Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 35, Number 73, Decatur, Adams County, 26 March 1937 — Page 5

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weather. For the past four years, 1 studies have been made under the direction of H. W. Anderson, chief in poinologlcal pathology, and K. J. Kadow, associate pathologist, at the agricultural college, to determine the treatments most effective I ( on various garden crops. II Tomatoes | For tomato, pepper, eggplant, I cucumber, “watermelon, luuskmel,on, beets, endives, swiss chard and squash treatments of cuprous oxI ide and of copper sulphate soak I have been found effective. Cuprous I oxide is sold under the names of /metrox and cuprocide and is ap-i . plied according to the directions of ~ the makers. The copper sulphate /soak is prepared by dissolving IMb I r ounces of copper sulphate in 1 gal- , j lon of water. The seeds are soakerf at least one hour in twice their . volume ot this liquid. Semesan. a . : commercial preparation, is effec- ■ tlve for cucumbers and lettuce , when grown under glass and watr ered lightly. For peas, metrox or cuprocide 1 may be used it the seeds have not ' been inoculated with nodule-produ- . ring bacteria. Zinc oxides especial ■ ly prepared for seed treatment, ! such as Vasco 4 or Semesan, are J effective for cabbage, cauliflower, kale and kohlrabi. Metrox, cuprocide or zinc oxide may be used for spinach. Beans | None of the treatments seem to be effective for beans, onions, leeks, parsnips, parsley, radishes 1, and turnips. Damping-off which oc-1 , ' curs after the seedlings have em- , 1 erged may be controlled with two ’ or three applications of a 2-1-5 V Bordeaux mixture applied at three day intervals. Since the recommended treatments are poisonous, it would be well to keep them out of the reach j of children or animals. The chemicals are best kept in air-tight con--1 tainers and applications made just ! before planting time. It is doubtful ■ if chemicals more than a year old should be used, as they are sub-: Ject to slow change and may be-) come ineffective in time. Copper treatments are almost certain to cause damage if used 1 on crucifiers such as cabbage, caul iflower, kale and kohrabi. To be effective, any chemical treatment must cover the seeds completely ' and be used at the recommended j , strength. o , Girl, 3, Knows Songs 1 Logan, O.—<U.P> —Arlene Rector, 3-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Alva Rector can identify 10 different orchestras by their theme sougs ■ and can name 35 other popular songs when she hears them playL ed.

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OTHER SEEDINGS LISTED FOR HAY CROPS IN 1937 — Burnt Out Pastures May Be Replaced With Various Crops 1 Lafayette, Ind., Mar. 26—" The majority of Indiana farmers face i a hay or pasture shortage this I year, caused by the drouth of 1936, which is more pronounced in some sections of the state than in others." recently stated M. O. Pence, Purdue extension agronomist. "A number of good emergency hay and pasture crops are now being recommended, which will be of tremendous importance to hundreds of Indiana farmers.” “The earliest spring seeded crop I for pasture is oats, which will furnish a late spring and early summer pasture, providing they are seeded at the usual rate and time as when they are grown for grain," Pence said. “Oats make a palatable pasture crop and may be used as an excellent nurse crop for clover .and grass seedings. The carrying capacity of oats for pasture should be equal to that of permanent pas-, ture on similar soil. Oats And Rape “Oats and rape in combination make a much better pasture for j hogs than oats alone Drilling about one and one-half bushels of | oats per acre and three to five 1 pounds of rape will usually pro--1 due© good results with this combination. Rape is usually sowed at I the rate of five to seven pounds per acre about oats seeding time. “Probably the best emergency pasture for mid summer and fall until frost is Sudan grass. Seeded in late May or early June, Sudan grass is usually ready for grazing I in five or six weeks or when about kuee high. The crop requires the I same type of seed bed as corn, and , is best drilled with a grain drill at the rate of 25 to 30 pounds per, acre. Sudan grass may also be us-i led as an emergency hay crop. Its feeding value is about equal to good timothy hay, but does not compare with the legumes. "Soybeans are probably the best emergency hay crop for Indiana as a whole. The important points in ) growing soybeans for hay are to use an adapted variety to prepare a seed bed as for corn, to drill one I and one-half to two bushels of seed per acre, and to inoculate the seed with reliable materials. LESSPOULTRY | IS PREDICTED • I I Good Practices To Enable Flock Owners Make More Money Urbana, 111.. March 26— Poultry) hatching will be smaller this year than last, in the opinion of L. E. Card, chief in poultry husbandry, University of Illinois, College of Agriculture. His belief is based on a summary ot the poultry and egg situation by the U. S. Bureau of Agricultural Economics. Principal factor in causing reduced hatchings is said to be the high price of feed in relation to prices received by farmers for their eggs. The lighter hatch and smaller laying flocks point toward reduced marketings of eggs next fall and winter. Influenced in part by the eggbuying program ot the Agricultural Adjustment Administration, farm prices of eggs this spring have not declined by as much as the usual seasonal amount. A less than average seasonal decline in prices of poultry after May is anticipated) on the basis of the prospective de-) crease in poultry production and marketings. With reduced patchings, flock owners stand to profit by follow-, ing the best poultry management! practices possible, including the use of green feed as a supplement to the chick ration. Green feeds go far toward making healthy poultry. Some investigators have suggested that fresh green forage helps to control in-1 testinal parasites such as tape-1 worms. Apparently tapeworms do not thrive on diets rich in vitamin A, and most green feeds are rich in this vitamin. Freshly cut green oats and alfalfa offer possibilities as a supplement to the regular chick ration. In each case the younger the

