Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 33, Number 34, Decatur, Adams County, 8 February 1935 — Page 5

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I milk, and are talking about it yet. | The farm got its crop harvested' and sold in short order, large and I small without hiring extra help. It] netted spot cash, the wholesale' price in market, and avoided all the work of picking up. packing I and trucking to the wholesaler. •‘The advertisements cost something, but they did the business (for only a few cents per bushel. A ,i farmer will spend a hundred dollars in labor, cartage, freight, comi missions, etc., for the sale of a crop and accept whatever price the other fellow puts on it, but would think it extravagant to blow in $25 . for some advertising that might I sell the stuff at his own door at. this own price. “We used to deliver to consumers, but have cut it out; costs too much in time, labor, trucking. Dei livery is made within 25 miles ra- i dins to any one who pays cash in' advance at wholesale prices.’’ — o GETS KICK IN RAISING CORN Lawrence Blum Explains His Method In Obtaining High Yields i Lawrence Blum gets a “kick out ]of raising good corn.’’ He set a record of 76 bushels to the acre to win third place in five acre corn club contest in Adams county last year. Mr. Blum says. “I believe everyi one will admit that the last two years have been bad ones for the five acre corn club men. The ex- ■ treme drought ruined many plots i that undoubtedly would have turned I out good otherwise. “I had my plot on the most I mucky soil in the field, as that ; type of soil will not dry out be- ; low the surface as heavier soil will. I “1 was sure my seed corn would grow before I tested it; but when ‘ a farmer is trying for a record i lie wants to know every ear is , good, so I tested it. ! “I cultivated my five acre corn I plot only once; from then on I ueled a drag to keep the field clean. The corn root system should nevier be disturbed by deep cultivation and especially during a dry season Cfflie "we* just experienced. Killing weeds was no job this year as the hot. dry weather made it hard for any kind of plant life to survive. In the muck soil our greatest problem is the weeds. Naturally a moderately dry season is preferred. “I have been in the five acre ! corn club for three years. Previous to that, 1 was in the 4-H one acre corn club. I never get tired of trying for bigger yields. It should be as big a thrill for a farmer to win a prize in corn raising as l it is for a business man to excel in his business enterprise. I get a ’kick out of raising good corn.” Temple to Honor Bubitt Philadelphia —(UP) — An honorary degree of D.ctor of Laws will be conferred upon William C. Bullitt. American Ambassador to Soviet Russia, by Temple University on Feb. 15. it wus announced.

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DAIRY WORK IN ELEVENTH YEAR Adams County Dairy Herd Improvement Association In 11th Year The Adams county dairy herd improvement association is now carrying on the 11th year of continuous testing and record keeping in Adams county. During this time the average butter fat production per cow lias been raised over 100 pounds per cow. I The last several years the Adams county association has been one I of the highest in the state and a number of breeders have won many medals for the high production of their cows. In 1927 the association was awarded a special prize for having the most improvement of any association In the state. The improvement included bull pen construction. building and remodeling dairy pens to make them modern, constructing milk houses and better methods of feeding and breeding of dairy animals. The D. 11. I. association consists of a group of organized dairymen who are Interested in higher and more economical production of the individuals in their heads. A supervisor is hired who has had previous training at Purdue University. He visits each member once a month, weighs the feed and milk of each cow, night and morning, and takes a sample of each milk to test. He figures the monthly production of milk and fat, the feed cost and income over cost of feed for each individual in the herd as well as many other figures that are of interest to dairymen. Roy Price worked for seven years as supervisor. Merwin Miller has held the position for over three years. Members of the association at the present are Dan Mazelin. Ed. McFarland, Griffiths and Sons. Henry Aschleman, Steury Brothers, Peter D. Schwartz, Otto D. Bieberich. Dale Moses, Charles Friend, Habegger Brothers, Jacob J. Schwartz, Noah D. Schwartz, Sol Mosser, David F. Mazelin, Walter and Habegger. Peter B. Tollman. D. D. Schwartz. E. H. Kreutzman, Dr. M. M. Moran, Steury & Schwartz and Oliver Steel. MODERN MEANS USED ON FARM Donald Burkhart Tells Os Crops Gained Through Modern Culture Donald Burkhart of Berne route two credits his success in the five acre corn club work to modern means of culture as well as advice from his father. Mr. and Mrs. Burkhart were crowned the corn king and queen of Adams county at the annual farmers banquet held here Monday for their achievement of raising a crop that produced 102.2 bushels to the acre. The crop was raised on the Stengle and Craig farm near Berne. Mr. Burkhart says that he had the ground plowed in the spring. It was disked by Fred Blum, partly by tractor as it was too hot for the horses to cover the 58 acres of ground. Mr. Burkhart slanted 44% acres of corn. Thirty-eight acres of the I corn land were planted on May 11, 12 and 14. He believed that it was too hot to finish the last 16% acres and let this go until after the rain on June 15. The later crop Mr. Burkhart says, made good corn. After he planted the first two plots, one with 34% acres and the other with 3% he made a drag which was 12 feet long. It was weighed down with a log. the same length as the drag and about one foot in diameter. Besides himself on the drag were two large stones. He continued, “then I hitched four horses to the drag and stayed in the field with it until the corn began to’ come through the ground." After the rain he finished his planting. “In the meantime,’’ ho said, “I plowed corn. 1 never stay in the field and plow during the heat of the day. As in the saying of my father, 'never spend two dollars to make one’.” Mr. Burkhart says he realizes 'hat if he hurts a norse in the field he will lose as much as he would make with additional corn. For his cultivating he uses a two row corn plow. After plowing the field for a third time Mr. Burkhart drags it with a planter wheel instead of plowing ne says tears loose the little fine roots which were to gather up moisture. By dragging the field Mr. Burkhart says that all the cracks are

