Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1907-02-20

a. GLUE, Mrs. l.. d.. taIeS ana n.
E. Robinson.
Nominating-F. L. Durey, Miss
Eva Smith, Geo. S. Lister and R.
G. Brooks
The Misses Mildred Brown,
Blanche Baxter, and Mildred Smith
rendered pleasing vocal selection.
President Carrothers and vice
president Brayton announced the
meeting Of the Eastern Iowa Insti-
tute Association held in Cedar
Rapids, Tuesday.
Master Roe Clute recited when
Grandpa was Boy" to an appre-
ciative audience.
The next number on the program
was by W. j. Pilkington Of DIS
Moines, State Representative of the
Retail Merchants Association. Mr..
Pilkington spoke of the unpleasant
feeling that too often exists between
farmers and merchants; advised them
to attend each others institutes or
| meetings. He spoke of the folly of
a person thinking they could tell
the quality of merchandise. Said it
is unwise to order through the mail
and if one just looked around at
home and found out prices he would
see that the so called cheap rates
from large houses are really more
expensive, quality considered, than
buying at home. He read extracts
from letters ard quoted statements
to prove his. assertions. Many of
| the catalogue houses do not have a
dollars worth of goods on their
shelves, and advised the local mer-
chants and farmers to work in uni
son. His speech was very forcible
and was much enjoyed by the large
assemblage
Following this was delightful
piano solo by Miss Blanche Wood.
President Carrothers then an
nounced the winners in the corn
contest. They are as follows:
Il CHAMPION ten esTS, any variety, u. N, OE66f.
Hopknton, Kinks weeder
| Yellow dent
list jas j carrothers. rocking ch,ir. b. b.
2nd.C. W. swindell. So. Hopkinton State
SD. v. Mead. gents hat, 4; H. Allen.
4th-C. A. Swindell, lamp. A. Thorpe.
5th-Jerry Raster. pair blankets, hlcke \ Son
6th..Jas.J j. CArrothsrs. pair arct.cs. Ii. d.
7th1H O. White, hog cholera remedy, b. w.
| Green's.
sth-W. j. Davis, pair overshoes. P. F. Mad
Reeds! ae yellow dent
lst-C. X Greer. Morris chair A. d. Brown.
2nd.W. G. Ausman. tank heater, Carhart &
srd-F.J. Gestel. S.. Del. Co. State Bank.
4thIJas. j. Carrothers. corn sorter. W. D
5,h-s. T. Carter, driving mittensw. L. Drew
6th-L. G Clute. one years subscription Ind
corn book. Manchester Press.
7th-L G Cmte, one years subscription, Del.
Co News.
White corn
lst-rhos. Andrews. tank heater. Young s
2ndpF IF, j. Gestel, marten nun. B. Clark.
i srd John White, silver knives and FORKS
/ Hutchi son q AtwHter.
4th--L. J. Gates So, s. s. Bank.
5th,Mill Warrel. family scales, stearns 6
1 9th j. Gestel. buckskIn mittens. q. j
Stewart
LIST %. A Swindell, gents hat. Gildner Bros
and-G. W. Mead, stock food, i. e; smith.
Std--Herman Theel. G. nee. u. Wells;
One ear
lsts-- Harry Sly, 70 D. A. D. latches. F. E
II Richardson.
Il 2nd---F II. Brooks. alarm clock, D, r. Levi!
srd.---Jas, j. oarro,hers, whip. b. j Lawmar
= Flint corn---
II lst--O. Nj. Eaton, package coffee. Cal Atkinson
lst-C. W. Mead, coffee. W. H. Lafrerty
Myers Special,- Geo. Chrystai. hArmonlca, =.
In the studedts contest the first prize wa
D awarded TO Wallace Ausman.
Next followed an address by Prof
:. M. L. Bowman of Ames, on Corr
and other Grains; their Improve
ment and their Destroyers." H
commended very highly the sample
!, of corn exhibited Said he coul'
not see why the farmers Of Delawar
county should send any place els
;, for corn when they have such goo
u corn in their own neighborhood
y not on their farms. There was
y great improvement in the corn {
: this year over last. The corn crop
. mean more to Iowa than all the oth
), er crops. 1t was 5S5 per cent. {
u all the farm product in 1905 and til
!. income from it was $3.50, 100000
= Twelve and one half ounces of see
= will raise 40 bushels Of corn to tn
! acre. 1t should produce twice 9
y much. The greatest reason for
. poor yield is poor STAN
of corn. How many ever too
y paper and pencil and counted til
I stalks in the hills. He had an
found that IA per cent had n
. stalks, 81 per cent had one stall
Il 3S per cent two stalks, 10 per ce1
~ ! three and "a five. The stand we
!. SO per cent. You can find stan
q, of Is per cent on one side Of a bal
- wire fence and on the other side
= :, 25 per cent stand. Up to coup
% Of years ago the average Iowa yiel
; was 32RR bushels an acre. The rel
= sons for a poor yield are worm
" grubs and poor seed, principal
y the latter. No state in the unic
% enjoys better reputation for Ii,
- y, stock than this, but how little attel
~ -, ton has been paid until recently
~ ~ grain. Can't produce fine yielt
= from poor seed corn. In the germ
~ nation test in 1906 as shown by
~ chart two kernels were taken fro
100 ears Of corn and the result WI
% as follows: Northern Section
= per cent good, Is per cent went,
per cent bad. Central Section
u per cent good, 10 per cent went,
10 per cent bad. Southern Section
u u per cent good, Is per cent went,
~ per cent bad. You ought to tie
g tim othy and clover also. Lots
~ people SOW weed seed in their lin
othy and clover. You can't affol
y to SOW seed like that. We, at Anne
~ !. are glad to examine seed. "Ter
A. TO your own business hut tend to