Licking Valley Courier

SCISSORS and PASTE
With an Occasional Cursory Comment by the Editor.

"Schribar Corn."

The drouth that burned up corn in the great Southwest this year may be the price the nation must pay for a new crop that will minimize similar losses in the future.

With the thermometer touching 106, ponds failing, kafir corn and milo maize, the much vaunted stand-bys of dry years, withering in the fields, "Schribar corn," a new mixture of drouth-resisting sorghums, has produced from twenty-five to sixty bushels an acre.

Thirty farmers in Garfield county, Oklahoma, grew "Schribar corn" this year. Less than .25 of an inch of rain fell between June 15 and September 1, but the new sorghum mixture stood green and growing through the blazing days that killed the feteritas, the kafir corn and the milo maize.

The agricultural experts differ as to the exact nature of the new plant. By some it is classed as a hybrid and by others as a superior strain of feterita. It matures in ninety days, its grains are larger than those of kafir corn, they are pure white in color and feeding tests are said to indicate that both the grain and stalk are superior to kafir.

"Schribar corn" is named from its originator, "Uncle John Schribar, who claims to have produced it from crossing three drouth-resisting sorghums of the "durra" family,

Future generations of Southwestern farmers may have cause to venerate the name of "Uncle John" Schribar, plain farmer of Garfield county.—St. Louis Republic.

The past season should teach Morgan county to diversify crops and not depend upon one crop.

Something like the above should be introduced as an emergency crop.