The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1921-07-01
Farm Bureau Notes
Farm Bureau to Have Exhibit at
State Fair.

The St. Francois County Farm Bu-
reau is to have Farm Bureau Exhipit
at the State Fair. Prizes to the
amount of $4,000 are being offered for
these exhibits, ranging from $30o, as
the highest down to $50. Prizes VIII
he giyen on the merits OF the educa-
tional work which the Farm Bureau
Is doing, Also, individual exhibits are
very important and count toward oo-
tanning the prize money:
The committee to work on these ex-
hibits and get the people from the
different communities to collect sam
nles of farm products for the exhipit
ere Mrs. C, C, Schuttler, W. Il. Counts
and will Hinze, working with the two
agentsg Other people from the Local
Communities will be drafted antoetnls
service. A.,
time is short for collecting and prepar-
ING it and to make a credltable snow
ing, every farmer interested In having
a good exhibit at the fair should save
some samples of his crops. DO noS
he afraid that too much material Will
he collected. By having much 70
choose from, the best can be selected
Somnles of wheat, oats, rye, barley III
tbn straw. can be collected now. IL
should be put up in bundles from SIX
tn eight inches in circumference. Bun
dies of alfalfa, red top, blue grass;
timothy, orchard grass. red clover aho m
sweet clover are also wanted. LATER
when the grain is threshed, samples
of 4 can be collected. just before the
exhibits are sent away, samples OF
yogptables and fruits will be collected
Every farmer in st. Francois county
should get behind this and heip pooS'
the county. A few people cannot col
lect samples for the exhibit that VIII
do Justice to the county. so every farm
or is asked to help out in this WORK
The samples can be saved and col
Iected at a central place and mem
her of the Committee notlhed, an
thew will be brought to the Farm bu
raan office and sent to the State Fan
Some of the same material used a
the State Fair can be used in the Com
munity Products Show to be put o
in October and then used in the Cour
tv Exhibits that will be held in con
nection with the Calf Club Round-u
the latter part of October.
Control of Loose Smut in Wheat
A nractical method of applying tn
hot water treatment for the contr'
of loose smut in wheat has been oil
covered by the Field Crops Depar
-ment of the Missouri Experiment st;
tion The hot water method of trea
inc wheat has been known for ion
time. but owing to impractical met
ods of application, it has not bet
available to the average farmer; ~ y
Ethridge and his co-workers OF Tn
department, have made possible u
control not only of loose smut put
sinking smut by little dltfere
principle Of this treatment.
The method was tired out last Ia
There is practically no smut IN he
that was planted from treated see see
There is at least Is per cent lnfecti
in fields that were planted from t
same lot of seed which was untreatt
This does not take account OF I
sinking smut damage.
Recently, while examining fields
wheat for. certification, in st. FRA
co.'s county, rather large percentai
of smut was found. Some flel
would probably run as high as I
cent infection. ts nif
This new discovery will mean
great deal to the farmers Of the cour
Fl they take steps toward using 7
method.
Killing Chinch Bugs with Keroser
That it is worth while to spend SO
time saving the corn crop by spr:
ing is the belief Of ]. schroed
who lives southeast of Farmingt
Mr. Schroeder's corn field was be-
attacked by the bugs coming from
adjoining wheat field. They had