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IIRattle Snake Cure 1880; Toad, ChickenWc recount here a little exper- awoke with her injury fairly well icnce in which one of our es-• under control, teemed pioneer Indies, Mrs. Mary , Mrs. Schuetz who is 81 years Schuetz, was featured as the M mw. does not know just M principal in the ease_a case . rerncrly to attribute to the savinjr which no doubt set medical his- or her life, the chicken, the toadlory on Us car.( We pass it along for. our Con-11 tennial edition readers:Mary Yearling (Schuetz) wits f a little girl of seven years and ' | walking home from country 1 | school (two miles east of N e w I Hampton) she accidentally stepped on a rattlesnake which bit her. Her brother, L. H. Yearling, and other school companions, made a “hand chair” and carried her to the home ot her parents, the Phillly Yearlings, who lived on the. south side of the road, directly across from the old An-nell place. (Incidentally, t h c i Yearlings were one of the first j families to settle in that com-(rnunily). ..| Leaving his little sister with her mother, the brother walked-io New Hampton to tell his father of the terrible plight which had befallen Mary. The father op-f crated a small lunch room and he Immediately contacted Dr. Byers who advised a bottle nf whiskey ho sent home. The patient was to use the intoxicant until she was completely “out”- and the doctor also said a tourniquet be employed, moving it as the swelling progressed.in the meantime a vagrant chanced by, and hearing the commotion in the farm yard, offeror the whiskey. Maybe a combination!Chickasaw County FarmBureau...cri his “cure.” Cut a live chicken in two parts and place the foot in it. No sooner said than done. When the chicken was removed it was a vivid green!Then the neighbors came to the' rescue and offered their advise.: Pul the foot in n pail of fre3h milk and insert one Jive toad. The loud went directly to the bite, sucked it, and immediately tunir ed up his toes. He was n goner.Eventually the spirits arrived and wul’e administered as per or-At the start of Chickasaw County history, farming had changed HUb and the first settlers were not what we think of as farmers today. They settled mostly where Ihere was timber. Boads then l '••ent the easiest way which was far from the straight one.Many of the first settlers were net farmers, but Worked in the Wisconsin woods winters and summers would work in the hay and harvest fields for those neighbors who did farm as there was quite a lot of help needed even on llis small acreage of grain when it was cut with a scythe or cradle and threshed with a flail, and hny cut the same way.A farmer’s machinery then was generally/ a plow and a Scotch harrow sometimes home-made, consisting of an oak frame with heavy iron pegs or teeth to loosen the soil which was not too easy in the old prairie sod. In those dgys corn was planted by chop-pfag a hole in ;he sod'with an :uxc and dropping in a handful of ssed—I hen hope for the hfcst. Hut suon came belter machinery, first the self-rake, binder and then ihe combine.With the advance in soil tillage machinery and Hybrid seeds, there was the same kind of 1m-— -------------------- -i— ..-.t ..... ki-iu vi under. The little girl slept lor ‘.wo I provemont in the breeding and days, .with the tourniqueton and * fotrc of livestock.
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Alta Vistan
Alta Vista, Iowa, US
Thu, Jun 30, 1955
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