River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1922-07-20
County Agent Notes
H. G. Seyforth

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worth. Dana Clifford of Maiden
Rock, Evelyn Finstad of Bay City,
Bessie and Mayme Hawkinson of
River Falls, and Otto Meyer of Spring
Valley. Katie Smith of Ellsworth,
and Vivian Richardson, Beldenville,
are enrolled in the canning project.
Poultry Club members are Carl Inge-
brigtson, Clarence Johnson, Beatrice
Clifford of Maiden Rock; Allen liver
son of Spring Valley, Leland L.
Kraus, Inza Martin, Frederick Bork,
Norman Collamore, Anna Frank and
Niefind Huber of Ellsworth.
Nearly all members of the Boys
and Girls Club in Pierce county at
tended the club picnic at Goose Lake
on the 18th of July. Club members
began to arrive at the picnic grounds
at 900 a. m. and continued to come
until II o'clock. After enjoying a
big picnic dinner and drinking all the
lemonade they could the crowd as
sembled under the shady trees and
sang some songs under the leadership
of Mr.. Mcneil, assistant State Club
leader from Madison. He then talked
to the club members on the work and
urged them to go on and finish what
they had begun. The boy over Is
years of age, who stands highest in
club work in the county will get a
free trip to TIE State Fair at Mil
waukee. After the program most of
the members present donned their
bathing suits and took to the water.
Others took part in games, such as
horseshoe, tug-of-war, ball, etc. All
boys and girls and the parents who
accompanied them had a very good
time. The next big meeting of club
members of Pierce county will be a.
fair time when the young people
make their exhibits in the Boys and
Girls Club Work tent.
During the last ten days 470 head
of cattle in this county were tested
for tuberculosis. Out of this num-
Der d were reactors. This is nearly
5 per cent, a very large percentage
for this section of the state. Ten
head of the reactors were shipped to
South st. Paul and sold to Swift &
Co. last Monday. / accompanied
some of the owners to the slaughter
house to see the cattle killed Wednes-
day. Nine out of the ten showed
LESSONS of the disease. One did not
show visible LESSONS. Most of them
showed that the disease of tubercul-
osis had just begun as the LESSONS
were small. The glands of the in
testines, lungs and livers were the
parts found acected. The owners
were well satisfied that the animals
had the disease and that the tuber-
culin test was very accurate. Eleven
more head will be shipped out this
week. Numerous requests are COM
ing into the office for tuberculosis
testing of cattle and I hope that a
large number of herds can be tested
this fall.
Some farmers are notifying me
that their raspberry bushes are af-
fected in some so that ber-
ries are not produced. / have ex-
amined several patches and find they
are affected with anthracnose and
cane blight. The symptoms of the
two are brown spots on the leaves
and grayish spots on the canes. These
are fungus diseases which gradually
kill the leaves and canes. The only
treatment for this is to remove all
canes and leaves acected after ber-
ries are wei and burn. Clean away
all litter from around the roots. Next
spring spray with bordeaux mixture
before the leaves come out, after the
the leaves are out and just before
they blossom. This treatment will
do away considerable with the dis
eases.
Every farmer in Pierce county
should plan to attend the county
agent and farmers demonstration
in this county July %. This is an OPP
p%ortunity Pierce county farmers eve
had before. The tour will start from
Ellsworth at 8 a. m. We will again
be back at Ellsworth at noon, and the
trip will end at River Falls about
4:30 p. m. Between Is and IA stops
will be made during the day when
experimental plots and other features
can be seen. Talks by agricultural
specialists will be made at every stop.
The complete program of the timer
airy will be published in next weeks
papers. Go yer the program care
fully and if you think that you can
not take in the entire trip, plan to be
at some of the stops.