The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1922-05-18
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WE ONLY ASK FOR A
SQUARE DEAL


titled "Our Chairmen takes Stand"
wish to state few facts which will
only be expressed as an answer from
our office as County Agricultural
Agent, so the people in the Mason
Community will understand what we
think is a square deal.
The main thot in this article and
from conversation we had with Mr..
O. M. Axness after the County Board
meeting held, May 9th, seemed to be
that the people in the Mason Com
munity are interested mostly in the
dairy business and have had little
or no attention from this office along
that line. We wish to call the at
tention of the people that we or
ganized the County Holstein Breed
ers' Association two years ago at
Mason and Mr.. Thoralf Yderstad was
elected Sec'y. who still holds that
Office. At that same meeting Mr..
Ed. Dybedahl was elected President
of the Association. We wanted the
Mason Community to have the credit
of starting this reorganization as they
were almost entirely Holstein Com
munity. We have assisted in get
ting farmers to buy quite number
of pure bred sires and also females
and made it possible to have at
Mason the first County Holstein sale
ever held in the county. We also
started and helped organize the Ma
son Community Fair in which the
towns of Kelly, Lincoln, Keystone,
Pratt and Mason are represented. All
these movements seem to interest a
great many people in the Mason
Community.
Another ve.y economical and pro-
ftable work we have continually en-
phasized and worked with the people
is the potato work which is one of
Mason's main cash crops.
Last year we had a field trip and
called on a lot of potato growers and
about twenty farmers We're along
and following this trip three auto
loads went to Spooner to farmers
field day to see the potato work
there, from the efforts dore on the
field trip at Mason.
Last year we tried hard to organize
COW testing association which is
the secret to success in the dairy
business. We hardly got a dozen
people out at these meetings. |
had Mr.. Sutton there twice to aid
in this work. We all know cash
was the least thing the farmer had
last fall, but they might have shown
greater appreciation of what we were
irving to do and attended these
meetings. Even some of those peo-
pie in the Community who might
have had great influence in getting
the people out seemed very little
concerned and expended little effort
to push the work. Mr.. Thoralf
Yderstad did more than his share in
trying to organize this work.
The farmers in the Mason Com
munity had the services of Prof. Geo.
Humphrey to Judge their stock at
the Community Fair last year. This
man is the best in the state On dairy
cows.
We have assisted in demonstrating
how to kill woodchucks, economically,
which have become a menace IN
parts Of that territory. We have
planned and are trying to arrange to
hold a County Potato Show at Ma
son this fall.
Whenever anything worth while,
such as meetings and other informa-
tion we thought necessary for farm
ers to have, circular letters have been
mailed to each farmer. But in all
| meetings held at Mason, we nave
had the lowest percentage OF attend
ance than an yother part OF the
| County.
Now, the above are facts and nave
been reported as such in our weekly
reports sent to the State Depart
ment. What we want to know is
what the people want? We seldom
have letters from farmers in that
Community asking for any assistance
of any kind, in comparison with other
parts of the County.
Personal Calls
Whenever farmers write our Office
for specific problems they want work
ed out on their farms, we always GO
and do what we can an das an aver
age make $50 calls year. With
1000 farmers in the County, scattered
over million acres of land, it would
take years to see every farmer il
my work was nothing but to starr
out and call on each farmer consecu.
lively. Furthermore, my budget