Morris tribune., 1914-01-23
BUREAU MEETS.
County Organization Addressed
by Dean Woods.

I1duCOCh 4SCGOIO Vic O4 bA1C k4bSS
meetings of the County
Farm Bureau ever held was conducted
at the Club rooms here in the village
Monday afternoon and there was a
good attendance from all parts of the
county. For the past few months
there has been a noticeable falling
off of interest in the Bureau mostly
due to misunderstanding. From some
correspondence with the authorities
having the direction of the county
agents under their control, members
of the county bureau got the notion
that the county agent was to act in
dependent of them and was neither
under their direction nor control.
Dean Woods of the State Agricultural
Department of the University was
present and explained that while the
agent was directly responsible to the
State Department yet he was put here
to be used by the county Bureau and
it was up to the Bureau to decide
what they wanted done and then in
form the county agent who would
either do it or get man here who
could. This cleared up the situation
and the enthusiasm was rekindled in
good shape and from now on the
Bureau will have some work to do.
The discussion of different sub
jects was interesting and finally led
to the Bureau deciding that the
principal work fol the coming year
should be for alfalfa, corn and
stock. the three naturally going to-
gether. The agitation for increased
acreage in alfalfa will be carried or
along with it big campaign for bet
ter care in selecting seed corn and 8
campaign of education for the impor'
tance of testing cows. 1t is realized
but by few today among the farmers
that they are still feeding cows, anC
in fact in many instances regarding
certain animals in their herds as thC
star performers. when as a fact those
very cows are not paying their board
to say nothing Of profit. As an in
stance certain COW, owned IN Morris
which was regarded by the whole
community as wonder giving TIVE
big pals of milk each day, when test
ed was found to be an expense to tht
owner as she would not produce but
| terfat enough to pay for her feed
let alone care or profit. AS yet i
is difficult to get the farmers in
terested enough to have their cows
tested though any one can easily
do so by applying to the School a
Morris or at any local creamery
provided they will take the pains tt
weigh the milk and keep track o
the cost of the feed.
Another subject brought up was tina
of warning farmers against sowing th'
so-called velvet chaff wheat 1t ha
been discovered that instead of velve
ehaff being of any benefit in beini
graded as No. wheat has lowered
the grade of blue stem to such al
extent that it is estimated there was
loss of SO, 900, 900 to the farmer
of the northwest the past year ant
farmers are urged to quit sowing
velvet chaff wheat at all.
Besides Dean Woods. among thcs,
present were Messrs. Higbie, Wilson
Miller and Gibberson, of the Agricul
tural School at Morris: Mclaughlin
Sather, Erstad and C. K. Weltzin O
Donnelly. John Willie aud CLAUS Thor
stad of Swan Lake. E. j. Jones, Jas
Lawler, Mcclure, Kirk and Hessle
of Morris, Dorweiler of Chokio,
number of the farmers and busines
men from Hancock, County Agen
Hawk and F. E. Balmer, distric
superintendent of county agents.
The meeting which was closed wa
a rising vote of thanks to Dean Woo,
for his attendance and talk was il
charge of County Chairman E. E
Walpole, of this place.