The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1899-07-27
AMONG FARMERS.

| Potatato bugs got a start Just AT "A
time when they could not do much harm.
But they will be about and active next
year.
The Empire OF Turkey purposes to
give some attention 70 agriculture on a
scientific basis and has engaged an Am
erican professor of agriculture.
The price of wheat made an advance
in Chicago ON Tuesday. 1t was the fail
ure TO depress rather than the advance
which is regarded as the encouraging
sign.
Tom Windiate is unable to say wheth-
er the Lord was with him or whether
he exercised good Judgment himself il
postponing his haying. anyway he is
getting his hay saved in good shape.
John McKeough of Franklin has been
busy drawing pease TO market now that
the price is up. He says one of hi,
neighbors, John Hausner has 400 bushels
of pease III his granary. He will make
a pretty penny by having held his pease.
The steel range gang are having bit
of trouble. A farmer near Elroy had
signed note of 500 When it was pre-
scented for payment it had become 1854.
He paid it under protest. An examina-
ton of the note showed signs OF erasure
nd -, h. f,l al
A parasitic fungus has appeared on
corn i'll southern Wisconsin, particularly
in lake shore counties. 1t is known as
corn smut and it is feared it will do great
| damage. The smut has the power of
reproduction. Severe freezing will not
destroy the spores.
The weather report for the state says
very heavy rains occurred at Il few points
in the state during the week. Corn has
made excellent growth during the week.
Winter wheat and rye are i'll the shock
and the crops are considered good Oats
are badly lodged and loss will result.
There is some discoloration of barley.
Potatoes promise IL good crop.
Sheboygan has not yet succeeded in
formulating a feasible plan for the aboli-
| ton of its toll roads The Sheboygan &
| Calumet Plank Road directors recently
held Il meeting and declared dividend
of 3 per cent. the first dividend in
years 1t is possible this dividend was
declared for the purpose Of hindering a
REIMBURSEMENT Of stock which otherwise
might be surrendered, and thus delay if
not defeat the dissolution of the corpora
ton.
The dairy interests of the state hay @
been greatly advanced 10y the intelligent
interest shown in all matters affecting
the farm by the Agricultural Experiment
Station of the State University. Value
of milk is now determined by the butter
fat it contains. and quantity without
quality is no longer regarded as the con
dition to be sought The cow which S
most profitable is the one whose milk
contains most fat if quantity is not lack
ing But heretofore the milk of herds
have been tested not the milk of indiviC-
ual COWS. The Experiment Station has
been making tests for farmers who pat
ronize the University creamery to de-
termine the value of individual COWS and
H,,l tl,at Of
kept at loss as the butter from their
milk does not pay for their keeping.
A bulletin outlining the methods used
has been issued 1t should be III the
hands of every farmer who is interested
in the manufacture of butter and cheese.
1t is known as Bulletin No ~ and can
be had upon request by addressing the
Agricultural Experiment Station, Madi-
son, Wis.
The good roads movement has acquir
ed considerable Roadway throughout the
state President Moore of the Interstate
Good Roads Association is doing a great
deal to interest people in road improve
ment. In an address at Il meeting in
Milwaukee on Monday last of merchants
and manufacturers Mr.. Moore said there
were 100, 600 miles of roads in Wisconsin
upon which there is expended annually
s., 600, 600 but the returns are not what
they should be.
1t is purposed to hold good road :
convention at Milwaukee during fair
week II is said that the presence of
Gen Stone, who is at the head of the
government good roads bureau and Gen
eral Harrison the road building expert
could be secured at the meeting. 1t is
thought that even Secretary Wilson of
the Agricultural department might at
tend
Why would not such movement on
the part OF the managers Of our county
fair be advisable? There is no question
in which farmers are more interested
than that of roads. If good results are