Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 21, Number 256, Decatur, Adams County, 29 October 1923 — Page 4

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT Published Every Evening Except Sunday by THE DECATUR DEMOCRAT CO. J. H. Heller —Pres, and Bus. Mgr. E. W. Kampe—Vice-Prea. & Adv. Mgr A. R. Holthotue—Sec’y. and Bus. Mgr. Entered at the Postoffice at Decatur Indiana as second class matter. Subscription Rates Single copies 2 cents One Week, by carrier 10 cents One Year, by carrier $5.00 One Month, by mail 35 cents Three Months, by mail SI.OO Six Months, by mail $1.75 One Year, by mall $3.00 One Year, at office $3.00 (Prices quoted are within first and s«eond zones. Additional postage aducd outside those zones.) Advertising Rates Made known on application. Foreign Representative Carpenter & Company, 122 Michigan Avenue. Chicago, Fifth Avenue Bldg., New York City N. Y. Life Bldg.. Kansas City. Mo In view of what has happened in Indiana we can naturally expect to be advised to elect a few honest dem ocrats next year.—(jpshen NewsTimes. Surely you don’t have to be advised on a thing so apparent. When congress meets in a fewweeks there will be eleven vacancies, caused by death and resignation and the sad part of it is that the loss will scarcely be noticed. The truth is that if about half of the members should drop out the net results and benefits would be greater for the people. There seems to be an effort to prove that the $155,000 was loaned by the state agricultural department direct to Governor McCray and not to a bank and we don’t see just how that helps the situation. Certainly the state cannot loan money to individuals and if it was done that way. the board of which the governor is chairman, surely violated the law. Hogs at less than $7 Is as hard oa the Indiana tanner as 85-cent wheat is on the northwestern farmer. At r.O time in the Wilson administration was the price of hogs lower than at the present time. And in those days $T would buy more than $lO w ill buy now. In fact, according to government reports, it takes $11.75 now to buy wlmt $7 vmi’l purchase in l'.'!-!. —Hartford City > < ws. Lew Shank may be a vdte getter but it should be remembered that conditions in the state are the most serious in history and it's time for a solid citizen to take the reins of government. If there ever was a period when it's dangerous to have a governor who tries to say cute things, it's now. We don’t believe vaudeville performances will attract votes next year. The people will want platforms which will reduce taxes and make it possible to live in Indiana. The high school football team wdu an undisputed victory at Logansport Saturday and demonstrated the fact that, they have the goods and can deliver. When the team-goes away from home and wins gamcS, you can bet its a team with the real stuff for the crowd is against them and they must, earn the victory. The local football teams this year are (lean and fast and win on merit. We are proud of them and proudest of the tact that they play fair. Which shall it be. Lew Shank, down, or Ed Jackson, kluxer? That’s the question which in now bothering republican leaders and w ill continue to be a real source of worry for about a year. Shank hurled his hat into the ring with a flourish Saturday, declaring iu opposition to most things th' republicans have stood for aud some tl'-w oues including electric lights foi the country highways at the expense of the land owners. Jackson hat becu fence building for a year or twe and is said to have the support of lh> Ulan. Either candidate gets the party into trouble aud the boys are looking tor a Iloces to .take tii'.rn out of 'then

Sets Hog-Raising Record That Is Hard To Beat

Otto Hoile Qualifies for Gold and Silver Medals (By L. M. Busche) r ‘ Eighteen thousand five hundred pounds of live hogs, nine gilts saved for the breeding herd, two of the best r boars saved to sell for herd headers and two porkers saved for winter meat as the produce of 13 sows in less than six months, is a record of g which one may be rightfully proud. g This was accomplished by Otto Hoile 0 an Adams county, Indiana, farmer g and a contestant in the Hoosier Ton I Litter Club this year. As a matter of I . interest it may be stated Mr. Hoile j will receive a gold medal for one ton j litter contained in the number. Two I other litters are qualified for silver medals for having made better than 1.800 pounds aud three others for bronze medals by weighing over I.GOO pounds. However, he will be entitled to only one medal. Mr. Hoile's 13 pure-bred Chester White sows farrowed 144 pigs last spring. 117 of which were raised to weaning time. The pigs were sired by Wampus Giant 95909. by Wampus 67101. One . pig was killed after weaning time because of a physical defect, 103 were shipped and the remainder are accounted for above. Saving an average of nine j igs per sow with that number of sows is stated by leaders of the Hoosier Ton Litter Club to be a state record. The smallest litter raised consisted of seven pigs. When the 100 Canadians stopped at Mr. Hoile’s place on their tour of northeastern Indiana in August a number of pointed questions were asked him. To a question concerning the advisability of using pure-bred " stock Mr. Hoile stated: "I would not - attempt to raise anything but pure , t breds. Most of my success in raising i large litters to weaning time lies in v having sows of good blood lines — 1 breeding which has proven good for ” several generations back not only in producing large litters but in raising them. Also, breeding varies greatly, in '<he showing made in the feed lot and thanks to a requirement of the Hoosier Ton Litter Club that contestants earmark all pigs, I am this year, observing that principle as never be-, fore. Even now I am planning to eliminate some of the breeding from' my nerd which doesn't deliver the goods in the feed lot, even though large litters arc raised." When questioned concerning the' ration fed h : s brood sows Mr. Hoile, ■ stated: "During the winter the sows ( received ear corn, and water, also a j small amount of tankage in an open ' * trough. Clover hay was given them. occasionally and they relished it. A 1 laxative crop containing middlings, | c

