Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 66, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 November 1917 — THE NEIGHBORHOOD CORNER [ARTICLE]

THE NEIGHBORHOOD CORNER

1 ' Department of Farm Welfare Conducted by County Agent Stewart Learning.

• - The advantage of the minimum price should act at once in order to get results. . The Seed Corn Situation While it is probable that hundreds of bushels of seed corn must be brought into this section of the state next spring, numerous fields have been located in the county where the corn matured properly and will make excellent seed. Farmers having such fields are urged to save all the seed possible and may be assured :of a ready sale for all that they can store. The Jasper County Better Farming association is listing men who can supply seed and can assist farmers in locating stocks. While it may be slightly inconvenient to find seed at home, it will prove highly desirable. Soft corn is general all over the corn belt and the community is fortunate that has enough available corn to plant its crop, let alone •applying other localities.

Farmers’ Clubs Professor J. C. Beavers will deliver a talk at the next meeting of the Newton Township Farmers’ eltfb to be held in the Blue Grass •ebool house next Tuesday evening. Mr. Bearers' subject will be "Soil Imprrrfeincnt.' He is a recognized authority upon the subject and his n't shou'.t be one of the most in-WMt-ig of the season. Corn Club Work Aibput forty boys entered the nrv’e cotx club, last spring to get nracixcL. experience in corn growing and incidentally, to see who conic get the best results. While a busy season and.early frosts havo Gisrouragec .goodly number. are fmshing up their work.- Several have been checked which anew satisfactory yields. The boys will compete in showing ten-ear samples, in judging corn and writing essays on corn production. The Farm Engineering School The officers of the Jasper County Better Farming association have appointed the following committee to take charge of the farm engineering short course which will be held in Rensselaer this winter: Kellner & Callahan. Warner Brothers, Harry Watson, Oscar Weiss, Brhardt Wuerthner, I. F. Meader, W. H. Pullins and Stewart Learning. ; The committee met in the county agent’s office last evening to plan for the event. Prof. C. D. Kinsman of Purdue met with the committee. The farm engineering short course has been held at one other point in the \ state with marked success and the committee hoped to arrange an instructive week here. tetrday Afternoon Meetings Arranged •ue to the fact that Rensselaer is a “Saturday” town and many termers do their trading on that tey a series of meetings has been •■ranged which will be held in the Mat court room the first three Sat-

urday afternoons in December. These meetings will begin at 2 o’clock and last for one hour, giving those who attend time to finish their trading after this closes. They will be addressed by some of the leading agricultural experts of the state and are designed to help solve some of the farm problems of the county. The schedule of the talks is as follows: December 1, J'Food r Conservation,” C. Hepry. December 8, “Lime for Acid Soils,” Professor A. T. Wiancko. December 15, “Winter Care of Poultry,” L. J. Bosmer. The first and last of these lectures will be interesting to the women of the county and town as well as to the farmers. These three meetings have been scheduled to test out the interest which might be secured in Saturday afternoon meetings throughout the winter. Your attendance will be your vote of approval for the continuation of the series. An Early Variety Developed Isaac Elijah is a young farmer of Newton township who has Interested himself in the development of early maturing corn. He retorts that he has developed a strain which • ripened before the killing frosts and which made a good yield this year. Seed from this type should meet with favor this season, especially among the farmers in the north end of the county.

Prizes for Club Mem tiers An enthusiastic meeting of the committee appointed to raise prizes soy the girls and boys of Carpenter township was held in the office of Thurstee Porter last Saturday. It was decided to raise funds for the premiums by means of a home talent play to be given at Remington. This play will be given in the near future. There is more Catarrh in this section of the country than all other diseases put together, and for years it was supposed to be incurable. Doctors prescribed local remedies, and by constantly failing to cure with local treatment, pronounced it incurable. Catarrh is a local disease, greatly influenced by constitutional conditions and therefore requires constitutional treatment. Hall’s Catarrh Medicine, manufactured by F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, Ohio, is a constitutional remedy, is taken internally. and acts through the Blood on the Mucous Surfaces of the System. One Hundred Dollars reward is offered for any .case that Hall’s Catarrh Medicine fails to cure. Send for circulars and testimonials. F. J. CHNEY & CO., Toledo, Ohio. Sold by Druggists, 75c. Hall’s Family Pills for constipation.