Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1924-07-16

blue grass sod, and on fields that are
corned continuously. Rotation of
crops, refraining from following corn
with corn, will sessen the danger of
the corn root louise. The work of this
insect can be detected by the stunted
appearance of corn, tip of leaves turn
ing yellow, and even in advanced
stages drying up entirely, and the
presence of great number of ants
over the field. In fact some fields that
are infested with corn root lice we
will find an ant hill at nearly every
hill of corn. The ants themselves do
no damage but they live on the secre-
ton of the root louise and so they act
as sort of a parents or protector for
the louise, carrying it from one feed
ing ground to another, or in other
words from hill to hill.
There is nothing that we can do to
prevent the action of the corn root
louise this year, but the practice of
the rotation of crops and the grow
ing of leguminous crops for hay, and
the fall blowing of blue grass sod will
do much towards the prevention of
these in the future. Your protection
depends upon your practices in these
matters. 1t is not matter of fate or
luck as many people put it.
Attention, Seedmen
1 wish to call the attention of all
farmers and seedmen in Grant county
to a Seedmens convention to be held
at Madison on July 16 and II.
The purpose of this convention is
to make a study of seeds and the re-
Il Hro ofof1 1,r
different kinds and different qualities
of seed that seedmen and farmers may
know the proper seeds to buy and
handle. The crop depends upon the
seed that is sown, in other words,
Whatever you SOW that shall you
reap"
Many inferior seeds are sown and
sold every year, more from lack of
knowledge than desire to do wrong.
We feel certain that all who attend
this meeting will be benefited thereby.
We would like to impress upon all
the Importance of attending. This con-
vention is held in connection with the
State Department.
Do You Want Grant County to Win?
We are making preparations to take
a county exhibit to the State Fair. We
will compete with the other counties
of the state. Last year we were very
successful in our competition coming
home with first place, or in other
words, bringing home the bacon.
We are going back this year with
the idea of making as good a show
as possible of Grant county products
whether we win first or last place.
Our place will depend upon the quail
ity of our exhibits and the way in
which they are arranged. This office
personally will be responsible for the
latter. However, the most of our sue
cess depends upon the foremost, and
each individual in the county viii is
at all proud of their county and
anxious for it to make worthwhile
showing can control grfeatly our
placing if they will cooperate with us.
Meaning by this that your assistance
in securing of the best samples pos
sible will do much. Grain will soon be
ripe and we must have samples of
oats, barley, wheat, rye, flax and sew
eraI samples of each. These samples
that we mention are samples of the
grain in sheaf. The SheaveS must be
three inches in diameter at the center
band, of course the better the heads,
good plump grain and good length,
means much to these samples.
We would appreciate your help in
the securing of these samples. If you
have some good grain or any of the
above mentioned things bring us in
good sized bundle and we will en-
deavor to get good sheaf sample
from what you bring in. Half dozen
stalks will not be of any benefit, as
we must have samples so that when
we have them made up they will be
ofthe size above mentioned.
Let us get behind and help to keep
Grant county in its proper place
among Wisconsin counties at the State
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