Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 33, Number 253, Decatur, Adams County, 25 October 1935 — Page 5

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■VIDES FOR PE INITE USES Contract wcii' ! " r ,)eiinile SWo <H Acres I ..ii, WW .11. j in ji ,|, ; '" ' ""' fT/j V :ii Archbold. '5 . Mund, i l'W-35 wheat A rulings .! ( ~us for tin' use his I 'l. | u1 ....... wheat farmers I , ( j contract in I .atty in July recom | -l -I ai n age be I |l < , • top production gs. ,| . : -u. It purposes as | K.<> I’uiber. soil-erosion until crops, summer fallow, l/X ■'.. dancer would »»<• 111 laki ”B !“*«* 01,1 of I ciep .Hi.! using it B Wth,... crop and thus w ft 1,1 ’ " I"'u-t urn j* £. ,mu ... i simplifies the j Ml just what adjusted p 3 d cvli.lt is land usual not ri"'d "u th< - tai tn. The I t provides that the I j g3j l::].'element uml I shall be I M;,. - used I shall also include, I adjusted acres. ■ br«aiid ' if a farmer has a ally ,4 " acres of pas Bor ltiy d In.- adjusted acred to acres, then his ji ' ,M ' 111 I'asture or ] Hi. of his wheat trMU would be 75 acres.

FEDERAL FARM LOANS I Now At HEIADAMS county national farm LOAN ASSOCIATION, of Decatur, Indiana i reAi ved a Charter and has been duly authorized and empowered maki arm loans in «ll of Adams County, are expecting to re-finance your farm loan call or write s assc iation at once. Office: 133 South Second Street g|| Decatur, Indiana Bur# Lenhart, Sec’y-Treas. Fred T. Schurger, Investigator Wry, ' 1 fe Have Us IB Overhaul w/ YOUR tractor ME .> } j . 1! AND have us overhaul it now*— I urniick- while you can spare it for a I ■ Deering few days. Even though your tracI I Tractors tor has been in service only one Are Built season, it is wise to have us look it I Rieht ' over ar| d c h ec k it carefully. If it ELS—. " '' needs valve grinding or other attenI tion, noir is the time to have it I mine. Here in our Service Department you’ll get I fcperienced and careful workmanship. And your I ke quickly done because we use special |^fr le ’ sav ing tools. Why not phone I today—or just bring your trac|8S r * n and arrange for a thorough |HK** n g over? Our rates are reason- Service And, you have our guar- Keeps Them ; 8 ! tee onl V Renuine IH C 1 Right ■arts will he used for necessary «— Wormick - Deering Store Forth Third St. Decatur, Indiana

Lilac Bush Fooled By Flames, Blooms An effective if not permanent way to make lilacs bloom in October has been discovered by Mrs. i Harry Knapp of this city. Early I this month Mrs. Knapp burned some brush in her back yard. The wind blew the flames near a lilac . bush destroying half of it, A few days later Mrs. Knapp discovered that the other half of the bush, evidently stimulated by the flames, had bloomed. October weather, however, soon killed the deluded blooms. o — OHIO COUNTIES HOLD CONTEST Counties Preparing For State Corn Husking November 1 This week more than 20 Ohio counties are conducting corn husking contest. In 10 of these counties women are competing. The state finals will be held in Paulding county on November 1, beginning at 10 o’clock in the morn- ' ing. Plans have been n*ide to en-; tertain 50.000 persons. The contest will be held on file Wunder section five miles west of Paulding on state route three. Pla- i cards guiding all tourists to the! spot will be posted along the way. i In addition to the corn husking I contest there wilt”be other exhib-1 its. Corn hybrids will be shown. A ' draft horse show will be held. Ex-1 hibits and demonstrations of the I latest corn harvesting machinery i i will be held. There will be the latest exhibits in corn plows and plowing. — o Miss Betty Campbell of Bluffton ts the week-end guest of Mist Catherine Kohls.

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT FRIDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1935.