I difficulties. Charles I’. Steinmetz, wizard of electricity did not care for money. He was happy with a contract with the General Electric which gave him a drawing account so that he lived without thinking about finances and could thus devote his entire self to his work of studying out new means of "chaining” lightning. Steinmetz • came to this country, a poor unknown I foreigner, uuable to speak our language. He became famous bei cause of his genius to fathom the ' mysteries of the electric current and : the generation owes much to this i man. Under present immigration laws he would prabably have been barred entrance and that something to think about too. „ i i ■ ■■ The Indianapolis News prints an interesting story which shows some big leaks in the state highway commission and which forecasts a disi closure which may prove rather sen- ’ satioual. The commission has been buying tiros wholesale and furnishing I them to individuals at cost, provided that individual happens to be in favor It Secins. The story includes some ' interesting facts regarding expenditure of money during the past year and conclnd' s with this rather stirtl ’ ing paragraph: "It will bo observed that tlo re was spent by the equipment division on ) the upkeep and buying of equipment $795,563.34, and it is understood that this division has asked for $1.000,000 in order that it. may operate propcrly. During tbn year covered by the e report, the com mission has bought >r six road buHders. twenty concrete ic mixers, two portable rock crushers, is three air compressors with rock drill o attached and a pavement testing core irj machine. au . — s Otto vLiUd friends at ir Bluffton yesterda;-.

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ground oats and barley, oil meal elover chaff and salt was fed so three or four weeks before farrowin time and the same ration was con

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vided with "creeps” containing selffeeders in which d'ere middlings, shelled corn and tankage and accordingly weaning was accomplished with

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they would eat with tankage and a mineral mixture consisting of lime, wood ashes, sulphur and copperas being furnished in a self-feeder.

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Grimm alfalfa which had been sown in the wheat. It might be added that by this time the herd had “outgrown" the self-feeders aud a large amount of the feeding was done by hand.

The People’s Voice —-— i Editor Democrat: We usually hear much comment when we raise a big crop and have]' the price drop or raise a small one and have a good price or if on the report of fro|t on an immature corn crop, have it raise a few points. Numbers of farmers work on the hit and miss theory and very often miss. The farming industry seems to have a] wrench loose ini its machinery else wasn't properly assembled. In this day of specialized industry the] farmer is groping for light and business methods to fit his case. He begins to realize that constituting a greater portion of the world’s wealth and producing an absolute essential, to life's sustenance, he is a typical case of the dog being swung by its tail. Hence organization in its infant stage. All about us farmers are leaving the farm for the factory and so it will continue until some of the problems facing the farmers arc solved instead of shelved. Here are some of the problems: Co-operation, taxation, organization, diversification, education, recreation and foreign markets with a little regulation thrown iu on the side of production. Some, of these 1 have never heard discussed while some have been discussed forcefully with the dis left oft. Co-operation! is progressing and is helping while our taxation system is very crude and bunglcsome. It very much reminds me of the fable of the keeper and his three squirrels. Every evening the keeper would give them their toed forth" next day. Now it happened pee squirrel would store Lie good high up in a box, another put some of his under the roof aud some, in a crevice in the side of the cage 1 while tbp third squirrel placed all bis i iu the crevice. Thia crevice was the flush pipe and after dark the keeper. I Hushed the cage that it would bo clean for the next day. Naturally one squir rd had do feed next day and the others only about half enough. Every day at noon the keeper would bring L cut to- tlia center of the cage the food found in the bojj stud vs hat the other

inuod after tanowing, with ear corn Ided beginning when the pigs were >out a week old.” As soon as the dgs wore able to oat they were pro-

no worry to the pigs. Castration oc curred before weaning. After wean ing the entire number ran in a field of alsike, receiving all the ear corn

After threshing a half-and-half mixture of outs and wheat was fed in self-feeders and by hand aud they were changed to the run of a field of

