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Dutchman's breeches or staggerweed. The cockle-bur and water hemlock are natural inhabitants of wet, swampy lands, while the larkspur and Dutchman's breeches are found mostly la wooded areas Cocklebur is poisonous only when in the two-leaf stage, but at that time, it is particularly deadly to hogt. The Purdue weed specialist {claims that young sprouts ami wilted leaves of the wild cherry contain prussic acid, which is one of i the most deadly of all forage poisons. These leaves often cause losses among Indiana livestock in the early spring. Hawaii Sets Tourist Record Honolulu (U.R) — Despite the Pacific coast shipping strike that lasted from October till February. Hawaii managed to aet an all-time record for tourists and vacationists. More than 22,000 reached here dither by the Pacific Clippers , or by foreign lines that were not ■ involved in the American strike. Uncle Jim Says a F\ ’ ■ ISeSIp On many Indiana farms application of lime supplemented by phosphates is necessary in order to I grow legumes successfully. These practices aid in maintaining soil fertility, increasing crop yields, and reducing costs of production.

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT FRIDAY. APRIL 2, 1937.

SEED REPORTED OF POOH GRADE Farmers Warned To Test Soybean Seed For Germination Urbana, 111., April 2 — Disappointing results with soybean germination tests at the University of Illinois, College of Agriculture and prospects for a big increase in plantings indicate that farmerb may save losses by testing soybean seed before planting, according to J. C. Hackleman, crops extension specialist at the college. In many of the soybean samples from all sections as many as 35 to 40 per cent of the seed tailed to germinate. Other samples having a somewhat higher germination test had a larger percentage of weak plants. Improper maturity of seed because of 1938 drouth and grassto be responsible for the low soyhopper damage to plants is thought bean germination, Hackleman explains. "Farmers who have not made careful tests of the soybean seed they intend to plant this spring may find it profitable to do so as soon as possible," he said. Representative samples may be taken from different places in the bin and the samples mixed thor- ! oughly. One hundred to 200 of the ' beans from this mixture can then ' be tested before planting time. A good method is to put the , beans in moist, finely-sifted soil in a box and keep the box in the I house where It is neither too hot I nor too cold. Moist sand can be > substituted for soil if desired. [| o * Thrifty pigs By L. E. ARCHBOLD

Dj *-• ri w•• w** •-•*• ! County Agent |t , « Self feeding shelled corn to spring pigs on pasture is increasing in favor with Adams County farmers over the method of feeding ear corn on the ground. Ac* cordingly a comparative feeding trial was conducted at the Purdue University Swine farm to obtain the economic value of shelling corn for full feeding on pasture. Thirty 87 pound spring pigs were fed in each of three acre alfalfa pastures. The first lot of pigs R °^ Goss i M/psTEB HINDItIOitW General Advice PLANTING that makes a house a mor* desirable home for a family, is also increased in value many times the actual cost of the improvement. DO NOT BE too formal in your planting arrangement. A carefully worked out informality is often the most attractive because it more closely approaches the natural. •• • • ROCK GARDENS are desirable but keep in mind that much of the charm depends upon its naturalness and it take* genius to create a natural looking artificial roek garden. •» » • IT IS NOT generally known that Holland’s renown for bulbs started when Dutch adventurers brought the first bulbs from the East Indies three centuries ago. •• • • IF YOU ARE bothered by cats and dogs in your garden, spray with nicotine solution as the odor is distasteful to them Use teaspoons of 40% nicotine sulphate in a gallon of water. JOIN a Garden club. The interchange of ideas is of value, ar.H people who have a common hob by are always agreeable companions. see* WHERE one has been exposed to Poison Ivy. thorough and repeated washings of exposed parts with a strong alkaline kitchen or laundry soap is often effective. •* • • IF YOU WORK in a garden without glove*, rub a little soap under the nails to keep them from staining. •* • * IN SETTING out bedding plants, be sure and put them lower in the ground than originally. This is a good general rule for all transplanting.

Pre-pasture Time Sheep Rations ...

i ______ __—. { The most costly time to keep - sheep when producing lambs and i wool in Indiana farms is during the • period when the lambs are two weeks to four months of age. This is during the period when the lambs are suckling their mothers. Green succulent forage and pas- " ture crops materially reduce the cost of feed during this period, it is pointed out to Adams county ’ sheepmen by County Agent L. E. Archbold. A good milking ewe usually losses weight continuously from the time a lamb is born until that lamb 5 is 60 to 90 days old. The market 1 accepts lambs with milk fat on them as extremely satisfactory; 3 furthermore, lambs suckling their 1 , mothers and grazing on good pasi ture and forage will weigh 80 5 pounds or thereabouts when four 1 months old. All lambs will not make 5 this weight but those that are well 1 bred, well fed, and receive plenty s of milk from their mothers will reach this weight or more. Sheep growers in Indiana will > find it quite satisfactory to feed their lambs grain in creeps before

received a full feed of ear corn on the ground and required 7 bushels ' for 100 pounds of gain. The second lot consumed 6.4 bushels of ear . corn fed on the ground and 24 pounds of tankage self-fed in a ; feeder for each 100 pounds of gain. The third lot was given shelled corn and tankage, free-choice in a sefTfeeder, and consumed 6.3 bushels of corn and 25 pounds of tankage for 100 pounds of gain. Mineri als were self-fed in each lot but the amounts consumed were negligible. The weather was dry during the period of this feeding trial. During rainy weather ear corn fed on the ground is often wasteful and under such conditions the feeding of shelled corn in self-feeder would | have a decided advantage. 0 ! HORSESENSE Eenterprises that can be introduced into the farm organization to utilize otherwise waste products, such as the small farm poultry flock, usually pay high wages. I Plants of hedge or osage orange, the most durable timber in contact with the soli, can not be established successfully without cultivation. Purdue specialists recommend that they be set out on a close spacing of about four feet by four feet. It is known that milk fat readily absorbs odors that arise from

