Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 34, Number 211, Decatur, Adams County, 4 September 1936 — Page 5

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BENEFIT Silt CROPS IN I® COUNTY: - Kral <W 111 Benefited Greatly By Recent Rains , ii Adams county ,h " , ... ..ported toEMr,,- nnmls'i of farmers. K.' "i "••• cor " KL point slur., rains will M (I. al to do with i.s "■L ,i »,.s ili- opinion of many ■K:,.. v •i<-ls al- filling out bet |H ... .. . .olier through UpV v .,, ma> i' -ill' m a bump i <>f siie.it beets. Coupled drought eomlilioiis in some - will olubly result in . .... Hable season _^H.|) t beet growers. — |K r „. ..lid tops are be- : ,_ turn .•-on again and ■E . assistance to ■*.'< ri>« ot the high price ' . ■ the drought. |Hf dr -..:- ~v!io I.UV. hay to sell. . es. A few uh., k. pl hay over from .» . in the mow. - pi.k benefited rains. . lu'.d Sial is weather ' .1 the August ». a territory |K. ._■ X .'iheru Ohjo. . l. i’ .a- well as in the] ai Wieoiisin. lowa and' Mr In many plae--b-y u- i. normal. :i Indiana. K ■ ■ nd Tennessee - -.mi hern Illi M -eel \' k a s s. (>kla..nd A- a. in Texas, rain- - ■ - ..nd p< rsistent- . intensified conditions. pit IISES I Os FERTILIZER Si application Oh Wheat ■ Could Be Doubled To H Good Profit ■ 1- itilizer applieaUli..,' ...idd be doubled ' r ■ eding to Robt. M |Mk liepartmeiit of a|.pb. .ition of fertilizer ■“ pounds. From results ... large numbers of Hp ’ Cui.it. ,i th,H ih| S amount of 1 BMstilie r . |„. expected to add . bush. Is io th.e acre yield the average season. .. t i|ai the amount of fergiveii me wheat crop could ■M r Wed wnh profit comes from ■ WANTED: |H, Ri S-- Magazines. Newspapers, Iron, Old .Auto Radiators, Copper, Brass, Alum-■*"-a"d all grades of scrap metwe are always buying all of waste material. ■ e are als o buying Wool and Hi ” r Pclts > paying the top marIR price. I The Maier Hide I & Fur Co. ■ <lO W. Monroe St. ■ Phone 442 ■ ftUERAi, FARM LOANS I Now At 4% ■ Adams County National ■ ram Loan Association, S of Decatur, Indiana r '? eiT€ '<l a Charter and has ■tw't v au th<*rized and e.mpow ■ ij.J O o»ake farm loajis in all ot ■ ‘wins County. ■Fi'u- 5 ."" BrftoX Pe<'ting tore-finance Btssnri'?i n ' loan ’ call or "'tile this ■ 'triauon at once. ■ Office. 133 s outh s econu street BE Ruh “ ec,tur - Indiana II p,L ™ nhart - sec’y-treaa. ■ w T - Schurger, investigator