During the last two or three weeks of the six-menths period they were fed in the dry lot, receiving the ration outlined above. Since 11 litters were farrowed between March 16 and 22, and Septem-

had left, if any. The moral of this fable being, what would the keeper have done had ail the squirrels stored their good in the flush pipe? There is more than a little simi- j iarity of our tax system to the squir- ; rels. Tax is for the benefit of all. It builds our roads, erects our schools, protects us and enforces our laws , without favoritism. Now who pays the tax? Do we all pay an equal share from our income that we are protected and permitted to work at or does the keeper gather the tax from him who has safely stored up the results of his labors? Why tax exempt people any more than tax exempt bonds? If we take organization diversification together we hare a very real problem. Heretofore the organizers have covered too much territory. They have failed to recognize the di-1! verse elements under farming, a farmer was a farmer, whether he raised hogs or wheat or whether he was a cattle farmer exclusively or a cotton fanner or a tobacco raiser. Each one must be organized separately. We have the pattern iu the American Federation of Labor. There is a carpenters’ union, mason, electrician, soft coal aud hard coal miner, etc., on up through the trades each answerable to n subhead and finally a supremo head. Let ns look at the organization of an army and see il i these statements aren't borne out. There wc have the air forces, infantry, cavalry, artillery, commissary, hospital, etc., each organized separately and under its own bend yet' each answerable to a supreme h"ad. Under education aiul recreation j comes training. The rural Schools are a training camp for lite, recreation should bear them up through life and every community should have a recreational center that neighbor might meet neighbor occasionally and relax from his cares and worries. Onr . rural high schools offer an academic : courts tvith too much stress on dead languages aud not enough upon borne i economics - and agriculture. •I The lack of foreign markets is part- ■ ly due to certain European countries ' being more willing to keep Europe ; iu a turmoil than to see her settle I do'"n and recuperate Onr MilseJotrt; ti foreign policy is also btameable

i ber 15 could be made weigh-day for i all the litters entered in the Hoosier . Ton Litter Club Contest, at that time . the county agent nnd a few witnesses ■ assisted in weighing the entire bunch. The 103 pigs weighed 18,500 . pounds, un average of practically 180 pounds, which is considered remarkI able, especially since the gilts and boars whwich were saved for breeding stock wore among the best and 'hat two late litters, farrowed April > and 20 respectively, were included. r he six litters entered in the Hooser Ton Litter Club weighed as follows: Litter of 12, 2.100 tbs. Litter of 11, corrected wgt, 1,765 lbs. . Litter of 9, 1,830 lbs. ' Litter of 9, corrected wgt, 1,830 lbs. Utter of 9, corrected wgt. 1.700 lbs. Litter of 9, corrected wgt, 1,690 lbs. Average pigs in litters, 9.8. Average weight of pigs 185 pounds. "Our Bloom” 204.850, by Petroleum liant 37,115, farrowed and suckled he ton Utter. To show that Mr. Hoile is just a lit- 1 le more inclined to the keeping of I ■ecords than the ordinary farmer it I nay be said he has a feed record be- I tinning May 5 and ending September I '5 which shows that $982.15 worth of I corn, wheat, oats, middlings, tankage I rnd mineral were fed during that I time. This includes the feed given I those saved for breeding stock. It I doesn’t take much figuring to show I that he made a good profit, even with I relatively high-priced corn. I (although he is indeed reticent and I Mr. Hoile attributes his success I says he has done nothing extraordin- I ary- to first of all having real brood I sows;—the kind that show it in their I ''orni. quality, feminity and disposi- I ions. When the writer visited the I nlace and all the pigs were running'! with their dams and remarked that I the sows were singularly quief. and I easy to handle and that he had never I seen such a large number of good I litters, Mr. Hoile pointedly said, I “Rome wasn’t built in a day,’ neither I were these sows made that way by I standing across the fence and throw- I ing some corn at them twice a day. I I burned some perfectly good ‘night I oil’ during the time those pigs were I farrowed and I believe that is neces- I sary for success with March pigs.” I Care and feed were placed next in | importance with a balanced, laxative I ration absolutely essential. Then I comes judgment (which Mr. Hoile I failed to mention), without which the I best breeding stock, housing fac.ili- I ties and feeds are to no avail, —that I quality which truly makes a farmer a livestock man. —lndiana Farmers’ Guide

in regulation of production we have a controlling factor. No machine shob or plant could operate long on haphazard production. If the supply is diminishing that part is speeded up and vice versa. No organization of society could .endure under lack of i business methods as practiced by agriculture unless it was Indiana state government. We have all witnessed i the fluctation of the farmer's dollar: and we cannot blame the money ex-1 changes for preferring to put tlieir money into public utilities instead of an over-produced crop. Ou the other hand in a scant crop the exchanges prefer the crop to their money and I soon the price is stimulated. I Soft soap and sympathy is of no I assistance to the farmer. He must ! have something more substantial. As S

