Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1902-02-03
Facts for Our Farmers.
FUTURE OF THE HORSE.

a dealer IN horses SAID TO me Inc
her day: Il don't know what We are
ing to do for horses. [ can't get
ough for my customers. I could use
good many more than l can procure.
IT native horses are all cleaned out,
what we do get are brought in
I'm the south or west. But the
>uble is, the south and the west are
ort. too. Horses must advance in
ice, and that right sharply, too"
And yet we are told that the United
ates has close to 100000 horses,
lued at perhaps $G00,O00000 Be
les the horses we have also some
ng like 100000 mules, worth $50
ch or representing q total of 1920
1000 Out of this total there are
lbabIy not more than 10000 young
rses really fit for the market.
It is easy to account for great
al of this scarcity from the fact
At there has been a sharp demand
cur horses from the British, who
We used them in the African war
e Germans have also used a good
my in China. while the Belgium
arllet has just taken ! 500 horses for
cir cavalry, paying for them an
erage of $3.50. In the year 1900
: exported about $4,000 horses, 4
in over 1898 Of more than 1000 per
nt. in seven years.
But it is not so easy to determine
lere the horses are coming from 10
ntinue this ratio Of increase much
niger, unless some of our farmers
m their attention to horse raising
he great west is entering upon u
Rod Of it's history when it will not
: content to devote it's time TO
azing, The immense ranches are
ing turned more and more into
rms. So that we must depend upon
en- for our supply of horses. At the
esent time good horse is worth in
CIV York $10O The price varies
)mewhat in other states, but it is not
nfair to say that the price in New
ork is representative to that ruling
sewhere.
The cost of raising colts on the
7erage farm is not great, and the
crease in value will no doubt be an
lcentive to many to do more in the
ERECTION of raising them than we
ave done for some time. While the
rice was low there was little money
/ it for the farmers of the east. The
est could Guido us in every way.
he time was when on almost every
I'm one might see a young colt.
hat time will soon come again, I
ink.-E. L. Vincent.
Cow peas.
So much has been written recon-
COW peas and other legumi-
rs crops that one who reads the
gricultural papers would expect to
9e them growing upon every farm,
ut in many sections where cow peas
'uld be proftably grown they have
Ot yet been introduced. People are
} used to depending upon the corn,
ats and wheat crops that they pay
1t little attention to anything else,
nd SO +hey run their land in these
ops until it is exhausted, and then
1dertake to remedy this by buying
fertilizer, or moving west
nd securing new land. The ones
lat depend upon commercial ferti-
ger are sure to make a failure of it
Mess they also take to raising some
guminOus crops Of these the COW
ca is one of the best, as it is a
aging crop, and only requires from
evenly to ninety days to mature.
OW peas may be so arranged as to
Ome in as a catch crop after wheat
r winter oats, and not interfere with
using other crops. Some recon-
end them to be sown in corn at last
but my experience is that if
lere is anything like a good crop of
lrn, the cow peas will not amount to
,uch in corn.
The cow pea if sown just after
heat harvest will make good crop
7 latter part of September, and will
clip keep up nitrogen supply in the
Ill. Last summer [ tried COW peas
the field with soy beans, and the
" peas proved to be much the
tier crop. The peas grew right
ong through drouth in July They
I'd rich, dark green color, and
emed to be very little affected by
g drought The soy beans were a
ry inferior crop. They did not de-
alOp tubercles on the roots to any
nsfderable extent, so they had to
epend upon the soil for nitrogen.
mis- was not the case with the COW
cas-. I think that the COW peas and
I'd clover are the best crops of the
guminOus class for this section.
he soy bean may be all right if the
oil is inOculated artificially with soy
can bacteria, but two years in sue
7ssion has failed to develop SOY
can bacteria in my soil to any con.
derable extent Tubercles gr)v
pom the roots of the cow pea all
ght, and Ii the land is not too weedy
ley will make good growth on very
lin land.-A. J. Legg, Albion, w. Va