Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1923-03-03
Wisconsin Compared.


any other state IN the Mississippi
Valley.
Wisconsin's grain and hay are fed
on the farm. OF every 500 re
ceived from all sales, only SIT re-
presents proceeds from the sale of
crops.
Wisconsin leads all states in the
Mississippi Valley in ten-year aver
age acre yield of cereal crops, in
Price received by the farmer for
butter, and in the acre value Of its
hay crop.
It's total milk production means
80 gallons for every man, woman
and child in the state.
Wisconsin produces more tobacco
than Cuba.
Has nearly a COW per inhabitant.
Since The War.
Value of all property increased
three-fourths of a billion dollars.
Of states with fifty thousand or
more firms doing business Wisconsin
has the lowest per cent of commerce.
/ al failures, Iowa second.
Has completed soil survey of upper
| Wisconsin.
Garden crops have increased SIS per
cent
Has assumed first place in peas for
canning.
Has become the leading producer
Of hemp.
Now produces 76 per cent of the
Nations cheese.
Has taken the lead in number of
dairy cows and number of state and
federal accredited tuberculin tested
herds.
Has cleared 225,OOO acres of
land and added 6,057 settlers de-
yeloping farm homes (names and
addresses on file with immigration
division, Wisconsin Department of
Agriculture, Madison.)
Has enacted law exempting from
taxation for three years the new set
tiers home forty, applies to new land
occupied since June, 1921, also land
mortgage association law to assist
financing settlers and colonization
companies.
Has largest area of good un-
developed land close to great
markets.
Wisconsin's farms average smaller
III acres) than other states of the
Mississippi Valley.
Is first in number of silos-90, 900.
Within its borders are three thou
sand lakes and 500 named streams.
Exports more spring water than
any other state-6 million gallons.
Malaria fever is practically an
unknown disease and typhoid death
rate in rural sections, for each
100000 population.
Raises more Guernsey cattle than
the island of Guernsey, has more
Brown Swiss than any other state,
second in Holsteins.
Leads all states in COW testing as
sociations.
Established first marked trunk
highway systems maintained by state
aid.
Ranks first in acre production of
flax.
Produced the first cow, Yeksa
Sunbeam, to make thousand pounds
Of butter in one year.
Established the first kindergarten
and the first dairy school.
Wisconsin has no alkali, no hot
winds. Average summer tempera-
turc, ~ degrees, average velocity of
/ -.DSlo~ Of al
ton of 100 feet.
It's 80 inch rainfall means 118
billion tons of water annually for
crops
Established the first state soils
laboratory in the United States.
Seventy-eight per cent of the
population is American born.
Now ranks second in production of
cabbage and second in value of live
stock products per farm not includ-
ing live stock sold or slaughtered
Has more effective license law
regulating business of real estate
| brokers and statesmen.
Comparatively few adults are un-
able to read and write. In the II
north-central states including Wis
consin illiteracy is 18 per cent lower
than in any other II states, 20 per
| cent lower than in the Is original
states and nearly so per cent less
than in all the rest of the states.-
Wisconsin Department of Agrieul
ture.
Some man are lucky Florida