Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1920-01-30
CLOVER SEED HIGH
AND SCARCE NOW
Villas Co. Agricultural Agent
Warns Against Inferior
Seed Information on
SiIos and Cows.

Inquiries concerning sc eds are COM
ing in daily. This Office will not do CO.
operative seed buying and selling this
spring as we have been doing. AT the
session of the county board in De-
cember it was decided to discontinue
it. There were several reasons for
this action. Last year we did over
$1,000 worth of seed business and it
took our time for over two months at
a time when several other things
could have been done. In short, the
business got so large that could not
handle it without assistance.
/ suggested this venture in the first
as war measure and it has served its
purpose as such. realize that it did
lots of good and saved the farmers
money.
The seed situation this spring is a
difficult one. Especially clover seed is
very scarce and consequently high.
Look out for concerns that offer you
clover seed cheap and be sure that
you deal with concerns in Wisconsin,,
as they are bound by our seed laws,
which are the best in the country.
The state seed inspector has just
issued a long circular letter calling
to the attention of the farmer the
business carried on by an Iowa firm
with branch in Chicago. II you
would like to see what kind of seed
this firm is putting out, come in the
Office and / will show you this letter
You are apt to get dangerous weed
seeds as well as dead seed if you send
there for anything. There are sever
al good firms in this state. In fact,
any firm in Wisconsin will give you
good seed or you can have them prose
cuted and get your money back.
Glover seed is from so to 60 cents a
pound Wholesale right now and will
go higher. Alsike clover, generally
several cents cheaper a pound than
Medium Red, is this year the same
price as the Medium. Better buy the
Medium as you then get two crops a
year, which you do not with the Al
sike or with Mammoth.
This year you can get the finest
corn for seed that we were ever able
to obtain. Several farmers near here.
have the finest kind of Wisconsin No.
25 yellow Dent for sale. If interest,"
ed, write and / will let you know who
they are. This is by all odds the.
finest corn that can be grown here and
will ripen as early as Flint corn and
give twice the fodder that Flint will.
A good idea for those who have not,
yet built a silc is to go and see those
farmers that have them and see them
feed their stack. have yet to find a.
man who is not highly pleased. They
will all tell you that they would not
try to keep cattle were it not posi-
BILE to feed silage. You know what
the proof of the pudding is. An ar
gument against silos has been that
there were so few cutters That has
been overcome now as nearly every
community has one or more of them
and, best of all, these men are most of
them liberal minded enough to be
willing to rent or lend their cutters
to those who have none.
Next year will be banner year for
the silo in this county All ready a
great many have signifed their in
tentton to build, and many more will
do SO by spring. Apply early as | can
only take on a certain number and
first come, first served. Remember, a
homemade silo costs less than one
half that made by factory and they
are just as good.