The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1918-09-06
WEEKLY NEWS NOTES
(By County Agent Glenn S. Hensley.
St. Francois County to Make Agricul-
tural Display at Sikeston Fair.


tural Display at Sikeston Fair.
The Sikeston Fair Association has
offered 500 in cash to every Farm
Bureau in Southeast Missouri which
makes an agricultural display at their
Fair. The Executive Committee of
the Farm Bureau voted at their reg
ular meeting Tuesday night, to ar
We are all anxious to see St. Francois
county make a splendid showing at
this Fair. To do this we must have
large variety of farm products shown
and they must all be Of good quality.
Believing that our farmers are willing
to help in making this display, which
is really advertising their own farms,
caused the Farm Bureau to undertake
the difficult problem of making this ex-
hibit.
Judge E. E. Swink, Mr.. Lee Roy
Johnson and the County Agent are
helping to collect the material for the
display. State Hospital No. a has
been kind enough to offer their full
cooperation and to allow their gard
ener to arrange the exhibit and to su-
perintcnd putting it up at the Fair.
Now there are a number of different
products of which we would like to
have samples. The Committee on col
Letting material for this exhibit would
appreciate having the farmers notify
them of anything they may have
along garden, horticultural or field
crop lines which would be suitable for
the display and. where possible, to
bring these samples to the Farm Bu-
reau Office with the name of the varie-
ty given.
The following list includes some of
the things which have not yet been
secured for the display: rutabagas,
celery, hubbard squash, crook-neck
and 1-2 dozen ripe cucumbers, yell
low tomatoes, navy beans, all varie-
ties of corn, both gathered from the
stalk and the stalk with the ear still
hanging on, gallon sample of all va
rieties of oats and wheat, cleaned and
ready for display; samples of all kinds
of cloverS and grasses, gathered IN
punches ready for display as well as
hulled samples of seed; all varieties of
cowpeas, soy beans, sorghum, kat
fir corn and broom corn. Samples of
different kinds of apples are also need
ed. In fact, samples Of everything
grown on the farms of st. Francois
county this year should be placed in
this exhibit. We are getting up this
exhibit to boost ST. Francois county.
To do ourselves justice, we are all 60
ing to help boost by bringing in ar
ticles for display. Everything brought
in for display will be returned to this
office after the Fair and may be secur-
ed by the owners. The Fair begins
Sept. 18th; this means that our exhib-
it will have to be prepared right away
and that all samples for display will
have to be brought in just as soon as
possible.
The Wheat and SiIO Campaign.
The Farm Bureau and the County
Council of Defense have been coop
Grating in putting on wheat and silo
icampaign. Five meetings were held
the past week as different community
centers with an average attendance of
81 at each place. The best methods of
sowing and producing wheat crops
were discussed, kinds of fertilizers to
use and the acreage to be sown this
year were also talked about. A sur
vey taken at the meetings held so far
shows that the farmers intend to in
crease their wheat acreage this year.
The use of silos was also talked about
briefly, but since it is so late to con-
struct siloS this year our silo cam
paign work will be carried on over in
to 1919 when special work will be Civ