Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 February 1914 — OATS AND POTATOES NEXT ON THE LIST [ARTICLE]

OATS AND POTATOES NEXT ON THE LIST

Campaign Will Be Conducted By Purdue Representative and County Agent Barrett.

It is very evident that a great improvement could be brought aboqt in the quality and quantity of Bnd potatoes which we are growing on our farms. Too much can not be said in regard to seed selection and it is needless to say that we all pay too little attention to the selee tion of our small seed's. Many of our oats fields are extremely smutty; others more or less and every head of smut means one less head of oats. This should not be the case and it is absolutely unnecessary. Treatment for oat smut is very simple and it is pure negligence for us to go on sowing untreated oats, taking the chance of more or less smut when the treatment is so easily applied to the seed.

The one thing that is so evident with regard to our potato yields is the amount of scabby potatoes. This also can be remedied comparatively easy. There is to be a series of meetings and demonstrations on oats and potatoes to be held in the county as follows: Tuesday, Feb. 24, at 10 o’clock, at Will Wbrttey’s, 6 miles south of Rensselaer. Tuesday, Feb. 24, at 2 o’clock, at the Auto Sales Garage in Remington. Tuesday, Fdb. 24, in County Agent Barrett’s office in the court house at 7:30. . Wednesday, Feb. 25, at 10 o’clock in Shreevefs workshop in DeMotte, and at 2 o’clock, same day, In the garage at Wheatfield. Please keep these—meetings In mind and everybody turn out, hear what the man from Purdue has to say and let’s improve our conditions in oat and potato growing, if possible.

O. G. BARRETT,

County Agent.