Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 29, Number 241, Decatur, Adams County, 12 October 1931 — Page 15

ill also be marketed |M-.. ' ' inier'. - « « . ■. territory z ■mical Hex ices Help ■iuhi (In < orn Borer M i :r. i. in the -■■ ■ report in. nt ol the mat'll _r- her. r Mnv h has hear y M>n-" ■ attachMaml ills for borer Mh Id it lull wit h the of .uni home week Mac ' of ('on Mio- .ii-eim. ami New Ml . iv attended Mi to similar exhibits on a M unit basis ihrougliQUt the Mpsinr -umn» of those StjitMroi measures which hare ■nun! iiiosr effi, i.-nt in years ■erinnnt.il work by cooperat■reaus <>! . department reMemoval ami disposal of all ■its and bris of one seasons Mop before another comes on. ■sly. the siiceess attained is ■ft rutin iho proportion of ■hners in a community who ■ the prattices advised. ■ rutting attachments on corn ■s for use at harvest time. Me shavers for cutting stalks ■ spring hand hoes for cutting ■t the ground surface, rakes ■hcring stalks into windrows ■story to burning, and attach- ■ for plows assuring complete Be of stalks when turn under hong the principal borer-eon-Wices. r o ■ — Ink m Soap far spy carried in- Isfhle Ink "* It mixed In a cake of [ a. tlie In t her which cotiI enough <>f tin. flll |,] to writp Sage. '•"•p'anting Large Tree. Is possible to transplant a tree ' ,a| l ls It Is properly hnn--1,1 prepared with enough soil. of Agriculture Says * tree as large as three feet —' 1 ' ' ■ o-m.si, 'anted

Decatur Junior Band to Play BWI— T~J » L' 11 I ; 1" 1 T~~T~7I Htei . I ’ r ~rt3 Lflfl. ' I 2i A A ~ Lit _*Vs 4t O PaSwo 6 ? t?i M J W k ' Jyau. * *■ * I W !U' H-'" ■niniL'flflk ' *'!%■< f f%«n& SbC '■' Th t celebraH ) UT Jun,or under the direction of’ Director Dave Rice, will provide music at the Dairy on and at the Merchant’s program Wednesday evening.

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Diversified Farming Is Important to Prosperity

Rotation And Building Up Os gSoil Is Necessary; Owning Herd of Dairy Cows Insures An Income. , By L. A. Hawkins . | Agricultural Extension bepartment i , I International Harvester Company | I There is no more certain way of I .: making a failure of farming than to ' [follow a one-crop system. It makes . I no difference whether the one crop | is cotton or corn or wheat or some , other product of the soil, the result Jis always the same-poverty and , hard times. XX hett we grow only one crop a year, we are doing three things ' • which ordinary business judgment | I should show us are foolish: , We are gambling on the weather! . and the market, giving the best en- . courageinent possible to insect en-1 etnies and plant diseases and we I . are constantly taking plant food i out of onr-soil and putting nothing J back to take its place. i When we grow but one crop, and I that crop is a failure because of ‘ i j growing conditions, we are brought face to face with the greatest trag-1 i edy in all human experience. The ] one crop to which we devoted oty ' entire year’s work; the crop upon which we depended for our prosper- I i tty-for our very existence ■ has fail . ed us. We have little or'nothing to; i sell. We have no money. We have ! : no money. We haveetaoi etaoieett i no other resources. We if e not ! i even able to feed ourselves. We ■ are "up against it." ■ [ Even when we win in our gamble ’ I on the weather and grow a big cron ■.it often happens that there is no I market for our produce or prices | drop below the cost of production | and again we see onr whole seasons i work for nothing. If we ate lucky, we may go on for 1 several yeais, raising good c rops ‘and getting good price's tor them, but all the time we are playing a losing game, for we are doing all we can to help insect enemies to incivase and multiply. The boll weevil gets into our cotton or the Hes sian fly ruins our wheat or the corn root wot tn plays havoc with our ! corn. I Or if we escape these pests, we

I We have been taking the fertility ' out of the soil and not putting any of it back and our land is getting i poorer and poorer every year. There i? just one sure remedy [ lor all these troubles, and that is ! crop rotation. We must stop growI ing the same crop year after year lon the same land. And the only uno system of rotation includes ' some legumes. Every acre that has grown cotton or grain for two or three years should be planted to alfalfa or soy beans or clover or some other leg- | time for a year or two and then | plowed under. Planting these acres to clover i will go far towards getting rid of | the insect enemies to rain or cotton i by starving them out. Plowing under the legume's will add humus to the soil, thus putting back some of the fertility the grain or cotton has ’ taken away. i We will get from .two to tour cuttings of clover off the land anef rfb I will find it is one of the best paying i crops we ever raised. »(’lover or alfalfa means good pasi tine and good hay, and clover and ] hay mean live stock. We can get a I good cash price for the hay, but we i can get more for it by feeding it to I hogs, or beef cattle. We can get a still bigger price tor it by convert- | ing it into dairy products. Over a long period there is money in beef cattle or hogs. Every far- ; mer should raise at least a few hogs [ But beef cattle and hogs must be i grown and fattened before they can [ be sold. They can be marketed at i only certain seasons of the year. Sometimes the price drops just when we have our animals ready to sell and we lose money on them or. at best, make very little. Win'll we have a few milk cows, we have milk or cream, butter ot butterfat to sell every day in th" ■ year. Then we can put the manure hack on the land and this, with the humus from the legumes we plow under, will help keep the soil fertile and productive. Dairy products are sold soon after they are produced. There is small chance of our having to sell them for less than it costs to produce them. No plan of general farming can find after a few years that our land isn’t producing as much as it used

