Ladysmith news. [volume] (Ladysmith, Wis.) 1906-1907, 1907-01-05

All of the states in the above list,
with the exception of Missouri and
Minnesota, may be called purely agri-
cultural states, and Wisconsin leads
5Oth of these states in the amount of
capital invested and the number OF
wage earners employed in manufacture
ing enterprises. This is one Of the
reasons why the showing made by
Wisconsin in the above table is better
han that of any other state. Another
reason will be found in the table given
n the commissioners report which
Groves that in production per acre
Wisconsin also stands high in the rec.
ord made.
But in comparison with the North
western grain states Wisconsin has an
.ther advantage by reason of the home
market for everything that can BE-
raised on the farm and particularly
ecause CT the enormous growth Of the
airy industry The new Wisconsin,
II the section where cheap lands are
0 be found that may be turned into
fruitful farms in few years, is lapid-
y expanding into a dairy section that
will soon rival the rich dairy counties
Of the southern part Of the state. The
Gil, now rich in all the elements that
spell fertility, will not be impoverish-
ed by successive crops of grain. The
prairie state farmer finds virgin soil
hat will produce grain in abundance,
and he makes the most of that fertility
while it lasts. The Southern Wiscon-
sin farmer of the last generation did
the same thing, but his sons have
learned wisdom, and the Northern
Wisconsin farmer is profting by the
experience Of the pioneers of the old
er part of the state. He is enabled to
do so because of the climate pure wa
ter and peculiar adaptability of the
soil for the production OF grasses.
In this connection an excerpt from
an address delivered before the Wis
consin Dairymen's association in 1904,
by Prof. W. A. Henry dean of the Wis
c0nsin college of agriculture, is full of
meat Dean Henry said:
wisconsin farmers should be heavy
feeders of bran, middlings and oil meal
produced not far away to the North
west. BY the use of these feeds we &C
complish two things. We nOurish our
animals and produce better, cheese,
milk, meat, wool, etc. We are manu-
facturers of these products. Then we
have left as by-prQduct in our manu-
featuring process an enormous amount
of the most valuable fertility, consist
ing of nitrogen, phosphoric acid and
potash held by the bran and oil meal
which we feed to our stock
Every car load of bran contains
over 500 worth of fertility, according
to market prices. I do not say Wis
consin farmer can buy a car load OF
bran and scatter it over his field and
get back that value, but | do say that
on the impoverished farms and gar
dens Of the East and the plantations
of the South men are paying out over
$50, 100000 a year for commercial fer
tilizers in order to secure these plant
constituents. / further say that il the
farmer in Wisconsin should undertake
to grow grain year after year and to
sell the grain, straw and hay from his
farm that his lands will become so re-
duced that he or his successor at some
time must go into the market as a buy
er of fertility at the price named, in
order to bring his farm back to some
thing like profitable conditions"