Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1915-10-14
WISCONSIN LEADS
FORTY-FOUR WAYS

lines, but the Wisconsin Agrlcuiturist
has made out the following list:
Wisconsin is the first state in dairy
ing, $1OO GOO, OOo year,
Wisconsin ia the leading cranberry
state.
Wisconsin is the first state in the
production of fax.
Wisconsin's cream industry exceeds
that of any other state.
Wisconsin has more dairy cattle than
any other state.
! Wisconsin has the largest breeding
canters OF pure bred dairy stock.
Wisconsin has the greatest number
of sIlos on its farms.
| Wisconsin has the largest number Of
Brown Swiss dairy COWS.
Wisconsin is second in number of
Holstein cattle.
Wisconsin leads in the number of
pure bred Guernsey cattle.
{ Wisconsin has so per cent of the
cheese industry Of the United States.
! Wisconsin has the largest grain ele-
vator in the world
| Wisconsin has the largest ore
DO ;ks.
/ Wisconsin, has the largest zinc oxide
plant
Wisconsin has ore of the largest stee
plants in the world.
Wisconsin has the largest manufac-
turing creamery in the world
Wisconsin has more available water
power near large markets than
any other state.
Wisconsin has the greatest
and most influential agricul-
tural college in America.
! Wisconsin has g, 900, 600 acres of farm
ing land which only needs to be clear
ed.
! Wisconsin is the leading pure bred
sheep breeding state in the central
west.
Wisconsin has number of the most
prominent show prize winning beef
cattle herds
Wisconsin is the leader among the
northern tier Of states in swine produc-
ti0n.
| Wisconsin ranks eleventh as horse
breeding state.
! Wisconsin's equipment from mar
ket center standpoint Is unexc elled.
Chicago, Milwaukee. st. Paul and Min
neapolis are within easy access and
such progressive towns as Fond du
Lac and Madison are big CONSUMING
centers.
Wisconsin has the greatest average
number of dairy cows on it's farms.
Statistics show that the state has an
average of nine cows to the farm.
Wisconsin has the oldest and strong
est .dairymen g association in the Uni
ted States.
Wisconsin was the first state to hold
farmers Institutes and at the present
time holds more than 100 annually.
Wisconsin has the oldest horticultu
| "a SOClCCJ'
Wisconsin has the greatest number of
breeders associations.
Wisconsin leads as q potato growing
state with yield of 37,000,G0O bush-
els.
Wisconsin farmers haE more money
on deposit in banks than any other class
of its citizens.
Wisconsin has great hardwood forests.
LAUNDERING industry $57, 600, coo a
year,
Wisconsin has more lakes than any
other state.
Visions SIN is great tobacco growing
state-50, 600, 900 pounds year.
Wisconsin ranks third in the produc-
ton of cabbage.
Wisconsin has five beet sugar factor
les.
Wisconsin's small towns are consider
ed to have more than any other state.
Wisconsin has the third lowest rate
of mortality.
Wisconsin possesses more pure bred
seed grain than all other states combin-
ed.
Wisconsin yields more corn per acre
than any other Mississippi valley state.
Wisconsin tobacco pays more per acre
than that ofany other tobacco state.
Wisconsin, pea packing industry re-
presents 40 per cent of the entire coun-
try.
Wisconsin has $24, 600. 900 invested in
automobiles per cent owned by
farmers.
Wisconsin has the largest tannery in
!, the United States.