South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-03-24
Indiana County Agent News

b. B. Adams, Parke Co. AT the
lime demonstration meeting at Port
land mills. about 100 men were
present A committee of five men
was appointed 10 inspect with the
county agent local lime deposits
and the ACCESSIBILITY of installing a
lime pulver and report at a meet
ing in the near future"
A 4. Arehart, DeKalb Co: Dur
ing this week seven oats smut and
potato scab demonstrations have
been held with a total attendance of
sos. From this number 56 farmers
have planned to cooperate with the
county agent in the eradication of
oats smut. +. J. Pipal, botany di-
vision of the Purdue extension de-
partment, gave talks and followed
them up with demonstrations. This
made the process and method of
treatment quite clear TO those con-
cerned."
r. A. Chitty. Montgomery Co:
AT a meeting of the board of di-
rectors of the County Corn Grow
ers' association a committee was
appointed to have charge Of the ad-
vertising and printing for the COM
ing year. A rules committee was
also named for next years corn
show, who will name the date, make
out the premium list and report
back 10 the board at the next meet
ing. The board voted TO take over
the five acre corn contest this year"
y,
pared a circular on testing corn by
the rag doll'' method and sent a
tester. with full instructions for us
ing it, to all teachers in the town
ship schools. We hope by this
method TO arouse a greater interest
in testing corn than has ever exist
ed before in the county"
G. Z. Metzger, Elkhart Co: The
first farm loan association in the
county was organized on March
with a membership of IS men and
/ $4,000 was subscribed. \ board of
I directors was elected, a loan COM
mittee appointed and the first set of
/ officers sworn in"
d. 5. Myer, Vanderburg Co: "On
/ March an all-day orchard demon
stration meeting was held in Perry
township. +. II. Beach, horticul-
tural division of the extension de-
partment conducted the demOnstra-
ton work and il was a very en-
thusiastic meeting. OF the % cards
/ handed in by the men attending il
was noted that in all they represent
ed 1915 apple trees, 4,213 peach
trees. 1893 pear trees. Gig cherry
I trees and AS plum trees"
I T. :. McCulloch. Posey Co: "On
March 6 the farmers of Lynn town
/ ship met at Grafton and went from
farm 10 farm with the county agent.
( The purpose of this trip was 10 take
samples of soil in order 20 deter
mine the acidity Of the soil. These
farmers are interested in the lime
I question. During the day % sam
pies were taken from the fields
where clover died last year or from
/ fields that will be sown 10 clover in
/ the next few days In most cases
in the county it has been found that
7 the sub soil is much more acid than
I the top soil. for this reason both
were taken in each case"
! G. r Mcintosh. Greene Co: THE
banquet at Worthington was given
/ by the merchants and the farmers
were their guests. The meeting
from beginning 10 end was prevailed
with the best Of spirit and much
good was accomplished in cement
/ ing the community together and al
so through the talks much light was
thrown upon the field OF opportuni-
ties open TO all in agriculture and
community work"
Y. A. Place, Wabash Co; "Our
/ recent plan OF county organization
I is starting off in good shape. In
/ each OF the seven townships COM
I mittees are being secured on the
subjects Of soil fertility, corn,
I legumes. wheat, oats. livestock and
club work The institute chairmen
are very much interested in this line