River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1921-12-01

6 lbs. of corn meal
7 lbs. of meat scraps
] Id. of bran
| / ID. of middlings
No. 2.
lbs. of corn meal
/ ID. ON meat scraps
No. 3.
9 lbs. of corn meal
5 lbs. of middlings
5 lbs. OF bran
2 lbs. of cotton seed meal
3 lbs. of meat scraps
Skim milk can be added to any of
the above rations, which are to be
fed from a self feeder. Three scratch
feed mixtures are:
No. l..
/ ID. of cracked corn
ID. of wheat
l Id. of oats
l lb. of barley
No. 2.
2 lbs. of cracked corn
/ Id. of oats
No. 3.
2 lbs. of cracked corn
/ ID. of wheat
] lb. of oats
To these rations green feed must De
added such as cabbage, apples, sprout-
ed oats, green alfalfa or clover leaves.
The Wisconsin Division of Markets
now have a man working with them
who is taking up the marketing of
eggs. In Burnett and Polk counties
they have already organized egg mar
keting associations. / have made ar
rangements with him to be here some
time in December so that we may take
up the egg marketing work in certain
localities in the county. The value
of such a marketing association will
be to grade the eggs and stamp them
and then selling them for higher pric-
es. would like to have every COM
munity club or community appoint a
| committee of three people to repres-
committee of three people to repre-
sent their community at its egg mar
worth. and then inform me who the
committee is. so that / can let them
know when the meeting will be he'd:
Future notices of this meeting will
also be published in my notes.
hone that we can establish such an
organization here as it will be profit
able to the egg producers.
There is an idea prevalent among
some farmers that the purebred hog
business will soon be overdone. From
the last census report we find that
| there are 59,368, 1877 hogs and of these
only 2,O49,900 were purebred. Since
pure breds compose only 3.5Ho of the
| total number there is still plenty OF
room for Improvement. The oppor-
tunity is now at hand for these who
wish to get into the purebreds as
! they can be purchased at very reason.
| able figures. In Wisconsin we finC
there are 1880 purebred Duroc-Jer-
sey, 2O894 Poland China, 1858 Ches.
| ter White, 1915 Hampshire and 1896
| Berkshire hogs. In the u. S. we fine
| 819118 Duroc-Jersey, 726503 Poland
| China, then come the other breeds as
| follows: Chester White, Hampshire
and Berkshire.
In order to get further information
in regard to the lime and fertilizer
needs of Wisconsin soils and to com
pare different laboratory methods Of
determining these needs, plans are
| being made to carry on extensive
green house tests this winter ant
spring in connection with chemica
tests. 1t is desirable that soils from
all over the state be represented il
this test. These samples of soil are
being obtained through the different
county agents in the state This will
| be of no expense to anyone except IL
the collection of samples. 1t will
take about 1000 pounds of each kline
| of soil to either represent an import
ant soil type in the county or pecul
lar soil type which is quite acid ant
does not respond to lime or is peculiar
in some other way. Sacks will be fur
nished for these samples. If there j.
anyone wishing to have their sol
sampled for analysis in this manner
/ shall be glad to have them get IL
| touch with me very soon so that sam
| pies can be taken before the grount
freezes too much.
The Central Cooperative Commits
sion Association at South st. Paul ha!
paid for itself the first eleven weeks
| 1t has saved the farmer since Angus
1st, $4,000 in reduced commissions. i
has also set aside 20@c of all the
money it has received in commissions
This surplus which under the cooper
| aJlVe laws goeS PACK as ulVlUenO'
amounts to $500. In other words co
operative marketing has saved live
stock producers $4,000 in two and ;
half months. We hope that every
livestock shipping association in th'
county viii decide to join this COOP
erative commission association a
their annual meeting as it is one o
the greatest factors in MARKETING live
stock at the present time.
The mid-winter farmers course vii
be held in Madison Jan. 80 to Feb