FINE INTEREST j IS SHOWN IN CONTROL VOTE Corn-Hog Control Vote Will Be Cast In County Saturday Interest in the educational meetings held in Adams county this week to acquaint the farmers with 1936 proposed corn-hog contracts has been great, members of the ! county committee who visited the 1 sessions have reported. Exceptionally large turnouts were reported in most of the meet- ■ lags. , The election for the corn-hog continuation proposals will be held Saturday. Many absentee ballots have already been voted in sealed envelopes and delivered to the . township chairmen. The votes from Adams county j will be tabulated early next week 1 and wired to Purdue where the state vote will be announced. The results of the national vote will be | I released in Washington after all ; local and state votes are tabulated, i The voting places in Adams coun-1 ty are: Preble township — August GallI meyer home. Root township .— Henry Auman I i home. Kirkland township—Homer Am-, old home. I Union township—Victor Auman I home. Blue Creek township — William i Patterson home. Washington township—Erank R. Braun home. Monroe township—Dau Maselin home. St. Mary's township — Henry Crownover home. Wabash township—Orton Wheeler home. French township — Election ■ school. Jefferson township — Jefferson high school. Hartford township—Dora Myers home. GOOD HOUSING IS NECESSARY Adequate Housing Highly Important In High Egg Production Urbana. HI.. Oct. 25—With business conditions showing steady imI provement and cold storage egg stocks reduced to reasonable levels, prospects during the coming six months are brighter for Indiana and Illinois poultry raisers who manage their laying flocks for high egg production, said H. H. Alp, poultry extension specialist at the College of Agriculture, University of Illinois. With cold weather in the offing one of the most important considerations is adequate housing, he added. Good housing may be obtained in some cases through remodelling or repairing of old buildings. If such buildings are not available, it may be necessary to construct a new house. Whatever the requirements may be, the flock will maintain a higher laying average if quartered in a roomy, comfortable, well-ventilated house before cold weather, Alp stated. The straw loft type of house is probably the best for variable temperatures experienced in most sections of Indiana and Illinois. It provides plenty of ventilation without drafts and maintains an even temperature. Complete plans are available from the college in the fofm of circular No. 412. A cheaper laying house but one which has proved satisfactory in this section is the shed-type. It does not have the straw loft and is not as easily ventilated. However, the first cost is less and with a little attention the shedtype will provide excellent shelter for the flock. Plans for this type also are available at the college. In many cases an old shed or other building can be remodeled to for a modern laying house at a relatively low cost. Since old buildings vary to a great extent, standard remodeling plans are not available, said W. A. Foster, rural architect at the college. He suggests that those having old buildings which they wish to make Into poultry houses write out a description of such buildings and send the I description along with rough sketches of the floor plan to the agri-

Wheat Adjustment Safeguards Hg 9 Wheat Income HIGHLIGHTS OF WHEAT ADJUSTMENT 1 Adjusts Production to Demand 2 Increases Farm Purchasing Power JKH 3 Provides Adequate Supplies 4 Encourages Sound Farm Practices 5 Is Based on Voluntary Cooperation £ U.S.CASH I s-A 1 a WHEAT I tax? 1934- I * Includes Bent-fit Payments 1 |

THIS chart shows how the Agricultural Adjustment Administration wheat program has safeguarded wheat farmers' income. For 1932 when there was no program, cash income to farmers from wheat was 1196,000,000. For 1934 higher prices and adjustment payments brought a cash income of $391,000,000. The wheat program seeks: (1) to produce wheat for available markets; (2) to increase farm purchasing power; (3) to produce adequate supplies at all times for domestic use; (4) to encourage sound farming through diversion of land to soil-improving and erosion-preventing crops;, and (5) to make voluntary cooperation more profitable to farmers than non-cooperation.

The wheat program of the Agricultural Adjustment Administra- ' tion safeguards the Income of the wheat farmer, safeguards the national production of wheat, and i through promoting better farming I practices, safeguards the soil fertility and future productivity of wheat growing in this country. The income of the wheat farmer I is safeguarded through the adjust- ' ment payments, regardless of the ; price of wheat. The farmer is also 1 assured of some income even in years of drought, rust, or other crop damage because the adjustment payments are based upon the average past production and not the production in the years in which the crop damage takes place. The chief step taken to improve the condition of the wheat farmer is through adjustiiife the production

