River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1922-11-23
County Agent Notes
Oh. G. Seyforth)

Friday, Nov. oath is an important
date for women in the county. The
four groups of women organized this
spring and who were instructed in
easier methods in home sewing will
have their Get-Together meeting at
Ellsworth, at the Fireynen's Opera
House. The afternoon session start
ing at one o'clock is open to the public
and wonen are urged to attend this
meeting. Extension workers from
the University of Wisconsin will have
interesting messages to bring to the
women. You are cordially invited to
attend.
Approximately one out of every
-four hogs and 25 per cert of the cat
tie shipped from Wisconsin farms to
packing plants are tubercular. 9th
Ell states have even more tuberculosis
among cattle. Packers protect them
selves against these losses by lower
ing prices, and, consequently, Wiscon-
sin farmers annually lose approx
mately 100000. Buyers are
avoiding INFESTED cattle and pay
higher prices for cattle from herds
tested in their entirety. An increase
Of 10 cents per hundred is offered by
packers for hogs coming from farms
having accredited herds or located in
tuberculosis free areas. This in
crease would have added $884,000 to
our farmers receipts in 1921; or $19,-
ga, $4,000, and SIT, 100 to Walworth
Chippewa and Barron counties, re-
spectively. 1t is evident that Bovine
tuberculosis is a great economic loss;
it is also a menace to health. Twen-
| ty-five per cent and more of tubercu-
losis among children under sixteen
| years of age is bovine type. 1t,
therefore, behoves every farmer to
make systematic use of the tubercu-
| lin test.
Salt, iodine and calcium are need
ed in every well balanced livestock
ration, declared E. B. Hart, of the
Agricultural Chemistry Dept, Uni
versity of Wisconsin. "Salt is an es-
sential factor in well balanced ra-
| ton )" said Mr. Hart When used it
is usually in the form of ordinary
salt or sodium chloride. The chlor-
inc upon entering the stomach forms
! hydrochloric acid and this acid is
necessary for proper and complete
digestion. Nearly all common food
stuffs are very low in iodine content.
The greatest loss resulting from a
| deficiency of iodine is in the birth OF
hairless pigs. The goiter region of
this country is in the northwest and
it is in this section that high losses
are incurred. A little iodine in the
form of sodium or potassium iodine
| will serve as an insurance against
trouble of this type. Calcium is be-
ing given off constantly in the form
Of salts in the milk of a dairy COW,
/ diIl SI4iF- pION IiioSI NC iiieteAs1
to replace this" said Mr.. Hart. at
has been found that alfalfa hay cured
under caps carries vitamine which
aids in ca'cirtn assimilation. Lime or
bone neal added to the roughage win
also help overcome the constant drain
on the calcium supply of the body"
No more Picric Acid can be obtain
ed this fall 1t will be available next
spring ard announcements will be
made through these columns.
Greens for November and Dace,n-
Der must be furnished to layers and,
in fact, to all the flock. Cabbage.
beets, carrots OF other roots will fill
thu bill. The bright green leaves
from clover or alfalfa hay are inst
the sort of material needed. Skim
milk, buttemnilk, or sour milk quite
completely supplies the element often
given in meat scrap.