babcock, seth
unknown – unknown
- Name variants
- Seth Babcock
- Record count
- 45
- Sources
- life_events
- Places seen
- Cape Girardeau; Cape Girardeau, Mo.; Dexter; Sikeston; Southeast Missouri
- First event date
- 1913-05-28
- Last event date
- 2014-01-28
Timeline — 37 events
- 1913-05-28 Seth Babcock of the Department of Agriculture, State Normal School, advises farmers to sell the roosters now, noting infertile eggs keep better than fertile ones Quote: "Sell The Roosters Now"
- 1913-06-25 Dexter. Seth Babcock, secretary of the Southeast Missouri Corn Show; Farmers' Institute set for January 8-10 at the Cape Girardeau Normal School, with premium lists for 10- and 100-ear corn samples to be watched for Quote: "The 8th, 9th and 10th of January are the dates set for the annual Farmers' I…
- 1913-06-25 Cape Girardeau. Seth Babcock, Secretary of the Southeast Missouri Corn Show, announced the Farmers' Institute held by the Cape Girardeau Normal School on the 8th, 9th and 10th of January Quote: "Seth Babcock, Secretary, Southeast Missouri Corn Show."
- 1913-06-25 Cape Girardeau. Seth Babcock, secretary of the Southeast Missouri Corn Show, announced the annual Farmers' Institute at Cape Girardeau Normal School, set for Jan 8-10; Joe Wing of the Breeders' Gazette will be on the program every day Co-mentioned: Joe Wing. Quote: "Watch for the premium lists for 1…
- 1913-07-09 Cape Girardeau. Seth Babcock of the State Normal School, Cape Girardeau, Mo. reported turkey red wheat variety yield comparisons Quote: "Seth Babcock, State Normal School, Cape Girardeau, Mo"
- 1913-07-09 Cape Girardeau. of the State Normal School at Cape Girardeau, reported wheat variety test yields from the Normal School Farm: Fultz 28.83, Early Ripe 25.33, Fulcaster 25.00, Pools 22.00 and Turkey Red 15.66 bu. per acre; the value of the first year's work is showing what can be done on worn land rat…
- 1913-09-17 Cape Girardeau. Seth Babcock of the State Normal School, Cape Girardeau, advised Southeast Missouri farmers on lime application, calling lime the most commonly lacking soil amendment after barnyard manure Quote: "Next to barnyard manure no one thing is more often lacking in our Southeast Missouri so…
- 1913-11-05 Dexter. Seth Babcock spoke on alfalfa growing at the Dexter agricultural exhibit, following the farm advisers' talks Quote: "They were followed by Seth Babcock on alfalfa growing"
- 1913-11-19 Cape Girardeau. Cape Girardeau State Normal School offers special short courses in agriculture Jan. 2 to March 13; write Seth Babcock, Department of Agriculture, State Normal School, Cape Girardeau, Missouri, for information Quote: "The Cape Girardeau State Normal School Offers Special Courses In AG…
- 1913-11-19 Cape Girardeau. Contact for the Cape Girardeau State Normal School special short course in agriculture, January 2 to March 13, 1914, covering dairying, orcharding, farm crops, stock judging and animal husbandry; mature students admitted to any department at $2.00 for the ten weeks' course and $3.00…
- 1914-01-21 Bought a ten-ear sample of Mahony's white corn at the corn show auction for $26, the highest price paid for any single sample and reportedly the record price for ten ears of corn in Southeast Missouri, for use in his classroom work Co-mentioned: Mr. Mahony. Quote: "went to Seth Babcock for $26 and w…
- 1914-01-28 Cape Girardeau. Seth Babcock of the Department of Agriculture, State Normal School, Cape Girardeau, Mo., invited enrollment in the 1914 Acre Yield Contest in a seed-corn item promoting Southeast Missouri seed corn varieties Quote: "Enroll now by writing to Seth Babcock"
- 1914-02-04 Cape Girardeau. State Normal School, Cape Girardeau; credited source of the account of Reginald O. Swan's prize-winning limed acre Quote: "His father is so well pleased with the results that he is buying ground limestone by car load for his 1914 crops."
- 1914-03-11 Cape Girardeau. Seth Babcock of the State Normal School, Cape Girardeau, Mo., will send the booklet on how 150 bushels of corn may be grown per acre in 1914 by return mail Quote: "Ask Seth Babcock, State Normal School, Cape Girardeau, Mo., to send you this booklet by return mail"
- 1914-04-01 Cape Girardeau. Wrote the article 'Best Variety of Corn,' describing Cape corn that produced 99 bu. on one acre in 1913 and urging yield tests and acre-yield contests; signed 'Seth Babcock, State Normal School, Cape Girardeau.' Quote: "Cape corn, the corn that produced 99 bu. on one acre in 1913"
- 1914-04-01 Cape Girardeau. State Normal School (Cape Girardeau) writer urges corn variety and yield tests in every rural school district and announces a 1914 acre-yield contest with county prizes Quote: "A corn variety test should be run in every rural school district."
- 1914-04-16 Cape Girardeau, Mo.. Author of the 'The Seed Bed' farm-advice column on preparing an ideal seed bed; Seth Babcock of the State Normal, Cape Girardeau, Mo Quote: "No matter what kind of seed we plant there are a few things that are essential to an ideal SEED BED."
