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Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1925-04-23
Put Additional Weight
on Poultry for Market

Comparatively little attention has
been given to the matter either OF
placing additional weight on market
poultry or Of improving its quality be-
fore marketing, say the specialists at
the New Jersey agricultural expert
ment station. Recent experiments at
that institution show that nearly one
half pound, can be placed on heavy
roasters in ten days through the use
Of semi-solid buttermilk with mash
high in corn meal content.
In this method the roasters are con-
fined to the colony houses, starved for
"a hours, and then subjected to ten
day special feeding process. During
this time an attempt is made to re-
duce exercise to minimum. Perches
and dropping platforms are removed
from the houses, and curtains are
tually feeding. No drinking water is
supplied during the period. The fol-
lowing ration Is used: Corn meal, sew
en- pounds; wheat middlings. three
pounds; wheat bran, one pound; semi
solid buttermilk diluted one to seven)
% pounds.
This ration is fed as a wet mash
three times daily-at 1880 a. M, noon,
and p. m. Half as much Of the mix
ture is given at noon as in either the
morning or the night feeding.
On this ration roasters have aver
aged TT per cent, or "A pounds In
crease in weight per bird.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1925-04-23
Feed Poultry With Eyes
Open and Watch Closely

Experience counts with poultry, de-
clared poultrymen at the New York
State College of Agriculture at Ithaca.
They say it is easy to tell how it
should be done, but tNat it is diff
ferent matter to do it, and that doing
it over and over again with ones eyes
open is the way to gain the knowledge
that makes poultry pay.
! Immature and understood pullets are
often the cause of low egg production
in many fiocks, say men at the state
college. And some poultrymen, they
say, try to make themselves believe
that they have a flock Of good-sized
pullets by weighing the largest ones.
The only persons they fool are them
selves, and that to no avail.
A pullet which is understood or i'm
mature will not lay enough to be pro-
fitable. And what one man considers
a small pullet may be considered large
enough by another man. 1t is not
wholly matter of opinion, however,
as there are Standards of weight
which are about right for egg produc-
ton.
The time chicks should be Matched
depends on the man who is going to
do the feeding. Chicks may mature
much earlier under the care Of one
man than under that of another. The
general rule should be followed Of
maturing the pullets so that they will
come into laying in the early winter
months when egg prices are highest
AS, with every other kind of live
stock, eternal vigilance is the price of
success, and the poultryman who
makes profit is the one who ''cares"
for his flock in both senses of the
word
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1925-04-23
FARM ACT.S1e

1t pays to grow vegetables for home
use.
Sharp tools are big help in home
gardening.
In the book Of successful farming
there are many clover leaves.
Farming becomes more interesting
as it becomes more intelligent.
Crop rotation not only helps the
soil but 1t discourages insects.
ness; so will poor cows break dairy
man.
Plant such vegetables as kale, tur-
nips, spinach, beets, carrots and let
tuce as soon as the soil will permit
If you can crop the same acreage
with fewer horses. the chances arg
you have wasteful power stock on
your farm
Orderly marketing can only follow
orderly production. The huge cotton
crop at the expense of other crops
is disorderly production.
The climate and weather sharps
continue to predict dry year for
1925. They say our solar radiation is
lower than usual and that drought
always follows such state of things.
1t might pay to conserve soil mois-
ture.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1925-04-23
Manure Pile Quite
Costly to Farmers
Tests Extending Over Twen-
ty-One Years in Ohio.