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"Adams county farmers should treat their oats at least once every three years to kill the smut disease," states L. E. Archbold, coun ty agricultural agent. In the picture shown above are a couple of farmers treating their oats with a formaldehyde solution. There are two treatments recommended by Dr. C. T. Gregory, Purdue extension pathologist, for the control of oat smut, one the organic mercuric dust method and the other the formaldehyde solution method. These two treatments! have been found most effective and, 'economical of all methods tried) during a period of many years, i Following are explanations of! the two treatments. Treatment one: Thoroughly mix! one-half ounce of New Improved; Ceresan per bushel of oats in a I closed container. (A half ounce! measuring spoon comes packed in I each package.) Keep the oats cov) ered or in sacks for at least five' hours before planting, but the! growth of green feed, the better will be the feeding value. o !<— « THRIFTY PIGS By L. E. ARCHBOLD County Agent I* Pigs on Pasture There are two practical methods of feeding spring pigs for market on pasture. One is to full grain feed from start to finish, and the ) other is to full feed the pigs to 60 | ! or 70 pounds, then limit the grain i on pasture until new corn is ready ! to fatten the rain the fall. Good legume pasture saves about 120 per cent of the grain in hog feeding. Alfalfa is generally the | best hog pasture. It is not practileal to feed less than two pounds of I grain daily per 100 pounds of live I weight. Five years of records on thous--1 ands of spring pigs on Indiana farms show that full grain fed pigs were healthier, gains were made! ! faster, two bushels less corn were I needed for 100 pounds of gain and! the pigs finished one to two months) earlier' than the limited grain fed

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treatment will not cause injury if the seed is confined with'the dust for two or three weeks. Work in a well ventilated place where the dust will be blown away from the operator. Do not inhale the dust. Do not allow the dust to accumulate on the skin. Wash thoroughly to remove the dust from the face and hands before eating a meal and do not feed the treated oats to animals. Treatment two: Mix one pint of formaldehyde in five gallons of j water and apply this mixture with I a sprinkling can’ to forty or fifty | bushels of seed oats. Shovel the pile of oats over as the fornialde- | hyde mixture is being applied, as | shown in the above picture. Cover I the oats with burlap sacks or a ! before planting. The treated sed tarpaulin for at least five hours ! may be fed to livestock if it is first | mixed with untreated oats. Further information on the fore- ' goin treatments may be obtained II from County Agent Archbold. pigs. " Shelled corn and tankage, selffed on pasture, were unusually satisfactory. Full feeding shelled corn alone on alfalfa pasture produced low cost gains, but more days were required to finish the pigs to the same weight as those ! getting corn and tankage. Shelled ' corn and soybean on meal, self-fed on alfalfa pasture, made gains as economically as corn and tankage in feeding trials on the Purdue University hog farm. County Agent Archbold has on hand several bulletins of Purdue feeding -trials free I for the asking. “ o Earth Swallows, Cow 'Berne. Ind., —(UP)—When ißeuhen Romney went to bring hie cows in from pasture he discovered one missing. He walked around the field found no break in the fence and no trace of the cow. Yet when he called he heard an answering “moo” beneath his feet. Peering down, he : saw the head of the cow—she had I slid into the small opening ot a jug-1 I shapes sinkhole. o Trade in a Good Town — Decatur

