Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 309, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 December 1919 — THE NEIGHBORHOOD CORNER [ARTICLE]

THE NEIGHBORHOOD CORNER

Farm Accounting School May Be Held. Farmers of Jasper county will be given an opportunity to brush up on the latest methods of farm bookkeeping some time after the holidays, if. enough interest is manifested in the subject to warrant the state extension department holding a special school on the subject here. The department is arranging courses in various parts of the state in order that farmers.’hnay be able to keep cost of production records, income tax records and other accounts highly necessary in up-to-date farming operations. The plan is to assemble thirty or more interested fanners for a day’s session in a room which has desks or tables so arranged that the men can write. Each man takes a blank farm record book and fills in inventories, not for his own farm, but as read from a sample book of a typical farm business which includes entries concerning which questions will likely occur. The men .summarize the record together and learn how to determine the income. Instruction is then given in working out the simple factors that will help them in studying their farms and also in transferring the necessary figures to the income tax blank. The school will take three or four hours. Farmers attending must pay fifteen cents for the book they use in the school. Such a school will be held in Rensselaer if thirty farmers will signify that they will attend. With all the difficulty that our farmers encounter in filling out the income tax records' alone, it would seem that many times the required number would be glad to attend for this one feature. Farmers who desire to attend such a school should notify the county agent not later than January 10th. Judge Selected for Corn Show. P. H. Hauter and W. H. Pullin, of the county corn show committee, have selected P. R. Bausman, of Monticello, as judge for the county corn exhibit which will be held at Rensselaer January -5 th to 10 th They are requesting every corn grower in the coimty to make exhibits at this show, as they believe that a well patronized show is one of the best means of promoting good corn growing. Jesse Snyder, president of * the poultry association, announces that about twelve trophy cups will be awarded on poultry, practically every exhibitor haying an opportunity to show for one or more of these cups. He predicts a good exhibit of birds in all classes. \ High Yields Should Be Reported. The Farm Journal, a farm paper which has been holding a crop yield contest the past season, has written requesting reports of high yields of crops grown in this section and has sent a report of the highest yields received thus far in the contest. The report shows that some of the winning oats yields are under sixty bushels per acre. It would seem that some of our Jasper county farmers could show higher yields for the past season and have a chance to win some of the premiums offered. - ' ' " •