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Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1924-08-21
Returns in 1923
Slightly Better
$1,000 Average Return Made
for Use of S17,4O0 Capt.
tai and Labor.

prepared by the United States Department
of Agricultural
An average cash balance of $500 was
returned to owner-operators IN 1923
on 1913 farms surveyed by the
United States Department of Agricul-
ture. In addition to this margin OF
cash receipts over cash expenses these
farms increased inventories OF crops,
live stock, machinery and supplies
$3.50, making an average return OF
81 ,O2O for the use of SIT, 400 of capital
and the labor of the farmer and his
family. These farms also produced
food and fuel consumed on the farm
estimated to be worth $3.50 on the av-
erage
Better Than in 1922.
This is slightly better than shown
by similar survey for 1922 on 6,O94
owner-operator farms which averaged
a cash balance Of S715, increased in
ventory Of 1902, and produced food
and fuel worth 1924 on capital amount
ing to $16,41O.
The cash balance of $500 in 1928
was all the average Of these farms
made available to the owner to pay
his living expenses, take care OF debts,
and make improvements. Interest
paid on debts during the year 1928
averaged $3.50 and the reported outlay
for Improvements averaged $40.
Sales OF crops in 1923 on the aver
age totaled $3.50 or 38 per cent of to-
tai cash receipts of $2,240. Sales Of
live stock or live stock products were
81 ,31O or So per cent Of the total re-
ceipts. Miscellaneous receipts were
$50.
Cash expenses amounted to $3.50,
which included hired labor worth $3.50
for the year, live stock, $240, feed
S210 fertilizer $50, seed $40, taxes
$3.50, machinery $11O, and miscellane-
Gus $3.50.
Size and Value.
The size of the farms was 300 acres
on the average and the reported value
of land and buildings was $14,530, the
size and value of the farms being
larger than the average reported In
the 1926 census. The value Of crops,
live stock, machinery and supplies on
hand at the beginning of the year was
$1,000. The acreage of the farms re-
porting in 1922. was 252 acres and
the average capital $16,41O.
The department points out that the
figures apply only to the farms report
ing and to the farm business in each
year. Many farmers have property
besides the farms they work, or sup
plemented their farm returns with out
side work, and many drew on savings
or borrowed to meet expenses not COW
cred by current receipts. 1t Is prob
able, however, that the figures give
q fairly accurate pisture Of the state
of the business Of owner-operators In
the years covered by the surveys, the
department says.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1924-08-21
Deposits Per Deposits Per

Bank accounts mean ready money
which enables the farmer to keep his
business paid up to date, states B. H.
Hibbard of the Wisconsin College of
Agriculture. Even though the dairy
farmer may not be making much more
clear profit than the grain farmer In
some other section, he has a real adj
vantage In that he can keep his busi-
ness on current basis.
The man with bank account kept
up by regular income runs less risk
and can meet adverse conditions bet
ter than the one who depends upon
occasional income, Hubbard believes.
This opinion is supported by the re-
ports of national distributors of prod
ducts used on the farm who say col
lections have been easier in Wiscon-
sin during the recent depression than
In other sections of the country.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1924-08-21
Avoid Jerky Movements
in Examining Bee Hive

1t is a mistake to suppose, as many
do. that the chief characteristic of a
bee is it's sting. If manipulated with
proper care and consideration for the
bees, the chance Of being stung is re-
duced to a minimum. Hives should
be examined during the day while the
bees are working; they should be dis
turbed as little as possible, especially
on dull days or when rain threatens
for at such times the bees are likely
to be most irritable. They should not
be examined at night and only Wher
necessary at other times; else the
most sweet-tempered bees will have
their characters changed. Rapid and
jerking movements should be avoided.
When examining hives, do not keep
them open too long and avoid examin-
ing, as much as possible, IL the wealth
er is cold, or the brood will tend to be
chilled, as the temperature Of the hive
Is higher than the outside tempera-
ture. Bees dislike black and 1t is pref
cradle to wear light clothes In the
apiary. Before opening the hive for
examination, a few puffs of smoke
should be sent into the entrance; when
the cover is removed the quilt should
be raised at one end and few more
puffs directed down between the
frames. This causes the bees to gorge
themselves with honey, In which state
they are more tractable. The hive
should not be Jared in any way and
all operations should be carried on
from the side or back Of the hive so
that the free flight of the workers Is
not prevented in the least.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1924-08-21
Some Of Big Essentials
for Sweet Glover Hav

