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Aunty Invited 1 To P art icipate .1 In Sheep Show

■,!_ Brins Made T°| ,Interest In Rain-; -X Good bheep In, ;°Kis District. S market show (By Robert H ' Hellcr> ~ . 4HL county larm-rs will be .WL take part a d.sine U la‘ nh sh " w 10 bP he d [‘lion St- kyanls in Fort on July la. as the first service pre-tam to revive S-, Indiana. plans tor the show ’ ■ Wayne Cbanitiling WedlleSslleiO and :• pf (,t organizations. was Harp- <’f H's anl ’ ... K,.. ■ si'"* will I^Kj-•'! " k "' g|H E .; A - 1: nr... itmg eliar- .- ""■ HH Public Auction show ... ... ■. own sheep . . them in pen |K I \ K r .:. Allen county the group, that . K.- E.i" W.iyiie hotels and r.v pure!.base the ellOV< ■ ■ Th. se. w ill lie in ■•• offered tor animals. ■> >■ that .’till i. s loin.v as the cou-i sb'.p rising project;-,, ■ .tier type of show be had. . told the group this ~ t Indiana at one ■(produced tlie best type of best is raised in the central I C In-: a. He attributed for this to the etnphason other phases of agriHe pointed out the profit raising wh-n the amount ■v».r s uk. n mto < ousideration. ■ County Represented ■maty Agent L. E. Archbold was Bed upou to explain the portBe sheep deppiug outfit used in B county last summer. It was of the four in the state and ’ by the Hural Reset-j Bbcnt administration. During the I BviSr more than 3.000 head of I B— — I Notice Bly office will be closed from ydav. February 22, until Thurs- ! B. February 25. Dr.G.J. Kohne —.

PUBLIC SALE file undereigned will sell at public auction at his residence, 2 miles of Wren, 1 mile South and 1% mile East of Bobo or 7 miles ueast of Decatur on what is known as the Ben Teepie farm, on f TUESDAY, February 23,1937 ’•ommencing at 10:30 o’clock a.m„ the following property, to-wit: n , 7—HEAD OF HORSES—7 PPle gray mare, 4 yr. old, sound, weigh 1490. in foal; Bay mare, 3 ora, sound, weighs 1300, in foal; Sorrel i awe, 3 yr. old. sound; • mare, smooth mouth, 1400 lbs; Gray hrose, 10 yr. old; Gray main • coming 2 yr.; 1 coming yearling. t. .. 6—HEAD OF CATTLE—6 * olood Guernsey cow 4 yr. old, due to bo fresh by middle of Hi, Reg. Guernsey cow, 7 yr. old. be fresh by day of sale; Jersey .' ' yr °!d. due to freshen last of February; Red cow, 4 yr. old, « »y day of sale; Red cow, 4 yr. old, due to freshen by middle of 4H«ea <!d ° OW ’ fresh by day 01 sale - 19 head due to lamb in March and April. Hav . Tw ° 5® ehoats; G shoals just weaned. ’ AND grain — 2 ton good clover hay; several ton of bailed ' 100 bushel of OaXs; 75 bushel Corn. r FARMING IMPLEMENTS .. ' eb er wagon, hay laduer and wagon box; 8 ft. Deering binder; | McCormick binder; 5 ft. McCormick mower; good Me. D. web ° er ’ rake and tedder; Oliver riding breaking plow; Oliver tractor; », bale walking breaking plow; J. I. Case walking breaking plow; | B °°d cultipacker and rotary hoe; Hoosier disc drill; | disc glain d| . ill; Bltt( . k Hflwk eorn planter; Case corn planter; | ■u riding corn cultivator, like new; Ca.se riding corn cultivator; iif. i ° ec * cultivator, new; 7 shovel cultivator; Shovel plows; manure ei • fanning mill; stock watteriug tank; oil drums; Anchor Holt 11 Be Parator, ajid miscellaneous articles. „ Warm Hunch will be served. I bR MB OF SALE-CASH. MORTON W. TEEPLE, Owner ’’’•uonew-Chris Behnke. i

