River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1922-12-28

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| totaling about 100 tons. This cost
the purchaser on an average $27 per
ton, SIT of which went for freight.
| ms Is an unnecessary extravagance
when alfalfa can easily be raised at
| nome. Farmers are beginning to APP
preelate the real value of alfalfa as
| Ieed and we hope to get enough seed
| this coming season to sow at least ], 900
acres. l spent my vacation in South
| ting all the information | could on This
crop and locating sources of Grimm
seed which will supply the demand
| Soybeans are becoming more popular
| with the farmers. Soys are proving to
pc chiefly valuable with corn for silage.
county we expect them to be a soil
| pulider and cash crop. Experiments
with rye different kinds of soys plant
ed with corn for silage were carried
| on on IN every towship in the county
The Wisconsin grown Ito San and
M MAJ h and the Ohio grown Ito San
| ana Manchu We're the main varieties
tried. In most cases the wisconsin
grown Ito San and Manchu proved to
va are in my, office. The kind
| OF soybean to plant depends upon what
II Ills is to be used for and the soil condi-
uIstrlbuted through this Office to farm
ers. one farmer raised soybeans as an
i HaddFse en- ~. nay crop and got eight
| other farmer raised about as bushels
| OF seed on five acres
| so,ho Hun9reQ nlnety-one bottles of
| soybean and alfalfa cultures were OBJ
| tanned for farmers through this ONCE
from the Agricultural BacterioIogy De-
p pd c cn,ent at the College of Agriculture
Th1s office served as an exchange
s seea s number Of bushels of different
bushels of potatoes, and small onsnti
| !es or Huban, Sudan Grass and Sweet
opover; A seed potato. treatment dem
| oaS tIation was held which was instru-
mental in causing farmers in that com
nfunlty 70 order and plant 100 bushels
OF Gertined Rural New Yorker seed
| usnonstratlon enough seed was treat
| eed TO plant 1875 acres and the cost was
f 70 cents. nt,s inspected four fields of grain
| roa csrtlned seed. HuSked and esti-
mated yields on four corn fertilizer
| Poultry industry is becoming mora
popular with the people in this eonntv
As culling is one of the Essentials IN
p %itb raising | am trying to instruct.
PIE as possible how to Gull their own
nocks. Seven poultry culIing demon
sveraen were were held this fall. with an
| OF the farmers where DEMONSTRATIONS
We're held some birds affected WIFI
e9eepGnl4sis We're killed, post mortem
Lessons of the disease were found. ass
| treatment for lice and mites ana
t nbUaasrg diseases were taken up at
At one farm IS birds were culled out
or Hook of 200. These IS birds were
and no eggs were producesS Two weeks
| egg production in this flock was nor
| cut down any. Ao@
| inns spring for the purpose of makinS
| T rome sewing easier. A demonstrafor
from Rom the Extension Home Economics
| MAS the instructor. These four groups
| are located in the vicinity of River
Be al,5s inIiIasw2 2ads, Maiden Rock and
demonstration meetings at which tbevv
r ,aI1 now to test different materials.
terms T me 9 9 form and draft pat
| danag VIII be held the week of Novemher
be aget-together of all groups will
| and this meeting will be open to the
puonc. Several women from the exo
worE q department will speak. This
9y the women who were taught by ths
ttbe a from Madison, so from
v yee or rsnid four groups it has spread
Ellsworth group reports 80 Of for 1ns
made; Of the Maiden Rock group o' II:
P SSahV or fo1 Is; o and River Falls 7s
S s,ti,r soon SO that the entire county
VIII be covered. ''
wa One ts Of the big features of the year
demonstration Day trip for the NORTH.
NEST West section of the state which took
| at different points in the County, Deme
| onstrations of Boys and Girls, SI1h
W. Wtorhh, Women,s group work, extracting
ana trial plots of alfalfa. soybeans
SUDAN gress. commercial fertilizer on
soan;ed eaopage and potatoes were in
an educational trip covering work foS
| men, women and children Two bnna
are Peep people took the trip. A farmers
event 0eu the
r., A Community Club was organized at
FL Fl faso and one in the town of Tren-
| An exhibit, was put up at the River
ih ast Normal Grain and Poultry Show
County. Fair this fall a. the Pierce
Bee demonstrations were held in the
spring in four apiaries in different
ssaarts OF the county. Totol attendance
| Two-day. Farmers Institutes were
E Feia at bDia anne Bluff. Maiden Rock.
attendance was 5.S45. In eSnna r1tai
with each institute a Grain Show and
Fey an and Girls Poster Contest was
ne i lat at the Ellsworth Institute. Ar
| ffangements have been made to hold
tour institutes this winter.
Aided in making out two outlines 70
| De used in the rural school agricultural
Farmers, ordered 1900 pounds of
| was 11.2 cents per pound
| In five villages and cities the mer-
| oleomargarine ~ SCH
| acted on the committee which aid
1 80 IN n getting financial aid for the re-
ne1 or people who suffered great losses
| IN the cyclone stricken area of neigh
| boring counties.
The tester of the Ellsworth C. T. A.
| was aided in compiling the annual re-
| port of that association.
A new project has been added for
me TO work on by the Agricultural
0oInLnlttee az the last meeting 1t is
| marketing of butter fruit and other
| agricultural products
The following were meetings and
| conferences which were necessary for
me to attend: A State County Agents.
conference and Farmers Program last
| winter at Madison, a four days State
County Agent Conference at Madison
| TINS ran, a one-day District County
| Agent Conference at Spooner. a one
day demonstration. day at Madison and
| TWO County Agricultural COMMITTEE
| meetings at Ellsworth.
The past year 542 farm visits were
| made. Forty-three evening meetings.
with total attendance of 2,436. and
| 81 day meetings with a total attend