Banner Graphic, Greencastle, Putnam County, 22 June 1973 — Page 5

Friday, June 22, 1973

Banner-Graphic, Greencastle, Indiana

Page 5

West Central Ind. Agricultural and Garden News

3,000 Expected At Purdue

More than 3,000 Indiana 4H youth will assemble at Purdue University, June 25-27, for the 55th annual 4-H Roundup. Theme this year is “(irowing Together." Announcement of state 4H achievement winners will highlight Monday afternoon and Wednesday morning sessions. Forty-six are to be honored. Special recognition of long-time 4-H leaders is also planned. Hut the varied program will provide a memorable experience for each youth attending. Clover-ama sessions, the chicken barbecue, share-the-fun entertainment. 4-H band and chorus presentations and informal activities. Campus tours and housing checkins will take up Monday morning. June 25.

Don't Miss The Putnamville Annual FISH FRY Sat., June 23 Good Food, Homemade Pies Country Western Entertainment Sponsored by Warren Twp. lions Club

Dr. Howard G. Diesslin, director of the Indiana Cooperative Extension Service, will welcome the youth at the opening general session at 1:30 p.m. in the Elliott Hall of Music. The 4H chorus and selected area “share-the-fun” skits will provide entertainment. Volunteer adult 4-H leaders with 20, 25, 30, 35, 40 and 45 years service will be recognized. During this session, state achievement winners in crafts, dairy, dog care, entomology, field crops, forestry, personality, poultry, recreation, sheep, woodworking. bread, clothing, conservation, dairy foods, electric, horticulture, foods and nutrition, food preservation and horse and pony w ill be announced. Then at 5:30 p.m. the annual chicken barbecue will be held at the Horticulture park on the west edge of the campus. Later, the state 4-H band will give a concert at Slayter Center, and a fun and frolic session will follow on the parking lot adjacent to Mackey Arena. Daytime activities Tuesday will include two Cloverama sessions~one in the morning and one in the alternoon. During these, youth will have the opportunity to participate in any one of 11 different project groups or in

one of 28 different reational sports events.

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Soaring Price Of Soybeans Dramatically Announces World’s Demand For Protein

NOTICE OF SALE OF REAL ESTATE The undersigned Executor of the Estate of Albert Cleve Grimes, said estate being No. E73-9 in the Putnam Circuit Court, hereby gives notice that the undersigned will on Wednesday, June 27, 1973 at 10:00 A.AA. EST, at the Englewood Office, Elston Bank & Trust Company, 1700 East Main Street, Crawfordsville, Indiana, and from day to day thereafter until sold, offer at private sale, for cash, subject to 1973 taxes payable in 1974, for not less than the appraised value, the following described real estate tots number 2, 3 and 4 in Block Number 2 in Frank M. Brumfield's Addition to the Town of Russellville, Indiana, in Putnam County, Indiana. This real estate is located one block west of the business district in Russellville, Indiana, and will be . available for immediate possession of the purchaser. The residence consists of 6 bedrooms, living room, dining room, 1 ’/? baths, kitchen and sun-porch. Interested parties may examine the residence at any convenient time by contacting the Trust Department, Elston Bank & Trust Company, Crawfordsville, Indiana. 362-3400 extension 74. Term: Cash, 10% down and balance upon deliver of merchantable abstract and deed. Seller reserves the right to reject any and all bids. ELSTON BANK & TRUST COMPANY, Executor of the Estate of Albert Cleve Grimes, Deceased WERNLE, RISTINE & MILLIGAN 410-422 Ben Hur Building Crawfordsville, Indiana

