The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1911-05-04
STATE CONTAINS 2.333,s2o
Desirable Unoccupied Regions Invite
Farmers, Dairymen and Live Stock
Breeders and Insure Profitable
Markets.

state of Wisconsin is the basis OF an
interesting study by comparison with
the report for 1900.
The populations of all incorporated
towns, cities and villages are given
herewith for 1900 and 1910. Counties
arc also shown with populations for
1900 and 1910. Of the seventy-one
counties in the state, twenty-one show
a loss in population. These are as fol
lows:
Adams, Buffalo, Calumet, Chippewa,
Crawford, Green, Green Lake, Iowa,
Jackson Jefferson, Juneau, Kewaunee,
Lafayette, Pepin, Pierce, Richland,
St. Croix, Sank, Trempealeau, Vernon,
and Washington.
That the state for the past decade
has taken rapid strides in a variety of
industries is evidenced by an authori-
tative summary which is reproduced
from the Chicago Farmers and Drov-
ers' Journal under date of January
II, 1911, and reads as follows:
Wisconsin has become practically the
leading dairy state of the union, its
title to the leadership being disputed
only by New York, with the chances
in Wisconsin sfavor. The output of
dairy products has increased from
nothing a few years ago to value
of $78,000,000 in 1910.
Thig tremendous increase in one in
dustry alone indicates the position
which Wisconsin will assume in the
future in the agricultural economy Of
the country. 1t is already one of the
foremost of all states in the production
per acre of various grains and grasses
and vegetables, and it is rapidly COM
ing to the front in production of fruit,
especially apples and cherries.
Taking the official returns from the
Crop Reporter issued by the depart
ment of agriculture, we find that the
results in the comparative production
per acre of important grain crops are
as follows:
Among the twenty-five states produc-
ing 25,000,000 bushels or more of corn
during the ten year period ending 1910
Wisconsin stands fifth; the leading
state, Ohio, exceeding Wisconsin by
only "a bushels per acre, Indiana by
is, Illinois by 1.3 and Pennsylvania
by IL.
Among the nine states producing
100000 bushels or more of barley dur
ing the ten-year period ending 1910,
without irrigation, Wisconsin stands
6rst.
Among the sixteen states growing
100000 bushels or more of oats dur
ing the ten-year period ending 1910,
without irrigation, Wisconsin stands
first.
Among the seven states producing
more than 100000 bushels of spring
wheat during the ten-year period end
ing 1910, without irrigation, Wisconsin
stands first.
Among the eight states producing
100000 bushels of potatoes, or more,
during the ten-year period ending 1910,
Wisconsin stands second, led only by
a state using an enormous amount of
commercial fertilizer.
In the unsettled, unoccupied regions
of Wisconsin, heretofore considered
only as field for the operations of the
lumberman, are hundreds of thousands
of acres of land, with a rich, fertile
soil, ample rainfall, pure drinking wa
ter and geographical location that
cannot be surpassed so far as ease of
reaching the big central lands, lying
right at the door of Chicago, are crying
aloud for settlers, dairymen, farmers,
live stock breeders and feeders to come
and occupy them.