Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1922-10-12

| MdflOu, rem, SCAtci, DSSi iiCiu,
and Malta townships. Reports show
that these township leaders have
passed this work on to more than
1850 people in their respective COM
; mittees.
This work was organized last
winter by groups of farm bureau
: members who met to decide what
would be the lines of agricultural
improvement that their communi-
ties desired and needed most.
Executive Committee Meeting
Plans for annual county farm
bureau meeting and election of of
ficers were launched at the regular
executive committee meeting last
Friday.
Saturday, Nov. IL, has been Sc
lected as the date for the event
which will be similar to the meet
ing of last year. A dinner will be
served to the members attending,
one pate to be furnished free to
each membership. Extra plates for
other members of the family who
are invited and urged to attend
can be secured before the meeting
Township Notes
Bloom township farm bureau
held their annual meeting at the
home of H. H. Richardson, Monday
evening" The following officers
were elected for the ensuing year:
Director, T. J. Osborn; Vice Direc-
tor, C. G. Barkhurst; Sec'y, Chester
Reed. On motion the director was
instructed to appoint a program
committee consisting of ten farm
bureau men and women, to meet
with the county agent and outline
a program of work for the year
1928
The Westland Independent Farm
ers' Institute committee met at
4 Louis James home Tuesday and
outlined their program for the COM
! ing institute which will be held
| Oct. 26 and 27, at Westland. J. F.
Gordon, Green county, and Mrs.
Lulu A. Vandenbark, Muskingum
county, will be the speakers. The
program will include discussions
and musical numbers by local peo-
pie. A corn show will be one of the
features that the institute commit
tee has added to make this event
one of the best ever held in the
community. Officers of the insti
tute are Ernest Price, President;
Harold Embree, v. Pres, and Mrs.
Dora Carr, Secy-Treas.
Morgan County Sheep Boosters
club will again be on the club en-
/ rollment list, with perhaps several
added members this year. AS soon
as all members have enrolled and
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organize will be held.
Some activity has been exercised
by interested sheep and wool grow
ers in the Chesterhill community,
! for sheep club there.
! Center township farm bureau
members were cheated out of hav-
/ ing their annual meeting last Sat
urday evening, on account of bad
weather This meeting will be held
some afternoon or evening this
month.
vii! Furnish Trees for Planting
Edmund Secrest, state forester.
gave out the following statement:
The state forest nursery located at
Chillicothe and established under
the Silver Forestry Law, contains
several hundred thousand trees
which are available for planting on
the state forests, and for distribu-
tion to land owners in Ohio. The
trees are of the kinds which pro-
duce the most valuable lumber and
post timber, and consist of both
pines and hardwoods. The pines
are to be used on the thin well
drained soils, particularly in hilly
nu
duce more lumber to the acre in a
given time than hardwoods. The
tulip poplar or tulip tree is giving
good results where it has been
planted, and is of the most promis-
ing hardwoods for reforestation.
Hardwoods may be planted in
autumn or in early spring, but pine
gives best results from spring
planting. Application for planting
stock, and information on forest
planting stock should be made to
the Forester, Ohio Experiment Sta
ton, Wooster, o.
News Briefs
Prompt and proper storage Of
seed corn is doubly important this /
fall, because of the lateness of the |
corn crop in maturing, say special |
lists at the O. S. U.
If corn that is to be used for
seed is exposed to cold before 1T |
has had a chance to dry out thor
oughly, that corn is pretty well |
spoiled for seed, these workers de-
clare. Proper storage often means
the difference between good seed |
corn, or none at all. In special
pamphlet just issued, Earl Jones Of
the university agricultural exten- |
sion force, writes: To improper
packing at silo-filling time can be
traced all nodded silage, except
that which naturally molds on the
surface layer. Perhaps the most
common failing in this rush sea-
son, is failure to pack the silage |
firmly against the wall, continue
crops men of the Ohio State Uni
versity, adding: eff the wall of the
silo is tight, there should be no
spoiled silage at the wall"
When it comes to figuring out an
economical winter ration for dairy
cows, the man with the silo has the
first necessity. Dairymen on the
faculty of the O. S. U. say that. with
corn at dollar bushel and cotton
seed at $3.50 hundred weight
the farmer who can feed silage this
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