There are farmers who follow the
practice of cutting sweet clover hay
with q binder and cure it in long
shocks. The farmers who follow this
practice seem 10 agree that the meth
cd is a good one. The practice Is
when dry 10 put it in the barn or to
stack 1t in round stacks like grain.
The advantages claimed for this meth
cd are that it saves the leaves and
that the labor saved is much bigger
item chan the cost of Irvine. Also,
with the binder, it is easy to get the
high stubble that is necessary II one
is not to kill the plants.
For farmers who do not have lot
of corn or potato cultivating to do, it
is probably preferable to cut the sweet
clover hay with mower at about the
same date that the first cutting Of
alfalfa would come. 1t should be raked
as soon as wilted. If the acreage is
small and labor is available, it may
be put in cocks and hauled to the
barn when dry If the hay loaded IS
to be used, it should be turned into
windows with side. delivery rake
as soon az wilted so as to save the
leaves.
In any case, keep in mind that the
essential for good sweet clover hay
is to get it into windows or cocks
as soon as wilted so that the leaves
may be preserved. The same care in
handling so as to save leaves is of
almost equal Importance with ordinary
red or alsike clover and alfalfa as
with sweet clover II mower is
used some device is necessary for
raising the cutting bar If one is to
avoid killing the plants.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1924-08-21
Carelessness Is Cause
of Spread Of Foul-Brood

1t is best to remove diseased col
onies from the apiary as soon as dis
covered Carelessness is the cause Of
most OF the spread of foul-brood.
Never use combs or equipment that
have come from an apiary or district
where foul-brood Is known to exist.
When a colony shows disease every
frame connected with it should be de-
stroyed. If there is any possibility
Of robbing diseased colonies should
not be opened Be careful about
moving frames Of honey from one
hive to another. The liberal use Of
hot I've water is advised in the inner
surface Of all hives that have been
used. Be careful to remove and pre-
vent bees getting at infected combs
or honey.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1924-08-21

A way to kill chicks; give them
moldy feed.
The toad is one Of the best friends
the farmer can have.
Sanitation and prevention are the
best insurance against such contagi-
GUS diseases as hog cholera.
Ducks generally stop laying about
June and usually start about March,
though they can be fed so that they
will lay in February or even January.
Milk fattened poultry is considered
the finest by most discriminating peo-
pie. And on the majority of farms,
milk is one Of the cheapest foods
available for young chicks.
Green cookie bur plants are poison
Gus. They should be eliminated from
the vicinity Of the pasture. Ali ami
mails need in green's is about one and
one-half pounds to every 100 pounds
of live weight.
Swine gain in weight and health
when mineral feeds are mixed in their
rations. A sample mixture is 80
mounds of steamed bonemeal, 80
mounds of ground limestone, 20 pounds
Of salt and 20 pounds Of tankage.
The latter fiavors the mixture so that
II ia readily eaten in self-feeder.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1924-08-21
Millet Recommended as
Trap Crop for Insects

Millet is recommended as a trap
crop for chinch bugs and should be
sown early enough that it will have
p height Of about to inches when
the bugs begin to migrate. A strip
OF at least one drill width should be
planted. When the largest possible
number Of bugs are present they may
be destroyed by blowing under the
strip to depth Of about inches
and then firming the soil with drag
and roller, or they may be killed by
spraying. Chinch bugs will not bother
corn in which soy beans are planted
and this is one Of the ways with which
many farmers are overcoming the
pest. When no other provision has
been made the dust trench and other
similar barriers must be relied upon.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1924-08-21

