Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1921-11-24
AGRICULTURAL NEWS NOTES
Executive Committee Meets

weather kept many from attending
the meeting. Action was taken by the
committee to bear one-fourth of the
expense of sending District Director
G. F. Hesler to Atlanta, Ca, to the
meeting of the American Farm Bu-
reau Federation on Nov 21-23. In
view of the fact that the farm bureau
year will close Jan. /, and that it is
necessary to have complete reor-
ganization of the different township
units before the annual meeting in
January, it was decided that SER
les of organization meetings should
be held in every township beginning
Nov. 20, and continuing throughout
the week following. The county
agent will be present at these meet.
ings and written notices will be sent
to- all members. Everybody, in
Guiding families and neighbors, is
urged to attend.
Farmers Institute
The Farmers Institutes at Mount
vile, Deavertown and Centerville
the past week were a decided sue
cess, considering weather and roads
These institutes were scheduled early
in order that bad roads might not
keep people away. However, con.
sidering the crowds that gathered
to hear the speakers, there is suffi-
cient evidence that Morgan county
farmers can attend these meetings
in spite of roads and weather.
The speakers were Mrs. Thomas
Pearce of Hamilton county, and J
G. Dickinson, Noble county, R. E
Helt, County Agent, and j. S. Taylor
county school attendance officer. F
A. Davis, county school superinten-
dent, also spoke at the Mountville
institute.
Subjects discussed were alons
lines of community development
schools, livestock and soil improve
ment. Schools were dismissed a.
each place for a special school ses
sion Music was furnished by loca
talent in each place. At Deavertowr
and Mountville, exhibits of'farm pro
ducts and of school and home, were
on display.
Average attendance for the five
sessions of these institutes was:
Deavertown, 115; Mountville, 100;
Centerville, rs. Institutes will be
HClo dt thCOc pIetCCo HCAI year
either independently or through aid
of the state
Clothing Club
Homer township will now be rep.
resented as having begun organized
club work; 20 girls have been en-
rolled and organized into a clothing
club. Miss Hazel Lowell, teacher
Mountville high school, will be lead
er of this club. Officers are: Ivyl
| Price, Glouster, president; Frances
Triplett, Sharpsburg, sec'y; Beatrice
Wogan, Sharpsburg, vice-president.
Ohio Third in Purebred Drive
Though many farmers who prom.
| ised last summer to fill out stock
census sheet and to enroll Officially
in the federal "purebred sires" move
ment have yet to do so, 710 have
enrolled to date and this places Ohio
third in the national contest.
So announce specialists in animal
husbandry of Ohio State university
conducting work in this state. Latest
available reports from Washington
show Virginia leading with 1,509 en-
rolled, and Nebraska second with
S92 farmers who have pledged never
again to have on their farms scrub
sire, bird or beast, and who have
filled out a stock census sheet and re-
ceived certificate from Washington.
Ohio had, however, the three prize
counties of the nation for the quarter
ending Sept /. Belmont, Hardin
and Licking counties secured enough
pledges in the statewide summer
drive to attain such distinction, but
their farmers have still to clinch
this proposition by coming through
with filled out census sheets, say Of
ficials compiling the Ohio results.
Hardin county now leads the state
with 1875 official enrollments and
Belmont is second with 83, then
comes Washington with II, Licking g
43, and Coshocton 40. Through
follow-up of all the 100 Ohio farm
ers who promised to enroll, it is
hoped to put the Buckeye State first
among the "A competing for the
largest number of scrub-free farms.
Six Ohio Counties Unfit to Farm
"Soil acidity follows as specter in
the wake of agriculture. In the last
40 years there has been withdrawn
from cultivation in Eastern Ohio
alone farmland equal in area to six
average Ohio counties, this because
the land has become so sour that it
can not be farmed profitably in COM
petition with newer lands farther
west"
"The reason cultivated soil be-
comes acid has not yet been definite
ly determined" adds Robert NJ. Sal
ter, soils specialist of Ohio State uni-
versity, in a pamphlet on "Soil Acid
ity." to be issued Dec. /, by the uni
versity. "The results however, are
only too apparent, and must be met
by every means now known to be nf-
fective."
"a ton of lime to every Ohio acre
every four or five years is needed
simply to replace soil bases washed
away under cultivation. Analysis or
river water at Dayton and Zanes-
Vile shows the Miami carrying away
each year total of 5S8 pounds of
soil bases from every acre it drains,
and the Muskingum carrying away
406 pounds from every such acre."
Professor Salter also mentions re-
cent experiments indicating that soil
acids dissolve aluminium, which
metal thus is made free to enter
and to poison plants, and remarks
that "Connor of Indiana finds less
metallic poisoning in soils well stock
ed with soluble phosphates, and
marked indications show that lime
stone and acid phosphate do MOI e
to correct the effects of soil acids
than limestone alone"
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Meeting of the Coterie
The Coterie met at the home of