The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1921-07-21
BADGER STATE
HAPPENINGS

/ ed to within one mile of the Langlad'
county line near Choate.
Barron countys one communit.
club pooled orders for seed amount
ing 10 several hundred dollars
I County Agent w. A. Duffy ordered The
seed shipped direct TO the secretary Of
the club with sight draft attached.
One of the largest fish ever taker
from the Wisconsin river at Stevens
Point was landed by Robert Kostka
and VI. Il, Check, when they caught &
pike which tipped the scales at Il
pounds. An ordinary line and &
small hook was being used when the
monster struck and the FISH was land
ed after a Commute tussle.
The farmers in Dodge county and
vicinity have cut their grain and
threshing has started Harvest time
in this section is the middle of August
at the earliest The corn crop is good
b@ all other small grains are burning
up from the intense heat and lack of
rain. The potato crop is ruined, pota-
toes the size of a walnut are in hills
where the vines have dried up.
Production Of grain crops in Wis
consin was reduced by 100000 bush
els during June, according to Joseph
A. Becker of the Wisconsin co-Opera-
tive crop reporting service Forecast
of grain production, based upon July
1 condition, is estimated at 116,000O0
bushels, as compared to 12S,6S9, 900
forecast June /, and 136,719,O00 pro
duced in 1920, and a fYeyear average
Of 12G344,OOO.
Bess Burke Ormsby, a Holstein COW
valued at $3.50 died in Jefferson
county according TO word received by
the Rock county agriculture agent at
GAINESVILLE. The COW was owned by
the operators of the Milford Meadows
and was insured for $4,000. The farm
is near Lake Mills. The COW has rec
ord of AZ pounds of butter fat in sew
en- days, 1,164 pounds in a year, and
26,OOO pounds of milk in year.
Work on the new $4,000 concrete
building of the Kresge company over
the Rock river adjacent to the new
East Grand Avenue bridge Beloit was
halted when Deputy United States
Marshal WIN J. Touton caused the
arrest of three superintendent Of
construction on a charge of violating
federal laws by building on the bed of
navigablc stream without permits
sion Of the war department.
The haying season in Barron is
practically completed and farmers re-
port the lightest crop in MANY years.
On most farms the crop was about
half that of a normal yield 1t is be-
lieved that many farmers will be com
PEELED to sell cattle because of the
limited hay supply this year The light
crop is attributed chiefly to the long
dry spell, and to the light snowfall of
last winter, when the grass was killed
as a result of poor protection from the
cold.
Johanna Beauty Battles, No 401 ,S99,
owned by John Wehinger G. Son,
GAINESVILLE, now holds the state record
for junior 4-year olds, of the Holstein-
Fresian herds. Her record, according
to a statement received by the owners
from the Holstein Friesian World, of
fetal paper Of the association, was
704.2 pounds OF milk in seven days.
This is within four-tenths of pound
of the record of senior 4-year olds.
Beauty Battles has a record of IS
days milk of an average Of S739
pounds a day or 6,55l.2 for the period.
Resolutions confirming the issuance
and sale of road bonds in the sum Of
$6S60OO were passed by the Dodge
county board OF supervisors, in com
pliace with the approval of such &C
ton given at the last primaries The
bonds which are in the sum of $1,000
each and become due in 1889, will care
for the road construction work to be
undertaken in Dodge county This year.
Al the same meeting a special appro-
prialon was voted to make available
$4,000 for the Hubbloton road be,
tween Watcrlown and Waterloo on
state highway No, 10 An additional
sum of $4,000 win be available for
the same stretch from federal and
state aid
street railways and interurbans op-
Grating in Wisconsin showed a mark
ed increase over 1919 in the amount
of passenger revenue and the number
OF passengers carried during 1920. fig
uros compiled by the railroad commits
sjoncr show. Total earnings of all
companies increased from $lI222,-
239 50 in 1919 to $li,69S,63S33 in 1920
with the total number OF passengers
carried increasing from 16l,995,508
to l7I795,51l While the amount of
revenue has increased, operating ex-
penscs have more than met the ad
vance, according to the commission
Intorurban companies especially are
having hard times due to the opera
ton OF bus lines and to automobile
transp nrtatiun the report said
over $500 students had registered
for the 1921 summer session at the
University OF Wisconsin by the mid
die of the second week of the term.
Some Of these students viii drop out,
but according to Dean S. II Goodnight.
director Of the summer session, the
final enrolment will exceed 44OO
In second statement on weed con.
troll the STATE department of agricul.
luro, Madison, calls on farmers TO co.
operate in Graduating the noxious
erow;hs which threaten the state
.