Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 63, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 March 1915 — BOYS ACTIVE IN TAZEWELL CO. [ARTICLE]

BOYS ACTIVE IN TAZEWELL CO.

E. T. Robbins, agent, Tazewell county, Ill.: The Tazewell County com breeders will start a system of "seed corn inspection so as to produce a Reid’s Yellow Dent com of uniform type and quality, but I think we will hardly undertake the construction ol a seed house this year." We have two good seed houses in the county in private hands and another that is tolerably good, having altogether a capacity of probably 1,000 bushels of seed com. Our people have no seed oats to spare as the crop was poor here last year. One or two cars of %ats have been shipped in from lowa for seed. One car of Texas Red oats was shipped I believe, to Texas from here, but as these red oats are not good market oats, I am not encouraging flair use. I have tried hard to get our farmers to fan their oats thoroughly to blow out their light oats this year and to tost their germinating power ar.d treat them for smut One drug store sold 50 pints of for malln last Saturday, so you see the farmers are taking hold of IL 1 wish to thank you very much for your suggestions about the seed corn and we will try to profit by them.