Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 64, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 March 1915 — BOYS ACTIVE IN TAZEWELL CO. [ARTICLE]

BOYS ACTIVE IN TAZEWELL CO.

E. T. Robbins, agent, Tazewell county, Ill.: The Tazewell County torn breeders will start a system of seed corn inspection so as to produce a Reid’s Yellow Dent corn of uniform type and quality, but I think we will hardly undertake the construction of a seed house this year. We have two good seed houses in the county in private hands and another that is toler* ably good, having altogether a capacity of probably 1,000 bushels of seed corn. Our people have no seed oats to spare as the crop was poor here last year. One or two cars of oats 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. 1 have tried hard to get our farmers to fan their oats thoroughly to blow out their light oato this year and to test their germinat-. Ing power ar.d treat them for smut One drug store sold 59 pints of formalin last Saturday, so you see ths farmers are taking hold of it. 1 wish to thank you very much for your suggestions about the seed corn and we will try to profit by them.