Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-08-08

and the training goes forward not only
at Lake Geneva in summer, but in
Chicago all the balance of the year.
So important is this work that already
a considerable proportion of Y. M. {.
A. workers have been trained in this
school.
1t is noteworthy that formerly there
was an idea that schooling initiated
against the spiritual life. The notion
was that education promoted worldli-
ness And yet now these Y. NJ. c. A
secretaries, the most evangelical of all
religious workers, are trained to their
labors. as machinists or dentists, are
trained.
What Kind of Cows for Milk?
Nothing will get up more heated
discussion even among friends than
the relative beef and dairy values of
different breeds of cows. Ex-Govern-
or Hoard conducts newspaper, the
Jefferson County Union, but it is his
"Dairyman" that goes the world over
which most engages him and nets the
best profit. In recent issue he lays
emphasis on the teaching that it is I'M
wise for a farmer to seek to combine
the raising of beef and the production
Of butter from the same cow. Dual
purpose breeding ideas end, finally, IN,
scrub cows, lessened profits at the pail,
and a down grade generally for the
dairy farmer" Ex-Governor Hoard
draws proof from this:
At Mondovi, Wis, are two creamery
patrons among many others, Mr.. JO-
seph Weller with a herd of twenty
| dual-purpose COWS, and they are con-
| sidered good ones at that. The other
| is herd of twenty registered and high
grade Jersey COWS, owned by Walter
L. Houser. The Mondovi Herald
states that for the month of June last,
| Mr.. Weller received from the creamery
a check for $91.43, for the earnings OF
his twenty dual-purpose cows, at the
pail. For the same month Mr.. HOus-
er received from the creamery for his
twenty special dairypurpose COWS, a
fraction over $4,000. The Houser'
herd received no grain; their sole food
was grass, the same as the Weller
herd. The difference in the earnings
of the two herds for the single month
Of June was $77.57.
| Potato Men Are Anticipative.
This is a noble state for growing
potatoes, and a plentiful. cheap, nu-
| tritious food crop it is. 1t is expected
that this year will be favorable. Con
ditions are right for the northern Wis
consin farmer who has gone exten-
siyely into the potato growing bust
ness. The Kansas floods and floods in
other regions should make prices
high The foods wiped out the best
potato fields to be found, especially in
the Kaw valley of Kansas, where the
food was great and potatoes are gen
orally grown in great quantities. Broad
mud flats were left without vestige
of a crop.
Reported Dead Forty Years Ago.
Not many of us have the dubious
pleasure of reading our own obituar-
les. During the civil war there were
experiences of this sort. Ex-Governor
u ham was reported dead and there
was considerable done toward burying
him. General Edward S. Bragg, now
representing us in Hong Kong, was
another. The ''sad news" as to Bragg
came in telegram coupled with the
| news of a like fate for Captain Mar
ston (now a resident of Appleton.) The
Appleton Crescent printed an obituary
notice 1t seems that in the battle Of
Antietam Captain Brown of Fond du
Lac was shot through the mouth and
instantly killed, while standing not
more than six feet from Lieutenant
Marston. Browns name was mixed
UP with Braggs. THE mistake" says
the Fond du Lac Crescent, continued
even to the day and hour of the ex-
pected arrival of Colonel Rragg's re-
mains at his home in Fond du Lac.
Mrs. Bragg, arrayed in widows
weeds, went to the train expecting to
meet the remains of her soldier hus-
band With her went the wife Of Cap
tain e. A. Brown. Then the kindly
Mrs. Brown, who had gone to the sta
ton with her friend as consider,
learned the awful truth and returned
| to her desolate home widowed
mourner, while Mrs. Bragg, who had
gone to the station a supposed be-
reaved woman, returned as a comfort
| ing friend. thanking God for soldier
still spared to her"
| War on the Saloon.
Ohio is fighting ground for the anti
saloon campaign, and one trained in
that field has been transferred to Wis
consin in Brooks Lawrence, member
of the league in the Toledo district.
He will soon take up the work, and in
the meantime DR.. Furbay is acting as
a forerunner. Dr. Henry Coleman has
recently resigned.
The anti-saloon league was started
some ten years ago. The Prohibitions
lists say it amounts to little or moth
ing, being prejudced because the
league takes hold of facts as they are.
The league is non-partisan. Its mem
bers still stand by the party of their