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Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1922-12-21
WOOL PRODUCED IN INDIANA
Demonstration Work in Montgomery
County Credited for Big Increase
in Yield.

Demonstration work in sheep breed
ing has had a marked effect on wool
production In Montgomery county, Ind,
as is shown by the fact that in 1918,
10000 pounds of wool were produced
in the county, while in 1921 the sheep
breeders association alone pooled and
marketed more than six carloads. On
a tour of farms on which sheep breed
ing and FEEDING demonstrations were
being conducted in 1921, under direc-
ton of the county agent, 50 automo-
biles were required to accommodate
the people interested, while in 1918,
on similar tour, only 6 were needed.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1922-12-21
GREAT PAYING COMBINATION
Legumes and Live Stock Are Advo-
Gated by Missouri College at
Big Stock Show.

A feature of much interest and
value of the American Royal Live
Stock show at Kansas City was the
exhibit of the Missouri College of Ag-
riculture. The message conveyed by
this exhibit is summed up in seven
words: "Legumes and Live Stock,
the Paying Combination"
The possibilities of live stock farm
ing were shown in the central section
of the exhibit, and the truth is empha-
sized that more and better live stock
will mean greater wealth and salts
faction for the farmer and greater
prosperity.
Legumes were in turn shown to be
essential to the production of more
and better stock by building a more
productive soil as well as supplying
protein feed cheaplY.
Every step in growing clover was
shown in this exhibit-from lining
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1922-12-21

prepared by the United States Department
of Agricultural
Fifteen to twenty years of building
good roads lie ahead of the United
States. Under the program which the
country has adopted there will be
built, during that time, 10000 miles of
improved highways which will consti-
tute the federal-aid highway system and
an equal or greater mileage of state
and local roads. When the great job
is done, the transportation facilities
of the country will far exceed those
of any other nation, past or present, in
the world The highways of the an
cient Romans, whose fame has come
down through the centuries, will pale
by comparison.
Details of this vast road-building
way Education board at its recent con-
ference in Washington by state high
way engineers and officials of the
bureau of public roads, United States
Department of Agriculture, to whom
has been. entrusted the work Of plan
DluS buu super I1lC OO11cCLu StAOA1
Of federal-aid highways. The plan
was presented to enable the board to
proceed authoritatively with it's work
of devising aids for schools and col
leges to which road-builders of the
country are turning for, competent
highway engineers.
Aggregate Cost $4,000, GOO, 600. :
Officials of the bureau place the ag-
gregate cost of the federal-aid program
alone at about $3,00o,0oo,000, spread
over the twenty-year period. They
base this estimate on an average cost
of ST., 900 per mile. The average cost,
in turn, takes into consideration all
classes of improved roadways from
the cheapest to the most expensive
types. Approximately one-third of the
proposed system, or 10000 miles of
improved highways, already are either
built or building.
The program is a new one. Up to
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1922-12-21
WINTER HOUSE FOR POULTRY
Openings on South Side of Building
Should Be Covered With Mus
lin or BuYlap.

On stormy nights, windows or OPEN
ings in the south side of the chicken
house should be covered by a drop cur
tain. The curtain should be made of
muslin or burlap. The floor Of the
house should be covered with deep
litter of straw in which the grain ig
scattered in order to make the hens
work. Keep a mash mixture before
the hens at all times This can be
composed of a mixture of bran, shorts,
cornmeal, ground oats, etc. To this
must be added a good grade Of meat
meal which should compose 20 per
cent of the mixture.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1922-12-21
NEXT SUMMERS ICE SUPPLY
Material Stored This Winter Will Be
Greatly Appreciated During
Hot Weather.

Thoughts of ice cream, lemonade and
cold drinks are apt to start shivers
along the spine at this time Of year.
But ice stored this winter will be
greatly appreciated next summer when
the temperature climbs toward a hun
dred.
The old ice house is likely to need
some attention and a good many folks
would like to make any necessary re-
pairs before the weather becomes too
cold. If no house is available, an In
expensive one can be constructed. A
house double-walled, well rooted and
properly insulated throughout, is
worth the extra cost, because it will
keep the ice better. However, a very
inexpensive building in which the ice
3 properly packed viii save about
two-thirds Of the supply, and where
the farmer desires to make only tenn
pOrary storage or where it is neces-
sary to economic, an inexpensive
building win servo
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1922-12-21
TO IMPROVE DAIRY BREEDS
Fundamental Rules of Fitting Must b
Understood and Observed With
Best Breeds.