POOR SEED IS PRICED “HIGH" Low Percentage Os Live Seed Found In Mail Order Seeds By H. R. Kraybill i Indiana State Seed Commissioner, Purdue University. One of the recurring questions asked annually ot the State Seed i Commissioner’s office located at Purdue University is "Why is it so dangerous to purchase bargain seed, especially without any analysis tags attached to the bags?” A few cases from the official files of the department adequately answers the question. Just recently an Indiana farmer purchased a bushel of sweet clover from a Chicago mail order house, featuring cheap seed. Results of an analysis of an official sample drawn from the 60 pounds of seed showed that the bushel contained: 383,940 weed seeds, one pound of inert matter or trash, and 57.5 pounds of sweet clover seed of which 44 per cent were dead, leaving a net total of 32 pounds of live seed. At $7.50 per bushel, including freight, the farmer paid at the rate of sl4 for the live sweet clover seed. A reliable local seed dealer could have furnished good seed at a much lower price. Costs More In addition the same farmer

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I bought from the same company a ! bushel ot alfalfa seed, which carried no analysis tag whatsoever, analysis of this lot of seed showed that the bushel contained: 860,220 weed seeds including 2,160 dodder seeds. 2.5 pounds of inert matter or trash, and 55.6 pounds of alfalfa seed of which 32 per cent were dead and 20 per cent were hard seeds. The seed contained slightly less than 38 pounds of live alfalfa seed per bushel. j Another lot of seed called Econj omy Alsike purchased by an Ind- ' iana farmer from a mall order house in lowa, upon analysis showj ed the composition of 60 pounds to I be: 13.1 pounds of live alsike clover seed, 20.8 pounds of live timothy seed, 2.3 pounds of inert matter or trash, and 2,010,960 weed seeds, , including 363,960 noxious weed seeds. oHORSE SENSE — , Don't make the mistake this year of planting unhealthy seed ’ corn. If you do not have an ample supply for the spring planting, be- ' gin now to look for some corn that 1 has been tested. l j See your county agricultural 1 agent or write to a Purdue agronomy specialist about recommendL ed emergency hay and pasture crops for 1937. To control scale, spray currants while dormant, using one gallon r —

FARM LOANS f 1. Easy payment plan. j 2.—Low rate of Interest. [ 3. Never needs to be renewed. 4. May be paid In 5 years. 5. You may pay on any date. ‘ 6. Interest ceases date of part payment. 7. Consult us about costs. The Suttles-Edwards Co r j

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; of lime-sulphur solution diluted in ! eight gallons of water. As soon as the frost has left the ground, roll bumpy and uneven lawns. If rolling is delayed until after the spring rains und the ground settles, there is little use of the effort. Never plant trees too deeply, I suggests Purdue forestry specialists. A tree should not be planted much deeper than it grew in the nursery. Always plow around hills, if possible. Dead furrows running with the slope on flat land help provide surface drainage, but on sloping land they often help start bad gull- ' les. Small potatoes tnay be used for seed provided they did not come ’ from hills that were diseased. • Further information on any of 1 the foregoing topics may be obtained by writing to the Department of Agricultural Extension, Purdue University, Lafayette, Ind. o Freshmen Bury Their Ties 1 Cambridge, Mass. — (U.R> —Fresh- ■ men at Massachusetts Institute of Technology held a mass funeral — t for their ties. At midnight six pallbearers, carrying a "coffin”, en--1 tered a ballroom where the annual -! freshman dance was in progress, -'into the coffin went their ties, s signifying that the required time for wearing them had ended. 4 o 1 Trsde In a Good Town — Decatur