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L lilding Practices Pax rit nt Rates Are | or Indiana Kcial States. ■ \!E ITEMIZED K . t »tli. iul-' • |H of pay : . !■ .. : ,-i...in« < <1 re- , . IB*/ *•! I’ui'liK' UnIsl ' ' i'a:i"ii 'oving soil |fl. ■: !><■ limited soil-building B farm." . stated ■ provisions of : ■ sub- ~;..' Hl . of em- ; h K : of , ; Bl -.odings farmer must sow adapted |' Payment Rates sing are the approved pracid the rates of payment: , ngs of adapted legumes on d. providing a good stand-1 it the time of checking per-. v: Alfalfa. $2.50 per acre; r aver, sericea, and white $2.00 per acre; alsike and i ith clover. $1.50 per acre; I za. $1.50 per acre; legume ■s or mixtures of legumes rennial grasses, containing or more of alsike clov-inr’o-ill < li'Vi-r. red clover, fl i, or lespedeza. or any comfl in of these legumes, $1.50 fl r annual sweet , fl vetch, and < rimsol; clover,! fl >:,.•■ .'line mixtures or | fl is of b enm.-s and perennial' fl > which < ontain 50 per cent B r or annual sweet, B v.ell. crimson clover, or* B : cen combination of any I H • d !• games, SI.OO ■ re. H lings nt adapted perennial H s mi cropland or non-crop | H e land, providing a good I H exists at time of checking! H marue. bluegrass, crested B grass, sb-mler wheat grass, j f| _■ e.l |„. r bromegrass, orchard grass, ■ irmanent pasture mixtures of or grasses and legumes, icr- . and i- dtop. timothy ’i::..u-.|it pasture mixtures crass...s and legumes, acre. HH Liming Payments anon of ground /•' ' - KH $• 3. .flll|l'a| Kg 9 1 ? ■ mBSLv? » *»I. ‘-«41 J| i ■f. Bl /,<>>' /HjlJEXjffi W mSbb ’ ■ **• <>. ( I j ■•CHALMERS MODEL “WC” J ■ ?* e lI P your money in a fl-'we tractor! The Allis- 1 fl'mers Model “WC” will i' K y°« r the year jj BJW; H‘g h traction differen- ! ■in?' * h ' el with the best ■ trp?a t$ u e P° wer - Adjust. I K-off c- - av y duty power ■'r ' li o ln ’P’ e >, o“>ck-acting Bur- A . 'he necessary Be at t° r year roun d performAsk us ,or a Ed Affolder ■a B e c rne ’ Indiana ■^^^°^A^ arn s County

limestone or its equivalent on crop land or non-crop pasture land, >l.- > 25 per ton; application of a minimum of 500 pounds per acre of finely ground limestone on crop land drilled in with new seedings |of legumes, $1.00; and applcation i of a minimum of 1,000 pounds per iacre of finely ground limestone on non-crop pasture land, $2.00 per acre. Applications of commercial fertilizer on non-crop pasture land or ! crop land used for growing a soil ! conserving crop in 1937, and on i which no soil depleting crop is planted for harvest in 1937 or 1938: 1 200 pounds of 16 per cent superphosphate or its equivalent, $1.20 per acre; 300 pounds of 16 per cent superphosphate or its equivalent, SI.BO per acre; 500 pounds of rock phosphate or basic slag, SI.BO per acre; and 100 pounds of 50 per cent muriate of potash or its equivalent, SI.OO per acre. Windbreaks Planting and protection of forest | trees or trees for windbreak or, shelterbelt purposes in accordance with good tree culture practices, • $7.50 per acre. Improving stands of forest trees in accordance with | 1 specified provisions, $2.50 per acre.!! Terracing in accordance with spe-' cified provisions, 40 cents per 100 feet. ' Practices applicable only to land , .in commercial orchards and culti- > vated small fruits; plowing or discing in winter cover crops in ac- ' cordance with specified provisions, SI.OO per acre; seedings of sped-, tied winter cover crops in accordance with specified provisions, 50 cents per acre; seeding soybeans and cowpeas in accordance with specified provisions, $1.50 per acre; and application of mulching mater-1 lais, other than manure, in accordance with specified provisions, sl.00 per ton. EAT CONTROL IS EXPLAINED Rodents May Be Exterminated By New Poison Methods Lafayette, Ind.. January 29- ' Honse and barn mice can be effectively controlled by the use of a poison wheat bait, according to G. C. Oderik of the United States Bureau of Biology Survey stationed at Purdue University, who has ’ experimented for several years ; with the bait. Although a poison I oat bait has been very effective in | the control of field mice, expert-, ments in controlling the rodents in I fruit or grain storage rooms indicates that the entire poison-cover-ed wheat grain is eaten, while mice and rats remove the hulls of oats without consuming a deadly dose, of poison. The formula for the wheat bait, ■ as furnished by Oderirk is as follows: Mix one tablespoon of gloss! starch in one-fourth teacup of cold j water and stir into thre-fourths, pint of boiling water to make a clear thin paste. Mix one ounce of powdered strychnine with one I ounce of baking soda and stir into | the starch to a smooth creamy I mass which is free of lumps. Stir I in one-fourth pint of heavy corn syrup and one tablespoon of glycer-, in or petrolatum. Apply slowly to I twelve pounds of wheat and mix. thoroughly to coat each kernel. For a small quantity of bait for mice, one quart of rolled oats mixed dry with one eighth ounce of strychnine powder Is very effect-1 ive. WANTED Beef Hides, Sheep Pelts and Tallow. We also buy Rags, Magazines, Newspapers, Scrap Iron, Old Auto Radiators, Batteries, Copper, Brass,: Aluminum, and all grades ol scrap metals. The Maier Hide & Fur Co. 710 W. Monroe st. Phone 442

