Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1920-04-30
FARM DEPARTMENT.
Conducted by the Farm Bureau.


Conducted by the Farm Bureau.
Now that seed potatoes are scarce
and evidence points toward a rather
short potato crop it will pay to treat
any seed that show signs of scab or
disease. There are several methods of
treating seed potatoes. Perhaps the
most common practice is the use of one
pint of formaldehyde with thi ty gallon
of water. 1t is necessary to soak the
seed about two hours. However. there
is a newer method of treating the seed
in which the formaIdehyde solution is
heated. When this is done it is neces-
sary to soak the the seed only from
two to three minutes. This method
gave good results last year in Mitchell
County.
The second method is the use of four
ounces of corrosive sublimate to thirty
gallon of water. When this is used the
first batch of potatoes should be soaked
l 1-2 hours. The solution can be used
a second and third time but each time
the potatoes should be soaked one
fourth of an hour longer than the pre-
ceeding time. Corrosive sublimate is
poisonous and should be handled with
care. 1t should not be used in metal
containers.
The following are some of the timely
bulletins that can be obtained free at
the farm-bureau office: Spraying Cal
endar. Poultry Diseases. Poultry House
Plans, Wool Marketing. tuberculosis
in Livestock. Control of Abortion in
Cattle, Control of Foul Brood in Bees.
Bookkeeping, Hog-house Plans, etc.
Farm Bureau members are invited to
call for these or any other bulletins
they may desire.
The Pig Club for Howard county
boys and girls should be one of the
things for the Howard County Farm
Bureau to push hard according to the
Board of Directors. This WAS also
enphasized-by Peder Petersen of
county, who spoke att
some of our township meetings here
Boys, are you going to stand by and
let Howard county lose out in the
State Fat Pig Contest this year?|
Girls, are you going to let the boys
think they can feed pigs better than
you? Are you going to let them win
Ill of the prizes? County Agent Mil
lenstein thinks you can feed a pig
Just as we'll as girls in other coun-
lies, who have won some Of the
highest prizes in the state. Any one
from 10 to 10 can join.
Joining the pig club is not such a
hard thing to do If you only make up
your mind to do it. All you need to
DO is to send in your name to the
County Agent and he will send you a
copy of the rules. These rules are
very simple and call for a pig that is
born after February 18th of this year.
You can weigh this pig at any time
during the month of May with some
neighbor or the County Agent as a
Feed this pig for one hun
bred days and then weigh again. A
brief record of the kind of feed used
and the way the work was done
should be kept. The keeping of this
record should be an easy thing for
the boy or girl who goes to school.
Prizes will be awarded to those who
can put the most gain on their pig in
one hundred days and at the same
time keep a good record of what they
have done.
Two years ago one boy started with
a pig that weighed AZ pounds and af-
ter feeding it one hundred days his
pig weighed PSI pounds, and after
feeding it 121 days it weighed 1872
Boys, your pig likes corn,
tankage, and grass just like other
pigs and there is no reason why you
cannot put just as much gain OIL a
pig in one hundred days as anyone
else.
Following are the first ten Toys
and girls to join the Pig club in this
County: Alois J. Svestka, Earl Wal
Ter, Neiley Saul, Mabel Henry, Willis
Henry, Neil Christensen, Linferd Barn.
es, Stanley D. Hooper, Roy Woods,
and Carl T. Lane. Next month this
paper expects to print a complete list
If those who have Joined. Boys and
girls, will your name be on this list?
FARMERS OPPOSE NOLAN BILL
At eleven township meetings held
n Howard county farmers voted