fertilizer experiment farm* in 10 1 Ohio rountle*. scattered well over the State. In all of these testa a 2-14-4 fertilizer has been applied to wheat, the acre rate being 425 pounds In nine counties and 260 pounds in one county. As an avi erage for all counties, the fertlllzler treatment has increased the I yield of wheat by 14.9 bushels and has also given an additional bene- ' lit on the clover following the wheat, the average gain in clover being 1300 pounds of hay. Figuring wheat at 9o cents per bushel and hay at 26.0 Q per ton. the increased yields from about $6.00 spent for fertiliser have been worth *17.30. or nearly *3.00 return for each dollar invested in fertilizer. MANY FENCES ELECTRIFIED Precaution Necessary’ In Electrification Os Fences It’s the amount of precaution taken in controlling the quantity of "mysterious tingle" in electrified fences that may either fool or kill i livestock is the conclusion reached by C. N. Hinkle of the agricultural engineering department of Purdue University, who has completed recently a study of the sitillation In Indiana, which revealed. | that nearly 500 Hoosier farmers using this type of fence. Nearly 30 farmers using 110 volt alternating current electrified fences had built the electrical controlling devices themselves and reported the deaths of nine hogs, one bull, one horse, and one dog. These • losses clearly demonstrated the I dangerous qualities ot the home i made outfits. Hinkle stated. One I incident revealed that two boys ' were “frozen" to a highly charged | electrified fence which received its i current through a 10 watt light , bulb and had not a third brother ' opened the circuit, death would i have resulted soon. Advantages farmers listed in using electrical fences were summarized by Hinkle as follows: Cures .the fence-walking horse, initial and installation costs are less thap regular fences, and unruly livei stock may be more easily control!I ed. Most of the home-made outfits ! have been constructed by attach- ! ing the “hot wire” of a 110 volt line directly to the fence or by ! first releasing the electrical energy through a low wattage light bulb and then to the fence. All of these meThods haw resulted In death of livestock and are considered extremely dangerous, Hhtkle said. The seven and one-half watt bulb, which is the smallest standard bulb on the market, allows a flow of6(> milliamperes ot current, and tests show that 30 milliamperes will cause the muscles of a hog to contract, resulting in death by asphyxiation within a few minutes if not released. Farmers using commercila fencing unite equipped with a device for intermittent current and having the current outpu limited to a low value have not reported any accidents to date, Hinkle said. However, none of the electrified fence outfits have been approved by state safety organizations. —o Slaughter Hogs To Exceed 1935 Number Urbana, 111., Sept. 4—Numbers of hogs for slaughter in the 193637 marketing year, beginning in October, probably will be from 10 to 2t> per cent larger than in the year just ending when supplies were small, according to Illinois Farm Economics, a monthly publication of the department of agricultural economics. College of Agriculture, University of Illinois. i “Heavier than normal liquidation . of hogs now taking place will likely continue through the remainder of the year but will result iu lighter supplies for the first three months of 1937,” the circular states. Prospects for next year are that supplies will be 20 to 25 per cent smaller than the average of the 5-year period preceding 1934-35-,' since this year's small corn crop 1 will cut the number of sows to farrow. Slaughter of hogs for the first i seven months of 1936 was only, i 68 per cent of the average slaughter for the same months iu 1932 and 1933 but was 22 per ednt above the slaughter for the same period in 1935. « • O . Trade In a Good Town — Decatui

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 4. 1936.

TELLS PROPER PERIOD TO CUT SOYBEAN CROP Soybeans Should Be Cut Before Many Leaves Have Fallen When should soybeans be cut for hay? The first consideration in cutting any crops is to cut at the time which will produce the larg-1 eat possible yield, says C. J. Will-1 ard of the Agronomy Department at the Ohio Experiment Station. | For soybean*, this etage of development obtains wnen the beans in . the pods are two-thlrds to threefourths full grown but before very. many leaves have fallen. The next object is to secure as large a percentage of protein as possible in the hay and the most, protein per acre. The stage just described also meets this requirement. However, hay cut at the stage indicated above is very hard to. cure, for the large green beans in the pods dry very slowly. Many have put iu soybean hay which they thought was dry, only to have it spoil because the beans were not cured. With most hay crops, the later the stage of maturity at which they are cut the more eas- ' ily they are cured, but the exact opposite is true of soybeans. Not only do the plants become harder to cure, but the weather becomes less and less favorable for curing, because the days grow shorter and cooler aud the dews heavier. Moreover, the large protein content of late-cut soybean hay is due to the very high protein content of the seed; whereas the leaves . and stems are actually much lower in protein than they are earlier. Late cut hay is somewhat like a mixture of straw and seed instead of hay. The alternatives then are to cut soybeans when the beans are just beginning to form and have a more anally cut'd and more palatable hay but a. much lower yield of hay containing a lower percentage of protein, or to delay cutting with resultant larger yields but more trouble in curing. An important matter in this connection is the choice ot a variety. Many of the varieties usually used

