Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 158, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 July 1919 — THE NEIGHBORHOOD CORNER [ARTICLE]

THE NEIGHBORHOOD CORNER

A DEPARTMENT OF FARM WELFARE CONDUCTED BY COUNTY AGENT LEAMING. Wheat and Oats Di*ea*e* Unusually Common Thia Year. Diseases of wheat and oats are more prevalent in Jasper county this year than usual, according to Prof. Fred Ticen, of the U. S. bureau of cereal investigation, who was in the county early in the week gathering information for the federal government. Oat smut was the most common of the diseases, averaging about ten per cent in the untreated fields and ranging all the way from a slight trace of the disease to about thirty per cent. Mr. Ticen reports that the number of farmers treating their wheat to prevent smut is unusually high in. this county. I Wheat smut was found in several localities in large enough quantities to reduce the milling qualities of the wheat and many fields were found to be slightly affected. In many localities, wheat scab 1 was found to be causing more damage than all the other diseases comI bined. This is the disease that causes the heads to turn pink and ripen without filling. Mr. Ticen reported that in no case did he find any of these diseases on farms where preventative treatment had been used against them and estimated that the campaigns waged against grain diseases in this county have added thousands of dollars to the profits of the farmers in this year alone. Farmers’ Club Happening*. The North Union Farmers’ club will hold no regular meeting during July on account of the holiday at the regular meeting time. Meetings will be resumed in August. The South Marion Community club will hold its regular July meeting at the consolidated school building on the evening of July 10. Dr. Kigin, of Purdue university, will deliver an illustrated lecture upon the subject of “Farm Sanitation.” Other numbers have been arranged on the program. The Kankakee Township Community club will hold its regular July meeting at Tefft on the evening of July 11th. President Walter Hauck has arranged an interesting program and invites the public to attend. State Farmer*’ Organization to Meet. John G. Brown, of the Indiana State Federation of Farmers’ associations, has requested the nelnination of fifteen prominent farmers from this county to 'be called in to Indianapolis to put the farmers’ movement cas a larger, program and not only work out ways and means to meet the great problems of the farmers, but to secure the movement and make it more stable. Farmers interested in the state organization and who can find time to attend this meeting are invited to communicate with the writer for credentials.