& § -7 t=^ V ' c. /y^."' z)U. More Com in Southeast Missouri Agricultural Dept. state Normal School Cape Girardeau ’] A Southeast Missouri School for Southeast Missouri Boys aud Girls ■ -i) '■ -1 - ' ii SUPPLEMENT Bulletin of the State Normal School THIRD DISTRICT A COLLEGE FOR TEACHERS Volume 14 MARCH 1914 Number 5 1914 Corn Acre Yield Contest 1914 UNDER AUSPICES OF AGRICULTURAL DEPARTMENT Cape Girardeau, Missouri Published by the Missouri State Normal School, Third District. Issued January, March, June, October and December. Entered at the Post Office at Cape Girardeau. Mo., as Second-clas Matter. Printed by The Daily Republican, Cape Girardeau. Mo. Agricultural Faculty SETH BABiCOCK, Agronomy and Head of Department R. B. KINKEAD, Animal Husbandry L. R. JOHNSON, Horticulture W. H. WHITE, Superintendent of Farm A. C. MAGILL, Chemistry H. L. ROBERTS, Botany and Entomology W. G. LEWIS, Physics CHARLES LAMB, Manual Training MARY T. CHAPIN, Home Economics IDA M. SHILLING, Home Economics 1914 Corn Acre Yield Contest 1914 T O the person in each county growing the most marketable corn on one acre, the Normal School at Cape Girardeau will give a year’s scholarship (value $19.00). The counties that may compete are Bollinger, Butler, Cape Girardeau, Carter, Crawford, Dent, Dunklin, Franklin, Gasconade, Iron, Jefferson. Madison, Mississippi, New Madrid, Oregon, Pemiscot, Perry, Reynolds, Ripley, Scott, Shannon, Stoddard, St. Francois, Ste. Genevieve, St. Louis, Washington and Wayne. In addition to the scholarship the person having the highest yield in the district will be given $50 in cash. The 3nd, $35; the 3rd, $15; the 4th, $10.00; the 5th, $5.00; the (ith, $3.00; the 7th, $3.50; the 8th, $3 ; the 9th and 10th, each $1.00. In 1913 the cash prizes were paid by the business men of Cape Girardeau. There are no age or sex qualifications. Your acre of land must be. in one of tlie counties named above. You must enroll before June 1, 1914. You must keep a record of the work done (see blank on page 19). You must have one disinterested party see your acre measured, gathered and weighed. This party must sign the statement (see bottom of page 19), and be willing to swear to the statement if called upon to do so. Nothing difficult — no essays to write, no complicated records to keep, no worrying over cost or expense. What we must know is how much marketable corn you i)roduced on one acre and how you did it. Sign enrollment card and send it TODAY to SETH BABCOCK, State Normal School, Cape Girardeau. Cape Corn The Corn that Won in 1913 T H. lewis of Cape Girardeau deserves the credit of furnishing the winning variety of corn. G. W. Tisdale, the man who pro- duced the 99 bushels, got his seed directly from Mr. Lewis for his 1913 crop. Mr. O. L. Howell, who lived near the Cape thirty years ago, was growing a big, coarse, red cobbed, high yielding variety of corn. Mr. Lewis, on tak- ing charge of the Howell farm, started to improve this corn by selecting to one type. The corn was easily changed by careful selection and soon a uni- form, medium smooth white corn with great size resulted. The original corn was evidently St. Charles. In 1907 there was a little mixing with Commercial white. Two years later, on hearing a corn expert declare emphatically for some of the standard varieties and seeing the ribbons in the corn shows uniformly tied on corn of a smaller type, Mr. Lewis sold all his corn save 24 ears. A few seasons con- vinced him that he was on the wrong track. For- tunately these 24 ears had been carefully planted by themselves and not mixed with any other variety. About this time, 1909, T. P. Russell commenced growing Cape corn on his Hayti farm. He reports that it yields 20 per cent more than the ordinary varieties. The 1914 acre yield contest