The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1904-04-08

and PianoIa company, with it's
twelve plants. $9.500,000 stock, etc.
The Allis- Chalmers company carries
four plants, including tne Allis works
at Milwaukee: market value of its
$50. 100000 capital is S10,600,0O0. The
..tin cam trust is one of the biggest.
In this T. A Walsh & Co. OF Mil
waukee appears. This trust took over
123 plants, all but eghtythree of
The American Grass Irvine company
has eight plants, including Oshkosh
and Superior plants; this trust has had
trouble (as many have and its $13,-
0S3,000 in stock issued has market
value of 100000. The upper leather
trust" includes William Becker Leath-
er company of Milwaukee; and G.. T..
ROenitZ company, of Sheboygan. The
school furniture trust has twenty-five
plants. including Racine concern
The Great Lakes Shipbuilding trust
has the Milwaukee Dry Dock COM
pany. and American Steel Barge COM
pany, of West Superior. The writing
paper trust includes among it's thir-
ty-one plants ShattucHy BabcOca com
pany, of DePere. The Diamond Match
company (ts $15,0OO.000 above par
includes the Green Bay and Oshkosh
plants. The General Electric includes
the Northern Electric company III its
enormous business the market value
Of the securities being $50 1000, 00O).
The harvester trust $120,0C0000 capt.
tai issued) includes the Milwaukee
Harvester company. The General
Paper company includes a number of
Wisconsin mills which make news
paper print The stamped ware trust
includes Kieckhefer Bros company,
among it's thirteen plants. and S10,-
100000 market value stock. The
Standard Milling company has Duluth
and Milwaukee mills and its 5 per
cent bonds are worth only 10 The
plumbing supply trust includes ]. j.
Vollrath Manufacturing company, Of
ShebOygan.
Concentrated Food, Animals,
The average farmer will buy any
thing that smells bad, when he is in
the market for fertilizer; so in buying
concentrated food stuff he is easily
caught by a mixture Of worthless ma
terial, such as ground corn cob, cot
ton seed or oat bulls. So the state
steps in to protect him. The WiscOn-
sin feeding stuffs law went into eff
feet in January, 1902, and In accord
ance with the law thirtyfour manu-
features or dealers have taken out
licenses for the sale of fifty-eight diff
ferent brands of concentrated feed
stuffs. for the year ending Dec. 81.
1908. Of the constituent parts, water
is not desired mot necessary and is
apt to urn the other elements raucid).
There is about 10 per cent. of water
in nearly all foods. The fat is good.
The protein is the most important and
the most COSTLY 1t can be used for
producing fat or heat in the animal
body, as Well as building up the an
imal tissues. as blood. tendOns, cartil-
age. skin, hair, bones, milk. casein, etc.
The richest protein feeds in the Wis
cOnsin market are cotton seed meal
(abOut 43 per cent. prOtein1 gluten
meal (3S per cent proteim, oil meal
1926 per cent protein) brewers grains,
malt sprouts, and flour mill by-prod
Gcts 05-25 per cent. protein The
likeness of State Senator Wylie ac-
companies this letter. He is one Of
the best known agriculturiSts in the
state, prominent in the state fair man
agement, an authority on pigs and
right good fellow
Gardeners Rand Together.
Frederic Cranefield, the new secre-
tary of the state and Madison hOrti-
cultural societies, comes near filling
the place in the affections of fruit
growers left vacant by the death Of
the beloved Golf. Like the latter,
Cranefield is an active religious and
temperance worker, and he has real
enthusiasm for fruits, vegetables and
flowers. and all that pertains to them.
In 1852 band of enthusiastic fruit
growers met at Whitewater and or
ganized the Wisconsin Fruit Growers
association This society held success
full annual exhibitions until 1862. In
1865 the assOcia ton met and re-Or-
ganized taking the name of The Wis
consin State Horticultural society.
From that year until the present the
society has held annual or semi-an-
nual meetings. The early reports Of
the w. It, q. A. show that these
pioneers had planted all manner of
fruits, even ounces. Later, in the
early seventies, the fierce Wisconsin
winters swept away ali the tender
fruits. The stOut-hearted ones said
IF we cannot grow the Pippin and
the Bellfleuer we will produce varieties
that will grow" and they set about do
ing it. At the present time four trial
orchards a sc being operated. Write to
Professor Frederick Cranefield and
send him ST subscription if you are
interested.
In the Lead Districts.
There is. revival of interest in the
mining of lead and zinc in southwest
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