCord, who keeps it in almost as good
condition as any road you will find in the
United States. All of the rolling stock is
American in pattern, though of late the
cars and engines have been made by Peru
vians in the company's shops at Arequipa
Arequipa Is the halfway station on the
road to Lake Titicaca, and it is there that
the general offices of the road are situated
l visited the railroad shops and found 400
Peruvians engaged in all kinds of car con-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-06-18

and sheep. Each flock was watched by
woman who wore black or blue dress and
shawl ard a queerly shaped hat, much like
that of a priest. Each shepherdess had
spinning spool in her hand and kept this 60
ing as long as we were in sight. At the
stations we saw many Indian men and
women. The men wore bright -colored
shawls. and wide pantaloons Slit up as far
as the knee at The back. Every one of
them had on a knit cap much like a night
cap, with flaps coming down over the ears,
and on the top Of this d little hat which
seemed to be more for ornament than for
warmth. Nearly all. both men and women,
were in their bare feet, although the air
was bitter cold, and as we crossed
rents, whitening the ground. These peo-
pie were chiefly of the Aymara tribe of In
dams, who to a large extent form the
population of this part of Peru and of
Bolivia. FRANK G. CARPENTER
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-06-18
How the Hospital Corps is Preparing
for the Field.
WITH THE ARMY EN- ROUTE TO CUBA
The Camp at Tampa Has Been
a Busy Place.
CLEANLINESS AND SYSTEM

SpeciI Correspondence of The Evening Star
TAMPA. June IL, 1893.
Ever since the first army tents were
pitched in Tampa. the Hospital Corps OF
the regular army has been actively at work.
Surgeon Benjamin F. Pope, who has just
been promoted to the rank of lieutenant
colonel of volunteers. is the surgeon-in-
chief of the army stationed here. Upon
him falls the responsibility of preparing
the medical department for the Cuban cam
Daign.
The Hospital Corps like every other
branch of the SERVICE has been on a peace
footing for the past thirty years. Stores
and equipments were needed we'll as
cruits, and nowhere so badly at Tampa.
with the army of invasion. The surgeons
who were stationed at the various regimen
tai posts and barracks came to Tampa
when the troops which they served cali
ed there. Since then DR.. Pope has ex-
amined and contracted with a number of
men who are to go to Cuba In the capacity
of assistant surgeons and acting assistant
surgeons. Many of these are Cubans and
immunes who have made a particular
study of yellow fever. The army surgeons
are prepared for most anything in the way
or up-io-date surgery, but few of them
nave had any practical experience in the
dreaded Cuban disease; this makes the ex
pert addition to their corps very welcome
AS soon as each regiment camped in the
location selected for it here by the COM
manding officer, the hospital and dispensary
tents were pitched and the corps of m-u
with the red cross on their arms fell into
the daily routine OF camp duty as easily
the soldiers of the line. A number of re-
cruits from the nursing forces of Bellevue
and other hospitals who had enlisted were
sent down and had to be broken in. They
were used to all kinds of nursing. but the
ambulance and stretcher drills and first
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-06-18

