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Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1925-03-26
Eradicate and Control
tuberculosis of Swine

That It is easier to eradicate than to
control tuberculosis of swine Is the
message the United States Department
of Agriculture gives to hog raisers in
two-color poster recently issued for
display at shipping points, In county
farm bureau offices, in county BANKS
at creameries, and in other public
places. Attention is called to the fact
that tuberculous chickens and cattle
are largely responsible for the spread
of the disease among hogs.
The poster urges farmers who sus-
pect the presence Of tuberculosis In
their hogs to ask the state veterinarian
or the nearest federal inspector to get
slaughter house reports on their ship
ments. They are also urged to burn
dead hogs and chickens to ashes, pre-
vent accumulations of manure and old
bedding in hog lots and pens, never
TO feed carcasses to hogs, to cook all
milk products used as hog feed, to-
feed no slaughter house offal that has
not been cooked, and to get rid OF
tuberculous hogs and start with clean
herd.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1925-03-26
Fence Post Puzzle
Solved by Locust
Black Variety Grows Best on
Alkaline or Sweet Soil.

The fence post problem, says Pro-
fessor j. A. Cope, forester from the
New York State College of Agriculture
at Ithaca, has become serious with the
almost complete disappearance Of
chestnut in this country because or
the blight.
A grape grower in Chautauqua cOun-
ty who uses hundreds of posts every
year has solved this problem by the
could grow suitable posts in 10 years,
and further, that these posts would
last Is years after being set instead
of the customary ten years expected
of chestnut posts.
In addition, he has been able to get
in ten years, because Of the great vigor
of the locust tree.
As the black locust is really le-
gume, it grows best on sweet or aka
line soil, and it Is necessary to re-
strict paintings to such sites in order
to make Roadway against the deadly
locust borer.
In trip 70 ChauIauQua county,
Professor Cope says that all the volun-
teer stands of locust which he ex-
amined showed evidences of attack by
this beetle, but that on the better sites
where there was a non-acid soil, the
locust had grown enough to practi-
cally nullify the work of the borer
Planting the locust with pine also
helps to protect it against the borer,
as the beetles like to fly around in the
sunshine, and If the trunks can be kept
in the shade, the beetles will not lay
their eggs on them. Young white pines
would certainly furnish the shade, and
would also prevent the locust from
making too many side branches, which
are not desirable for posts. Such a
mixed planting deserves trial.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1925-03-26
Manure Taken Direct to
Field and Spread Best

Manure is never better in quality
than on the day it is made. There is
always more or less loss in the manure
pile, no matter how well it may be
made or how we'll it is protected. The
manure pile will heat and through
fermentation give off considerable am
monia. It is true that in the manure
pile this manure may be made finer
and somewhat more available, but it
never. contains more plant food than
when it is made. Therefore, when
the manure is taken directly to the
field and spread on fairly level ground
you take it at its best. Ammonia will
not be lost through fermentation ex-
cept where there is high heat and
there is not great prospect of this loss
from that cause during the winter.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1925-03-26
Raising Of Flax
Now Encouraged
Improbable Returns From
Wheat Had Made Some
Change Desirable.

