Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 35, Number 91, Decatur, Adams County, 16 April 1937 — Page 5

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FARM LOANS Loans at 4' 2 <> 0 payable in sor ten years. Part payment required each year. Payments may be made on interest paying date. Loans at 5% payable in 26 years. Amortized plan 1-5 of loan may be repaid In any year and these part payments may be made on any date. No commission charge. Hie Suttles-Edwards Co •Lblick Store Bldg. Decatur, Indiana ————— Rural Light Bills —For the Past Quarter are due and payable on or before APRIL 20 Madison and Monroe townships, Allen flinty, Root and Union townships, ■Huns county, Mud Pike line. Avoid Penalty by paying electric bills on or before due date. City Light & Power Dept. CITY HALL ■ I

with the provisions of the law by merely stating that the soybeans are sold for feeding purposes. When it is evident that they are to be used for seed it is necessary for the seller to tag them with the proper Indiana seed tags. When, soybeans are sold above the pre vailing price for feed it is evident that they are to be used for plant- | ing. ■ o POTATO FIELDS NEED NITROGEN Food Element Is Lower This Year Because Os Rains John Bushnell, potato specialist of the Ohio Agricultural Experiment Station advocates the addition of 150 to 250 pounds of sulfate of ammonia per acre to potato fertilizer this spring. Early potatoes need more nitrogen in the fertilizer this year, because the nitrates in the soil are lower than usual. They have been leached out by heavy rains during the 'mild winter weather. The ordinary fertilizers for early potatoes are 6-8-6, 4-8-8, and 4-i 10-6. If these fertilizers are used at the rate of 1,000 pounds or more per acre, they supply sufficient nitrogen even in a year like this, but Ohio potato growers who use less than 1,000 pounds per acre are likely to profit by mixing sulfate of ammonia with the fertilizer. Sulfate of ammonia can be mixed easily with any ordinary fertilizer. Some of the special potato fer-| tilizers on the market this year are called "neutral . They contain enough magnesium lime to neutralize the acidity of the sulfate of ammonia. These special fertilizers are for distinctly acid soils, and are not adapted to most Ohio soils. They should be used only where the soil is more acid than pH 5.5. The old-style fertilizers, which are somewhat acid, are more likely to control scab and scab gnat. 0 Ohio’s Weather "Balanced” Kent, O.—<U.R>—Ohio's weather is more nearly balanced than that of any other state, says Dr. David Olson, head of the department of geography at Kent State univer- | sity. pi————■— Dr. Eugene Fields Dentist Nitrous-Oxid-Gas Anesthesia X-Ray 127 N. 3rd st. Phone 56 ■ —

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT FRIDAY, APRIL 16, 1937.

PASTURE FEEDS ABE ECONOMICAL ■L .. —- Specialist Advises Pasturing Os Cattle Herds Heaving of alfalfa, clovers, and wheat, resulting from alternate freezing and thawing of soil saturated with water from the heavy winter rains has seriously darnag I cd or destroyed these crops especially in central and northeastern Indiana. The almost total killing , of 'ast year's clover and grass seedings by the severe drouth and the extensive injury to both old and new seedings of alfalfa, pre-I sent serious problems in regard to treatment of these damaged fields ■ or the use of substitute hay and pasture crops, according to agronomy specialists of Purdue Univer- i sity. Many alfalfa plants, with tap! roots broken off from 8 to 24 inch- [ es down, that now have live crowns and are starting new leaves will survive and re-establish themselves. However, the Purdue specialists say that these plants are sticking out of the soil so far that they I will be cut off below the crown or i point of growth at the time of the i first cutting. Rolling or cultipack ing alfalfa fields that have many protruding plants sthotfld reduce the loss from mowing appreciably. If the alfalfa fails to recover or make proper growth after the first cutting, due to winter injury, the! logical plan to follow is to plow i up the crop and reseed in late summer. Alfalfa seedings made last summer are reported as the most seriously damaged. Such fields may be reseeded with alfalfa or in a light nurse crop of oats seeded at the rate of about one bushel per acre. Farmers are urged not to attempt to thicken up a thin stand of old alfalfa as experience ail over the state shows that this practice fails almost without ex-1 ception. In such cases it is the' I best plan according to the exten-1 sion men at Purdue, to plow it up 1 and prepare a new seed bed for' either spring or summer seeding. It is well for farmers to keep in ' I by W PETER Planning i IN LAYING OUT your home i grounds, make the front attrac- | tive to the world in general. The back belongs to you and your family. It should have a good appearance, but, most of all, should be comfortable. •• « • IN PLACING trees or shrubs, try to visualize the appearance several years from now and allow sufficient room for development. Also be sure the fullgrown tree will not shade some portion of your garden where you should have the full sun. • « • • COLOR CAN BE utilized to create impressions of space or distance, or the opposite. Blues and lavenders lend distance. A path seems longer if these are planted near the end. SUCCESSFUL landscaping is always based upon two fundamentals: Simplicity and naturalness. There must also be harmony without monotony. » • • • ALWAYS BUY seed of known quality for it is far more economical. Poor seeds take as much ground, effort and attention as does good seed and the little saving does not compensate for the unsatisfactory results. DO NOT make your garden too symmetrical with only the lowest in the foreground. Break this at Irregular Intervals with a little clump of the taller sorts. •• • • VISIT the flower shows. Von will he able to sea many of the new annuals actually tn flower. IT ALWAYS ADDS Interest to the garden work to try out at least a few of the new varieties or specialties offered In the seed catalogs each year. •• ♦ • IF THE PLANTS around your door are low the comers should be high or visa versa. This avoids competition and monotony. ,(

