Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-01-08
IMPROVED METHODS NECESSARY
TO MAKE MONEY ON HIGH
PRICED LAND.
GEORGE M. ALLEE SHOWS
BENEFITS OF EXPERIMENT
President Of Iowa Agricultural Expert
msnt Association Delivers Address TO
Members Reports For Year 1913
Shows Benefits Derived From Expsr-
imsntaI Work in Iowa.

Special to Times-Republican.
Z Ames. Jan. S.-"Haphazard methods
in farming in Iowa are no longer pos
stble If the farmer is to make money
on his high priced land declared
George NJ. Alice. Of Newell, Iowa, presi-
dent OF the Iowa Agricultural Expert
ment Association, before the members
of the association at their annual
meeting at Iowa State College. by
experiment and study, the iowa farmer
must learn what varieties Of grains or
corn will bring the highest yields on
his farm, and what methods will insure
permanent returns"
Reports 6or the year 1913 Of this
one of the newest Of agricultural as
sociations in this state showed that 800
Iowa farmers were In definite coop
Grafton with the state experiment sta
ton in the growing of the improved
varieties of corn and grain on acre
plots to discover the best kinds for
each part of the state. These farmers
planted seed sent out by the college
cared for the crop according to specific
directions. and made accurate reports
of the yields. The report Of Direc-
tor j. Buchanan Of the association
showed soma valuable results. 1t was
found in tests in fourteen counties that
lime and incubation have marked in
crease in the yields Of alfalfa per acre
iowa 103" a new variety Of oats de-
veloped by the station gave an aver
age increase Of more than two and a
half bushels per acre over the best
home varieties. The 900 cooperative
plots. which were located in ninety
seven out of the ninty-nine counties
were visited on an average by twenty
farmers, which made a total of $4,000
farmers brought into direct contact
with these beneficial experiments.
Marked Oats Yield Increase.
The most striking results secured by
any one experimenter was in Louisa
county where F. e.. Jamison, Of Oak
vile. reported a yield Of seventy seven
bushels per acre for Iowa 103" oats.
against forty-eight bushels for the
home variety. "And the farmers Of our
neighborhood laughed at the college
bred oats when they first came up"
said Jamison, "they stopped laughing
when they saw the record at thresh-
ing time"
C. P. Norgard. Of Madison. Wis, told
Of the work Of the Wisconsin expert
ment association. There 1000 farmers
in practically every township in the
state are members Of the association
and are engaged in growing pure bred
varieties Of corn and grain.
Tn Wisconsin, we raise on an avers
age Of forty-four bushels Of corn to
the acre, the direct result Of the wide
spread introduction Of improved seed."
said he. "The barley yield Of the
state has been Increased by 2.00O.-
900 bushels per year. Wisconsin has
become a great seed producing center
by the development Of the cooperative
experiment association work"
Association Elects Officers.
Plans for increasing the membership
of the association were adopted at the
business session, and the experiments
for the next year were. outlined. OFF,
GERS were elected as follows: President,
George M. Alice, Newell: vice pres1-
dent, E. r. Trites, Oakville: secretary
and director, ]. Buchanan, Ames;
treasurer. w. II. Stevenson, Ames: di-
rectors. F. B. Hanson, Inwood: E. r.
Maudsley. Burt: F. c. Tracy, Nashua:
H E Brown. Salix; NJ. 8. Nelson,
Goldfeld; H. A. Mccaffree. GAINESVILLE:
c. w. Hunt. Logan; M. A Hauser, LIS
comb; F. ID. Steen, West Liberty:
Frank Sar. Essex; Fred wooley, Car
den Grove; and F. e. Jamison. Oak
vile.