Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1917-05-03
BIG INCREASE IN
|, CORN CROP URGED
Farmers Asked to Devote Large
Acreage to Cereal.
NEEDED FOR MAN AND. BEAST
Secretary Of Agriculture Appeals to
Farmers TO Push Production to
the Llmit--Ten States Picked
for Work.

Washington.-The secretary Of agri-
culture has issued the following state
ment:
Corn is Americas most important
cereal. 1t can be grown successfully
over a wider area than any other, and
furnishes nutritious food for man as
well as the staple grain feed for cattle
and draft animals. The production of
corn should be increased this year to
the fullest extent, taking into consider
alton seed, labor, and existing eco
nomic conditions, and the availability
Of good land in corn-growing regions
not needed more urgently for other
crops. The acreage may we'll be in
creased In most of the country east of
the one hundredth meridian, as corn,
In general, thrives in this region.
An appreciable increase in the corn
crop is most feasible, however, in the
sections of highest corn production.
Favorable growing conditions exist In
such regions; farmers there are famil-
lar with corn growing; they have the
necessary equipment available, and
have adapted corn production to pre-
vailing economic conditions. Farmers
In such regions, through many years Of
experience, have learned methods of
successfully combating adverse condi-
lions. They know that the planting of
vlrile, tested seed in well-tilled, friable
soil, Immediate replanting of missing
hills, and early and continued cultiva-
ton of the fields, count for much in
the ability Of the plants to produce
bOuntiful yield. This knowledge should
be put to good use during the coming
season in order that, however unfavor-
able conditions may be, production of
an exceptionally large crop may be as
sured.
In practically every county in the
country in which experience has shown
that corn may be produced success
fully, the possibilities of increasing the
corn crop without encroaching upon
other important crops is at least wor-
thy of consideration, If land, labor and
seed are available.
Areas Of Maximum Corn Production.
"A
counties in the principal corn-produc-
ing states marks roughly the area in
which efforts to increase the produc-
| ton of corn should be most successful.
| Such list of counties for the ten
leading corn-prOducing states follows.
The states and the counties within
them are named in the order of their
Importance in corn production. AL
| though early paintings have been COM
pleted or are in progress in some of
the counties, late additional paintings
may be advisable in such regions.
| ILLINOIS-Counties: Champaign, Iro-
quois, LaSalle. Livingston, Mclean Blu
| reau, Christian, Edgar, Henry, Lee, Lo-
gan, Macon, Sangamon. Shelby Vermilion,
Dongas, Fayette. Ford. Fulton. Grundy,
| Hancock, Kankakee, Knox, McDonough,
Macoupin, Mason, Mercer, MONTGOMERY,
well, Warren, Whiteside Woodford
| Madison, Marshall, Moultrie. Wayne
White, Greene, Jasper, Jefferson, Kane
! Clark, Clay, Cook, Hamilton, Henderson,
Kendall. Menard Winnebago Cass. Gin
| ton, Crawford, Effingham, Franklin, Rock
Island. st. Clair. Schuyler. Stark. Wash
foWA-Counties: Harrison. Plymouth.
Pottawattamie, Sioux; Woodbury., Adair,
Butler, Calhoun, Carroll. Cass, Cedar
| Cherokee, Clinton, Crawford, Dallas,
| Franklin, Fremont, Greene, Grundy,, Guth-
rie. Hamilton, Hardin, Jasper, Johnson,
Keokuk, Kossuth, Linn, Lyon, Mahaska,
Marshall, Mills: Monona, o'Brien, Page,
Pocahontas, Polk, Poweshiek, Sac, shelby,
Story, Tama, Washington, Webster,
Wright. Audubon Buchanan. Cerro Gordo,
Delaware, Fayette, Ida, Iowa, Madison,
Marion; Montg32mery, Clay Clayton,
| lor. Warren. Wayne.
| NEBRASKA-Countie Custer. Buffalo,
Gage Knox, Lancaster Saunders. Antel-
Clay, Cunning. Dawson, Dixon, Fillmore,
Frontier Furnas Hamilton: Holt. Jeffer-
| son. johnson. Lincoln, Madison. Nuckolls,
| Otoe, Pierce, Platte. Richardson, Saline,
| Seward, Thayer. Wayne. Webster, York,
Adams Burt, Dodge, Franklin. Phelps,
lev, Hall Harlan. Howard. Kearney,
Nance, Nemaha. Pawnee. Sherman, Stan
MIsSoURI-Counties Bates, Nodaway,
Vernon. Atchison Audran. Barton, Gala
way. Carroll Cass. Harrison, Henry.
Johnson. Lafayette. Macon, Monroe Pet
Ray, st. Clair, Andrew, Caldwell Clinton.
| Cooper Davless. Gentry. Greene. Jackson,
Jasper; Knox. Linn, Pike. ,stoddard, Ben
Mississippi, MONTGOMERY, New Madrid
| Polk, Shelby. Sullivan. Adair, Buchanan.
Clark, Clay, Franklin, Grundy. Lawrence,
Scotland, Scott. w" MANS i''''u''p''
INDIANALC,ounties; Benton, Knox,
Madison. Shelby, White. Hamilton, Hend-
rlolSs, Randolph. Rush. Warren. Allen,
| Carroll, Delaware, Fountain, Gibson,
Grant, Henry. Jasper, Laporte. Newton,
| Posey, Sullivan, Wayne. Bartholomew
Cass, Daviess Greene, Hancock, Howard,
Johnson, Kosciusko, Marion, Miami, Nor
gan, Parke Putnam. Upton, Vigo, Wells,
| Adams, Decatur, ElEhart. Fulton, Hunt
| ington, jackson, Lake. Marshall Porter.
Jay. Warrick.