The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1917-09-13
POTATO MOVEMENT FAILS
Report Shows That Only Small In
crease was Made in the Number of
Acres Given to This Crop-Wheat
and Corn Have Large Increase.

The answer of Kenosha county to the
call for increased production to help
win the war, is shown in report just
prepared by the KeEosha County Coun-
ell of Defense, showing the increased
acreage of the various farm products
in Kenosha county this year as com
pared with last year. This report shows
a commendable spirit Of cooperation
among the farmers of the county and
a very lsrge increase in acreage under
cultivation this year. The total of
this increase is 6,549 acres.
The town of Salem leads in the in
creases with an increase of 1885 acres
and the town of Bristol is second with
a total of 1856 acres. The great pub
Lefty given the campaign to secure a
greater potato crop seems to have
missed fire in Kenosha county as the
reports from the eight towns shows
that but forty-two more acres of pota-
toes were planted this year than last
year and in some of the towns a de-
crease in the acreage OF the spuds is
shown.
There is, only small increase in the
number of acres given over to The new
crops of cabbage and sugar beets. Re-
gardless Of the fact that the price of
cabbage. reached high-water mark
last year, the increase in the acreage in
Kenosha county for this year is less
than a hundred acres. The farmers in
nearly all the towns have planted more
corn and more oats.
Generous increase is shown in the
amount of winter and spring wheat
planted and it certain nat more
home -FOUR will ~e ground in Keno
sha county this year than at any time
in the last twenty years. pa more
acres Of spring wheat were planted this
year thar last year and the amount of
winter wheat was increased by twenty
two acres Farmers in the county had
some wonderful yields OF both spring
and winter wheat and it is certain that
the conservation movement is going to
go considerable way to make the
wheat crop popular in Kenosha county
again.
There has been increased acreage of
corn for grain and corn for silage.
There has been a considerable amount
of an increase in the number of acres
given over to the production of buck
wheat. More peas and beans have been
grown in Kenosha county this year
than in any former year in a decade
A slight decrease is show in the acre
age of sugar beets and Few of the
fallow pastures have been turned into
fields of corn and oats. The farmers
insist that the increase IS not wholly
the result of the atriotic agitation
but that a good share of the increase
was due to the prices now being paid
for farm products. The reports from
the towns near Kene ha show that there
has been a considerable increase in the
amount of land given over to truck
gardening. The incl ease in acreage has
caused al increased demand for men to
work the farms and in making the re-
port the various towns show that more
than thirty farm hands could be en-
ployed on the farms in the various
towns at the present time. 1t is also
shown by the cards that there is an
active demand for household labor in
nearly ali of the towns.
Several of the towns reported that
the farmers. were DESTROYS of buying
live stock for their farms and many
signifed willingness to keep the meat
prices down by raising more stock. The
figures collected by the Kenosha Coun-
ty Council of Defense will be sent to
Madison to be used in making up a
state wide report on farm onditions.
Later In the year a report will be sent
from Gall the towns, showing just what
the harvest has been The figures on
which these reports are based were
collected by members Of the Council
of Defense and from official sources.