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for hay are late, so that if left until the heans are well grown, they are harvested late In September or even early in October. It Is desirable to choose varieties which reach somewhere near the stage of maximum yield during good curing weather. If other varieties are < grown, it may be well to cut them early, even If the yield of hay is reduced. It is better to have a low er yield of hay safely in the barn : than a larger yield rotting in the field. Soybean hay should usually be cut by September 1 in northern Ohio and Indiana and by September 11 in southern Ohio and Indiana. STUDY OUTLETS i FOR SOYBEANS Sixteenth Annual Soybean Session To Be Held In lowa — Urbana, 111., Sept. 4.—After hav- i ing concerned itself with soybean varieties, methods of culture, harvesting and feeding, the American Soybean Association, will devote particular attention to commercial utilization of the crop at its sixteenth annual sessions, Sept. 14, i 15, and 16 at Ames, Cedar Rapids, I and Hudson, lowa. O. E. May, Urbana, will discuss the research program of the new - regional soybean industrial pro- : ducts laboratory, ot which he is. director and which is located at i the University of Illinois college of j agriculture. W. L. Burlison, head of the agronomy department of the : agricultural college, will report on experiments with soy-oil paint con-1 ducted by the college. On the banquet program Thursday evening. Miss Sybil Woodruff, of the home 1 economics department of the college, will present a discussion on ' "Boybeans for the Homemaker." An organization of those inter- - tsted in the production of the jitilization of soybeans, the asso- : ciation has watched the soybean : acreage of the United States grow i from a few thousand acres in 1920 ; to sk* million acres in 1935. Information relative to the com- [ plete program to be presented at i the sixteenth annual meeting of i the association may be obtained by writing Hackelman at the Col- . lege of Agricutlure. o I Trade In a Good Town — Oecatu'

DROUGHT CORN APT TO SPOIL Drought Corn Likely To Spoil If Cut And Shocked Now Urbana, 111., Sept. 4—-The thous-; ands of acres ot corn, prematurely ripened by the drought, are apt to spoil if cut and shocked for curing at this time of year, according to E. T. Robbins, livestock extension specialist, college of agriculture. University of Illinois. After witnessing great quantities of this kind of livestock forage rotting in the field following the 1934 drouth. Robbins points out that | a trench silo can be used to save this damaged corn for feed without loss or waste. The same trench silo can be used in succeeding years. In 1934 thousands of farmers | dug trench silos, many of which are still In use, Robbins reports. The method used for packing the j silage was to have a boy ride one horse and lead another back and forth across the silage while the trench was being filled. A number of trench silos were | inspected by Robbins where farniiers had excellent results, reporting I that they wintered their stock in bette shape and morSTheaply than i ever in the past. Because the farmj ers exchanged work, cash expense in construction of the silos was -i practically nothing. I Silos have proved successful on I level ground, Robbins state. Fear- . ing that his trench silo would fill : with water since his land is flat, 1 one farmer used the dirt from the I silo to build a bank around it to i keep out surface water. It was - [ necessary to bail out only a little ! water in the spring and his silage ■ j kept perfectly. ; The experience of another user, wlw has had a trench silo for four -1 years is evidence of the keeping > qualities of a trench silo. One year - he did not need the silage and left i it undisturbed until the next win- ' ter when it was found in perfect > feeding condition. Directions for the construction • of a trench silo may be obtained t from the local farm adviser or by f writing the College of Agriculture I at Urbana. • n>— CCC Fights Elm Blight Washington —(UP)—A campaign > by the Civilian Conservation Corps

and the Bureau ot Plant Industry st Morristown, N. J.„ is being ad-| vanned to eradicate the Dutch elm , disease from areas in eastern I states. o QStrews Tacks Hiawatha, Kas. —(UP)— Thia | town is troubled by a new type of public enemy. Someone has been scattering lauks on driveways here. o — URGES CARE IN SELECTINC SEED Maturity Os Kernel Reliable Guide In Selection Seed Corn Maturity of kernel is the one reliable guide that farmers should' follow in selecting their seed corn thie fall if losses from extremely] low winter temperatures and at- j tacks of fungous molds are to be ! avoided; well matured seed corn ] contains less moisture and is more' readily dried out under the usual] farm storage conditions. These ( are the points that will be stress- j ed in the plant diseas exhibit, prepared by Dr. C. T. Gregory, extension botanist of Purdue University, which will be on display in the Purdue building at the Indiana state fair this year. The water content of two bushels of seed corn that were selected at different stages of maturity will 1 be shown, emphasizing the need for proper storage facilities if good I seed corn is to be planted next spring. Details of field selection of seed corn will be given in the exhibit, according to Dr. Greogory, who will be in charge throughout the fair week. Field selection of seed corn should be postponed until after the first frosts in order that it , shall have every opportunity to mature. Dr. Gregory recommends. ; The person selecting the seed :should inspect the nature and. growth of the plant that produced the ear of corn. The exhibit will encourage farm ers to select their seed corn from j places of average fertility in the' fieldtf. It is well known that the i best seed corn can be found in the most fertile parts. Dr. Grego¥y claims, but such corn has not had to fight for its existence. Corn 'that best fits the average soil conditions should be selected, he says.

