River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1921-05-26
County Agent Notes
H. G. Seyforth

pin counties nave completed county
wide testing campaigns to eradicate
tuberculosis, and several others are
now doing similar work according to
veterinarians of the United States
Department of Agriculture. The
counties having tested the animals
in every herd are: Barron County,
Wis, Clay County, Miss, Minds Coun-
ty, Miss, Clatsop County, Oregon,
Island County. WASH, and Gallatin
County, Mont. Cattle in the District
of Columbia have been tuberculin
tested annually for number of
years. Some of the petitions from
the southern and northern part of
the county are being returned signed
up very well.
THE fight for honest evaporated
milk for the consumers, and for the
protection of the dairy farmer is now
transferred 10 the senate. The OPP
ponents will doubtless use every
means possible to delay action IN the
hope that the bill will not be passed
before the close of the session" Ii
is a case of the ''cocoanut COW of the
South Sea Isles" against the dairy
COW of Wisconsin. Which do you sup
port? Write your state senator and
get your neighbors to write. Tell him
to vote for Assembly Bill Alta and
work for its early passage. With
your help the bill will pass; without
your help it may fail. If you have
already written your state senator,
write again.
All Wisconsin County Agents and
Farm Bureaus have just received
an urgent appeal from the Wisconsin
Farm Bureau Federation to enlist the
cooperation of the farmers and dairy
men in the cause of China's starving
millions. Other middle western states
have given hundreds of carloads of
corn for relief in Central European
countries. Wisconsin is not a corn
state but is rich in dairy products, and
request is made that every Wiscon-
sin farmer and dairyman contribute
in cash the equivalent of one morn
ings milking to be offered to this re.
lief. Are you in favor of such con-
tribution or not? If so, send your
contribution to the Central Wisconsin
Trust Co., Madison, Wis. which will
forward all funds to New York when
ce they are cabled to Peking. Grain
will then be purchased in Manchura
and rushed to the districts of famine.
information has been received from
the Wisconsin Farm Bureau head
quarters that they are in position
to place orders for surplus army har-
! nesses at prices $4,000 to $500 per
set. If interested in the above write
to C. J. Schroeder, Madison, Wis,
where you can get more information
in regard to the same.
The Pierce County Beekeepers as
ISOLATION win hold meeting at the
village hall at Spring Valley, Satur
day May 2Sth. A big program is
being prepared and report of the
marketing plan of the State Bee
keepers association will be given and
discussed. The meeting starts at 10
o'clock. Bring your lunch and enjoy
a picnic dinner. All those interested
in bees should be there.
Remember the Guernsey picnic on
June Sth and the Jersey picnic on
June 81.
"Swat the Rooster" The male bird
! should be removed from the flock as.
/ soon as no more eggs are required
/ for Matching. Egg production is not
dependent upon the presence of the
male, and any idea to the contrary IS
/ erroneous. Experiments have proved
that hens lay better in the absence of
the male He should be removed be-
cause he is a star boarder," and is
the cause of the spoilage of enor-
nous numbers of eggs during the
summer.
Anyone wishing to enter stock at
the Normal Livestock Show to be held
June Is and 17eshould get all entries
in to Prof j nj. May at once.
Anyone planning to put in alfalfa
this summer should put in their order
now as seed viii be scarce later on in
! the season.