If the dairy breeds are to be i'm.
proved and brought up to maximum
milk and butterfat production so that
the science of breeding may be brought
down to more nearly a problem of
mathematics, then the good cows of
the leading breeds must be given cred
ible official records. Fundamental
rules of fitting must be understood and
observed to have the cows in condi-
ton to make good records, and then
fundamental rules of feeding must be
fully understood and appreciated in
feeding them when they are undergo
ing the test
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1922-12-21
RIGHT ELEMENTS
FOR DAIRY COWS
Lime and Phosphorus Have
Much to Do With Milk Pro-
duCtion and Unborn Calf.
BEST RESULTS FROM FEEDING
Not Profitable Practice to Neglect An
finals When They Are Running
Low in Milk Yield and When
They Are Dry.
prepared hg the United States Department
OF Agriculture

prepared h. the United States Department
OF Agricultural
Lime AK phosphorus, although they
are found in relatively small quanti-
ties in feeds, have a great deal to do
with milk production and building up
the body of the unborn calf If the
COW does not have enough of these
elements in her ration she will draw
on the supply in her body for a time,
and heavy producers commonly do
this. Therefore, says the United States
Department of Agriculture, it is a good
practice to feed COWS well when they
are running low in milk yield and
when they are dry, so that they may
store UP these elements as well as
others in their bodies for use when
the large demand is made.
Must Have Reserve Supply.
The common view is that dry cows
need only enough feed for main
tenance. but experiments carried on
by the department show that this is
not true The cow is milk-manufac-
turing plant, and, like many factories
she must have a reserve supply of ma
tesials to draw on when heavy de-
mands are made. A COW that has been
well fed when dry and has stored up
this reserve is able to produce more
on full feed than cow that has been
given only a maintenance ration dur
ing that resting period. In this way
COW can utilize her capacity the year
round, although she may not be giving
milk all the time.
In keeping up the necessary lime
and phosphorus supply It is well to
keep in mind the fact that certain
feeds are richer than others in these
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1922-12-21

Sprouted Oats Are an Excellent Win
ter Green Feed.
from each hen, a good profit will be
made, and if the product is increased
by only one egg a week in winter this
one egg will pay for all the feed the
hen eats, say poultrymen Of the United
States Department of Agriculture. TO
get this greater production use young
hens of a good laying breed and feed
the right sort of ration.
In the spring the production of eggs
on the farm is easy. Chickens are
usually on free range where they get
all the green and animal feed they
need to make a balanced ration. They
also get plenty of exercise and fresh
air. In order to produce eggs in the
winter time, the feeder must provide
substitutes for spring conditions.
Green cut bone, meat scraps, animal
meal, fish meal or tankage furnish
good substitutes for the insects and
worms. Cabbages, turnips, beets, po.
tatoes and carrots furnish excellent
green feed at little cost. sSprouted
oats are also good, bpt require moro
care in preparation.
Grit is essential to the health of
fowls and also to economy in feeding.
Grit in a chickens gizzard is like
teeth in a persons lnouth-it helps
prepare the food for digestion. An
open box Of this material should be
kept in every yard. An abundance of
fresh water is also necessary and
should be kept in sanitary containers.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1922-12-21

comparatively recent years, road-bu1ld-
ing in the United States had been con-
Quoted without special regard to ma
tional system. Highways had been
constructed where needed without con-
sidering whether they would link up
in the most effective manner with the
whole network of roads to be spread
over the nation. Engineers had sought
more to meet immediate and local
demands than the broader require
ments of the states and nation.
Roads Fit National System.
The present federal-aid road-build-
ing program, officials of the bureau
state, will contemplate the construc
ton of only such roads as fit into the
national program and contribute to the
national system. At the same time
the roads will be so selected as to
serve the most important local require
ments. With marked notifications, the
system adopted in building the rail
ways of the country will be borne in
mind in the construction of the coun-
try's new highways. There will be
main lines of highway communication
between centers and thousands of
miles of feeder roads, reaching back
into the more sparsely settled regions
and into the rich agricultural sections,
to tap areas whose population and
products will flow over the new system.
New roads will be planned and built
thousands of miles of them-where
they will fit in most advantageously
with the entire program. The bureau
is continuing it's research work into
most efficient methods of road build
ing, including the character and wear
ing pow er of materials, resisting quail
tiles of varying sub-soils, etc., and has
amassed a considerable store of valu-1
able information all of which will be
available for the highway engineer of
tomorrow, whom the board is seek
ing to have educated in practical and
modern methods.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1922-12-21
BREEDERS FOR NEXT SEASON
Farmer Trying to Breed Up High
Laying Strain Cannot Afford to
Use Whole Flock.

