Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1916-01-14
CROPS PROFITABLE
IN NEW COUNTIES
Handsome Returns Obtain ed With
Corn, Alfalfa and Other
Small Grains.
PLANT PEDIGREED SEED
Growth of Corn for Silage Is Proving
of Immense Value to Lang
lade Men.
PLANT PEDIGREED SEED


industrial progress and agricultural
development during recent years, 1t
would be perfectly consistent and in
accordance with facts as they exist
today to write the word ''undevelop-
ed'' in big plain letters across the map
of Wisconsin from one end to the other.
Although exhibiting a total of $780,
600 900 annually in manufactured pro-
ducts, undeveloped water powers and
other resources still invite the invest
ment of additional capital and labor,
while fields already cultivated yield
less than may reasonably be expected,
and little more than one-third of our
land knows the plow.
But a new era has begun. The fer
tility of lands yet to be opened is bet
ter known. That the state experiment
station and county agricultural repre-
sentatives are demonstrating hand
some returns with corn, alfalfa and
small grains in all the new counties
is shown by official reports on file in
the college of agriculture. The ex-
perience of men clearing and breaking
new farms has shown the fruitfulness
of immense sections still to be subdued
and established the fact that the effort
expended is richly repaid.
Encouragement Is Offered.
For unusual encouragement Is offer
ed in the production of high quality
farm crops and there has probably
been no more notable agricultural
achievement in the history of this
state than that which has revolution
lied the grain growing industry The
older settled portions of the state PAID
heavy toll to learn the value of crop
rotation. In early days little had been
attempted in plant breeding work. SO
now it is quite within the range OF
possibilities to add so per cent to the
value of Wisconsin's farm crops. mas
much as these already aggregate near
ly 5000, OOO, 900, such assertion at first
thought might appear TO be born OF
undue enthusiasm.
But Wisconsin's pure bred seed
grains are a standardized product, sell
ling for cash marketable at all sea-
sons of the wear, without excessive ad-
vertising or freight charges and direct
from granary to sower. Field tests
have proven that pedigreed strains OF
wheat return from thirty to thirty
eight bushels an acre rather than an
average of nineteen for scrub varieties
that oats may be produced in excess OF
sixty, instead of thirty bushesls; and
barley at the rate of forty-five, as COM
pared with an average of twenty-seven
bushels per acre. And this chiefly by
sowing of better seeds.
Plant Pedigreed Seed.
For thirteen years the Wisconsin
Experiment association, whose mem
bership consists of 1,500 that have
taken work in the agricultural college,
have been steadily improving and ad-
ding to the production of these crops.
One hundred and sixty-siX members
recently averaged eleven bushels more
an acre by growing pedigreed oats
than was harvested by those sowing
common varieties. Similarly the diff
ference in favor of those sowing pedi-
greed barley was seven bushels, and
pedigreed rye 9,S bushels per acre.
The demand for seed corn grown in
the northern counties has never been
satisfied. and the fact that growers
are obliged to exploit their pedigreed
seeds to create a market is an element
to be considered in choosing a location.
In years past it was customary to send
northel grown seed to Nebraska,
plant and ripen the crop under condi-
tions prevailing in that state, and ship
it back on the theory that the variety
had lost none of it's early maturing
characteristics by one seasons growth
in foreign state.
Perhaps the chief reason for such
action was the fact that it was I'M
necessary to fire dry the seed when
grown under Nebraska conditions
Without question for time such prac-
tice held back corn DEVELOPMENT in the
upper counties, but the increasing at
tention devoted TO this crop for sila ore.
forage and grain now assures the
grower of independence from restrict
ed or local consumption.
Seed Is Ac ciimated.
Wisconsin No. and No Is Golden
Glow, and Silver King, stand for dis
tinct varieties of corn. each possessing
characteristics OF maturity and yield,
making it valuable under varying eli
matte surrounding Each has been
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