The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1921-11-25
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NEWS
tBy Associated Press to The Banncrl

COLUMBUS, O.. Nov. 23-Predic-
tions that potatoes will sell higher
from the farm later on this season
are made in a special report today by
c. j. West, federal crop reporter for
Ohio. A comparison of the yields of
each years crop since 1910, with the
change in price between December
and March suggests higher price
later on, Mr.. West declared.
"This years estimated crop of 345
million bushels is considerably below
the average" the report continued,
land il the experience of the last
eleven years is any indication of what
can be expected this year, the price
in the latter half of the season will
be considerably higher.
Potatoes show the closest relation
of any farm crop between the num-
ber of bushels produced and the price
received by growers. A wheat crop
may be small in this country, yet the
price remains low because of good
crop in foreign countries, but the price
of potatoes depends almost entirely
upon the size of the crop, aside from
influencing factors which affect the
price of everything"
Tests are being carried on with Two
Holsteih junior two-year old heifers Of
the Ohio State University herd, to de-
termine the greatest amount of milk,
with the greatest amount of butterfat
that can be produced. Corwin L..
Knowles, senior in the college of ag-
riculture, is making the tests under
the supervision OF Professor Oscar
Err of the department of dairying.
The two heifers being used are
Hengerveld De Kel Katrina, and Hen
gerveld De Kel Janet. They were put
in top condition before the test was
started. They are MIXED and fed
regularly four times day. The test
will run for ten nays, the best seven
out of the ten days being used in COM
piling results.
TO be eligible into Holstein advanc-
ed registry Katrina must produce 10
pounds, and Janet IA pounds of but
terfat, their weights being 1900 and
1900 pounds.
Samples of European corn borers
have been promoted from Massachu-
sets and have been sent to county
agents in the northern part of the
state, where they will be displayed to
farmers as an aid Ia the recognition
'of the pest. "'~ N"'''-
That the pest already has ravaged
seriously Canadian cornfeld, just
across the lake from Ohio, should
cause real alarm to Ohio farmers, 4.
II. Parks, extension entomologist at
Ohio State University declared.
The San Jose scale disease is fair.
ly we'll under control throughout Ohio
this year, according to II. e. Evans,
state nursery and orchard inspector
of the Southwestern Ohio District
Many regions which were badly in
tested few years ago now are en-
tirely free from scale, Evans said. I'm
tiring efforts of nursery men have re-
suited in eliminating the disease, he
declared. All infested nursery stock
is fumigated with hydrocyanic acid
gas and spraying is resorted to only
on the orchard itself, but also on ad-
jacent trees.
Demonstrations of spraying by the
extension department of Ohio State
University has been big factor in
teaching the nursery men the correct
methods of spraying, Evans said.
Hancock county has the best yield
of corn of any of the western counties,
figures in the Office of c. J. West, fed.
eral crop reporter for Ohio, show. The
quality, however, Is somewhat lower.
West estimates the yield at A bush.
els an, acre, with "A per cent of 1t of
merchantile quality.
The potato yield in Clinton county
is one of the poorest in the state
West said. 1t will average 25 bushels
an acre, and only Madison and Pauld
ing counties have lower yields. The
corn yiold in Clinton county is not as
good as that in the eastern counties
The white grub worm, West. said, has
been a factor reducing the corn yield
which will average 80 bushels an acre
Ohio's forests will develope into
pasture land with the trees acting as
shade trees, unless farmers let up on
the continuous pasturing of animals
declares Professor Norman Il. Scher
er, forestry expert at Ohio State Uni
versity. The animals not only injurt
] IL.