will be watched with more than usual interest to see if this variety can hold the place it now has. The Variety to Plant I T takes good seed to produce good yields but don’t be afraid of the varieties already being grown in your neighborhood. They may be best because acclimated and already adapted to the pecu- liarities of your soil and climate. Don’t buy seed corn from a distance. Southeast Missouri has many good corn breeders. If your own neighborhood does not have the corn you want, get seed from the nearest corn breeder. Look over the winners at the Corn Show held at the Normal in January and you will see some one from your section of the district. Write him for seed corn. Corn Variety Tests T o determine what variety of corn is best adapted to any locality, several varieties should be planted side by side on ground that was all prepared in the same way, and the corn given the same cultivation. If this corn is carefully harvested and weighed some very surprising results may be obtained. This work can be done very nicely by your RURAL SCHOOL TEACHER under the direction of the county adviser or county superintendent. In counties not having a farm adviser the Normal school will be glad to assist in such work. The law requires Agriculture to be taught in the rural schools. The rural school teachers, preparing them- selves for that work, sometimes play, but ALWAYS enjoy themselves. The Importance of a Good Stand J UST figure it out for yourself — two stalks to the hill and the hills and rows 3 feet 6 inches apart will give 100 bushels per acre. The weather may be responsible sometimes for a poor stand but let us always have a good seed bed and seed that GROW. Moral: Test your seed corn. How to Make a Cloth Seed Corn Tester Use a good grade of bleached muslin. Tear into strips 13 inches wide and 66 inches long. Through the center, the long way, draw a line to within 18 inches of either end. Divide this line with lines 6 inches long, 3 inches apart, running cross way of the cloth. Number these spaces so formed from 1 to 3(). Use ordinary ink, indelible lead jtencil or printer’s ink for marking tester. Fertilizers Don't buy expensive fertilizers until you have applied all the lime and barn-yard manure your soil needs, and are willing to give good cultivation to your crop. Then and not before will it pay to use fertilizers. With the proper cultivation, manuring and liming of the soil there is not a single farm in South- east Missouri that can not equal the 1913 acre yields. With a better season and commercial fertilizers, if you need them, every county ought to have a record above 100 bushels per acre. Directions for Using Cloth Seed Corn Testers H ave seed ears arranged in such order that any particular ear can be found when wanted. Have one cloth tester for every twenty ears. Each tester tests enough seed for about two acres. If one plants fifty acres, then twenty-five testers will be needed. 1st. Dip tester in water and spread it out flat on a table. Having it wet keeps it from blowing around, also helps hold the grains in position. From ear No. 1 take six grains from different rows and different parts of the ear. Don’t take any grains from butts or tips, as they are too irregular in size to go through the planter evenly. The object of all this work is to insure ourselves a perfect stand of corn. By placing a knife blade by the side of a grain and giving the knife a slight twist, a single grain can be taken from one place. Put the six grains taken from ear No. 1 on square No. 1. Place all grains with the germ side up and with tips pointing toward the same side of the cloth tester. This arrangement is for convenience in reading our test. The roots will all grow down and the plumules up, so if the grains are all pointed down