The farmer who is endeavoring to
breed up a high laying strain of poul-
try cannot afford to breed from his
entire flock Of hens and pullets. 1t
pays to make up a special breeding
flock each spring using yearling hens
or other birds In the flock. 1t is cas-
Ter to pick these birds now than it
will be in late winter or early spring.
One way of doing this is to go over
the flock just as it is done for culling,
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1922-12-21
RIGHT WAY TO HANDLE EGGS
Where one Is Broken Over Others in
Case 1t Causes Them to Spoil
Avoid Washing.

Rough handling of eggs which causes
one to break and Edn over others in
the egg case 7efer cansee them to
spoil Eggs will also gather moisture
If they are brought suddenly from
cold storage into warm room or the
warm sunlight. The best way to get
eggs to keep is to proviGe clean nests
and clean food for the flock. Then
use cool storing places and avoid wash
ing them, even if they are little.
dirty. The cleaner your eggs, the bet
ter they will keep-and the more de-
mand there will be for them.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1922-12-21
REMOVE TRASH FROM GARDEN
Burning or Adding to Compost Heaps
Aids Materially in Insect Dis
ease Control.

Removal of the trash from the gar
den. either by burning or adding it to
a compost heap will aid materially in
insect and disease control. The varf-
Gus rots which attack tomatoes, the
fungus diseases of melons, beans, late
blight of celery, soft rot and anthrac-
nose of cucumber and melons, may live
over on the old crop remains. Further
more. if the. diseased trash is allowed
to stay on the ground it will event
ually infect the soil and render the
land unfit for gardening.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1922-12-21
PRICE DISCOUNT
GIVEN FOR HOGS
LSwer Price for Soft Pork Paid
Because of the Lack of At
Effectiveness of Meat.
SHRINKAGE RECORDS SECURED
Seemed to Be No Difference in Flavor
or Keeping Qualities Of Three
Grades-Marked Difference
in Appearance.
prepared by the United States Department

prepared by the United States Department
of Agricultural
One of a series of Shrinkage tests
to determine justification for the price
discount which has always been APP
piled to soft and oily hogs, as COM
pared with firm hogs, was recently
completed by the United States De
partment of Agriculture. The tests
indicate that the discrimination against
soft pork and the price discounts,
usually ranging from 81 to So per 100
pounds, are due to the lack of at
tractiveness of the pork rather than
because Of any heavy shrinkage in
weight.
Loss in Weight Is Same.
Twelve different tests, involving 800
hogs, were made, and complete shrink
age records Of slaughtering, chilling,
curing, smoking and retaining were
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1922-12-21
MORE HIGH-PRoDUCING cows
LARGE Increase in Number Noted in
Dairy Herds of Indiana Test
ing Association.

By following the methods of manage
ment demonstrated by the extension
agent. the number Of cows producing
300 pounds of butter year was in
creased from nine in the first year to
Al in the second in the six dairy herds
in the Clark county (Ind) cow-testing
associations, according to reports to
the United States Department Of Agri-
culture.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1922-12-21
USEFUL GIFT FOR CHRISTMAS
Kansas AgricuIturist Suggests Sled
Load of Purebred Pigs, Calves
and Chickens.

A Kansas agriculturist has suggest
ed a new kind of Christmas present
for farm boys and girls. lie thinks
1t would be a good stunt for Santa
Claus to bring sled load Of purebred
pigs, calves and chickens and leave
them for children along with the dolls,
red trains, skates, drums and other
TOYS. Purebred poultry farms are
often started from trio of chickens,
and valuable herds of cattle from a
calf
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1922-12-21
DUCKS FOR EGG PRODUCTION
Give Them Dry Mash of Wheat Bran,
Middlings or Ground Oats, Corn
meal and Scraps.

