Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 68, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 November 1920 — Count Agricultural News [ARTICLE]

Count Agricultural News

Department of Farm Welfare Conducted by County Agent

> Care of Pullets Move pullets into winter quarters before they begin to lay, the United States department of agriculture advises. All should be in winter quarters before cold weather. See that the henhouse is disinfected and that it is tight on three sides and that there is no chance for a draft to strike the hens while on their roosts. Feed for Hens in Winter ' Good kinds of green feeds for hens in winter are sprouted oats, alfalfa meal, chopped alfalfa and clover hay, cabbage and mangel beets. Cabbages may be hung up in the poultry house; the beets are 'usually split and stuck on a nail on the side wall

of the pen about a foot above the ‘floor to keep the feed clean. Keep oyster shells, grit, charcoal and plenty of clean drinking water before the hens all the time. Giving Your Boy the Right Start Send the little people to the International Live Stock exposition at Chicago. It will exert a more captivating influence than a circus and prove infinitely more profitable. Give your boy an opportunity to develop an appreciation of animal life as exemplified by the best types there displayed. The experience will be a valuable asset to his education in an auxiliary sense, broadening his vision and aiding materially to his store of knowledge of such matters as the school room cannot afford. Every boy should be afforded this opportunity. And the iittle girls are equally attracted by such displays. Refinement of character is promoted by such a study at close range ot domestic animals as is possible nowhere else. The International

brings the wonders of the barnyard and the pasture under conditions calculated to anchor the observation thus made possible. The evening entertainment is absorbingly interesting io the younger generation. Let them see the parade, enjoy the exhilarating influence of thq music and a color scheme without a rival, trials of driving and riding skill and equipage displays not to be seen anywhere else. . The little people are entitled to a day or even an evening at the Live Stock exposition, Nov. 27 to Dec. 4, and you do them an injustice by depriving them of the opportunity. Farmers’ Federation Meeting t On Saturday afternoon, Nov. 13, 25; officers of the Jasper County Farmers' federation met in a business session in the county agent’s office. It was a very enthusiastic and Interesting meeting. The most Important business of note was that of settling up the bill ot C. S. Masterson and other minor bills and the settling of dates for the regular township meetings, which will be published later. It was also voted that the county farmers’ federation send the president, Russell Van Hook, to the state convention, which, was held on Monday and Tuesday, Nov. 15 and 16. Mr. Van Hook reports that a very good meeting was held and a more detailed information will be furnished by Joe Kolhoff and John Farrabee, the delegates from this county, who were also In attendance at the convention. Hessian Fly The fall being so late the worm put in its appearance again this fall even in the wheat that was sown after the fly free date. The fly, however, was found to be only in the larva stage and according to W. A. Ostrander, who was here Tuesday, Nov. 16, for the purpose of measuring up the five-acre corn plots, undoubtedly this long continued freeze would kill the larva but if it was in the flax seed stage this freeze would have no affect on it.