Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1913-02-26
MORE SWINE RAISED IN
GRANT COUNTY ALONE
Than Are Produced In Several
Entire States.
Census Figures Show That We Also
Rank High in the Yield of
Oats and Corn.

For The Herald by B. G. Packer, Wisconsin
Commissioner of Immigration.
To the Editor:
Reviewing the resources of your
county the other day in response to
inquiry from homeseeker, revealed
some interesting statistics of much
concern to your readers and rather IL
Eliminating to those promoters seeking
to eutice Grant county people and
capital from the state. The 1910
census 1.-THE corrected bulletins of
which are now available) has proved
an unexpected gift to Wisconsin and
there is much therein of significance
to your people.
With production of cereal crops
totalling considerably in excess of six
million bushels annually. the yield
per acre (the true test of fertility is
relatively high when comparison is
had with the neigh boring states, Iowa
and illinois,. M than half of the
counties in the latter state and forty
in the former, bore less of corn per
acre in 1909 than the average of Grant
county with 80 Z bushels And yet
at the exhibits maintained by the
immigration board at outside exposi-
tions we have repeatedly been inform
ed that this is not a corn growing
state. that it is too far north. As
matter of fact, the corn belt has been
extended to Lake Superior.
Of Iowa S SO counties, 90 grew less
per acre of oats than yours and much
more than half of those in Illinois
failed TO respond to the yield had in
your county. 3.37 bushels. Again,
the same census proves that in produc
more than half in Illinois. grew less
per acre than the average of Grant
county Nor is this all, for no county
in the great state of Iowa approached
the production of barley per acre
brought forth in yours.
In fact, in amount per acre of corn,
oats. wheat and rye the same census
establishes the fact that one acre of
Grant county produced on an average
more than two acres in the states Of
North Carolina. South Carolina,
Georgia md Texas. 1t is a matter
worth considering TO know that
although the use Of commercial
fo,fili1orS 6ooyoocod ;r CH;eoooe;,,. 5e
per cent during the pcriod 1900 1910,
there was an increase of 1888 per
cent in North Carolina, 237. per cent
in South Carolina, 1913 per cent in
Georgia and 377 per cent in Texas.
Notwithstanding this Texas promoters
are securing our state seeking the dis
contented and urging the investment
of capital in state which the census
proves is but half as productive as
your county even with the soil
stimulated by the use of commercial
fertilizers These yields in your Sec
ton and this good showing can be
attributed to soil naturally fruit
full and easily kept so, to superior
farming practices and to your splendid
array of livestock
With 80, 600 head, your county
leads the states of Wyoming and
Arizona in the number of dairy cows,
yielding six million seventy three
thousand gallons of milk annually.
But the position enjoyed by your
county is not confined to cereals and
dairy cattle. Much attention is
given to beef and pork production.
The census has no satisfactory
classification for beef cattle but does
demonstrate that this county has
greater number of swine than the
state of Maine, or the state of
Montana, or Wyoming or Arizona.
Here are the figures.
SWINE.
Grant County, Wisconsin ia 997
Maine. ....... 81, 156
Montana so, 261
Wyoming. -. ....3 SO, 974
Arizona II, 208
The corrected bulletins also show
that this county in 1909 produced 81.
7O8 bushels of orchard fruits including
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