The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1917-03-23

Considerable interest was shown by
the farmers of Libertyville communit,
in the orchard pruning demonstration
which was conducted on the farm O.
j. S. Graham last Wednesday. Spray
ing demonstrations will follow and thu
orchard will be cared for Throughout
the season in a practical and scienti
fic way. All of the work done in the
orchard will be done as demonstration
work, and anyone who cares to at
tend will be welcome. Dates for these
demonstrations will be published later
A meeting was held at the indie.
pendence school Thursday of last
week. The boys were shown methods
for testing seed corn and soybeans
for termination. Mr.. Chris Menge
the local boys club leader of that
community, is consolidating three
school districts into the Boys Corn
Growing Club and Boys Dairy Calf
Club. The club work is coming along
nicely.
Miss Bah Bell, specialist in Home
Economics of the Missouri Agricul-
tural College, will spend six days in
st. Francois county the first week in
April. Miss Bell will give lectures
ana demonstrations to the ladies on
home economic problems. Miss Bell
is quite well known lecturer on these
subjects, having been with the State
Board of Agriculture for some time
before taking up her present work
with the Missouri Extension Depart
ment. Most of Miss Bells time in the
county has already been dated, but it
will probably be possible for few
more communities to get her servic-
es for an hours lecture if you will act
Immediately and get in touch with
me at the Farm Bureau office. If
there are any rural school teachers
in the county who think there will be
sufficient interest among the women
of your community to justify an hour
of Miss Bells time, | shall be glad for
you to take the matter up with me
at once.
The U. S. Weather Bureau, during
the crop seasons, furnishes special |
weather warning services and infor-
nation to growers of corn, wheat, !
rice, sugar, tobacco, alfalfa, apples,
pears, peaches, grapes, and cranber-
ries. The frost warnings also are of
great value to growers of truck and
other delicate crops.
Makes $104 in Month on Eggs.
H. F. Farnsworth of Blairstown,
learns production theory from bulle-
tin.
The reading of bulletin and put
ting into practice its advice has CIV
en- II. +. Farnsworth, a cattle breeder
OF Blairstown, Mo-, all the eggs he
wanted all the time and in one month
made a profit for him of $104. He
has 800 White Leghorn hens which
lay from eleven to thirteen dozen eggs
daily and bring him more than his
livestock. The bulletin was one writ
zen by Prof, H. l.. Kempster of the
College of Agriculture of the Univer-
iity of Missouri on Feeding for Egg
Production"
Boys and Girls Club Work. What Is
It?-COmmOn Sense.
By o. II. Benson, Boys and Girls
Club Leader, U. S. Department of :
Agricultural
A farmer boy works ten hours :
lay, plows and cultivates the earth,
cells no sense of ownership, has Q
either heart nor head interest in his ,
work.. That's drudgery. ra
A farmer boy gets up early in the !;
morning, works all day, has no part l.
ership with his father, no chance of !,
ecreation, is denied club fellowship, !.
as no ownership in crops and ami !
halls such as corn, baby beefs, pigs, =
+ poultry. That's tough.
A club member takes a few grains q
seed, manages them through soil, =
nvlronment, insect and plant diseas- !,
5, and produces vegetables, nets pro- !,
is that win the prize at the club fes- q
val or the State Fair. That's skill. l. l.
A club leader writes few pages of y
lstruction on worthless pieces of pa q
err, puts them into the hands of a :,
ub boy, and thus guides him to a ~
ls'ness profit of $50 in a single sea- ~
IN. That's good investment. +
A club member may take an idle :
lece of soil, invest it with 30 cents [
orth of seed, dollars worth of fer II
lizer, and a few hours of brain and d !,
rawn, and make a profit of $3.50. =
hats capital born of achievement. =
Fathers and mothers maintain ac- I"
We membership in lodges, clubs, as :.
'ciations, societies, guilds, smokers, !.
nd unions, but fail to see the need of y y
lcouraging club work for boys and :,
iris. That's unfair. ~ ~
To give boys and girls manly and y
omanly jobs, membership in a club :.
their own, feeling of ownership, u i
n opportunity to do things, a real Il Il
otive for study and achievement. =
cling of liability; in short, coop !,
'ative interest in the whole business II
home making and farming. That's .,
mmon sense. " ~
Corn Makes Best SiIage Crop. n,
The first service of silo is to pro 4,
de a means of storing and utilizing n,
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