St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1916-09-09
Visitors Given Auto Rides
and Taken to Stock Farms
and Places of Interest.
CHEAP CATTLE WON'T
PAY ON $500. 90 LANDS
Prosperous Stock Farms and
Thoroughbred Stock
in Wisconsin.


Since | wrote my article last week
l have seen many more good things
that would be of great benefit to ou,
farmers. will not try to tell all
in this one article but will give it
in broken doses. ! am afraid to tell
too much at one time for fear that
some one might doubt what said.
From Waukesha; Wis.,. We went to
f't. Atkinson, Wis. Here we were
met by the mayor and officials OF the
Association of Commerce with auto
mobiles and driven out to the farm
OF ex-Goy. Hoard. We have all
neard OF Hoard through his paper.
This farm is managed on as near q
business basis as anything ! ever saw.
A place for everything and every
thing in its place. The fields are
rolling but no red gullies were in
sight and no half fallen buildings
could be seen-nothing but alfalfa,
corn and clover and fat cows ana
horses could be seen. The cattle
owned by Mr.. Hoard were absolutely
perfect in every respect. The bull
heading the herd is q beauty and is
valued at ten thousand dollars. He
weighs one ton. Mr.. Hoard says that
there. is no place in that country
where scrub cattle or grades OF any
Kind can be grown; the farmers can
not afford to allow them to run on
rand costing upwards of $500 per
acre. Good cattle must be raised ON
high priced land to make money, and
they are making money. II they can
make money with stock costing as
highSas $4,000 per COW and $4,000
for herd bull, on land that canno.
be had at 5000 per acre, and at the
same time having to keep this stock
up In closed barns five months in the
year, why Is it that we cannot make
money here in st. Tammany parish
with our thousands Of acres OF land
that can be bought for from $S to
$15 per acre. and growing season
Of the entire year? 1t seems to me
that the trouble must be in us and
not in the country. Some might say
that they too could do this il they
had the money to do 1t with. Sbme
of he farmers l talked with in Wis
,onsin did not have the money they
needed and went to work and made
good. One man told me that IS
years ago he and his wife started to
work and with business mana cement
hey had built the place up to
what we saw it. He did not tell us
10 but one of his neighbors did say
hat this man Is now worth one hun
lred fifty thousand dollars, and made !
t all farming with pure bred live
stock. mention the above case just
o show that men are self in
he north, the same as they are any
where else. Had this man been in
It. Tammany parish he could have
made this money much easier due TO
'etter climatic conditions.
The dairy herd on this farm is |
worth $4,000, and the farm fmple-
nents worth several thousand dol |
ars. Thees men look upon farming |
IS a business and they know for any |
BUSINESS to be run right one must be |
repaired to do things as they should |
70 done.
The next farm we visited was
Edge Water Stock Farm" owned |
y Mr.. Harry Curtis. Mr.. Curtis has
s fine herd of Guernsey cattle as is |
n the State Of Wisconsin. Some of |
is cows give as much as IS pounds
t milk per day, going as high as
1-2 per cent butter fat. Mr.. Cur
is has made a fortune farming end
as specialized for the last few years
n dairying. He finds ready market /
Or all his breeding stock at what |
re would call fancy prices. None
re sold under $500 per head, young
r old. We visited other farms in
his section. All were good and UP
0 date, but we have not room here
0 take up each farm. More will be /
old later about individual farms.
We next went to Madison, Wis
D visit the State University and A. &
I. College, Here we were met by
'rof. Geo. Humphreys, dean of the
'ollege Of, Animal Husbandry. It
ook US all day to see this magnif- i
ent institution with all its depart
1ents. The experimental plots were
ne. One plot was pointed out to us
pom which nothing but corn and
lover had grown for ten years The
lot next to 1t had rotation Of corn
nd clover for the same length OF
lme. The corn where crops had been
otated will make IS bushels per
ere. Corn on land growing moth
ng but corn for ten years will make
5 bushels. This clearly shows that
is necessary for even the Wiscon-
n farmer, on his rich land, to ro-
ate his crops = = al the more I