Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 234, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 October 1918 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 6 [ADVERTISEMENT]

desire to secure a few loads from each car shipped in. „ Farihers desiring to avail themselves of such a co-operative plan are invited* to inform the County Agent not later than - Saturday, October 12 th, -of the amount that they can take from each car. Ground limestone can be set down at various points in the county at from $1.30 to |2.00 per ton. At the present price of fertilizers will probably give greater returns oh the investment, if used with clovers, than any other method of soil improvement, with the possible exception of tlledratoage. Sorghum Seed for Poultry. A poultryman calls attention to the high feeding value of sorghum seed for poultry and suggests that a conservation program might call for a little more attention in the matter of saving this seed. Sorghum seed has about 95 per cent of the value of corn when fed to chickens. Sorghum will yield up to > or 50 bushels of seed per acre. While most of this is saved, the press of work is causing a few farmers to leave the heads in the fields where they have fallen. . Sheep Club for Young People. /- The sheep club recently organized offers a fine chance /or the boys and girls of the county to enter a profitable line of busines with little or no cash outlay. Goo dreturns are being made from the sheep business at present and there is little reason to think that the future is not bright for it There are hundreds of could be grown at practically no ewense. The boy or girl who starts this fall with a flock of five breeding ewes will not only do a patriotic thing by increasing the wool supply, but will als obe engaged in a work which should prove unusually profitable. Demonstration in Newton Township. There will be a demonstration on sugarless recipes at ■ the home of Mrs. Earl Kennedy next Wednesday "afternoon at 2 o’clock, October 9 th. Everybody come.

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