Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 January 1916 — REPORT OF TWO COUNTY CONTESTS [ARTICLE]

REPORT OF TWO COUNTY CONTESTS

Winners of Girl’s Poulrty Club and -...» Boys’ Corn Club Contests Tell How They Won. The contest of the Jasper County Boys’ Corn Club and the Girls’ Poultry Club was held last week at the armory, in connection with the poultry show. The county winner in the boys’ com club was Jackson Freeland, of Newton township, who had a score of 88.6. The second one in the county was Arthur Kruger, of Carpenter township, who had a score of 87.8. In the Girls’ Poultry Club the county winner was Pearl Peterson, of Barkley township, who had a score of 96.075. The secohd in the county was Blanche Peterson, with a score of 95.82, while Lucy Van Hook, of Marion township, was a close contestant for second place with a score of 95.8. Freeland and Kruger were winners in their respective townships in the com club, while Pearl Peterson, of Barkley, Zoe Jordan in Carpenter and Lucy Van Hook in Marion were the winners in their respective, townships in the poutlry contest. The county winners in each contest will receive SSO placed on trust, to be given them when they are 21 years old, or when they have entered college. The township prize in each case was $lO. Following is given the composition of Jackson Freeland on how he raised his corn, and of Pearl Peterson, on how she raised her chickens: “How I Raised My Cora.” By Jackson Freeland, Jr., of Newton Township. Soon after joining the Boys’ Com .Club I leased from my father a rectangular plot of ground (which until three years ago had been a feed lot) containing one acre, at $5 per acre. The field was comparatively level, and the soil was sandy loam with clay subsoil. The field—was fairly well drained. Early in the spring I spread three tons of barnyard fertilizer on the poorest places in my field. About the first of April I disked the ground thoroughly to cut up the corn stalks of the preceding year and to help pulverize the soil. On April 20th I plowed the field to a depth of 5 inches, and harrowed it afie same.day in order to break up the clods, and keep in the moisture. On May Bth I disked and harrowed the --nfntr ZO WOFK “lip ■ a gOOxi* SCOII Dtrtl-, Siitl" two days later. it was planted by checking it with the planter. A good commercial fertilizer was applied at the time of planting at the rate of 150 pounds to the acre. Three days after planting, the field was again harrowed to kill the weeds that were sprouting. Fortune favored me by giving me an excellent stand, and protecting it from cutworms. The field was cultivated four times, twice with the cultivator and twice with the gopher, and when the time came for laying it by, I felt pretty well- satisfied with my crop so far. But my troubles were yet to come. Before the corn .was tasseled we began to have almost daily rains, and 1 remember going out to my comlield one morning after the biggest rain of the season and finding at least one-third of it standing in water, but the following days were cool and the tile did their work well. But despite the weather, the com grew', and as'the frost was late in coming the crop matured very well. t As I was in school I had to hire a man to do the harvesting, and when it was completed I felt amply repaid when on measuring the com I found my yield to be 75 bushels from one acre. *= “Setting, Hatching and Rearing My I Chickens” j — 3 . By Pearl Peterson, Barkley Township My chickens are S. C. Brown Leghorns. They are lively little fellows, always scratching except ,at nights. They are as many colors as the rainbow, and just as pretty. 1 got my eggs from W. H. Wortley. One afternoon, Mr. Wortley brought my eggs to town, and left them at A. F. Long’s, the. druggist. We went to town after my eggs the same day. Mr. Wortley had taken a little basket, put straw in the* botI tom, and wrapped every egg in paper, * so not one was broken.