South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1922-12-16
(By I. J. MATTTIEWS1

tPulaSkl County Agricultural AgenD
The International Grain and
Hey Show had all appearances OF
being an Indiana show a. far a.
corn was concerned. Reduced 10 few
words. Indiana got nearly ali Of the
princ.pa; corn awards while Mich
igan got the bulk OF the awards in
the rye. oats and soft red winter
wheat class. The Michigan Crop
improvement Association has done
for Michigan grains what the In
diana Corn Growers Association has
done for Indiana corn.
HOosiers Get Purple Ribbons.
Better Lux Of Shelby county. won
the grand championship purple on
ten-ear exhibit OF white corn.
This was the best exhibit that has
ever been entered in the show. True
II was a little too long for this par
ticular region but was OF outstand-
ing quality and the ears were ex-
ceedingly uniform. II was selected
from a field of 50 acres that was
into clover last year and pastured
down. The field got in addition
about IL tons OF stable manure 10
the acre az well as 200 pounds OF 10
10 fertilizer. The entire field made
81 bushels CT corn 70 the acre by
weight which gives the answer as
10 whether pretty corn Is really
/ high yielding corn.
Michigan Has Most Alfalfa.
One startling fact driven home by
the Michigan exhibit was that
Michigan has more alfalfa acres
than any OF the old western alfalfa
states and more than any state east
OF the Mississippi river. Four years
ago, census figures gave Michigan
10000 acres Of alfalfa At that
time. the Michigan State Farm
Bureau established a seed de-
partment and one OF the things they
did was to secure genuine Grimm
seed from the west for their grow
ers. This outstanding piece OF SER
vice on the part Of the state farm
bureau has reflected Itself upon the
farms OF Michigan to the extent
that there are now a little better
than 100000 acres or alfalfa
growing in that state. For the past
I two years, PULASKI county alfalfa
growers have sown seed from the
Michigan State Farm Bureau.
SharpshOOters Get Facts.
The Il. S. Department OF Agri-
cultural exhibit was one Of the most
interesting things OF the whole
show. The person who will take the
time to study this would easily be
convinced that there Is much yet TO
be learned concerning the science
Of agriculture. There were some 21
panels hand painted and Illustrated
with colored, enlarged pictures. In
addition there were pens OF sheep
showing what results had been Sc
cured by using pure bred rams on
scrub flocks. One of the panels was
/ especially interesting to the writer
/ because OF the fact that during the
! last two or three years, some OF our
| sharp-s ooters who have more
mouth than bre,ns have predicted
! that tho purebred business was GO
/ ing all TO pot, because the county
was literally full OF purebreds The
/ last census shows however that
these cracker-box gentry have little
brains for the facts since only 3 1-2
I percent OF the swine in the coun-
try is purebred, only 3 per cent Of
I the cattle are purebred and in sheep
I only four out OF 500 are OF pure
/ breeding. Horses show less than one
I out OF 200 of pure breeding. Eighty
/ out OF every 100 farms have not a
vestige OF purdbred animals on the
/ farm at all.
Poultry.
! The baci,l2ry white diarrhea test
/ ting has progressed very well. At
| the present time. seven flocks have
/ been tested and there was only one
! flock that did not show a single re-
actor. The fiocks ties. ed were those
! OF Frank Stephens. G. Il Zellers. p.
! c. Engle, II. F.. Bremen, ]. H. NAL
J colin, Biven Coburn and l. L White.
In Tho Nick OF Time.
/ Apparently we were fortunate in
! having tackled this work when we
did. For now comes the Informal
ton that blood samples have been
4 coming into the Veterinary Depart
, ment so fast that they will not be
able 20 take care OF any more and
1 II we have any more flOcks that are
/ tested for bacillary white diarrhea,
we VIII have to do the actual test
| ing ourselves here IN the county At
( the present time. we are not equip
! ped 10 do this II there IS enough