Mexico weekly ledger., 1912-04-11

|uisA ne ten hosheh q his con-
lErovn for The contest Il xE hrnE
iron s2.se to = a b.. Next year
tho bozs should Donate IS each 10 !
ward securing a nan to yisit them
during he year and aid them IN
growing Their corn and keeping Il
pure.
those contests are great things
for a cogasy and he boys VII
inter It with much spirit"
Ths yield Of corn n Audrsan
coun.y last year was "A bushels Per
acre; in 1910. sc bushels per acre
DO these Yields satsfy you. VIII
they make money for the tanner {
pay of The m~oftsaged Indebtedness
OF Audrsin county iarm. was the ton
.oi ehe Frmen' Institute in this
} oiiy THURSDAY.
j W. N. Lock. a farmer AviEg IN
Audrain county. within three miles
lof Mexico. told how farm manage
/ ment had taken a hold ct Columbia
rlFarmers, Week
a "The results arr Tar greater han
flI had dared hope for IN double he
tlmo. he sid. "slnee farm man
q ageusena has taken a hold, the pain
has become much smoother
al In 1908 The farm produced S4lS.'o.
was before he was visited by
alMr. Doanc The product for 1917
o. when farm management was Just tax
-nling hold. as he said, was 500, and
last year sioes was realised lhls
on 6s acres OF land.
He has done this not by growing
u.lcOrn on every acre Of ground. as
n lts sometimes thought to be the on
way TO maiac money, but BY grow
ling more ieguminous crops, clover
\ cowpeas and soyneAns. Dy sowans
Nlrape on three gcFes of oat stubpf
Hand eowpeas IA i've acres Of corr
Hand 'hogging Il all down. he sol'
Hss5f worth OF hogs which receives
only 500 bushels Of corn. Regardini
this method he said;
II beIieve the cowpeas and rap
Hin these fields were equivalent Q
llau the corn fed.
In forty days. his shoats game
HES pounds each. running on the fci
age and corn
"If You are making good on %
lfarm you are reasonably certain !
Ilbe found on the front scat at II
lInstitute, ready 10 help others
attain success" said Mr.. Jordan
"If you are growing but half u
ulcounty average you are makaI
lyour son poorer at the same time
IF you are not paying the MOI
lgage. or Il you do not own a pie
OF land, would it not be well to
ltend the Farmers Institute whe
all these things can be discussed!
every county has a few men "
lleonsider themselves to well intor
filed to attend an institute. If IN
- should be seen at a farmers ms
ltute they would feel somebody mig
suspect that there Is something u
do not know"
In cooperation with the best !
10 liners Of Missouri the College of
~ riculture is conducting co-opefaf
cxperiments on soils, farm Gro
lfruit growing. dairy and animal ,
: bandry. as with w. NJ. Lock, of
drain.
-@ There are over 3e6 men In
countaes cooperating with the (
%lrral Experiment station at coiun
Hin experiments 10 determine the Z
lmethods Of farming In carry
X Eltorward this work 5000 different ?
aees 81 seeds are used and n
THAN 10000 pounds OF fertilizer
These experiments la already
onstrated that alfalfa can be
~Icessfuliy grown ln every county
Ithe state; that the best y~arietie
or corn for Missouri are Boone 90
white. Reds yellow Dent, J
SON County White and st. Chs
whlte.
The Agricultural Experiment
ton is carrying On Investigation
1s LOCALITIES. representing the d
- lent SON types Of Missouri This
is a part Of the great agricul
survey Of the state. These inv
cations are demonstrating prof.
-methods Of agriculture for each
Healthy.
In Christian County corn J
~Ihave been increased 1s ~ By
per acre and clover 4 and
I ~slfourths tons by the application
suits discovered on the Billing
Experiment. field.
. On the Lamar Experiment
'EA in Southwest Missouri It has
Tlshown that corn may be incr
81 sifrom twenty to forty-five br
n Eper acre. On the same field
" Twas increased twelve bushels
acre.
soil experiments on the exper
- fieId in Northeast Missouri
increased the yield Of wheat