Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1922-06-15
AGRICULTURAL NEWS NOTES

stration farms have been compiled
and submitted to the county agent
Farm No 2, No. eggs, 1868, No.
hens rs, average eggs per hen 2O.4,
eggs per hen to date 88.2; No. 8,
1856, 153, 1916, 74.5; No. 4, 1904,
SO, 21.7, 97.4; No. 5. 2134, 123,
17.3, 50; No. 6, 1854, 209, AL,
56.7.
Attention is called to the poultry
meeting at Wooster. June 20-22
! Here the source of information re-
eardipe poultry practices and feed
ing. culling and diseases will be
! available.
County Agents Meeting
How, when and where. will
events take place in the various
counties. was the keynote of the
County Agents Conference at Cam
bridge June and 6. 10 south
eastern counties were represented
bv county agents and home demon
stration and club agents. Special
lists were present to discuss their
phases of work.
Russell Lord, o. S. U. Dept. and
F. G. Dean. 0. F. B. F.. led discus
sion on publicity. NJ G. Wilson led
discussion on office records and fill
ing systems Miss Price of the De-
partment of Home Economics, o. S.
IT,. and w. w. Brownfeld, Asst
County Agent Leader. were also
present. Much of the time was
taken up by all the agents in dis
cussing methods of planning work
in their respective counties and
methods of outlining calendar of
events
Penn Township Notes
A small representation of Penn
township project leaders were pres
ent at Pennsville last Wednesday to
/ discuss plans and means for carry
ing out the years program of work.
Action was taken regarding the
farm bureau community meeting to
be held June 2S at Westland.
The Busy Bee club held a meet
/ ing at Westland school house June
/ 1. Meeting was opened by presi-
/ dent. Miss Maggie Reed On roll
call by quotations. 9 members and
officers responded. Song, Work
for the Night is Coming. Reading of
minutes by Olive Abel. Talk by club
leader, Mrs. Della Dawson Moved
and seconded that there be a
| penny March" in each of the fol-
| lowing meetings. Election of treas
urer. Committee was appointed to
provide refreshments. Motion to
hold next meeting at Westland
school house June Is, at ! D. M,
was carried. Program: Song. Star
Spangled Banner; roll call, Some
/ thing l have done to make someone
4 ctr nf III
! itation, Temple Dawson and Mil
dred Reed.-Olive R. Abel, Sec'y.
j News Briefs
1 Scouts of the federal department
/ of agriculture are again securing
Ohio counties farm to farm, looking
/ for ornamental paintings of the
which causes the black stem rust in
wheat. Barberry eradication is now
under way in every state from
Pennsylvania west to Arizona. If
science can triumph over tradition,
there will be time when summer
suns will rise on the Ohio country
side and not cock will crow.
Spring will be different matter.
but in summer and fall, mot a
sound. Many poultry farmers now
dispense with roosters the year
around, marketing infertile eggs
and thus eliminating loss. "Swat
the Rooster Now
The joint stock land banks, the
first of which in Ohio recently op-
ened in Cleveland, will be real aid
TO farmers who want liens on land.
This, at least, is the belief of econ
omists at o. S. U. who have made a
special study of rural credits.
The time to cut timothy is when
the seeds are well formed and be-
fore they reach the dough stage.
The feeding of grain to dairy cows
is essential to sustained high pro-
duction, according to A..E. Perkins,
assistant in dairy husbanury at the
O. E. S. He says that pasture grass
though recognized as the dairy feed