River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1921-10-27
County Agent Notes
H. G. seyforth

other kinds of explosives for blowing
out stumps, stones and bitches will be
demonstrated at the following places
Ed. Campbell's farm in the township
of Ellsworth at 2:30 p. m. on Monday
Oct. 81. At Geo. Kane's farm in the
township of Salem at 1890 a. m. on
Nov. l, Tuesday, at the old Louis Han
son farm in the township of Spring
Lake, section %, on Tuesday, Nov. l.
at 800 p. m. A land clearing special
list will be present and conduct the
demonstrations, and we hope that
everybody interested in this project
will be present. 1t will be possible to
order dynamite and other explosives
at considerable saving.
Orchard demonstrations will be held
at the following locations: AT the
Chas. Frank farm in the town of
Spring Lake on Thursday Nov. 3, at
10 o'clock a. M. At the Frank Brown
farm in the town of Spring Lake on
Thursday, Nov. at 2:3O p. M AT the
VIM. Rice Farm in the town of Rock
Elm, Friday, Nov. at 1000 a. m. and
at the Percy Person farm in the town
Of Rock Elm on Friday, Nov. 4, at
$3.50 p. m. At these meetings general
pruning and pruning for blight will
be taken up. If there are any other
places in the county that would like
demonstrations of this kind I shall be
glad to make some arrangements.
Bigger and stronger every day. The
Central Cooperative Commission as
sociation is still breaking records on
the South st. Paul livestock market.
The only records it has left to break
are its own, and its latest report of
business shows that its trade is in
creasing every week. Here are some
Of the things the farmers cooperative
selling agency has done since it start
ed two months ago: It has topped the
market on cattle, selling carload of
1, 100 pound steers and heifers at 80
a hundredweight. It has handled
% ,1e5 head of stock while its nearest
cssnpetitor has handled 24,367 head IN
the same period. From Serl I ID
Sept. % it handled 1919 per cent Of
the livestock arriving on TIL. market
On some days it has handled 20 per
cent of all Of the business on the mar
ket. It is giving the farmer efficient
service at commission rates rs per
cent below the prevailing charges.
Two shipping associations in Pierce
county have already Joined this new
central cooperative association and
others are shipping there, and we hope
that very shortly all shipping associa-
tions in the county will be sending to
this farmers cooperative selling
agency.
The long fall and its good weather
may encourage farmers to leave their
seed corn on the windmill, south side
of building or some other apparently
good curing place. But seed corr
should be taken in, either by the kit
chen stove, in warm ventilated attic
or other room having some means Of
applying artificial heat, to get ths
moisture out of it before freezing
weather to insure high termination
for next spring. declares r. A. Moore
secretary of the Wisconsin Expert
ment association. "Corn will have
25 per cent moisture in it, which, il
allowed to freeze is enough to kill tn.
germ" Farmers in the northern par
of the state especially, should ge
their corn cured in good shape before
it is allowed to freeze. After tina
freezing will have very little effect OF
the germ. Two or three weeks behint
the kitchen stove will lower the mois
ture content enough so that freezing
weather will do very little damage t
it. Kiln dried seed corn this fal
means perfect stand next spring a
well as good healthy, strong plant
A good start in the spring means |
good yield providing weather condi
tions are favorable. From the demon
strations carried on in this count.
with corn dried in different places
it shows very emphatically that it j
very important to take extra goo'
care of seed corn.
DIR. j. T. Purcell of the Dept. o
Agriculture reports hog cholera out
beaks in So different points in, tn
state. Heavy losses from the diseas
are reported from Racine, Milwaukee
Wauiesha, Washington, Dodge, Fon
du Lac, Green Lake, Manitowoc, Eal
Claire, st. Croix, Columbia, Gran
Iowa, Lafayette, Walworth, Rock an
bDane counties. The larger portion o
these outbreaks have occurred in Sept
and through the proper use of serur
and virus the disease has been praC
tically eliminated. An appeal is mad
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