Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1912-07-03
WiscOnsin's Foremost Industry.

| Wisconsin, Is essentially livestock
state. By the annual production of
$50, 900, 900 worth Of milk, butter and
cheese, yielded by it's /, 504. 0C0 cows
it leads the Union in dairying.
Within it's borders, too, are $50, 900,
or more horses. LOO, 900 cattle other
than mich cows. 2.051, 600 swine and
SAT, 900 sheep.
Wisconsin leads the nation in the
breeding of Guernsey cattle, and it
is second only to New York in the
number of breeders of Holsteins.
Already there are thousands of profit
producing animals kept upon farms
of Wisconsin, but there is feed, Or
potential feed, for thousands more.
! Nowhere is there a soil or climate
better suited to the production Of
grasses and hays; nowhere is there
better and purer water. Corn, with
the exception of in a few isolated
areas, can be grown to the very
shores of Lake Superior In no state
has the silo been more popular nor
widely used than in Wisconsin
Where corn will not ripen, roots
furnish an excellent succulence for
mich cows and other stock. Wis
consin is also rapidly becoming an
alfalfa state; the farmers are begin
ming to understand it's culture and
are putting in thousands Of acres upon
which once grew luxuriant but
ruinous crops of timothy. Where
alfalfa has not succeeded. clover is,
or will eventually be, doing duty.
The small grains of Wisconsin, even
nuw famed the world over, supplement
the corn and alfalfa, leaving nothing
| lacking for successful live stock rails
ing.
Great and important. however. as
the livestock industry of Wisconsin
now is, it is destined to become still
greater. So many are the reasons why
they should raise more and better
animals that the farmers of Wiscon-
sin are determined that this shall con-
tinue to be the leading stock produc-
ing state of the Union.
The raising of live stock, is, Of
course, the type of farming for which
Wisconsin is prominently adapted.
The state is situated east of the great
grain belt of the United States The
mills from Minneapolis pour hundreds
of ions of bran and other grain pro-
ducts across our borders. At our
very door lie Duluth, st. Paul. Min
neapolis, Milwaukee and Chicago.
furnishing markets large enough to
assimilate anything we can possibly
raise in the line of meats and dairy
products.
Nor does livestock farming mean
simply the raising Of animals; it
means the raising of profit producing
animals. Profitable animals mean
carefully selected pure bred sires and
pure bred sires necessarily lead to at
least limited number Of pure bred
females. What has already been done
to increase the milk and butter-fa
production Of Wisconsin cows can be
similarity done in horse. swine,
sheep and beef cattle raising. Wis
consin, due to its climatic advantages,
the character of its inhabitants, and
the progressive policy of its breeders
and influence of the agricultural col
lege is destined to continue to be
known for the production of high class
livestock.
ONEIDA COUNTY GUERNSEYMEN OR
CAME.
The More and Better Live Stock
Special" had no sooner gone from
sight at Rhinelander than there was
a demand for the organization of
Oneida County Guernsey cattle breed
ers.
The Saturday evening following the
visit of the special train sent out by
the Wisconsin, Live Stock Breeders
Association, a meeting Of Oneida
County dairymen was called in Rhine
lander, and as a result the Oneida
Guernsey Club was formed and John
Hess was elected president and E. L.
Luther, secretary.
Farmers Institutes For 1912-1913.