Every ton of manure allowed to ac-
cumulate around the yards costs the
farmer 50 cents. This figure has been
obtained from actual field tests ex-
tending over q years in Ohio.
Realizing that crop yields tell a
story much easier to understand than
a chemical analysis, the Ohio expert
ment station has applied manure to
clover sod in the three-year rotation
of corn, wheat and clover for twenty
one years.
One series of plots received manure
directly from the stalls. Another
series was treated with an equal
weight Of manure that had been left
in a pile in the yards for three months
Stable manure produced % bushels OF
corn an acre, 105 bushels of wheat
and 1853 pounds of hay. Barnyard
manure yielded at the rate of 1915
bushels of corn, bushels of wheat
and $40 pounds of hay. Measured by
the average value of crop increase,
one ton of yard manure is worth 1922
and one ton of stable manure $3.45.
The idea exists in some sections
that considerable portion of the ma
nure hauled during the winter is
wasted. Missouri tests prove this idea
unfounded except in the case Of steep
hillsides where the water from melt
ing SHOWS may carry away the ma
nure L. e. Call of the Kansas Agri-
cultural college, in a recent statement,
says: 'sBarnyard manure can safely be
scattered on most fields when ethe
ground is covered with snow. It is
only when the snow melts rapidly on
rolling fields shat very much OF the
fertilizing value Of manure is lost.
Under most conditions the loss will
be greater when the manure is piled
outdoors than when it is scattered.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1925-04-23
Fertilizers Are
Getting Better
Colleges and Experiment
Stations Given Credit for
Improvement.

There is ample evidence to indicate
that the quality of fertilizer which
farmers are buying is getting better
each year. This improvement can be
traced to the work which the agricul-
tural colleges and experiment stations
have been carrying on for several
years in cooperation with fertilizer
manufacturers through the soil inn
prOvement committee of the National
Fertilizer association. The following
brief summary of the situation in a
few typical states should be Of inter-
est:
Increase in Indiana.
In his last report, Prof. e. G. Proulx,
state chemist of Indiana, says, "Indi-
ana in four years has changed from
a low-grade fertilizer state to a high
grade fertilizer state and has learned
that plant food makes the fertilizer. /"
During these four years, the total
quantity of nitrogen sold in Indiana
increased by 90 per cent and potash
by 1876 per cent, while phosphoric acid
decreased by per cent.
Figures for Ohio, compiled by Pro-
fessor Bear, show that in one year,
1928 compared with 1922, high-analysis
fertilizers increased 60 per cent and
that the sale of those included in the
@'Ohio Standard Dozen" list increased
I'll per cent.
In Maryland, those analyses of
which 1000 tons or more were sold
show an increase of "a per cent for
ammonia and 56 per cent for potash
In 1923 as compared with 1921.
Progress in Missouri.
The following statement by Director
Mumford, which appears in the latest
fertilizer inspection bulletin issued by
the Missouri experiment station, Is in
dicative Of the progress that is being
made in that state:
''The experiment station has also
conferred directly with the manufac-
turers OF fertilizer material and has
encouraged them to manufacture the
brands Of fertilizers that ought to be
used in this state. The result of these
efforts has been very gratifying. The
s ulduuldCJuIcI O11 OAC 5llduO Aido puohOO
the sale of good fertilizers adapted to
Missouri conditions, and the farmer on
the other hand has followed the adj
vice of the experiment station, to his
great profit"
Progress in Michigan Is clearly in
Dictated by the following statement
made by Prof o. B. Price in a recent
Issue of the Michigan Farmer:
I'm 1912 so per cent of the brands
sampled were low-analysis material i;
in 1917, 68 per cent were low analysis !;
in 1922, 81 per cent, and in 1928 only
II per cent"
Manufacturers are rapidly reducing
the number of grades offered for sale
and increasing the actual plant-food
content of those fertilizers that are
sold.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1925-04-23
Most Effective Method
for Treating Potatoes

The most effective method of treat
ing potatoes for scab is to dip the
potatoes in a solution of corrosive sub
Innate, prepared by dissolving 4
ounces Of corrosive sublimate in sew
eral quarts of hot water in 50-gal-
lon barrel and adding enough cold
water to make 30 gallons. Place the
potatoes in this solution and allow to
stand for one hour. Potatoes may re-
main In the sack when being dipped,
but 1t is better to place them in loose
or in a crate that does not absorb the
solution. After every six bushels
about one-quarter ounce of corrosive
sublimate should be added to the solu-
ton to preserve it's strength. Potatoes
should be clean and all rotten or dam
aged potatoes removed before dipping.
Only earthenwAre or wooden contain
ers should be used for the solution as
1t corrodeS metals.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1925-04-23
Purest Grade Of Glover
Seed Always Cheapest


