River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1921-11-03
County Agent Notes
H. G. Seyforth


No brighter prospects for the In
ternational Livestock Exposition eve,
existed than on the eve of 1921 as
senlblage of the aristocracy of pedi-
greed draft horses, beef cattle, swine
and sheep of this North American
continent and Europe. The exposition
is to be held at Chicago, Nov. 26th
to Dec. 8. The worlds greatest grain
and hay show will be staged on a
more elaborate scale at the same
time. The railroads have granted one
and one half fare for round trip tick
cts from all points between the Ohio
and Mississippi rivers. Tickets will DC
on sale from Nov. 9Th to Goth. This
is your opportunity to enjoy a sea-
son of education, pleasure and trip to
Chicago at greatly reduced fare. 1t
will be worth your while to attend
this show
Although the dairy world has not
learned of any improvement over the
Babcock milk test, promoters are can
vassing a number of counties of the
state selling a substitute of this IA
NOUS test. The agents of this device
are taking prices ranging from $500
to $1,000 and they are claiming the
Endorsement of experiment stations
and farm paper publishers to aid them
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test has been tried out at the Madison
Experiment station and found that it
is not accurate. If any such promoter
is soliciting trade from anyone in this
county he should be reported to me at
once.
The Guernsey breeders have or
ganized two Community Breeders
Clubs the past week. One at Ellis
worth with the following officers:
Pres, Albert Kline, Vice Pres, w.
Nelson, Sec. & Treas, Paul Bjerkeng.
The other club was organized at Plum
City with the following officers:
Pres, Peter Krings, Vice Pres, M
Hellmiller, Sec & Treas, Geo. Hof-
man. Another one will be organized
in the town Of Rock Elm next week.
They are all planning to work on the
oleomargarine proposition in coopesa-
ton with merchants not to handle the
substitute They are also taking Up
the matter of boys and girls,calf clubs,
and hope to have large number of
them organized before next year.
They have decided TO take & trip the
7th of Nov. to visit some Guernsey
herds in St. Croix county, and some
herds near Hastings, MINI. The plans
are to meet at the corner near the,
Chas. Wifi farm west Of Martell at
nine O'Clock in the morning, gong
north to Baldwin, Roberts, '..ycr
Falls and Prescott. W. hope every.
body interested in taking tllis trip will
let me know if hey are going so that
we can make necessary arrangements.
For further information get in touch
with me. The Holstein Community
Breeders Clubs are working on the
same projects, and they, also, expect
to make trip little later.
have located some rure Grimm
alfalfa seed which / can procure for
thirty cents pound plus the freight
This is very nice seed and anybody
wishing to purchase alfalfa seed for
next season should get their order in
now as this is about twenty cents a
pound cheaper than the Grimm seed
sells for. This is an opportunity that
alfalfa growers should not miss. The
seed comes direct from farmers thru
County Agent.
Anybody wishing TO have their soil
tested for acidity to find out il they
need limestone for growing alfalfa
should collect the samples of soil be-
fore the ground freezes and SEND them
in to ME Tor analysis. All the sam
PIE that is required is small cupful
taken from the first three inches of
top SOIL
Exactly 20,336 official tests were
made in Wisconsin dairy herds during
the past year according to R. T. Har-
ris of the Wisconsin College of Agri-
culture who is in charge of the adj
vanced registry tests in the state.
These tests were made on 500 indi-
vidual animals owned by 1904 breed
ers. Every breed of dairy cattle is