River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1917-05-17
Food Emergency kaents.

Assistant food emergency agents
have been appointed in several coun-
ties. They will aid the agricultural
representatives of these counties and
act IN cooperation with the state and
county Councils of Defense. !.
Gus Sell, agricultural instructor in
the Omro High school, will assist in
the Winnebago county Defense Coun1
Gil for which Reid f. Murray is the
emergency food agent L. J. Martells
superintendent of Brown county
schools, has been secured to aid the
local committees in food production at
Green Bay, under the leadership of e.
A. CarncrOss, agricultural representa-
tive.
X. e. Brasure, principal of the Gran
don high school, will help Agricultural
Representative Swenehart in his cam
palgn in Forest county. J. e. Phillips,
county superintendent of Taylor cOun-
ty schools, has responded to the call
and will join forces with farmers and
business men working in conjunction
with r. A. Kolb, county agricultural
agent.
Sank cOunty'S farm defense program
for this season will be placed in inn
mediate charge of George w. Davies,
county superintendent of schools,
working in cooperation with field men
from the College Of Agriculture.
Announcements of other appoint
ments in the emergency service will be
made from time to time, following def
mite action by local authorities.
Selling Crops and sIage.
'Plan now for soiling crops and
silage to save hay and grain and to
supplement the scant pastures of mid
summer"
This foresighted policy is being con-
sidered by dairy and beef cattle farm
ers in many parts of Wisconsin, and
strong appeal along this line is being
voiced by G. G. Humphrey, animal hus-
bandry department, College of Agri-
culture.
In view of the immediate need for
Wisconsin farmers to secure a maxi
mum production this season as an es-
sential defense measure, the points
emphasized by Mr.. Humphrey regard
ing summer live stock feeding are
highly important. In brief, they are:
experimenting pastures, and saw
ing hay and grain with succulent feeds
such as silage and soiling crops; these
permit a larger herd to be kept
throughout the year, the normal pro-
duction more evenly maintained, and
cows will be in better shape to enter
the winter.
'By planning for a series of sOiling
crops, starting early in the spring,
using clover, alfalfa, peas, sweet corn
and 'succotash,' which can be placed
in the silo between June ID and July
1, if necessary, farmers are insured
against loss"
Plan Extensive Bean Crops.
Hundreds of acres of land in Wis
consin's sandstone belt will be plant
ed to beans this season. Besides be-
ing a preparedness measure this, it is
believed, will be especially profitable
for the crop promises to bring high
prices.
It would, according to f1eld-crop spe-
cia1ists of the College of Agriculture,
be possible to greatly increase the
bean crop this year without reducing
the acreage of any other crops to any
extent, and there are few crops as
valuable when the small cost of seed
and the value Of the yield itself is con-
sidered.
It is not improbable that banks and
commercial organizations in the beam
growing districts will get behind
movement to secure seed for those
who cannot obtain it locally. The
state department of agriculture has
already located several carloads of
seed and is making a canvass for
more.
Hop0 for Adjournment June IS.
Speaker Whittet Of the house now
has hopes for an adjournment of the
legislature by June Is. Complications
in the handling Of many of the larger
bills and the consideration given to war
measures has caused many delays in
the legislative program. When the war
broke out it was decided to sidetrack
all legislation that was not imperative
and to close the session us early as pos
sible. There have been many pieces of
legislation that would have been given
fuller consideration had war not been
declared. Some of the woman leaders
of the state are inclined to blame the
war for the defeat of the woman suf-
frage bill, on the ground that members
of the legislature could not foresee
what might have occurred before 1920,
the time when the question was to have
been submitted to a vote of the people.
But a score of war measures have
come up, touching on many problems