prepared by the United States Department
of Agriculture.)
As a means of introducing further
Investigation in the crop system of
the spring wheat belt of the northern
Great Plains area, the growing OF lax
was encouraged by federal and state
agencies during the past two years
with the result that there was an ap-
probable increase in acreage over the
ten-year average. The Improbable re-
turns from wheat growing had made
some such Investigation desirable.
The prevalence Of flax wilt and other
diseases and the lack of new W1lt-free
land had caused fax growing to de-
crease, says the United States Depart
ment Of Agriculture, so that the ave-
rage production was not more than
100000 bushels, or scarcely more
than one-third of our domestic needs
Flax, therefore, seemed a desirable
crop to recommend.
Area Increased.
AS a result of this federal and state
encouragement the seed-fiax area in
1923 was increased to 100000 acres
and the estimated production to IT.
$4,000 bushels. The average acre
yield Of 81a bushels, with a good price
throughout the year, made the crop
fairly profitable to growers. These
agencies did not attempt to Increase
the acreage In 1924, but only to stab
ilize the gains made in 1923. Pre-
liminary estimates for 1924 indicate,
however, that about 3,375,000 acres
were sown, or an increase of approx
mately $3.50 per ceft over 1923. Much
of this increase in the past two years
has been on old land instead of newly
broken sod. This has been made pos
sible by a better knowledge Of the
wilt and the production of wilt-resist-
ant varieties, especially North Dakota
Resistant No. ia, developed by the
North Dakota station. 1t was esti-
mated that about 20 per cent of the
North Dakota crop was grown on sod
and IA per cent on older land.
A method of growing flax and wheat
as mixed crop, developed by farmers
in southeastern Minnesota, has been
fully investigated by the department
and the state stations and found to be
desirable and profitable under some
conditions. Satisfactory results with
this mixed crop were obtained in
rather extensive experiments con-
Quoted in 1923 by the Minnesota sta
ton and by the department in CO.
operation with the North Dakota sta
ton. The mixture Of the two crops
holds weeds in check, PREVENT heat
canker Of the flax seedlings, makes the
fax crop easier to handle with the
grain binder, and at the same time
increases the diversified cropping.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1925-03-26
Cooperation Is
Big Animal Aid
Helps to Improve Quality Of
Live Stock More Than
Anything Else.
prepared by the United States Department
of Agriculture)

prepared by the United States Department
of Agriculture.)
The manner in which cooperative
live stock sales are helping to improve
the quality of farm animals in Ken
lucky is described by stockman Of
that state in a recent letter to the
United States Department of Agricul-
ture. The method is considered to be
of general interest.
''The cooperative sales we are hav-
ing in every town of any size in Ken
lucky" he writes, "help more to i'm
prove the quality Of live stock than
any other one thing. Before these were
organized the traders came to our pas
lures and bought our stock or we
shipped it to the big markets.
Quality Made Difference.
If we had good-quality stock we
never saw 1t with that of other people
where we could compare the differ
Nence. And If you did not get as much
money for your stock as some one
else did you generally thought you had
shipped to the wrong man or your
stock was not so fat as the other per-
sons. You seldom stopped to think
that quality made the difference.
s'But every man who brings his
stock to these cooperative markets
sees it run out In the ring and sold
there. He also sees every one else's
stock sold and has a chance to see the
difference and to compare the differ
ence in prices between good and bad
quality. / have heard numbers of per-
sons say that they were going to buy
better ewes and better buck. This
applies not only to sheep but to all
kinds Of live stock"
Analyze Replies.
The foregoing comment is one OF nu-
merous suggestions made by farmers
who answered a QUESTIONABLE sent out
by the United States Department of
Agriculture in the interests Of live
stock improvement. Department spe-
cialists are now Analysing the replies
Of more than $50 live stock owners
who have reported their experiences
in raising scrub. grade, and pure bred
animals.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1925-03-26
Sex Quite Difficult to
Determine Among Geese

Sex is difficult to distinguish in
geese, particularly If the birds are
young. The gander Is usually some
what larger than the goose and has
shrill cry, while the goose makes a
coarser, lower noted call. The male
has heavier, longer neck and larger
head Sex may better be determined
by inspecting the sexual organs or dur
ing the mating season by observation.
The sphincter muscle, which closes the
anus of the female is folded, and
widening or sinuous if stretched, while
a light pressure on the corresponding
section of the male will make the
sexual organ protrude.
One gander is usually mated with
two or three females, and after mating
allowed to run in flocks. Three to
five years is best age.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1925-03-26
Poultry Hints

