Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1916-08-22

| UithVuo VCotinS Uct-StcO0u CfOp
OF Glover Should Be HulIed at Pres.
ent Prices of Seed-COrn Crop is
Assured and We VIII Have Seed to
| Sell.
AFTER a number of trips in all
directions except to the extreme
/ southeast of this county, {. is nv
| judgment that as a general thing
crops have never been better than this
year." said John C. Gebhart to the
Pilot man last Friday afternoon, and
If there is man in this county who
is competent to pass Judgment upon
matters of this kind it is Mr.. Gebhart
| Many of the farmers are still work
| ing on their hay crops in some places.
In others, the oats, barley and rye
| have been cut and the farmers are
| getting ready for the second crop OF
| clover. The hay crop in this county
was exceptionally heavy, but the
weather was ideal for curing and
practically all of the hay cut was put
up without being injured by rain.
During the hot spell of a short
time ago, it looked as though the
grain crop, especially the oat crop,
was going to be very light as the hot
wave caught it in the milk, but the
rain came in time and the bulk of the
oat crop is good although not up to
last year. Many fields will thresh out
better than so bushels to the acre.
I'VE are going to harvest a good
corn crop, if the frost holds off for
the next two weeks. While the early
season was wet and backward and
not favorable to corn, so much so that
many feared the crop would be a fail
ure, it is looking remarkably well
now. Some fields that | have inspect
ed on high ridges revealed well de-
veloped ears that should ripen within
two weeks. One popularity that has
struck me is that wherever | have
found an especially good field of corn,
| have learned by inquiry, that it was
raised from Marathon county grown
seed, while in almost every instance
where l have found noticeably poor
corn, inquiry has revealed the fact
that it was seed brought in from out
side.
81 think there is going to be good
market for Marathon county home
51OWA oCCQ HCAI yCdI. lHOoC WIN
have tried the varieties brought in
from Minnesota, Iowa and other places
ON account of the shortage of home
grown seed corn last spring, will never
try any of these foreign seeds again.
They may travel under. the names of
Golden Glow or No. II, and be repre-
sented to be from the same stock, but
experience has demonstrated that they
lack the vitality of the home grown
seed.
GAS last year was the first failure
of a corn crop we have ever expert
enced in this county since we have
been raising dent corns, our farmers
had never taken the precaution to
save over enough for another plant
ing, but from now on all will do so,
and Marathon county will never again
be caught so short of home grown
seed corn as it was last spring.
"The second growth clover all over
the county is as fine as | have ever
seen. All along every road are to be
seen great fields in bloom, and the
wonder to me is that more of our
farmers do not have this second crop
hulled, especially as the seed is now
high priced and practically all of this
seed would be of good quality and is
free of weeds. At the present prices
| know that some of these fields would
yield more than $40 an acre in seed.
While the clover is broken up by the
hulling it loses very little feeding
value.
root crops all look excellent, but
with regard to potatoes the looks are
somewhat deceiving, as while the
vines are luxuriant, the general re-
port that the yield will be light, the
number of potatoes to the hill being
small Weather conditions may cor
rect this, but it is not looked for.
Pastures everywhere are excellent
and milch cattle and young stock are
doing well. At one farm where l
stopped, and which farm, by the way,
IS being run by woman, | was in
sormed that the milk check for July
from fourteen ordinary looking cows,
not even good grades, had been $135.SO.
considering the returns that our
farmers are getting from their land,
the highly developed condition that
this county has attained, the splendid
roads, the thriving villages, the many
churches and schools, the great num-
ber of creameries and cheese factories
distributing semi-monthly hundreds
of thousands of dollars, contend that
the prices of Marathon county lands
are far too low, although some of our
farmers are apparently beginning to
realize this and are asking as high
as $3.50 an acre for their places, nor
is this necessarily just in the vicinity
of Wausau.
with this condition finding its way
here, we certainly are within sight
of the end of low prices on raw lands,
and on this account will say that any
person who has the foresight to buy
unimproved Marathon county lands,
no matter where located, at prices
that are right today, and has sense
enough to hold onto them, is sure to
make a good profit"