Jasper County Democrat, Volume 16, Number 92, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 February 1914 — OAT AND POTATO CAMPAIGN. [ARTICLE]

OAT AND POTATO CAMPAIGN.

Meeting to Be Conducted by a Representative From Purdue University and County Agent Barrett It Is very eyident that a great improvement could be brought about in the quality and quanity of oats and potatoes which we are growing on our farms. Too mudh can not be said in regard to seed selection, and it is needless to say that we all pay too little attention to the selection of our small seeds. Miany of our oat fields are extremely smutty, others more or less so, and every head of smut means one less head of oats. This should not be the case and it is absolutely unnecessary. Treatment for oat- smut Is very simple and it is pure negligence for us to go on sowing untreated oats, taking the chance of more or less smut when the treatment is so easily applied to ths seed. ? The one thing that is so evident with regard to our potato yields is the amount of scabby potatoes. This also can be remedied comparatively easy. There is to be a series o! meeting and demonstrations on oats and potatoes to be held in the county as follows: Tuesday, Feb. 24, at 10 o’clock, at Will Wor|ley’s, 6 miles south of Rensselaer; Tuesday, Feb. 24, at 2 o’clock, at the Auto Sales garage in Remington; Tuesday, Feb. 24, in Count" Agent Barrett’s office in the Court House, at 7:30; Wednesday, Feb. 25, at 10 o’clock, in Sheever’s workshop, in Demotte, and Wednesday, Feb. 25, at 2 o’clock, in the garage at Wheatfield. Please to keep these meetings in mind and everybody turn out, hear what the man from Purdue has to say, and let’s improve our conditions in oat and potato growing, if possible. Signed, O. G. BARRETT, '• County Agent.