cultural engineering department of' the college where suggested plans may be worked out by architects, i Egg production is increasing. There are more hens and pullets of I 1 laying age in farm flock? now than ■ at this time a year ago, and they are laying more eggs, reports the . Bureau of Agricultural Economics . at Washington. The number of hens and pullets I ' averaged 65.4 per farm on October I 1 compared with 64.5 on that date last year; layings per farm flock averaged 16.7 eggs on October 1 , compared with 15.7 eggs a year ago. Both figures, however, are less than the 1928-1932 average which was 71.4 for the number of hens and pullets, and 18.1 eggs per farm flock. The bureau reports the number ' of hens and pullets of laying age ■ 1 is larger this year than last in all' ! sections of the country except the . ' West North Central and Far West-1 1 ern States, but that even in these two divisions the difference is negligible. fIEPORT HIGHER DAIRY PRICES Prices Os Dairy Products Are Increasing Seasonally l Washington, Oct. 25 —Prices of dairy products have been advan- ; cing seasonally, reports the bureau of agricultural economics, Rrreign I • prices also are’ higher with NewZealand butter selling in London ■ on October 10 at 27.2 cents a pound i or only 0.3 cents less than 92-score ■ butter at New York. Farm prices of butterfat in the United States are reported higher . in relation to feed than a year ago, i but unusually low in relation to ; livestock prices. These price relationships, says the bureau, are ■ tending to result in some decrease I in butter production in the West - North Central and Mountain Stat- ■ es. Total milk production on October 1 was somewhat less than the unusually large production on that , date last year. Butter consump- ■ tion is relatively low and cheese • consumption high. Stocks of dairy ■ products are reported as large. The bureau says it is probable I that the low point, in butterfat and ■ milk prices in relation to feed is - "past”, so that “the outlook for i the commercial dairymen is more • favorable than a year ago.” > — o Cafeteria supper Sat. night Reformed church, 5 to 7 p.m.

. of wheat to the actual demand. - The plan recognizes that the large i export market for wheat which the . United States once enjoyed has I been almost lost and that continued production for a market that does not exist means a piling up of | surpluses which can again drive down the price of wheat. Adjustment is made only on the acreage which formerly grew wheat for export. There is no curtailment of . the acreage needed to produce domestic supplies. The wheat prograin encourages the improvement of land taken out of wheat. This is made possible through planting it to soil improvemerits, erosion-preventing, and other crops whien tend to retain • and increase soil fertility. The wheat program is a voluntary one.

USE CARE WHEN STORING BEANS • Soy Beans Should Be Dried Before Threshing, Storing For Seed Urbana, Illinois. Oct. 25 —Farm- : ers storing soy beans for seed can cut down the risk of losses by being sure, that the beans are dry before being threshed and stored, according to J. C. Hackleman, crops extension specialist of the college of agriculture, University of Illinois. With frost during the first 10 I days of October having hastened ; maturity of the plants remaining ' in the field, most combined-thresh-I ed beans will be dry enough for j storage. However, those that have j been cut and stored in the shock I must be watched at threshing time, since they may have absorbed enough outside moisture to make storage risky, Hackleman said. The best way to find out whether or not the beans are dry enough for storage is to take a representa- | tive sample of the freshly threshed crop to a local elevator where I equipment is available for determining the moisture content. A quart of beans is sufficient for the I test. The beans should be placed in a fruit jar and the lid fastened to prevent drying out while the sample is on the way to the elevator. A moisture content above 14 or ! 15 per cent is likely to cause spoil- - age when the seed is stored, HackI leman stated. Extra care will be needed where morning glory and bull nettle plants are present, since pieces of these plants mixed with the beans will increase the moisture content. Farmers should be doubly sure that seed beans are dry before being threshed. When the beans are dry enough to store satisfactorily, there is some danger of them being cracked in the threshing process. Cracked beans are useless for seed, and those with injured seed coats will deteriorate rapidly. The presence of cracked seed is an indication that the thresher is being operated at too higli a speed or tiie concaves are set too close. Beans containing large amounts of cracked seed should never be saved for planting purposes, since cracked beans are indications of many more with injured seed coats. ' -——o ■ • ■ - Columbus, O.—<U.FL —ln a freak : automobile accident here, a truck crashed through a concrete wall of a railroad viaduct and tell on , top of a moving coal cur. The , truck driver was injured.

