Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1918-07-31
AGRICULTURAL ITEMS.

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of 112 testers in Wisconsin cow
testing associations, six are women
Miss Irene Schanke, Outagamie coun-
ty, and Miss Gertrude Magneson. of
Dunn county, have recently begun
work
Ten acres of drug plants will be
harvested soon at the university ex-l
pertinent farm. The yields include
peoples, b~elladonna. henbane. worm
wood, d~igitalis, sunfiower, rye, i'm
son and many other valuable drug
plants.
Heavy decreases in meat stocks
held in cold storage since June / are
reported by the Bureau of Markets
while stocks of butter are increas-
ing. Decreases are shown for all
classes Of poultry. The movement of
eggs from storage has begun, a month
earlier than usual, and since july
more eggs have been taken out of
storage than have been received by
cold-storage plants.
The federal government is calling
on the farmers to SOW AZ, 000, 900 acres
in wheat this fall. This should yield
approximately 667, 000, 900 bushels
the greatest winter wheat crop in his
tory! The last crop report estimated
the total of winter and spring wheat
at about 800, 900, 900 bushels for this
year. The plans for next year will
make for a billion bushel harvest.
This is based on an average crop Of
15.7 bushels and allowing for ten per
cent winter kill. To put it over will
require a 20 per cent increased ac-
reage in the wheat growing states.
Ten thousand plants of disease-re-
sistant Wisconsin Hollander cabbage
have begun to ripen in the seed fields
of Racine and Kenosha counties. Four
hundred fifty heads Of disease resist
ant All-Seasons cabbage are being
grown in the same counties for seed
production this year. The work is
an outgrOwth of the investigation of
cabbage yellows by T.. r. Jones at
the Wisconsin Experiment station.
AS a result a disease-resistant cab
bage has been produced and Wiscon-
sin growers are seeking to meet the
demand for seed of the new variety.
The fields have recently been in
spected by members of the plant path
ology department. Although the
amount of seed cannot be predicted,
the indications are for a fair yield.
Among the poultry experiments
now being conducted on the Govern
ment form at Beltsville, Md, are a
number of feeding tests in which the
value of vegetable protein is being
compared with the beef scrap. One
pen of chickens fed a mash contain
ing 20 per cent beef scrap produced in
five and one-half months an average
of 60 eggs per hen. Another pen fed
a mash consisting of ten per cent
peanut meal and ten per cent beef
scrap produced an average of 53.4
eggs per hen during the same period.
The hens in a third pen which were
fed a mash consisting of 10 per cent
soy-bean meal and 10 per cent beef
scrap averaged 44.4 eggs for the per-
iod. In other pens ~cotton-seed meal
and velvet-bean meal were fed as
part substitute for beef scrap with the
result that the hens produced a fair
egg yield, though not as high as the
hens in the first pen mentioned.
The red cedar tree is again pro-
nounced an enemy plant by the plant
pathology department as a result of
examination of apple leaf specimens
showing rust spots which orchard
owners in Grant, Crawford, Sank and
Richland and Iowa counties have sent
to the department. apple rust can
not live over the winter except on the
red CEDAR a y l.. r.. Jones of the
Wisconsin Experiment station, land
the spores produced in n apple tree
cannot spread the disease to other APP
pies, so the only practical control
measure is the removal of the red ce-
dar trees. Spraying the apple early
in the season has some effect, but
spraying the cedar is of no benefit.
Some apple varieties, such as the
Wealthy, the Jonathan, the Dud-
ley, are especially susceptible to the
rust, and the popularity of these var
ieties in wisconsin orchards may
partly explain the increase of the dis
ease" Growers who have been troub-
led with apple rust will be especial
ly interested in the bulletin, Apple
Rust anu lIS OOuIIOl, WAASh WAA ~
sent upon request to the College OF
Agriculture, Madison.
49,
Thousands of acres of early pota-
toes in southern Wisconsin are turn
ing brown and drying up with the po-
tatoes only partly grown, as the re-
suit of the attack of a multitude OF
little green leafhoppers. DR.. Ball,
State Entomologist of the Wisconsin
Department of Agriculture at Mad
ison, has just returned from a trip to
Monroe. GAINESVILLE, Elkhorn and Lake
Geneva. He reports the trouble as
being widespread in this region, x
tending into southern Illinois and as
far north as Madison, at least. Only
the early potatoes have suffered SO
far but this brood of l~eafhoppers is
now acquiring wings and will prob
ably fly to the late potatoes n beans
doing damage there later. In the
worst fields the leaves have shrlvel-
ed completely and died, leaving only
the stalks green. These cannot be
saved but where part of the leaves
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