Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 259, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 October 1920 — AGRICULTURAL NEWS. [ARTICLE]

AGRICULTURAL NEWS.

Ear-to-Row Demonstration. The “Ear-to-Row" Demonstration conducted by R. S. Thomas of the Soil and Crop. Department at Purdue, was a decided success.' A fair sized group of fanners, headed by the County Agent, was present. This experiment proved, without a doubt, that each individual seed ear has a distinct value as seed, apart from another ear. It proved that in the selection of seed com, the grower should exercise great care in selecting seed that .does not carry an over amount of starch, as the vitality and vigor of seed com is largely determined by its freedom from disease and starchiness. Great care should be exercised that no seed be selected that shows signs of disease, either in ear or stalk, as these defects are absolutely sure to show up in the crop. In this experiment several diseased ears were used as seed. Fully 75 per-cent of [this planting was found to' s affected by stalk root diseasq, causing stalk to fall, and ears were small and infested by disease similar to the parent ear. 5 [ The results of the seeding of two ears in this demonstration, selected from one township, was exhibited in a down town window and attracted universal attention. The one ear produced fifty bushels to the acre. It had very starchy kernels and the resulting ears were small and consisted of many nubbins. The other ear yielded 80 bushels to the acre and was free from starchiness and well adapted to the soil and climate, which is shown in the resulting corn that has a uniformity of type.

Poultry Association Meeting. There will be a poultry association meeting in the county agent’s office Friday evening, October 29, for the purpose of making arrangenfents for the poultry and com shew to be held the first week in January. All those -interested, please be in attendance. Live Stock Association Meeting. There will be a live stock association meeting in the county agent’s office Saturday evening, October 30. All those who are interested in live stock and stock show for another year, please be in attendance at eight o’clock. This will 'be an important meeting and it is necessary that you come with your suggestions and ideas, a State Federation Meeting. Officers of the Federation who have been working on the program of the second annual state convention which is to be held in Indianapolis on November 15 and 16 at the auditorium of the Mesonic Temple have received word from J._ R. Howard, president of the American Farm Bureau Federation, to the effect that he will' attend this meeting. Mr. Howard represents the national organization to which the Indiana Farmers are affiliated and his message 'before the convention which is to be delivered the first day of the session will be received with interest by Hoosier farmers who are now bent upon perfecting one of the strongest state organizations in the national federation.