Incubator chicks Matched early make
the profitable winter layers.
1t pays to keep cockerels isolated
from the hens until about two weeks
before eggs are saved for Matching.
Sloppy mashes should not be used
for deeklings, but they can be more
moist than the crumbly mashes used
for chicks.
Probably the best breed of turkeys
is the bronze. This breed is large.
hardy and in good demand on the
markets.
1t is very important that orders for
eggs and baby chicks be given at once.
All baby chicks should be Matched by
the last of April.
Regularity in the use Of lights, feed
ind water for the poultry flock makes
for regularity in egg production.
Eggs held for Matching In cold
weather should be kept in telnpera-
ture between 40 and so degrees.
For eggs to use for Matching pur-
poses, choose medium-sized nOrmat-
shaped eggs, throwing out the long
pointed ones or the round ones. A
more important point, however, Is the
selection of eggs from good, strong
narent flock.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1925-03-26
FdrInI,ijInI,lt1l'4.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Order fruit trees Immediately. Re,
member that late spring planting Is
not recommended.
Plow pasture lands and improve
them draining wet spots and building
up poor spots.
Though most people take all they
get, many farmers still seem to need
special personal invitations to take
what is really their own in agricul-
tural information and suggestion.
By keeping the same breed the
farmer becomes familiar with the
habits and requirements of the breed
selected, and he will get better re-
suits from previous experience.
The fact that the hens are on free
range Is no guarantee that they viii
get az the grit they need. Keep some
in or near the roosting house just the
same.
In entering items in farm accounts,
three things should be observed.
Every item should be entered. These
items should be entered in the prop
er places expenses on the debit or
left-hand side of the account book,
and receipts on the credit or right
hand side Every item entered should
be explained as fully as possible so
that 1t can be understood when re-
ferred to at later time.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1925-03-26

out waste. Feed corn silage or roots
2 to 21s pounds head dai.y-to sup
ply succulence.
Do not feed moldy or frozen silage
or spoiled roots to sheep. Such feed
is the cause of many ailments and will
often kill the sheep.
Feed some grain at least month be-
fore lambing; one-half pound head
daily of mixture Of equal parts Of
oats and bran Is very helpful.
Give close attention to the ewes at
lambing time. 1t will save many lambs,
and occasionally mother which would
die if no help were given.
Pen the eve and her newborn lambs
away from the flock for few days
to prevent her disowning them. In
crease the succulent feed and the grain
for ewes the third day after Landing.
Castrate ram lambs on a bright day
when they are one to two weeks old.
Dock all lambs about a week later.
Docking pincers are recommended.
Wean the lambs at four and one-half
to five months of age; do not let them
wean themselves. Retain all the best
eve lambs for the future flock.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1925-03-26
Market for Peppers

II one lives near city in which
there is any considerable Italian popu-
lation, it will pay to grow a few thou
sand plants of hot peppers to supply
the demand which Is always in evil
dence in any market where these peo-
pie trade, says the Rural New Yorker.
Peppers are light and clean and will
keep several days after being picked.
BY proper methods of growing, in the
latitude of the Hudson valley, one can
have these peppers on the market from
July Is until Thanksgiving day, which
Is really long marketing period for
any so-called "perishable crop"
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1925-03-26
Term Corn and Hog
Ratio Is Explained
Live Stock Farmer Should
Understand Expressions.

ut is essential" says w. w. Shay,
swine extension specialist for the
North Carolina State college, that
the live stock farmer understand the
meaning Of some terms which are
made use of by the government In
giving out information of which he
should take advantage in planning
a fairly large farm, such knowledge
may easily be worth several hundred
dollars to him in one year.
'By the term corn and hog ratio
is meant the number of bushels OF
corn which, at the average farm value,
equals the average farm value OF 100
pounds of live weight hog.
IF the average farm value OF live
hogs is $40 per 100 pounds and the
average farm price of corn is 80 cents
per bushel, the ratio, which is found
by dividing the price of hogs by the
price of corn, is 11.76.
During the last four years the corn
and hog ratio has luctuated from as
low as II bushels to as high as 10
bushels of corn. The average for the
last 15 years has been over IL bushels.
During a season Of wide ratio It Is
sometimes possible for a man to buy
corn at the farm price, feed 1t to hogs
and make more profit on the corn than
the farmer who raised it did.
"That statement should make 1t
clear that the farmer who devoted a
little time to the mastery of the mean
ing Of the terms and the study of con-
ditions described, and frequently fore
cast by them is in a much better po-
sition to profit by future Developments
than is the average farmer who goes
blindly-not always, ahead!"
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1925-03-26
Poison for Gophers