the sprouts are all straight and easily compared with each other. Take six grains from ear 2 and place on square 2; six grains from ear 3 and place on square 3; and so on until the 20 squares are covered with corn. At each end of the tester is an extra flap of cloth. Begin at either end and roll this flap up loosely. This gives us a good roll of cloth when we come to our corn. Keep on rolling — the corn will be held in place between the cloth — roll until all the cloth is used. The last flap of cloth gives a few thicknesses of cloth around the outside of the tester to prevent it from drying. Tie a string around the top of the tester to prevent unrolling. A tag is tied to this string, showing the numbers of the ears tested. In the first tester we will have ears 1 to 20; in the second ears 21 to 40; in the third 41 to 60, and so on. These testers or ‘‘Rag babies” as some call them, are now stood on end in a bucket with the tips of the grains pointing DOWN. Crowd the bucket full of testers. Pour warm water in the bucket, allow the water to remain for fifteen to thirty minutes, or long enough to thoroughly soak the corn. Pour the water off, leaving the testers in the bucket all the time. Set the bucket containing the testers away where we have a living room temperature — in the front room where the house plants are growing is a good place, behind the kitchen stove where bread is set to rise is another good place. Leave them stand from four to six days. The higher the temperature the less time will be required for germination. Now we come to the most important and difficult part of our work: Reading the test. Unroll the tester before you so all the corn can be seen. In some squares not one grain of the six will have started. Find the ear from which these grains came and throw it away. Anyone would know to do that; but the corn on some of the squares is only half as big as the rest of the corn. These come from weak ears. We have given our corn ideal conditions, the right amount of moisture and air and the right temperature. We have forced everything to grow that will grow. Out in the field conditions will be different. It may be too cold or too wet. Then this slow corn in our tester will fail to grow in the field. It is these weak, slow ears that we must get rid of. Our corn should all come up at once and be strong, healty, vigorous plants. We can only insure ourselves such corn by very careful work in reading the test. Short-course boys studying pruning in the orchard. No. 1 Won $50; No. 2, $25; No. 3, $15 WINNERS OF 1913 ACRE COUNTY CONTESTANT ADDRESS Age VARIETY OF CORN Was Germina- tion Test Made KIND OF SOIL SUBSOIL PREVIOUS CROP COMMERCIAL FERTILIZER USED Amo Ma U< 1— Cape Gir. G. W. Tisdale Gordonville 40 Cape County Yes Creek Bottom Silt Loam Made by Creek Wheat None No 2 — Shannon Eric Palmer Eminence 17 Reid’s No Lime Stone Sandy Clay Corn None No 3 — Crawford W. D. Towe Cuba 47 Boone Yes Sandy Loam Clay Red Clover None 10 T 4— Scott T. A. Wylie Cliaffee 20 Prize Metal No Black Clay Black Clay Wheat 1200 lbs. Acid Phosphate 100 L 5 — Stoddard E. J. Mahoney Dexter 33 Earl’s Prolific Yes Black Loam Black Loam Corn None No 6— Perry Reginald 0. Swan Wittenberg 10 Boone Yes Sand Stone Clay Corn 1500 lbs. Lime 750 7— Jefferson Emil Wallach House Springs 10 Mogul Yes Alluvial Bottom Sandy Loam Corn Overflowed Land 8— Pemiscot L. H. Gale Hayti 32 Johnson Yes Sandy Loam Fine Sandy Loam Corn Nitrate of Soda 150 lbs Acid Phosphate 200 lbs Muriate of P’tsh 50 lbs 12 T 9— Bollinger Elmer Sitze Gipsy 20 Reid’s No Sandy Loam Clay with Gravel New Ground Corn Overflow No! 10-Wayne Clarence Rubattom Greenville 10 Boone Yes Clay Clay Corn None 3 T. 11— Gasconade ! Flora D. Dahl Berger lb Reid’s Yes Grass None 3 T- In the future the man who