- 1914-06-10 Cape Girardeau. Seth Babcock of the State Normal School, Cape Girardeau, wrote the "Continuous Cultivation Wins" column on conserving soil moisture through cultivation
- 1914-06-10 Cape Girardeau. Seth Babcock of the State Normal School, Cape Girardeau, Mo., authored 'Continuous Cultivation Wins,' advising that the secret of preserving surface moisture is continuous cultivation with a dust mulch formed by a narrow shoveled cultivator Quote: "The secret of their success is cont…
- 1914-06-17 Southeast Missouri. Seth Babcock of the Department of Agriculture, State Normal School, describes the wheat straw worm and Hessian fly damaging Southeast Missouri wheat and advises late sowing, after frost, to help control the insect Quote: "The Hessian Fly is getting credited with a lot of damage i…
- 1914-06-24 Cape Girardeau. Seth Babcock of the State Normal School, Cape Girardeau, authored the Do Not Sucker Corn agriculture article, citing Nebraska station yield-loss figures for removing corn suckers Quote: "the yield was reduced 56%"
- 1914-07-29 Cape Girardeau. Column on feeding wheat to livestock, giving balanced rations for horses at heavy work and milk cows Quote: "Wheat is now selling for the same or less than corn."
- 1914-07-29 Cape Girardeau. Of Cape Girardeau, Mo.; gives livestock feed rations: 1 part cottonseed meal with 4 1/2 parts wheat, or 1 part wheat with 4 parts bran, or 1 part cottonseed meal and 1 1/2 parts corn with 3 parts wheat Quote: "SETH BABCOCK, Cape Girardeau, Mo."
- 1914-08-19 Cape Girardeau. Cape Girardeau Normal School author of an article declaring alfalfa in Southeast Missouri no longer an experiment and urging fall planting Quote: "Weevils and other insects attacking stored grains can be killed by the use of carbon bisulfid" Quote: "Alfalfa in Southeast Missouri is n…
- 1914-08-19 Cape Girardeau. Seth Babcock of the Cape Girardeau Normal School wrote that alfalfa in Southeast Missouri is no longer an experiment; those with a few acres in this dry season are the most enthusiastic and plan to increase acreage, and seed beds should be sown as soon as rains come and can go in as…
- 1914-10-14 Cape Girardeau. Announced rules and awards for the 1914 Acre Yield Contest: a neighbor must witness the measuring, gathering and weighing of corn and sign a printed statement of correctness; reports of yields to be made as soon as the corn is gathered; awards at the Corn Show and Farmers' Institute,…
- 1915-02-10 Cape Girardeau. The Agricultural Department of the State Normal School at Cape Girardeau offered to inform interested parties where they could obtain good lime for agricultural purposes at St. Genevieve county, saving freight charges Quote: "The Agricultural Department of the State Normal School at…
- 1915-02-10 Cape Girardeau, Mo.. The Agricultural Department of the State Normal School at Cape Girardeau will tell interested parties where to obtain good lime for agricultural purposes for freight and loading only; the air-slacked lime from St. Genevieve county kilns tested 87% calcium oxide Quote: "Write to…
- 1915-04-21 Cape Girardeau. Seth Babcock, Dept. of Agriculture, Cape Normal, writes 'Blind Cultivation': begin to cultivate as soon as corn is planted; go on the field with the peg tooth harrow before the corn is up and stir the surface of the ground [date from clip_id] Quote: "Just as soon as corn is planted,…
- 1915-10-15 Cape Girardeau. Third Annual South-East Missouri Farm Product Show Oct 27-30 at the State Normal School; Stoddard County urged to exhibit for cash prizes; premium lists from Seth Babcock Quote: "STODDARD MUST SHINE THERE."
- 1916-02-11 Cape Girardeau. Seth Babcock of the Department of Agriculture, State Normal School, Cape Girardeau, argues in 'A New Method of Renting' that crop-share rents are fairer to tenants than cash rents Quote: "Under our present method of renting, extensive rather than intensive farming is encouraged."
- 1916-02-18 Cape Girardeau. Seth Babcock of the Department of Agriculture, State Normal School, Cape Girardeau, reported the 1915 average corn yield in southeast Missouri at 33.4 bushels per acre, the highest county at 41 bushels Quote: "The acre yield of corn in Southeast Missouri, 1915, was an average of 33.4…
- 1916-04-21 Sikeston. Wrote up the dairy records of L. D. Baker's Holstein herd at Sikeston in the Stoddard County Farmers Co-Operative Association column; cow Kougen Pauline Royal 130850 gave 60.14 pounds of butter fat and 1424.4 pounds of milk in twenty-five days Quote: "We Have the Cows"
- 1916-04-21 Sikeston. Named in connection with the published Holstein milk-production records at Sikeston Quote: "that these records will be broken. / Seth Babcock."
- 1917-01-19 Cape Girardeau. Seth Babcock of Cape Girardeau announces the 1917 Corn Contest of the Agricultural Department of the State Normal School, Cape Girardeau, with an $18.00 scholarship for the one-acre plot with the largest yield
- 1917-03-02 Author of the article "Poor Seed Causes Low Yields" urging germination testing of seed corn, citing a Normal School ear-by-ear test in which high, medium and weak ears produced visibly different stands in the row Quote: "Poor Seed Causes Low Yields."
- 2014-01-28 Cape Girardeau. 1914 Acre Yield Contest conducted by the State Normal School, Department of Agriculture; enrollment by writing to Seth Babcock at Cape Girardeau, Mo.; article notes Southeast Missouri farmers were paying up to $3.25 an ear for seed corn Quote: "Enroll now by writing to Seth Babcock,…
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