Kankakee Valley Post, Volume 18, Number 6, DeMotte, Jasper County, 2 January 1948 — AGRICULTURE FACES NEW REVOLUTIONS [ARTICLE]

AGRICULTURE FACES NEW REVOLUTIONS

Success with the chemical 2,4-D in weeding corn fields too wet to cultivate may mean as much to farming methods as soybeans.and hybrid corn. Ever since the expers decided that cultivation is good only for weed control—not for the corn itself—efforts have been made to kill the weeds without use of the cultivating tool. The’ new chemical may be the answer. Agriculture continues to show as much technological develop- 1 ment as the hiost progressive industry. Farming is no business for the man who wprhips the past. . , i