wins will not win beeau.se nature has Riven him a iiartieiilarly rieh piece of grroiind like a drained swamp or« lime and manure liberally; and nitrogen, pbosphorus and potassium fertilizers only after the addition of more lime and manure fails to give i and who cultivates onee a week from the time the corn is planted until it stops growing in the fail. Such treatment will get results. There YJgLJ) CORN CONTEST ® scholarship valued at $19.00 Disced Before Plowing DATE OF PLOWING Depth of Plowing Additional Preparation of Seed Bed Date of Planting Space Between Rows If Drilled. Space Between Stalks Space 1 Between Hills No. Grains Per Hill Number of 1 Cultivations 1 Per Cent of Stand Date When Dented Date When Ripe Date of Har\'esting Bushels of Marketable Corn No Nov. 1912 8 in. Double Disced and Harrowed May 18th 3 ft. 8 in. 3 ft. 8 in. 3 4 83 1-3 Aug. 10th Oct. 20th Nov. 22nd 99 No April 25th 6 in. Harrowed May 10th 3 ft. 3 feet 2 1-2 5 90 Aug. 13th Sept. 14th Oct. 2Sth 96 No December 9 in. Disced and Harrowed May 17 3 ft. 6 in. 18 in. 71 98 Sept. 20th Nov. 26th 93 1-2 No April 20th 7 in. Well Harrowed May 1st 3 ft. 8 in. 3 ft. 8 in. 2 1-2 95 Nov. 15th Nov. 2Sth 88 Yes April 21 10 in. Well Harrowed Mays 3 ft. 12 in. 4 100 Aug. 5 Nov. 1 Nov. 20th 82 No May 2nd 6 in. Harrowed and Rolled 1 May 7th 3ft. Sin. 3ft. Sin. 2 5 100 Aug. 10th Oct. 10th Oct. 2Sth 71 No May 6th 8 in. Harrowed May 20th 3 ft. 10 in. 10 in. 4 Sept. 20th Sept. 30th Nov. 3rd 67 Yes May 1st 8 in. Harrowed May 9th 3 ft. 6 in. 14 in. 7 95 August 27 Sept. 15th Oct. 22nd 72 1-7 No May 19 7 in. Harrowed and Drug^ ! May 19 3 ft. 6 in. 3 ft. 6 in. 3 3 ■^4 Sept- 3 Sept. IStli Oct. 31st 59 1-2 Yes May 6th 6 in. Drug and Harrowed May 8th 3 ft. 6 in. 3 ft. 6 in. 2 5 99 Aug. 20th Oct. 10th Oct. 31st SO No Dec. 1912 51-2 in. Disced au.l Harrowed 1 Apr. 25th 3rt. 3 in. 3 ft. 3 in. 2 1-2 5 Aug. 19th 45 2-15 k-mnde land. The highest yield WILL. BE WON AND KEPT by that person who plans a rotation so corn follows some legTime: who uses ■ased yields; who fall plows ten inehes or deeper; who sets a perfect stand by testini; his seed; who plants a variety adapted to his locality <9 land in Southeast Missouri that can not so above the 100-bushel mark. How to Test Soil for Lime VERY WHERE in Southeast Missouri lime is giving increased yields. Of course, there is only -L/ one infallible test for lime. That is to apply ground limestone at the rate of two tons per acre, or quick lime at the rate of 50U pounds per acre. Before going to this expense a very simple test can be made : Get a dime’s worth of muriatic acid at the drug store. Put a half inch of soil in the bottom of a glass and pour on enough acid to cover the soil. If lime is present bubbles will appear in great numbers. If no bubbles appear we can feel sure the addition of lime will benefit the soil. Reginald O. Swan of Wittenberg, who won a Normal School scholarship for the highest yield of corn on one acre in 1913 in Perry county, used 15(1U pounds ground limestone. His measured acre, with no better land than the remainder of the field, yielded 71 bushels of shelled corn. This was consider- ably above the average of the field. Mr. Swan says this acre could be noted from any part of the field, as it was so much darker in color and made so much ranker growth. His father is so well pleased with the results that he is buying ground limestone by the carload for his 1914 crop. Lime Next to barnyard manure no one thing is more often lacking in our Southeast Missouri soils than lime. The finer the rock is crushed the less is needed per acre. A grade costing $1.50 per ton at the crusher and passing through a 42-mesh sieve gives good satisfaction. Such material should be applied at the rate of 1500 or 3000 pounds per acre. When