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The horse pictured above is rat their most valuable horse. A brief cellent pointers on raising vaiuabl following. David Habegger and sons sincerely believe the Belgian draft horses are the most rugged and most profitable of horses. Their best known horse is Douglas. a registered Belgian, number 12,437, which is now 15 years old. Owners of mares in a 100 mile-ra-dius have already asked that their mares be bred to this horse. The horse services on an average of 150 mares a year. Hundreds of outstanding colts have been foaled from mares sired i by Douglas, including the William Mitchel colt, which as a two year, sold for $2,000 to Mrs. Mary Wilson, Rochester, Michigan. Last year this colt took first place in the three-year old stallion class at the international live stock show. The first colt from this horse sold to Harry Williams at Wabash for S3OO as a four year old. One three year stallion sold this spring for S6OO. The horse is owned by David D. Habegger and Sons and is located on their farm in Blue Creek township three miles east and one mile south of Monroe. The Habeggers are firm believers in registered stock or in good; horses. As soon as the colts are foaled | filled and the moisture is held in th(* £Tound. His crop this year produced a good solid corn of quality equal to other years notwithstanding the damage done by the intense heat. o Philippine Sugar Allotment Filled Washington, D. C., Feb. B—The8 —The allotment of 9,996 short tons of Philippine raw sugar which may enter the United Staates for the calendar year 1935 for direct-con-sumption without further processing has already been filled. Raw sugar for further processing may enter within the limits of the total quota for the islands. The total Phillippine sugar quota for 1935 is 918,352 short tons, raw value, and the total quota of direct consumption sugar it 79, SCI. Dir-eqt-consumption quota 69.665 short tons raw will be certified by the sugar section of the AAA until the quota is filled.

The allotments of the direct-con-sumption quota into raw sugar intended for direct consumption and refined sugar was made by Gover-nor-General Murphy under authority granted by the secretary of agriculture and in accordance with the recently enacted Philippine sugar limitation law.

GIVES TALK ON DISEASE FIGHT Dr. Wright Gives Interesting Discussion On Bang’s Disease Dr. Wright in bis address at the annual farmers banquet Monday night in the Masonic hall gave an interesting account of the tight against the Bang's disease in Adams county; He said, “the Bangs disease is the most serious problem cattle owners now have because there is no practical cure. Men have been unwilling or unable to clean their herds and to sell their valuable stock. "Some fever in men and women can be traced to cattle having Bang's disease. Farmers themselves often become v|ctims of the disease because they seldom drink pasteurized milk. One whole Southern Indiana family is unable to attend its farm work because of the effects of the disease. “One outstanding result of the fight against the disease* is the disease raising of herd standards. “The federal emergency program by reducing the number of cattle has raised the price. The program

