Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1916-05-03
A LARGE BARLEY CROP
Fame of Wisconsin Product At
Grain Exhibits the Reason.
POPULAR SMALL GRAIN.
Farmers Realized 50 to s. More per
Acre Than From Oats Other
News OF Interest to Farmers.

Madison, Wis, CSpeciaD According
to reports which are coming to Offic
iaIs of the college of agriculture,
larger acreages will be planted in
barley than in any recent year. IN
dicatiOns are that this cereal will be
the most popular grain crop to be
sOwn in a number Of counties this
spring. The worldwide hOnOrs won
by Wisconsin in grown barley, when
exhibited at various grain exhibitions,
is given as one of the main reasons
for the boom. In addition, for the past
three years growers have realized
from 81 to So more an acre from bar
ley than from oats, which has been
the most popular of the grains grown
in the state.
Il. "A. Moore, secretary of the Wis
cOnsin Agricultural Experiment asso-
citation, is authority for the statement
that the production of barley which
will command high market prices re-
quires three things: Superior seed
of one of the pedigreed varieties; fer
tile soil, preferably rich clay or silt
loan and careful harvesting. Buyers
of Wisconsin barley are very insistent
upon great care at harvesting time.
Wisconsin Steers Bring Top Price.
Wisconsin farmers are finding that
it pays well to raise the grade of beef
cattle, which is making certain dis
tricts of the state famous. A recent
sale of Wisconsin beef on the Milwau
kee market furnishes still further
proof for this contention. A shipment
of sters, raised in southwestern Wis
cOnsin and fitted at the agricultural
experiment station, recently sold in
Milwaukee at 10 cents a pound, live
weight The top price on the Chicago
market for the same date was 1885.
There were included in the shipment
representations of each of the leading
beef breeds, which are popular with
the stOckmen of the state.
Tobacco Growers Fighting Pest.
Large numbers of Wisconsin's lead
ing tobacco growers are fighting plant
bed pests by steaming their seed beds
before planting. Workers of the agri-
cultural experiment station have Civ
en- this method thorough trial and have
found that steaming is the most sue
cessfuI plan of controlling certain
serious tobacco bed diseases. When
the growers cooperate the cost of
steaming is low, running from 75c to
81 per 100 square feet. The steaming
prevents diseases like bed rot and root
rot from developing, kills weed seeds,
produces earlier and more vigorous
plants and controls insect pests of the
seed bed. The Importance of this pre-
caution is seen, when it is known that
Wisconsin is one of the leading to-
bacco producing states. Large acre
ages are devoted to this crop in Rock,
Dane, Green, Vernon, Chippewa and
certain of the other counties.
Wisconsin Cheese to London.
A shipment of Wisconsin made
cheese was recently made from Rich
land county to London. The shipment
included II carloads of the different
brands for which this western county
is famous.
The number of Wisconsin butter
makers who pasteurize their cream is
increasing. Nearly One-half of the en-
tries in the April butter scoring eX-
hibitiOn, just held at Madison, were
made from pasteurized cream. 1t is
hardly to be expected that the pro-
portion of creameries in the state
making pasteurized butter is the same
as that given in these entries, but
there is everyi Indication that the
practice of pasteurizing is on the in
crease. The quality of the butter sub
mitted for this contest was of unus-
ually high grade.
Officials of the Wisconsin Pea Pack
ers' association will cooperate this
season with officials of the experiment
station in working out means of con
troll Of the pea weevil and aphis, which
have caused loss in certain of the pea
growing sections of the state.