Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 56, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 October 1918 — The Neighborhood Corner [ARTICLE]

The Neighborhood Corner

Department of Farm Welfare Conducted by County Agent Stewart Learning.

Stock Show Next Week. Officers of the County Livestock Breeders’ association are ready for the second annual livestock show, which will open at Rensselaer next Thursday morning, October 17, and continue throughout the remainder of the week. Department superintendents report that a full number of 'entries is expected in all classes. In addition to the cattle show, Which was featured last year, it is probable that one of the best exhibits of hogs ever staged in the county will be staged. The Shorthorn heifers belonging to the Boys’ Shorthorn club will occupy a prominent place in the show. The pigs which were distributed by a number of prominent breeders last summer to boys of the locality will be called in for comparison of gains. W. H. Pullins, who has this matter in charge, has secured between sls and $25 as premium money for this class. One or more carloads of breeding ewes will be distributed to the boys and girls of the county on the last day of the show. Provision has been made for the evhibition of practically every class of farm animals and the secretary announces that should any farmer have livestock not included in the classifications which have been mailed out, it may be exhibited and premiums will be awarded according to merit. Green Strawstacks Under Ban. County food administrators have been requested to report to the food administrator for Indiana the names of the owners on whosfe farms the wheat straw stacks are now showing green. The green sprouts are evidence of the enormous waste of wheat, due to defective threshing.

Steps will be taken at once, Dr. Barnard announces, through the Gram Threshing division of the federal food administration to identify the owners of the machines whose defective operations were responsible for this waste. The attention of the food administration was directed to the “green straw stacks” by the Indiana State Council of Defense, which is cooperating with the food administrathrough the threshing committees named in each county. Wherever green stacks have been located; inquiries will be made to prevent furher waste of the wheat “which should go into the flour barrel.” “Slacker threshing machines must go,” said Dr. Barnard today. “The need of wheat is too pressing to allow such wastage. Farmers who insisted on having their grain carefully handled and threshed in machines that were not defective realize after one season that it was the most profitable as wel las the most patriotic thing they could have done under the circumstances.” If your strawstack is green report the fact to the county food administrator.