The Monett times., 1921-08-19
NEWS LETTER LAWRENCE
COUNTY FARM BUREAU
l.. L. Hunt, County Agent.
Meeting at Experiment Field.

will be held at the Experiment field,
one mile east of Newtonia, on August
81, for the farmers of Lawrence and
adjoining counties. This meeting will
be held at the Missouri Agricultural
Experiment Station, and specialists
will be there to explain the work being
done in silos and field crops.
The big event of the day will be
an address by Dean Mumford of the
Missouri Experiment Station. w. C.
Ethridge, and c. E. Carter will talk
en- the rotation of corn, soy beans,
wheat and clover, and results obtained
from treatment with manure, ferti-
lizer, lime and straw. P. F. Schowen-
gerdt and O. B. Price will speak on
field crops, especially corn, sorghum,
soy beans, COW peas, alfalfa and clover
This will be an excellent opportunity
for the farmers in Lawrence county to
get the latest experimental results
and results obtained on soils that are
similar to our soils here.
Poultry Culling.
Everyone interested in picking out
the non-laying hens, the ones that are
not paying for their feed, are invited
to attend any or all of the Poultry
Culling demonstrations that will be
held at the following places.
August %.
Theodore Doss, Freistatt, $3.50 a. m.
Frank Bracht, Freistatt, 200 p. m.
August "a.
o. B. Porter, Halltown, $50 a. m.
w. R. Hutchinson, Halltown, 2 p. m.
August 25
Walter Griffith, Red Oak, $50 a. m.
Mrs. E. A. Sturdy, Red Oak 1890
a. m.
Hiram Charles, Red Oak, 2:30 p. m.
August 26.
R. NJ. Crumley, Monett, $50 a. m. |
Meetings will be held in other COM
munities the following week.
Limestone Pulverizers Will Compete.
Arrangements are being made to
have a number of companies send
limestone crushers and pulverizers to
the county for competitive limestone
demonstration. Machines
entered in the meet will be of the
smaller sizes suitable for individual,
or township use. This
will be an excellent opportunity for
the men interested in limestone to
see the machines at work, compare
the different makes, and find out the
grinding cost per ton. Professor
Schoengerdt the limestone expert
from the State Experiment Station
will be present to give short talk on
the value of limestone and what
other counties are doing with the local
The date is Saturday
3rd. Full program will be
next week.
Fertilizer for Wheat. |
The question Of what fertilizers to
use on wheat in Lawrence county is
very important at the present time.
With finances tight and the prices
of grain low it is necessary that we
get the most for our money. This
can be done by studying fertilizers
and our soil needs. |
The value of commercial fertilizer
is determined by the amount of
available plant food it contains.
Such names as "Wheat and Corn
Grower" "Early Harvest" "Gro-
fast" ETC., mean nothing but are
simply catchy expressions to aid IN
selling. The important thing is the
of plant food that is shown
by the chemical analysis, which the
law requires to be put on every sack.
Some companies are telling big
stories about the kind of filler they
use. This does not interest us as we
are buying soil fertility and not filler.
A high grade fertilizer contains no
filler. A ton of some Of our low grade
fertilizer contains as much as 800
pounds of sand, limestone, manure, or
other kinds of filler.
A large part of Lawrence county
soils need nitrogen and phosphates
more than anything else. Potassium
is present in sufficient quantities on
most farms. On any except our
poorest soils, nitrogen is too expen-
sive to buy. When we consider that
rs bushel crop of wheat takes from
the soil about IS pounds of nitrogen,
we can readily see that we cannot
buy it in such quantities but must