Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1920-12-24

Wdupun Dy CICulI CouII JuuSe
GRASS.
| A number of influential and pro-
gressive farmers, representative OF all
parts of Door county. are working out
preliminary details for the formation
of a branch of the Farm Bureau fed
/ Grafton
State Treasurer Henry Johnson is
in favor of building more school
houses in the rural sections of the
state in preference to doubling up the
schools and thus lessening the number
of buildings.
/ Over $4,000 in premiums is being dis
tributed by the Price County Agricul-
tural society. This is the largest
amount ever paid in one year by the
society and is due largely to the fact
that the stock exhibit at the fair this
year was much larger than in previous
years.
A unit of the federalized National
guard has been organized at Viroqua
as Troop D, First w. N. G. cavalry.
having seventy-fve members. The
unit was mustered in and inspected
by Mai H. c. Dagley of the United
States cavalry. At least $4,000 in
federal government equipment will be
supplied.
A wood lot for every farm, not as a
park or hunting preserve, but as a
convenient place from which to secure
small timber for farm use, is urged
by Lincoln County Farm Agent A. H.
Cole, who says a county farm agent
should encourage a wood lot just the
same as he is encouraging cattle
breeding and grain culture.
Wisconsin cities were recently visit
ed by Argentine cattle buyers in
search of Holstein mich cows. Six
teen of the thirty head purchased were
found in the herds of Wisconsin breed
ers. William Brothers of Templeton,
John Hetts of Fort Atkinson, Aitken
Brothers of Waukesha, Otto Erdman
of Waterloo, S. B. Simons of Sullivan
and the Jefferson county farm con-
tributed to the sales.
Wisconsin dairy herds are gradually
being. cleaned of tuberculosis, accord
ing to DR.. J. C. Healey of the United
States department of agriculture, who
/ is cooperating with state officials in
their efforts to rid the industry of tu-
berculin stock. In October, 1875 herds
were accredited as free from disease
his records show. Of the "a counties
/ in which the work was undertaken,
Green county led with 20 herds, it was
said Eighty, or more than half of the
herds were composed of Holsteins.
To assist farmers in buying their
supplies, card file will be kept in the
Office of the county agent at GAINESVILLE,
giving a buying and selling list of
Rock county farmers. Buyers of the
middle west visit Rock county each
week in search of graded and pure
blood cattle and hogs, and under the
new plan the buyer will get better
service while the farmer will be ma
terially benefited A nationwide cam
paign is planned to advertise Rock
county and its farm products.
A campaign to rid the state of pat
ent and proprietary medicines which
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mapped out at Madison at confer
ence of the prohibition commissioner
and his deputies, according to 7. T.
Hazelberg, commissioner. 1t was de-
cided that saloons and drug companies
selling certain brands of so-called
medicines would be prosecuted under
the Mulberger law. Medicines with as
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are being freely sold in Wisconsin
saloons, Mr. Hazelberg said.
Judge Asa X. Owen of Phillips,
Price county, was unanimously elected
president of the Wisconsin Game Pro-
tective association at the closing ses-
sion of the eighth annual convention
in Madison Other officers elected
were: Vice-president, Frank Frover
La Crosse; OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES L. A.
Bremen, Chippewa Falls; directors,
Thomas Mcneil, Sheboygan, chair
man; Dr. A. S. Heggen, Madison; DR..
G. H. Ripley, Kenosha; Grant Phillips,
Appleton; C. A. Burquist, Ashland.
Sixty-fve members of the Central
Wisconsin Holstein-F'riesian associa-
ton, made up of farmers of Wood,
Marathon, Clark and Taylor counties,
met in Marshfield for special meet
1 ing to- discuss matters of Importance
relative to the development of that
section of the state. The principal
speaker was Secretary Oldham of the
State Holstein-Friesian association,
who gave detailed discussion of how
best to develop the local pure bred
livestock industry. County Agent r.
A. Peterson of Wood county urged
more and better advertising as part
of the development program.
The state department of agriculture
is waging war against the bargain"
seed houses that are shipping adul-
terated and cheap seed to the farmers
of Wisconsin. For several years the
seed and weed control division of the
department has been warning farmers
against the purchase of seeds from
certain mail order seed houses outside
the state. Samples of their seed col
lected from various sources and ex-
amined in the state seed laboratory
showed many of the statements made
were false and warnings were pub
lished in the papers urging farmers
not to buy seeds from these companies.
Mr.. and Mrs John Heding cele-
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