The use of strychnine-treated oats
or wheat or freshly cut carrots or
sweet potatoes sprinkled with pow
dered strychnine is the best gopher
eradication measure. For vegetable
bait sprinkle one-eighth ounce OF pow
dered strychnine on three quarts of
freshly cut vegetables. Use an iron
rod or sharpened hardwood handle
to probe the hole to the main tunnel.
Pour a spoonful of grain or drop three
pieces Of vegetable into the hole and
cover with clod. Fresh mounds as a
rule are fan-shaped in arrangement.
Probe ten inches in front of the mound,
not around the outside.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1925-03-26
Cooperative Societies

There are now more than l2,0OO CO.
operative marketing organizations in
the United States with total mem
bership of about 100000 farmers and
doing an annual business of more than
s.. 800. 100000. Records of the United
States Department of Agriculture
show that 70 per cent Of all the assoc
Citations are in the y North Central
states, which include the great corn
and wheat-producing areas. Six per
cent Of the organizations are IN the
three Pacific Coast states.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1925-03-26

kept near a warm stove until it has
fully recovered Some milk from the
mother fed to the lamb with spoon
will give it strength. If the lamb
should show signs of constipation, one
ar two teaspoonfuls of castor oil may
be given it,
Mothers Can Be Fooled.
If lamb should die the mother
may become a stepmother. The, dead
lamb should be skinned and It's pelt
tied over another lamb from eve
which perhaps has two lambs. and
given to the stepmother to raise. In
this way eve can be induced very
easily to own another lamb which is
not her own The skin, however,
should not be left on this adopted
lamb longer than 48 hours. Another
way, slower however, is to hold the
eve several times day and night for
about four or five days to let the lamb
suck on her. After the milk has been
circulated through the body of the
lamb, the eve will also own 1t.
Many sheep-owner makes the mis-
take of not weaving the lambs, Mr..
Kleinheinz declares. He says that, it
is very poor policy not to Wean them.
When the lamb has had the benefit Of
its mothers milk for about four and
one-half to five months, it should al
ways be weaned The only exception
is in the case of early lambs which are
marketed in June or July.
Feed Is important.
Other Landing time suggestions
which Mr.. Kleinheinz makes include:
DO not feed timothy or marsh hay
to the ewes. Glover or alfalfa is best !;
feed all that the flock will eat with
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1925-03-26
Glover Flavors Milk

Sweet clover, like any other fresh
pasture, is likely to give some unfayor-
able flavor to milk for few days
when the cattle are first turned on the
pasture in the spring. Stirring the
milk while it is cooling for 10 or 10
minutes will drive off this unfavorable
flavor Many dairymen have been re-
failing milk produced by cows on
sweet clover pasture during the past
season. None has reported any I'M
favorable flavor from sweet clover after
the cows have been on pasture for
few days.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1925-03-26
FARM EAC:T,S1e,

Make plans now to treat potato
seed with formaldehyde or corrosive
sublimate.
Buy your spray pumps and mate
rails early and be ready to start spray
ing at the proper time.
Plenty of bedding for the cows does
three things-keeps them cleaner,
provides more warmth, and saves
more of the liquid parts of the ma
nure.
Don't forget that pure seed showing
a high percentage of termination is
lust as important to success in farm
ing as pure-bred, high-producing live
stock.
Give the brood sow plenty of ex-
ercise, clean, dry quarters, and we'll
balanced ration, is the advice of swine
extension workers of the state col
lege.
Sweet clover may be sown in the
spring, and If the soil is favorable for
it's growth you can get considerable
hog pasture from Ii during the summer
and fall.
Sweet clover may be sown the same
as red clover is usually sown, except
that it should be sown rather early, as
it takes more moisture to terminate
sweet clover seed than for red clover
seed.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1925-03-26
For Turkey Success

A turkey will lay about forty eggs
in a season and from fifteen to twenty
before she begins to sit. However IL
you take the eggs from the nest as
they are laid, she will keep on laying
until a good deal Uore than Is eggs
are produced. The great danger in
free range to young turkeys is from
the loss due to heavy rains in the
spring. If you can plan to herd the
turkeys or watch them carefully dur
ing the severe storms until they be-
come well feathered out you will have
good success in your turkey venture.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1925-03-26
Growing Sweet Clover

