Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1923-07-04
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: COUNTY. AGENTS FARM
! NEWS LETTER
Duroc Jersey Breeders Association
Formed.

DurOc Jersey Breeders Association
Formed.
At the Duroc Jersey Breeders pic
mic at the Eugene Croft farm on June
! goth a goodIy number of the lovers
of the Red Hog gathered to renew
| acquaintance and listen to the pro-
gram. Something over 300 people ir
all enioyed the wonderful picnic din
Ter and listened to musical se4ec-
| tions rendered by Mr.. and MIS-.
Ralph, County superintendent Oh
| Schools and also Mrs. Aupperie.
/ Speakers Of the day were Robert j.
/ Evans, secretary Of the American
/ Record Association. We might add
right here that the association that
Mr.. Evans represents had for It's
birthplace, Wisconsin. Burlie DOB
son, secretary Of the Wisconsin
Swine Growers Association, gave
short talk as did Col. E. A. Heber-
| lein and Eugene Croft and likewise
the County Agent.
In all we feel sure that everyone
enioyed themselves and received
profit from being there After the
program a group Of men interested in
the Duroc Jerseys gathered together
and formed an association. The fol-
lowing officers were elected: O..
Runde, Cuba City. President; Fred
Foster, Beetown. Vice President; Eu
gene Croft, Lancaster, Secretary and
| Treasurer. Two directors elected to
act with the officers as board of di-
rectors were: Chas. Metcalf, Glen
Haven, and L. E. Grunewald, Living
ston.
A general meeting Of all Duroc men
was called for July 28th, 1t the Court
House. Every man who is a backer
OF red hogs should mark the date and
be there Steps were taken to start
action to get out a County Show Herd
of Duroc Jersey hogs for the fairs
this fall. Any man having some good
DurOcs that will fill in some class,
kindly tell Mr.. Runde, the President
by letter or phone, some time CHS.
next week Red hog backers-let us
set behind and push It's your bu5i-
ness, why not carry it on as such.
Cut the NOxiOuS Weed.
In order that we protect ourselves
for the future we must put our forces
at work to keep out those things
which steal our profits. One of the
| biggest thieves we have is the one
known as the weed. In Grant county
alone there is enough stolen by this
fellow to more than meet the taxes OF
everyone, personal, land, school and
all combined Yet some will allow
the next door neighbOr to let his
patch of Canada Thistles, Wild Mus
tard, Quack Grass, Wild Parsnip and
all the rest, go to seed. You should
remember that you have a Weed Com
missioner in every township and by
law no noxious weed should be allow
ed to go to seed Why not cut your
own and see to it that the other fel-
low does. Get your Weed Commits
sioner on the Job. 1t is not something
to consider lightly. Go into some
section of Wisconsin and see what
Canada ThistIes have done. We viii
have the same thing. We are ready
and willing to help where we can.
Lot us get the thief that is slowly
stealing our profits.
Rain Means Money.
In Grant county we have something
over $4,000 acres Of small grain be-
ing grown The rain Of the past
week and the cool weather has meant
more than can be realized. 1t has
meant perhaps a few loads of hay
spoiled but stop and think what has
it done to your oats, barley, wheat
and rye. 1t figures 1000 farms in
Grant county, with say an average Of
20 acres of small grain. Increase as
result Of rain and cool weather at
least 10 bushels to the acre or about
500 600 bushels more small grain,
putting that number of bushels at so
cents per bushel, the price IN dollars
and cents would be $400,000.00 Not
a bad rain nor is the cool weather
costing us much. Cheer up, all
clouds are silver lined.
Testing Associations Order Oil Meal
Members of two COW testing asso-
Citations around Lancaster, Mt. Hope
and FennimOre, got together and de-
cided now is the time to get ready for
winter. AS the protein supply of the
feeds are low this year. due to short
hay crop. Our cloverS usually help 8
great deal to supply the needed pro-
tein feeds to make our live stock pro-
duce as they should With this in
mind and oil meal standing in the
balance as one of the cheapest good
feeds that we have to supply the
needed protein, it was decided to buy
two car loads of the same. The ware
houses IN Lancaster were given the
privilege to bid on this order and the
one bidding the lowest price received
the order One car load will arrive
in Lancaster in July and the other in
September. Organization can always
get further than trying to stand
alone.
Iowa Buyers for Calf Clubs.
The past week brought more buy
ers from Iowa to buy Grant county
Jersey and Guernsey calves. Move
ment is afoot to select some 20 head
of purebred Guernseys and Jersey
heifer calves between the age of four
to eight months old for club work in
the state of Iowa. Men having some
thing along this line should let this