Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1909-05-06
APPEAL TO Rusk CO. FARMERS

ty Fair Association paid out in pre-
miums to the farmers of Rusk County
upwards of eight hundred and ninety
dollars. This. is no small amount for
so young an Association, yet the pre-
MUM list offered over $4,000 for ex-
hibits and the Association would have
met that amount if the premiums
had all been contested for. This year
the Association will offer upwards of
$45OO0 90 for stock and products, which
amount it expects to be able to meet if
contested for.
Will you, brother Farmer, help make
the Fair success this year, for on you
depends mainly the success of the Fair.
Begin now to give those products
which you intend to exhibit special
care, so that each visitor to the Fair
may feel proud of the County in which
they live and that Rusk County may
have the best Fair in Northern Wis
consin.
There are many reasons why you
should do this, and many ways in
which the Fair will help you.
How many branches of farming are
you following on a good paying basis?
1t is safe to say not all of them; yet
you will be able to meet at the Fair
men who have made a success of every
branch of farming that can be follow
ed in Rusk County, who will be glad to
help brother farmers to success in the
branches they have made pay.
If your sheep are not a success see
E. L. Burpee or E. C. Campbell when
you come to the Fair.
If you think of raising tobacco, A.
K. Aspenes is always to be seen on the
Fair grounds. Also such successful
fruit raisers as l.. Gourdoux, H. B.
Peterson and J. HI. Whitney; while F.
Pritcher of Deer Tail farm will
interest you in high grade cattle and
dairying on a paying basis, and so
on through every branch of farming.
Rusk County is now at it's hardest
period for the farmer, having reached
the point where it produces too much
for it's home consumption but not
enough to make a profitable shipping
market, and needs the united efforts
of all its farmers to push it by this
mark. This is clearly shown by the
dairy industry not increasing in the
past five years.
Two years ago, with less than one
hundred acres of potatoes planted in
the vicinity of Bruce, farmers hunted
the town over to find market for
that product. This year with several
hundred acres planted, there is no
doubt of a market for every bushel,
showing one instance where the crop
is big enough to pay buyers to han
die it.
A few days ago train load of far
mers, bound for Canada from Iowa,
passed thru Minneapolis with their
families, horses, stock of machinery,
representing collectively a capital of
one million dollars. Could these far
mers have seen the products of this
county arranged side by side with the
products of the country they were
bound for (as they could have seen
them last fall at Chippewa Falls, where
Rusk County outclassed the Canadian
exhibit in everything but wheat) it is
safe to say that many Of them would
have made their homes in Rusk County
One such train load as this added to
our farming population in one year
would place nearly every important
product on a paying and exporting
basis, together with establishing cheese
factories, creameries and warehouses
throughout the county, besides placing
those already here in more thrifty
condition.
The Association is striving to show
prospective settlers what they can
raise in this county, and will this fall
again place the best of the products on
exhibition at points where they think
they will do the most good.
Prof. r. A. Moore of the Wisconsin
Agricultural College, in letter to the
people of this county, says he knew of
no way of developing country that is
better than getting its products to the
notice of the people.
The Fair Association is putting on
test throughout the county the Wis
consin No. 8 corn; compare this with
the corn raised here twenty years ago.
These are only few of the many
ways the Fair will help you. Will you
help the Fair?
For the amusement part there will
be good races, bands, and more and
better attractions than ever before.
With such men as w. A Blackburn,
C. K. Ellingson, J. z. Arpin and ]. w.
Miller behind the Association you are
sure of being treated right.
Tom FOSTER,