The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1902-03-28
Farms and Farmer Boys.

Jl1S cause. Bullotn NO. VI SHOWS CnaC
at q cost Of 1 cent. q bushel by using
a gas generated from wood alcohol the
seed can be made right
The dairy school will conduct a ten
weeks session this summer for begin
Aers. They will assist in making but
ter and pastuerizing milk and cream
for from 1000 to 10000 pounds of milk
are received daily from 100 farms at
yhe university. The students will also
work in the machine shops, learning to
put UP creamery engines, tit pipe, lace
belts, solder tin, work refrigerating
plants, etc. When young man finds
himself in charge of a creamery, eight
miles from a blacksmith shop, it comes
handy to know how to do these things.
For this course fee of but $40 is
charged.
Beet Sugar Sentiment.
Now that Cuba is likely to get from
congress some recognition, the debate
as to the rights of the island and the
profits Of the United States is some
what abated. With but one beet sugar
factory Wisconsin has never been so
excited as to this matter as Michigan,
with twelve factories, although the to-
baccO growers have met in convention
and declared themselves Neyerthe-
less Professor Henry and other high
agricultural experts feel strongly that
the American beet sugar industry
should be protected to the fullest ex~
tent, and they point to the story of tin
plate. 1t makes an attractive picture
some twenty beet sugar factories at
100000 each working in the towns of
Wisconsin. Especially is this so as
sugar beets are a wholesome product
TO raise, working in nicely with the
dairy business and not degenerating on
soil and population as tobacco raising
is. The Minnesota Sugar company paid
to the farmers Of Minnesota during the
campaign Of 1907 $780, for beets
alone. The company pays $3.50 per
ton net for beets, and 80 cents towards
freight One farmer is reported to
have received $304.9S net (seed. etc,
deducted) from five acres. Two others
from forty acres received $2OG5~
$4,000 Builds a Cannery.
Another industry that all can aD-
prove is canning. Plants are multiply
ing over the state. n plant of this ma
ture costs about $4,000 complete. 1t
furnishes almost steady employment
for thirty women and fifteen men. It
makes an acre of land worth $40 to 500
in the garden truck which it purchases,
not to speak of the husks and vines
which ARE returned for the most eX-
cellent fodder known for COWS. Wis
cOnsin peas, tomatoes and corn are now
recognized as the staple article in ey-
cry market. The surrounding farmers
own the plant and share in it's profits,
besides reaping the profits derived
from producing the raw material
which it consumes. The Cannery Pro-
ducer, published at Waterloo, Wis. is
devoted TO Il discussion of the details.
Winter Clam Fishing on Mississippi
Clam fishing through the ice is car
ried on III the upper Mississippi river.
The outfit which the clammers use CON
sists OF pole some twenty-five feet
long, with a scoop shovel fastened at
one end. a hole is cut through the
ice and this pole with the SCOOP at
tached shoEed through to the bottom of
the river. 1t is let down in nearly a
vertical position, then showed careful
ly up stream, approaching more near
IS horizontal position the While. When
there is evidence that the SCOOP is
filled with CLAIMS. the pole is brought
still further into horizontal position.
as much as the hole in the ice will per-
init, and then it is drawn back out of
the water and the CLAIMS are brought
to the surface. Away down the river
ia Arkansas the colored people have
been claiming merely for the sake of
Sc ton, which clammerS on the up-
per river would consider too small q
1t is estimated that dur |
ing the year just closed not less than |
$500 tons of clam shells were taken |
from the Mississippi river between
Debuque and Red Wing, Mimi, which !
We're sold to button factories for $751; |
600. The freight charges for trans
porting the shells amounted to $13,-
900. In addition TO this $4,000 was
paid to pearl hunters for specimens. |
ORLANDO BURNETT.