Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1922-05-12

shipped over a single railroad into five
counties in northern Wisconsin $40 car
loads of hay and a grand total Of 1,S42
carloads of feed during the year just
closed But why multiply illustra-
tons?
There are one hundred thousand
head of cattle to the twenty-three thou
sand farms in this area more than the
present amount of cleared land will
support-an average of four full grown
animals to the farm! If each farmer
should clear four acres a year it would
take him three years to catch up with
his livestock. And all the time the
livestock continues to increase. We
cannot afford to sacrifice profit produc-
ing livestock. 1t is needed as foun-
dation for future herds and fiocks.
Farmers in this rapidly developing
section must raise something besides
feeds for livestock, if they, themselves,
don't want to go hungry.
If these things be true and they are
true
CLEAR MORE LAND-WHY NOT
NOW?
Stump five acres, break it and get
it into a crop.
Brush five acres more and seed it
till ready for stumping. Straighten
the edges of field to make easy hand
ling.
WHY NOT?
GnH tow, 4I1a L..
burrows and surface drains Fill up
the stump holes or they may be mud
holes.
The time to use explosives is in ear
ly spring and late fall All land clear
ing materials may be ordered in large
quantities by pooling orders. Wet land
doesn't grow crops and won't pay
taxes. Good drainage permits early
cultivation and keeps back the frost
Raise Rough Feed
WHY NOT?
Grow your own feed instead of buy
ing hay. Mixed clover and timothy is
sure crop of hay. Both seldom fail
the same year.
Sow oats and peas together and cut
after oats are nicely headed. They
yield heavy crop of good hay besides
being the best kind of a nurse crop
for new seeding.
Grow root crops on small pieces of
new land. They yield heavily and are
good feeds besides furnishing vege-
tables for the table.
Buckwheat on new breaking rOts the
surface quickly and can be planted
late.
Plant corn or soy beans, or both if
the season be late. Cold resistant
corn is new crop of much promise in
northern Wisconsin. Soy beans are
as good as clover for hay when well
cured.
Build silo for storing feed if you
have as many as six or seven cows. A
home made stave silo 10 by "a feet will
cost less than was paid last winter for
five tons of hay. Four acres of corn
will fill it and do the work of ten
acres of hay.
Have Something to Sell
doesn't pay for the hay you buy for
her? Grade Jerseys giving less than
$500 pounds, Guernseys giving less
than 1000 and Holsteins giving less
than 5000 of milk in year don't pay
for their feed
Use a pure bred sire if there is one
in the neighborhood. Scrub stock
costs much and returns little. Sell or
eat the scrubs.
Keep livestock that keeps you. I'm
der-fed livestock never pays. Scant
pasture, poor feed and poor animals
are only burden of expense. Why
pay the bills?
Raise more chickens. Besides fur
nishing meat and eggs for the family
a good flock of hens will lay eggs to
sell. It costs little to get good flock
started; they live largely on waste
require large acreage Of cleared land
for their keep.
Grow potatoes for seed and table
stock. Northern Wisconsin can grow
the best in the world. Potatoes good
enough for seed always bring good cash
returns. One acre of land in potatoes
will buy the corn grown on two acres
of land anywhere in the corn belt.
Balance your farm by clearing
enough land to grow most of the crops
necessary to keep the stock which is
to utilize your own labor during the
winter months.
Glover crops are sure here-grain