Ducks for egg production are fed
dry mash of two parts Of wheat bran,
one part of middlings or ground oats,
one part of cornmeal and one part Of
beef scraps. Give them all the green
feed they win clean up. Keep water
deep enough to cover the beak before
them all the time; also grit.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1922-12-21

sour soils to the utilization of the
crop for greater advantage to both
live stock and land.
The many uses of the soybean were
also demonstrated-as a soil builder
on thin land, as green manure crop,
as hay, and as supplementary feed
grown in corn for hogging off with
hogs or lambs.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1922-12-21
Details Given in Bulletin.

Detailed descriptions Of the tests,
together with the results obtained, are
given in United States Department of
Agriculture Bulletin 1886, entitled
shrinkage of Soft Pork Under Com
mercial Conditions. This bulletin may
be obtained free on request to the
United States Department Of Agricul-
ture, Washington, d. G.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1922-12-21
REPLACING BUGS AND GREENS
PouItryman Must Provide Spring Sub.
stitutes in Order to Secure
Eggs During Winter.

prepared by the United States Department
of Agriculture.)
In the management of hens it has
been found that the largest profits are
obtained if good proportion of the
eggs are laid during the winter. If
two extra eggs a week can be obt3ined
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1922-12-21

1t Pays a Farmer to Use Standard
Bred cockereI in Building Up His
Flock.
but pick out the best birds rather than
the poorest. These hens can be marked
to 90 into the breeding flock next
spring.
Many farms still have a larger num-
Der of cockerels on hand than will he
eaten or con be used for breeding pur-
poses. III most cases the cockerels
take up more room and feed which
should be given to the pullets than
they will pay for In extra weight OF
plice IL held.
New-York tribune., 1922-01-01
a SILVER STRANGER IT. TOWN

refrcshmcnt. There was mstakng the re-
suit. 1t was a complete and satisfactory
Of fabbergasting. Furthermore, it is the only
time have ever seen q New York drug store
cashier fabbergasted. Indeed. will go 50 far
as 10 sag it is the only time New York drug
store cashier ever has been fabbergasted
There was appeal for help sent out to
the proprietor Of the store, who happened TO be
behind the prescription counter. 1t isn't often
that drug store man has 10 go behind inc
prescription counter nowadays, when the chief
business in drug stores is selling foodstuiTs anG
merchandise. But this must have been an old
fashioned druggist, for there he was, away
back where the prescriptions arc compounded.
"Meantme waited patiently, even mocha
lantly. 1t was sure thing game with nc, fol
| knew that every one Of those dollars was
legally good. The inevitable line was forming
behind me- ! reflected or the lire forming
habit in New York. 1t seems to take up
good deal Of the time of metropolitan folk,
this waiting behind somebody else who is wait
ing behind another fellow. And lines will get
New-York tribune., 1922-01-01
By ARTHUR CHAPMAN

ing like snake. Trains we're going to be
missed and dinners also. Remarks came hurt
ling through the air and penetrated the WIN
dow.
"'Hcy Bill called The ticket seller to the
chopper Is this thing good?'
"Thc chopper came over and took Il glance
at The dollar.
"'Sure. if it'll bounce, he growed. 1T
ought to be bounced off the head OF any guy
thatl give it to you.
Acting on the advice of the ticket chopper,
except so far as the part which applied per
sonally to nc, the person in the booth duly
bounced the coin on the window ledge. The
results were satisfactory and ticket and
change were handed to mc--to say nothing Of
what was being handed my way By those in
the increasingly agitated line
~ had taken only one dollar from the pile
in my pocket and all New York was before me.
| chose the busiest soda fountain ! could find
and tossed another Of the metal tokens at the
cashier who was handing out The checks for
New-York tribune., 1922-01-01