points in Colorado and California and then
sent an expedition to South America This
expedition first established a station GG0O
feet above the sea in the Andes back of
Lima on what is now called MI. Harvard.
In 1880 they changed the station to Are
quipa and have since made this one of the
great Scientific centers of the world. Are
Quipa is $50 feet above the sea and 1t has
more clear days and nights, 1t is said. than
any other place on earth There are about
nine months Of the year there when the
sky Is perfectly clear. You people who
pride yourselves on beautiful skies and
glorious sunsets will not know what the
words mean until you have visited South
America. These are especially line at Are
quipa, which has in addition the advan-
tage of being south of the equator at one
of the best points for viewing the south
ern heavens.
There is you KNOW nothing duplicated
in the sky, and there are here wonderful
stars and considerations which never
see. The milky way is far more brilliant
than it is in our heavens, and thsre are
many other stars with different move
rents. They have four great telescopes at
Arequipa, which night after night through
the nine clear months of the year are
pointed at the stars Connected with each
of these telescopes is a photogTa phic appa-
ratus which records the movements of
such stars the scientists wish to study,
and which by fine machinery move along
with the stars until their images and those
of their surroundings are registered on the
Photographic plate. The Bruce telescope.
for instance is, l believe, the largest of its
kind in the world, though 1 am not sure
of this. 1t has a lens "a inches in dame
ter and gives photographs on plates IA by
IL inches in size 1 took look through
the Bruce telescope during my visit to the
observatory. The tube of the instrument
must weigh more than a ton, but it is SO
delicately hung that child could move it.
1t runs by a clock and a heavy weight.
The chief part of the work done at the OBJ
servatory Is photographing the heavens.
Five Photographic instruments are kept
going, and about fifty plates are made
every night. Last year more than five
thousand plates were exposed and develop
ed. The negatives are shipped at once to
the University of Harvard at Cambridge
and are there used for study and scientific
work. They are kept on file there and
form wonderful astronomical library of
the southern heavens. Through this OBJ
servatory Harvard College has the best
advantages of the world for astronomical
research.
The Highest Observatory Station of
the World.
Within the last few years the Arequipa
astronomers here have established a sta
ton on the top of Mount Misti. This noun
tain is one of the highest of the Andes. It
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-06-18

and all the patients who are I'll enough 20
be in bed. are quartered there. Out OF the
thousands Of troops here there are but
thirty Of these patients. They are brought
up to the hospital in ambulances but once
In while are taken in on a stretcher.
One of the sergeants comes forward.
signs cot to the man. and reports his
arrival to the doctor in charge. who i'm
nediately makes an examination and pre-
scribes for him. giving the prescription to
the steward on duty. who puts II up in the
dispersary tent and administers IL accord
ing to directions.
As the field hospital now in operation in
Tampa is the one which will Immediately
be set up in Cuba On the landing OF The
troops. an idea OF its construction is rather
Interesting. The surgeon-in charge Major
A. II. Affal. and his stan, appointed by
DIR. Pope, will serve in the same capac-
tiles throughout the campaign. Major
Anel has two assistants. and one OF tn .se.
DIR. W. Il. Parker of New Orleans. is the
only surgeon appointed from civil life to
the hospital service. Their quarters are TO
the left of the hospital tents and consist Of
a tent apece-with a fly or awning in
fro inland a mess tent. The shelter :ents
of the assistants stretch in a long row in
frcnt of the hospital. The horses are cor
allied beyond.
Busy Place.
For the hospital itself seven tents are
now in use, and there are six more in re-
serve. They are pitched in the form OF g
T; the main ward being the upright, tho
dispensary, operating room and negro
ward. the cross pieces. The patients are
placed on light, portable cots. which face
each other at either side just as in an ordi-
nary hospital The smell Of antisep. lies is
in the air. and the stewards and privaIes
pass back and forth among the FRUSTRATED
soldiers, taking temperatures and giving
their doses and diet. Others are at work
tidying the operating room or compound
ing medicines in the dspensary.
Apart by itself is the tent reserved for
Infectious diseases. Ii il some twenty-five
feet from the main ward, but at present IL
shelters nothing more dangerous than
measles. Measures are being taken to iso-
late also the two or three typhoid fever pa
tients. who II Is needless to say, will not
take part in the Cuban campaign Every
where is order. cleanliness and system.
Within the precincts of the field hospital
Is the tent or office of Col. Pope. Here Is
performed most of the exec utive and cler-
ical work of the corps in Tampa-and IT is
infinite. As the volunteers arrive, they
must be supplied as well as the regulars.
Their half-organized departments must be
fully organized and got into working trim
at, the earliest possible moment Their
equipments do not equal those of the regu-
lar corps. While they are all supplied with
first aid" knapsacks. they are not. as
rule, provided with field medicine chests.
Getting I'm Trim.
Orderliss are continually riding up with
dispatches. and acquisitions are brought in
for approval. Everything given out or
taken in must be recorded. Nearly all OF
this work. in addition to the correspondence
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-06-18

