River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1922-08-03
FARMERS and COUNTY AGENTS
DEMONSTRATION TRIP JULY Is

Demonstration trip held Juay % will
go down in Pierce county ristory as
one of the big events. This was the
first demonstration trip ever held in
this county, but hope that it will not
be the last one.
Those present from outside the
county were County Agents S. Murat,
Buffalo county; G. w. Vergeront,
Jackson county; H. M. Knipfel,
Clark county; A. W.KnottISt. Croix
county; w. A. Duffy, Barron county;
R. H. Rasmussen, Washburn county;
F. Mclean, Sawyer county; j. M.
Waltz, Douglas cornty; and J.. S.
Klinka, Polk county. Specialists from
the College of Agriculture were E. L.
Luther, Supt. of Farmers Institutes,
Geo. Briggs, soybean specialist, R. E.
Vaughan, plant pathologist and F. Z.
Musbach, soil specialist. Mr.. O. B.
Martin from the u. S. Department Of
Agriculture, Washington d. c. and
L. H. Robbins, Livestock Editor of
the Wisconsin Agriculturist, Racine,
Wis.,, also were present.
The trip started on schedule time
at 500 A. M. and followed the sched-
ule time throughout the entire trip.
An average of 80 cars made up the
procession carrying the farmers and
business men from all parts of the
county.
The first stop was made in the r
chard west of the Larson and Quinn
Garage and the A. G. Foss orchard
east of the Court Eouse. The value
Of spraying apple trees showed up
very we'll in these two places as the
trees that had been sprayed were
heavily laden with unblemished fruit,
while those that were not sprayed
had very little fruit and not sound at
that.
The second stop was at Gilman
Corners where the two Anderson Calf
j1uD niGlliUSfS SAilUltSu tiSli puiS-
bred Guernsey calves, and the Bart
lett Calf Club mambers showed their
purebred Holstein calves. These boys
were asked questions by different
people in regard to their calves.
The next stop was at the home Of
w. 3. Erickson, about two miles
south of Gilman Corners. Mr.. Erick-
son., who has taken the agricultural
cortse in the Minnesota College OF
Agriculture, is running a large num-
Der of experiments on hisfarm. Those
that were most profitable to the
visitors were the different variety of
soybeans he had planted with corn
for silage, the comparison OF acid
phosphate with barnyard n rs
a fertilizer for corr and Hnbam
Sweet Clover, which has been adyer-
tised so much the last two years as
a leguminous crop. This stop was
concluded with a demonstration on
how to extract honey from the comb
and giving the visitors a sample of
the product, which was relished By all
present.
The fourth stop was made at the
farm of j. F. Larson and Sons where
were seen the 5 acres of Wisconsin
Ito San soybeans which are planted
for seed. These showed up very well.
Mr.. Luther gave a short talk on
raising the soybean as a cash crop
instead Of oats. The herd of pure
bred Angus cattle on this place were
highly thought of by the people pre-
sent.
The next stop was made at the
farm of Walter Leonard where an 8
acre field of soybeans had been plant
ed for hay. Six different varieties
were found in the field. Of these the
Wisconsin and Indiana Ito San vari-
cites showed up the best at this time.
Before leaving this farm Mr.. Leon
ards son, Lorain, showed the visitors
his purebred Guernsey calf and pure
bred Duroc-Jersey pig that he is
taking care of in club work.
At II o'clock we arrived at the AL
bert Kline farm and inspected a nine
acre field of alfalfa. This is one of
the best alfalfa fields in the county.
Mr.. Kline has sowed both Grimm and
common alfalfa seed and has applied
limestone at the rate of two tons per
acre on part of the field and one ton
per acre on another portion of the
field, and left one strip without any
limestone. This demonstration show
ed the value of limestone for the SIG
cessful growing of alfalfa, as the
lined portion of the field looked very
healthy and had a vigorous growth of
alfalfa, while the unlimed portion
was yellow, the alfalfa was dying out