Tuesday evening’s general session in the Hall of Music will feature state “share-the-fun” festivities. Winding up the evening will be a “Hoosier Action” party in the ballrooms of the Memorial Union building. State achievement winners in the programs of beef, bicycle, automotive, veterinary science, commodity marketing, consumer education, home economics, health, public speaking, home environment, home management, photography, safety, swine and petroleum power will be named at the Wednesday morning session. Regognition will also be accorded state winners in leadership, achievement and citizenship as well as those selected for Camp Miniwanca and as 1974 national conference delegate finalists. Dr. Herb True, South Bend research psychologist, will speak at this session, and an inspirational ceremony on the Roundup theme will conclude the conference. This year two adult 4-H leaders from each county will also attend Roundup, but most of their time will be spent in a 4-H Leaders’ Workshop held simultaneously with the Roundup program. Farm Safety Week Appeal The Indiana Farm Safety Council has appealed to all farm and rural residents to participate in National Farm Safety Week, July2531, 1973. President Nixon has urged all persons engaged in farming and ranching to consider ways in which they can promote safer practices in work, home and recreational activities. In his proclamation setting the observance. President Nixon said, “The dollar cost of rural accidents is high, but there is no higher price than the human suffering...The same energies .md talents which have made igriculture so highly productive should also be turned to the task of making it safer.” It is estimated that more than 2,200 persons were killed in work accidents in agriculture during the past year.

The soaring price of soybeans on the international boards of trade has dramatically announced the world’s demand for more protein. It has also heralded the emergence last year of the nation’s new leading cash crop. Even as the soybean replaced corn as the most ofttraded farm commodity, it showed signs of becoming the Number One crop in at least 20 states where the total soybean acreage was gaining fast on corn and cotton. Indeed, the top ten soybean producing states have created a “Soybean Belt” that stretches from the Canadian Border to the Gulf of Mexico right through the nation's midsection. Ironically, this "Bean-come-lately,” one of the most versatile crops know to man, is being touted by some economists as the best U.S. resource to possibly balance the nation’s trade deficit, caused in part by our petroleum imports, that will amount to $4.2 billion this year and possibly $18 billion by 1980. A native of ancient China, the soybean received scant attention until the turn of the century, but since then United States Department of Agriculture and state agricultural experiment stations like Purdue Univeristy have developed some 100 varieties. Just about all of the varieties used in the U.S. have been developed since 1944. Last year, PurdueU niversitydeveloped varieties accounted for over 50 cent of the state’s 3,688,000 acres of soybeans. Nationally, the state ranked fifth in total acreage and fourth in total soybean production worth $370 million. Meanwhle, U. S. farmers were producing 45.755.000 acres worth an estimated $5billion. This year, while Hoosier farmers are planting about 4.114.000 acres of soybeans, Purdue has a dozen major soybean research projects underway with a total funding of around $153,761. The projects include studies of soybeans in relation to soil feritility, weeds, diseases, seed quality, yields, doublecropping, hail damage and harvesting methods. At Purdue, the overall goal of soybean research, explains

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James R. Wilcox, Jr., one of the U.S.D. A.-Purdue soybean researchers in the Department of Agronomy, is to improve production efficiency. This includes three specific objectives— improving yields, preventing disease and insect losses and increasing the protein content of the beans. “We are after a lot of other things, too,” Wilcox adds. “Things like resistances to lodging, shattering and seed disease, and more information about the different maturity zones across the U.S.” So far, research has outdistanced the farmer in the race for higher yields. Purdue agronomists point out that some producers have managed to consistently get over 50 bushels per acre, and that nearly all growers could average 40 bushels per acre by giving more attention to the crop. “It’s not a ‘yield barrier’, ” Wilcox says. “It's a psychological barrier. Farmers neglect their soybean crops in favor of corn, pastures and just about everyting else.” Soybean growers could get a 10 per cent improvement over last year’s state average

of 32 bushels per acre just by going to narrower rows,” says Marvin Swearingin, Purgue agronomist. He said that instead of planting in rows 26, 38 and 40 inches apart, soybeans can be produced in 30inch rows, thereby increasing the number of plants and total yield per acre. Swearingin also explains that too often the soybean crop goes on the farmers’ poorer soil because it will grow with little or no additional fertilization. However, to produce well the plant usually needs additional potassium and phosphorus. (A legume, it takes its nitrogen from the air.) The soybean is flexible, too. Growers can plant their bean crop anytime between mid-April and early July. In some areas of the state, beans can be planted after w heat is harvested in late June or early July, enabling growers to get two crops a year from the same field. The length of the day, or photoperiod, is perhaps the most critical factor in soybean production. Wilcox explains that 13-14 hours of daylight causes the plant to bloom. If the soybean is