II o'clock stopped at the station of Punta
de Arrtsros for breakfast. This station is
more than two and a half miles above the
sea- 1t consists of a few stone huts thatch-
ed with straw and a ona>story wooden
building made OF pine which 1 doubt not
was shipped here from Oregon. There was
bar at ons end of the dining room, pre-
sided over by a fat Peruvian girl, and at
the other end were the breakfast tables.
The meal cost about 80 cents of our money.
and it was as good as any ffty-cent meal
you can get In the Rockies. First there was
chicken soup with rice. then Goldfish balls
well Drowned, then boiled beef and green
peas. beefsteak spiced with a sauce of
onions and rad pepper. q sweet omelet and
a cup Of very good tea After the meal
bought four cltngstone peaches of an In
dian giri.for two cents and three oranges
for a nickel. These eatables, however, an
cana from the irrigated valleys or the low
lands. On the high plateau over which we
travelled there was only scanty fuzzy
growth OF moss-ltke grass There was not
q tree, and only here and there, about a lit
tie mud hut. patch or SO Of potatoes som,
berlcy-which Is grown only for forage, as
1t will not rtpen at this altitude-and also
many little fields Of quinua, q plant which
looks like q cross between a red dock weed
ard a mullen stock. It u planted In rows
and u cultivated. It b Of . yellow or red
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lies Just back of Arequipa standing out
against the horizon almost alone in it's
grandeur. its top kissing the sky at an alti-
tuhe OF 1920 feet above the sea. 1t is
some thousands Of feet higher than any
point in America. and Is full mile higher
than our observatory on Pixies Peak. 1t
Is by more than $500 feet loftier than any
other scientific station of the world The
site OF the station Is on the edge of huge
crater. which now and then sends clouds of
yellow sulphurous vapor a thousand feet
into the air. Mount Misti is an extinct vol
cano. but 1t Is not dead and it NAV at any
time break out into eruption. At this great
attitude. nearly four miles above the sea
the Harvard men have now the finest of
scientific instruments for registering the
conditions of the atmosphere the velocity
of the Winds the pressure of the barometer
and other conditions. The Instruments are
of course automatic. running for three
months without being touched No one
could live at such an altitude and the sci
entists go up only periodically to get the
records and rewind the Instruments. AS it
Is the trip Is a very hard one Some of the
men get soroche or mountain sickness.
ana many men cannot make the trip at all
Inc observatory has other stations on the
sea near Mollendo. the high plateau
Wnere now am, and at CuZco, the famed
capital OF the lncas. which is little more
than 100 miles from Lake Titicaca The
rounding of this wonderful work was done
by Prof. w. H. Pickering and Scion I.
Bailey of Harvard, the most of the sta
eioiis oeiiS eStdDllSneQ by the latter. Prof
BAILEY has just returned to the United
states, and the observatory and its sta
tons are now in charge of Mr. w. B. civ
mer OF Ohio and Mr. De Isle Stewart of
Minnesota. These young astronomers have
contracts to- remain here for five years.
The position Is not bad one by any means,
The observatory Is situated 500 feet above
the city OF Arequipa. overlooking the irrt-
gated valley Of the Chile river which pro-
duces the richest of crops the year round.
The home of the observatory Is most com
Portable. one Of its chief attractions being
Mrs. Stewards little blue-eyed baby a few
months old. born in Peru, which is as pref
~ ana as healthy as any baby you will
ind north of the equator.
Across the Pampas of the Andes.
Thsre are three mountains back of Are
quipa which are higher than any point in
the United States outside of Alaska. Mount
Charcani Is higher than Mount Misti, and
as you leave the desert and ascend to the
lofty plateau you get a glimpse of Corfu
puno, which is $500 feet abovs the sea.
Mount Misti's snowy summit is in sight for
hours. and I watched the f1eecy clouds fly
ing about and below 1t, sitting in my over
coat on the rear platform of the car We
left AreQuipa in the early morning, and at