Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1918-09-11
Delaware County Farm Bureau
County Agents O6lce)
Remember This Is Seed Corn Wet
County Agents O6ice.)

It seems useless to call attention
to saving seed corn this year after
all the worry of last spring But we
have observed that many men will
wait for their corn to get more ma
ture before selecting seed. Don't
wait another day before selecting
seed. Don't wait another day before
( selecting your seed corn, even though
it is not fully matured. II it is dried
properly and stored we'll it will make
good seed corn. We are in the dam
ger zone when a killing freeze is
liable to occur at any time. There
fore we should take no chances. You
will be money ahead to drop every
thing else and take day on for
gathering seed corn. Do not gather
enough for one planting but for two
years supply. Be sure and place the
corn where it will be we'll aired and
protected from sunshine and rain.
This will insure rapid drying with
out danger from climatic conditions.
REMEMBER THIS IS SEED CORN
WEEK.
Delaware County Fair.
The county fair was success in
spite Of the weather conditions and
other features that interfered with It
somewhat.
Visitors were more than pleased
with the wonderful livestock on ex-
hibitiOn as some. of It was good
enough to show at the state fair. In
addition to the large number Of en-
tries in the hog and horse divisions
there was fairly good showing Of
sheep. an industry which we hope
will be pushed more in the future.
The farm products display was not
a. we'll represented as 1t might have
been, however such as were brought
in were worthy of the prizes which
they received. Even the lovers Of the
bird family were we'll pleased at the
poultry show and some very fine
birds were on exhibition. We were
glad to note the interest that was tax
en- by the people who visited the fair.
After reviewing the entries at the
fair 1t might be well to make mem
ton of some of the other factors that
entered into the educational side Of
the fair. For example the soil acidity
testing which was being conducted
at the Farm Bureau booth and which
was supervised by man who could
give great deal of information along
the matter of not only testing soil
for acid, lime soil, use Of fertilizers,
and the handling Of soils in general.
However, we regret that only very
few farmers took advantage of this
opportunity AS far as we know
there were only six samples Of soil
brought in for testing at this fair.
This does not speak well for the farm
ers of our county after the Fair asso-
citation had gone to the expense Of
securing specialists to help them out
with farm problems and to make the
fair an educational one.
The matter of selecting seed corn
early and methods of storing it were
also presented at the Farm Bureau
booth together with the Farmers Ex-
change Board and other things of in
terest. But the percentage of farm
ers who took advantage Of these
things is very small, Again many
men were complaining about the
shortage of labor and the need of
making allowance for farm help but
they failed to take advantage Of the
tractor demonstrations which were
being conducted every day at the fair
grounds. These tractor demonstra-
tons indicated the relative capacity
Of the different machines on exhibi-
ton, the quality of work being done
and those interested had an oppor-
tunity to talk to experts relative to
management of such machines and
what might be expected from them.
Next year is to see a decided short
age of labor and it is time now to
plan for these things. Farm machin-
cry is probably our greatest asset in
overcoming this shortage.