sheep were dipped at the low rate’ lof 10 cents an animal, which eni able the owner to make a fair labi or return while paying off his loan. As a special feature of the show the sheep dipping outfit will be exhibited and explained to sheep growers of other counties. It was built very economically and can be imitated. GOOD EQUIPMENT IS PROFITABLE I Equipment Is As Valuable As Early Hatching In Flocks Adequate brooding equipment for young chicks is of equal importance with early hatching says D. D. Moyer of the Missouri Coll-’ ege of Agriculture. While it is often possible to raise late-hatched chicks with rather crude and a limited amount of equipment, this should never be attempted with early chicks. Because the early chicks must be kept confined in the brooder house a longer period, comfortable roomy quarters must be provided for them. When chicks are confin- 1 ed to the house during the brooding period, instead of starting 300 to 350 chicks in the 10 by 12 house the number should be reduced to 250. A brooder house that is well constructed with matched lumber, having a double floor, and insulated with some material is much easier to keep comfortable during cold snaps. However, those that are not adequate for ariy brooding can be made more comfortable by, | placing cheap tar paper on the outI side walls, or by tacking cardboard or pieces of packing boxes on the inside walls. This will materially reduce the fuel cost during the brooding period. It is also desirable I to hank dirt, or place boards at the i sides and ends of the brooder ; house to keep the cold air from I sweeping under the floor A dependable brooder stove is necessary to keep the house comfortable during periods of zero and sub-zero weather. A good coal, oil or wood burning stove that will keep an even temperature is satisfactory. The regular brooder stove is preferable to homemade brick, or oil drum brooder. It is difficult to maintain an even temperature with varying weather conditions when the homemade broodier is used. A good brooder stove, j given proper care, will last many i years and is a profitable investI ment. X - Wanted: — Nice clean raiys suitable for cleaning machinery. Underwear, curtains, silks and heavy rags not accepted. Will pay 4c per lb. Daily i Democrat Co. _ - ■ —

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LE. ARCHBOLD EXPLAINS SHOW [County Agent Recommends Club Project For i Lamb Show (By L. E. Archbold) ' The agricultural editor of the Daily Democrat, Robert Heller, has told on this page of the market lamb show that is being set up for this district and of the attractive prizes that are being offered. While these prizes are interesting we feel that the greatest good will ! come to the county in putting into ; effect the results of study and plans for winter rations, roughoge, shelter, exercise and handling of the flock through the gestation and : lambing season and greater use . of early spring pasture and of feedi ing lambs for early mai'ket. i In order to participate in this i show it will be necessary for men to be members of the gold medal , sheep club and for the boys and I girts to be members of the 4-H i lamb club. A meeting will be callled in the near future in which parI tieipation in these projects will be ' explained, and it is hoped that a Purdue specialist on sheep can be secured for this meeting. 4-H Club Project I Since this will be a new project 1 for Adams County it is the feeling in the county agent's office that one of the best approaches will be through the 4-H Club work and . will furnish a splendid opportun- ' ity for boys and girls to work out a partnership agreement with Their dads in regard to the flock. Following are three suggested plans for such a partnership: 1 Cl) The flock shall be furnish--led jointly by father and son, the father selling the son a one-half interest on note. Feed and pasture costs will be shared equally. For i services rendered the son will receive 50 p»er cent of the lambs and 50 per cent of the wool. I (2) The father owns the flock, furnishes feed, pasture and equipment. The son furnishes management and labor and receives 25 per cent of wool and lambs. i CD The father owns the flock, furnishes feed, pasture and equipment. The son furnishes management and labor and receives thir-ty-three and one third of the lambs the father keeping all the wool. Men who have seen improvemen, t or rather gains, made in the saving of the lamb crop and the gains due to earlier marketing feel that such an agreement will add considerably to the family income. o CROP YIELDS ARE LOWERED Average Production Per Acre Is Less Than Pre-War Period Lafayette, Ind., Feb. 19 — Average crop yields for Indiana have shown a distinct downward trend since the World War in contrast to an upward trend before the war, was a statement made by Lynn Robertson, farm managemeht specialist at Purdue University, at one of the sessions during Agricultural Conference last month at Purdue. This is just one of the indications that the productive capacity of Indiana farms is being rapidly reduced by soil erosion and depletion o fertility, he said. Even the best parts of the state are suffering from soil losses. “Studies carried on in Indiana during the last two years indicate that land use adjustments are needed in all parts of the state,” Robertson said, “but the amount of adjustment and, to some extent, the nature of the adjustment needed vary from place to place.” In general, the land use adjustments of greatest need, according to Robertson, were: First, to shift considerable rough and unproductive land out of agricultural use, particularly in the southern part of the state. Second, to shift some of the least productive ana most easily destroyed of the remaining farm land from so-called pasture , land to timber uses. Third, to shift considerable easily eroded surface from crop land to permanent pasture land. Fourth, an extensive shift of woods pastured ‘to woods not pastured. Fifth, decrease of intertilled or cultivated crops and ■ an increase of grasses and sod legumes. Sixth, to increase the use of . winter ■> cover and greeu manure

