Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1921-11-17
AGRICULTURAL NEWS NOTES
Boys and Girls at Club Week

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gan county. left on the morning
train for Columbus last Monday.
They joined the Washington county
group of forty boys and girls who
| were on board a special through car
from Marietta to Columbus. Those
going from Morgan county were !:
Grace Campbell and Anna Macklem,
Bristol township; Nora Scott, Deer
field township; Estell Bailey, Malta
township; Clifford Greathouse, Penn
township; Wilbur Morris, Windsor
township; and Thomas Curran,
Meigsville township.
Program for Management Schools
The program for the management
schools at McConnelsville and Ches-
terhill has been arranged as follows:
Forenoon (1st session - 9:30-
9:45-Discussion of farm accounts
| (taking up methods and essentially
9:45-10:45-L Laboratory work in
farm accounts each man enters in
| a farm account book years record
for farm typical of county,. 10:45-
11:30-(D Laboratory Summary
of record and calculation of net in
come; (2) Report the income tax
| discussion on advantages of the
various methods of reporting).
Afternoon cd SESSION. y 1900
1:15-Discussion, "Do all farmers
make the same income?" 1:15-
3:O0-Are the insects and weather
responsible for the variations in
farm incomes? Laboratory and
blackboard discussion of factors af-
fecting farm profits in this locality. i.
3:O0-3: 30-Do farmers in this Sec
ton of Ohio pay fair dividend on
the investment? discussion of
wages made by farmers, returns on
investments, value of materials con-
tributed by the farm to the family
living, etc.
Deaver Farmers Institute
The Farmers Institutes conducted
by the o. S. u. Extension Depart
ment are being held this week at
Deavertown, Mountville, and Ches-
terhill. These are two day Institutes
of five sessions each The Deaver-
town institute held Monday and
Tuesday had an average attend
ance of rs at the five sessions. The
speakers are Mr.. Clyde Dickinson,
Noble county, and Mrs. Pierce of
Hamilton county, and County Agent
r. E. Helt. A complete report of
week.
Dress Form Demonstration
A dress form demonstration ~yas
held at the home of Mrs. Combs of
Manchester township by Mrs. Mar
garet Curran on Thursday, Nov. 10.
A local Farm v-omen's club organi-
zation was completed at this time.
Arrange One Day Dairying Schools
A dairy feeding campaign compar-
able in purpose and method to tho
:ulling campaign of last summer is
eing launche by the Department of
I)airying of the o. S. u.
Dairy Extension Specialists from
The university are going into various
quarters of the state this week,
holding district meetings of County
Agents, and helping them work out
a uniform method for carrying on
community dairy feeding schools in
their home counties this winter.
These will be one day schools
held by the county agents in rural
school houses, farm houses, or halls.
They will be open to anyone who en-
cages to bring in record sheets
showing how much each COW of the
home herd has given over a period
OF at least week, and who agrees
also to tabulate the number of
pounds of different feeds fed each
week.
With this data, the county agent
will lead the group in picking out
from their herds, cows which prob
ably are not paying their board, and
in working out balanced rations with
and of total nutrients.
The plan is not to extend this
work to every township of the coun-
ty, but to pick out the two showing
most interest in modern dairy meth
DDS, and to hold two schools in
each such township.
Cooperative Livestock Marketing
A recent bulletin from the Ohio
experiment station submits the fol-
lowing facts and figures regarding
the marketing of hogs:
by marketing their hogs cooper
atively through the Paulding Coun-
ty Livestock Company, Farm Bu-
reau organization, the Paulding Co. |
experiment farm was able to reduce |
the selling cost per 100 lbs. of |
hogs to 70 cents
This represents selling expense.
including freight to Cleveland, a dis |
tance of 155 miles, weighing, and |
Usually the cost of |
marketing is from $125 to $3.50 per
100 lbs.
Twenty hogs when loaded at the |
Paulding farm weighed 4,O15 lbs:
after four mile wagon haul, they |
weighed 1865 lbs, and at Cleve- |
land, $3.50 lbs.
The hogs brought $3.50 per hun
dred pounds on the Cleveland mar
ket. The selling expense amounted |
to s31.28 for the lot"
Morgan county has a Cooperative
Livestock Shipping Company. which |
handles all classes of livestock at |
actual marketing costs to the pro-
ducer. A recent report of a carload /
shipped by Mr.. H. r. Bozman, Man |
ager, states that the cost of market |
Ing cattle per cwt., was ~ cents. |
exclusive of shrinkage.
Meeting on Schedule
Tuesday, Nov. 22-Farm manage !
ment school at McConnelsville, all |
day. Wednesday. Nov. 23-Farm
management school at ChesterhfII.
all day Friday. Nov. 25-Neely-
vile Grange Fair.
Reception at Oberlin
Business College
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