IL land is well adapted to growing
sweet clover it may be pastured to
scme extent the first season, but 1t VIII
be best to defer the pasturing until
after the first of July. If it is pas
tured closely after July until winter
the clover is quite sure to die out dur
ing the winter, as 1t should have some
growth to tops when winter comes
Sweet clover Is biennial, making top
growth and seed the second season.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1925-03-26

possible. The lambs and perhaps here
and there eve that he will save by
the sacrifice of some sleep during
lambing season will amply repay him,
according to Frank Kleinheinz, veteran
shepherd of the University of Wiscon-
sin flocks.
1t is Of the greatest Importance to
give the pregnant ewes all Of the exer-
else possible whenever the weather
permits, Mr. Kleinheinz believes. This
insures stronger crop of lambs and
makes it easier for them to be born.
This exercise can easily be given the
ewes by spreading hay for them out
In the field. 1t is easy to make v
shape snow pillow to make paths for the
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1925-03-26
Wisdom of the Bee

A single bee has to make million
trips to secure pound of honey, but
the bees take care of this fact by con-
gregating in colonies Of from 10000 to
1000.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1925-03-26
EVERY LAMB COUNTS
IN MAKING "A PROFIT
Good Shepherds Watch
Their Flocks Very Closely
at Landing Time.

TIL the future Of the
sheep industry brighter
than it has been in a
long time, lambing time
this year assumes more
than usual Importance.
A successful lambing
period helps to make a
successful sheep year.
1t then behooves every
shepherd to have as
high a percentage Of
strong healthy lambs as
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-08-28
AM obleetIve Araument.

revolution into the minds Of American
workers.
An Objective Argument.
The position of the Soviet Union is
increasingly useful in combating illu-
slons and theoretical misconceptions
remaining in the minds of the workers
from the pre-Leninist era of the social
democracy. Directed by the Commun-
list Party of Russia, at whose head
stood our great leader, Comrade Len
in, the workers and peasants Of Rus.
STA have proven incontestably every
basic theory OF Leninism, every tactic
Of the Communist international, every
principle as taught by the Bolsheviks
land proven them up to the hilt.
In America this had aided our party
to contest for leadership of the revo-
lutionary movement against the social
list patty and the Industrial Workers
of the World The socialist party is
disintegrating and its character had
become a stencil in the nostrils of the
workers, while the healthy and revolu-
tionary proletarian elements of the
|. w. w. have been won over to friend
ship contact with and even member
ship in the Communist movement and
-the anarcho-syndicalist control over
the l. w. w. is falling to pieces and
upon the defensive.
The party has in the past year or
more taken every advantage to work
for the recognition of Soviet Russia
by the American capitalist govern
ment. The policy OF the united front
Continued on page p
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-08-28

life in the Soviet Union constitutes a
real offensive against world capitalist
imperialism.
Two Kinds of Sterilization.
While there has been spotted and
temporary sterilization of capitalism.
of a sort which--as in France and Eng
land-could lead only to more severe
crises, there had been also, as re-
marked upon, by Comrade Zinoviev, a
sterilization of the Soviet power-and
that this sterilization was historically
progressive, while the so-called stabili.
zation of capitalist nations were mere.
ly Interruptions in capitalist imperial.
ism's historical decline.
Our party has taken, is taking and
will continue to take advantage OF
the position OF the Workers and Peas
ants Republic in it's relation to the
capitalist powers and also to the world
proletariat. In the period of famine
and suffering, the party had built a
great united front movement, the
Friends Of Soviet Russia, which had
effectively Offset the aims OF the Amer.
lean capitalist government to use the
Hoover relief agencies as means Of
discrediting the Soviet power in the
eyes Of American workers.
This was the duty Of our party as a
section of the Communist Information
al, as OF all it's sections, and in the
future 1t would be the duty of the
party to use the favorable position of
the Soviet Union to instill compre-
hension of the significance and lesson
to the world proletariat Of the Russian