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the pasture season arrives. Lambs will begin to eat when ten to fifteen days old. They do best on whole grain and legume hay. Each morning and evening, the surplus feed should be cleaned out and a fresh supply of feed put in the trough. When lambs and ewes go to the pasture it is not necessary to feed grain to the lambs in order to produce a satisfactory market lamb, tests by the Purdue University Agricultural Experiment Station and Indiana producers have shown. If the milk fat on the lambs is to be retained, plan to supplement permanent pastures soon after June 1. They may be supplemented i by using pastures containing clover, alfalfa, sweet clover, rape, oats, etc. If these types of succulent forage are not available after the first of June, sheffed corn fed in creeps to lambs will prove useful although the costs will be greater. Green pasture in the production of lambs is of great value. Wherever such pasture has been used, costs have been greatly reduced without reducing the rate of gain and market finish.

vegetables in musty cellars, cooking flavors in poorly ventilated kitchens, and fumes of gasoline engines. Therefore, never store milk or cream where they will be

exposed to such odors. Early settlers used the roots of the common barberry bushes for medicine, and the berries for pie* ancTTellies. Later they learned that the bushes spread the destructive black stem rust to wheat, oats, barley, and rye. The up-to-date and wide awake farmers usually take an active interest In local and state meetings, realizing that added knowledge is worth dollars in production results. ’ It Is estimated that between 70,- : 000 and 75,000 acres of potatoes will be planted in Indiana this year, i Further information on any of the foregoing topics may be obtained by writing to the Department of Agricultural Extension, Purdue University, Lafayette, Ind. I 1936 "Nutty” Year Berkeley, Cal. — <U.R> — The past , year was one of the "nuttiest” for the past decade, according to forestry officials of the University of I . California. What made 1936 “nut- . tier” than other years is the fact, . they explain, that it was "mast” or . seed year. It is during “mast year t that there is greater yield of nuts r on all trees and of bigger acorns on oaks. o i Dance Sunday Sunset.

EARLY PLANTING IS FOUNDOEST Sugar Beet Growers Advised To Prepare Equipment Now Saginaw, Michigan. April 2—Calling attention to the fact that sugar beet planting time is near at hand M. J. Buschlen, assistant agricultural supervisor of the Farmers and Manufacturers Beet Sugar Association, in an interview, said. "Now is the time to prepare for early spring work. Many indoor Jobs and repair jobs should be done at this time of the year. Machinery which needs repairing or adjustment can be repaired during the days when it is impossible to get into the fields. "Now is the time to clean and > repair the beet drill. A drill that is not working properly will not plant the proper amount of seed. A crop is never harvested from seed that is never put into thfe ground." i ReTerring to the date of planting, I Mr. Buschlen said, "In the case of i sugar beets we have a vast amount ; of experimental and practical data ■ in support of the contention that I the early planting is desirable. It I beet grower to have the seed bed , should be the aim of every sugar t fitted as early as possible and the | ! planting should be done just as i soon as tie soil temperature is I sufficiently high to germinate the . seed. i “In the case of growers with - large acreages we suggeet that I . two seeding, about ten days apart, 1 be made. This spreads the work i and facilitates the hand labor operations by reason of the fact that . the entire acreage does not demand . i thinning at the same time. d | "Under normal conditions it has j been found desirable to plant suge ar beet seed in Michigan, Ohio and I J

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Indiana between April 20 and May 10. It should be noted however that the gains made as a result of ear- j ly seeding never compensate for | a poorly prepared seed bed. In short, the first requisite of a good beet crop is a well prepared seed bed." ■ o FIERCE BATTLE CONTINUEp ri’.OM PAGE ONB) the insurgent capital, and still another threatened Avila, general field headquarters of Gen. Francisco Franco, nationalist leader. The fighting was furious. Mola’s forces resuming the offensive they left off after the burning and capture of Irun and San Sebastian last summer, and supported by heavy artillery and aviation, pounded away at the Basque forces most heavily in the vicinity of Guipuzcoa, Alava, Ochandiano, and Jorbea. Word from the front said the insurgent force which penetrated the loyalist lines yesterday in the vicinity of Mount Gorbea, southwest of Bilbao, had been "pinched off" and forced to retreat. The Basque army, including Santander volunteers and Asturian miners, took the field with a surprising show of strength. Aviation was active all over the northern front. Scores of insurgent and government planes engaged in combat over the lines — 1

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some almost in the shadow of the ■ French border—as the government fliers tried to prevent bombing such as occurred yesterday at Durango, in the outskirts of Bilbao, I in which 200 persons were killed. Jose Antonio De Aguirre, a lawyer, first president, premier and minister of war of the Basque republic of a million people, seized a rifle, althoufih he has had no military experience, and fought in the front ranks of his army. Technically, vommander-ln-chief of the loyalist forces counterattacking Gen. Mola’s seasoned veterans — many of whom were with Mola at Guadalajara — Aguirre left his presidential suite in the palatial hotel Carlton heie | to go to the front lines in support of the field commander. General Llano De La Encomienda. o Little Contagious Disease In County One case of scarlet fever and two cams of Influenza were reported in Adams county last week according I! to the state -board of health. The [report indicated an epidemic of scar- : [ let fever in Vanderburgh county , with 30 casee revealed. Forty-eight . 1 cases of measles were reported in Marion county and 17 in Wayne ■ county. Hendricks county reported ■! 32 cases of influenza. . o -Trade In a Good Town — Decatur