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Friday, March 29,1974

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This field of Andy Majewski, Plymouth, was hit with V/i inches of rain just before planting his soybeans and with another 4 1 / J inches soon after. He sprayed a water-in-soluble pre-emergehericide in between and came through with relatively clean fields. Hoosier Turkey Producers Raise 5.4 Million Birds due University. This represents a iO per cent drop in the number of turkeys and a 15 per cent decline in pounds.

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Hoosier turkey producers raised 5.4 million birds last year, report state-federal agricultural statisticians at Pur-

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Purdue University will students will be accepted, again sponsor an eight-week research participation sum- Dr. Thomas K. Hodges, mer program in life sciences Purdue plant physiologist, for high school juniors and will serve as program director seniors of outstanding ability, this year. This is the sixteenth consecutive year for the proThe session will begin June gram at Purdue, which an16 and end Aug. 9. Only 40 nually attracts scientificTo PreventBumps, Spray Trees Now

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Hodges emphasizes that it is designed to give high school upperclassmen of high ability

and interest in science a better understanding of scientific subject matter and method. The program provides

both instructional and research activities. Instructional activities will include a series of lectures, seminars, discussions and field trips on

a variety of life science topics, tach student will conduct a research project under the direction of a Purdue staff member.

Farris Appointed Head Of Department

To prevent those small red, green, and black bumps that were on your silver maple tree leaves last year, spray now. That’s the advice of Donald D. Schuder, Purdue University extension entomo-

logist.

The abnormal wart-like growths that turn up on the foliage of silver maples in the spring are maple bladder galls. They are caused by the feeding of tiny microscopic mites. The mites’ feeding induces the cells to grow wildly so that they produce a gall within which the mites

live and feed.

Galls may occur singly or in clusters. Sometimes they become so abundant that the leaves are gnarled, twisted and deformed. Despite their numbers, however, they sel-

Apply just before bud break in the spring.

Dr. Paul L. Farris, Purdue University professor of agricultural economics and 22year staff member, has been appointed head of the university’s agricultural economics department, Dr. R.L. Kohls, Purdue’s dean of agriculture, announced today. The Board of Trustees confirmed Farris’s appointment in its meeting today. Farris,

What’s Got Eight Legs And Annoys?

Whafs eight-legged, reddish or browmish, smaller than a pinhead, and annoying around the house in spring

and fall?

If you answered clover mites, you’ve probably suffered from them in the past. During the first warm days

dom affect the vigor of the of spring clover mites become host tree, comforts Schuder. active, swarming on floors, The entomologist rec- window sills, siding, and elseommends application of one where. Apparently they are quart of either malathion or looking for access to the outlindane emulsion concentrate doors and fresh plants on per 100 gallons of water, which to feed. FarmPricesDrop At Chicago

Farm commodity futures prices plum meted under widespread selling on the Chicago Board of Trade Monday. Limit declines were posted in nearly all pits. Soybeans were down the limit of 20 cents a bushel, soybean oil lost 100 points, corn was down 10 cents and oats 6 cents. Soybean meal fell back $6.50 a ton and wheat futures were down 15 cents. Iced broilers closed little changed to about 1 cent a pound higher. The buying in broilers was strongly influenced by the government’s order calling for the destruction of several millions of

chickens in Mississippi. Prices had been irregular on the opening, except for wheat. Selling then sharply cut back prices in the soybean complex. A major factor in the selling was word that Peru had begun marketing fish meal and oil, products that compete with U.S. products in world markets. When oil futures fell the limit and remained locked there, selling expanded in soybeans and meal. At the close, soybeans were down 20 cents a bushel; May 6.1514; wheat declined 16 cents, May 4.74; corn was down 10 cents, May 2.93(4 and oats lost 6 cents. May

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Bulls Set

Record Prices Spring: A Time

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Two Angus bulls, consigned by Purdue University’s animal sciences department, established price records at the recent Indiana Performance Tested Bull sale at

Springville.

Top selling bull brought $2,025 from M.C. Graulick, Route 1, Wadesville. Second high selling bull was purchased by Maurice Chase & Sons, Bedford, for $ZOOO. The previous record for the sale was $1,700 paid for a Charolais last year. The 42 bulls sold for an average of $974, compared with a 1973 sale average of

$968.

Eight Angus bulls sold for an average of $1,294; five Charolais for an average of $1,200; nine Herefords for an average of $864; 12 Polled Herefords for an average of $860; and seven Red Polls for an average of $846. The lone Simmental half blood brought $550. The bulls, gain-tested by their breeders under farm conditions, brought a gross of $40,925. The sale was sponsored by the Southern Indiana Feeder Auction Association, Indiana Cattlemen’s Association, Purdue’s animal sciences department and beef breed associations in the state in cooperation with the Indiana Cooperative Extension Ser-

vice.

Of Lights

Outdoor lighting for convenience, safety and beauty has created new concepts in home and yard development in recent years, remind Extension engineers at Purdue University. Spring is a good time to plan and install such systems. Digging is easy and re-growth is fast. This quickly erases ground scars. Also, you’ll have all summer to enjoy the results.

In the fall their appearance is prompted by the desire for winter shelter. At that time they often congregate in large numbers at the base of foundations, under siding, and around doors and window sills. “An interesting fact is that homes in new subdivisions, where new lawns have been seeded, or where lawns have been renovated or fertilized seem to attract the invaders,” says Darryl Sanders, Purdue University extension entomologist. “In other words, clover mites appear to develop high populations where there is succulent and vigorous growing vegetation,” he adds. If a home was infested w ith clover mites last fall, then there will probably be a problem this spring. Best time to control clover mites is in the late summer or early fall, says Sanders. This is done by applying barrier sprays around the house to prevent the invasion. “If this treatment was not applied last fall, there’s little you can do to ease the spring problem other than to understand it and know what to do later this year,” advises the entomologist. Some relief can be obtained by using a vacuum cleaner to suck up the mites or by spraying them with a household aerosol containing pyrethrins, he continues. Either of these methods is only temporary and may have to be repeated three for four times per day for several days until all of tte hibernating mites have become active and are killed, captured or escape to the outdoors. Details on measures to prevent fall invasion are contained in Cooperative Extension Service publication, E-59, “Clover Mite Control in the Home.” Single copies are available without cost to Indiana residents from the county extension office.

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who has been acting head of the department since last Sept. 15, succeeds Dr. Charles E. French, who returned to teaching and research. Farris, a native of Knox County, has served in a wide variety of capacities both on and off Purdue’s campus. Since joining the agricultural economics department staff in September, 1952, he has taught and carried out research studies in marketing, price analysis and agricultural policy. He also conducted extension programs in marketing and economic outlook for agriculture. Farris is the author or co-author of some 100 articles and publica-

tions.

Farris served with the U.S.D.A.’s Economic Research Sen ice in 1962, studying the changing market structure of the Florida citrus industry’. From February, 1965, to July 1966. he was project leader for meats and poultry for the National Commission on Food Marketing. In that capacity he organized, planned and carried out studies of the livestock and poultry industries in relation to market structure and performance. After graduation from Decker High School, he assisted his father in the operation and management of a 220-acre diversified farm in Knox County. He was inducted into the army in the fall of 1941, serving four and one-half years, including 18 months in the China-Burma-India Theater. He was discharged as a Captain in 1946. Farris received the B.S.A. degree from Purdue in 1949, the M S. degree from the University of Illinois and the Ph. D. degree from Harvard University. Dr. and Mrs. Farris, the former Rachel Rutherford of Springport, Henry County, are the parents of four children, Nancy, a freshman at

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