Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 200, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 August 1920 — COUNTY AGRCULTURAL NEWS. [ARTICLE]

COUNTY AGRCULTURAL NEWS.

County Agent'* Service. - . In order that you have the service of the County Agent you must necessarily know his phone number. As there is no assistant in the office, it is obvious that you use my home phone number which is 405. This same phone was left in the house for your benefit. For some reason there are calls coming m every day for me at my old rooming place, and not at my home. Central has been notified concerning the home call and if they give you the old number instead of the new why it. is easy .to find the mistake. I certainly want to be of service to you and when you cannot locate me at the office, call the house and learn my whereabouts. Results of Culling Demonstration f At Mr. Hauter’s. Seven days prior to the culling demonstration on August 4th, Mr. Hauter gathered 235 egges from 120 hens, and the seven days following the demonstratiqn the 75 remaining hens laid 195 eggs. With these figures we have 40 eggs, less after the demonstration than before, but there were 15 hens following the demonstration which started to set which accounts for the diminished egg record. Mrs. Hauter sold her 45. cull hens at 36 cents per pound making her a neat little sum of money for hens which were yielding her nothing. She is well satisfied with the results of the culling of her flock. Other Culling Demonstration*. We held a culling demonstration at Mr. Andrew Nussbaum’s, south of Remington, Saturday, August 14th. There was a large crowd of poultry enthusiasts out to witness the culling which was a decided success. One remarkable feature to be learned from . the demonstration was that even though sbme were molting heavily they were still laying, for the simple reason that Mr. Nussbaum was feeding these hens a balanced ration which stimulated egg production. ■ Mrs. 0. O. Bell, west and north of Parr, held a neighborhood culling with her flock of 31 hens. There Were 18 neighboring ladies m attendance. Out of 31 hens 10 were found to be non-producers. .

Schedule of Culling Demonstrations. Following is a schedule of poultry culling demonstrations to be held in several of the different townships: TUESDAY, 2:00 p. m.> August 24th, at Mr. H. J. Kuppers, Barkley township, one mile east of Newland. WEDNESDAY, 2:00 p. m., August 25th, at Mr. Chas. Welsh s, Jordan Township, 4 miles east and north of Goodland. THURSDAY, 2:00 p. m., August 26th at Rollin Stewart s, Hanging Grove township, one mile south and east of Banta Schoolhouse. FRIDAY, 2:00. p. m., August 27, at Fred Waling’s, Newton township, two miles south and five west of Rensselaer.' . TUESDAY, 2:00 p. m, at Mason Barlow’s, Milroy township, three miles south and west of McCoysburg. - ~ Thpse demonstration, ladies, are worth your while to, take off half a day and learn how to cull your own flock. Your non-producers are yielding you nothing. Why not cull them? The average farm flock are on the average one-third nonproducer?. , Large Saving to Farmers Effected By Co-operatives. Co-operative farmers’ associations in the Northern and Western states, whose organizations were promoted by county agents last year, effected a saving to the members of $5,434,000, according to reports made to the States Relation Service, United States Department of Agriculture. The governing principle in all activities on the part of county agents sharing in co-operative movements has been not to act as the direct business agent of the farmer or an organized group, but to assist farmers in determining, what form of local ’organization is desirable and to secure expert assistance, when available, in organization and whereever practicable advocates the use of existing agencies) The co-op-

erative associations which the county agents have, helped form have had to do both with production and distribution and include co-opera-tive grain elevators, creameries, and live-stock selling M A “LOOK FOR THE HESSIAN FLY FREE DATE POSTERS” WHICH ARE BEINGWAGED IN SEVERAL OF THE STORESAND BANKS ALL OVER THE COUNTY ARE GOTTEN OUT BY _ THE STATE ETYMOLOGY DEPARTMENT AT PURDUE. Picnic At Winamac. The annual Pulaski County picnic of the Farmers’ Association will be held September 9th at Whnamac. Mr E. H. Cunningham, secretary of the lowa State Farm Bureau, will be the principal B Pe*k»r. A tractor demonstration be held in the forenoon. This *rig be_ of special value to the farmers of Jasper county since we are going so organise our Farme« I and attend this picnic. Those wishing to attend this picnic inert m front of the Court House in Rensselaer at 8:00 o’clock / Thursday morning, September 9th, and accompany the cotinty agent to the, CmC 'Stock Show TH* Fall. pinna are being formulated for the coming of the Live Stock Show in Rensselaer some ; time in ' tober, the date of which is not definitely set What are you doingto prepare your stock for Uris show. Make your home' county show • success by contributing your fine stock. There are numerous quantlties of fine stock in this county of a fine show. ______ The depths to which the Turk has fallen maty -be judged from the £rt tha#he looks i>on *e Botahevik ns a‘ deliverer. *