led by David Halbegger and sons as history of the animal and some exle animals are given in the story they permit them to run with the mares, which are tied. They keep oats before the colts because "there isn’t anything which will produce better good-boned colts than oats.” They wean their colts at five or six months after which they are fed hay. grain and other feeds such as corn fodder, They believe alfalfa makes the best hay for this purpose. Before the corls are two they teach them to lead. They trim their feet in order that they will be easier handled when older. They are also taught to lead. When the colts are two year old the Habeggers break them. Mr. Habegger complimented the work of L. E. Archbold, county agent, and Henry Dehner, president of the Adams county colt club, for their efforts in improving the standard prices of Adams county horses. “There may have been a time when poor horses had no market but there never was a time when a good horse couldn't be sold at a profit,” Mr. Habegger said, “a good thick made horse with good bones land legs, whether a Belgian or a i Norman can always find a ready i market.” now looks permanent. "Approximately 1,300 herds representing 21,000 head of cattle have been tested with about 15 per cent showing indications of the disease. “Two classes of farmers with herds having bad cases of infection with the Bang’s disease are eliminating it The first class which lias been unwilling or unable to rid their herds of infected animals have had them purchaased by the government and slaughtered. The other class of breeders has been looking for the improvement of their herds. Adams county has many of these." Dr. Wright then discussed the higher price received by farmers which have herds wliTch have been tested and found free of the disease. He cited an instance where a herd was being sold and bringing fair prices. During the sale the fact was mentioned that the herd was free of Bang’s disease. The remaining cattle brought on an average of $lO more a head. He continued, “states and cities are taking hold of the program advanced by the interstate commerce department which prohibits transportation of untested cattle across state lines. Wisconsin is leading the country in tested herds because of the large number of cattle ex-: ported from ihe state. ■ “Forty thousand head Os cattle; have been slaughtered by the government because of the disease. Those who now have good young ueifers can not help making money.’ 0 Studying Cheese Keeps Two Experts Busy Monroe, Wis. —(UP)— Robert Hardell and Charles A. Buck, operators of the state-federal dheese laboratory here, daily relieve the headaches of thousands of Wisconsin cheesemakers. The two men constantly study various specimens of cheese through microscopes and other scientific processes, lit is their business to isolate thousands of bacteria in an effort to learn whether tihdy are conducive or detrimental to the manufacture of good cheese. Thanks to Hardell and Buck, "iiisslers’’, "presslers" and “stickers” appear less often in the cheesemen’s "makes.” Cave Made More Accessible Washington. —'(UP) —Scuth Dakota’s Custer-Wind Cave National Park and Jewel Cave National Monument have been mode more accessible to tourists. Public Works funds were used to surface 8.6 milee of the Custer-Wiud Park approach road, only logical outlet leading to the west from the southern portion of the Black Hills.

GOOD RAISE IN CATTLE PRICES Prices In Adams County Show Big Increase In Last Six Months In six months the maximum : prices for cattle have become the minimum prices for cattle in Ad--1 ams county, a perusal of the reI cords of the Decatur Riverside sales i company indicates. At one sale in August cattle ranged in value from sl9 to $35 a head. At the sale in the local barns last Friday the good cows sold at fr.,n> $35 to $72 a head. A similar increase in the prices of livestock was noted in the auctions tieginning early in the fall. This was caused by a number of reasons .arising from their scarcity. A large number of cows were butchered last summer because the drought caused a feed and pasturage shortage. The corn-hog contract, low prices, and a shortage of feed last summer similarly caused many farmers to sell their hogs. Buyers from the East and all the Indiana and Ohio agricultural centers have been attending the local sales in hopes of picking up some good livestock. The sales are also attended each Friday by from 300 to 1,000 Adams county farmers and city residents. o ROTATE CROPS TO GET YIELD Enoch P. Habegger Is Firm Believer In Rotation For Corn Crop Enoch P. Habegger of Berne route one, is a firm believer in crop rotation when attempting record corn yields. He was one of the five acre corn club prize winners announced at the farmers banquet here Friday. “Even if I did not have a very high yield on account of the severe drought last summer,” Mr. Habegger says, “I think I had more than the average in the county.” Talking on the way to raise large crops rotation with corn following legumes. I plowed under alfalfa last .spring and chose that for my five acre plot. “Secondly I think it is necessary to apply plenty of manure, if you have it. If not, use commercial fertilizers. T think it is also important to use good quality seed. I gathered my seed corn early in the fall before the killing frosts damaged it. I also tested all my seed corn, insuring high germination. “I always try to get my ground fine and in good shape before planting.’’