INDIANA CORN HUSK CONTEST ON NOVEMBER 6 — State Husking Contest Will Be Held In Johnson County Lafayette, I n d.. Oct. 25 —The battle of the bangboards for the state of Indiana will be held Wednesday, November 6, on the Norton farm, operated by Paul White, about six miles south of Franklin, in Johnson county. Lawrence Pitzer, who has three times been the winner of the Indiana state corn husking contest, will defend his title against the best corn buskers the state of Indiana can muster. Pitzer, representing Fountain county, won the Indiana state contest in 1932, again 1933 and also In 19I 34. He is the only man among the corn husking athletes who has a record of three succesive state championships. Former winners of the Indiana state contest were. ' William Cole, Vermillion county,) 1925; Charles Budd. Marshall coun-j ty, 1926 and 1927; Cecil Miles, Warren county, 1928; Charles Etter. Benton county, 1929; Harry Etter, Benton county, 1930; Robert Kitchell. Wayne county, 1931. It Is poss-j | ible that some of these former state champions will again be

FARMERS ATTENTION! «il Barb IO Bars ; EK— — to— ; -- .. ' 9 Bars pr,- . ~ —a rt—>-<—‘ j — »=«=' -•- — ewj _r_ ( _ |i u ___ r _._ _[_p _[. -Wk-* _ _ 4 - ~■ fIU di! — &*— ~~ - Apparently everything you have to buy is, and has, advanced in price in the past few weeks. 1 am glad to tell you I have the most complete stock of FIELD FENCE AND POSTS I have ever had, and am offering you this merchandise at my last summer's price. Were I forced to buy today it would mean at least two to three cents per rod advance to both of us. Protect yourself now’. CASH COAL & SUPPLY R. A. STUCKEY HOME OF STUCKEY'S HOG GLAD GOOD HAY WANTED I I DO NOT BALE I I OFF-GRADE HAY I I OF ANY KIND! 9 I IT IS I I UNSALEABLE. I | BURK ELEVATOR CO. I Decatur Phone 25 Monroe Phone 19

husking this year in the state con-i teat. In order to quality for a chance : to husk in the state contest, a man must win a county championship ; under the Prairie Farmer rules, and his net bOAhels husked in 80i minutes must be among the ten I high records of county champions in Indiana in 1935. The county I champion of Johnson county, the [ host county for the state contest, is entitled to husk, whether or not he is among the top ten. That makes a field of eleven county cham-1 pions who will be in there fighting to take the title away from Lawrence Pitzer. The state contesi of 1935 on November 6 will be the I hardest fought contest Indiana has ’ ever seen, for the champion and ’ runner-up in it will represent Indiana in the national corn husking ' contest in Fountain county, Indiana on November 8. Ixjcated in a county long famous for its good corn, the field of corn which Paul White has grown this year will afford a splendid chance for a new state record. The corn will yield approximately 75 bushels ‘

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per acre, is a big-eared, yellow dent type of corn, and standing well. Johnson county agent, S. h. Scott, genera! chairman of the state corn husking contest has a Icomplete set of committees all j trained in the detail of their particular work. JohnsOn county is prepared to show ull of Indiana that it is not only a good cornj growing county, but that it is a qenial host when a state corn husking contest comes within ita borders. Approximately 40 counties in ! Indiana are holding contests under the Prairie Farmer rules, which govern the county, state and na- ; tional contests, during the last i week of October. The names of the : county championships who qualify for the state contest will be broadcast over WLB during the dinnerbell program Monday, November 4, so that all corn husking enthusiasts will know who will take part in the big battle November 6. Dates of other state corn husking contest are: Ohio, November ' 1; Nebraska, November 4; Illinois, : November 5; Kansas, October 30; Missouri, November 2; Minnesota, I October 30; South Dakota, Octob|er 29; and lowa, November 1. ! Champions and runners-up in each ] of these state contest will compete with the Indiana champion and runner-up in the national contest in Fountain county, November 8. o■ - ■ Max Markley, president of the Bluffton Rotary club, underwent an appendix operation at the Wells county hospital Thursday afternoon.