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tfift IN THIS Hnici rank |UVE AVERAGE Z^M County Crops Rank Above «nn Whdittons for Indiana dur ■ Oct* "' announced today •■IBB 5 ’ ■ lllf ’' ll ' agricultural of Purdue University Ejinjlil i " I'cration with the Erf gtS ■ ult’irtil I'. jor' that Bf M.Bdiatta in which Adams ' average ft l '' '-' •f»l* tit compariflt*9** i r rave yields per acre Kite Mt- ■ corn. I'J bushels Ktorr W! 72 bushels higher; K ulnts!e s higher, barley. Vtazbel: higher, rye. 6.3 bushpotatoes. 13 bushels Bkß*. ■ p" aloes, 2W bushels '--:.- bushels high■Hay crops in this section of the Hte iwe a few points higher ■UtIMS* ■■■■rage. Fruits w- rthe

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erage. The report for the alate and the country it: October in Indiana was generally dry and wanner following the frosts which occurred near the , i first of the month. Seeding of wheat and rye was finished later , than usual and is going into November small in site but good in appearance. I Com Is being harvested in every section of the state. Many good yields are reported along with reports of damage from frost. This frost damage has ranged in seriousness from soft corn in the northern section of the state to com-' plete failure in the souSern sections. A state yield of 38.6 bushels per acre and a production of 155,463,000 bushels is estimated for this year. Potato harvest continues to be a disappointment to many growers. The light land planted to early potatoes produced yields from light i to complete failure. This was part-* ly offset by the fact that much of the commercial crop of the State is late potatoes grown on the muck land in the northern section. Periods of decidedly dry weather following the heavy late spring rains has been harmful to the crop. A ■ yield of 80 bushels per acre and a production of 4.960,000 bushels is now estimated for the state. Sweet potatoes are yielding below earlier estimates. The same adverse weather which injured white potatoes has also been harm-

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ful to this crop. i The soy bean harvest has appar l ently borne out early estimates of i a heavy crop. Heavy rains just be- i fore or following November 1 have retarded harvest and may injure the quality of some beans. The frosts around October 1 injured some late planted fields. It is generally conceded by those interested in the crop that yields are not only better than usual but that a largeg percent of the crop is being saved for seed. A state yield of 17 bushels and a production of 6,270,000 bushels Is now the estimate. Pasture condition was reported lower than last month. Dry weather at the beginning of the month and killing frosts from about September 26 to early October forced some dairymen to begin dry feeding. Rains the last of October and early November with warmer than i usual weather has done much to renew pasture. Apples are reported to be 67 percent of a full crop which is 15 points above the ten year average and 2 points above last month, although reports continue to tell of a heavy drop. Production is estimated to be 1,903,000 bushels compared to 1,020,000 bushels last year. Pear production was estimated at 71 percent of a full crop, 11 points above the ten year average, but 3 points below last montth. This is believed to be due to the smaller size of the fruit, as reported last month, showing up in the harvest of the late crop. The frost of late September also injured some pears. Production this year is now estimated to Tie 170,000 bushels compared to 178,000 bushels last year. Grapes were estimated to be 77 percent of a full crop. 5 points above the ten year average and 3 points below last month. Harvest has proved that earlier estimates of late crop and small fruit were correct. Frost also killed some late grapes. 2,849 tons is the estimated production compared to 3.812 tons last year. Daily milk production per cow milked on reporters’ farms was 16.- ■ 5 lbs.; last month, 17.7; a year ago. 17.3. The percent of cows being milked was 72.3; last month, 75.1; a year ago, 71.8. On farms of reporters having 370 or less hens and ptfiiets of laying age, 19.4 percent were laying; last month, 25.6; a year ago, 17.8. The size of such flocks averaged 96 birds; last month, 88; a year ago, 96. UNITED STATES Feed grain supplies arc sufficient to provide about the usual rations for the reduced number of livestock on the farms and leave a rather small carryover. Hay production was above average and there is sufficient to permit feed- ' ing slightly more than the usual ration per head and still leave an I average quantity in reserve next spring. FARMER SALES TOTAL HIGHER Sales Os Principal Products Much Higher In First Nine Montths l Farmer's sales of principal products totaled $4,215,217,000 in the first nine months of this year compared with »3,892,0;,TT00 in 1934. and with $3,238,853,000 in 1933. The figures.do not include government' rental and benefit payments. All major regions except the South Atlantic and South Central show increases this year. By States, decreased receipts arc reported for Maine, Nebraska, North Car olina. South Carolina, Florida. Alabama. Arkansas, Louisiana, Texas, Wyoming, New Mexico, and Arizona. In the North Atlantic States a group, receipts were 7 percent more in tin "rst nine months of this year than last. A higher level of prices for livestock and livestock products will. it. is expected, maintain incomes from these commodities dur in g the next few I months somewhat above Hie same ' period last year. The bureau adds . that should potato prices continue to improve in this region, income from crops will he larger in the Hext few months than in the same period last year. In the East North Central States, receipts were 23 percent larger in the first nine months of this yefir than last, due chiefly to the higher Icvtl of income front livestock. The bureau says that should farmers in Hus region maintain volume of mv’kcting of meat animals afabout the same level compared -with last year lor the remainder of 1935, and should there

