Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 209, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 August 1919 — FROM HERE AND THERE IN INDIANA. [ARTICLE]

FROM HERE AND THERE IN INDIANA.

The Orange County Sheep Breeders’ association recently adopted resolutions urging the eradication of scrub sires, putting their sanction on the plan started last March ’at the livestock rally in Indianapolis and on the federal campaign recently launched against the scrub. The association will start at home by urging every sheep breeder and then every man who has livestock of any description to use only purebred sires. —o>— Members of the Oxford Pig club in Benton county are making a great showing. Pigs weighing fifty pounds were distributed ninety days ago, and today many of them weigh nearly two hundred pounds. —o — Many Benton county farmers are sowing small patches of alfalfa this year for the first time. They are preparing good seed beds, liming the soil and innoculating the seed, County Agent T. R. Isaacs reports. —o — Eighty-eight culls were removed from flocks of chickens totaling three hundred and fifty in Hancock county during the recent culling demonstrations. —o — Residents of the Idaville community, White county, have started plans for a week’s conference during which representatives of the Purdue university extension department, state library commission, and public health board will speak and discuss with the residents working plans' for' a community betterment association to follow. Rock phosphate shows excellent results on the black soils of Benton county? In one neighborhood where three car loads were applied last year five will be used this season.