The best grade Of clover seed sells
at higher rate than the poorer
grades, but one pays less for each
pound Of viable seed when the best
is bought.
"The term, bushel Of clover seed,
is very indefinite unless you know the
percentage Of purity, the percentage
of termination, the kind Of weed seeds
it contains and where 1t was grown
says e. G. Blair, extension agronomist
for the North Carolina State College
of Agriculture. 1.-THE purest sample of
clover seed ever grown is no good If
it will not terminate; seed that will
terminate 100 per cent are costly If
they are trashy and full of trouble
some weed Seeds Field tests have
shown that clover seed grown in the
United States will survive our winters
better than those grown in foreign
countries"
Mr.. Blair states that the North Car
DINA seed laboratory has set SO per
cent as the standard of purity and
80 per cent as the standard of germi-
nation. Samples received at this lab
oratory last year ranged from $3.50
to 1924 per cent in purity, and from
6 to 90 per cent in termination.
"A comparison was recently made Of
six good samples OF American-gr grown
red clover Seed" says Mr.. Blair. 1.-THE
results Of the tests showed that the
best seed was the cheapest because
the purchaser secured a larger num-
Der Of viable seed for his money as
compared to cheaper seeds which were
low in termination, trashy and full of
weed Seeds"
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1925-04-23
Some Garden Mistakes

There are number of mistakes fire.
quently made which have tendency
to reduce the value Of garden. The
first one is in making a plan which
covers too large an area. 1t may be
that when the first warm days of
springtime arrive, in the first flush of
enthusiasm we will plan larger gar
gen than we can properly care for. In
course Of time the rush of farm work
comes on, the weeds In the garden get
the start Of the vegetables, and we let
che whole thing go.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1925-04-23
Good Summer Pasture

Sow oats or barley, or good mix
ture of the two, and sow with 1t some
good grass mixture as timothy and
alsike. If sweet clover does well, that
would be good to SOW either with the
other grass seeds or alone with the
grain. The oats and barley will fur
nish considerable feed early in the
summer. The grass will, If the sea-
son is favorable, make considerable
feed in the late summer and fall and
should be ready to make good pasture
next year.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1925-04-23
tuberculosis Being
Eradicated Rapidly
Country Wide Plan Known
as "Area Work"

prepared BY the United States Department
of Agriculture.)
Graduating bovine tuberculosis not
only from individual herds but also
from entire counties, is gaining favor
among live stock owners according
to a recent announcement of the bu-
reau of animal industry, United States
Department of Agriculture. The
countrywide plan is known as "area
work" On January of this year
approximately 4S5 counties in the
United States were engaged in some
form of area work OF these, So coun-
ties had reduced the extent of infec-
ton to less than half of l per cent,
and are officially designated as modi-
fed accredited areas. One hundred
others had completed one or more
tests of all the cattle within their
borders and we're approaching the
disease-free goal.
These 485 counties constitute about
16 per cent Of the total number Of
counties in the country and contain
nearly eleven million cattle. The ac-
tivity is going on in all portions Of
the country Following the suppress
sion of foot-and-mouth disease in Cal
ifornia, that state, along with the
others, is now showing renewed ac-
tivity in banishing tuberculosis.
The cattle in Freeborn county, Min
nesota, were tested under severe diff
culties because of below-zero weather.
t'orty-two veterinarians started work
December s, using teams instead Of
automobiles. They tested more than
$1,000 cattle on 900 farms, finding
about 300 reactors. Federal officials
have classed this activity as "a good
piece of work"
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1925-04-23
FLAX SHORTAGE MAY
FAVOR THE GROWERS
Fiber Crop Promises to
Stage Comeback Through
Use of Clean Seed.