ordering, if it is shipped as crushed stone and not ground limestone, a cheaper freight rate can be secured. Lime is applied after the land is plowed and then harrowed or disced in. Crushed limestone, or ground limestone, can be applied at any time. It cannot injure the sprouting plants. This form of lime acts very slowly and should be applied to the land as long as possible before the crop is planted. On wheat land it should be applied as soon as the land is plowed and fall plowing for corn makes a satis- factory place for the application of lime. Commercial fertilizers are wasted when ap] lied to land that is lacking in humus, or is acid or in a poor physical condition. The first thing needed is barnyard manure and then lime. ^y^GRICULTURE is a live subject. There should be no difference between that taught in the schools and that practiced on the farms. The agricultural work of the State Normal is so arranged that teachers or farm- ers can take a term’s work whenever convenient. New classes are formed in all branches of Agriculture four times each year and run from ten to thirteen weeks. Come to the Cape during your idle season on the farm and no matter when that is we will accommodate you. STUDY SOUTHEAST MISSOURI METHODS IN A SOUTHEAST MISSOURI SCHOOL. Short-course boys studying spraying in the orchard. The 1914 Short Courses The following students enrolled for agriculture in the Farmers’ Short Course beginning Jan. 1914. One-third of the counties in the Third Normal School District represented. Name. Address. County. 1 . 2 . 3 . 4 . 5 . (!. 7 . S. 9 . 10 . 11 . 12 . 13 . 14 . Fred Danuser Floyd Gale John Henderson Oscar Horstman Arthur Job Frank McCaskill Hermann Fredericktown Hayti -- Cape Girardeau Cardwell Gasconade Madison Gasconade Cape Girardeau Dunklin Oliver H. H. Ochsner Hermann . Gasconade Boyd Whitwell J. E. Zwilling Walter Brinkopf A\'illis E. Wissmann Wm. Christ. Kelpe Clarence Rubottom Glenn Eewis Harold E. Weimer - Bennett Dexter Cape Girardeau - Cape Girardeau Cape Girardeau Greenville Jackson Cape Girardeau... Stoddard Cape Girardeau Cape Girardeau Cape Girardeau Wayne Cape Girardeau Cape Girardeau Some of the Subjects Taught ■Agricultural Chemistry Soils Stock Judging Crops Dairying Poultry Rural Economics Feeding Farm Accounts Horticulture Principles of Breeding Elementary Agriculture List of Prize Winners IN SOUTHEAST MISSOURI CORN SHOW HERD AT STATE NORMAL JANUARY 8, 9, 10, 1914. Best 10 ears Boone County White— 1st, $10, E. C. Tuschoff, Appleton; 2nd, $5, Charles Schweer, Gordon- ville; 3rd, Field Bros., Cape Girardeau; 4th, C. W. Tuschoff, Appleton; 5th, E. J. Mahoney, Dexter. Best 10 ears Johnson County White — 1st, $10, C. A. Grant, Zalma; 2nd, $5, Emil J. Meyer, Cape Girardeau; 3rd, Joseph H. Grant, Zalma; 4th, E. C. Tuschoff, Appleton; 5th, Charles Schweer, Gordonville. Best 10 ears St. Charles White — 1st, $10, John Henderson, Hayti; 2nd, Mr. Hopper, Cape Girardeau. Best 10 ears, Reid’s Yellow Dent — 1st, $10, E. J. Mahoney, Dexter; 2nd, N. D. Browning, Jackson; 3rd, Charles Schweer, Gordonville; 4th, Mark Barber, Brazeau. Best 10 ears yellow other than Reid’s — 1st, $10, C. W. Tuschoff, Appleton; 2nd, $5; E. C. Tuschoff, Apple- ton; 3rd, Charles Schweer, Gordonville. Swepstakes, best 10 ears, any variety — 1st, John Deere plow, E. C. Tuschoff, Appleton; 2nd, Jumbo Fencing, C. A. Grant, Zalma. Best Single Ear White Corn — 1st, $10, Joe Wing Hensley, Jackson; 2nd, $5; C. W. Tuschoff, Appleton; 3rd, Field Bros., Cape Girardeau; 4th, Wm. Field, Cape Girardeau; 5th, Charles Schweer, Gordonville. Best Single Ear Yellow Corn — 1st, $10.00, Charles Schweer, Gordonville; 2nd, $4.50, Mark Barber, Brazeau; 3rd, C. W. Swan, Wittenberg; 4th, Lee Mahoney, Dexter; 5th, E. C. Tuschoff, Appleton. Best Single