Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1914-06-20
LIVESTOCK POSSIBIL-
tiles IN WISCONSIN
of Northern
Wisconsin Pointed
Out.

of livestock from disease and ex-
posure in Wisconsin than in almost
all the states of the union. The
fact is that the loss in Wisconsin is
far less than in the states where
livestock is largely produced.
This is in line with the asser-
tions have often made in the past
regarding the superior conditions
IN the north for livestock produc-
ton. Yet it is singular that large
portion of the people of the north
have the idea that livestock can be
produced in the south at lower
cost than in the north. NY con-
tentiou has been that the north is
far ahead of the south because of
climatic conditions affecting the
health of the animals, and better
than in most of the states of the
north and west for the reason that
our pastures are far ahead and for
the other reasons that we have a
high average of other crop yields
and more particularly for the rea-
son that we do not have crop
failures.
Anyone familiar with the time
and cost involved in establishing
heards and focks of high bred stock
/ (and it does not pay to raise the
common kind will appreciate the
importance of consistent crop
yield-for forced sales are disas-
trous at the time and a source. of
great loss while rebuilding the
herd The livestock business must
! be permanent to be successful.
Take for illustration, the the situa-
alton in Kansas and other states of
the southwest last year What
happens to the farmer whose
pastures failed and whose crops
are characterized by the three
bushels Of corn per acre, which was
the average in Kansas last year?
He must sell his stock for what it
will bring and in such years the
animals are in condition command
ing minimum prices. On the other
hand when he comes to buy a new
herd, it must be brought from
long distance and at great cost. In
Wisconsin we have 10 such state
of affairs.
Then, take the conditions in the
south, where the ticks and grubs
prevail, and from which the gov
ernment quarantine is likely at any
time to prevent the shipment of
the cattle the farmer has raised.
This has commonly been the case
in the past, and while the quaran-
tined territory has been reduced in
/ recent years, no one can know
what the future will be.
We are told by the advocates of
the south that they have invented
a dipping machine with which the
cattle can be let down into tank
of liquid that will kill the ticks. 1t
would be enticing to a northern
farmer to go out and take his cattle
one at a time and dip them with
an apparatus worked with a crank.
The northern man would say
that no one but a crank would do
this when he can just as well stay
in the north.
But if we omit these points of
disadvantage in the south and con
slider only the question of feed, the
north is ahead. We find from
every angle that we can take care
of more cattle and other livestock
in the north than they can in the
south. There is nothing like our
northern pastures and our winter
feed discounts their winter past
ures, Nature is lazy in the south.
ike the man VINO drags along all
the time. There IS 1;ic fast grow
ing season there. The north is the
place Of activity.
The safee vigor and health that
we see in livestock in the nortn is