Newark post. (Newark, Del.) 1910-1969, 1911-02-01

IS meeting IN satisfactory manner
the demands made upon It, IT is COM
ing constant IN clOSer contact with
the former, and Judging from the num-
bers OF letters OF inquiry that are be
ing received. it is but natural to inier
that the Station is being used mo-
and more by the people for whose
beneht IT was established
he Experiment Station is becoming
better equipped as time "oes on, and
when the equipment is more nearly
completed, more funds will be avail
| able FOR additional assistants TO the
Station staff, which shou d result i'll
more work beng accomplished.
At present the Experiment Station
is handicapped i'll not having the ser
vices Ct an agricultural Extension de.
oartmenr to carry on a number OF CO.
operative experiments i'll various parts
of this State. This would serve not
only to check tn results obtained here,
but would keep the college in close
touch with the tiller OF the sol,
him desired information on his own
farm that would be OF material assist
ance to him, as well as to become &C
, quainted with the youth OF the State
| prepared for a career.
Some very interesting results have
been worked out on the farm and n
| the laboratories during the past year.
| Some OF the most interesting, perhaps,
are in connection with soy beans, a
| crop that is comparatively new in this
State. We have found that Tor the
| present, at least. soy beans are the
most valuable a So seed crop. When
the time comes, however. that there
will be limited demand iOr the beans
Tor seed, the crop has other possible
ties, which. ii generally known, would
greatly stimulate its cultivation for
commercial purposes.
| An acre o, SOY beans will produc
twice as much oil as an acre OF cotton
and three times as much as am acre OF
flax This oil is quite similar to flax
seed oil, and can be used as a partial
substitute Tor it. The residue from
the manufacture OF oil contains as
mulch protein as the best cotton seed
meal, and is more valuable as feed
since ii can be led to more kinds oi
animals.
AT the present time the more re-
liable seedsmen are asking from $3.25
to S375 per bushel and we have OBJ
tanned 80 bushels per acre on quite
large areas. While we still have much
TO learn concerning this crop, j: must
at least be considered promisin
| one.
| Just now the Station is doing some
| thing that is a little out OF the ordi.
| nary, and something that cannot fai
to be OF material benefit to the State
For the past two months Prof. Gran
than, the Agronomist, has spent {
| large part OF his time in preparing an
1 exhibit for the National Corn Show
to be held at Columbus, Ohio, mex,
| month. All Oh the expense connected
with its preparation is borne by the
State Board OF Agriculture, and the
exhibit will be made by the Expert
\ ment Station and the State Board OF
| Agriculture in cooperation. The dis.
play from Delaware is taken very
largely from the work OF and the re-
suits obtained from the Experiment
Station. Although the State is small
and the area from which the materia
for a display OF this kind can be drawn
is limited, yet the exhibit is highly in.
teresting and instructive. illustrating a.
it does the possibilities OF intensive
methods OF agriculture as practced il
onr State.