Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1902-04-08
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES


buying pure bred sires.
For "a country SO parculiarly adapted
for dairy purposes, the common run OF
stock is poor, but | know that an inn
provement has set in. In u very few
years the cattle will be on par with the
iine pastures they feed on.
Notwithstanding the scrub stock
and the fact that our farmers are
novices in the care of milk, the butter
from our creameries commands top
prices in the Elgin and Chicago markets
Ihave often heard the butter makers,
nearly all of whom are from Southern
Wisconsin, express their surprise at
the quality of the butter they turned
out 1t certainly is a high compliment
to our water and pastures. Before
leaving this subject | want to add that
there has never been anything approach
ing crop failure from drought.
Neither does Grass or clover winter kill.
A great deal has been written about
Northern Wisconsin and its wonderful
agricultural resources which IS untrue,
but don't think ever saw an article
which exaggerated the agricultural
resources of the great hardwood district
an article and apply it TO the whole
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tracts of poor sand land, covered with
scrub Norway and jack pine and its
large swamps, many of them covered
with stunted spruce as is frequently
done, is unfair to the people who are
induced to buy these lands and must
also fetard the settlement OF the good
land. While there is good land in all
the counties of Northern Wisconsin,,
there is nowhere in the state compact
territory of equal size with as much
good agricultural land as can be efnund
in the territory. | have defined as
Central Wisconsin.
For three years Marathon county
has taken exhibits 10 the State. Fair,
which have carried off first premium in
the county displays The first year the
allowance for distance enabled us to win
over the southern counties. Our score
was lower than i. should have been, be-
cause the parties IN charge were green
at the business aad were competed
with experienced exhibitors. The last
two years we haG the goods and we
took the money, beating both Wauke-
sha and Walworth COUNT, on the merits
of the exhibits, without any allowance
for distance.
The best and largest display of agri-
cultural product shown in the state of
Wisconsin, year for year, can be seen
at the Marathon county fair every fall
As a general rule, the further north
product can be successfully grown, the
better the flavor, and in this district
we successfully grow every product
which is grown in the state, except
grapes and tobacco, and if we tried |
think we would raise tobacco
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sent who think have painted the
too brightly. Ii so, | invite them to
visit the Marathon County fair. at Wau-
sau. on September ,, 3, and next,
where they-can see all the products |
have spoken of, fresh from the field,
instead of in the wilted condition in
which they hlve been shown at the
state fair, after ajourney of about 200
miles in a closed box car Ii YOU have
families of boys and want farms for
them, look this district 6.er at the same
time pick out farms for the boys In
this way your trip wi be not only in
structive bat profitable. If you cannot
make this trip, read what man of
some reputation in agricultural matters
says of this region;
The writer makes the prediction
that some day Northern Wisconsin will
rank as the foremost cheese district in
America, if not in the world No one
who has carefully studied the subject
and observed what has taken place IN
other countries, and what is occurring
in a small way, at present, in our new
north, will seriously deny this asser-
ton. The tine cheese districts of
Europe and American are not in the
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where the nights are co Il, the waters
pure and cold. and the srasses possess
high nutritious value. Such
regions as these are found in the
mountains of Switzerland and the cheese
districts of Canada aud Northern New
York and our lakeshore counties like
Sheboygan, Manitowoc, also Fond du
Lac, Ontagamie, etc. While Southern
Minnesota, Southern Wisconsin. North
ern Illinois and Iowa will remain the
great centers of butter production for
TINS country, these districts cannot hope
% compete with Northern Wisconsin
IN the quality of the cheese which may
be produced there, for the reason that
IN this great butter region the summer
days are hot and the water which the
cows must drink becomes quite warm;
these conditions shut this region out
iprsNeF from entering ln.0 serious COM
petition with eur new North in the
manufacture of cheese of the highest
grade Ii is not asserted, at this point,
tnat good cheese cannot be made IN
Southern Wisconsin and even in
Illinois; it is affirmed with emphasis
thaf Northern Wisconsin can and viii
SINE day produce enormous
amouuts of cheese. which, for quality
cannnt be equalied by that made
further south
The most nutritious of grasses. the
coolest IF waters and the temperate
sun of summer are ali nesesSary for the
production IF milk which shall go TO
make cheese carrying the purest
( fiarors. and Northern Wisconsin has all
of these in marked degree This ad-
apation TO the production of fine cheese
is heritage to this region from which
I it never can be parted Ii is as valua-
bic 10 cur New North as are the gold
mines 10 Csslos s6o, 0r the coal beds 10
1 Pennsylvania, and when Northern Wis
cousin shall have been occupied BY an
intelligent people and It's cheese indus
try properly developed there will be
millions Of dollars tlOw into this section,
each year. from the sales Of this pna