Mexico weekly ledger., 1922-07-20

the county court last Friday to ask
for assistance in emg1Oying q Home
Demonstration.
A Home Demonstration has shout
the same place among women that
the county agent has among the
farmers with possibly more work
than the latter. She is an expert
cook, an expert dressmaker, an ex-
pert milliner, an experienced worker
in social organizations besides many
other qualifications. Her. duties
would be to travel from neighborhood
to neighborhood, wherever she is
asked to come in the county, giving
the women folk new ideas in house
keping, suggesting easier and better
methods in dressmaking, hat design
ing, etc., helping organize social at
fairs for entertainment in the various
communities. suggesting new and
perhaps better methods of canning
and preserving, scientific arrangement
of kitchens to make for fewer steps
and less labor together with increased
sanitation. 1T would. be her duty TO
help solve the problems that con-
front themodern housewife and home
maker.-Paris Appeal.
The increasing diftIculty of getting
stand of clover can be overcome.
This great soil builder may once
more take dominant place in Mis-
souri, crop rotations, according to M
F. Miller, Of the Missouri College OF
Agriculture in speaking Of the Clover
and Prosperity Campaign now in pro.
gress in Eastern Missouri. 1t is more
difficult to get stand of clover thar
it used to be. Most farmers know
this, but the reasons are not so clear
Probably the most widespread cause
of clover failure is the gradual de-
creasing fertility of the soil. Most
any soil will grow clover when it is
new. Only few soils will grow
clover readily when they are old
The farmer must find a means of in
creasing the fertility through the USE
Iof manure and phosphates so as t.
improve the chances for clover
stand. Once clover begins to take
hold with regularity it can be grown
with less and less trouble with sue
ceeding years since clover itself is th'
greatest soil building crop nov
known to Missouri farmers.
A second difficulty is that of sol
acidity. Missouri soils are becoming
more generally acid each year. Man!
are so acid at this time that Glove
cannot be grown at all without lin
ing, Where this is the difficulty ther
is nothing else to do but lime tn
soil.
| A third difficulty, which is commo
to some lands, is the lack of prope
drainage. Red clover will grow onl
on we'll drained land. If it is i'm
practicable to drain the land, alsik
clover should be substituted for rec
By far the best plan, however, is
bring about proper soil drainage.
Their are other difficulties, but tn
ones given are the most important
Most of these are more or less unde
the farmers control, and the grea
| Importance of clover as soil build
ing crop warrants eeyry effort tn
farmer can make to grow it.
4 The hog. and pig survey Of tn
United States, as lately taken by th
rural mail reute carriers, shows ne
i increase of 14.5% in the Unite
i States, this coming in the face Of tn
present shortage of meat stocks. TIL
/ following are the facts about Mis-
souri, as shown by this survey: Mis-
souri, has 1851 of the number Of lit
ters Of pigs compared to the frs
half of 1921, an average Of s6.6 pig
saved her litter in the first half o
1921, 6 in the second half of 1921, an
| SO in the first half Of 1922, Tn
total number of pigs saved in tn
first half of 1922 is 1920 Of til
total number saved in the first hal
of 1921. The number of sows bre
or to be bred to farrow in the fall .
1922 is 144.4% as compared TO tn
actual number Of litters in the IA
Of 1921.
4 johnson Bros, Of Audrain count!
Mo-, marketed load of long yearlin
i steers on the st. Louis market Tue:
day, averaging I'LL lbs. at SOL
topping in that class. F. B. Johnso
who accompanied the shipment I
market stated that these were a pal
Of lot Of Angus feeders they pni
chased on the st. Louis market. I'll
cattle were wintered strong and abo'
March / put ON ration of shelle
corn and molasses feed. On Apr
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