Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1915-11-17

The state board of health states that
% to 40 per cent of all the blindness
in the state is due to infantile blind
ness and that the inflammation of the
eyes at birth, known as Opthalmis
neonatorum, can be prevented at a
cost of two cents and two minutes
time if done at the child's birth. I'm
measurable suffering and sorrow
throughout life aside from the annual
cost of $4,000 for care of blind child
rem will to large extent be avoided.
The state provides $1,000 annually for
silver nitrate so that all physicians,
nurses and midwives can be supplied
free OF charge. Blindness rarely oc-
ours if the eyes are properly treated
in the beginning.
The university took farm has pur-
chased the 3-year-old Percheron stall
lion, known as Principal for $1,000.
This horse was owned by w. L. Hous-
er of MOndOvia. The sale was made
at the stock pavilion in Madison last
week when Al animals were entered
and 80 sold. The prices obtained were
low, averaging about 1882. Dane coun-
ty now stands second to Grant county
in the number of pure bred sires, hav
ing 76, while Grant county has "a. The
Dane County Horse Breeders associa-
ton organized several years ago is
said to be the leading factor in horse
breeding Improvement in that county.
DR.. Alexander of the department of
rY.i0
of the sires in the state are now pure
bred where in 1907, IS per cent were
grades and scrubs.
A new worlds champion, Duchess
Skylark Ormsby, a Holstein Friesian,
now holds the worlds championship
for butter production formerly held
by Finderne Pride Johanna Rue. This
COW was tested on a farm near the city
of Minneapolis, Mimi, under supervis-
ion of fourteen experts from the Wis
consin and Minnesota experimental
stations. She produced a total of l.,
205.091 pounds of butter fat; gave
27,091 pounds Of milk in the year;
gave 558.1 pounds of milk and 34.36
pounds of butter in seven days; main
tanned an average of butter fat record
of 4.23 per cent; ate less than twenty
pounds of grain day; consumed only
grains within practical reach of every
dairyman, and remained in perfect
health throughout test period. The re-
suit of the tests was given out last
week.
| Benton Mackaye of the United States
! Forestry service, who has recently
been comforting with the state con-
servation commission, has stated that
the best and quickest way for opening
up northern Wisconsin is through the
community plan. Said Mr.. Mackeye:
"By this 1 mean that the communi-
| ty and not the farm should be the unit
of development. Heretofore it has al
ways been the single farm that has
been opened up. Instead, however,
development should include not one
but group of farms.
Each community should have as its
center some shipping point on the rail
road, the country round about for
three or four miles to constitute the
community area. AlI0T IuOIOuSu
land and timber survey has been made
system of roads should be laid out.
The farms would adjoin the roads and
wide strips along the roads should
first be cleared. Some form of coop
erative agency should be arranged For
at the shipping point for selling farm
products. A community thus equipped
would be ready for settlers. The set
tier would of course pay for the land
plus a proportionate amount for the
improvements. He should be given a
long series of years to pay off his debt.
Where the state is not able to super
wise such plan the next best thing is
to help the settler so that he can make
go of his farm. | am now studying
out a plan whereby it will be made
possible for the settler to sell the short
timber from the cut-over land"