Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1918-02-20
To ORGANIZE THE COUNTY
SMITH AND STOLL ATTEND EN-
THUSIASTIC CONVENTION
Workof Uniting All Citizens of C0un-
~ and Enlisting Their Co-opera-
ticn Now Begun

County Food Administrator c. J.
Smith and John E. Stoll attended the
great patriotic meeting at Madison
last week and came home full of en-
thusiasm, and facts concerning de-
Tense work. They say that Vernon
county should raise 1000 more acres
of Marcus spring wheat than it did
last year; that a complete county or
ganization must be made at once;
that we must have unity in our work
and that every town chairman and
village president must be drafted by
the State Council. The seed corn
situation all over state and nation is
alarming. Prof Norgard can get
flint corn from Connecticut for 81 q
bushel The mills will be asked not
to grind Marcus wheat but to ex-
change it for flour
1t is thought that Eckhart & Co.
can get car of No. corn from Mis-
souri, that will be all right for ensil-
age seed corn. Mr.. Eckhart agrees
to buy seed wheat, clean it and sell it
right. The firm will handle seed corn.
Northern Wisconsin has potatoes
enough TO run ITO ears a day for 1913
days Hoover will send 700 refrig-
orator cars into the state for potatoes
They sell for so cents q bushel for
No. l, and 80 cents per 100 pounds for
small ones The sugar beet factories
will pay $40 ton for beets and fur
nish seed at right price. They will
furnish family for every u acres
to do all the hand work for S23 per
acre.
The county has got to have a con-
servation food agent. At the coun-
Gil meeting yesterday / was ordered
to send to every member of the Coun-
ty Board this letter:
Yiroqua, Wis, Feb. Is, 1918.
Dear Sir: By virtue Of authority
vested in the Wisconsin State Coun-
Gil of Defense, under the laws of the
state you have been drafted, as chair
man of your town. as member Of
the Vernon county sub-council.
As such your name has been sent
to the State Council andyou are sum-
moned TO appear at the city hall in the
city of Virogua on Monday, February
%, at ! o'clock p. m. sharp, to con-
slider ways and means Of doing our
full patriotic duty in this trying time
in our country's history. No excuse
will be accepted. Yen must be here.
Yours respectfullyrls V. PORTER
Chairman Co c ! Ill Defense.
Three counties of tn5 state are now
fully organized and energetic action
may make Vernon the fourth one.
/ Concerted action on part of our farm
ers with the county council and the
county agent cannot fai! in at least
100000 benefit to our county.
To meet the serious demand for
help, schools are going TO close earli-
er in order that high school students
may be pressed into service; men in
iails, and retired farmers will help
to swell the workers; all public build
ing has been stopped for the period
of the war-thus it is planned to fill
labor's depleted ranks.
The freeze last fall caught the cell
sack Of sl1e seed corn with just enough
moisture in it to burst the sack and
kill the germ. Test your seed corn
Fully so per cent is declared TO be
dead. Eckhart & Dyson are making
strenuous efforts to secure seed,
! Aschool-house campaign of speak
ers covering the entire state is now
under way, bringing before every
man and woman in the state how best
they can serve their country in this
crisis.
! These rambling notes by DR.. Por-
, ter and the Censor serve to give d
hint Of The far-reaehing movements
about 10 be set in motion. Let every
patriotic man and woman get behind
these conservation projects with al
their vigor of body and soul. Re
member the Tuscania!"