Ear, any variety — 1st Steel Posts, Joe Wing Hensley, Jackson. Best 10 ears, white corn, by young peopleunder 18 years — 1st pair Packard shoes, Lee Mahoney, Dexter; 2nd, $2.50, Farrell Armes, Dexter; 3rd, $1.00, Leslie Schweer, Gordonville; 4th, Clarence Rubottom, Greenville; 5th, Joe Wing, Hensley, Jackson. Best ten ears yellow corn, by young people under 18 years — 1st, $5.00, Robb Hensley, Jackson; 2nd, $2.50, Leslie Schweer, Gordonville; 3rd, $1.00, Glenn Lewis, Jackson; 4th, Elmer Sitzes, Gypsey. Sweepstakes by young people under 18 years — 1st, 22 'Remington rifle, Lee Mahoney, Dexter; 2nd, kodak, Farrell Armes, Dexter; 3rd, $1.00, Leslie Schweer, Gordonville. Best 100 ears white corn — 1st $25, E. J. Mahoney, Dexter; 2nd, five cases canned goods, S. E. Hensley, Jack- son; 3rd, $5.00, L. H. Gale, Hayti; 4th, Field Bros., Cape Girardeau; 5th, Charles Schweer, Gordonville. Best 100 ears yellow corn — 1st, $25.00, E. J. Mahoney, Dexter; 2nd, $10.00, S. E. Hensley, Jackson. Those winning 3rd and 4th places are given subscriptions to one of the following papers: Missouri Ruralist and Misouri Farmer. Winners in Boys’ Corn Judging Contest — 1st, $3.00, Lloyd Hitt, Gordonville; 2nd, $2, Clarence Wissman, Cape Girardeau; 3rd, $1.50, Joe Wing Hensley, Jackson. Normal Show Corn Sold at Rate of $1,950.00 a Barrel From the Cape Republican. At 1 o’clock on Saturday the auction sale of the corn exhibited at the Southeast Missouri Corn Show was held. The total receipts were over $100, although only a part of the corn was offered for sale. One ear sold for $3.25. A bushel at this rate would bring in $390 and a barrel would net $1,950. The highest ten-ear sample was sold for $26, or at a rate of $312 per bushel. A large amount of corn is required to run the classes in the agricul- tural department of the Normal school and after a third of the coiU had been sold, Mr. Babcock stated that the Normal could use ihe remaining corn unless some exhibitor particularly desired to get his own sample of corn. However, the school would be a bidder. The following is a list of samples sold and the prices paiil: First 10-ear Johnson County, grown by C. A. Grant, Zalma, bought by Jessie Angle, Advance, for $1.75. First single ear yellow, grown by Chas. Schweer, Gordonville, sold to grower for $1. First single ear white, grown by Joe Wing Hensley, Jackson, sold to grower for $3.25. Second single ear white, grown by T. W. Tuschoff, Appleton, bought by E. J. Mahoney for 75 cents. Sample grown by T. A. Wylie, Chaffee, sold to C. M. McWilliams, 50 cents. Joe Wing Hensley and his Ten ears Boone County white, grown by E. J. Mahoney, sold to grower for $4. prize ear of com. Ten ears Johnson County white, grown by E. J. Mahoney, sold to Seth Babcock for $26. Ten-ear sample white corn grown by Farrell Armes, Dexter, sold to E. J. Mahoney for $3.50. Third ten-ear sample Reid’s Yellow Dent, grown by Chas. Schweer, Gordonville, sold to grower for $2.25. Ten-ear sample Boone County white, grown by E. J. Mahoney, sold to grower for $1.50. Second 100 ears white corn, grown by S. B. Hensley, Jackson, sold to grower for $2.50. First 100 ears yellow, grown by E. J. Mahoney, Dexter, sold to Ed Zwilling, Dexter, for $3.50. Third 100 ear sample white, grown by L. H. Gale, Hayti, sold to W. H. Stubblefield lor $3.50. Fourth 100 ear white, grown by Field Bros., Cape Girardeau, sold to E. J. Mahoney for $2.50. Fifth, 100-ear sample white, grown by Chas. Schweer, sold to Martin Baird, Clarkton, for $3.75. Second 100-ear yellow, grown by S. D. Hensley, Jackson, sold to grower for $4. First 100-ear white, grown by E. J. Mahoney, Dexter, sold to Ed Zwilling, Dexter, for $13. First St. Charles white, grown by John Henderson, Hayti, sold to W. H. Stubblefield, for $1.50. First ten-ear