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Show I WIT THE DEPARTMENT I OF AGRICULTURE I IS DOING f m :. L KVTN MAKE IT A MILLIOV IIHr I 3ltniaioa members next rear In mrf W fara, bureaus of the thlrtr threo , 1 MrUtera and western states Is tho xoal et lfrA notico to"county agent traders nod 'County agents by the Onltrd States Department of Agriculture. Agricul-ture. Itcports show that on April 1 tthcro wore 409,841 farm bureau members in these stales with 8,675 "iH community r.omnilttoos nearly a 30 H : lrr cent Increase since tho Dccomber H 1918, report, tlcsplto tho Influenza B ' rpldcmic which handicapped momber "s"H m jtlilji campaigns. H 1 "According to tho 1910 consus," H aya the notice to county agents, fl there were 3,262,965 farms In tho pH Mortliern and westren statos. With vj ; v ae third of the farms represented kW Si the farm "bureaus they could bo B f truly ald to bo fairly ropresontntlvo. ttU . Farmers should not bo ocazed or H' Beared or fooled into tho farm bur- H aa. The organlatlon Is an appeal m o their lntollclgenco and tholr mem- B bcrshlps should be solicited on a B . thoroughly dignified, common sense, M: business basts. Now Is the time to ' fnako plans for next fall and winter. tltm' Some of tho mates may wish to do PBai Oils on a stato wide basis." H' now, cum memiieks H:' , WSK TIIICIH EARNINGS B What do club boys and girls do WY- . w,Ul tno monoy they earn In their H -work? It Is a question frequently M asked by persons' who. have- read of t, their profits. The quostion was ask- M, -l.nproxlmatoly 3C0 boys and girls' M ' ii-Uie first annual club roundup of Indlaaa boy and blrl club members, pH Jicld recently at Purdue University ' 3 n cooperation with the United tSates JJrparUaeat of- Agriculture It was ; c"tad tlutt 53 of those present owned H f.nierty Bonds which they had pur- Wv eSac0 with their own earning!,; 100, m, tadtWar'avlngs Stamps; and prac- WWl tletriy Bvery one had bought. Thrift m J 'Htamps. Thirty three" had started a "' h.nk account with the money they. m' md made in raising corn, pigs; calves " ' : . "' roultry, selling cannot products, B . - vnfromsome other branch of club! H -wb. Eighty-five owned pigs, 46. H ' iwuod calves,, 26 owned sheep and H P Cownod poultry. Deflnlto plans H 1 1" 'attend .college by uso of money ; i vi am club work had been mado by H- !'" It was found that of tho 350 B .ifonillng the meeting, 176 had been H trKrul In club work two years ago; tW, "'Mtlaee years; 9, fovlr years; and K t'fvo years. H 't . i.v.:;'.sk lossus iixmE.irti:i HH. " f..y kind of farm animals had HHh M, , i vitality from dlscaHO during tho H " 1-'-" i JlnR In tho spring of 1919 below the average of the preceding ten years, with her and there' a stato that did not conform to thlB generat fact for the United 8tatcs. The reporters re-porters of the Bureau of Crop Estimates, Esti-mates, United States Department of Agriculture, glvo to horses and mules a loss from dlscaso amounting to only 1.57 per cent In the preceding year, tho ten year average being 1.91 per cent; cattle, 1.73 per cent, compared com-pared with 1.98 per cont; swine, tho low rato of 4.14 per cent, compared with 0.68 or cent; sheep, 1.97 per cont, compared with 2.39 per cent; and lambs, tho low rate of 4.83 per cent for losses from dlscaso and ex- v posuro, compared with the eight-year average of 6.76 po'f cont. On account of exposure, tho cat- tlo losses of tho prccodlng year, 1.58 por cent, are above tho ton year av- orago of 1.43 per cent; but tho shcop losses of 2. 