River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1921-12-22
County Agent Notes
H. C. Seyforth

Farmers Institutes will be held this
winter at Spring Valley, Maiden
Rock, Diamond Bluff and Ellsworth
The dates will be announced later.
They will most likely be held during
the months of February and March.
!. Do not forget the Farm Power
Meetings which will be held at River
Falls on Dec. 27 and at Ellsworth on
Dec. %. The meeting at River Falls
will be held at the Normal School
Auditorium, and the one at Ellis
worth at Firemen's Opera House.
The time of the meetings will be from
$50 to $3.50 p. m. Very prominent
Speakers will be present and several
films will be shown. We hope that
every farmer and his family will be
able to attend one of these meetings.
u The second term of the Agricultur-
al Short Course at Madison, begins on
January 2, and the third term on Feb.
8. Anyone can attend these different
terms and after completing terms of
satisfactory work diploma is award
ed, thus making the person finishing
graduate of that course. Only one
boy from Pierce county is attending
SO far. We would like to have more
boys in the county take an active in
terest in this course. For further in
formation write to Prof. ]. A. James,
College of Agriculture, Madison, Wis.
! The Farmers Livestock Marketing
Committee will open for business at
the National Stock Yards at Chicago,
H., on Jan. /, 1922. This is con-
tinuation of the work of the Central
livestock Commission at South st.
Paul and shows that their success is
certain or they would not be able to
open business at Chicago.
The time is very near when the
farmer will close up his farm record
books and be ready to start new
one. Never before has the farmer
given so much attention to the bust
ness side of the farm as they are
doing at the present time. And from
present indications these problems
will be of still greater Importance
next year. Seventy-five of these Farm
Record books were distributed last
wear. | have some more on hand for
the next season. Those wishing for
some should let me know as soon as
possible so that | can keep plenty on
hand.
s"Keep that hen that looks like a
porcupine in November and Decem-
Der or still wears her old coat at that
time." This is the way j. G. Halpin
cts42ae~University of WISCONSIN, has
surprised many poultry raiser this
fall ''For it now is an established
fact that the hen that molts$late in
the fall, in November or December. is
the high producer. She may look like
a pin cushion today, bat~she'll turn
out to be a gold mine" practically
all of the two hundred egg hens at the
University Poultry Farm are in the
middle of their mott or else have not
started now. They have layed straight
through since last fall. tits the poor
producer that molts in the late sum-
mer or early fall. She uses a good
share of her year in Noting and al
though she may look spick and span
TODAY, she is not the bird that keeps
up the egg check. Providing the birds
have been properly fed, the late mol
tiers the birds that mott once. are the
GOOD hens to keep. They are the
birds that should be used as breeders
next spring.
females of various ages, GUERNSEY
males, / month to 2 years old, Hol-
stein males. months to 8 years old
white and brown Leghorns, Rhode
Isiard Red White Wyandotte and Ply
north Rock cockerels. Duroc JERSEY
Poland-China and Chester White
ma'os and females. alfalfa hay or al
falfa seed, wis. pedigree No. oats
and Wis. pedigree barley?.
Can YOU furnish Grade Guernsev
and Holstein cows, fall pigs, seed corn
or seed grains?