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crops in areas most subject to erosion. Seventh, to make greater use of soil conservation practices in crop production. WINTER IS GOOD FOR BROOD SOWS Light Winter Enables Sows To Progress Rapidly Urbana, 111., Feb. 20. — Brood' sows have passed the first half of I the winter under better conditions than usual, according to E. T. Robbins. livestock extension specialist, College of Agriculture, University of Illinois. Farmers are now hoping that the second half turns out as well, for with hog prospects favorable, producers are anxious to give sows the best of opportunities to produce strong pigs, he said. For one thing, snows have not prevented sows from obtaining grass where it is available. Many sows are on rye or winter barley and some sows are on wheat fields. These green grasses are as good jor better than the alfalfa hay j which supplies bulk, vitamins and ; minerals on many farms in winter, it is pointed out. The grazing assures abundant exercise which they do not obtain in a stormy winter such as was experienced last year. With this foundation for a ration it is suggested that the sows be fed sufficient grain to keep them in a fair degree of flesh. Some additional protein is desirable right along for gilts and, during the last two months before tarrowTTig, for old sows. One-half pound of tankage daily, three fourths of a pound of soybean oil meal or a pound of soybeans will fill this need. Two-thirds of a gallon of skim milk will do in meeting the protein requirements. If tankage or skim milk is fed. the only mineral needed is common salt. Otherwise the sows may benefit from I having a mixture of four parts limestone to one part salt. These methods are being used

Modernized Property ■ I - F XX — - ~ Kwon**, ! L- - II '-Wa MM .j Si This property, similar to thousands throughout the country, was bought for a small sum and completely renovated. A garage was built on and the entire building was reroofed. Shutters were added and the exterior was painted. Inside the house was partially repiastered, papered, and painted, and new fixtures and hardware were installed. Hardwood floors were laid downstairs. This type of modernization may be done under the Insured Mortgage System of the Federal Housing Administration. The house pictured here ui located in Bucyrus, Ohio.