wifli the <yoy<F -Q[| // Planning Your Window Boxes Him t put oft making window boxes until spring is u<i>ou you. There will be plenty of other tasks to perform during that busy period. Make your boxes now in your leisure, and next summer you will be delighted to find a window full of fragrant beauty. WS'&S' II ■ Vl fr-® BRACKETS'CXN Be >T /* fitted around . ;\y IF DESIRED. bOPE '/i’ HOLES COVCU HOLES ' IN BOTTOM 6” WITH BROKEN APART FOR POTTERY WFof.‘. JRAtNAGE s FILLING.'-» . v Very Little Skill is Required to Construct Your Own Window Box Here is one form of gardening that the most crowded city dweller may enjoy, for it takes no land at all. Any window, even one that is shaded most of the day, can be used. And the expense, if you make the boxes your self, is very small. For an ordinary single window, a box 3% feet loug. 8 inches deep and 10 inches wide is a good size, it made of cypress, it will last well and cost less than a dollar to build.

Where large or multiple windows demand great length, the other dimensions may be larger in proportion. Remember that window boxes are a decoration for the house. They should harmonize with it, and improve its appearance. The boxes should usually be painted to match the dominant color of the house, or of Its trim. The flowers will look best if they make a contrasting note, providing an accent of color. Perhaps the finest of all window box flowers are petunias, because they blossom constantly throughout the summer, and provide so interesting a variety of color, form and habit. The balcony type petunias, which produce trailing vine-like stems, make graceful festoons which drape from the boxes. Tall nasturtiums, particularly the new doubles, including Golden Gleam, and its hybrids, give the same effect as the balcony type petunias; and they are excellent window box subjects. Fragrant flowers, such as matthiola bicornis, mignonette, ten-weeks stocks, and dwarf snapdragons, are doubly attractive. The list of flowers that can be grown in window Ixntes embraces almost the entire seed catalog. Boxes which spend most of the day i tl shade offer a special problem. If the shade is that of a building, perhaps only foliage plants can be grown, such as ferns, fancy leaved caladiutns, crotons, rubber plants, and' other florists’ subjects. If there is some sun. tuberous rooted begonias will probably do well. Impatiens. the Zanzibar balsam, bearing flowers of salmon or rose on bushy plants 18 inches tall, are excellent in semishaded places. Violas thrive in partial shade, and the list of flowers of salmon or rose on bushy plants 18 inches tall, are excellent which will do well increases as the amount of sun is enlarged. Rich soil, of the type which florists call potting soil, 'should be used in window boxes, for there is so little of it to feed the flowers, it needs abundant plant food. —o Set barrels over the rhubarb and bank them up to start it at the earliest possible moment. This can be done any time during the winter.

