Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1913-05-16
HOLD KEY y
FOR WISCONSIN
Gan Add S47,000,0 TO
States Annual Farm Profits,
Consumers Will
Benefit.

ut may he interesting TO note what
it would mean 70 Wisconsin farmers
in dollars and cents if from the area
they till to these Eve crops they &C.
cured the same acreage yields AS are
obtained by the farmers OF Germany
Official statistics Of the two nations
show that if Wisconsin farmers had
reaped in 1910 the same yield per acre
Of the four cereal crops and potatoes
| that German farmers harvested. in
stead Of u cash return Of $54.0N.0sl
! the higher yields per acre w0nld have
brought them at the same prices a to-
| tai return OF over $9l .0l0.0'0. By
merely eQualing the yields obtained IN
Germany the farm wealth OF Wiscan-
! sin from these five crops would have
| been increased by S4T,QU0.tDO IN this
| one year Ii il evident from the mtre
| statement Of this fact that il would
| mean much in the way Of added pros
| perity, not only to the farmers, hut ta
| all the industries Of the state, to Sc
cure such results year after year. Yet
there Is no reason why Wise0nsip's
yields should not equal or exceed those
| Of Germany.
"As Il result OF many years OF study
| and investigation | have no hesitation
| in saying that there is one principal
| cause, and one only, for the fact thst
| the nations OF northern Europe have
| outdistanced us in improving the pre-
ductivity OF their farm lands. That
| cause is the systematic cultivation of
a hoed root crop an average OF one
| year in four in rotation with cereais
and other staples. ! tind also thor
ouah agreement, both among agricul-
tural scientists and among practical
farmers, that the best Of hoed root
crops for this purpose is the sugar beet.
The reason for this is that wherever
beet sugar factories have been estab-
fished the farmer can sell the sugar
content OF his heet crop and receive q
direct cash return therefor. The pulp
and tops OF the beets remaining after
the sugar is extracted form the finest
Of stock foods, aud il these are fed
back onto the land none OF it's fertile
elements are taken away. In the case
Of other root crops the only available
use for the roots is to feed them to live
stock. The direct cash return. which
is clear gain to the sugar beet grower.
is lost In the cultivation Of these other
root crops.
German administrators early grasp
ed the great possibilities Of the sugar
IN, In Ilt1. Wit az
their farm lands. and Germany has
steadily encouraged the culture OF this
crop in all possible ways. They have
done this not only by imposing heavy
tariff duties upon imported sugar. but
also by direct bOunties upon the ex-
ported sugar Of domestic growth. In
the past Germany has expended hun
dreds OF millions OF dollars in export
b0unties upon sugar To enable her
manufacturers To sell abroad ut less
than the cost Of production. She has
done this solely because Of the bene-
fits Of the sugar beet in increasing
general agricultural production.
American sugar beet farmers are
now rapidly learning to adopt proper
methods Of rotation. Reports which l
have collected from 1lJ farmers scat
tered from Ohio to California who
have kept records OF their yields be-
fore and since growing sugar beets IN
rotation with their other crops show
that they have increased their average
yield OF corn 27.G per cent. OF oats 4S.I
per cent, Of wheat 491 per cent, and
Of barley ~ per cent, collective sv-
erase increase of 44.6 per cent. due to
the intelligent rotat ion OF these crops
with sugar beets.
'''fo the farmers Of your own state
this subject has a special importance.
Wisconsin has every climatic and soil
condition requisite to the successful
growing Of sugar berts On a large
scale. This has been demonstrated
within the past few years in the most
practical way by the experience Of
thousands Of Wisconsin farmers in the
actual growing Of sugar beets aud by
the successful operation OF several beet
sugar factories within the state limits.
IAN extension Of this industry
only n large direct return to the gen
era industry OF the state from it's OBJ
Grafton but also an addition OF many
millions Of dollars a year to the in
come Of the people of the state ~ a
result Of the additional millions OF
bushels Of staple crops that would he
harvested But this result cannot he
attained II the tariff on sugar h re-
moved or seriously reduced because
capital will not invest In expensive
plants for sugar manufacture under
Of certain disaster and loss.
Moreover. the consumers OF the
will benefit hnndredfofd
more by the increase in the output of
food products through the genera! and
rapid extension OF sugar beet culture
than they possibly could through the
saving Of even the full duty now
charged on imported sugar. and no one
who has studied the subject believes
hat any such sa wing would result from