says they may be left on the ground.
After seed pods have formed, they
should be collected and burned as
they will mature some seed if Left in
the field.
Clean Culture Prevents Seeding.
Cultivation and rotation, Stone be-
lieves, are the most effective ways of
controlling large patches or fields of
weeds. Careful preparation of the
seed bed followed by clean culture
during the crop season is the first
step. A good stand Of grain with
hay following 1t up will finish the job.
Perennials. are harder to control.
All roots as web as seed must be
killed or removed from the soil. Sum-
mer following Is sometimes effective.
Small patches may be smothered by
covering with tar paper or killed by
close cultivation. Special methods
have been worked out for some Of the
worst pests.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1924-08-21
Poultry Hints
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Swat the males and produce infer
tile eggs. N
Sour skim milk is one Of the best
feeds for small chicks.
Watch for lice and mites and get
rid of them as early as possible.
Inbreeding has ruined many flock
or family Of turkeys. Use strong, I'M
related toms every year.
Don't crowd too many poults in a.
coop or in a broo6er-and keep them
warm and dry the first few weeksf
Drafts and dampness cause most
losses among young turkeys.
Ground that the adult fowls and
early chicks have been running over
gets foul and sour. 1t Is Of special m
portance that young stock as well as
the old birds be gotten onto new
ground or on renovated ground from
time to time.
Eggs contain a large proportion OF
water. If you want your hens to lay
heavily, see that they have all the wa
ter they can drink.
It is as easy to oyerfeed fowls as it
Is to underfeed them. The happy
medium can be learned only by expert
ence and close observation.
The best way to kill off lice is to
prevent them from getting start.
This is much easier than it is to give
them a chance and then fight them az
terwars
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1924-08-21
Sweet Glover for Seed
Can Be Clipped for Hay

Where second year sweet clover is
to be cut for seed it should be clipped
for hay or pastured the first part of
the season or otherwise the growth
will be SO tall that it will be very
hard to handle, suggests the Nebraska
Agricultural college. Unless this Is
done, the growth, especially of the
white blossom sweet clover, is very
likely to be so heavy that binder
will not handle it.
Where 1t is clipped unless it is cut
early in the season and 8 to 10 inches
high, the sweet clover is apt to be
killed. The long stubble makes it
rather difficult to handle the sweet
clover hay. For this reason and be-
cause of the danger Of killing the
sweet clover, pasturing is to be pre-
ferred. Let the permanent pasture
get a good start in the spring by pas
turing the second year sweet clover
~ fore part of the season.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1924-08-21
Infertile Eggs Favored
for Shipping to Market

Thousands Of dollars worth OF
eggs are needlessly lost during hot
weather. 1t Is the farmer and poultry
man who bear the cost Of spoiled
eggs. 1t is not unusual for cases OF
eggs to contain few Matched chicks
when they reach the produce house,
and for other eggs to be well on the
way toward Matching.
Incubators and broody hens ere not
necessary to start the process OF in
cubation. Fertile eggs will begin to
develop chicks at temperature Of 20
degrees Fahrenheit.
The way to do away with fertility
in eggs is to remove all males from
the flock for two or three weeks pre-
vious to shipping eggs. An infertile
egg will not hatch and will keep muchl
longer than a fertile one.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1924-08-21
LESS TOBACCO IS
GROWN THIS YEAR

Wisconsin's acreage of tobacco this
year is IL per cent less than year
ago and the smallest acreage since
1910. In the northern tobacco dis
trict the reduction in acreage is 8 per
cent, and in the southern district IA
per cent. The acreage this year is
38,70O acres compared to $4,000 last
year, and 10000 acres in 1922.
1t is explained that the rather slow
movement Of the 1923 crop has In
fluenced growers generally to reduce
their acreages. Others have planted
smaller acreages in an effort to get
larger yields and better quality.
Cut worms did considerable dam
age this year, and many growers had
to replant.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1924-08-21
WEEDS ARE MENACE
TO BADGER FARMS
Methods of Control Vary
With Habits of Growth
and Length of Life.

Weeds levy a heavy annual tax on
Wisconsin. farmers.
ION many farms in the state fully
20 per cent Of the producing ca
pacity has been destroyed by weeds, y
declares A. l.. Stone, weed specialist
at the Wisconsin College of gAgricul-
ture. AS they are continuing to spread
at an alarming rate, he believes united
action is needed at once to control
them.
Certain weeds have been put under
the ban by the state legislature. They
must not be allowed to seed. The
weeds covered by the law are quack
grass, Canada thistle, burdock, white
or ox-eye daisy. snapdragon or butter
and-eggs. tocklebur, perennial SOW
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1924-08-21
FARM, NOTES
~ - ~

