Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1914-07-03


abattoir and slaughtered in the pres
ence of a government inspector anC
LESSONS of tuberculosis were found
In the animals. Information is not
at hand as to whether the seller has
yet made recompense for these dis
caSed animals. But in any case the
tive is the only thing that will Sc
cure anything for the buyer. One of
the men has tested about 125 sam
pies of grass and clover seed for
farmers and found about one-third
of the samples We're rejected on ac-
count of foul seeds and lack of ger
mination He has also tested cut 5000
ears of corn for farmers and found
that 40 per cent did not grow.
Did this work mean anything to
the farmers interested? Would such
work mean anything to the farmers
of Rusk county?
Another representative has recent
ly helped the business men and farm
ers Of his county to select two car
loads of dairy cattle for his county.
Every representative is dispensing
better grain seed to farmers to try
out The agricultural representatives
in the counties in which there are
representatives are very centers of
the recent work in potato improve
mont All of the agricultural repre-
sentatives are helpful in securing
county exhibits for the state fair.
The counties that took first and sec
ond at the Wisconsin Potato Grow
ers Association at Rhinelander had
agricultural representatives.
One agricultural representative has
organized three COW testing associa-
tions in his county and the farmers
in these associations are wedding out
the 'boarder" COWS. Another repre-
sentative has one cow-testing asso-
citation and a second under way.
Rusk county is in the great dairy
belt of Wisconsin; the greatest dairy
country in the world Rusk county
ought not to be bothering along with
'bOarder' COWS One representative
in few days got twenty of the
farmers of his county to commence
weighing the milk of each COW and
recording the weights. Another rep
resentative by doing the same thing
helped one farmer to find that he
had an 5000 pound cow and that all
of his COWS averaged nearly 5000
pounds of milk and that by doing
away with three boarders his herd
would average nearly 1000 pounds of
milk. In another herd 10000 pound
COW was discovered And wherever
a milk scale is installed a new idea
of the dairy interest is implanted in
the farmers mind and a more bus
iness-like farmer is the result.
The agricultural representatives by
their instruction of young men and
boys in their short courses in the
winter time have changed lot of
boys from the notion of leaving the
farm to the notion of remaining on
the farm and raising better stock
and seeds. Several young men have
become seed corn men just from the
instruction secured in these short
courses under agricultural represen-
tatives. These short course boys are
introducing more business-like
farm prOceedue.
And so it goes. More might be
said along the same line. Instances
might be added until the paper was
full of them. But they would only
multiply the same testimony. The
agricultural representative is making
good. He is in demand the more the
farmers come to see what he can
do for them. Where he is best known
he is kept busy day and night and
all of the time. He is on the job
all the while, is looking out for
things that will prove of advantage
to agriculture in his county, he is
an ever present source of informa-
tion and interest, and he is ready to
help the farmer who needs his help,
and that farmer is just the fellow
who needs such a man as the cOun-
ty agricultural representative. The
man that needs help is the man to
help. 1t is a great loss to any coun-
ty or to any community to have any
failures among it's citizens. The ag-
ricultural representative is the cheap
est and most efficient way to carry
on helpful work among those inter
ested in agriculture.
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