51 por cont woro bolow the aovrage of 2,86 por cent. In number of animals, tho farm horsos lost from disease during the last year were ovof 415,000; cattle, from dlsoaso and oxposuro, nearly '2,247,000; swine, from dlsoaso, near-. ly 3,128,000; sheep. from dlscaso and exposure, nearly 1,606,000. The monoy loss due to Uieso mortalities Is not reported, but. computer nt the nvorago head value for all animals of each kind, tho aggregate would amount to raoro than $200,000,000. I ' I MUCH ItODICNT POISON USED In on March order the Montana State Agricultural College sold 15,000 pounds of rodent poison bait to coun ty farm bureaus of the state. The stato college has erected a special building where' the gopher poison bait" Is tnlxod and sold at cost, averaging aver-aging about 15 cents a quart. The county agents' are cooperating with tho collcgo and are obtaining .bait for rodent controi campaigns. Whore, there are no county agents orders ara handled bjriocal farmers' oganl-zatlons. oganl-zatlons. KfiO I)AV IN OUKGO.V Tho farm bureu or Jackson county Oregon, Is operating In throo districts dis-tricts of tho county" an egg marketing plan that Is meeting with success and winning the cooperation or the business busi-ness intorests or tho county. A certain cer-tain day each week is "known as "egg day," when Uio farmers deliver tholr eggs to a central placo whero thoy aro candled and cased, tho actual cost of'the candling and crates being be-ing chnrgod agalnBt the afrmer according ac-cording to tho numb or of eggs that ho brings to market, Tho eggs aro thon sold to tho highest bidder and have brought an ndvanco of from six to eight cents n dozen over tho prices received beforp thla plan wus used. HOT JiUNCHKH BttHVKD ' IN BCHOOI.H I School lunches have been established estab-lished In 73 rural schools or nine Indiana counties whero home 'demonstration 'demon-stration agents nave been at work. Dy this means 3,237 school children 'in the past year have been served I with at least one hot dish at noon. Tho Immediate aim has been to Im-.provo Im-.provo tho physical anaT mental condl- tlon ot the children 'and to educate I them to tho valuo or milk, vegetables and trult In tholr diet. The ultimate aim la to convince the school authorities auth-orities ot tho lmportanco or a hot .lunch to a child. One homo demonstration demon-stration ngent round on a; second vls- . It to a group ot 370 pupils that 176 reported thoy wero drinking moro milk, 144 ate more trult, 13 ate moro vegetables, and 80 wero bringing milk to school as part or tholr lunch-con. lunch-con. I THEY CANNED THE "SAB" IN KANSAS Kansas boys and girls, 4,386 strong, enrolled last year In clubs organized to conserve surplus fruits and vegetables. Tho result was 521,-910 521,-910 quarts of canned food products and 31,050 quarts of jelly. The total to-tal estimated valuation was f268,-665.80, f268,-665.80, Tho amount would have been greater but for the dry summer and tho consequent shortage or fruits and vegetables in the Btate. These clubs for young people wero organized co oporntlvely by. the United States Department De-partment ot Agriculture and the Kansas Kan-sas Stato .Agricultural College. All Kansas is bohlnd tho work that tho boys and girls aro doing In the clubs. This spring the Kah'sas Bankers as-soda as-soda tlon paid the expenses of 15 club members state project winners of 1918 to tho Farm and Home Weow,.hcld at the Agricultural College, Col-lege, Manhattan. GOOD YEAIt FOH HONEY DEES Honeybees had a ravorlte winter In 1918-19 and began this year with promising auspices, according to Investigations In-vestigations by tRo United States Department De-partment or Agriculture's Bureau of Crop Estimates: The Winter losses or colonies wero 9.4 tfor cent, with' which may be compared 18.7 per cent In 1917-18 and 11.4 as tho average ror tho preceding three years. ' In tho spring of tnls year the number of working colonics was almost al-most 9 por cent abovo the number of 1917, and their condition Is tho best of tho last four years. Honey plants also havo a high condition. HETTER CAItE OF SHEEP PAYS Sovon farm sheep demonstrators wero held last year In Missouri tho flock owners cooperating with sheep specialists ot tho United tSates Department De-partment ot - Agriculture and tho state agricultural college tho result of whlca nmong other things, Bhowod that It pays well to glvo sheop pro .por caro. In two of tho domonstra- . j tlons where gde animals wer kept one flock produced 