be no material decline in prices for cattle calves and hogs, the cash receipts in the region should continue to improve over o GOOD SURFACE DRAINAGE NEED Good Surface Drainage Is Necessary To Grow Good Alfalfa Any attempt to grow alfalfa on flat lands in regions of abundant rainfall probably will fail, if good surface drainage is not | rovided. Extensive experiments by forage crop men of the Department of Agriculture and the Mississippi Experiment Station —in the Mississippi Delta, where annual rainfall is 59 to 60 inches —show i“at tile drainage is not sufficient. Good surface drainage, however, obtain ed by building up lands 50 to 150 feet wide, and 6 to 14 inches high, maintain excellent stands and gives good yields. A field made up into lands was sown to alfalfa in October 1930. Two lands were left flat as checks Stands were very poor the follow ing spring on check lands. An attempt was made to reseed the check lands in October 1931 with little success. By the fall of 1934 alfalfa on the checks had died out 80 to 100 percent, but stands were still good on built up lands. They were as good on lands 6 inches high as on those higher. Ditches between lands were of the V-type with flat slopes that can be easily crossed with haying equipment. They fall about 2 inches every 100 feet. “Land always should run with the slope of the field," says H. L. Westover, alfalfa specialists in the Bureau of Plant Industry. “On fields with a slight but uniform 1 slope, lands 30 to 40 feet wide may be built up sufficiently by plowing

Oregon Girl and Her Parents Develop Record-Breaking Jersey Herd I IHi - .... Norma Hulburt, Independence. Orc., with Sybil Baroness Eileen, Jersey cow, which set a national breed record for milk yield.

Attractive young Norma Hulburt of Independence, Oregon, is assisting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. L. A. Hulburt so capably in managing a herd of purebred Jerseys that veteran dairymen are watching with growing amazement the national records the herd is setting for production. f Miss Hulburt is the only, young woman in the country to milk and care for a national Jersey production champion through the official test.. She milked Sybil Baroness Eileen 914 times of the 915' times the cow was milked during a 305day test. In this test “Eileen” yielded 759.71 lbs. butterfat, 15,596 lbs. milk, breaking the existing na tional record for 305-day milk yield by a junior 4-vear-old Jersey cow set almost te?Tyears ago. “Eileen" weighed 950 pounds at the end of her test, so during the ten months she yielded over sixteen times her own weight jn milk. Every morning during the 305 days “Eileen” was on test Miss Hulburt was up and milking her around 4:00 o’clock; then milked her again in the middle of the day and a third (time late in the evening. “I certainly enjoyed milking ‘Eileen’,” Miss Hulburt said, “as I really like to milk.” In addition to the three itimes-a-day milking routine for the cows on test the Hulburt family also milked a fourth time during 'the day, Miss Hulburt doing her share at each milking. “Eileen” is one of eight daughters of the Jersey bull' Sybil’s Ashburn Baronet which are completing such high official production test yields this year that they are bringing him more honors for the producing ability of his progeny than any bull es the Jersey breed has over achieved in so short a time. They are his first daughters to come into

