Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 245, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 October 1920 — AGRICULTURAL NEWS. [ARTICLE]

AGRICULTURAL NEWS.

Jasper County Farmers’ Federation Meeting. The County Secretary, Mr. Chas. W. Postill has issued the following call: There will be a very important meeting of the township and county officers of the Jasper County Farmers’ Federation at the office of County Agent Mawhorter, Saturday, Oct. 9th, at 1:00 p. m. This early hour is Selected to accommdate ■ some of the officers and will be called on time. Please be sure and come at this time. Live Stock Show In Renweleer. ‘ Arrangements are fast being made ‘for the largest stock show ever held in Rensselaer. The dates set for the show are on Thursday, Friday and Saturday, October 21, 22 and 23. Amusements and shows will occupy your time while you are in attendance. There will be many fine animals oh exhibition and it will surprise you to learn what high class stock Jasper county has. ' Tour Of States. Indiana farmers and county agents are planning to make a tour of middle western states during the week of November 7. . The farm bureau offices, the experimental work, the agricultural Universities, and typical farms and farming sections will be visited. The trip will be made by special train and will include Champaign, Illinois; Madison, Wisconsin- St. Paul, Minnesota; Ames, Iowa; Chicago, and Lafayette. The trip will cost about SIOO. Only 150 reservations will be sold, and the first 150 making requests to go will be accommodated. If you desire to make this trip report same to County Agent Mawhorterat your earliest convenience. • ; „ Forty-eight per cent available acid phosphate is being manufactur48 Per Cent Acid , Phoephate. ' ed at Butte, Mont., and is selling at S4B per ton. At the same price per unit of plant food 16 per cent available acid phosphate should sell for sl6 per ton, but the wholesale list" price on this fertilizer is $34.25 per ton. Fifteen hundred pounds 6f the 48 per cent acid phosphate has befen shipped to, each of 30 Ihdiana counties, where it will be tried out to determine its value in comparison with 16 per cent goods. Jasper county received a shipment of 1500 pounds of this fertilizer and the following will experiment with it on their wheat this fall: Charles Parks and E. Wuerthner, Ed P. Lane, Wm. Jeffers, Fred Hiss and Firman Thompson. Elmer Gwin and Roland Myres, of Wheatfield went to Waukesha, Wis., Saturday. While there they expect to hunt deer.