The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1915-01-07
BOY WINS S100 CORN PRIZE
loci Ard: eon of .a-kscn Comfy
Raised Nearly Ninety Bushels
on One Acre.

| on One acre.
A prize of 500, offered by J. J. Helm
for the biggest yield of corn raised on
a Jackson county acre by a Jackson
county boy, was won by Joel Anderson
Of Van Buren, township. Young Ander-
son raised eighty-nine bushels and
thirteen pounds of corn. The contest
was participated in by fifty-eight boys.
Few of them approached the showing
made by Anderson, which Is perhaps
the record for Jackson county. The
result of the contest was announced
by Farm Adviser A. E. lkenberry at
the annual dinner of the Jackson
county farm bureau. Forty agricul-
tural students, including q number
who have taken short courses" at the
University of Missouri, attended.
Anderson will use the 500 to pay
the expenses of six months course
in agriculture at the university agri-
cultural school. He became interest
ed in scientific farming while attend
ing a farmers week" class at the
university last year. On his return
he organized corn-growing contest
of his own in Van Buren, township.
A Missourian. Congressman Hatch,
laid the foundation for scientific ag-
riculture in the United States in 1887,
according to Dean F. B. Mumford of
the agricultural college of the state
university, who was speaker at the
dinner.
THE first bill authorizing federal
agricultural colleges was vetoed as
unconstitutional by President Buchan.
an" said Dean Mumford. THE next
one was signed by President Lincoln
in 1862. But no real progress was
made until in 1887 when the Hatch bill
was passed. authorizing the establish
ment of experiment stations. 1t Is
through these experiment stations
that the best results have been OBJ
tanned. There the agricultural sci
ence developed by the schools is put
into practice"
Coach Allen Sues.-Forest G. Allen.
professor of physical education at the
Warrensburg normal, and coach of the
normal football team, has filed suit
against Drury college of Springfield,
and Emmett l.. Arnold, editor of the
Drury Mirror, the Drury college pub
licatisn, for the sum of $4,000 dam
ages. He alleges defamation of char
acter. This suit has grown out of the
action of the Missouri intercollegiate
Athletic Association at a meeting at
the Coates House in Kansas City on
November rs, when the conference, by
a vote of s to 2. ousted the Warrens-
burg football team from the assOcia-
ton. Charges OF unsportsmanlike
conduct, the use of profane language
and the stealing OF signals were
brought by the conference against the
Warrensburg team and Coach Allen.
St. Joseph Skater Drowned.-While .
skating with companion on Lake
Contrary near St. Joseph, Cleo Myers.
1G years old. broke through thin ice
over channel used by ice harvesters
and was drowned His body was re-
covered fifteen minutes later His
companion, Ivan A. Barnes, saved him
self by falling down.
A cooperative farmers elevator
l,,,t Io ,,1o
Then Mr. Niece hit on plan for an
individual elevator for every farmer,
and the plan has been declared to be
practical and promising.
To Ask Enabling Aet.-The mayor
will ask the legislature to pass an act
giving Kansas City the explicit au-
thority to own and operate a street
railway system or electric light sys.
TEN.
Glasgow Merchant Dead.-W. b. va.
ger, So years old, a merchant of Glas-
gov, died there the other morning.
Wants 81, 5OO,OOO.-The board OF
curators of Missouri University, which
met recently In st. Louisville pre-.
pare a budget which will be submit
ted to the state legislature next
month, asking that body for appropria.
lions for the operating expenses OF
the school for two years. DR.. A. Ross
Hill of Columbia, president of the Uni
versity of Missouri. and member OF
the board, said the board would ask
the legislature for approximately III
million dollars which will pay ex.
penses of the Missouri University and
the Missouri School of Mines at Rolla,
Mo-, for two years. "The budget will
be slightly larger than the budget OF
two years ago." said Doctor Hill.
Saving Wood for Meals.-The hu-
name society of Springfield has estab-