River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1921-04-07
County Agent Notes
H C. seyforth

What stockmen viii not do for them
selves as unit, individuals and the
legislature will. Just now Assembly
man Summerville has a bill which
has passed to the third reading in the
House and is ready for engrossment,
and this bill, if passed, will help to
find way OFT Of the difficulty. This
bill is known as No. zS9 A, and it adds
new paragraph to the statutes, to
read as follows: "No state aid shall
be paid as premium on cattle ex-
hibited at any fair unless such cat
tie and the entire herd over months
old at the time of testing, from which
they are exhibited, have successfully
passed the tuberculin test" If this
bill is passed it will mean that our
County Fair will receive no aid from
the state to pay premiums on cattle
exhibited at the County Fair unless
tested for tuberculosis.
Got the gardening fever? 1t is
pretty near time to get out the rake,
the hoe, and the spading fork and get
the garden started. 1.-THE home gard
en- viii pay abundantly for the time
and care given it, if the gardener di-
reefs his efforts wisely" advises j.
G. Moore of the College of Agricul-
ture. Lack of success is most fire.
quently due to neglect or misdirected
effort" In order 10 make more home
gardens successful, a new bulletin on
Vegetable Gardens" Circular No.
1872 has just been issued by the Exper-
iment station, Madison. 1t tells how
to select the garden site, how to plan
the garden, suggests the proper var
ieties to sow, how to care for and to
cultivate the various crops-all the
things a gardner wants to know. 1t is
a gardeners handbook. Copies are
sent free to residents of the state of
Wisconsin who write for a copy. Be
sure to test all garden seeds for ger
mination before planting as it will
save you lot of time and trouble.
Circular No. 1874 on "How to prune
small fruits" has been issued by the
Experiment Station and is very val
liable one.
have just received catalog Civ
ing cuts and prices on portable lime
stone crushers and if any group of
farmers is interested in purchasing
one, we could get one here for dem
onstration. 1t can be pulled by any
small tractor and is used in several
parts of the state. If you are inter
ested, please let me hear from you.
have received a letter from the I'm
ion Grove Fibre Co. at Union Grove,
Wis, inquiring as to the amount of
flax straw we have in this county.
They would like to know if the straw
is in good condition now so that it
could be bailed. They also would like
to know just about how many car
loads we have. This would have to
be free from weeds and moldy straw.
If anyone has any for sale, | shall
try TO get prices ouefeu.
| have some very good No. and
No. 7 oats and some Spring Wheat
listed with me for sale. If anybody
is looking for such seed it would be
well for them to get in touch with
me as soon as they can. The price of
the oats is from so to rs cents per
bushel. 1t is cleaned and graded and
all ready for sowing.
If you purchased any clover or tim
othy seed, be sure you look it over
carefully for weed seeds and then try
a hundred seeds between two damp
blotters or cloths and sec if it ger
mi',a'cs well, as it pays to test these
seeds for termination before plant
ing.
l have some eggs from different
breeds of poultry for Matching listed
with me. If you want to get any,
phone or write me. If you want any
bulletins on raising of poultry or on
care of chickens, shall be glad to
get hem for you.
A good ration for a sow with suck
ling pigs is as follows:
so lbs. ground barley, corn or oats
so Tbs. middlings.
fed with sweet skim milk or butter
milk.