Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1918-07-10
FARM, STOCK AND DAIRY NOTES

The ifty-fve acre crop of cucumbers now
being grown under auspices o. VirOqua Bust
ress Mems association is coming along fine
and gives promise of a thrifty and profitable
future. If weather continues favorable a
heavy yield will be certain and it will require
every available young person in the city to picl
the harvests yield The land is leased from
Ananias Hall and Albert Carmichael, and C.
W. Chase is superintendent.
Fred p. Bean is having installed an up-to-
date milking machine TO use on his Retreat
dairy farm.
A license is required by commercial stock
yards in the country which is to continue in
business after July 25, 1918, and by all COM
mission merchants and dealers in live stock in
connection with stOckyards. The Licensing
proclamation Is one of a series issued by the
president. under authority of the Food Control
Act of last August, bringing the dealing neees-
stiles under the eontrO lOf the federal govern
ment.
Innumerable county and local fairs in Wis
consin and elsewhere are suspending for this
year, assigning a reason therefor war ex-
citement and economy and other things Incl
dental TO the war.
Every hour is valuable in farm work this
year, warns the Department of Agriculture
Avoid delays in threshing. Every hour a
thrashing machine is kept idle because of
breakage or bad adjustment means time lost
in the work of getting food for the soldiers
America.
There is so much of ''regulatiOn-Of every
thing" in the country that it moves Editor
Farmer-Senator Roethe of the Fennimore Times
TO the following request to Congress: IF Con-
gress would put in its time trying to regulate
the weather instead of butting in all the time
on the administrations program, it would
stand in better with the people. There are
so many things that might be regulated, es.
pecially to the benefit of the farmers. For in
stance-nO birth certificates issued to grubs
or cutworms; the speed limit of a wind not
to exceed ten miles per hour; no hail stones
larger than pin heads; every cyclone or tor
nadO TO be registered before being allowed to
operate; no frosts permitted from April TO
blowing, having and harvesting; one extra
summer month added everywhere north of the
Mason and Dixie line"
Alex A. Skolos. who assessed the town of
Jefferson this season, and has done it before,
tells the Censor that crop prospects never were
so promising. and what they are most in need
of Is help to preserve them. Alex says JET
fersou more than doubled wheat production,
going TO 1909 acres; that tobacco is increased
from $50 acres last year to $50 this season.
By the terms of new enactment the form
er waste at cheese factories is uteiized and now
makes fine returns for factory patrons. But
terfat is row separated from the whey by
centrifugal skimmers and from the i've mod
crate capacity factories at West Prairie, Far
20. Liberty Pole, Bishop Branch and Brush
Hollow, there is monthly shipped from Vi
roma station fully one thousand dollars worth
Of this SKINNED product that was formerly
wasted. Ii is now taken to Madison and
manufactured into butter. In fact some Of
into butter for home consumption That Is
real conservation.