Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1920-12-03

cording to what he has observed and
judging from what many farmers have
told him this fall. Fred Kasl says the
fires of this fall did much good in
clearing the land of trash and brush,
and did no damage to the land il ran
over here.
w. \. Blackburn says nothing makes
a farm faster than fires properly han
died and followed with grass seed. He
says the soil experts declare that there
is about as much fertilizer content III
the ashes that fall on the land as in the
rotten refuse that would eventually
make fertility and the process is much
quicker therefore more profitable. G.
<. Ellingson practically made the cOun-
try around Hawkins by using fires on
his lands.
Next. raising clover. Why should our
farmers raise clover? Because it has
repeatedly been proven that clover pro
duces more net profit per acre than
any other crop. We seed it once and
it thrives continually as long as give.
chance. and enricheS and sweetens
the land for any other crop the farmer
may desire to raise.
Kansas farmers got $50 crop of
volunteer wheat this season without
my expense for seed or labor of put
ing in the crop.
The papers are full of it. but they
annot do it again. unless conditions
ire the same and when you stop to
consider the fact that this wheat that
,eedCd their land was lost from last
ears crop they had only gained their
5cetl by their last Years loss of wheat
; Here we can raise $50 crops of clover
per acre for years with only one seed
ing and we are so used to it that we do
not half appreciate it and go io)ihts
around raising grain and cash crops
that don't net as half as many dollar.
per acre as clover and, BESIDES these
'.rops cost us in fertility. while clover
Guilds up our soil.
Some timothy should always be
sowed with the clover as it helps to
| keep the clover from lodging, thus
| aiding in cutting and curing it,
| The question arises. is it profitable to
grow all clover. and buy our grain to
| feed these COWS?
Absolutely yes. Until a man has
| his land all brushed and seeded to clio
yer. and timothy one can i'll afford
| to take time from his brushing and
| seeding to grow grain crops. Except
| for an acre that is needed for garden
and potatoes, no land should be plOWed
until the whole farm is bringing re
turns from hay and pasture. Buying
grain to 60 with your hay is bringing
! the fertility of the other fellows farm
to yours. Should one buy protein feeds
| besides buying grain to feed with the
home grown hay? BY all means, yes.
| C0ttonseed meal should be shipped to
R,lsk county in car lots. that is, when
prices are not too high compared to oil
meal and either cOttOnsecd meal OF
oil meal should be fed with the grain
to milk COWS twice per day. The fer
;ilizer value of these protein feeds are
worth about half Of the first cost price
when manure is carefully saved. Here
we are again drawing fertility that the
| farmers of the south have to lose.
Third--Why keep good milk cows!
Because dairy regions in the clover,
.Orn. wheat and cOttnO belt are diStin
yuiShed from regions not in the dairy
| business by the big red barns, good
houses. fertile fields well kept farms
and big bank accounts, while the grow
or of cash crops is reducing his fertil
| ty continually and this year cannot
nearly realize the expense of raising
| his crops from the sale of his corn,
| oats. wheat. cotton or other cash crops,
OF from hogs or beef cattle Good cows,
pure-bred bulls and clover go hand i'll
| hand to increase fertility and prosper
| ty and follow brushing and seeding
| better than anything else
The steady income from a bunch of
cows is one of the finest things a farm
er can have and is much preferred to
{ waiting until fall or winter for cash
| r0ps to he sold on a more or less spec
ulativc market.
The present price of the best butter
| is around 80 to 90 cents per pound and.
| with hay, and eggs, they are about the
| only farm produce that has not hit
| the toboggan. Hay holds its price of
around $50 per ton with small pros
! poets Of going lower.
Fourth-Why keep pure-bred bull
with good butter record behind him?
| Because bull of that kind will often
| pay for himself with the first calf,
when mated to a good pure-bred COW
| or heifer. When mated with scrub
COWS the first crosses are good grades
| if properly fed and handled and the
| next crosses are three-fourthS pure
bred and produce many more net dol
| lars than common cows. When pure
bred COW or heifer is bought at the
same time as the bull and good care is
taken of the calves, any good farmer
can have a pure-bred herd of the size
| he wants. in five to ten years, prOvld-
ing he has the average amount OF what
is usually called luck. which generally
works out when spelled this way
work. No one knows how much bet
| ter off Rusk county would be this fall
| if the farmers had put in their time