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!Dean Davenport's Address a Special Feature—Toasts byFarmers and Business Men Enjoyed—Fine andEarnest Spirit of CooperationFarm Adviser Thompson's Report and New Plans Warmly WelcomedPresident Johnston Sees Large Success —Election ot Officersand Directors—Township Vice Presidents Named.forty will be conducted to show the u suits from the use of limestone and phosphate. Ten acres will be treated with lime, ten acres with rock phosphate; 2V* acres left ag a check strip,j end IT1* acres treated, with both limeand phosphorus. Oats and clover will be sown; clover will be there next year, then wheat or com, and corn, making a four year rotation, in which the results can he observed.Much the same demonstration will also he made on 61* acres of the Capen farm.Ear-to-Row Corn Test.— The McLean County Better Farming Association began its annual meeting at the V. M. lt;\ A. hall Thursday morning with about seventy persons present, but by noon the number had increased to more than a hundred The Better Farming banquet was distinctly a success*. One hundred forty-two men and six women sat at prettily decorated tables in the basement of the Second Presbyterianprove on the farm adviser if it had one made to order. He is at home on the farm, in the office, before a school and on the platform before most any hind of an audience. He knows thescience of farming and he know* how to tell the other fellow.Mr. Johnstone said that at the meeting last year the board was worried because it was spending a lot ofmoney, but there are only fourteen members who have not paid up. and now the association is ahead of the game and about $2,000 had been paidThe ears of corn brought by members. at Mr. Thompson's request, to one of the winter meetings, have each been tested, and he is going to plant them in an ear-to-row te st near Bloomington to see how they will act up in the field, to see their difference in germination, and to see their difference in yielding power. This is not to be corn breeding, but just an ear-to-row test. And members will visit it.On Mr. Steele’s farm, two miles east of the city on Empire street, a demonstration in soil improvement is to bo worked out, using lime, phosphorus manure and clover. William Say era, the tenant, will have charge.A good many men are going to use lime and phosphorus for the first time this year. Simon Moon gave the association some good material in definite* results in a demonstration on his farm and such reports are desired from many others and always they are needed for use. There will be an alfalfa demonstration.Picnic and Other Meets.
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Bloomington Weekly Pantagraph
Bloomington, Illinois, US
Fri, Mar 24, 1916
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