Give the little chicks milk and
plenty Of it.
A small flock of hens will insure
breakfast eggs.
Sweet clover is showing it's excel
lence this season as useful pasture
crop.
You are using the soil to produce
crops of economic value. Do not grow
useless weeds this season.
The estimated number of horses on
farms In this country the first Of the
year was 18.263OOO and of mules
8, $4,000.
If you spend dollars worth of
labor pulling dollars worth of fod-
der which cuts a dollars worth from
the corn yield, you have lost dollar
and your time.
Variety of food is an economical
and practical means of stimulating the
digestive system of sheep and so long
as continued, sickness will be practi-
cally unknown in the flock.
Fowls that "get BALD or lose the
feathers on the head or back Of the
neck are usually affected with the de-
plunning mite. A mixture of sulphur
and lard rubbed on the parts will help.
Twenty cows producing an average
Of a hundred and fifty pounds Of but
terfat will give three thousand pounds
q year. Ten observation-disclosures
cows will give the same amount. Why
milk the extra tenf
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1924-08-21
Dining Cars Use Much Meat

Dining cars are good customers Of
the American meat producer. They
use 100000 pounds of beef, 100000
pounds of ham, 100000 pounds of
lamb chops, 100000 pounds of other
kinds of meat, and 100000 chickens
for the 100000 meals they serve
each year
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1924-08-21
War on Tuberculosis

tuberculosis eradication is gaining
ground. Two Kansas counties have
been added to the number of "modi-
fed tuberculosis-free areas. They
are the first counties in the corn-beit
west of the Mississippi to be 'eclared
free from the disease.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1924-08-21
Increased Income.

Anyone having a complete set of
poultry raising equipment can enlarge
their operating season, as well as their
income, by Matching summer chicks
and raising them for the fall and holi-
Gay markets
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1924-08-21
AlIu of Cow Testing

Many communities are finding that
the cooperative bull association 10 a
valuable ally of the cow-testing asso-
citation in building up dairyins
Milford chronicle., 1924-06-20
DRAW JURORS FOR
KENT COUNTY COURT

New jury commissioners, Messrs
Hope and Hopkins, have drawn the
following panel of petit jurors for the
July term of Kent County Court be-
ginning July z:
First District-James II. Roberts,
Gilbert Garrison, William R. Davis,
Jackson Snow
Second Walter R. Green, Thomas
c. McGinnis, Joseph 7. Vance, Ed
ward Willim.
Third. Wesley Smith, Thomas D.
Garrison, S. T. Bennett, Wilbur D.
Clark.
Fourth-John Ashton, J. Frank
Smith, John B. Lindale.
Fifth-Walter L. Stewart, John T.
Buckson, William V. Cosden, Eugene
Raughley.
SiXth-O. Herman Dill, Amos Min
ner, Wesley Webb.
Seventh-GeOrge TOrbert, Joshua H.
Hudson, Carl Hughes, Jr., William
COnard.
Eighth-Walter Hughes, Walter S.
Camper, Wilbur Layton, Fred Hop
kins
Ninth-John J. Brown, George B.
Simpson, Roy Porter.
Tenth-Daniel G., Collins, John H.
Johnson, Frank Sapp.
Milford chronicle., 1924-06-20
NEED MORE CARRIERS
TO DELIVER U. S. MAIL
CONTINUED from first pagel