this winter on a vast number of farms, it is explained. PROPAGATING PLANS STATED Hot Beds Eliminate Danger Qf Early Frost Damages Seth T. Shaw, professor at the Missouri college of agriculture, has explained some of the benefits ', of the hot bed method of propagat>!ing plants. These are: j Some of the staple vegetables , like tomatoes, eggplant, and pep- ', pers, as well as several of the fav- ■ orite flowering plants, require a long season to mature yet are eas1 ily killed by frost. The frost-free > growing period is too short for ■; their successful culture from seeds planted out-of-doors. To ov- : ercome this handicap seeds are : planted in hotbeds and the young r ; plants transferred to the field or r the garden after the last killing • frost in the spring. I Hotbeds are a’so used to prot duce earlier plants. Evefl though 1 vegetable crops like cabbage, caul- . iflower, celery, lettuce, and table - beets will mature from seed planti ed out-of-doors, the crop for the ■ early market often is grown from L plants started in the hotbed. These plants are hardy and can be plant- - ed into the field as early as seeds, i The same method is used to obtain > certain early flowers. By such pro- . cedure these crops may be matur- - ed from one to several weeks be- - fore the field-sown crops. I Policemen Fingerprinted Wilmington, Del. —(UP) — All I Wilmington policemen must be I photographed and fingerprinted, according to George L. Coopage and i Benjamin N Brown, safety direc- , tore. The directors voted to have . the records of the new members . taken first. Later, similar records . will be filed for the veteran policei man. i o — Cafeteria Supper. Zion Ke; i formed Church. Saturday. 5-~

MILK PRODUCTS ! ARE NECESSARY Hog Feeders Find Milk By-Products Are Needed In Rations milk, creamery buttermilk, and whey are dairy by-products of spe- ( cial interest to Indiana hog pro ducers, recently stated J. W. Schwab, extension animal husbandrymun of Purdue University, because they contain certain proteins that are deficient in corn. In one of the hog feeding trials carried on by Purdue University. Schwab said that results showed almost twice as much corn was re-, quired to produce 100 pounds of gain, wilen the corn was fed alone as when creamery buttermilk was fed along with the corn. Also, the hogs fed corn alone required 124 days to produce 120 pounds of gain per head, while those fed corn and milk required only 56 days. As a protein supplement in hog rations, feeding trials show that skim milk and creamery buttermilk are approximately equal in feeding value. With the increase in number of cheese factories has come the increased interest of farmers in the feeding value of whey as compared with separator skim milk, remarked the hog specialist. Feeding trials with pigs show that whey is worth about one-hall as much as skim milk per 100 pounds of quantity. Although whey contains only about nine-tenths of one per cent of protein, the protein it does contain is especially effective in making good the protein deficiencies in corn and other farm grains. Dried skim milk anu dried buttermilk are now available in many Indiana feed stores, Schwab pointed out, and are excellent feeds to inciude in swine rations where I found economical. TAGLESS SEED IS DANGEROUS Mail Order Seed Is Being Shipped Without Analysis Tags Lafayette, Ind., Feb. 19 — Many shipments of mail-order house seed aTe now being sent to Indiana farm I ers without any statement of anal(ysis whatsoever, according to P. |B. Curtis of the State Seed Com- ■ missioner’s Office at Purdue Uni- ' versity. Such a situation places i hundreds of farmers without any protection against seed of low germination, of no adaption, and of mixtures containing weed seeds. Curtis points out that the experience of hundreds of Indiana farmers has been that it is extremely unwise to purchase so-called bargain seed without any specification as to its purity, germination, and noixous weed seed content. Reliable seed houses outside Indiana have been willing to have their seed labelled to comply with the Indiana seed law. Whenever seed companies fail to attach analysis tags to the seed sent to Indiana farmers, Curtis reasons that farmers may logically suspect the seed to be of poor quality, especially if the price was abnormally low. li*~ffliy farmer has already ordered seed from a catalogue, and if such seed is shipped to him without any analysis tags or with only private tags attached, the State Seed CoThmissioner H. R. Kraybill urgently requests that all tags, correspondence, and records pertaining to such purchases be saved until the farmer is satisfied that the seed is of the desired qualifi-