Madison Farm First Management TourStop

A large corn and livestock farm in Madison countv, operated as a father and son corporation, will be the first stop, July 13, on the Indiana State Farm Management Tour. Paul Thurston and his son, Phil, incorporated the farm last year. Their home base is seven miles southeast of Alexandria and will be visited from 9:30 until 11:30 a.m. The Thurstons own 378 acres and rent an additional 705 acres from six landlords. They planted more than 1,100 acres of corn this spring. The corporation annually feeds out 600-800 cattle and 700 hogs. A herd of 50 beef cows gleans roughages. Visitors will also see a twocell lagoon constructed last fall to handle runoff from the cattle feedlots. Mr. and Mrs. Paul Thurston are parents ol three children—Phil, a Purdue Univeristy graduate; Janet, an Ohio homemaker and Purdue graduate, and Patty, ajunionat Purdue. Mr. and Mrs. Phil Thurston have three young children. The tour luncheon will be at the Madison County 4-H grounds at the south edge ol Alexandria. A slide presentation and interview with Victor (Vic) Sprong will follow the luncheon. The Vic and Mary Sprong farm, eight miles north ol Muncie, will be visited from 1:45 to 3:30 o’clock that afternoon. This farm features a 1,200-acre crop operation and a large farrow to finish swine enterprise. This year’s tour opens Thursday afternoon, July 12,

with a visit to the MillerPurdue Agricultural Center, east of Upland in Grant county. This Agricultural Experiment Station farm currently is devoted to beet cattle crossbreeding and forage production research. I he banquet will be the night of July 12 at Linder’s Restaurant in Anderson. Dr. Don Paarlberg director of agricultural economics for the U.S. Department of Agriculture, will discuss farm policy and Dr. J. William Uhrig, Purdue extension economist, will give the economic outlook. Luncheon and banquet tickets are available at county Cooperative Extension Serive offices or from Gerald A. Harrison, Agricultural Economics Department, Krannert Building, Purdue University, West Lafayette, In. 47907.’

Inflation Hits Farm Inflation has increased agricultural production costs by SS 1 :! per cent in the past six years, estimates a University of Minnesota economist.

planted too early, the daylength in late April and May will cause the plant to bloom prematurely before it has made enough vegetative growth. When planted too late, fall frosts may damage the immature crop or rain can bring about damage to the unharvested crop. Shattering— when the beans fall to the ground--also reduces yields. Two other prime factors are moisture and temperature. Soybeans generally prosper where corn and cotton do well, particularly in the Midwest and the Midsouth, and in the Piedmont region farther east. West of the Missouri River in the wheat belt soybeans do not produce well because of inadequate moisture. Neither do they perform well further north in Canada. Diseases are less of a threat *:o soybeans than to some it her crops, although some luthorities say there are no less than 50 that can damage the plant. Of primary concern in Indiana are phytophthora root rot. brown stem rot, and pod and stem blight. Five Purdue developed varieties—Amsoy 71, Beeson, Calland, Cutler 71 and Wells--are resistant to Race One of the root rot. However, a new race has been detected in neighboring Ohio and may appear for the first time in Indiana this year. Researchers have not yet had time to breed resitance to this new root rot into the plants. Developing resistance in the soybean plant can be a long, tedious process. Purdue researchers have been working for ten years on a variety that will be resistant to brown stem rot, but they don’t expect it to be available for another five years. Similary, plant scientists at the Ohio State University and Purdue have been seeking pod and stern blight for six or eight

years.

Another major thrust of Purdue’s research has been to increase the protein content of soybeans. Two Purdue varieties, Protana. released in 1969, and Bonus, released in 1971, contain about 43 per cent protein. Both suffer

lowered yields and a lack of buyer interest. “There's just no market for high protein soybeans in the U.S.,"Wilcox laments. Then too, the soybean's protein is not readily available to most animals. The beans contain a trypsin enzyme inhibitor that prevents digestion of the protein. Cooking destroys the inhibitor, but few livestock producers can afford the equipment to parch the bean. A few edible varieties, notably Verde and Jade, have been developed for human consumption, but they have not replaced popcorn as the favorite TV snack. Wilcox prefers cooked green soybeans over lima beans, but not all of his colleagues agree. They complain of a bland taste and a disappointing texture. Soybean observers agree that the increasing demand for protein and the decreasing supply of alternate sources make the bean a very popular commodity, now and in the long run. It does, indeed, Wilcox says, have a bright future.

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