to the center and opening up the ditches with a ditcher or grader. We are convinced that one of tho most important factors in growing I good alfalfa on flat, lands such as ■ these is adequate surface drainage. I i Yields of hay tor 4 years on two fields, one with tile drainage and : one without, show that tile drainage is not enough." WOMEN OF FARM i BARTER GOODS Home Industries Bring Cash Return, Exchange In Commodities I Home industries of farm women not only bring them cash gains on products sold but yield a good re-. turn in exchange for services and i commodities their families could ■ not otherwise have had. Women extension leaders attend--1 ing the agricultural outlook confer- : ence in Washington told of many leases where satisfactory trades ■ were made. Among the prOuucts marketed were dressed poultry, eggs, butter, pickles, preserves, tomato juice, canned chicken and meat, canned chili, bread, cakes, ’ and hooked rugs. These products also were accept- ,' ed in payment for dental work, . physicians' fees, drugs, music lesi sous, garage bills, shrubs, furuiI tttre, bed linen, a permanent, hair . cuts, cosmetics, brooms, parts for . an oil stove, a gasoline iron, house ■ paint and paper, clothes closets, . wire fencing, blacksmith work, sub- . scriptions to magazines, dress mat- . erials, a suit of clothes, setting ,' eggs, baby chicks, a contribution to the preacher, and, in one’ case. . a Bible. i' o i ■ Mrs. David E. Smith of Fort ■ Wayne is the guest of her sister, ; Mrs. John Peterson today.

* production, were tested without selection and so far have broken four national records this year. In addition to the national rec- I ord made by “Eileen,” Sybil Tessie Ixirna broke two national records for senior 2-year-old Jersey cows, 1 one for milk and one for butterfat, 305-day tests, with a yield of 15,357, lbs. of milk, 865.07 lbs. butterfat? and Sybil Lucky June set a national record for butterfat production by a senior 3-year-old Jersey cow, in a 365-day test, by yielding 16,657 lbs. milk, 1055.73 lbs. butterfat. Sybil’s Ashburn Baronet headed the Hulburt herd for several years and has lately been sold to F. R. Angell and F. G. Atkinson, of St.; Paul, Minn. “Dad gave me my first Jersey for the Christmas of 1930,” Miss Hulburt says. “She was Sybil’s' Ashburn Baronet’s first daughter,' Sybil’s Little Elsa, which has just finished an official production record of 749.54 lbs. butterfat, 14,108 lbs milk in 305 days.” Miss Hulburt takes especial pride! in feeding and caring for the baby calves in the Hulburt herd. “Ths job J enjoyed the most is raising' the calves,” she says. “I raised all the calves sired by Sybil’s Ashburn ' Baronet, tending to them from the' time they were born until nearly a year old. I have tended to all the cows we had when they were calves except one. We have about 18 . calves a year.” Miss Hulburt also knows how to exhibit Jerseys successfully in the , show ring. She is pictured with “Eileen” at the Oregon State Fair, where “Eileen” placed second in her age class, being outranked by one of her sisters. At this fair the Hulburt Jerseys won half a dozen other blue ribbons.

SOYDEAN MEAL TO RANK HIGH AS A PROTEIN Soybean Oil Meal To Be Used Largely For Feeding Purposes Urbana. 111.. Nov. 22—A large crop of soybeans combined with increasied stock feeding activities on Indiana and Illinois farms indicate that soybean oil meal will rank high among the protein supplements used in feed lots this winter, said E. T Robbins, animal husbandry extension specialist at the college of agriculture, University of Illinois. This standard by-product of the large Illinois bean crop already i i has established its merits as an allaround healthful and suitable bfgh protein feed. At present prices it has a low cost for each pound of protein as compared with other supplementary feeds, Robbins said Hog rafters in particular will 1 find soybean oil meal an excellent protein supplement during the com- i ing winter months. Tests have indicated that hogs given free access to powdered limestone will thrive almost as well on a ration containing soybean oil meal as they will on rations in which tankage is used as the protein concentrate. Hog raisers arc cautioned that the feeding of whole or ground beans will produce soft pork, where as soybean oil meal produces firm pork. Robbins said. Every shipment of soft pork from a particular locality hurts the reputation of that locality on the market, he explained. From reports coining in from ! various parts of the two states, it is believed that soybean processors are willing to cooperate with feeders in the matter of exchanging soybeafTs for soybean oil meal. This is a good trade because it gives the farmer more protein than | he would have in his beans. The prospective price of the meal for the next few months indicates that lit will be an economical protein concentrate for Illinois and Indiana stock feeders. GROW SPLENDID | CROPS IN MUCK Muck Soil Used To Produce Finest Crops Os Vegetables "Muck, the soil which farmers rejected in years past has now be come the pride of the truck farmer,” Prof. S. D. Conner, research chemist In the Purdue University Agricultural Experiment. Station, told muck tariners at the recent Northern Indiana Muck Crops Show in North Judson. He said. I “We can now truthfully say that | no better quality vegetables can be grown than muck soils properly cultivated and fertilized. I "Thirty or forty years ago. when

