Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1914-12-02

The next meeting place OF the con-
vention will be Marinette.
Small Towns Get Visiting Nurse.
The introduction of the visiting
nurse in the smaller communities OF
tho state is the object of the Wiscon.
sin Anti-Tuberculosis association as
exemplified by the engaging of Miss
Nellie Van Kooy for service as a dem
onstration nurse She was engaged
and went at once to Lake Mills, where
she will spent a month. From that
city she will go to other communities
which feel unable to have an all-the-
year nurse. Her mission will be to
investigate general conditions, serve
as tuberculosis and school nurse,
make medical inspections of school
children and urge upon women's clubs
and official bodies the need of sys-
tematic steps for disease prevention.
The engaging of this nurse marks
another forward step in the work OF
the Wisconsin Anti-Tuberculosis as
ISOLATION, which is directly responsible
for IL of the II nurses now in the
service of various municipalities. Miss
Van Kooy, the new recruit, has been
in the service of the city of Milwau-
kee, in the child welfare division, and
later has been superintendent of
hospital
The sending of a nurse to a small
city for a month will mean that before
the year is over IL other small COM
munities will have had the services
of this nurse for month, and now
there are only eight cities in the state
with population of over 5000 which
have not their own nurses. Ten years
ago the visiting nurse was unknown
in the state, the first step in this di-
rection having been taken in 1906,
when the Milwaukee Visiting Nurses
association was formed to bring the
first nurse to the city.
Now the value of the work is so
well recognized that many private cor
porations have visiting nurses to care
for their employees, as measure of
economy, to get greater efficiency
among their workmen. In this list
are the Pfister & Vogey company, the
Milwaukee Electric Railway and Light
company of Milwaukee, the United
States Glue factory at Carrollville and
the Pearl Button company Of La
Crosse. The Metropolitan Life Insur
ance company pays several of the city
nurses in the state and aids in the
support of many of the others.
The Wisconsin Anti-Tuberculosis as
ISOLATION in 1910 promised the serv-
ices of nurse for a month to each
of the II cities making the best record
of sales of the Red Cross seals, and
each of the twelve cities winning this
contest later put their own nurses in
service as a result of this demonstra-
ton. This, however, is only one de-
tail of the educational work of the
foes of the great white plague.
47,165 SiIos on State Farms.
There are 47,165 silos on Wiscon-
sin farms, according to the farm crop
report of Secretary ]. G. Mackenzie
of the Wisconsin state board of agri-
culture. This is an increase of nearly
20 per cent over year ago.
The average yield of clover seed
for the state is rs bushels and the
quality of the product is 94.9 per cent;
timothy seed 5,3 bushels, quality 93.5
per cent.
The percentage of the 1914 products
remaining in the hands of the farmer
on November 1 is as follows: Wheat
81.3 per cent, rye TAI, barley IT'S,
oats S5.3, corn 91.5, buckwheat S6.9,
fax S22, clover seed $50, timothy
seed S1.9, beans 87.1, peas 1875, po-
tatoes 62.5, sugar beets 445 and tame
hay So.
Following is the comparative acre
age and condition of seeding for the
season 1914: Timothy, acreage 81,
condition 1913; clover, acreage 1909,
condition $50; alfalfa, acreage 1892,
condition 994 winter wheat, acreage
1926, condition 992; winter rye, acre
age 97.6, condition $685.
Fifty-six and five-tenths per cent of
the blowing was done November /.
farmer 4.3 per cent of the 1913 crop.
The percentage of cattle fed for mar
ket as compared with 1913 is 99,7 per-
centage of swine, 104.3; sheep, SO.
The percentage OF loss from hog
cholera in the entire state was 81 per
cent, the disease being most prevalent
in Racine, Dodge, Grant, Waukesha,
Green Lake and Pepin counties.
There is a general complaint rela-
tive to the low price of potatoes, many
producers having stored their pota-
toes in pits in the field awaiting a
more favorable price
$50 on Big Committee for Big Expo.
Two hundred and fifty seniors, jul
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