The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1900-01-04
AMONG FARMERS.

/ 1t is said by those who know, that
speculation in grain is practically dead
and that options are thing of the past.
Dealings hereafter in grain will be ON a
cash basis.
John McCarty, one of the prince farm
ers of Cato, was in the city ON Tuesday.
Mr. McCarty raised 1900 bushels of
grain this year. He is besides quite
raiser Of stock.
The importations of hemp to the Unit
ed States from Manila are steadily in
creasing and it is not likely that bind
ing Irvine will be as high in the future
as it has been in the past.
Commission men say that farmers are
holding their potatoes and for this reason
there was very large crop last year.
They think the farmers are unwise to
hold their crop as prices are sure to
break when the potatoes are rushed to
market.
Klingholz Bros grain buyer takes ex
ception to what was said by Meme
farmer that prices paid here for farm
produce are not equal to what are paid
at Cleveland. He says when the mill is
in need of grain he goes out to buy on
the street and offers from one-half cent
to one cent more per bushel than the
governing price here. Bat farmers re-
fuse to sell for the first offer and then
accept the ruling price which is less than
they were at first offered
The last of the team owned by Tom
Windiate which were known as the big
little team, because of their compact
build, great strength and endurance and
weight beyond their appearance, dropped
dead on the street Friday morning. He
Hooked as if he had fallen in battle and
had met an honorable death. He was
80 years old and to put it in Toms words,
he never looked except through col
lar for % years. 1t was wonderful
team in all respects, its longevity not
exceeding its other qualities.
The West Bend Democrat mentions in
a late issue, the loss of two hogs in a
straw stack on September last while
threshing was in progress on farm in
Washington county. On Wednesday of
last week while removing straw from
the stack the hogs were discovered alive
and able to walk off The hogs were in
the stack over three months and during
that time had no water and had to sub
sist on whatever sustenance the straw
stack offered They were reduced from
100 pounds each to about 30 pounds. The
Democrat says another occurrence of this
kind is unheard Of
But this is not So When the editor of
The Pilot was farm lad in Meme, the
crib on which the straw stack was
built broke down one winter. A heifer
was missed some time after the collapse,
but it was not thought possible she could
be alive as some heavy timber was used
in the crib and this with the weight of
the straw made it appear certain that
the superintendent mass had crushed
the life out of the unfortunate animal.
In spring when the stack was eaten
away by the stock and used for bedding,
the heifer was found alive and SO Grip
pied from the uncomfortable position
she was in owing to the weight Of the
straw and the pressure of the rails that
she never recovered the use of her limbs.
After time she could hobble about but
not SO that she could subsist unaided on
pasture She thrived during the sum
mer but required being fed and was
healthy in every particular except in her
limbs. The writer is unable to state how
long she was pinioned, but it seems to
him it was all winter. At least it was
from the time of the catastrophe until
the stack was eaten away, and the stack
must have been large when the accident
occurred as its removal was thought I'M
advisable.