Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1914-12-03
SKILLET CREEK
FARMERS CLUB
HOLDS MEETING
(By William Toole)

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meeting held on Friday evening at the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. Shale was
lwell attended and the proceedings were
interesting from start to finish. Mr..
Shale furnished music on the auto pi-
ano Fl. M. Eschenbach Of North Free
! dom, who was one the managers of
: the Sank county exhibit at the state
/ fair last fall, told Of some of the requi-
sites to insure successful showing at
the state fair. Under past conditions
there has been surplus OF material in
some lines while there has been def
cheney in others. While the showing is
made under the auspices of the Sank
county order Of Wisconsin Experiment
association others have been free to
contribute to the success of the Sank
county exhibit. Through the liberality
of the county board it will be possible to
employ few field men to look up ma
terial and provide for systematic pack
ing 80 that those in charge of the ir
stallation will know in the beginning
what material is available. 1t is hoped
that our people will this season be as
helpful to the collecting committee as
they have in the past.
To Sank county belongs the honor of
securing the first silver cup awarded to
any Wisconsin county and we hope to
continue to hold our place at the head
Sank county is earning a good reputa-
ton for producing first class seed grains
and we deserve a good market for our
high quality products.
A list of the contributions to the last
county order exhibit was read and il
was noted that very large proportion
of those who helped live on rural route
4, Baraboo. Each year the competition is
more keen and we must make still great
err efforts to hold first place. There was
a full discussion following Mr.. Eschen-
bach's remarks.
The president referred to the fact, that
a new club is being organized in the
Skillet Falls district with Fred Zantow
as president and Miss Alvin as secre-
tary. The president expressed the
wish that community building might
be built near Skillet Falls Corners,
thus making it possible for larger club
4 meetings to be held. -
Attention was also called to tbs
Country Life Association annual meet
ing to.be held in Baraboo on JANUARY
and 9: twill be necessary that year
to hold the meeting in some larger hall
than the court room. = u ,a%E#
The Historical institute to be- held in
Baraboo January 26 and 27 will be O.
special interest to the members of tbs
club because several of the leading
prize winners at the state fair are mem
bers of ths society and some Of the best
orchard lands Of the county are within
the club territory. >.&
After visiting intermission George
w. Hackett of North Freedom gave a
very interesting talk on poultry mat
tiers. Some features of the poultry
show to be held at North Freedom dur
ing the last days of December are
worthy Of special attention.
The discussion about poultry houses,
trap nests, breeding for production,
double mating and many other points
OF interest was quite lively. :
The next meeting of the club will be
at the home of Mr.. and Mrs. William
Wichern Friday evening, Dec II. Thi.
will be the annual corn show and trophy
ribbons will be offered for the first,
second and third best in white and vel
low dent and flint corn. Rural and
cobbler potatoes, also fried cakes,
doughnuts, light and dark cookies.
Mr.. Davies will judge the corn and po-
tatoes and committee of ladies will
judge the cooked exhibits. Afterwards
the whole club will sample the cooking
with coffee. ". A. Toole will talk
about standardizing our seed corn anC
show good reason why it is worth while
to still further improve our seed corr
and adopt a specific working stand
ard.
Mrs. Martha Wichern will read a e
lection from Iongfellow's poem, Hia-
watha.
The Wichern Quartette and Others
have been requested to furnish music
/ for the occasion