River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1925-05-28
AGRICULTURAL NOTES
By H. G. seyrorth.


at Maiden Rock with the following
officers: Pres, Marian Michaels;
Vice Pres, Bernard White; Sec.-
Treas, Meta Seeley. Mr.. Davidson,
the Public School Principal will act
as leader. Plans are being made to
hold Community Fair at Maiden
Rock this fall. They named their
club Up and At 1t. A club was or
ganized at Rock Elm with the follow
ing officers: Pres, Jack Richard
son; Vice-Pres., Kenneth Condit,
Sec. Treas, Marjorie Greer. Nh.
Welch, COW tester, will act as their
leader. This group named their club
Wide Awake. A club was organized
of members attending the Fischer,
Herbert, Forest Home and Elm
Grove Schools. Their officers are,
Pres, Richard Crownhart; Vice
Pres, Regina Yanisch, and Sec.-
Treas., Evelyn Noll. Happy Workers
is the name of this club. Mrs. B. II.
Yanisch will act as their leader.
Quite few more enrollments were
received the past week. We expect
all enrollments to be in by June |.
The board of directors of the
Maiden Rock, Stockholm, Prescott
and Elmwood creameries met at
Maiden Rock last Monday with Mr..
Kittleson of Osseo, president of
Creamery Unit No. 7, and Mr.. M. H.
Meyer, their fieldman. This unit has
decided to give the service of their
fieldman to those creameries in this
county that want the same at the
same price that they are paying
which is ITO of a cent for each
pound of butter made in 1924. All
the above creameries decided to take
on the service of this feldman. His
duties will be to assist the butter
maker and creamery boards in
checking up on all losses and leak
ages in the creameries and to help
improve the quality of butter made.
Mr.. Meyer will spend about month
in this county and will probably hold
some meetings in the communities
tributary to creameries explaining
the value of improving the quality Of
cream delivered to creameries.
A number of requests have come
in for poultry culling demonstrations
to be held July IA, Is, 16, II. We
still have room for few more on our
schedule. Mr.. j. B. Hayes, poultry
extension specialist, will be here. |
have a skeleton frame work of the
new poultry house at the office show
ing the different features brought
out in this model. A number of
them are being built in this county
this summer. Bulletins can be OBJ
tanned at any lumber yard in Pierce
county explaining this new model. |
shall be glad to have you come to the
office and will explain this model to
you.
The Spring Valley c. T. A. has
been nearly completed and will start
working June 1st. Edwin Carlson. of
Boyceville has been hired for tester.
The annual meeting and election of
officers will be held before the as
ISOLATION starts working.
Orders placed for pyrtol have been
slow in coming on account of not be-
ing able to get a carload. We are
striving to get carload ordered Tor
this fall. The minimum is car of
$4,000 pounds. / have orders now
for 1900 pounds if We get in car.
Let's get these orders lnied up early
so we can get sufficient orders for q
car by the 1st of September. Who
will be next?
Two fertilizer demonstrations were
put on the past week, each being on
an acre of corn. The plots are being
carried on the w. F. Foley & Sons
and Howard Martin & Sons farms,
near Grange Hall. Three different
kinds Of commercial fertilizer were
used, hill dropped and broadcast.
They will be watched very carefully
for results.
The Jersey breeders of Pierce and
st. Croix counties will hold their an
nual picnic on the Arthur Kelly
farm 2h miles east Of Northline on
highway No. IL. Mr.. F. B. Astroth,
fieldman for the American Jersey
Cattle Club will be present at this
gathering. Bring basket dinner.
Plans are being rapidly put into
shape for the big community and live
stock picnic to be held in the grove
owned by the Wissota Sand g. Gravel
Co. limestone crushing plant three
miles north of Elmwood. Dean H.
L. Russell, College Of Agriculture,
and j. T. Donaughey, State Highway
Commissioner, will be the chief
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