The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1921-01-27
IMPORTANT MEETING HELD
HERE ON MONDAY
Dinner Served by the Farmers
Wives at Noon and Meeting
Was Held During the After
noon. Good Advice Given.

The farmers of the Washburn dis
trict held one of the best and most
enthusiastic meetings ever held in
the city on Monday of this week and
the good advice which they received
on the subject of cows, potatoes and
land clearing will prove valuable to
those in attendance and will be the
means of saving them much money
if the ideas are carried out in actual
farm practice.
The meeting was called by County
Agent v. E. Brubaker, who was as
sisted by the officers of the Che
quamegon Cooperative Creamery
Association, and the wives of the
farmers served the dinner at the
noon hour at the Y Assembly room.
The dinner consisted OF roast pork
and apple sauce, potatoes, buttered
beets, corn, rolls, coffee, pie with
whipped cream and many other good
things to eat. That the wives OF
the farmers know how to cook as
well as the farmers know how to
farm was demonstrated by the meal
which was served, for it was one of
the best ever served in the city and
more than one hufdred and fifty
people were cared for.
4La .,,ar0 had hQQn
satisfied the assemblage adjourned
to the Y gymnasium where the pro-
gram was held. j. w. Hicks, Presl-
dent of the State Potato Growers As
sociaticn, who by the way is farm
er who has had great deal of ex-
perience in. the farming line, was
present to talk on potatoes and
dairy cows. The potato talk was
hummer, filled with good common
sense and delivered in terms which
every farmer was able to under
stand. Mr.. Hicks had before him
a lot of potatoes which had been
furnished by the farmers of this
region. bin run, as they came from
the field. and Mr.. Hicks endeavored
to show why potatoes were not uni
form in size, what made poor yields,
and how marketing conditions could
be improved.
There are a good many potatoes,
on the market under different names
but when simmered down are almost
all of one variety, and farmers were
urged to guard against paying high
prices for seed just because it had
been given some nice sounding name.
The methods Of planting were also
gone into to show that crop rotation
would produce heavy yields II car
ried out correctly, demonstrations
were given on how to cut potatoes
for seed. how to select stock at Dig
ging time, and how to avoid mis-
takes.
The farmers showed keen interest
in the potato talk and many questions
were asked during the talk.
Mr.. Hicks also talked on the dairy
COW and keeping the fertility in the
soil. AS many of the farmers OF
this region depend on dairying as
well as growing crops, a good deal
of interest was taken in this talk.
John Swenehart, in charge of the
land clearing department of the
University of Wisconsin, gave a
very fine talk on land clearing, out
lining in a way the land clearing
program which will be carried on in
BAYFIELD, county during the coming
season, and many of those present
at the meeting went home with the
determination to clear up more acres
of land during the coming year than
had ever been cleared before.
Mr.. Swenehart, in his talk,
demonstrated what a saving could
be made to farmers in the purchase
of explosives in monster land clear
ing campaign over the old plan OF
every farmer working alone.
The meeting. as a whole, was a
dandy throughout, and the interest
taken by the farmers present in
dicates that much of the advice will
be put into practice in making the
Washburn district a better and more
prosperous farming community.