Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1921-12-22
FARM BUREAU WORK
Work Accomplished by the County
Agent and Fulton County Farm
Bureau During the Year 1921

I Membership campaign con-
Quoted by Ohio Farm Bureau Fedora
tion and Fulton County Farm Bureau
in which twelve hundred farmers
|signed up for membership in the
County Farm Bureau for three years
at Ten Dollars per year.
u Programs of work adopted by
each of the twelve township farm
bureaus in which from four to eight
definite pieces of work were planned,
definite goals set and definite per-
sons made responsible.
III Eighty two project lead
ers engaged in the different town
ships in seeing that the projects
planned were carried out.
Soil Improvement
" One hundred and twenty six
farmers bought one hundred and sixty
eight tons of fertilizer thru the Farm
Bureau.
V Sixty-fve tests were made
for soil acidity.
VI Eleven farmers used one
hundred tons of limestone to correct
the acidity Of their soil.
VII Seven soil demonstration
fields were located in different town
ships on which definite system of
soil building will be undertaken by
the owner in cooperation with the
Fulton County Farm Bureau and the
State Soils Department.
Farm Crops
VIII Ninety per cent of the
farmers Of the County observed the
"Fly-Free" date for sowing wheat,
thereby greatly reducing the infesta-
ton of the Hessian Fly.
TX One demonstration given in
treating wheat for loose smut, and
one on treating oats for smut.
x Seven farmers sowed fifty
five acres of sweet clover.
XII Ninety-four farmers sowed
five hundred and ninety-fve acres of
soy beans in corn for ensilage and
for hogging down.
XII Ninety farmers sOwed Glad
den or Trumbull wheat.
XIII Seven farmers were given
assistance in making tar barrier to
keep the chinch bugs out of the corn.
And many more farmers were given
the information so that they could
build the tar line without assistance.
XIV Five car loads OF corn con-
tanning about four thousand bushels
were donated by the farmers of the
County to the starving of Europe.
Livestock
XV-Seventy poultry culling de-
monstrations held in the different
townships attended by eleven hundred
and twelve people who owned forty
five thousand five hundred and twenty
eight hens.
XVI Twelve meetings held, one
in each township, on Matching and
rearing chicks, and the same number
on feeding for winter eggs.
XVII Twenty-six poultry de-
monstration farms established where
careful records will be kept on pro-
duction, receipts and expenses and
feeding and management carried on
as near as possible according to re-
concentrations of the State Poultry
Department
XVIII- Duroc Jersey Swine As
sociation organized with twenty-one
members.
XIX Sixteen poultry, pig and
calf clubs organized, with one hun
dred and one members, eighty six of
whom exhibited at the County Fair.
Farm Management
TX Two farm accounting schools
held and twenty-six farmers agreed
to keep farm accounts for the year,
in books supplied.
Marketing
XXI-Fulton Livestock Shipping
Association was organized and did
seventy thousand dollars worth of
business between April and December
first. 1t is estimated that the farm
ers of the County have been saved
Five Thousand Dollars, due to the
Closer. margin upon which livestock
has been handled by the shipping and
local buyers.
XIII One carload of wool con-
.sisting Of sixteen thousand six hun
dred pounds pooled with the State
Wool Growers Association.
XXIII- The Northwestern Co
operative Sales Company organized
two years ago thru the efforts of the
Fulton County Farm Bureau has done
about five hundred thousand dollars
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