white, grown by E. C. Tuschoff, Appleton, sold to Martin Baird, Clarkton, for $12.50. Second Boone County white, grown by Charles Schweer, Gordonville, sold to W. H. Stubblefield for $3.60. Third ten ears Boone County white, grown by Field Bros., Cape Girardeau, sold to E. J. Mahoney, Dexter, for $1.50. First ten ears yellow, grown by E. J. Mahoney, sold to grower for $8. Second ten ears Reid’s, grown by N. D. Br owning, Jackson, sold to G. W. Tisdale, Gordonville, for $2. Good Corn Ten ears of Johnson County, grown by E. J. Mahoney, Corn Breeder, Dexter, Mo. This 10-ear sample sold for $26 at the auction sale conducted by the State Normal, January 10, 1914. Record price for a 10-ear sample in Southeast Missouri. 1914 Acre Yield Corn Contest 1914 Every one that enters this year’s corn contest will be furnished a blank containing the following questions, which must be answered before a scholarship or a cash premium will be awarded. $50.00 is the highest cash premium paid through the Agricultural Department and only one scholarship is awarded in each county. In 1913 scholarships and cash premiums totaled $1400.00. 1914 ACRE-YIELD CORN CONTEST. State Noinial, Cape Girardeau. County - Name Address Variety of Corn... — Was germination test made? Kind of Soil Kind of sub-soil What crop was grown on this land in 1913 1912 .1911 1910... Commercial fertilizer — kind and amount When applied Amount of manure applied How was seed bed prepared Date of plowing Depth of plowing State further preparation of seed bed Date of planting Distance between rows , hills No. stalks in hill Distance between stalks if drilled Date of each cultivation ....Was corn cultivated with one horse when too large to use two horses Per cent of stand Per cent of stalks with more than one ear Date when ripe Date of harvesting.... Total number of pounds of marketable corn at date of gatering Statement of Yield Attached to the bottom of the blank printed above will be found a printed form that must be signed by a disinterested party. If called upon to do so, this party must swear that the statement is correct. STATEMENT OF YIELD (To be signed by a disinterested party). This is to certify that I was present when this acre was measured. I saw the corn in the field and saw the corn weighed. That pounds of corn was considered a bushel in the local market, and this acre yielded bushels of marketable corn. Name of witness Address Date. .1914. Entries to the 1914 Acre Yield Corn Contest CLOSE JUNE 1, 1914 Cash premiums will not be paid until the Normal School Corn Show, which is held the first week in January, Reports of yields must be made as soon as corn is gathered and not later than December 1, 19'14. In counties holding acre-yield contests and where the County Superintendent and this department co- operate, the scholarship will be awarded at time of holding local show or contest. An enrollment card is enclosed. Get into the race. Southeast Missouri must hold the record for corn yield. Sign and mail the card today. 1914 Bread Contest At the Corn Show at the State Normal School in January, a Bread Contest was held for girls. One girl in each county won a year’s free tuition ($19). The following is a list of the winners: 1 . 2 . 3. 4. 5. 6 . 7. Jefiferson Oregon Franklin Cape Girardeau. Stoddard Wayne Ste. Genevieve Bessie GrifYith Bertha Arnold Sophia Ernst Mamie E. Pickens Avida Goza Martha Jones Agnes Siebert Hillsboro Alton New Haven Cape Girardeau Advance Piedmont . Ste. Genevieve Enroll now for the 1914 Bread Baking Contest by signing the enclosed card and forwarding same to Miss Mary T. Chapin, Home Economics Department, Normal School, Cape Girardeau, Mo. Xjunoj^ ENROLLMENT GAPE GIRARDEAU, p n S 2 'o o ■D m 55 > MISSOURI IE ECONOMICS [DEPARTMENT STATE NORMAL SCHOOL