Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-10-03

| Of thn university October l. The first
three days Of this week are given over
to registration. That is Registrar
Hiestand's busy time. Over 5000
students will this year have to be en-
rolled and classified. The class of 1907
will be the largest freshman class in
the history of the institution. Old
students will find many changes about
the college halls. They will miss the
genial presence of General Edwin i.
Bryant in the law school. At the Sep
TENDER meeting of the board of re
gents e. S. Mack, an attorney from
| Milwaukee, was elected to fill the va
cancy caused by his death. Mr.. Mack
is a Harvard graduate. He viii have
charge of the course known as prac-
tice and pleading. In the science de-
partment there has been one death
this summer. Professor Timberlake
died from the bursting of blood yes
sell About all the students do the
first two or three weeks is to watch
The practice of their football giants,
under the guidance of Coach Curtis,
on the lower campus. The students
will have to pay higher rent this year
than ever before. Rooms are to be
held at premium in the Latin quar-
ter. When rooms could be engaged for
50 a week, the same will draw S3
this year. Table board will also come
high. This is partly due to the scar
city of potatoes and the increased price
of coal.
Crops Will Not be Bad.
The crops in Southern Wisconsin are
record breakers. Such seems to be
the opinion Of Former Vice President
l.. D. Hinkly, of the Milwaukee Cham
Der Of Commerce, who has been max
ing observations along agricultural
lines What he says concerning hay
and hogs is especially interesting.
Nothing like the hay crop was ever
known before, and it is not likely that
it ever will be again. Farmers in
many cases have enough to last them
three years. In some places it is esti-
mated they will have Is to is tons;
the second crop was cut the midle of
August, and some later fields being cut
now. The milk and cream product so
far this season has exceeded by so
per cent. any preceding one" Mr.
Hinkly has some very encouraging
words on the hog situation. Farmers
that few years ago. he says, raised
half a dozen have now got 100 pigs,
and larger farmers 200 to 800. One
farmer sold 81, 400 worth of hogs last
year of his own raising" Hay ranks
third in the list of crops in the United
States, and is the cornerstone of the
dairy industry, which is one of the Wis
consin farmers great sources of reve-
! nue..
Echoes From Northern Farmers.
Marathon county is an ideal sheep
raising community. In places where
the pine reigned twenty years ago may
be found the lowing herd feeding upon
the green pasture land of Northern
Wisconsin, The sheep raising industry
has hardly reached Marathon full blast,
but just south of it in Wood county,
the makeup of the woolly tribe can
! be counted by thousands. At Grand
Rapids one observer takes notice of
5000 sheep running about the streets
of the city, and remarks at the sight
that one would imagine half the pOpu-
lation of Grand Rapids were agricul-
turists. Even the women and csildren,
it is said, get out on the streets and
call, ''lambie lambie!. lambiew Such
demonstration was, however, Occa-
stoned only by a great drove of sheep
driven through the city to Saratoga,
Wood county, where an experiment in
sheep culture will be tried on large
scale. Wood county gets a good many
of it's Merino sheep from Cady,
Wyoming. 1t took II double-decked
cars to transport a recent shipment,
the freight costing $4,000
Gov. La Fo1Iette's Daughter.
There has been a good deal of news
paper talk lately about Gov. LaFol.
lette's oldest daughter, Miss Fola, GO
ing on the stage. 1t is true that the
young lady inherits her fathers love
of dramatics, but the idea of a stage
career has never been seriously con
sdered The talk probably arose
from the fact that Miss LaFOllette
this summer participated in the pres
entation of ga Russian Honeymoon"
given by w. H. Pyre in several cities
of the state for the benefit of the
Milwaukee settlement.
Miss LaFollette enters her senior
year in the university this year. She
is one of the most popular young Ia
dies on the hill, as well ais one of the
best known. She has shown great
democracy in the fact that she has
never joined a sorority, an exclusive
secret society, thinking that for her
position it is not a wise thing. She
is, however, a member of the Red
Domino club, the young ladies' dra.
matte society, and has showed marked
ability in the plays given by that
society Miss Fola's friends are many
and dear 1t was interesting to note
| that fractional differences have no eff