Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-03-23
Hind People Not Forgotten.

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Jones will make the address ut the
March dinner.
Blind People Not Forgotten.
Not many are blind, but those few
who are merit full commiseration. 1t
is pleasant to think that they are NOT
forgotten. Last years legislature an-
thorized the establishment Of a work
shop, in which blind persons might be
instructed in some trade and EMPLOYED
at some suitable work, they to receive
the margin between the cost OF mater
ial and the price of the manufactured
article. The board of control selected
a place in Milwaukee, appointed u
manager and instructor. provided tools
and furniture and already has eighteen
blind persons employed in making
baskets, doll carriages, slippers, MAX
ing and repairing mattresses and re-
Gaming chairs. The earnings during
the first two or three months, while
tearing the trade, are of course, very
small. Until the person becomes
efficient he lis supplied with funds to
pay board, lodging and other neces-
sary expenses about 81 per week.
Farmers Interested.
The farmers who attended the course
for ''grownups" at the III iversity were
much pleased. There was lecture
every morning followed by observa-
tons as to the breed and character
istics Of horses, cows, sheep and hogs
On one occasion there was post
mortem of horse and at another time
the examination of cow which had
suffered with tuberculosis for about
about eighteen months. A steer with
the same disease was also examined
Lectures were given each morning.
Professor Henry thought that not
more than twenty-five of forty would
attend but no. representing forty-two
counties of Wisconsin, took advantage
Of the lectures. The cranberry grow
ers of Wisconsin are anxious for the
university people to exploit that in
dustry by an experiment station in the
field, etc. 1t is a very profita BILE crop
and already this state ranks about
eighth in the Union Some Of the
counties, as Burnett, believe they have
the soil and the water to beat the
world is raising the red berry.
Line of Least Resistance.
1t is wise community that finds
wherein nature has endowed it. and
then expends its energies in that di-
rection. Many a city enjoys national
reputation and great wealth because
it has picked up one seemingly unim-
portant industry and hammered on
that line Thus, Kalamazoo in celery.
Outa game county realized hundreds
of thousands of dollars from it's cab
bage crop last fall. Owing to the fail
ure of the crop in the east exorbitant
prices have been the rule, the best
quality commanding $55 ton. Last
year with an overproduction the prices
ranged from 81 to Sc ton. The d.
w. Dean company of Appleton bough
up 700 tons with which it filed it's cold
storage building. The firm sold it's
first shipment at $50 ton and some
of the latter ones at $50. 1T has al
ready cleaned up in the neighborhood
of $4,000 on the deal One of the
heaviest crops of the county was
raised by George Downer, superin-
tendent of the county insane asylum
Those Cut-Over Lands.
Accounts from Grand Rapids in the
Lacrosse Chronicle represent that
Wyoming sheep were brought to Wood
county, pastured for time on cut
over lands and sold at a profit of So
head. The Superior Telegram COM
ments that the north country is to be-
come an empire of wealth; that the
emigration to Canada northwest is not
warranted while the rich fields at
home are not availed of. 1t urges the
papers to impress steadily the great
cut-over lands. Editor Nieman of The
Milwaukee Journal, and a prominent
lawyer Of Appleton, some twelve years
ago, spent some time after trout about
KittOn. North of that station they
came on cut and burned over tract
Of 1000 acres or more, covered with
rich clover and grasses, free of brush,
hay marsh adjacent and we'll watered.
It's availability for pasturing sheep
and cattle was discussed and the facts
now revealed were foreseen. Any
one can invest in state lands, to
limited extent. Madison man
bought forty acres the other day at ST
an acre. He paid So down to the state
treasurer, and the balance will be due
later. 1t is not necessary to live on
it. Any citizen may buy up to the
amount of 100 acres. The state has
considerable to sell at appra isedI value.
Think of Gods green earth at 81 an
acre-think of tract as big as Cap
itol Park for S13. Of course it is
big world and there is lots of land,
but in Wisconsin there is no risk in
buying it at such a price and putting
it in a tin trunk. You may have to
wait forty-four years but (money at
6 per compounded doubles in eleven
years. even at that remote period il