Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 92, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 February 1919 — Page 7 Advertisements Column 5 [ADVERTISEMENT]

sowed before September 25 on reasonably good land with * liberal application of fertiliser. Such wheat, if <ivon a fairly heavy coat of straw or manure has. an excellent chance to come through the winter in good shape and to produce a good crop next cummer. A number of leading farmers are taking advantage of the frozen mornings and are busy with straw spreaders or manure spreaders and have protected most of their crop. .The same treatment, coupled with judicious and continued rolling next spring, will give a new lease on life to many fields which now aeem almost helpless. Straw and manure applied to wheat fields at this time will not be wasted even if the crop should fail. . Jasper county fanners have between >150,000 and 1200,000 invested in labor and seed for their 1919 wheat crop. It would be regretable if any wheat farmer could not find the time to protect his part of this investment. A few days now spent in caring for the wheat may make the dierence between a good crop and a complete failure at harvest time.

A Good Resolution. "This is the year that I am going to start to take care of my orchard in the way that I know it should be cared for,’’ a farmer the other day. “My regular work is up in good shape and I have the time to start a ‘reconstruction period’ right on my own farm.’’ There are plenty of fruit trees in the county to supply good fruits for everyone if a little time and thought is bestowed upon them. Thus far the winter has been unusually favorable for orchard care, practically every day being suitable for pruning and many days being satisfactory for winter sprang. -• A general use of the pruning saw, lime-sulphur and arsenate of lead would make such a change the quality of fruit produced in the locality that old residents would not recognize it. And certainly the change would be for the better. Corn Stalk* and Wheat Scab. The discovery of the fact that wheat scab, a disease which is becoming prevalent in this locality, has for its host the corn plant will probably bring about some important changes in crop rotation. In a series of observations last summer it was found that in wheat fields which were planted to corn the year previous, the amount of scab averaged about 11 per cent, and where some other crop preceded the Wheat the average was 1 to 1.4 per cent. It is thought by specialists that the wheat scab is a natural parasite of the corn plant, living on the dead stalks through the winter and attacking the wheat heads at ripening time. It is probable that this disease, -tfftich appeared to be a grave menace to wheat production in Indiana, may be controlled by removing the >wheat crop as far as possible from corn in rotation. In order that we have first hand study of the matter ip the couijty, the writer suggests that farmers who have on their farms wheat after both corn and small grains, count the percentage of scab in each at harvest time and report on the same. A simple study of the relation can be made by trying a small bundle of com -stalks in a field of wheat sown on uninfected land and observing any increase in scab immediately arqund the bundle. Tractor Experience* Reviewed. Unbiased information as to the success of the farm tractor in Indiana is given in Circular 89 of the State Agricultural Experiment Station, copies of which may b§ obtained at the Better Farming office. A discussion of size of farms needed, cost of fuel and repairs, proper size of tractor, life, effect on increased ac-

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