CONTINUED from first page)
covered by the carrier in making the
trips.
Carrier No. South Milford
First Trip: 3 pounds; 20 pieces; 10
stops; 21a miles.
Second Trip; so pounds; 473 pieces;
2l5 stops; II miles
Third Trip: Ga pounds; 307 pieces;
166 stops; 10 miles.
Fourth Trip: Trip not made.
Total of III pounds of mail of S04
pieces and 231a miles covered. The
stops numbered 391, with possible
number that could be made with mail
of 984. The time required was 8
hours and so minutes, making nearly
one hour of overtime to cover the
route. The fourth trip, a collecting
trip, was abandoned because of the
lack of time to make it after delivery
of the mail.
Carrier No. 2-NOrth Milford
First Trip: 31a pounds; SO pieces;
81 stops; PA miles.
Second Trip: 4S pounds, 597 pieces;
226 stops; 94 miles.
Third Trip: 81 pounds; 354 pieces;
1872 stops; 91a miles.
Fourth Trip: stops; IA miles.
Total of 1882 pounds, 985 pieces
and 23% miles walked The stops
numbered 445 with possible number
of stops of 904. The time required to
serve this route and make the cOllec-
tions, was 8 hours and II minutes,
which was II minutes overtime.
This clearly shows that it is i'm
possible to cover all the territory to
be served by one carrier, and that an
additional carrier must be placed in
service to give to all the people of
Milford that which they are entitled |
to expect from the post office service.
There are days when the weather |
makes it impossible to cover the |
routes daily by the carriers. but es-
pecially is the work beyond accom-
plishment when the weekly papers
are to be delivered and other mail of
special character has to be handled.
It may be surprising to many who
read this statement of the record of
work accomplished by the city car
riers of Milford as their daily task;
1ut it is not an exceptional showing,
lust an average days work
Certainly Milford is entitled to this
special request for fair service. The
mount of the business transacted by
he Milford Post Office is the largest
n Delaware-outside the city of Will
ningtOn and it is increasing.
In addition to the above, a real par ,
els post delivery must be installed
1t present the system in use is
aroo on6 q 7111iconoa tO bOfb tbOco 1
erved and those who deliver the par
els. An auto service must be sup
lied.
Milford chronicle., 1924-06-20
loves Cross Roads

Many from here spent Sunday at
Oak Orchard
Mr.. and Mrs. STAINS English and
daughter and P. E. English visited
Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Hearn at Gum
bOro on Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ray Jones were given
a kitchen shower last Saturday even
ing.
The Sunday school of Bethany
Church will hold their picnic next
Saturday evening in the church yard.
Everybody invited.
Milford chronicle., 1924-06-20

phia is visiting her parents, Mr.. and
Mrs Thomas Salevan.
Mr.. and Mrs. Thos. Logan spent
several days in Philadelphia last
week.
Life Insurance. Chas. J. Holzmuel-
Ter, Milford. f29-3t
Milford chronicle., 1924-06-20

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diligently and
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ago those who
know Coolidge always picture
his mher picture
and the photograph stands his
desk in the White House today.
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completing
office Northampton This the odsoned way studying that pro-
because overabund
the President before
coming Washington lived modest home in Northampton 1t was u
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hat after reading law twenty months he was admitted to the bar He had
established their clients reputation honesty
thorouhness sought counselor
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political Northampton Republican
committee
Council of Northampton serving He took his duties
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Milford chronicle., 1924-06-20
JURY MEN DRAWN
FOR KENT COURT

Jury Commissioners Hopkins and
Hope on Tuesday drew the following
additional panel of jurymen for the
Court of Oyer and Terminer cOnven-
ing the first week in July:
First District Benjamin c. Collins,
John P. Hudson.
Second-Arthur F. Dawes, John P.
Jefferson, Robert E. Lewis.
Third-Frank Savin, John w. Hous-
ton.
Fourth-Howard Bickling, Norman
L. Johnson, William Mayberry.
Fifth-John H. Bostic, Earl E.
James, William H. Mckee.
Sixth-Harry H. Smith, Claude Dra-
per, John W. Webb.
SEVENTH. Dawson Clark, William
PaTadee, David Metz.
Eighth-Calvin Hurd, Albert Craig,
Elijah Hughes.
Ninth-John J. Hammond, James
Outten, Henry H. Galloway.
Tenth-Emmitt Harrington, Joseph
L. Marvel, Ernest Macklin.
Milford chronicle., 1924-06-20
A Poor Combination.

A brief commencement story L. told
about the governor of Maine who,
while addressing the students at Bow
doin college, said, "Your spacious
campus with its beautiful garbage Of
green etc. Evidently he started to
say garment" then switched off onto
"herbage,' but the combination that
resulted was hardly a happy one.
Boston Transcript.
Milford chronicle., 1924-06-20

Science has trie dto establish the
truth concerning almost everything
except the number Of ice cream cones
a small boy can hold.
Milford chronicle., 1924-06-20

Advice TO Motorists.
Better "Stop, look, listen," thRn
hurry, stall and hear the angels.
From Boston Herald.