Morris tribune., 1889-08-28
Thoughts Suggested to a Wis
consin Dairyman by a Ride
Through Stevens County.

COnSln DalfyHndii ny q niaS
Through Stevens County.
Thought No. l. That IL / had al
income equal to the annual waste
caused by the exposure of farm ma
chinery to the weather, would In
few years be millionaire. saw
hundreds of plows, harrows, seeders
mowers. rakes and binders standing
! where last used, with no other shelter
than heavens broad blue canopy.
Thought No. 2 was, what a grand
county for dairying, and how little
appreciated. The only creamery ]
saw was at Morris, the county seat,
and that was idle.
Farmers of Stevens county, do you
realize that the fertility of the soil is
your bank account, and that you,
with the best dairy county in the
state, and none better in the world,
are selling this fertility by the bushel
in every load of wheat you haul to
market, when by keeping cattle,
hogs aud sheep, you can sell the
product of your farms in the shape OF
butter, beef, pork, mutton and wool,
thus realizing more money, and at
the same time increasing the fertility
of your land, thereby adding each
year to your bank account by the de-
posits of fertility obtained from ami
NAL farming.
You ask, "what is there in Stevens
county that makes it the best of loca.
tions. for dairyIng?" I will tell you.
First, there is an abundant supply of
pure cold water. Milk is IS per cent.
water. So you see it's pure lakes and
rivers are no small factor in the dairy
business. Then there are thousands
of acres of the best pasture in the
world going to waste every year. But
you say, "wild pastures will soon run
out" If so, let them go, for there is
what is far better, II soil and climate.
perfectly adapted to the tame grasses,
with which the pastures can be re-:
newed without turning a sod. 1t is
also we'll adapted to the clovers, corn
and oats, and with soil so produce
tive, and the use Of the silo you can
keep stock cheaper and better than
you can cut the wild hay, even though
you cut 1t Oh railroad lands where the;
cost is only the cutting, stacking and
hauling.
In Wisconsin, where the soil is not
equal in it's fertility and produc-
tiveness, we grow 20 tons of ensiIage
corn to the acre. This, when in the
silo, costs so cents per ton: one and a
half tons is of as much value rs a ton
of the best wild hay. Corn, for this
purpose, is sure crop, and your land
that under the most favorable cir
produces 20 bushel OIL
wheat to the acre will, under very
much less favorable circumstances
produce from 20 to 25 tons of fodder
corn per acre, and draw much less on i
the soil.
l never saw better crops of clover Il
and timothy than in Stevens county.
The farmers of Orange county, New /
Y ork, the Western Reserve of Ohio, Z
he much talked Of Elgin district OF
illinois, the counties of Rock, Dane, h,
WalWorth, Milwaukee and Racine, IL
Wisconsin, have all become rich iii \.
,he dairy business, with far less
latural advantages than those offered I
~ Stevens county. It costs no more.El
@ provide warm winter quarters forj
stock here than in the above mentioned
places. There land is worth from $50 |
% 500 per acre, while here it is only i.
10. Add to this it's easy access east
md west to the best markets of the
world, and what better place can be
ound by those who wish to engage
II dairy farming? Climate, soil, /
water, location and transportation
all of the best, what better
IAN be asked for? And Stevens
county has them all. /
AoFc USeu SttSL W NEW DIX, 4
south to the Gulf, and west to the
Pacific coast, but have seen no place
better, and but few as well, adapted
% dairying and stock business as this
beautiful county. 1t has never been
ny lot to meet more brainy, we'll
educated and intelligent lot of farm
RS than those of Stevens county, yet
What are they doing? Following the
I'D wheat rut that has cursed every
tate in the northwest. Stop and
hink; use your brains. Do not rob
his beautiful county of it's fertility,
hus leaving to your children impov-
'rished farms covered with mort
cages, Use your farms for the pur- /
BOSE God intended them, and become
larry and stock farmers.
A. T. FOSTER.
Sparta, Wis.
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