108 per cent of lambs, which means that some of the owes had twin iambs, whllo tho other flock produced only 59 per cent ot lambs, which means thata, largo number ot the ewes did not pro duco any or that the lamba wero top . weak at birth to bo saved. The wool from tho first flock was sold oj 66 cents a pound, whllo tho wool from tho second flock was sold for 64 cts. a pound. The cost ot reed or tho first flock amounted to 7.05 tor each animal; whllo tho sheep ot tho second flock wero fed at a cost ot $1.34 each. Tho total cost, in tho first flock amounted to $8,30 an animal, ani-mal, as compared to $2.57 ror tho second tlock. But tho net profit a head tho point which is .most Important Im-portant to all Bheep raisors was $5.74 ln tho tlrst flock as compared to $2.22 in tho second flock, and tho net return on tho Investment amount cd to 21.77 per cont In tho tlrst Hock as compared to 15.23 per cent In tho second -flock, ' ' POUITUY PltOl'lTAULE SIDE I.I.N E A not return of noarly $300 Jn two and ono half months from sldo lino on Uio farm is tho record mado' by a aiensdnlo, Ariz., poultry ralsor, who Is carrying on his operations under tho direction ot a poultry extension ex-tension expert ot tho, United Statos Dopartment of Agriculture. In. con-nectlon-'.wlth.hls, -jcnerftl.farm .work) I ho kept a riock 'or 210 hcnsr which produced an average or 10 dozen eggs during the rour winter months. During February theeggs brought nn nvorago ot 55 cents a dozen, or approximately $150, while the teed bill, Including tho reed ror tho young1 chicks amounted to $50. Tho rollow-Ing rollow-Ing month tho flock showed a profit of n little over $100. During the f Irs't half ot April tho" gross receipts wero $97.50. In April tho extension specialist conducted a culling demonstration demon-stration on this farm and weeded 56 hens from tho flock. The culled hens were kept ln a separate pen for n weok rolowing tho demonstratton'jid mado pjractlcnlly no returns In egg yields. This Indicates the specialist says that tho remaining -54 hens probably pro-bably mado tho record with which tho entire 210 wero credited. IIETTEK HEEL' CATTLE itEPracE schuiis Bottor boot cnttlo aro replacing scrubs ln many parts of tho south and nro paving tho way tor tho fu-tur0 fu-tur0 prosperity ot tho llvo.stock Industry In-dustry In that section. An oxamplo of 8uch progress la reported by tho agricultural ngent ot McCormlck county, S. C, Sinco December 1, 76 head ot breeding animals havo been placed on tho farniB ln this county, largely through thcotrorts or agents, and there Is every prospect that oth-for oth-for farmers will start in the beet cat- v"Sjin.6M"-. A&lnrently tho ,agemt reports .the time ,WnolTar. distant m when McCormack county ,wIU havo a good cattle grazing on excellent pas- J turo land along the rivers. Moro f Pigs also nro being raised in tho county, as tho ngent reports that ho rinds good brood sows and litters or Hnd pigs on many rarm's where three years ago tho- owners ln the spring bought pigs from 'which to mako thelivmeat Intho fall. ' STANDAUDIZIXtJ THE LIVE STOCK HKEEDS Tho farm bureau or Grafton coun- ty, N II., is demonstrating how such an organization can help dovclop . community enterprises. Tho "community "com-munity chairman in Orford round that riftoen farmers in his Immediate vicinity owned puro bred Berkshire hogs, Ho folt this was a good toun-datlon toun-datlon ro.r standardizing tho swlno ot tho community, and asked tho county agent for assistance '. strengthening and extending intorcst J Jh ono breed. II0 arranged a meeting meet-ing nt which tho county agent sot forth tho advantages of communities specializing in ono breed. As a result re-sult tho rnrmora formod a breeding association and vpted to hold u su of registered stock each year. Many examples show tho valuo of a community com-munity breeding a certain lino ot slock rather than each moriiber of Uio communltyproccedlng aipns- his pWindUidualUho,.Bay8JlUwJJJnlted States Departmentjof. Agriculture. t |