POULTRY MUST BE WELL FED Grains May Be Substituted In Rations For Poultry While with the present high price of teed and the low prices for eggs and poultry producers will have to reduce expenses by keeping only the best stock and using best production methods, it should be remembered that any birds worth keeping should be fed well says E. M. Funk of the Missouri College of Agriculture. It is a mistake to feed only grain to growing chickens or laying hens. For those who have grains other than corn it is recommended that these grains be substituted for corn both in the grain mixtures and in the mash. When other grains are substituted for yellow corn the vitamin A content of the rat'ibn must be maintained by feeding alfalfa leaf meal and cod liver oil. Wheat and barley can be used instead of corn, but the feeder must .keep In mind that these grains do not supply any vitamin A. Grain sorghums such as kafir and milo can be substituted for yellow corn in the poultry ration if aiafalfa leaf meal and cod liver oil are used. Cane molasses can be substituted for corn pound for pound in the poultry ration. With present prices this substitution thould be made. Two laying rations which make use of grains other than corn are as follows: No. 1: 200 pounds ground barley. 200 pounds ground

AETNA FARM LOANS YOU PAY NO Commission YOU PAY NO Stock to buy YOU PAY NO Application Fee YOU PAY NO Examination of Title Fee YOU PAY NO Farm Appraisal Fee Low Interest Rates. Quick Closings , 5, 10, 15 or 20 year loans. If you are considering a loan —see First Bank of Berne, Berne. Ind. Farmers State Bank, Preble, Ind. Suttles-Edwards Co., Decatur, Ind.

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! wheat, 165 pounds heavy ground oats, 35 pounds alfalfa meal (pea green in color), 150 pounds meat scraps, and 7 pounds salt. No. 2: 200 pounds ground barley, 200 pounds ground heavy oats, 165 pounds shorts, 85 pounds alfalfa meal (pea green in color), 150 , pounds meat scraps, and ? pounds salt - — '♦ ♦ Many Reunions Scheduled For Summer Months '♦ 4’ Saturday, Sept. 5 Mumma reunion. Franke partk, Fort Wayne. Sunday September 6 , Annual Hart Reunion, Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Stephenson, eaut ot ■! Monroeville. Sluaser-Oause Reunion, J. E. Gause Grove, 7 miles south eaet ot Willahire. Roop Annual Reunion, Sun Set park. Marne Reunion. Sun Set Paftc. | Brown family reunion, Legion Memorial park. Zink and Kuhn Annual Reunion, Sun Set Park, Sept. 6. Schafer and Wilson reunion, SunSet park. Urick annual reunion, Sun Set park, rain or shine. ‘ Annual Schnepj, and Manlev reunion, Sun Set park. Salem M. E. Homecoming, Salem ' Nuttman park, near Decatur. Sunday, Sept. 13 j Chronteer reunion, Hanna-Nutt- ' i man park. o Soviet Honors Moscow. —(U.R) —The Societ govI eminent has conferred upon 430 ' ' Stakhanovites and execfltTves of ’ the Soviet food industry the high--1 ' est awards of the Soviet UnionOrders of Lenin, Red Banner of r, Labor and the “Badge of Honor." r | o Home Made Telescope r 1 Tulare. Cal. —(U.PJ —A. L. Pursell r of Tulare has finished a *650 tele 1 scope at a cost of only *75 from 1 discarded auto parts and the glass from a ship's porthole. The ins | strument, 75 inches long, magni- > ties 240 times. s . o 1 Trade in a Good Town — Decatur