Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1909-11-17

No. of weeks board furnished inmates
OF Home $50 81
Fruit preserved during year:Apples canned
200 quarts apples picked 10 quarts; cherries
canned 20 quarts; current jam 80 quarts; cur
rant Jelly AZ quarts; gOoseberries canned 90
quarts; gooseberries, jelly 10 quarts; pie plant
canned 104 quarts; tomatoes canned $50 quarts
plums canned % QUARTS plums Jelly 10 quarts;
Strawberries canned go quarts; Strawberry jam
10 quarts; peaches so quarts; klackberries ia
quarts; corn canned 2S8 OTIS; corn salad 612 gal.
chile sauce 10 GAL; catsup GA quarts; red beets,
canned 46 quarts; carrots "a quarts; grapes 119
gal. tomatoes preserved so gal; beans picked
48 gal. beans in brine IA gall; grape jam gals
mixed pickles 2719 gall; cucumbers 243 gal;
pccalill 30 GAL; chopped pickles 16 GAL; water
melons preserved 2215 GAL; jelly glasses GA; chow
chow so GAL; string beans 81 gal; beans in brine
200 GAL; dry corn one barrel after dried Total
6,961 quarts. LIZ
Products of Farm etc: Apples green 10 bu.;
beets, table, 120 bu.; beets, com mangie, 30 bu.;
beans, string, % bu.; carrots l2O bu; cabbage age
heads; onions 120 bu.; peas 25 bu.; parsnips 12O
bu.; potatoes 1896 bu.; turnips lis bu.; rutabag-
goes 20 bu.; hay 300 tons; oats 2O20 bu.; barley
SAL bu. corn 5000 bu.; milk - lbs; eggs 1924
d.; butter made and used 4439 lbs; soft soap
made and used S613 bb.; have made hard soap
AS lbs; amount of stock slaughtered and used:
No. beeves IL dressed 1880 lbs; hogs A dressed
954O lbs; so chickens 27O lbs; geese 40 lbs;
2 turkeys Is lbs: srsA
We have had 496 visitors during theHIast year
Live Stock on hand June Both 1909: Mich
cows At; steers and heifers two years old "a;
steers and heifers one year old %; calves &c;
bull l; hogs, stock 55 brood sows %; fattening
Is; pigs 1885, sheep, old 60; lambs Sc; horses:
Driving horses 2, work horses IL; chickens $50;
ducks 8; geese z; turkeys 5.
Articles made in sewing room: aprons -;
aprons cook 139; chemise 20; CLOTH table 10;
curtains 43; dresses so; drawers wOmens, "a;
nightgowns 10; pillow cases 333; pillow shams II;
restraint strings Is; sheets patients, employees
2l1: shirts, mems top, 81 shirtwasts %; skirts,
women's under z; skirts, womens H. candy sacks
for Christmas IT'S; roller towels, hand and tea
towels 2O4; bed ticks 10; women's under waists
10; pieces mended 1884; napkins "a; union suits 2.
Cost per week for each inmate S164.
At this rate there is chargeable to the county
and towns cities and villages So 5O0.99.
We wish to express our thanks tosyou for your
courtesies and liberal support inxhandling the
affairs of the institution.
June 30, marks the close of our first year and
has indeed been a pleasant and prosperous one.
Favored with good weather our crops and garden
stuffs were abundant. The patients have en-
joyed good health and unusual contentment of
mind, which is most gratifying, making us feel
that our efforts in soliciting to their comfort have
not been in vain.
We thank DR.. S. E. Hassell for his faithful at
tention to the physical welfare of the patients;
our attendants for their careful obedience to
their duties, and all others for their kind minis
trations in visiting these unfortunates for reading
matter, ETC., and especially neighbors for as