Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 56, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 March 1899 — For the Agricultural Column. [ARTICLE]

For the Agricultural Column.

1. What is the best time to sow oats? 2. How many bushels of oats should be sown to the acre? 3. Is it best to plow the ground for an oat crop in the fe.il or in the spring? 4. Is it best to plow in the fall or spring for corn? 5. When and how do you sow Red Clover seed? How do you treat the crop to make it the most profitable? 6. Which is better to plant potatoes in hills or in drills? 7. In your opinion which is the best method to sow timothy, in the fall or in the spring? 8. When is the best time to prune fruit trees? 9. Is it best to feed cattle on

dry food until grass "is large enough so that they can get, all they can eat, or turn out when they can get only partly what they can eat and bring them on full grass feed by degrees? 10. What is the best food for horses during farm, work? 11. When is the best time to set out fruit trees? Should they be set deep in the ground or shallow? 12. Does it pay to sow spring J wheat in this county. R. S. Dwiggins, I Fitz W. Bedford, C. D. Nowels, I Committee.