Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1910-04-08
Recommends Cooperation
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| Wondering over the advantage and
success of cooperation among farmers,
and believing that this would be more
of an uplift to Rusk county than any
other thing, then why don't we have
more of them? | think that the reason
for this is that the farmer has the least
education in his line of business of any
| business or trade in the conutry Even
| in this day our children have but very
faint idea of the wonders that surround
them in farm life, and this is why so
many farm boys leave the country for
city life. What per cent of our farm
boys and girls know the different plants
| that have the power to take nitrogen
from the air, thereby increasing the
fertility of our soils? How many can
give the analysis of milk which almost
everyone drinks daily and is produced
on the farm? How many know what
balance ration means? The fact is that
the country boy leaves school with but
very little idea of why he does one thing
or the other in farm work, but simply
does it because his father does it.
While | have wandered away from
what / had in mind, someone may turn
this in their mind, and when our farm
boys when and why they do things, the
social conditions in our communities
wonld soon be more pleasant.
| | believe that the best cooperation to
the farmers of Rusk county would be
to breed dairy cattle, as we have al
ideal dairy country, ann why not follow
nature? Such an association creates in
terest in the breeding of cattle and en-
courages the members by bringing them
in touch with one another. 1t would
educate them in breeding. feeding and
managing their dairy herds.
Not one of us know it all, as we say
therefore by associating with our fell
low workers, their ideas would be of
great help. 1t is always better to COM
mence with such work where the other
fellow stopped than to go over the same
thing from the beginning, as life is too
short.
Ten to one of our farmers jog along
with dual-purpose idea in breeding
cattle they want milk and beef. Ex-
perience has shown that this is impossi-
BILE where the maximum results are
expected-the function of the dairy cow
is to make milk, and if you have this
function you also have dairy form,
which form is entirely different from a
beef animal, only that it is made of the
same material. Now, let's reason:
Many of us have made sugar and syrup
this spring out of pine or hemlock
suppose, as the plant food that they re-
quire comes from the same source as
that of the maple. You would laugh
and talk a week of such an ignorant
person who would think of tapping any
old tree, wouldn't you? Yet, a COW
a COW is COW to great number of us,
and if we want milk and lots of it all
we got to do is to feed her heard
the saying once which is as true as you
read this that there are three kinds of
cows:
1st, those that eat and make milk out
of it;
End, those that eat and make beef
out of their feed;
3rd, those that only the Lord knows
what they are doing with their feed.
This class can be seen in good numbers
all through the county, and there own
ers are the ones who say: Cows
don't pay"
Again have strayed from my topic
Cooperation, and will take it up in my
next letter j. T. PRITCHARD.