I . . hog tops Wp $9.65 lO (. AN YOU AFFORD TO FEED A MINERAL? A HOME-MADE PRODUCT THAT YOU CAN BUY ON AN ABduloTE GUARANTEE TO IM) THE FOLLOWIN' G:EXPELL A HOG FROM WORMS. PUT UP IN MAKE A ROUGH HOG SMOOTH. .. . GIVE THEM AN APPETITE. ov io. bags. TAKING THEM FROM THE DAILY BOARDER CLASS Sells for TO THE PROFITABLE FEEDERS CLASS. „„ All This We Guarantee 75c ‘' STUCKEY’S HOG-GLAD or 100 lbs. for ur * will do or we will refund you every cent you have U? 1 KA given us without any argument. tP L* Remember, we are marketing this mineral under the state of Indiana Laws. Registration No. 7228-C. ■I" ■■■ ■' — TRY IT AND SEE THE DIFFERENC E! Cash Coal & Supply R . A. STUCKEY

tariners did not know how to handle and fertilize muck to make it produce, they were ashamed to have it known that a part of their farms consisted of this type of soil, which is composed principally of organic matter formed from the decomposed remains of plants. Within comparatively recent limes," Conner pointed out, “it has been found that, with liberal fertilization, muck will produce large yields of high value crops. “The highest yield of corn ever grown in Indiana. 182.6 bushels per

FEDERAL FARM LOANS Now At THE ADAMS COUNTY NATIONAL FARM LOAN ASSOCIATION, of Decatur, Indiana nas received a Charter and has been duly authorized and empowered •-0 make farm loans in -Il of Adams County. If you are expecting to re-finance 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 Sale Os Dress Lenghts Just arrived (third shipment) of Silk Dress Lengths in plain and figured patterns. Lengths 3*/y, 1 and 4!i yards each—enough in each piece for a dress. Seventy-five pieces to select from. H $1.99 K/EACH length BLANKET SALE! Choose from Genuine Nashau or Wearwell Brand Best Quality Blankets! ’ 72x84 Part Wool Blankets $2.75 pr. 70x80 Part Wool Blankets $2.39 pr. 72x81 Heavy Cotton Blankets $1.98 pr. 70x80 Cotton Plaid Blankets $1.50 pr. 70x80 Plain Grey or Tan Blankets $1.95 pr. 72x90 Heavy Part Wool Blankets $3.95 70x80 Solid Color 50'» Wool Blankets. $2.98 each 70x80 Plaid Cotton Blankets : 69c each All Wool Comforter, Sateen C overed Top and bottom, size 72x84, colors: Rose, Gold and Green. Special $3.98 NIBLICK & CO

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I acre produced In the 1934 FiveAcre Corn Contest ana grown by Harold I’ankop, was on muck soil. Yields of 500 bushels of potatoes and 1,000 bushels of onions per acre are not uncommon on muck soils," he said. “Carrots, cabbage, celery, mint, and other crops are now produced so extensively on muck soils that they are called muck crops." Conner stated that potash may be profitably used In large amounts >n muck soils and phosphate and ometimos nitrogen are needed in order to produce the best yields. These fertilizers, he said, improve the quality of the crops produced as well as increasing th.e yields. o ARRIVALS Mr. and Mrs. Francis Grimm are the parents of a seven pound son born Monday at ten a. m. The baby has been named Kenneth Edward. Both mother and baby are doing well.

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