The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1903-05-22
CORRESPONDENCE.
GAINESVILLE.

Miss Aline Thayer has been offered
the position of assistant to Prof Brace in
the domestic science department of the
Marquette, Mich, high school. The posi-
ton pays about $500 per year more than
GAINESVILLE was giving Miss Thayer and
she will no doubt accept the offer. She
is graduate of the university of Chica-
60 and the Lewis institute and has
proved herself an efficient teacher during
her connection with the GAINESVILLE high
school.
The defeat of the passage of the Rock
County Fair bill in the legislature after
having successfully passed the senate,
will prove very disappointing to large
number of farmers of the county. There
was wide spread desire among them to
once more have an opportunity to ex-
hibit the products of their farms and to
renew the yearly social reunions which
afforded them, in various ways, SO much
pleasure and enjoyment. Indeed it is
quite too bad that SO rich farming
community should be deprived of the
benefits of fair that should be as it
once was, credit to the county and in
fact the leading fair of the state.
GAINESVILLE secured second place in the
Rock County Athletic meet Saturday
afternoon at Evansville, in competition
with the high schools of Evansville and
Beloit. Evansville secured first place in
the meet but their victory was won
solely on the markings in the field events,
GAINESVILLE winning the majority of the
track events. Harold Myers of James
vile won the honor of making the most
points of any individual at the meet,
making Az points for GAINESVILLE. He
was the star runner of the bunch and
had no trouble in defeating his competi-
tors in the 100-yard and quarter mile
races and secured second in the 22O yard
dash. The final score STOOD Evansville,
591a; GAINESVILLE, 1917; Beloit, %.
On the Hugunin farm near the city
the United States department of agri-
culture is carrying on an extensive ex-
pertinent in soil analysis. The investi-
cations in this branch of agriculture are
under the management of the bureau of
soils. Professor King, formerly at the
Madiso, experiment station, we'll known
in Wisconsin, has general charge of this
work at Washington and is chief of this
division. The primary object of the
work is to determine what effect varying
management has on different types OF
soil. The experimenting crew carry a
complete field laboratory with them, but
as some of the tests cannot be done here
all samples are forwarded to Washing
ton. The gentlemen who are conduct
ing this work in Rock county are: Mr..
A. FL. Snyder, assistant chemist at Wash
ington, a graduate of the agricultural
course at Ohio university; Mr.. F. D.
Stevens, Michigan university, and Mr..
N. S. Lyman, Wisconsin man. They
have been at work here since March rs,
and will continue till the latter part of
October, when they return to Washing
ton and work on their report till the fol-
lowing spring. They have very accu-
rate instruments for their work-to ana
lyze soil and keep complete atmos-
pheric and meteorological record. Among
others, self recording thermometers that
are kept continually foot deep in the
ground, thus securing the natural tenn
perature in the earth for an entire sea-
son. Also instruments for recording au-
tomatically the amount of rainfall and
the evaporation of moisture from the
ground-the same as takes place in the
field. Many small amounts must be
weighed accurately spring balance
weighs to the fve-thousandth of a pound.