The north Mississippi herald. (Water Valley, Yalobusha Co., Miss.) 1888-1929, 1923-09-28
WISCONSIN FARMS
MAKE MOST MONEY

onau the LanQ owners OF our
Country be made objects of political
sympathy, and be patronized and
pampered and pauperized into crea-
lures that are the objects of solicitude
by state and nation along paternalis-
tic lines? Aided by state and federal
loans,, state and federal marketing of
their crops, and beneficiaries of
special class legislation-all the
dreams of socialism and communism
Heading them like will-of-the-wisps in
to quagmires of dependency, will
they remain the proud tillers of the
soil and the economic backbone of the
nation?
That seems to be the issue before
| them When the calls came for
| liberty loans to finance our part in
the world war the farmers carried the
cla adit of their class high on the SUBJ
scribers lists-were the leading class
and now within few years after
the war we are told they are almost
in the dependent class, with no profit
| in their occupation, gradually be-
| ing ground into the earth by the mid
| dlemen and the victims of banking
| conspiracies that are to rob them of
their homes and send them all into
pauper's graves. Who can believe the
picture drawn by the peddlers of
political pessimism engendered by the
world war? The sturdy land own
ers get half their tha land
pay no house rent, and buy more
motor cars than any other class. The
entire picture of gloom drawn about
the wheat growers and others is
knocked in the head by the report of
farm conditions in Wisconsin, where
political aggrarian agitation reaches
high water mark. A Chicago Tri-
bune special from Janesville, Aug. IL,
says:
In Wisconsin, the premier dairy
state, the economic status" of the
Average farmer is perhaps the best of
all the farming states of the Missis-
sippi valley. Milk prices are ac-
counted the barometer of prosperity
| in these parts, and so far this year
milk has been bringing the dairymen
49 cents hundredweight more than
it did last year. In June, 1922, it
was running $1.44 hundredweight,
while this last June the latest avail
able figures show the average farm
price was $1.93, an increase of about
one-third.
If prices keep up, the milk produc-
ed IN Wisconsin will bring the farmer
at least $7O,000,000 more this year
than in 1921. The cows are produc-
ing ten tons every minute, day and
night, throughout the year. In Wis
consin, which has been the leader in
diversified farming, about 80 per cent
of the gross farm income comes from
livestock products, and the farm
value of milk continues So to so per
cent of the total livestock production,
so the reports of the department of
Agriculture show. Among the crops
wheat has lapsed into an almost neg
ligible factor. It's farm value in
this state last year was only about
$3,000,0O0 as contrasted with S62,-
900, 900, for corn and $4,000, 900
for oats and $69, 900, 900 for all tame
hay. The tobacco crop was worth
three times as much as the wheat
yield; potatoes brought in four times
as much as wheat, potatoes being
leading cash crop; barley and rye
have outstripped wheat, and so has
alfalfa. Canning peas alone brought
in a million dollars more than wheat.
Wisconsin grows nearly half the ma
TONS canning peas. Output has
such wide variety that the ups and
downs of prices leave Wisconsin agri-
culture on an improved basis over last
year. Similar conditions prevail in
the dairying sections of Iowa and
Kansas.