Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 128, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 May 1920 — JASPER COUNTY AGRICULTURAL MEETING [ARTICLE]

JASPER COUNTY AGRICULTURAL MEETING

The Grain Grading School which is to be held in Rensselaer, Friday afternoon, June 4th, under the direction of Mr. W. A. Ostrander and Mr. Riley, will be of special value to all farmers and business men inI terested in the grading and dockage l of small grains. The same instructions were given during the Farmers’ Short Course at Purdue, and farmers from ail over' Indiana eagely listened to the very valuable । information. Nearly every one, after hearing the instructions, spoke very highly of the information that they had received. jR. S. Thomas Visits County Agent. Mr. R. S. Thomas, from the Extension Department at Purdue, visited County Agent Mawhorter and aided in making plans for the ear-to-ear demonstration on Garland Grant’s farm. For the demonstration five ears of corn from each I Township has been secured, excepting in the case of a couple of townships. W. T. McCray’s Sale. Many farmers from Jasper couhty were in attendance at W. T. McCray’s noted Hereford cattle sale last Wednesday and Thursday. Every animal put up for auction was not only a show animal, but an excellent type of the breed with outstanding breeding qualities. W. A. McCurtain, Charles Schleman, O. S. Bell, Firman Thompson and the County Agent were among those that attended the sale.

Farmin* Conditions over the County 'Farmers in all sections of the county are working hard these fine days trying to finish up corn planting. There are, as yet, many acres to be planted, and in most cases these fields are still wet and heavy for preparation of a good seed bed. In several fields the corn is begmning to show through the ground. Mr. John Guild. 7 Mr. John Guild is running an experiment with one of his fields of corn. He is mixing the lime with the fertilizer and putting it on at the same time he plants the corn. The field is heavy and cold, and he is trying to correct that as well as increase the fertility. Gillam Township Farmers. County Agent Mawhorter was over in Gillam Township Thursday afternoon visiting several of the farmers. Say! They are live wires and wide awake to the present farm problems. Many of them belong to the Pulaski County Farmers Federation and are very proud ol the fact considering the . many activities that they are carrying out. They would like to see Gillam township line up as a Federal Unit in order to help out the county, State, and United States Federation in bringing about better conditions for the farmers. Tippecanoe County. Federation. Tippecanoe Federation of Farmers has been carrying on big things. They are pooling their wool, ana have shipped in two cars of sugar at greatly reduced prices. The Prairie Farmer. I would like to call the attention of the farmers of Jasper County to the articles May 22, on pages 6 and 8, especially to the one on page written by Dean Eugene Devenport. Doubling Corn Yields. Corn Yields per acre in the United States could be doubled a few years, and this could be(accomplished without mereasem wort pxDcnse. It i® not to be ■toodthat it is desirable to double the present corn crop, but that it is desirable to produce enough to nil needs on a smaller num her of acres and with 60 bushels are raised on .1 acre instead of on 2 acrls, the labor of I plowing, harrowing, ivating and harvesting is grehtly reI duced. - „„ More Eggs?- I Moat Hens given meat, fish, or muk I products in their diet will lay from 88 to 66 per cent more eggs than th M , have only grata.f and what bugs and worms they can , nick up on free range, recent exI periments made by the States Department of Agriculture 1 .

Bh The birds used in the experimente ■were given* conditions as nearly those on a normal farm «• pownble. The experiments were repeated un der different conditions and in ferent years to a ™’ d, fo^e ***„££ possible, any error due to the varied characteristics of the birds. Ine average farmer feeds very moat fish or animal protein feea of“ny"nd to his poultry, and conseauently gets few eggs during the Ute fall and winter when eggs are selling at the highest prices. In the experiments conducted on the Government poultry farm, P®ns of pullets on free range were fed on a mash of corn ™eai, bran, and middlings and a scratch wheat, oats and corn. ■ Inis is a greater variety of grains thani w used by many farmers. In addition the birds had absolutely free range on land where bugs, gree“ feed and worms, were plentiful. Other pens were given the sameraHon with 1 pound of commercial meat scrap added to every 4 pounds without the meat .erap laid only »0 W i (which is more eggs per hen than the average farm flock lays), while those -receiving meat scrap averaged from 125 to 150 eggs apiece. Meat scrap is not produced on most farms, and has to be bought at a higher price than gram. It produces eggs, though, several cents a dozen cheaper than where no meat scrap is used. Milk products or g<h give us good results as meat in increasing egg production.