River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1921-01-13
County Agent Notes
H. G. seyforth

Why not take vacation? Spend
ten days at the Get Together Market
Conference at Madison, Feb. to 10.
Then ask yourself whether the time
was profitably spent. You'll say it
was. Secretary Meredith, United
States Department of Agriculture, J.
r. Howard, American Farm Bureau
Federation, John j. Blaine, Governor
Of Wisconsin, Ashbury S. Lever, Con-
gresham, Edward Nordman, Division
of Markets and HI. Russell are some
of the Headliners ali worth hearing
When you go to the Market Confer
ence at Madison Feb. Ito, take your
wife alcng. Women play big part
in reducing the high cost of living.
They make house a home. Ten days
at the Women's Short Course will re-
freshen farm women for better work
in home building. Child health, the,
kitchen, efficient marketing, labor saw
ing equipment and cooperation will
be thoroughly discussed at the wom-
ems sessions. Mr.. and Mrs. Wiscon-
sin Farmer should both plan to be on
hand. / have programs for the above
meetings and will gladly give you one
III interested. A fare and one-half
will be charged on all railroads for
anyone attending the above confer
ence at Madison.
Farm Inventory
Remember that now is a good time
to take that farm inventory and start
out with the farm bookkeeping. Any
farmer can spend three to five min
utes a day and keep this simple set
of books. Fifty farmers n the county
have started out with this system Of
bookkeeping and there should be at
least fifty more. can supply you
with the books at the office. Write
or phone for one.
Better Sires Campaign
The better sires campaign recently
passed the 5000 mark in the United
States. That many farmers have
agreed to breed all livestock on their
farms to pure-bred sires only. 1t is
one of the results thus far accomplish
ed by the u. S. Dept. of Agriculture
in cooperation with the states and
county agents in systematic cam
paign begun only IA months ago to
exterminate scrubs, especially. the
scrub sire in the United States. Are
we doing it here in Pierce County?
This is for you to think about. We
expect to take another census the
coming spring and the per cent of
pure-bred sires in Pierce County
should be 25ee instead Of 1870. Think
about it and then act.
Pure-bred Hog BUSINESS
IL anyone expects to go into the
p1re-bred hog business now is the
time as the bred sows in the different
sales are going very reasonable. There
will be large number of these sales
in the next few weeks very close to
here. ! will be glad to help you get
started if you are interested.
Dairy Cow Ration
Now is the time to give that dairy
COW a good balanced ration. The fol-
lowing ration is a very good and cheap
one at the present time:
200 ID of ground oats
200 fb corn meal
200 ID pure wheat bran
so lb. oil meal
SO ID cotton seed meal
This costs about $3.40 ton after 1t
is mixed and when fed with corn 81
lage and clover hay it is very good
Ground barley may replace the corn
meal. Feed one pound of the above
mixture for every 3 or pounds OF
milk produced.
Your Soil Analysed
If you want to get in with the rest
of the farmers and have your soil
analysed by the state next spring,
now is the time to make your appll-
cation. Phone or write me, and ] will