Flax may be elbOwing back into the
crop list of Wisconsin.
A. half century ago Wisconsin was a
great flax producing state. During the
last thirty years little of it has been
grown in the state because of low
prices and disease troubles. These diff
ficulties have been removed in large
degree. The price during the last few
years has been high. Disease has
been overcome by the development of
wilt-resistant varieties and the weed
problem can be successfully met by
growing the flax as mixed crop with
wheat or oats, according to A. FL.
Wright, cropsman, Wisconsin College
of Agriculture.
He points out that more than 1000
wisconsin farmers profited by the
high prices of flaxseed in 1924. Some
grew it as pure crop, others in a
mixture with oats and wheat The
price rangee from 1925 to So bushel
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1925-04-23
Chicken Production Of
Last Year Very Heavy

Some CTS, 100000 chickens were pro-
duced in the United States last year,
which was 29,4OOOOO more than in
1923, according to estimates just re-
leased by the United States Depart
ment of Agriculture.
Despite this increased production
there were on farms January 1, 1925,
approximately 427,OO0,OOO chickens as
compared with 47O,3OO,OOO on January
1, 1924
The decrease in stocks on hand JAN
uary / is attributed to increased con-
sumption, and to larger stocks going
into storage.
Total stocks of frozen poultry in
storage February / were reported at
138, 253,OO0 pounds compared with 3d.
4S6,OOO pounds February l a year ago.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1925-04-23
Tankage for Breeders

1t is customary to include in the ra-
ton for laying hens tankage or meat
scrap, and it is usually mixed in with
mill feeds to form a dry mash which
Ia available to the birds at all times.
Where the eggs are to be used for
Matching it is not advisable to make
the proportion of tankage more than
10 to Is per cent. Where milk is
available it can take the place of the
tankage in the mash, three gallons of
milk a day for each 100 hens being
equivalent.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1925-04-23
Purposes of Windbreaks

Windbreaks about buildings have
twin purpose, they provide shelter and
gather moisture for the garden. Trees
and shrubs are essential to the max
ing of real farm home, as they in
crease the value of the property and
make conditions more pleasant and
healthful. There is scant comfort in
house or barnyard exposed to the
chilling winds and drifting SHOWS of
winter and the whitening blasts Of
hot dry day in summer.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1925-04-23
Utilizing Wheat Straw

Wheat straw can be used as feed,
bedding ard as a fertillzing material
for the soil. 1t will be of greatest
value when used as feed and bedding
and returned to the soil as manure
Fresh straw may be used as fertil-
izer when 1t can be plowed under or
worked into the soil in small amounts.
1t should be used sparingly as top
dressing on growing wheat except on
areas that are Inclined to blow.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1925-04-23

University farm, ST. Paul, or to the
North Dakota experiment station, Far
go, North Dakota.
Due to the tremendous amount Of
linseed oil used in the paint industry,
the demand is unusually great. Nj
merous other products are being de-
veloped, which require much of the
seed. Leo Nemzek, chairman of the
flax development committee of the
Paint Manufacturers association Of
the United States, recently said. that
flax growers Of the Northwest can
safely grow several million more
bushels of flax this year.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1925-04-23
Teach Them to Think

AS the children in our schools are
taught to think, so will be our civic
life in the next generation.
The Monmouth inquirer., 1925-08-27
OPTIMISM
By THOMAS ARKLE CLARK

