Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1901-12-12

long freezing to get the ground and
falls frozen through. After it is once
frozen through the cold is then ready
to commence on the potatoes. A lit
tie straw or manure put on the ground
outside the cellar wall before hard
freezing, will do great deal toward
protection. This ought to he done
before the ground freezes, but after
wards will be of much benefit Double
glass in the cellar windows is a great
help. Straw or straw manure filled in
against the outside of the cellar win
dows will help, also tarred paper
nailed over the outside of the win
dows will be effective. Blankets, old
carpets or straw put over the bins
containing potatoes will often save the
seed. A lighted lamp or lantern set
I'm the potato bin will keep the temper
ature up several degrees. This need
not be done only on the coolest nights.
A coat of strawy horse manure makes
the best covering for outside pits.
This can be put on any time in Janu-
airy or February. Ii will keep the po-
tatoes from freezing and also from
thawing out so soon in the spring.
thus making a cold storage of the pit
and keeping them from sprouting so
soon when warm weather comes.
i Keeping them from sprouting rs one
of the essential things TO successful
potato growing. One likes to have
them sprouted enough TO see the eyes
well when cutting times comes, but
not so much that they will get broken
new effort in the potato to start out a
new sprout, and so much vitality is
gone. There is always good deal
depending on good healthy seed of any
kind. But one sometimes thinks that
this applies to potatoes little strong
er than many other seeds. Don't
plant poor variety because you hap
pen to have them. There is no excuse
In these days for man to have a
poor variety. There are so many
good kind in every neighborhood, and
few cents worth of seed will grow
such lot of good ones. Don't plant
rough variety even If the quality is
good and yield well. Better plant a
good quality smooth variety even If
the yield is less. No farmer can afford
10 plant a poor variety of anything
| just because you get more bushels If
you have to eat it yourselff, But II
1t is for the other fellow to eat, and he
is satisfied with it, make your peace
with the Lord and then plant IL.
Beet Pulp for Dairy Cows.
The following remarks of Secretary
of Agriculture Wilson, at the meeting
of Clear Lake Iowa) Beet Sugar
Growers association, bear forcefuly
upon the subject of the value of beet
pulp as a food for dairy cows:
THE most profit from growing
beets will be had by the neighborhood
that feeds the by-products or pulp to
the dairy ccw. We grow beets anG
others roots at Ames so as to have
something of that kind to give to all
the animals on the place in winter
time. Europeans who have had ex-
J perience, feed this by-product to every
animal or the place. The managers
of the Agriculture college of Iowa,
where the finest animals in the
United States are found, and where
I the best beef, mutton and pork ever
taken to Chicago are finished find, it
necessary to have roots; and | have
nc hesitation in saying that the Iowa
farmer can afford to grow roots for
| his animals, no natter how cheaply
he can get other feeds. The Iowa
former can afford to grow sugar beets
for the pulp alone. The carbonaceous
matter that goes to make the sugar is
OF no value to the dairy COW, whic''
has all the carbonaceous matter she
requires from her hay and corn and
other carbonaceus feeds. This pulp
is necessity in the finishing of our
hne steers.
I'VE have come to the time wher
we must keep an eye On the South
Amrican republics. The Argentine
Confederation has learned to grow
alfalfa, and is sending very fat grass
fed animals to the European markets
We must send something better than
they possibly can produce; we must
finish animals young and finish them
completely and put such a product on
| the market as the South American
I cannot compete with. Well informed
dairymen are aware that the dairy
COW must have a highly heterogeneous
ration in order to do her best work
For this reason the by-products of the
mills are purchased-bran, oil-meaI
etc. When the sugar content has
been removed from the beet, the
heterogeneous element is left in the
pulp, and the nutritive ratio is re-
duced TO something like the nutritlve
ratio OF oats. which makes very
valuable feature in the ration OF
dairy COW. The neighborhood pro
'uci1g sugar and butter and sending
these things into thu worlds markets
will never reduce the fertility Of the
soil for the pulp is returned TO the
fields through the domestic animals
And this is quite an importan con
alteration, when we are thinking OF
introducing new crops We are ad.
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