River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1922-06-01
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was arranged by Roland Steltzer and
Frederick Buth. They had minia-
ture normal school campus and farm
showing all the buildings and fields.
This proved to be quite an attractive
exhibit.
8. High School exhibit room. Err
nest Wilson and Jesse Smith used Mr..
Mays laboratory room and arranged
laboratory tables, chairs, equipment
and various things that are part of
the agricultural room in the high
school They showed in their exhibit
how to properly arrange an agricul-
tural room. This exhibit was very
instructive to the men who are expect
ing to go out and teach, because they
had on display, methods that were
suggestive.
4. Rope exhibit. This was arrang-
ed by the rope demonstration team
and they showed on a mount the var
ious knots and spices and the ar
rangement of pulleys.
5. Soil booth. Mr.. Wilson and Mr..
Cole had a booth with the equipment
needed to test for soil acidity and with
samples of lime rock from this vicin-
ity, and cards were printed showing
the value of our local lime rock and
soils.
The prizes were distributed as fol-
lows: 1st, Milk exhibit: End, Normal
School exhibit: 3rds Agricultural room.
Floats
A parade was arranged which pas
sed through the business section. In
this parade a number of floats were
prepared illustrating various farm
problems. School was dismissed so
that all could see the parade. The
following floats were prepared:
1. Preventing plant disease. On
this float various students were at
work treating grains for smut, treat
ing potatoes for disease and treat
ing cabbage. A number of signs
were placed about the float which add
ed to the point which the men pre-
pairing it wished to bring out. The
ones in charge of this float were, Har-
vey CHLOE, Almond Bauer and Al
bert Hyatt.
2. Power farming float. A gaso-
line engine was attached to a machine
representing the mechanical mixer.
A forge was located on the float call
ing attention to the farm shop. Be-
hind this float number of tractors
followed calling attention to the power
farming. This float was arranged by
Wilmer Duxbury and Edwin Morrow.
3. Pruning and spraying float. This
proved to be an attractive float. Two
plum trees had been located in wag
on and sprayer was at hand and
one of the boys was spraying the
trees, another was pruning it. Mer-
rill Haldron, Fred Major and Royce
Deans were on this float.
4. Scrub bull funeral. A large cas-
ket was prepared and placed on a
truck draped in black. On the casket
vas placed sign bearing this infor-
nation. Here lies our scrub bull,
bury yours too." Six boys acted as
pail bearers, walking beside the
truck dressed in very poor clothes
representing the things which go along
with this type Of livestock. Behind
| the hearse two we'll dressed boys were
Leading the Normal herd sire with
this sign, "His Successor" Rudolph
Haugh and Edwin johnson had in
charge the arrangement of this float.
5. Poultry house float. This float
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placed on an auto truck. All the nee
essary equipment needed for model
poultry house was placed in the ex-
hibit. A number of chickens were al
so put inside of the house. There
was large sign with a rooster MAX
ing this statemen, listen, listen,
will lay eggs if. Rudolph Hanson
and Henry Tranmal built the poultry
house and arranged the exhibit.
6. Livestock fitting float. This
consisted of three animals placed on
a large truck and the boys were ac-
tually engaged in these operations
necessary for the fitting of livestock
for show. The following were some
of the signs placed on the truck:
George O'Brien, Sampson Paynter
and Douglas Slater prepared the ex-
hibit.
Z. Alfalfa float. A series of piles
of alfalfa were located on this float
showing the effect of different kinds
of treatment upon the yield of hay.
1t showed that alfalfa which had been
lime. inoculated. yielded the greatest
amount of hay. Harvey Vanish and
Wallace Cole had charge of this float.
8. Cow testing float. The value of
COW testing associations in increasing
the butter-fat production was shown
on this float. A Babcock tester was
placed in the float and the boys show
ed how the milk is tested for butter
fat. Arthur Paff, Earl Vance and
Scott Williamson had charge Of this
float.
These floats represented a great
deal of work and considerable inguen-
ity on the port of those in charge.
Leading the procession were these
signs, carried by students:
Course for the training of teachers
of Agriculture organized at River
Falls in 1912.
More students enrolled in the Agri-
cultural Department at River Falls
than in any normal in the U. S.
The judges had some difficulty
awarding the places in this contest
but finally made the following deci-
sions:
1st place to the scrub bull funeral