The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1918-05-23
FARM BUREAU NOTES.
(By T. NJ. Deal, County Agent.)
Buy Correct Seed for Sorghum
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Buy Correct Seed for Sorghum
Those desiring to purchase sorg-
hum seed for syrup production
should tell seed merchants explicit
" when buying that they wish seed
Tor syrup production, says the farm
Early Amber, which is sold under
several different names, is the best
variety to grow in Iowa. as the 9TH
er sweet sOrghums are too late in
maturing for this state.
AS it requires only two pounds of
seed to plant an acre and an acre
syrup, growers should not hesitate
to purchase the best seed available
Make Sorghum Mill at Home.
Some who are intending to con-
serve sugar by growing patch of
sorghum cane for syrup may won
the crop if there happens to be no
sorghum mill near. They need have
no worry from that source, because
the manufacture of sorghum syrup
is a simple process and satisfactory
home made outfit can be devised.
ornan simple s edt type Pc of hand power
rollers may be made for extracting
the juice. A correspondent of Iowa
State College writes that he re-
modelled wornout clothes wringer
with iron rollers for this purpose.
Turned hard wood rollers will also
answer: The skimming and boiling
the stove. Full information regard
ing sorghum cane growing and syrup
making may be obtained from Elmer
gency Leaflet No. 40, published by
the. extension department of Iowa
State College, this bulletin may be
hn IS
flee.
Rarberry Bush Kaiser Alley.
Last week a government special
list was in this county looking after
the Burberry. bush. He found quite
q large number in the city park at
Leon but when the authorities were
notified they soon removed them.
It is claimed by specialists that
the barberry bush harbors one stage
of the wheat rust and for this
reason it should be removed. If it
is not removed within the next week
it will be too late to do any good
mature at Which, time time the ipef CUPS S hold
ing them break open and the spores
will become scattered
There are two types Of barberry
bush, the Japanese and the common
variety. 1t is the common variety
which, Earbors the rust. The Jap
t1ucoc tdl1CIy ID uOI ouoCcpClOlc W
the rust.
Any one having any of the COM
mon variety of barberry bush in
your yard should remove it at once.
If you, are not sure which variety it
is if you will notify the Farm Blu
reau office we shall be glad to iden-
tify it for you.
Membership Campaign to Begin.
The Farm Bureau is planning
membership campaign for the latter
part of this week and the first part
of next week. The current expenses
of the Farm Bureau is met entirely
by membership fee. At present
there are only about two hundred
and twenty members in the organi-
zation. There has been no distinc-
ton made in the services of the
Farm Bureau between members and
non-members and for this reason it
should have the hearty support of
every loyal farmer in the county.
The Farm Bureau was organized
as War Emergency institution and
only for the period of the war if it
receives sufficient support from the
farmers it can be very easily put up
on permanent basis.
!, Some of the counties are employ
ing two County Agents in addition
to woman demonstration during the
summer months.