terent charitable enterprises read their own
press notices until they actually consider them
selves philanthropists.
1t was oratory that cast a deceptive spell
over museum patrons. but it was the painters
brush that lurcd the dimes from their pockets
by graphic delncatons of the wonders to be
seen behind the ticket takers box. Sordid re-
allSm bad no place in museum art In it's stead
there was q wealth of imagination calculated
to excite the envy of the author Of a histor5
OF the United States
We Of an elder generation whose privilege
it was to gaze upon the richly colored can
vases that covered the front of every dime
museum can never forget the emotions they
excited in our simple minds on the liberties that
art took in the hope of benciting science. with
the great ones of thc earth The simple d-
versions Of the Victorian age were recalled by
the picture of England's widowed Queen and
William +. Gladstone holding the skipping rope
that the Three Legged Girl might dance in the
presence of the Life Guards, whose gorgeous
uniforms and martial bearing suggested to the
mind the splendor and power Of the British
Empire Prince Bismarck bargained with
'Vhiers at Versailles unmovcd by the sufferings
Of stricken France, but ne is appalled, now by
the crippled state Of the Armlcss Wonder to
whose deformity he directs the sympathetic at
terton Of Won Mothe once "ready for war to
the az; button.' Lord Boaconsheld, whose In
srrutable face showed no emotion when he af-
fixed TO the Treaty Of Berlin the signature that
brought peace and honor to his anxious ra-
ton is strangely moved now for he is standing
in the awful presence Of the Wild Woman Of
the Jungle.
That tho fine arts arc still hold in hjrh
esteem is evidenced by the popularity of those
charming literary and artistic receptions given
in the studio OF "modern' who wishes his
friends to sec what he is trying to do" That
Imagination is allowed even more ample play
New-York tribune., 1922-01-01
I(1NHE government, | observe, is going
to coin some specially designed
IA dollars in commemoratiOD OF the

tom said The 7ransplanted Westerner.
"Whic there will be several hundred thou
sand Of the new series of silver dollars 1T is
expecting too much to think Of any consider
able proportion Of them beng put IN clrcu'a-
ton in New York. This city simply wont ac-
ccpt silver dollars, nor. for that matter. VIII
the rest Of the East Out West when you hand
any tradesman onc-dollar bill he Will look
at it in mild surprise and say, The tourists
are beginning to come in. arc they? One
dollar bills arc known as tourist money out
there. The silver dollar 5 the one big common
factor iu trade, and if you find the ilnc
where these two forms of currency meet you
will have the mythical and much sought mark
Of division between the East and the West.
"It's queer how we'll satisfied both sides Of
the country seem to be with such radically diff
ferent forms of currency. But I will say that
paper money is more common in the East than
is the silver dollar in the West A brother Of
New-York tribune., 1922-01-01

mine came to &C me while ago and nc
brought pocketful Of silver dollars with him.
got him TO transfer them to me, and after
he had left ] had all kinds Of fun with those
silver dollars. You'd be surprised TO know
how many people there in New York to
whom silver dollar is absolutely an unknown
quantity I showed ono at ticket seller Ill
the subwa, and immediately all business at
that window was stopped The ticket seller
shouted angrly:
"'What's this you're giving me-?
"'A dollar; perfectly good currency 7 re-
piled
1.-The ticket seller was nonpluased.
"'Step to ono side he said till | get this
line taken care Of.
Its an endless line I answered doggedly.
i want one ticket and 95 cents change
"'Ain't you got something in paper or two
silver halves?' pleaded the ticket seller, more
than half convinced that the dollar was genu-
inc, yet afraid to risk taking it.
by this time the line was long and writh-
New-York tribune., 1922-01-01

capture IN the wilds of Africa. forget the days
when he sold CLAIMS i'll the neighborhood of
fcck SHIP. 1t has remained for the publicity
agent of to-day to prove that his science, like
many another, has advanced with the times
New-York tribune., 1922-01-01

than ever 30 ono who has witnessed an eX-
hibition Of cublst and post-impressonst paint
ings Will pretend to doubt
The dime museum displayed no living mar
vel more interesting to The thoughtful mind
New-York tribune., 1922-01-01

n
some movement other
"l@Pa + are to t
pres agent elbow that make S
New-York tribune., 1922-01-01

The Dime Musellm Is
head and Gone. but Its
Chief Dra,uing Cards
Nolv Moue in Higher
Social Circles Than
Those OF the Boluery

THE Alpine traveller makes his
Y toilsome ascent he reaches the place
"A where all vegetation ceases and tho
desolatc region Of snow ice and rocks