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


nsh cash market for the farmers timber products
There ready cash market for farm products at the
cities and villages along the railroads
DAIRY AND Marathon County is great
CTOCK DATeIn1r- grass country intended by
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ing. While of the pine has cut and heavy in
roads have been made upon its vast hardwood forest
there ample supply left for fuel and all farming pur
poses for many years For many years the farmers
Marathon County raised the staple crops of hay and
which found ready market in the logging camps. The
inexhaustibe fertility of the soil allowed this constant
cropping without any returns being made the soil in
the way of fertilizers In years the farmers of
Marathon County have commenced realize that they
had the greatest grazing and dairy country in the
Consequently the development of dairy and stock raising
has been rapid Droughts resulting in crop failure
unknown. During the years 1900 and 1901 while
parts of the state suffered greatly from drought Mara
thon County crops up the average The
for this that the rain fall is evenly distributed
through the because of the location of the county
in the midst of the great timber belt of Northern Wscon
sin The nights cooler than in Southern Wisconsin,
and this is conducive to the proper maturity of farm
crops The rock strata underlying the SOIL and the
acter of SOIL such that it retains moisture sufficient for
the growth of crops in the very dest time of the
The pastures of Marathon County green and fresh
when those of less favorable parts of the state scared
and brown
CROPS The best crops hay and OATS rye and
barley following Wheat yields well but
is SOFT unless hard western seed and the seed
changed every second year This possibly owing to the
fact that there is not much lime in the soil there
in the great wheat growing sections of the country
Peas BEANS potatoes and all vegetables produced in
great abundance Flint is successfully grown in all
parts of the county In recent years dent has been
a successful crop, and the country clears up will
doubt become of the staple crops of the county All
kinds of small fruits grow abundanty All hedgerows,
pastures and waste lands covered with wild raspber
berries and backberres In years apple orchards
have been planted and it is found that the finest apples
of the hardy kinds be raised here The cherry grows
wild in the woods and the early Richmond has proved to
be a hardy and productive variety for planting.
The State Experimental Orchard is established near
Wausau and the hardy varieties of apple grown
in this orchard and do we'll
Among the minor industries of the county is that of
bee raising There hundreds of of bees some
apiares having from fifty to hundred swarms The
basswood white clover reweed and other plants furnish
abundance of bee pasture. Bees wintered very
successfully out of doors One fact emphasized
that rye winter wheat and grass winter kills in
Marathon County The highways and pastures are car
peted each with white clover and the grasses such
timothy, redtop and red clover grow spona aneousy
along all the old logging roads, many parts of the
uncultivated lands.