Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1909-08-06
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NORTHERN WISCONSIN
FARMS ARE GOOD.
District Particularly Suitable for
the Dairying Industry and the
Climate is Kealthfus.


Madison Wis, July "a The ones
ton Of cheap land is one depend =
upon several elements They may .
outlined as follows:
-Productiveness and markets, inr
Guiding transportation.
Environments including schools.
churches, etc.
-Healthfulness.
Productiveness doesn't necessarily
means merely bushels or tons t
meals much more. 1t means value
in the market and facility for getting
Il therein other words, net value in
the market. To illustrate: On t n e
same day wheat was worth 80 cents
in Calgary and $1l4 in Minneapolis;
barley, 80 ceuts in Calgary, % cents
in Minneapolis; oats, % cents III Cal
gary, 56 cents in Minneapolis: flax, 81
in Calgary, $l.1s in Minneapolis. A
bdshel of each was worth S2,35 IN
calgary. So 80 in Minneapolis; bushel
OF each was worth over go PEI cent
more in Minneapolis than in Calgary.
A bushel Of vegetables or fruit may
lose half its value because of distance
from marlxet-worses still, if perishable,
its whole value may vanish, leaving a
freight bill as the only evidence of the
transaction.
productiveness, when reduced 20 its
dnal analysts. goes still farther than
net value in the market. 1t involves
the exchange value in supplies, and in
this feature distance from central mar
l<ets has an almost universally direct
bearing in that, as crops bring less,
supplies cost more.
. Prodnetiveness has another element,
that of certainty OF maturity and of
demand in the market in other words
the speculative feature. An illustra-
ticns: A crop of sugar beets ranging at
from $50 to $50 per acre raised on pre-
viously made contract may be prefer
able to a tobacco crop that ranges
generally from 500 TO 500 per acre,
the market for which is unsteady, A
clover seed crop following an ample
harvest OF hay is pickup" that, If
good, means S25 orupward and, if not
good means practically no less.
The above are interesting features of
the situation in Wisconsin unoccuried
area.
Nor does average productiveness in
bushsl or tons of all crops necessarily
settle the question of productiveness.
No prospective dairyman or stock rails
err would compare clover with timothy
ton for ton, clover being worth twice
as much as timothy as stock food
Again, the same crop, for instance, may
and probably does, contain m I e
nutrient content when grown in its
natural home than where it is produced
with difficulty.
Corn is another crop wherein bushels
Of grain don't necessarily measure the
the value. The silo has materially
changed the situation and it is now an
open question whether the smaller corn
farther north may norh have food value
equal to that grown anywhere.
Produetivenesr is also modified by
the effect cropping has upon the land.
Those crops sold nsthe market usually
consume more fertility than those thas
are fed to stock-a double reason In
favor of dairying and stock raising.
The westward movement of exclusive
grain farming is too conspicuous to
leave necessity for u technical dis
cussion. Inversely conspicuous is the
fact that dsirying and stoek-raising
conservss and builds up productivity
and maintains n continued increasing
value in land The maintenance of
ertility is "a essential an element in
reduction as The growth of crops.
he cost Of fertilizer in many section is
,ry heavy not SO to tie dairyman aud
ek-raiser.
over is wonderful upbuil6'ng OF
fertility in soil. 1t adds nitrogen,