Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-03-31
Sioux City Station, Established
by Ames College, Will Like
ly Be Permanent
CONSISTS OF TEN ACRE PLOT
The Ground is at the Top of Clay
Hill, on Captain Smiths GOO Acre
Farm Near Leeds-Four-Year Lease
sisned-kaiser Uses Iowa Bulletins
State News.
Special to Times-Republican.

Special to Times-Republican.
Sioux City, March 31.-A mode
farm" or state agricultural experiment
station, was established yesterday near
Sioux City by the Iowa State College
at Ames.
Professor w. H. Stevenson, assistant
agriculturist and soil physicist, OF
Ames, was in Situx City yesterday and
arranged with Captain w. S. A. Smith
for ten acres of land on his farm, three
and half miles northeast of Leeds
where the experiment station will be
located. A four year lease was signed
After driving out and selecting the
plot Professor Stevenson left last eve
ming for Ames, while Professor Chris
tie, his assistant, drove north of Sioux
City this morning, to look at some
more land,
Sixty-four Plots.
Professor Christie will return to
Sioux City Saturday, and will spend
month or six weeks putting the ten
acres in condition for the crops to be
grown there this year. Professor Stew
enson said the ten acres would be di-
vided into four equal plots. Each of
these will be divided into sixteen small
garden patches, each about sixteen feet
wide, with seven feet between them.
The first year wheat, oats, corn and
rye will be planted in these plots. The
first patches will be planted in soil
without any artificial fertilizer, and in
the others different fertilizers will be
used, to test their respective merits.
Kaiser Uses Bulletins.
"The Iowa experiment stations fur
nish the information for the kaiser's
kingdom, and under the direction Of
his public printer they are translated
and thousands of copies distributed
free every year. Even England repub-
fishes the reports. The demand for
some bulletins has been so large that
applications outside the state of Iowa
can no longer be supplied to other than
publishers and agricultural bureaus
which agree to republish them or keep
them on file. The bulletins are free to
farmers and citizens of Iowa, how
ever"
Professor Stevenson said he believed
the Sioux City station would be a per-
manent institution. The ground Sc
lected is far from being the most ia
vorable to be found on the large Smith
farm Of 600 acres, but is at the top Of
a clay hill, where Captain Smith has
never succeeded in producing a large
crop of anything. 1t will be the aim of
the state agricultural college profess
sors to make these clay hills give up
a yield equal to that of any other ten
acres owned by Captain Smith.
1t is the plan to rotate the crops next
year and wheat will be planted where
corn was grown this year. The shift
ing will be repeated two, three and
four years from now, until at the end
of the four years every patch will have
been tried with the different crops and
fertilizers.
Smith Gets Crops.
Captain Smith will furnish an ex-
pert to care for the crops. For the use
of his land he will receive the crops
grown. 1t is the plan to have an ex-
pert make his home in Sioux City per-
next year for the purpose of
the model farm.
The results Of the experiments in
agriculture will be published in the
bulletins issued by the experiment sta
lions quarterly and distributed free to
all residents Of the respective states
who may apply for them. This is pro-
vided in the law which appropriates
$4,000 annually for the experimental
stations thus established as a depart
ment Of the land grant colleges.
"The work of our experiment sta
lions along these lines have proved
extremely popular and met with favor
in all parts of the state" said Profess
sor Stevenson. MANY of the foreign
countries have applied for our bulle-
tins, and farmers and stock men in
every state of the union are constant
ly watching the results of the Iowa
stations. The report of some of our
have been republished en-
tirely by foreign governments. Such
is the case with Germany.