Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-09-23
Potato Crop Is Rotten But Only
in Certain Sections.
THERE'S MONEY IN DAIRY COWS
If Well BlOOded-Retired VS.. Active
Officers-Ninety War Veterans
Die Daily.


and worked hard to clear the desk of
| correspondence iE preparation for a
| fresh start Monday. The governor S
friends feel sure that he is making
many votes by his compaign and that
| he cannot be beaten. On the other
hand, Senator Whitehead, following
his Beloit speech, is now touring the
fairs He is no such orator as the gov
ernor-in fact, he tells his audiences
so-but he has an earnest style all his
own.
Condition of Crops
j. Since the advent of railroads, fam
ines have lost their terrors. When
one district is short, safety comes
from another section. History of q
century ago is sorry reading, famines
in different parts of the same country
by which hundreds of Thousands of
lives were lost, whereas now six
hours run by freight trains would cor
rect the distress.
This is the hope of potato consum-
ers in these parts. The frequent rains
have rotted the tubers. One farmer
near Madison reports he has three
cars and he doubts if he digs them up
at all. Others who have dug, say row
after row is not fit to use. The potato
is peculiar in that it cannot be dug
until it is ripe Tor until the vines are
dead without carrying elements of
decay. However, potatoes are grown
the world over, and even in this state,
in sandy soil Gas in the Waupaca dis
tricD the tubers are reported in good
condition. The sand in the soil takes
care of the water. 1t will be a profit
able year for the potato growers of
the north
Speaking of Corn.
The corn crop will be fairly good
despite all rumors. Frosts have held
off, though here and there it has
touched the crops. 1t has been a very
unusual summer. Fortunately such
do not often come along.
Speaking of corn, the corn crop of
the world last year was supposed to be
about 2,50O,0OO,0OO bushels, of which
the United States produced fve-sixths.
The crop of this country, loaded in
wagons of fifty bushels each, would
form compact train 125,0O0 miles
long. 1t would girdle the earth five
wagons @breast. If in single file the
head of the procession would go five
times around the globe before it struck
the tail end.
Does Blood in Cattle Pay?
There is certainly profit in raising
blCoded stock if one can dispose Of
them to foreigners with lots of money.
In Jefferson county a Mexican turned
up recently with an interpreter, look
ing for HOlsteins He took James
Wilson of Fort Atkinson with him as
an expert and together they went to
Lake Mills, twelve miles distant, where
IT. " bought eighteen cows of William
Everson, six of them 2-year-old heifers,
which had not come in, for the nice
sum of $4,000, an average of $166.66
each. They then went to the farm of
f.. B. Fargo near by where they bought
eleven cows and two calves, one bull
and one a heifer less than a year old,
for $2,250, an average of $173 each
They next visited w. r. Gates of the
adjoining town of Oakland, and of him
obtained eight head-five cows, two
$3.50.
The Training of Soldiers.
The management of the national
guard hope to secure the services of
some active officer of the regular army
to p supervise and derect the military
drill of the. nearly 1000 soldiers of the
state. There are many applications,
especially of retired army officers,
but the idea is held that a younger
man on the active list is in closer
touch with modern ways Of doing
things, knows the rules and regula-
tons better, etc, than an older man,
but whose experience, of course, car
ries weight These positions are much
sought for. The present adjutant gen.
eral of the state, General Boardman,
is resident of Oshkosh. He has been
identified with the national guard since
graduating from the state university
nearly twenty years ago.
AT Last Pension Roll Under 100000.
But if anything Is clear ii is that the
veterans of the civil war hereafter
must come to their own through de-
ference and gratitude felt for them,
not because their numbers and In
f1uence compel IT. Wisconsin has
ceased to elect civil war veterans as
governors. Veterans Of the civil war
on the pension rolls are dying at the
rate Of ninety a day. Widows ON
pension rolls are dying at the rate of
twenty a day. The losses by death in
each Of the eighteen pension agencies
in the five months from January to
May, inclusive, have been greater than
the gains through the addition of new
names. For several years the pension
list has lowered about the million
mark. Some months it would be a
few hundred more and other months
a few hundred less, but it has at last