Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 86, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 January 1919 — The Neighorhood Corner [ARTICLE]

The Neighorhood Corner

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

To Study Clover Failures. Arrangements have been made with the Agricultural Experiment Station for a study of the causes of clover failure in Jasper county, providing a few fanners who are having difficulty along this line will volunteer to cooperate with the experiment station. Ip carrying out these experiments, it would be the station’s object to

work with farmers who would on! their own account give the field in which the experiment was located • required umxorm treatment, excepting, of course, the experimental pR“» which would receive various troxtments. This would mean that the farmer should be interested in clover production and willing to cooperate. There would, however, be very little inconvenience caused him a* the plans are very simple and would require little, if any, detail work except applying the various treatments to a preceding crop or crops and the determination of clover hay yields from the plots at harvest. Tne need of more clover is generally recognized in this county and it is hoped that a number of good men will volunteer. In this, as in other lines of experimental work, the man who gets the most good of it is the man who carries on the work. Shorthorn Men Confer. That the quality of the Shorthorn cattie in this locality can best be improved by the introduction of more hootch females was the general opinion of a group of breeders who met last Saturday for an informal discussion of methods of herd improvement. A number of breeders expressed their intentions oF securing one or more “top” animals in the near future. . . A eommitte consisting of Lewis Selmer, Kenton Parkison and Percy Hauter was appointed to investigate the advisability of pooling resources for the purchase of an outstanding Shorthorn sire. There was a strong feeling at the meeting that rapid progress is being made by the breeders in the improvement of their cattle and that too much of a boom might not be as desirable as a healthy growth along sane and conservative lines. . Meeting in Newton Township. ’ The Home Economics Club of Newton township met at the home of Mrs. Benton Kelly last Thursday afternoon. . . , xr This club was organized,, last November with a membership of only seven. This month shows an increase of seven, making a total of fourteen. Great interest and enthusiasm is being shown among the women. We hope that many more of these dubs can be organized in the various townships in Jasper county. Rensselaer Home Economics Club Meets. The Rensselaer Federated Home Economics Club holds its annual indoor 'banquet at the home of Mrs. Rice Porter in Rensselaer Feb. Ist. Poultry Association Has Good Year. The affairs of the County Poultry association are on a stronger financial basis and the organization is backed by a larger membership than ever before, according to the" report of the secretary, A. E. Wallace, at the annual meeting held last week. The following officers were elected: President, Jesse Snyder; vice president, Ivan Carson; secretary-treasur-er, A. E. Wallace; superintendent of corn, P. H. Hauter; superintendent of poultry, Max Kepner; board of directors, Simon Thompson, Riley Snyder,,. J. M. Sauser. Preliminary plans for the 1920 show were discussei, it being the intention to maintain the present high standard of the -poultry department and improve on the corn exhibit.