Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1920-08-06
AGRICULTURAL ANO
FARM BUREAU news
Selecting Club to Attend Fair-Yelm
Field Day-SOuth Bay
Notes.

Mr.. Durham, the Boys and Girls
Club leader, is busy arranging for
the selection of the club team to
attend the Southwest Washington
fair. in Lewis county, between Che
halls and Centralia, ON August 27.
There will be one selected from
the garden clubs, one from the potato
clubs, two from the canning clubs,
and probably one from the sewing
and cooking clubs. The contest will
be held for their selection in Olym-
pia, probably at the high school, on
Friday, August 20, at which the win
ners will be picked. The contesting
clubs will be the Collins club, tho
South Bay club. and the clubs Of the
different schools in this city.
The team selected will attend the
fair on the morning of August 81.
accompanied by q chaperone. They,
with the chaperone. will be the
guests of the Southwest Washington
fair during their stay.
County Agent Mr.. Stookey was at
Yelm Tuesday, completing arrange
ments for the Field Day to be held
on the farm of L. N. Goldsmith
August IL. These demonstrat tions
will begin at 2 p. m The county
agent. Mr.. Stookey, Prof.. Leonard
Hegenauer. soils and crop expert Of
the extension department, will be on
hand to explain the experiment and
results.
+ This' demonstration ;;@wAs started
this spring on new prairie soil. 0sta
and vetch were grown on plots
which were unfertilized, and ON plots
fertili1ed with acid phosphate, sui
phate Of potash. nitrate Of soda, ma
nures, complete commercial ferti;-
izer (2-10-2) and sulfur. The crop
on one plot has been plowed under
for green manure. All plots were
given the same treatment except the
fertilization. The crop was irri-
gated.
The crop has been cut and will be
in cocks on the plots where grown.
Each will be labeled, giving treat
ment and yield. You'll be surprised.
Prof. T. H. Schecer, Of the U. S.
Biological Survey. the mole man."
will be on hand to investigate the
work of moles and gophers as to
damaging the irrigation ditches
Prof. Scheffer is the man who taught
Western Washington boys to COM
the moleskin.
NJ. E. McCollom, agronOmist OF
the Western Washington Experiment
Station (the successor of Mr..
Stookey), and probably Supt. w. A.
Linklater will also be there. Repre-
Aspinwall and a good del
egation from Olympia are also ex-
pected.
County agent Stookey spent We'd
nesday out in the South Bay district
last week. He reports the crops
there very fine.
Mr.. Kegley is building a milk
room and sheds for his 80 cows after
the models at the Experiment Sta
ton.
w. H. Lohrer has just built two
new silos to take care of his increas-
ing needs.
Mr.. Stearns has some of the finest
Russian red wheat in the county.
Mr.. Stookey says it ought to rate
very high at the fair. Mr.. Stearns
will exhibit a sample there, also he
has a stool of barley containing ~
culms or stalks, all from one grain,
which he will exhibit.
Mr.. Stookey says that many farm
ers Of the county have stun that IT
they would pick out the best. would
take prizes at the fair, and he urges
them to enter exhibits at the South
west Washington fair. No better
way can be devised to put Thurston
"on the map" than by taking
a few prizes at the fair. Exhibits, II
left at the county agents office. will
be taken down and entered at the
fair.
County Agent stookey has received
an invitation fro mAgent Nystrom OF
King county to assist him with the
soils and crops demonstrations IN
the Snoqualmie valley August 9. He
promises to return the favor later
by assisting Mr.. Stookey along dairy