FEDERAL FARM LOANS Upon recommendation of the Federal Land Bank of Louisville, Ky., the ADAMS COUNTY NATIONAL FARM LOAN ASSOCIATION, of Decatur, Indiana has received a Charter and has been duly authorized and empowered to make farm loans in all of Adams County. If you are expecting to refinance your farm loan call or write this association at once. Office: 133 South Second Street Decatur, Indiana E. Burt Lenhart, Sec’y-Treas. Fred T. Schurger, Investigator Public Auction As I iiave quit farming, will sell at public auction, 2 miles north of Decatur, 1 miles east of Monmouth on No. 27. on Wednesday, February 13, 1935 Commencing At 12 Noon HORSES—BIack mare, smooth mouth, wt. 1,500; black mare, smooth mouth, wt. 1,400. CATTLE—Jersey cow. 5 yr. old. be fresh in May; Jersey cow. 2 yr. old, fresh, milking good flow; red cow, 2 yr. old, milking good How. SHEEP —16 good Shropshire ewes: some with lambs by aside; extra good. FEED—4% ton alfalfa hay; 100 bu. oats. Implements Good wagon; new 16 ft. flat bottom rack; disc used 2 seasons; 3 section spike tooth harrow, new; Oliver riding cultivator; grain drill; Oliver walking breaking plow; spring tooth harrow; old John Deere web hay loader; double set breeching harness new; DeLaval No. 12 cream separator; 200 gal. water tank; gas engine & pump jack; brooder stove; mud boat; dump boards 20 rods; new No. 9 hog fence: 24) steel posts; Pitcher pump & sink; many articles too numerous to mention, TERMS—Cash RALPH WAGGONER, Owner ROY S. JOHNSON —Auctioneer. PUBUC SALE We will sei: at public auction, 1 mile south of Fort Wayne, on State road No. 1, on MONDAY, February 11,1935 Commencing at 10:30 A. M. 35—HEAD OF DAIRY CATTLE—3S 10 extra good young Guernsey cows, 7 of them will be fresh by day of sale, with their second calf; Guernsey, 5 yr. old, calf by side; Guernsey, 7 yr. old. fresh by day of sale; Guernsey 9 yr. old. milking a good flow; Jersey, fresh with second calf; Jersey, 4 yr. old, giving milk; Jersey, 8 yr. old, giving good flow; Jersey and Guernsey, 2 yr. old, giving good flow; Holstein cow, 5 yr. old, fresh; 2 Holstein cows, be fresh by day of sale, with second calf; Jersey and Guernsey, 7 yr. old. calf by side; Brindle cow, giving good flow; Jersey, 5 yns. old; 2 yearling Guernsey heifers; 3 yearling Holstein heifers; 2 Jersey heifers; 6 Red and Roan heifers; (Shorthorn bull, 2 yr. old; yearling Guernsey bull. HOGS—S good brood sows; 35 feeding hogs, 75 to 120 lbs; Duroc boar. HORSE—Bay mare. 11 yr. old. wt. 1850 lbs. a good one. FEED—3OO bu. good corn; 15 ton soy bean hay; 100 bu. Irish Cobbler and Rural New Yorker seed potatoes. IMPLEMENTS John Deere welt hay loader; wagon; 2 riding cultivators; riding breaking plow; grain binder; cream seperator. TERMS—CASH. G. F. BYERLY’ & SON, Owners Roy S. Johnson —Auctioneer. Lunch by Ladies' Aid.

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Order seed liberally. It is ll\e cheapest commodity on the market. It is better to have too much than not enough. SALE CALENDAR Feb. 11 —Byerly & Alden, 1 mile soutli Fort Wayne on state road 1. Closing out sale. Feb. 12—Floyd Linton, 1% mile south, 1% mile east of Geneva, closing out sale. .Feb. 13 —Ralph Waggoner. 2 mi. north of Decatur. 1 mile east of Monmouth on No. 27. Feb. 14 —William Spade. % mile west of Vera Cruz or 5% miles east of Bluffton on the north side of the river. H. H. High, auct. Feb. 14--Pete Dibert. 4 miles east of Willshire, Ohio. Closing out sale. Feb. 15 — Decatur Community sale, 12 noon. Chattanooga stock sale, 6:30 p. m. Feb. 16—Wm. T. Jones, 1 mile west and 1% mile sou tn of Monroeville, Closing out sale. Feb. 18 — Everett Lake Stock Farm, 14 mi. west of Fort Wayne. Closing out. sale. Feb. 19 —Adams Winnans, 1 mile east of Baldwin, Ind. Closing out sale. Feb. 20.—W. N. Robinson, 1 mile north and 1 mile west of Ohio City. Closing out sale. Feb. 20—Tobias Steffen. 1 mile west and % mile south of Magley. H. H. High, Auct. Feb. 21 —Chas. Figel, 1 mile so. % mile east of Maples. Closing out sale. Feb. 22 — Decatur Community sale, 12 noon. Chattanooga Stock sale, 6:30 p. m. Feb. 23—H. E. Reidenbach, 1 mi east of Convoy, Ohio on Lincoln Hiway. Filling statio nand 5 acres land. Feb. 25 —Otto Jacobs, 1 mile west and 3 mile south of Groverhill, Ohio. Feb. 27—J. F. Tapy, 1 mile west of Waynedale on Lower Huntington road. Feb. 28—Bert Marquardt, 3 mile north of Monroeville on Lincoln highway. Chester White hog sale. 12:00. Alar. 2—S. W. Miller, Van Wert, Ohio. Implement sale. Mar. 5 —J. G. Giesler, 4 mile east and 1% mile north of Wren, Ohio. Closing out sale.