Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1919-07-23

| showed that one OF the main reasons
for this was the silo. A silo win go a
long ways in helping TO double the
| efficiency Of the average farm.
The grand total of the nations poul-
try production seems large and it is.
But do the people have the eggs to
use that should be used7 Does the
average farmer make poultry any por-
ton of supplementary enterprise dur
ing the winter7
Anyone about the average home or
boarding house knows that the produc-
ton of eggs is far below the needs.
Only a superficial inspection of the
average poultry flock tells the tale OF
the lack of efficiency in meeting the
demand for eggs. On every hand the
Olors-Of-the-rainbow flock that for
age at will and roost anywhere can be
found. Many fowls in Wisconsin lay
a couple of dozen of eggs. the average
not more than five dozen, while IL Is
not far from right to expect ten dozen.
n dairy and poultry those who are
most efficient are grading up their
stock and taking better care of it.
There is surely a possibility of doub-
ling the efficiency of the dairy and
poultry production of Wisconsin and
there's good money in 1t. In doubling
the efficiency We'll come in other lines.
Hogs are a usual accompaniment OF
dairying In Wisconsin. We hate to
touch upon the lack of efficiency with
this fine animal which Is the mortgage
litter when handled rightly. The best
forage crops in the world can be
grown In Wisconsin. Yet how few
hogs grow up on forage. Hogs are
handled and usually squeal off today
all they ate yesterday. Self-feeders
would increase the efficiency in pork
production in Wisconsin, yet only a
few farmers use self-feeders.
Do We Study the Market?
Markets are coming to demand GER
tain kinds of products. In the case Of
the potato. for instance. in great CEN
tiers where many people are fed the
peeling is done by machinery. This
calls for potatoes of average size,
smooth. and more or less round, and
sometimes of a certain variety. There
was a time when the farmer could
sell anything that was a potato. But
people are coming to realize that the
best product with little or no waste
Is cheapest, so from now on the eff
cheney of potato production will be
doubled by finding what the market
demands and supplying that demand.
To press this matter home little fur
Their, at least one great hotel offers
five cents piece for potatoes that will
weigh about u ounces and are smooth
and washed and wrapped in paper and
packed In boxes. Farms will not
double their efficiency by trying to
supply this hotel something else.
Are We Pulling Toeether7
Again efficiency is added where
whole comm, mites produce the same
variety Of crops or breed the same
breed of cat, e. Better shipping rates
and facilities are secured and adver-
Using costs less. One farmer growing
a strange crop usually has sorry time
OF it.
So, again, community effort, team
work, in producing, helps to efficiency.
ybody-have-his-way farming may
exc out an existence. but cooperation
tends to efficiency.
1t matters not how well the farmer
buys or produces, he must sell well,
too. There are seasons when markets
are higher. There are ways of avoid
ing excessive charges on the way to
market. The whole business of mar
keting Is next to an untouched sub
ject from the farmers standpoint. r.
is almost certain that the efficiency Of
the farm can be doubled by farmers
taking up and studying together the
marketing process. They should give
ready response to specialists and
associations which enter upon the
task of helping them in this respect.
In doubling the efficiency of the av-
erage Wisconsin farm credit will prove
a large factor. Other industries thrive
upon credit. Why should not the
farmer? But many times farmers
struggle along with inefficient stock
or machinery because they have no
way of securing capital cheaply. Many
times a little ready money at the right
time would improve the herd, or build
a silo. or get an efficient machine. 1t
seems strange that some of the many
people from Europe who reside in Wis
consin have not established here
among themselves systems OF cooper
ative credit such as are to be found
abroad by which a little money is Sc
cured at a reasonable rate of interest.
And by the same token this is mat
ter that the farmers of Wisconsin
would do we'll TO look into. 1t would
help toward doubling the efficiency of
the Wisconsin farm.
Lastly, cooperation. generous COM
munity team work. is the factor that is
most efficient in accomplishing things.
Those communities in which the farm
e-s have come to work together upon
problems are the progressive. flourish
ing communities In such communities
life is worth the living. farm values
are rising, and farm efficiency is
doubling. Cooperate.