Omaha daily bee., 1921-12-31
Iowa Farmers to
SDiscuss Smaller
Acreage Of Corn
Many Farmers Plan to Return
10 Prcwar Sta,us-Mills
County Acreage 10 Be
Reduced ID Per Cent.

| Glenwood. Ia, Dee 80. tSpccial.)
All the annual meeting Of the Mills
kounty Farm bureau at Malvern
,nday, ID. n. McGrew OF Emerson
discuss the campaign ior corn
cage reduction. Farmers trading
Glenwood say the acreage here
vill be disturbed but little: The large
amount OF pasture ploughed under
during the war and planted to corn
tolrelieve the food shortage, will be
I'D own Some farms will be tenant
lSs. Men who sold their farms and
mNyed 10 town will go back TO the
farm, and get along with little help
and will pasture more land, and the
corn acreage will be reduced by all
visible operating causes Is per cent.
Merchants estimate that to improve
business and to give the farmer some
money to spend after paying his
debts, corn must sell for from 55 to
65 cents. One merchant said, 80
cents would unload a lot OF corn in
this vicinity and help wonderfully
Farmers Holding Corn.
\ York, Neb, Dec. 30.--(Spccial. } -
he farmers of York county are TAX
& notice OF the advice given by N.
Updike, member of the Corn Belt
ivisory committee OF the War FL
luce corporation, to hold the corn
w in crib and to cut down the
ac7taNe for next year unless prices
advance Corn will move here il the
price should reach 40 cents bushel.
A few farmers declare they will hold
for 50 cents. Farmers seem to think
it will not pay TO let the ground lie
idle to cut down the corn acreage.
Plan Small Reductions.
Shenandoah, Ia., Dec. 30.-(Spc-
cial.)-Reducing the Iowa corn acre
age for 1922 will not be adopted uni
ersally by Iowa farmers, but will be
gulated by individual cases of
rmers in this section Of the state.
H-svery farmer will reduce his
a small amount, but as there
!oblem as to what to raise in
of it, there will not be any
acreage reduction.
When farmers reduce their corn
Kcagc considerably they run into
Zhe proposition Of what to cultivate
in the place OF corn" says one Iowa
farmer.
Unless market prices go up there
will be smaller amount OF corn
Aplanted.' says the owner Of many
Fertile Iowa acres,
"As to holding the corn for high
N prices, all farmers are doing it
no have place to store it and
re financially able to wait until the
market improves" says Howard M.
olmes, district representative Of
he ]. H. Tcasdale Commission COM
{pany, who buys from dealers in
Nova, Missouri and Nebraska.
IN my travels over the state |
have found that the majority of
farmers regard the reduction OF corn
acreage in connection with their
crop rotation and will depend on
individual cases says Z. L. Quaifc,
rofessor of animal husbandry at
4bWa State college at Ames. Iowa
lis primarily the corn state and its
principal product shou',l continue to
be the major crop fer Iowa. The
farmers. realize they make their
money on corn in the long run and
will continue to grow corn"
Disagree on Plan.
y 4 ipland, Neb., Dec. 30-(Special.
9he question as to whether farm
sshould plant fewer acres to corn
ut year in the hopes of raising the
flee meets with diversified opinions.
Some think for the farmers to agree
not to plant as large acreage to
\Rrn would mean idle land, for there
other crop they can plant that
sild make them more money. 9th
say what is needed is for the
I'D markets to be opened and
Saght rates reduced. Most farmers
III holding on to part of their
crop hoping to get better prices
pne farmer has three crops of wheat
bins on his farm. Two crops he
build have sold for $3.50 but kept
for $3