Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1901-08-27
SOME CROP
STATISTICS.

quiries the following points sent five farmers
in each town in the county. Replies received from
forty-six farmers
HAY.-In 1900 they had total of ,025 of hay
from which they cut 1735 tons of hay, average OF
3400 pounds per This year. 1901 the farmers
from O7O acres 767 tons $500 pounds per
The above figures are based on first crop only.
OATS.-ln 1900 these same farmers had 7l8 acres OF
oats, from which they threshed 30264 bushels 42
bushel per In 1901, from 84 acres, they have
80, bushels, or 40 TO the acre.
RYE-Only a few reported on rye In 1900 the
average q bushels per In 1901 II bushels per
BARLEY.-In 1900, $3.50 bushels from 112 acres, or
3l.8 bushels per This year 1868 bushels off 130
acres an average of 33 8 per acre.
WINTER WHEAT omitted from questions asked
but few farmers gave their yield an average in 1900
q bushels per acre. and this year 35 bushels.
PEAS go about 30 bushels per
Robt. Freeman, of the town of Emmett, writes that
he has three of Satcheys Billion Dollar grass which
will go four tons to the acre. and four Of met
which will cut p tons per acre.
Asked how their crops for these two years compare
with the few years previous these farmers replied as fol-
lows:
much BETTER Twentone sold no timber products last
year. the other twenty three sold $8 461 worth of logs
bark, pulpwood cordwood and ties
They report the character of their land as follows
Clay II; clay loan, A. clay with some rock, 10; clay
with plenty of rock a clay with some sand B. oam
Hay oats barley winter wheat and corn are reported
as the best crops but Marathon county farmers are op
msts, and number report all good. One with six
teen children says they are his best crop.
CONCLUSION. We have thus made a careful and
conservative statement of facts for
investigation of the homeseeker We invite him to Mar
athon County investigate these facts for himself He
need only spend part of the county to verify
by personal observation and inquiry of residents the
rectness of what set forth in this pamphlet Marathon
County essentially poor mans country The settler
here with very little capital and purchase
tract of wild land time at low rate of interest and in
few years has large clearing and good home and be
able from the beginning to make living He need not
fear bzzards drought grasshopperS He can be very
certain that what he plants he will reap in abundant
In the winter time when farmers the pra
rie have little to do except twist hay bands for fuel
the Marathon County settler be at work getting out
find work in the nearby lumber camps mills at
good wages. He can build himself a and comforta-
bic house of logs that will cost but little and will last him
for many years. If he is tract of wild land his
stock can until the settlement of the makes
this undesirable The best proof of the prosperity that
will come to settler of Marathon County found in the
splendid farms and farm buildings in the older settled
parts of the county. These farms and farm improve
ments will compare favoraby with those in any part of
the country It is true that clearing the soil of the tim
Der and preparing it for crops hard work. but the
results amply repay this toll. We make the assertion
that in and year out Marathon County farms will
produce heavier and better average of farm crops than
any land in Illinois, Iowa Southern Minnesota. There
has been crop failure of any of the staple crops
in Marathon County. There has been a drought
that destroyed crops. There has been a winter
when the grass and winter grain killed No resident
of Marathon County has ever been lost in blizzard. No
Marathon County farmer has been compelled to sell
his stock because of lack OF water grass.
l.. X. WRIGHT, Wausau,
ERNST Koch, Merrill,
MAT MESS Marathon,
Commissioners