The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1900-12-07

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man. The native habitat of these is
in smaller circles
Over 100 Rabbits I'm a Day.
The wholesale killing of Wisconsin
game by hunters ranging at large does
not please anyone, but the systematic,
organized slaughter, as if extermna-
ton was something desirable. is in
comprehensive. The Prairie du Chen
Union recently said
I'VE heard party of five went over
to the islands Sunday and killed 1O3
rabbits, and another party of three are
said to have killed So. The water is
very high and the game in the bottom
lands are compelled to seek high
ground where these game hogs 60 to
slaughter till they get all that's in
sight
If there be any way to frame a law
to stop silly and wicked slaughter of
this sort, bill would easily pass the
legislature.
| 1t is simply astounding how easy
it seems to betto take in a farmer on
! sharp game There is no one more
| thrifty or cautious about a 10-cent
| piece than farmer; the city man will
| recklessly throw round dollar while
| his rural brother is unfolding the calf
skin; and yet the rural weeklies report
succession of tricks by which the
| intelligent farmers of Wisconsin are
cheated out of their money.
! Lightning Rod Still Dangerous.
Lightning rod sharps have no diff
Guilty in entrapping us Badgers In
Hartland recently farmers signed the
1,
outfit. 1t turns out to be the price of
single rod, and as most of them
bought four to eight rods the matter
became serious. A second man comes
along to put up the rods and make
settlement and expresses great regret
that the agent has misrepresented the
price and promises to report him to
the company at once. He insists on
the contract price, however.
The Fuiato Cane.
One weekly up in the potato country
deems it necessary to warn it's readers
against plot by which a clever indi-
vidual has cleaned up in the neighbor-
hood of 100000 in Minnesota, Illi-
nois, Indiana and Missouri. The plan
resembles the Bohemian oat deal of
several years ago.
A company claiming s1,0O0,0O0 capt
tai storms farmers with letters pur-
porting that 1t deals with seed pota-
toes which are guaranteed to yield
from 900 to 1000 bushels per acre.
Seed c0rld be produced of them. only
at the cost of $40 per bushel and no
less than two and one half bushels
would be sold to any one purchaser
OF nY.ic Tn
desired in advance and the company
would undertake by contract to buy
them back the following season, an
equal number of bushels at the same
price.
Newspaper clippings tell of the enor-
nous yield of the Pink Producer on
Long Island If the farmer writes
that he is interested, an agent calls
on him with a sample peck. These
samples, after being carefully washed,
were given bath of analine dye,
which added the desired tint In other
respects they were Of the ordinary va
riety A deal is made for anywhere
from two and half to ten bushels.
delivery to be made in ten days. The
farmer gives his promissory note due
in two, three or four months, and he
receives in time an agreement to pur-
chase corresponding number of bush
els at $40 the next season. The notes
are discounted, the potatoes delivered
to the farmer promptly, and that
is the end of the bargain. In Orton.
vile and Odessa, Mimi, alone, ovez
$500 worth of these notes were col
lected in September. All along the
line of the Milwaukee railway, from
Glencoe to Morehead, there is hardly
a station where dupes have not been
found. Minnesota must have been
touched for a full 100000, while
Indiana was swindled worst Of all.
The residents of Illinois are said to
have contributed over double the
amount that is credited to Minnesota.
On the st. Croix.
Every one knows about the bluffs on
the st. CroiX river; and now a cave
has been discovered near Osceola,
where ex-Assemblyman Burdick lives.
It's entrance is half way up on solid
rock bluff 200 feet high and is large
enough to admit a man walking erect.
The Indians used to make treaties
there; but no one supposed it was so
important a place.
The first apartment of the cave is
100 feet long, thirty to forty feet wide
and ten to twenty feet high. Leading
from it is round passage way, about
two feet in diameter and twenty feet
long, which leads to another room Of
large proportions. Then. from this
another passageway leads to a third
room. In this manner cave after cave
is connected, but it is impossible to go
farther than 500 feet into them owing
to the foul air.
Some side rooms suggest human Ia
Dor, perhaps thousands of years ago.
One of these rooms is reached by a
stairway twenty feet high, entered by
hole eight feet long, just big enough
for man to crawl through. Old resi-
dents state that thieves made this cave
their home forty or fifty years ago. 1t
is we'll known that one thief stole cat.
tie and kept them there for several
weeks. Some expect the cave will
prove as big as the Mammoth: and a
mysterious stream one and half
miles away and smaller caves five
miles away-great crevices, . large
enough TO admit a man standing for