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT MONDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1931,

Founder of Plants r * 1 > i f ’ H w I ’ ' SSaßraSißSS'TsSi;' 1 ■■Mk-wMI > E. L. Martin I In 1918, Mr. Martin founded the i Cloverleaf Creameries, Inc., at Decatur and Huntington, and be- . came associated with W. A. Klep . per. flow general manager of the . companies. Mr. Martin is known | to the employes as the “daddy" of J the Cloverleaf Creameries. He is I , one of the best known butter ( ; makers in the country and has , [ won several state and national , prizes for making high grade j | butter. - to, even under favorable conditions. . be entirely succesful unless we feed . ourselves and have something to s sell every day in the year. We j should have a garden, some chick i ens and a few hogs. More than any , thing else, we should have some good dairy cows. They must not be t scrubs and they need not be pure . breds. They should be cows that j pay for their keep and give us a good margin of profit. No funner can i eally prosper per t . manently until he lias these things. * 0 Be Forgiving of Others You should forgive many things I in others, but nothing in yourself.— | \usonins.

- ’ - 'I ■ - —■— 1, «MW ■,— !!,„ ——l I I . ■ - - - — ■■ ■ - - . —■——--—1 ■— _ —hello everybody fwi CLOVERLEAF flk CREAMERIES / DAIRY'DAY rfßk '"' « yW jlPl V ' / WEDNESDAY, Z ®\ / OCTOBER 14th —?■■ ...... . . A Phone for everv Home \ z : KI t ‘ >* nothing as convenient in the ho me as a Telephone. It saves time and ' ''‘ i’ an< * * s a rea ‘ friend when you need anything in a hurrv or want to visit with \ '■ '■>your friends. V ... 'Pf Many Decatur homes are enjoying the convenience of Telephone Extentions. It N. i'S'■ costs hut little more and is quite handv. Do vou have one? Citizens Telephone Co. >!-_■ __ —

MOST EFFECTIVE WAY TO FIGHT QUACK GRASS Plow Shallow In Fall, and Drag Frequently A single hard-fought battle may cripple quack grass temporarily, ; but victory comes from continual | sr.iping and strategy rather than i from heavy fighting, according to j H. B. Hartwig of the New York ; State College of Agriculture. The weed has fleshy creeping ' roots and when these roots are cut | ■| and covered, with earth they sprout I I like so many potato eyes. In ad- i [ dltion, the plant grows seeds. | [ XV ith these two ways id' spreading i ■" —

— —_ ~ - ... .... "fl: - We Know That—- * ■ - * 1 e' ; Adams County has good Dairy Adams County with its fine farms ! - Farmers and we believe much is evidence of this fact and we prosperity has been brought to see ’ n lhe dairy business a daily the country through the devel- cash rev l enue for the farmer who ....... . . . owns a herd of good cream and A oping of the Dairy industry. producers. e! W e know you’ll enjoy the Dairy Day program, Wednesday, Oct. 14. it a / r- ‘ Ohl Adams County Bank -- ——

quack grass maintains itself persistently once it is seeded, he explains. The first move in the campaign is to plow shallow in the fall. The ground is then dragged, and the dragging is repeated often Inough to keep the green leaves from showing. IXo not disk, Mr. Hartwig warns, for disking cuts and i buries the root pieces and only| spreads the quack. When the quack is dragged often enough and no leaves appear the plants have no opportunity to store food ami the continued dragging helps | starve and weaken the plants. I The exposure to sunshine also i helps the starving process. Repeated draggings in tlje | spring should weaken the quack | ;so a smother crop should com- 1 j plete the work. But many persons ; j rely too much on the smother i crop without weakening the qua k 1 i first, he says. A little cultivation [ stimulates the quack and is worse

■ than none. It is the continued ' work, well timed, with a smother crop to complete the rout after the quack is weakened that does i the job. 1 Use Ground Barley For Fattening Steer Calves Ground barley in the fattening ration in the place of shelled corn gives very good results, it was found in a feeding experiment with fattening steer calves at the University of Minnesota in 1930. Other checks from a companion ' i feeding experiment showed that when, two pounds of cane molasses replaced two pounds of shelled I edrn in the ration of shelled corn, ■ linseed meal and alfalfa hay, the , molasses failed to equal corn , pound for pound in feeding value and resulted in lower profits. By | substituting two pounds of molasses for two pounds of ground

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shelled corn in the ground mixed ration the consumption of feed was slightly increased and the profit was also slightly increased. Adding two pounds of molasses per steer per day to the ration of ground barley (full fed), linseed meal and alfalfa hay failed to im- | prove the ration in any way except to Increase total feed consumption aii|d resulted in lower profits. Twelfth Century Copy The style In which the SmithsonInn Institution Is built Is later Norman or Lombard architecture, In vogue doing the Inst hnlf of the Twelfth century. • 0 Admiration of Higher Thing, No nobler feeling than this of admiration for the higher than himself dwells In the breast of nnn. It is to this hour, and all hours, the vivifying Influence in man’s life.— Carlyle.