1937 LIVESTOCK PRICES WILL BE HIGHER THAN'36 Economists Predict Price Increase During Year Urbana, 111., Jan. 29. Increases in livestock prices with grain supplies putting a premium on feed conservation are in prospect for 1937, is the conclusion of P. E. Johnson, agricultural economics extension specialist. College of Agriculture, University of Illinois, after a study of first-of-the-year livestock and grain reports. With the same amount ot corn on farms of the nation as in 1935, following the drouth of 1934, and with less cattle and sheep on feed than two years ago, the wise feeder who can use a balanced ration to add flesh and stretch feed supplies stands to profit dnring the 1937 feeding season. Johnston believes. While farmers of the nation have the same amount of corn on hand as on January 1, 1935, they have 134 million bushels more oats and more roughage, he pointed out. I Compared with the first of laSt

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, year, the picture is not so favorable. The 810 million bushels of corn now on farms is 595 million less than the 1,405 million bushels on hand last year, and the 484 million bushels of oats is 286 million less than the 770 million bushels on hand January 1, 1936. Cattle Cattle numbers on feed in 11 com belt states at the first of this year were 10 per cent larger than on January 1, 1935. The number of cattle on feed in western states as I the present year opened was some what larger than a year earlier and nearly twice as large as on Janu-1 ary 1, 1935. December 1 pig crop report indicates 23.8 million fall pigs saved last fall, as compared with 17.1 million head in the fall ot the drouth year, 1934, to be fed out in 1935. Intentions for this spring if j carried out will give 40 million spring pigs as compared with 32; million head in the spring of 1935. However, the spring pig crop of 1936 was slightly larger than that of 1934. There will be a good crop many morp hogs to be fed out of the 1936 corn crop than out of the 1934 crop of about the same size. The number of sheep on feed for market at the first of this year in the principal feeding states was 4 per cent smaller than the number on feed January 1, 1936. This decrease was ail in the corn belt states with most of it in the western com l>elt area. o Trade In a Good Town — Decatur

MUNGIE IS HOST FOR CONVENTION Farm Loan Association To Meet In Muncie, Wednesday The Muncie products credit association will hold its annual meeting February 3, 1937, in the Delaware hotel at Muncie, Indiana. This meeting will be for the purpose of electing two directors and transacting any other business that may be necessary. Also, in this meeting a general report of the business activities of the association for the year 1936 will be presented and explained. This report should be of much interest to all stockholders since it is their association and should have their support in managing the affairs of the association. It should also be ot interest to non-members from the fact that production credit has been established for the purpose of giving all worthy farmers, with satisfactory security, an opportunity to obtain their credit needs at the lowest minimum cost and at the same time ! build their own co-operative credit bank for their permanent use. Although production credit has ! been in operation almost three years, and its progress has far ex-'

Statistics show that there has been more typhoid fever in Indiana in the six-year period from 1929-1925 than in any other northern state. In 1933 Indiana had 95 deatlis due to typhoid fever. In the many small towns and in parts of our larger cities the privies are a disgrace. In the country districts we often find shallow dug or driven wells with a dirty open privy nearby. Such conditions in this State are a disgrace and should not be tolerated. Just as long as w are willing to eat and drink our own and our neighbor's excretions, just so long, and no longer, will we have typhoid fever. In further support of this subject- records for 1934 of the Department of Vital Statistics, Indiana Division Public Health, show 104 deaths from typhoid fever and 407 deaths from diarrhoea. Therefore, in order to free Inniana from its present hazardous and disgraceful one, the cooperation of all citizens concerned is urgently requested. The return on the investment is great, for the individual, and public health arc thereby safeguarded. The Community Sanitation Program that is now being conducted throughout Indiana is sponsored by the local, State and Federal Health authorities, in co-operation with the Works Progress Administration- for the purpose of eliminating the grossly insanitary open-surface privies, that are now so prevalent in every county of Indiana, and replacing these with approved type sanitary' pit privies. The Sanitary privies are constructed in accodrance with plans and specifications furnished by tile U. S. Public Health Service, and are being erected by trained and properly supervised workers furnished by Works Progress Administration. The approved privies are constructed in such a manner that flies, insects, rats, or small domsetic animals cannot gain access to the waste material, and they arc practically odorless. «, This program enables any property owner or tenant to In ve any outdoor privy reconstructed, or a new one built for the cost of materials only- provided the location complies with local ordinance pertaining to distance from sewers, etc., and the State specifications as to distance from source of water supply. All labor is free. Since these facilities are offered at such a low' cost it is to be hoped that the public will take advantage of this program. : 4 Improper disposal of excreta is a grave health hazard, as it fosters the continuance and spread of many dreaded diseases; for example, typhoid, dysentary, hookworm, etc. ALL LABOR Absolutely FREE! For detailed information on costs and methods, call Community Sanitation At One of The Dealers Listed On This Page. DECORATE YOUR HOME WITH MAYFLOWER SUN-TESTED WALL PAPERS and Kyanize Enamels and Paints Kohne Drug Store j li

