The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1922-04-21
Farm Bureau Notes
Meetings at Cartee and Bismarck
this Week .l ~ w

Friday night, April Fl, or to tn
Farm Bureau ware house at Bismarcl
Saturday night, April %. A demon
stration on soil testing will be givel
at these places; also, discussion on
soil management will be held. P. F
Schowengerdt, of the University O.
Missouri, will be at Cartee SFriday
night to lead in the discussion.
Directions for Taking Soil Samples
for Acidity Test.
The securing of sample Of soil fol
acidity test is so simple that any one
can do this with little instruction
The main thing to look out for is tc
get a sample that will be representa-.
tive of the soil at different depths.
If the field to be tested varies in
character, either of soil or in the way
it hes, several samples should be col
aected 10 get good test.
In taking a sample, all trash should
be removed from the surface of the
ground and then an augur, about 1-2
to 2 inches in diameter, bored into the
ground as deep as it is to be plowed.
Care should be used to see that all
the soil thus torn loose is collected
into an envelope, or something of that
nature. 4.
Radio-grams Up to Date.
April 10.-Excessive rains have
created an emergency which can be
partly met with soybeans. This crop
planted on clean ground June /, will
yield as much hay as late sown oats
and much more valuable as feed. The
Experiment Station has new bulle-
tin on soybeans ready for distribu-
ton next week.
April 12.-As soon as the little
pigs are month old they will profit
ably use more feed than they get
from the SOW. At the Experiment
Station best results have been OBJ
tanned from a supplementary ration
containing four parts shelled corn,
four parts short, one part bran, and
one part tankage.
April 13.-Rainy weather has re-
tarded growth of spring pigs and
caused prevalence of scours and
thumps. Remedies recommended by
the College of Agriculture are less
feed, clean pen, and four ounces of
EPSON salts for sow, with scalded milk
and as much exercise as possible for
pigs. Disinfect pens with carbolic
acid.
Save Nursery StOck-Prune Young
Trees Heavily if Buds Have Started.
Many people who have purchased
nursery stock for planting this spring
have been unable TO set it out because
OF the continued rains. In the mean
time the buds have started and the |
trees must be planted at once, or they |
will be total loss. 1t is the general |
experience of growers. according to |
v. r. Gardner of the Missouri College |
of Agriculture, that when nursery
stock upon which the buds have start
ed is planted, considerable percent !
age dies during the summer unless
special precautions are taken.
The most certain and satisfactory
way to get this late planted nursery
stock to live is to 'prune it back Sc
verely at the time of transplanting.
1t should be pruned so as to remove
all of the buds that have started to
open, leaving only dormant buds. This
may mean cutting away eight or nine
tenths of the top, leaving only a cou-
pie of buds above the graft union-a
much more severe pruning than would
be done-but it will prob
ably be found that heavy pruning of
this type means the difference between
success and failure in getting the
trees to grow.
Cow Testing Paid Pettis-Increased
the Members Profits $4,000 in
One Year.
Never in the history of Missouri
cow testing associations have these
failed to show a very ma
terial increase in the production and
profits from year to year. The most
recent of these is the years work Just
in Pettis county. These in
,reases as given out by E. M. Harmon,
larry extension specialist, are as fol-
ows: Prior to March 1, 1921, the av-
erage amount of milk per COW was
$40 pounds, containing 245.3 pounds
IT fat and returning $1.93 for every
iollar spent for feed. For the year
'nding March /, 1922, the cows of this
averaged 1918 pounds of '
AAuh SVitLdHiiItR SitO pOuIluS Oh IaU
md returning $2.44 for every dollars I
worth of feed. Here was an increase !
# 671 pounds of milk, 1928 pounds of e
at per COW and 81 cents profit on the t
eed dollar. I
This increase of about 13 per cent
n butter fat production is very cred
table; but the factor of most interest d
Q the dairyman is increase in profits. t
his increase amounted to 81 cents o
or every dollar spent for feed. When r
se realize that there were 34i COWS n
ested with feed bill of about S20,-
90, little figuring shows us that f
he improved methods introduced byI 3
he cow testing association meant ov- q
r $4,000 to its 23 members. This q
oes not take into account the in n
reased valuation of the herds due to a
ne records which the owners now q,
ave on their cows. s 4tt4aF h
Another more, important factor is 81
ne influence which the association e.
ad throughout the county. In nearly VI
very community in which we find a 1t
wv testing association member we
nd valuable demonstration of the ia
alue of keeping records On the dairy pr
erd, Such demonstrations probably *
can far more in dollars and cents to | ty
le county as a whole than the asso- q