Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1923-05-31

Kennard, Mrs. M. H. Williams,
Mrs. Howard Patterson, Mrs. C. O..
White. The same method as of last
year was adopted for raising money
for the event. Each organization
will be asked to contribute to fund
which will be used to pay the ex-
penses.
Livestock Meeting
The board of directors OF the Nor
gan County Livestock Shipping COM
pany held its regular meeting Sat-
urday. The report of Manager c.
S. Strong was given and all were
gratified to learn of an increase in
business, chiefly at the Malta ship
ping point. The Farmers Elevator
company acting as sub-manager at
Stockport, was not represented, and
no report from this point was secur-
ed. The next regular meeting will
be held on the last Saturday in July
Wooster Meeting
Walton Peteet, cooperative mar
keting director of the American
Farm Bureau Federation will give
additional assistance to Ohio CO.
operative efforts on June 27, ac-
Cording to announcements made by
the Ohio Farm Bureau Federation.
Mr.. Peteet will be at Wooster dur
ing the three day conference of
farmers, institute forkers, extension
specialist, and county agents, held
June 26. 27 and 2S AS a part of
the conference Mr. Peteet will pre-
sent plans for cooperative farm mar
keting in Ohio which were worked
out at a recent meeting of farm or
ganization leaders held in Columbus.
The matter of relationship of the
entire AGRICULTURAL extension and CO.
operative meeting will come up for
discussion. Cooperative marketing
heads of the Ohio Federation will
also be present and explain their
work. Since Mr.. Peteet's last visit
to Ohio, he has made trip through
number Of the western states,
working with the farm cooperative
associations in that section. He has
also worked with potato growers in
q number of states, in putting a plan
of cooperative selling into operation.
News Briefs
A Missouri circular on the San
Jose scale. just issued, states that
single male and female of this
species may in four months breed
200, 900 more, nearly two for
every inhahitant in the United
States. If there is a fifth summer
generation, the total runs into the
billions.
Ohio has only this spring discov-
cred the new oil emulsion spray as
a possible substitute for lime sui
phur in fighting San Jose scale, but
Missouri started to try it out two
years ago. OF current interest
here, then, is circular on the latest
Missouri findings just issued from
the college Of agriculture there by
L. Haseman and X. C. Sullivan,
entomologists
Complete revision of one of the
farm study courses, offered free by
mail from the o. s. u; cancellation
Of two such courses; and the addi
tion of an entirely new one, are an
nounced by the editor Of the college
Of agriculture. This leaves "a such
courses. offered free to Ohioans.
Representative livestock produc-
ers of Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana,
meeting at Cincinnati recently,
voted to form membership asso-
citation of farmers to sell livestock
comparatively on the terminal mar
ket at that city. The men favored
the formation of the association un
der Ohio's new cooperative law. so
that corporations will not be start
ed until the law takes effect in July.
The soybean as a farm crop is
gaining favor in Ohio and at the
present rate of increase in acreage
viii within the next decade rival
oats as one of the major crops
Says Sam: Don't look at the.
world through dirty windows"
Coming Events
June 2, Shorthorn Breeders meet
ing, Glenwood Farm, w. C. Glenn,
/ p. m.
June 2, Muskingum county Boys
and Girls club picnic, GAINESVILLE,
all day.
June 6. Meeting of Health Lead
ers with specialist farm bureau Of
flee, McConnelsville, 10 a. IN. to p.
N.
June Z, Meeting of Health Lead
ers with specialist at Stockport bank
hall, 10 a. IN. to 8 p. m.
Community Home Makers
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