I celled any expectations in as much i as this Association has made loans lin the amount of approximately I $600,000.00 this year to almost 1,500 farmers, yet apparently only a small percent of the farmers I have acquainted themselves with its purpose and plan of service. Consequently, the attending of this meeting will give an opportunity to become better informed and acquainted with Production Credit Policies. The afternoon sessions will be devoted to talks from representatives of the farm credit administration and discussions from the floor pertaining to this association. -o — Students Make Own Chairs Honolulu —(UP) — Students at ! Punahou academy, oldest American private school west of the Rocky Mountains, are building their own dormitory. Modernistic designs are being fallowed, with chairs of tubular steel with padded leather seats and mahogany back reets. Each cost $3 59. o Ferns Catch Cold Pasadena, Cal. —(UP) —William H. Nichols, park superintendent, has announced that ferns catch cold ‘ the same as human beings. If left in a draft, they turn yellow and ! watering or other means to restore I them are useless. The only remedy he declares is to avoid too much 'draft.

TIME ARRIVED TO MAKE PLANS Poultry Raisers Should Examine Equipment Early Urbana, 111., Jan. 29. Right now is not a bit too soon for poultry raisers to start planning their 1937 poultry operations, according to H. if. Alp, extension poultryman, College of Agriculture, University of Illinois. "First problem to be considered ‘ is the number of chicks to raise i this year,” Alp said. "While this should be a simple question to answer, many flock owners let spring fever overcome their good judgment. "For example last spring hatcheries had a good season, selling more chicks than usual. Later in the season feed started up in price I becoming scarce on some farms. I The result was the dumping ot live poultry on the market, mucn of it in poor condition, forcing poultry prices downward.” Before chicks are ordered. Alp advises giving some attention to the amount of feed required to , raise them. For the first 10 weeks 500 baby chicks will require 2,750 pounds of feed, and for the next 10 weeks the pullets alone will need pounds. This estimate does not allow for deductions of feed caused by mortality. However, mortality will not decrease poultry costs. •'Many poultry flocks last year were not provided with enough equipment.” Alp said. “Most persons are using enough baby chick feeders, but are not the necessary range feeders. “For each brooder house, it is well to have two covered outdoor range feeders large enough to hold a week’s supply of feed. These will 1 be needed about the time the chick-

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ens are six to eight weeks old.” Detailed eonstrnetion plans for range feeders are contained in cirI cuiar No. 333 which may be obtained by writing the college at Urbana. ' HORSEJENSE Popeye is wrong! Scientists find that spinach rates low as iron source for body. Finding of University of Wisconsin investigators reveal a rank as follows in the percentage avallibility of their total iron: beef liver, 72 per cent; fresh peas, 72; raisins, 62; bananas, 61; apricots, 50; cress grass, 38; letjtuce, 28; parsley, 23; and spinach 1 19 percent. Opening in beech sugar woods are the best places to plant ! black walnut. Black locust is a double-purpose tree. Being a legume, it adds nitrogen to the soil and is a soil improver. While it is essential to keep milk and cream cool, never permit them to freeze. The freezing of milk and : cream results in inaccurate butterfav tests and inferior quality. Every Indiana fanner should . know the European bindweed, says a Purdue University weed specialist. it is the king of weeds. Prei vent its introduction on local , farms ami eradicate all small patches of the weed. It spreads rapid- ' ly. Put every dairy cow on an exII pense account. Notice the difference between the individuals in i the nerd. Some of them may have I been fooling. Make a preliminary check on your seed corn supplies. Find out | how many bushels you have stored and what per cent of it will grow , properly. Evidence collected by Purdue : University specialists indicates bitter rot fungus is steadily progress- , ing northward in Indiana. Apple i growers may check the progress of • this pest by removing from their trees all mummied fruits. The mummied materials collected should be burned immediately.