The Jasper news. [volume] (Jasper, Missouri) 1898-1924, 1917-04-26
Farmers Asked to Devote Large
Acreage to Cereal.
NEEDED FOR MAN AND BEAST
Secretary Of Agriculture Appeals to
Farmers to Push Production to
the Limit-1'en States Picked
for Work.


Corn Is Americas most important
cereal. 1t can be grown successfully
over 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 well be in
creased in most of the country east of
the one hundredth meridian, as corn,
in general, thrives in this region.
An appreciate 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-
vaillng economic conditions. Farmers
in such regions, through many years of
experience, have learned methods of
successfully combating adverse condl-
lions. They know that the planting of
virile, 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 he, 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 he 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 list of the leading corn-producing
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 compromising 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
lnN oIl YN1o pfi In nc
may be advisable in such regions.
1LL1No1s-countiA: Champaign, 1ro-
quois, LaSalle, livingston, Mclean. Blu
| reau, Christian, Edgar, Henry. Lee, Lo-
gSn Macon sangsm5on Sneki6yb VeTmilHn
Douglas, Fayette, Ford. Fulton, Grundy,
Hancock. Kankakee, Knox. McDonough,
s,acoupin, Mason. Mercer; Montgomery,
Well Warren, Whiteside, Woodford,
Madison Marshall, Moultrie, Wayne,
MaMr Gresn aSPsr Kana
Kendall, Menard, winnebago. Cass, Clin-
ton. CRAWFORD. birmingham. Franklin; Rock
| Island. st. Clair, Schuyler. Stark, wash
foWAzcounties; Harrison, Plymouth,
seuf Roone BSeSa Nsa
Butler, Calhoun, Carroll, ,Cass, Cedar,
Cherokee, Clinton, Crawford, Dallas,
Erankiin F1em9nt; G Greene, Grrndy nb Gs6h
Keokuk, Kossuth, Linn, Lyon. Mahaska,
Marshall, Mills, Monona; o'Brien. Page
Pocahontas, Polk Poweeshiek, Sac; Shelby
Wright, Audubon, buchanan. Cerro Gordo
Delaware, Fayette, Ida, Iowa. Madison
Marion; Montgqmery. Clay Clayton
BRAsKA-Counties: Custer, Buffalo
Gage, Knox, Lancaster, Saunders. Antel'
| lat
Clay. Cunning, Dawson, Dixon, Fillmore
Frontier Furnas, Hamilton. Holt, Jeffer-
son, Johnson. Lincoln Madison, Nuckolls
otoe, Pierce. Platte. Richardson, Saline
Adams Burt, Dodge, Franklin, Phelps
Polk, Redwiiow, Thurston. Valley, Gree
lev. Hall, Harlan, Howsrd.. keaTney
MIssoURI-Counties Bates Nodaway
Vernon: Atchison. Audrain, Barton, Gala
johnson, Lafayette. Macon, Monroe. Pet
tbs, Saline, Boone, Charlton, Dekalb. Holt
Ray. st. Clair, Andrew. Caldwell, Clinton
Jasper. Knox. Linn. Pike, .stoddard. Ben
ton, Cedar. Dade, lincoln, Livingston
mississippi Montgomery, New Madrid
Clark, Clay, Franklin. Grundy. Lawrence
Lewis, Mercer, Newton, Rails. Randolph
Scotland. Scott.
MONTGOMERY. Tippecanoe. Boone, Clinton
Madison. Shelby, White. Hamilton, Hend
ricks, Randolph. Rush; Warren. Allen
Grant, Henry. Jasper, Lapgrte, Newton
Cass, Daviess, Greene Hancock, Howard
JohnsSn RO9sgSsS M TrOn Menu WIsn Nor
Adams, Decatur Elkhart. Fulton. Hunt
ington. Jackson. Lake. Marshall. Porter
PULASKI. 81 Joseph, Spencer. Wabash
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