Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 191, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 August 1919 — THE NEIGHBORHOOD CORNER [ARTICLE]

THE NEIGHBORHOOD CORNER

A DEPARTMENT OF FARM WEL FARE CONDUCTED BY COUN TY AGENT LEAMING. : >• County Fanners’ Meeting Is Being Arranged. Joseph Kosta, of Union township, has been busy arranging for a meeting of the farmers of Jasper county with representatives of the Indiana Federation of Farmers’ associations to be held in the near future. The meeting will give the officials of the state organization an opportunity to explain the purposes of the federation and the means being used to carry out its ideas.. It will give the farmers an opportunity to 'inform themselves fully upon the policies that the organization expects to pursue and an opportunity to judge the benefits that will accrue from membership. 'Mr. Kosta has received word that this meeting will be held at Rensselaer in the near future and asks all interested to watch the papers for more definite announcement. More Hessian Fly Expected. A gradual increase in damage from the Hessian fly the next few years is the prediction of James Troop, entomologist of the experiment station, in a statement issued last week. “The time is fast approaching when the Hessian fly pendulum widT swing back towards a maximum crop in the future. I have received some complaints this summer. There will undoubtedly be more next year. Your farmers should therefore take due notice and govern themselves accordingly.” Quite a little fly infestation was noticed in various ,parts of the county this year. According to Mr. Troop, this will be worse' each year for several years. The fly free dates recommended for this part of the state are from September 23 to October 3. Experienced wheat growers of this locality like to get the wheat in early and give it a good start 'before winter. Sowing on the 'earliest fly free date and the use of enough commercial fertilizer or manure to put the wheat in good condition for the winter is a practice which will doubtless prove most profitable over a series of years. University Exhibit to Be Shown This Fall.

G. M. Frier, head of the department of short courses and exhibits at Purdue university, was in ithe county recently arranging for space for an exhibit that the. university expects to make in connection with the livestock show this fall. According to Mr. Frier, the exhibits being prepared this year at .the university are more elaborate and complete than they have ever been before and embody more new features than have / been used for several seasons. For example, one of these from the poultry department, shows the culling of farm flocks. Two hens are shown, one of which produces fifty eggs per year and one one hundred and fifty eggs. How to detect the poor layer and weed her out as an unprofitable bird is shown in ithe material on exhibition. Another example if* the animal husbandry work is the exhibit showing how much cheaper it is to produce pork by corn, tankage and pasture than by corn alone. These and similar striking features will make a valuable addition to the show.

Barley for Hog Feed. Farmers of this locality who have been growing a little (barley ea,c(h year for early hog feed will be interested in the- results obtained by C. M;. Vestal in studying the value of barley for hogs. He draws the following conclusions: “Barley is an efficient feed for fattening hogs. » “It is about 90 per cent as efficient as corn. “Hogs fed barley and tankage m self feeders .will eat more tankage than if fed tankage and corn. ‘ ‘Combinations of corn, barley and tankage have excellent feeding values. “If barley is cheaper per cwt. than <?orn a reduction in costs of grain can be secured by forcing hogs to ea| more barley by mixing it with the corn and tankage.” The results indicate that our hog raisers might make a more general use of barley for early hog feed. Corn and Poultry Association to

Meat. A meeting of the members of the County Corn and Poultry association will be held at the court house Thursday evening, August 21, at 9 o’clock, according to the announcement of Jesse Snyder, president of the organization. The purpose of the meeting 14 to make plans for the annual exnibit this season. Among other arrangements the time and place will receive consideration as well as the selection of judges and the adoption of a premium list. The meeting is open to the public.