Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1925-07-08

10000 cases or 119,400,000 cans,
enough to furnish can for every
man, woman and child in the
United States and have a few cans
left over for supper.
Wisconsin is the leading hemp
producing state, having superseded
Kentucky. She also leads in the
number of silo s-104 430-those
great round preserve jars" that sit
beside most barns in the state, in
which fresh green fodder is pre-
servd for the winter use of the
herd, much the same as the house
wife uses the cold pack" method
OF preserving green garden vege-
tables for her family's winter use.
Team Work Indispensable.
The main reason for the success
OF Wisconsin in agriculture is team
work or group effort under the
splendid leadership of the College
OF Agriculture of the state univer-
sity which co-operates with the
United States Department of Agri-
culture, the State Commissioner of
Agriculture, and other agencies.
The college devotes its efforts to
three lines Of development-teach-
ing, research, extension.
As an indication of what is being
done IN Wisconsin through the eff
forts of these combined agencies 1t
may be stated that there are 900
herds of cattle in the state officially
accredited as being free from tn.
berculosis. Wisconsin is in second
place in this respect, whereas a
short time ago, when this move
ment took it's great impetus, it was
in twelfth place.
There are five thousand herds Of
pedigreed cattle in Wisconsin; $50
COW testing associations with $500
members owning $4,000 COWS, the
milk output of each COW being
weighed and tested for butter fat
with view to eliminating non
paying producers. Wisconsin was
the first state to certify her seed
potatoes. There are over 500 we'll
established farmers clubs of COM
munity character and in twelve
counties these clubs are federated.
Ninth in Manufacturing.
Coincident with the development
Of the agricultural industry has
been the development of manufac-
turing and mining. The value of
the manufactured products of the
state in 1850 was S9,283 900. By
1914 it had risen to $695,000,0
an increase Of 7400 per cent. Today
it is over one billion dollars. In
1850, p manufacturing states sur
passed Wisconsin in the value of
their output. In 1870 ten of these
states had been passed and Wiscon-
sin stood in twelfth place.
In 1909 and today Wisconsin,
stands ninth place in industrial
output, being exceeded only by
New York, Pennsylvania, Illinois,
Ohio, Massachusetts, New Jersey.
Michigan, and Indiana in the order
named. The significance of this
fact is brought home when it is
stated that the state is twenty
sixth in area and thirteenth in
population.
Wisconsin is not commonly
known as a mineral producing
state, but she ranks high, her min
eral wealth production in 1917
amounting in value to S27000,000
almost twice as much as the pro-
duction of gold in Alaska in that
year. She is first in the production
of mineral water, the yearly output
having a value Of 100000. One of
her famous mineral waters is used
in almost every large city in the
world. She ranks in third place in
the production of zinc ore, 3,000,-
600 tons a year, and sixth in iron,
100000 tons year.
That Wisconsin is one of natures