The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1920-05-13
Farm Bureau Notes.

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vision of Mr.. Newton L. Partridge
of the State College, and this orchard
! will be sprayed four times during
| the summer. The past few warm
days has crowded the apple, bios,
probability be too late to apply the
first or cluster bud spray when this
article gets into print. 1t should be
put on before blossoms open up and
not sprayed until blossoms have fall
en- off. Many orchards are affected
by the spring canker worms and care
should be taken 70 make a heavy, ap-'
plication Of lead arse1ate where
they have appeared in previous
years. If you do not have the lime
sulphur to add to the lead arsenate--
by all means spray with the lead
alone-if your orchard is badly in
tested with the spring canker worms;
If you cannot obtain the material
for spray solution for the, first time,
be sure and apply the other three ac-
cording to spray schedule for 3rd.
and 4th. spray and use 6 quarts lime
sulphur instead Of five quarts on
calyx s or 2nd s sEra;nn BE BE- sure ana
This week will witness the plant
| ing of soy beans and corn variety
plots. We are hoping to get some
valuable information from these eX-
periments.
We are unloading two cars of lime
many more before the season is
over. If you would obtain sue
cessful stand of clover or alfalfa
soils are acid.
The boys corn club will get un-
of boys have enrolled for the pro-
ject. There will be some hot COM
petition among. the boys.
We would like to start mems
acre contest, but guess there are no
good growers in the county, or at
least it appears that Way--as none
in such contest.
The Decatur County Bee-keepers
Association will hold county wide
picnic sometime in June at the farm
Of Mr.. S. Il: Duffield, where fine
program will be given and an address
by P Prof F. " p A paddsck M also p 99e
dock is the state apiarist and no man
or woman interested in bees should
miss his address, as some practical
lessons in Bookkeeping will be given
by actual demonstrations on tn; the
hives OF. Mr.. Duffield. Mr.. Atkins,
some practical hints on bees. and
their care and you should plan to
attend. Bring your lunch basket
and the whole family and stay all
! day. w.,
At the meeting of the Fleece Wool
GrowsrS held at the Court w9 H9 1asd ed
| to pool and ship wool of all mem
bers same as we did last year. The
State Bankers Association has rec
commended to all county banks that
they advance from q, per cent up
on all wool consigned by growers a.
the current rate of interest for this
locality. This money will be adj
vanced upon certificates of the one
who is in charge of the loading OF
wool, said certificate to. show the
number of pounds of wool consigned
and actually billed out to the bond
ed wool warehouse. The WOOL SO
held as collateral by the banker who
advances the money. Some may
Object to paying interest on the
money so advanced, but we would
have you remember that il you are
taking over the dealers business SIS
YOU must assume some OF his risks
as we'll. 1t makes no difference
either for if he buys your WOOL WIN
borrowed capitalize just pays you
that much less per pound, and you
had just as. v-"1i paw it out OF one
pocket as the other-it won't hurt
any worse:
the soil from our hillsdes and the
cutting of bitches that divide our
fields into small irregular pieces
constitute the most serious menace
to our agricultural land Sometime
ago the United States Department OF
Agriculture made an estimate that
farms of the United States reaches
the Gulf and the Oceans each year.
If our state loses las of it and De-
catur county 1-99 of that it will mean
six inch layer off of 1920 acres
each year. This does not take into
account the soil that does not reach
the Gulf-that which washes off our
fields onto our neigbors.
The problem of holding onto our
soil and of stopping the bitches is
one that requires care and watch
fulness. The cost of controlling soil
erosion can no longer be charged
against the soil or the field but sub
tracted from the high labor cost of
culuvating badly eroded areas.
The results obtained in many
parts of the state. even in soils that
notable pieces of work are being
done with but small expenditure Of
money and labor leads US to the con-
clusion that erosion can be controll-
ed on Decatur county farms.
A series of meetings have been
called for May II, IS, and 10, in De-
catur county at which time Prof. H.
H. Sunderlin of the Extension De-
partment at Ames will explain the
methods of checking erosion that
have proved successful on Iowa
farms. Mr.. Sunderlin has been
working on this problem with a
large number of farmers for good
many years and he can tell us what
is being done. The meetings will
be held at the following places,
Claude Ramsey farm, one mile west
of Van Vert on May 18th, and at
the ]. w. Walton farm-five miles
southeast of Leon on May 18th.
Everyone who is interested is invit-
ed.