The Great Money Lender With A Heart WE LEND MONEY TO HONEST PERSONS HAVING STEADY EMPLOYMENT Loans up to S3OO repayable in monthly installments, arranged to suit convenience of borrower, legal rales for balance still due. for time used; no charge unless for loan made; deals confidential and none will know you are borrowing. Call, Write or Phone 172 American Security Co. FRED E. KOLTER, Mgr. Monroe Street '

a finale why not h«v* the couity agent reverse himself, that is Instead i of working for an increased, work for i a decreased production, nt least tin- I til the farmers surplus has * belter outlet. 1 do not see any toreAight tn the reelanimation projects, better leave the undrained stamps turn to coal for the future generations. The manufacturer works on his cost plus profit and when farming has reached the stage that the word is passed down the line, "easy on hogS”. . or "heavy on wheat” etc., and the hog raisers knows what a pound of pork will bring and the wheat raiser knows 1 what a bushel of wheat will bring at I harvest, then in the language of the cartoonist "won't farming be a grand and glorious occupation?” John Smith, Farmer. I - - ’• 1 I

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| PUBLIC SALE Having decided to quit farming. 1 will sell at public auction H at my farm 3% miles west of Berne, on Tuesday, November 6,1923 Beginning at 9:00 o'clock A. M. EK The following personal property, to-wit: .. 6 Head Horses Bl Bay mare, 4 years old; bay horse, 5 years old; black mare. Su 6 years old;, gray mare, a good one; bay horse, good worker; EX one driver, 11 years Old. 13 Head Cattle ■4 Holstein cow. 3 yearh old; red cow, 3 years old: Holstein $ | cow. 4 years old. fresh in January; 2 Holstein cows, fresh in 13 November; 2 large red cows, fresh in January; red cow, 4 years K old. fresh in January; 4 hcl'ferh, coming 2 years old, frosh in H January; one good bull. 66 Head Sheep f;' 42 good breeding ewts; 22 good spring ewe lambs; 2 good bucks. Hogs 6 full-blooded Duroc brood sows, 5 of them with from 5 to ■ 10 pigs by their sidesr. Poultry B 3 dozen white Leghorns; 5 dozen Plymouth Rocks. Hay and Grain » 20 tons good hay; 1,000 bushel of oats; 100 bushel wheat; ; ■ 33 bushel of rye; 25 acres of corn in field, most all cut. Household Goods Some household goods. Implements Fordson tractor, good as new, and tractor plows; McCorM mfck binder, 8-foot cut; Nlsco spreader, good as ne*; 3 farm K& wgeoiis; one Olds, one Bltdsel, a good one, one iron wheel low ■ truck; grain drill; corn planter; McCormick mower, 6-foot cut; M side delivery, good one; hog rack, good us new; good 8-fork ted■E dot; disc; hay loader; 3 corn cultivators; 60-tooth spike-tooth M harrok; 3-section spring-tooth harrow, good as new; iron field rcfller; plow; one bob-sled; 3 hay ladders; one new grain lied with hog rack combined; 2 good wagon boxes; carriage; one good riding plow; gahg pWW, a good one; smhll dfsc for plow: knife tharrow; spring-tooth harrow; spring wagon; top buggl, storm buggy. Miscellaneous I’4 horse power engine; platform scale, 800-lb.; loading chute; work bench, a good one; bench vise; cider press. dr> house; full set of carpenter tools; shovels; forks; ropes; liar- . poons; grain sacks; hay knives; scythes; oil cans: sa grindstone; fanning mill; 6 sets of slings; repeating rifle; laid press; sausage grinder; De Laval cream separator; sheep clipper; milk cans; copper kettle; brass kettle; iron kettle; no. ber hose; buzz saw; rip tables and saws; 3 sets of work harness; 2 extra good sets of breeching harness; set of carnage harness; 2 sets single buggy harness; 18 horse collars; Bait ers; pads; and numerous other articles not mentioned. k Also a farm of 160 acres will be sold on good reasonable g ter,T TERMS—SS.OO or under cash; over that amount 12 months time will be given on good bankable notes draw ing 8 pere, nt jg interest after maturity. No goods to be removed from premises » until settled for. 4 percent off for cash. CHRIS HIRSCHY SR Michaud & Neuenschwander, Aucts. g E. W. Baumgartner, Clerk. ~ ■ ■ Lunch stand. Oct. 29-Nov. . ■

Italy in building a direct railway between Rom# and Nay reduce the time required “ beUveen those cities,

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