Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1907-05-13

be able TO revei in the delights OF
home grown garden sass quite as
early as some of the people farther
south yet in many respects they have
an advantage. especially in thai
when they SOW they have an assurance
that they may reap.
From Illinois and Indiana, and even
from Ohio, there come reports of Sc
rious injury done to early planted
crous, such as gardenstuffs and
spring grains by the late cold wealth
er conditions that have prevailed. The
seeds have rOtted in the ground and
replanting has been necessary quite
generally and as q consequence the
markets cannot be supplied with the
early vegetables until fully a month
later than usual.
From Wisconsin points there come
no reports of Totting seed except it be
in low, cold soils, where the most "a
VorafTe conditions of warmth and dry
ness are essential to termination. In
Dane county the early sOwn grains
and garden seeds have all terminated
nicely and are well rooted and ready
for rapid growth when the warm
weather does come.
Mr. George Holt, local gardener,
says that his radishes, onions, lettuce
and spinach are thriving and show 40
signs OF injury from the cold while
Professor r. A. Moore of the expert
meIlt station at the university college
OF agriculture says that there are no
reports of injury to the early sOwn
grains He says that the season or
the cereal crops is fully three weeks
later than last year but that if the
weather comes off warm now the corn
and potatoe crops may be planted fully
as eSriy as in ordinary years, that is
from May 10 to 20. He Slys that the
old seeding Of clover and timothy
have been injured somewhat by the
freezing and thawing but that in all
Likelihood the injury has not been dis
astFous except in small localities.
Mr.. Lewis Post of the town of Md
isun rs an extensive grover OF small
fruits and from his farm it is report
ed that no injury has thus far come
from cold or wet to the fruit crops.
HIS Strawberries are not yet uncoy-
cred but are in fine condition and the
same may be said of the raspberTles
anu bEackberries. Plums and apples
too, are reported as showing no signs
OF Inquiry
Professor Sandsten of the horticul-
turaI department at the university
says that there has been as YET abso-
lutely NO injury to the fruit crops in
Wisconsin from the cold, backward
weather; that the condition has been
so uniform that the fruit buds have not
sufficiently developed to be suscepti-
BILE to the cold and the prospects for
large fruit crop are especially graft
fying. He says that even the peach
trees at the university orchard are
promising to yield a fine crop this sea-
son.
Farm Wages High.
Able bodied men for farm work are
scarce in Wisconsin, especially in thu:
southern portions, where there is no
winter work In the northern por-
tons where the lumber ca.Iaps caii
for large numbers of men in the win
reason there Is not such a scarcity
49, ehe wages generally are high.
Dane county farmers pay thirty dol
lars per month for men and furnish
them keep for horse and buggy or prn
vide tElat necessity when called for on
Sunday The agreement, of course
includes board and generally washing
State Crop Report.
Secretary John NJ True of the
state board of agriculture has issued
the following report under date OF
May 1:
The object of this initial number OF
crop reports for the current season
was Co ascertain the condition OF
those crops most liable to be affected
by winter weather seventies; the es-
innate of acreage of principal farm
crops for the coming season, in com
parison with that of last year, and the
condition and prices of live stock.
Winter grains and grasses, includ
ing clover and alfalfa were consid
cred to be in excellent shape during
the warm weather of March, and
such crop prospects were excellent at
that time, but the cold weather that
has continued completely through the
month of April has materially re
duced the prospects of winter wheat
clover. and alfalfa. Winter wheat
and alfalfa are not extensively raised
in the state. but an even partial fail
IRE of the clover crop makes a loss
of values to the farmer not easily es
timated. In most parts of the stat
old clover fields are reported as prae
ticalIy ruined, while new seeding /:
considerably injured. Winter rye
maintains a fair stand.
On a basis of 100 representing tn
prospect of a full crop. our reports