The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-05-05
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CORHC 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 Limit-Ten States Picked
for Work.

Washfngton-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
ana draft animals. The production of
corn should be increased this year to
me 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-
vailing economic conditions. Farmers
in such regions, through many years of
experience. have learned methods of
successfully combating adverse condi-
tons. They know that the planting of
virile, tested seed in well-tiIled, 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 a
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 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 a 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
pIeted or are in progress in some of
the counties, late additional paintings
may be advisable in such regions.
ILLINoIs-Counties: Champaign, Iro-
Q-ois, LaSalle. Livingston, Mclean, Blu
reau, Christian, Edgar, Henry, Lee, Lo-
viii Adams. Coles, DeKalb. Dewitt,
Donglas. Fayette. Ford. Fulton. Grundy,
Macoupin. Mason, Mercer. Montgomery,
Morgan ogle; Peoria; Pat PIE. Tee
Madison. Marshall. MouItrie. Wayne.
White. Greene. Jasper, Jefferson, Kane,
McHenry. Marion, Stephenson. Carroll,
Kendall, Menard. winnebago. Cass, Clin-
ton, Crawford, dillingham;, 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,
RE Hamilton. Hardin. Jasper. Johnson,
Keokuk, Kossuth, Linn, Lyon, Mahaska.
Marshall. Mills. Monona, O'Brien, Page.
Story. Tama, Washington. Webster,
Wright. Audubon. Buchanan. Cerro Gordo,
Delaware, Fayette, Ida, Iowa, Madison,
Marion; Montgomery, Clay Clayton,
Floyd. Hancock, Henry, Jones, Scott, Tay-
Tor. Warren. Wayne.
NEBRASKA-Countie Custer. Buffalo,
Gage, Knox, Lancaster, Saunders. Antel-
ope. Blaine, Boone. Butler. Cass. Cedar
Clay. Cunning. Dawson. Dixon. Fillmore
Frontier Furnas. Hamilton: Holt. Jeffer-
Otoe. Pierce. Platte. Richardson. Saline
Seward, Thayer. Wayne. Webster, York
adams Burt; Dodge, Franklin, Phelps
S lev. Hall Harlan. Howard. Kearney
Nance, Nemaha, Pawnee. Sherman, Stan
MISSOURI-Counties Bates, Nodaway
Vernon. Atchison. Audrain. Barton, Gala
Johnson. Lafayette. Macon. Monroe, Pet
Ray. st. Clair. Andrew. Caldwell. Clinton
Cooper DavieSs. Gentry, Greene. Jackson
. Jasper. Knox. Linn. Pike. stoddard, Ben
ton. Cedar. Dade. Lincoln Livingston
Mississippi. Montgomery. New Madrid
Polk. Shelby. Sullivan, Adair. Buchanan
Clark. Clay. Franklin. Grundy, Lawrence
Scotland Scott.
acknowledgements: Benton Knox
iMontgomery. TipPecanoe Boone. Clinton
ricixs. Randolph. Rush. Warren, Allen
Carroll, Delaware, Fountain, Gibson
Grant, Henry, Jasper. I-aporte. Newton
yCass. Daviess. Greene. Hancock. Howard
johnson, Kosciusko. Marion, Miami Nor
Adams. Decatur. Elkhart. Fulton Hunt
.ington. Jackson. Lake Marshall Porter
Pulaski, St. Joseph. Spencer, Wabash
Jay. Warrfck.
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