BY THOMAS ARkLE CLARK
THINGS are seldom as bad as we
4 think they will be.
] read, some years ago, Miss Mildred
Aldrich's ION the Edge of the War
Zone Miss Aldrich was living in a
little house on the bank Of the Marine
at the beginning of the late war. She
was an eyewitness to the heroic strug-
giles of the French army when the
Germans were driven back from their
vantage ground in that vicinity. She
went through all sorts of discomforts
In a climate that at its best in winter
is disagreeable. She was without coal
when snow was on the ground and
the temperature was bitterly low. She
was shut in, restricted in her food
supplies, and often in actual danger;
yet she never complained. She says
she really never suffered, and that she
was never so well in her life. Even
when she was without fuel she didn't
catch cold, and she objected very
strenuously to being pitied by her
friends. She was sure that things are
never so bad as we fear they may be.
She tells of many of the soldiers
who came back from the front for
"repos.'' some of whom were quartered
with her. They had been in the
trenches, surrounded by all the
wretched conditions of which we have
read, more wretched, perhaps, than
we dream of. They had slept out in
the snow and cold, or, what is even
worse. in the mud and rain, yet they
were rosy, healthy, thoroughly fit, and
cheerful as school boys. They had not
found the conditions of living in active
war service nearly as unbearable as
they had supposed they would be.
The Grape hanger and the prophet
of evil almost always make things
worse than they are.
The ease of a ~neighbor of mine when
/ was a boy in the country comes to
my mind as ! write. He was constant
ly obsessed with the thought of
drought and food, of pestilence and
famine, Of cyclones and %devouring in
sects. He invariably took the gloomy
view. He constantly courted disaster
anc predicted calamity, and he looked
forward with melancholy resignation
to the time when he would be quar-
tered on the county, his home and his
friends gone. Yet he regularly pros
pered. his crops always matured, prices
we're much higher than he had antici-
pAted, the yield of grain was satisfac-
tory and he got on well. He extended
his possessions regularly, until he is
now one of the solid, substantial farm
ers in the community in which he
ives. But he is not happy. Today be
Is looking for trouble, though most OF
The Monmouth inquirer., 1925-08-27
ENDOWMENT FUND
GROWING RAPIDLY

At the peak of the intensive effort
In the nationwide campaign for the
American Legion's $5,000,000 endow-
ment fund for disabled veterans and
orphans of the World war, a total OF
more than 100000 raised has been
reported to national headquarters OF
the Legion at indianapolis. Twenty
one states were s'over the top" while
several others had very nearly COM
pleted their quotas for the fund.
The campaign was proceeding with
full speed ahead and gave promise OF
early reaching the goal set for it.
With such a large proportion of the
states "over the top" or nearly so, the
campaign resolved itself into independ-
ent efforts in local communities.
Early in the campaign several states
had entered the 100000 class. Among
those which had contributed that
amount or more were: New York, Hli-
nois, Massachusetts, New Jersey,
Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Minnesota,
Texas, California and Connecticut.
Some of these had contributed several
times the amount.
A check from President Calvin Cool
idge, chairman of the national honor
airy committee for the fund, was pre-
scented to National Commander James
A. Drain in the presence of the ma
tional executive committee. The pres
entation was made by Paul ]. Nc
Gahan, national executive committee
man for the District of Columbia. Pres
ident Coolidge gave the check to John
Hays Hammond, chairman of the Dis
trict Of Columbia committee, request
ing that it be credited to his home
town Of Northampton, Mass.
A check for $4,000 from the depart
ment of Panama was presented to
Commander Drain in the presence OF
the executive committee. The pres
entation, made by National Executive
Committeeman Fred de v. sill of Pana-
ma, occasioned an enthugiastic demon
stration. Panama set herself a quota
of $500.
The Rocky mountain group of states
completed their campaigns with large
oversubscriptions The fund was over
subscribed by each of these states by
nearly 80 per cent
Among novel methods taken by vari-
GUS posts for raising their local quo
tas. honors so far go to Richard W.
Townsend post at Aubarn, Cal, and
the post at Hickville, n. Y. Members
of the west coast post rAade up a a r
load of fruit valued at $3.50 and
shipped it off to market. The towns
quota was $3.50. The New Workers
made a h~ouse-to-house canvass, col
lectlng tons Of old papers. A substan-
tiaI part Of the local quota was made
up in this way.