The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1922-04-07
Farm Bureau Notes
Buy Pure-Breds Now.


Of grades than they have been any
time in recent years, now is q mosi
logical time for farmers to replace
their grades, and for small breeders
to advance to the ranks Of the produc-
ers of the highest class of live stock
The weekly reports Of sales ap-
pearing in the agricultural and mar
ket press carry innumerable stories
Of vast opportunities for the live stock
man. When good pure-bred cows
bring 500 per head.-when bulls OF
herd-bull character sell for. $3.50 and
many times. less--when the best boars
fail to reach the $50 mark-the sign
of the times reads BUY"
Missouri breeders are staggering
under a heavy load made heavier by
the period of imitation and the subse-
uuent period of ~deflation through
which the country has just passed
according to Live Stock Deputy Mar
ketinr Commissioner S. 7. Simpson
of the Missouri State Marketing Bu-
reau.
Those who used good judgment in
making purchases are today finding
a market at reasonable price. Those
who bought Unfortunately, without
regard for individuality, find no mar
ket beyond meat prices. This condi-
tion should be lesson to the man who
has bought and the man who is think
jng Of buying pure-bred live stock,
Pure-breds of any breed, carrying
the blood of producing families, and
Of modern individuality. bought at
present prices, will make money for
the man who will take them and give
them reasonable care.
Too Late to Sow Oats, But Soybeans
Planted Later Supply Good
Substitute.
MANY farmers who realize Ii is now
too late to sow oats will be interested
in the results Of experiments with soy
beans as substitute crop at the Mis-
souri Agricultural Experiment Sta
ton. These results, according to G,
r. Carter, extension specialist, in field
crops, indicate that soybeans are the
only substitute for oats worth consid-
ering.
The experiments of several years
have shown that soybeans planted on
early plowed, cleanly cultivated land,
may be depended upon to yield ! IL
tons an acre of hay equal to alfalfa in
feeding value. They should be plant
ed in rows with corn planter at the
rate of 20 pounds to the acre.
There are two important don't to be
remembered in growing soyheans
Don't plant them too early, and don't
plant them too deep. And that means;
plant them about June l and about
11-2 inches deep.
They must also be planted on clean
ground, because they can't fight
weeds. Any one of the five better va
rieties-Morse, Medium Yellow, vii.
son, Haberlandt and Virginia-will
give good results. The Virginia is
especially recommended for thin land
The seed must be secured early
while the supply lasts. And the
ground must be plowed early-the
same as for corn.
Things Worth Knowing and
Remembering.
A registered bull will pay for him.
self in the first crop of calves.
"Hoard's Dairyman" made survey
of GIT farms in Illinois and found
that the average profit per farm where
registered bull was used, was 81, ,1Oi
while on those farms where scrubs
we're used, loss of 1924 per farm was
suffered. This made difference oi
$1,336 on each farm in favor of a reg
istered bull.
Webster County (Missouri) Gov
Testing Association showed the fol
lowing facts: The cows producing
from $50 to $50 pounds of fat, made {
profit of 5000 each; those producing
from $50 to $50 pounds of fat, made {
profit of 1913 each; and those pro
ducing from so to $50 pounds of fa
were kept at a loss of $11.49 per head
The heifers from the cows of any o.
such group of cows, when sired by ;
good registered bull, produce as mucl
fnt as the next higher producing
group of cows.
Bull Association Figures. Webster Co
Cost Value
per farmer of bull
After organizing 5.34 10000
Bafars organizing $t4.27 8 65.08
From Sni- -Bar-Farm, near Kan
sas City.
The three-quarter bread beef cattl
brought $64 more per head than dit
the half breeds. They were sold OIL
Kansas City market.
Spraying Season Here.
To undertake to describe all the in
sects and fungous diseases that ar
detrimental to a fruit crop would be
great task. Fortunately Tor tne frui
grower, the insects can be divided int
two classes and simple treatment uset
tn control them. Broadly speaking
all insects secure their food in one %
two ways; a. By actually biting, on
and swallowing portions Of the foo
material, or III by sucking out tn
juices from the interior portions o
the host. While there are exception
to this general statement, these ar
unimportant in the present cornec
tions. /. u. "A s