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cations. By reporting any shipments of* untagged seed to the State Seed Commissioner, Purdue University, Lafayette, Indiana, a sample and tests will be taken, without any obligation upon the part of farmers. SOIL EROSION CONTROL OPENS Soil Conservation Service Opens Work In Henry County Newcastle, Ind., Feb. 20.— Soil eroeion control became an actuality In Henry county thie week when the soil conservation service launched field work on its 28,000acre demonstration area here. H- A. Stevens, project manager, rerported that more than a score of farms were under voluntary cooperative agreement with the conservation service and others were expected to be added soon. Start of the program was delayed when staff members of the conservation service were called upon for emergency flood relief duty in the ! southern part of the state, Stevens said. Marl quarrying is expected to be a major activity dur’ng the balance of the winter. Officials have etitimated that approximately 75 percent of all farms within the project ’ area need agricultural limestone.; Marl will he quarried from cooperating farms and applied to the land by the farmers themselvesThe program also will deal with' gully erosion and fence rearrange-1 ment, the latter a vital point in ero- - rion control. Fences will be relocat- > ed to permit contour tillage and strip cropping on fields adapted to the»se measures. Frozen soil will prevent the conservation service from beginning 1 other activities immediately. Such; measures as reforestation, strip' cropping, and pasture improvement i will be put into operation in the ’ spring. 1 HORSE SENSE “j Protect yourself and your best cows by keeping records on your dairy herd. Such an insurance policy will pay benefits immediately. Blind men may have some difficulty in deriving any benefits from the Indiana Feeding Stuffs law, since purchasers must read and carefully study the feed tag before the law renders any service. Excessive tapping of a maple grove will tend to reduce the vig- ' or of the trees. Remember it is difficult to take trees to a hospital for a ‘blood transfusion’. Good horse sense would be to give the brood mares plenty of exercise. Start now to make repairs on all farm machinery that will be used during the remainder of the year, such as sharpening plow shares, coulters and discs. Start winter-born beet calves on a grain ration. For some suggestions on what to feed, write to Purdue University for the latest information. Prepare housing and make other arrangements for the spring pig;

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crop. It is g<M>d management to I save a high percentage of the pigs farrowed, often determining the profit or loss for the year. Further Information on any of the foregoing topics may be obtained by writing to the Department of Agricultural Extension, Purdue University, Lafayette, Indiana. Punjab Student* Cheat Lahore, India —(UP) —The Puuj jab University has disqualified 150 I students, including girls, from appearing at any examination of the university for fixed periods for us- ; ing unfair means at examinations I during 1936. Some of the more daring sent a substitute to take the examination for them. — o — Honor Belong* to Worn** Th* pioneer dally paper published In England In 1702 wa* pub Mated bv Unwieldy "C»rr*ney” In ancient Cyprus, copper pota were used for money RHEUMATISM Neuritis, Arthritis, Periodic Pains, Neuralgia, Lumbago, all Aches and Pains are quickly relieved with Alt’s Compound Wintergreen tablets. Positively guaranteed. Price |l. at all Drug Stores. N. A. BIXLER OPTOMETRIST Eye* Examined ■ Glasses Fitted HOURS 8:30 to 11:30 12:30 to 5:00 Saturdays, 8:00 p. m. Telephone 135.

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SALE CALENDAR j Roy S. Johnson Auctioneer Decatur, Ind.

Claim your sale date early as I am booking sales every da,y. Feb. 22 —Louis Vorrel 1U mile East of Zulu, closing out. Feb. 23 —Frank Orr, 3 mile North of Celina on No. 127, closing out. Feb. 24—Herbert Bultemeier, 3 . mile Southeast of Poe, closing out. Feb. 25—Homer Mills, 3 miles North and % mile East of Bluffton, large stock sale. Feb. 26—Decatur Riverside ’ Stock Sale. ’ Feb. 27 —Bert Marqjiajdt on Lincoln Highway, North of Monroeville. Registered Chester White 1 Bred Sow sale. Mar. I—Jim Dutton, Mendon, O. Farm Implements. Mar. 2 —Joe McDaffee, 1 mile South of LaOtto on No. 3. ■ Mar. 4 — Paul Bobay & Son, 1 mile West ajid 1 mile North Nine I Mile House, closing out. Mar. s—Decatur5 —Decatur Riverside Stock Sale. Mar. 6—Otto Huebner, Monroeville. closing out Dairy Herd. Maj - . B—Austin McMichaels and William Manlier, 5 miles east of Decatur on the Piqua road.