The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-02-09
JOSEPH HELMS IS
winner OF FIRST
PREMIUM IN CORN
Well Known Farmer and Ex-
pert Produced Bushel Of
Yellow Corn that Was Ad-
judged the Best.
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determining the proper treatment for
the soil of the farm.
A careful preparation of the ground
before planting the seed was declared
by Mr. Clore to be of vital importance.
He said more care and time should be
taken in the cultivation of the ground
before planting than afterward. He
told of an invention of his own for the
care of sprouts and small plants and
suggested that it be put in use by the
farmers of this vicinity.
Feeding the Dairy Cow.
On Thursday afternoon. Mr.. Crane
discussed the subject OF Feeding the
Dairy Cow "Tco many farmers, he
said, ARE feeding their COWS corn and
timothy hay and wondering why they
are not getting more milk. The food
that the cow eats is turned mostly in
TO milk and if dairymen want more
milk and milk of good rich quality
they should feed the right things 10
the COW to allow her to do this work.
The feed should be abundant, that is,
sufficient so the COW will eat ii up
clean it should be palatable, that is.
food that the COW will eat with a
relish; it should be balanced, that is.
not too much of one kind, either Of
protein or carbohydrates. 1t should
cal. A great help in the feeding prob
lem in Indiana is the use of silage.
Talk on Horticulture.
On Thursday morning in the Horti-
cultural section. Prof Richards spoke
on Small Fruits and Garden Crops.
He said the vast Importance of the
small crop is not realized by the av-
erage farmer of today With the min
imum of care they will yield enor-
nous crops of fruit not only for i'm
mediate consumption but for canning
as well. There are numerous fruits
classed under the head of small fruits
but the main ones are the blackberry.
red raspberry. black raspberry, cur.
rant, gooseberry, and the strawberry
least three plants of each OF the above
mentioned fruits. The culture. of
these fruits is quite similar and they
can all be grown in the same plot and
all cared for at the same time. The
planting of these fruits should be
done in early spring to insure a good
stand and the plot should then be well
cultivated until fall. In the garden
crops a rotation should be practiced
One fourth of the garden plot should
be sown to clover each year and sc
arranged that every four years the
entire garden will have been in clover
Smaller amounts of the general gar
den crops should be planted and a
larger variety attempted. Most farm
tuce. radishes, tomatoes, cabbage
when they might also be growing
such newer and less used crops as
cauliflower, cress. kohl rabi, satisfy OIL
okra. The great trouble with our Am
erican gardeners is that they are
afraid to depart from the vegetables
that our fathers grew. he said. With
a little more care to the garden the
farm family could be fed much cheap
err and at the same time receive a far
greater variety of foods. Spend ar
hour a day in the garden and note
how the grocer bills will decrease and
the quality of the foods increase, he
concluded.
Small Seed Improvement.
The first address on ThurSda y
morning was on the subject of "Smal
Seed Improvement" by F. c. Hillman
Mr.. Hillman is member of the Unit
ed States Department of Agriculture
and has been sent to assist in the
small seed work that will be giver
this week. He said that many farm
ers We're sowing POOR clover seeds
seed that is adulterated with weet
seeds. broken sticks, dirt and Other
substances. and many times low in vi
tality. and wondering why they die
not get good stand of clover.
! The most important part of the
clover crop is the seed and unless
good. pure viable seed is sown a gooC
stand will not result. Too many farm
ers imagine they can look at a sample
of seed and tell whether it is pure anc
germinable. That this can not b.
done is proven by the tests made a
the experiment station at Purdue a.
well as other experiment station:
throughout the country and also a
the department of Agriculture il
| Washington. Many of the best lookins
samples when tested have been found
to be poor in termination. High
priced samples as we'll as those low
/ in price are not to be recommended
! He stated that the only saticfactor,
way TO buy seed was to get sample
from the nearest reliable seedsmar
and TO send two ounces TO Purdu.
seed laboratory at Lafayette and have
it tested for purity and germinatio,
and if samples containes less thar
two per Gent. weed seeds and othe
impurities and no trace of dodder ant
will terminate above ninety-seven pc
cent. the farmer should hasten to bu.
sufficient 10 SOW his field.
Soil Improvement.
/ The fertility of the soil is govern
ed by an almost infinite number o
factors, such as physical condition
moisture supply. plant food, etc. ant
the influence of these various factors
must be taken into account in thu
successful practice of any system o