Kankakee Valley Post, Volume 2, Number 45, DeMotte, Jasper County, 23 March 1933 — PURDUE POULTRY SPECIALIST IN COUNTY. [ARTICLE]

PURDUE POULTRY SPECIALIST IN COUNTY.

Wm. Kohlmeyer, extension poultry specialist from Purdue University will be in Crown Point on Friday, March 24th to present to the Home Bureau leaders the second poultry lesson of the year. At the first lesson given in the county Mr. Kohlmeyer discussed the raising of baby chicks. At this coming lesson which will be held in the basement of the Criminal Court Building beginning at 10 o’clock on Friday morning, Mr. Kohlmeyer will answer any questions which the Home Bureau leaders have on the raising of baby chicks and will discuss chicks from the time they leave the brooder house until they are ready to go into the laying house. Representatives from the 18 Home Bureaus in the county are expected to be present at this meeting. Mrs. James Park, president of the Lake County Home Bureau will preside. Any questions about this meeting will be answered by the Home Demonstration Agent, Jayne Ferguson of Crown Point. L. E. Weiss, who makes quite a study of conservation and game propagation methods says that hundreds of dollars could be saved to the country if the Kankakee river could be returned to its old-time channel. For one thing, Louie says that it would help materially in reducing the damage by floods that are now affecting the rivers into which the flood waters of Kankakee are now pouring in an ever increasing volume, doing great damage to life and property. Much of the land drained by the Kankakee would be more profitable used as a game preserve, and now at the time when government authorities are demanding the abandonment of lands for agricultural purposes, a movement looking to the establishment of a game preserve on the Kankakee would prove profitable. Numbered among twenty-six Indiana corn growers who have entered exhibits at the World’s Grain Exhibition at Regina, Canada, to be held July 24th to August 5th, will be George Sauerman, who is preparing an entry of Lake County grown corn. All exhibits coming from this region have to be heat treated to a temperature of 68 degrees centigrade for three hours on account of the quarantine against the European corn borer. Authoritive information as to when and how the election for the election of delegates to the repeal convention will be held, seems to be in the hands of only those who are pledged to favor repeal at present. So far, those who oppose the repeal of the eighteenth amendment do not seem to have very much information as to how to proceed to organize their campaign.