mind, say agronomists, that u half stand of alfalfa Is almost as valuable for hay or pasture as a full stand of red clover. Soybeans is the logical crop to use as a substitute for alfalfa where It was Intended for hay and Sudan grass Is the best as a substitute pasture crop. o WHEAT BETTER THAN IN 1936 Four Million Bushel Increase Expected For Crop Lafayette, Ind., April 16—Indiana wheat, although reported to ' be only 72 per cent of normal in condition, suffering a ten-point loss since December 1, is expectled to yield when harvested this summer 34,500,000 bushels as comI pared with 30,922,000 bushels pro- ' duced last year. Farm wages are now nine per cent higher than on January 1 and 16 per cent higher than a year ago, according to the monthly crop report of M. M. Justin, head of the department of agricultural Statisj tics of the Purdue University Ag- ; ricultural Experiment Station and 1 the U. S. Department of Agriculture. The condition of rye on April 1 ! was reported by cooperative crop reporters to be 80 per cent of normal, eight points below the Decetn- ! ber 1 figure, which is a urop of i two points more than the average for a ten year period. Pasture condition was reported at 64, or 14 points below the ten year average. The supply of farm labor was given as 86 per cent of normal, four points less than at the first of the year and 10 points less than a year ago. The demand for farm labor in Indiana, according to Justin's report, was 92 per cent of normal on April 1, six points higher than on January 1 and five ' points more than a year ago. The i report showed that average wagies paid to farm labor in Indiana ■ were: by the month, $27.50 with board and $38.00 without board; ! by the day, $1.35 with board and SI.BO without board. Wheat has made but little growth the northern twoI thirds of Indiana, according to the ■report, and the lowest condition i was reported from the central and i west central areas of the state. ; Stocks of wheat on farms were estimated to be 74 per cent of the amount held a year ago and 68 per cent of the five year (1933-37) average. Corn on farms was 53 per cent of the amount on farms I a year ago, while oats stocks were | 94 per cent of that on farhrs a I | year ago.

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PASTURES HAVE BEEN DESTROYED Drought, Heaving Ruins Hundreds Os Pasture Fields Good pasture, properly utilized ■ is oue of the most important sac- . tors in reducing the cost of milk production says A. C. Ragsdale of the Missouri College of Agrlcul- ’ lure. Feed production by means of pastures is much less expensive than the. production, hur-.psting. and storing of crops. Proper feeding of the dairy herd on pasture is much simpler than when on dry feed. This great advantage is often a liability simply because so many farmers tail to give both the pasture and their cattle the necessary attention. It is then no wonder that many pastures are low in fertility, often, sour, badly infested with weeds, and under continuous and heavy grazing yield little feed, with the result that the cows run down in flesh and in mid-summer fall off severely in milk flow. The mistake is often made of turning the herd on pasture before the grass is well started. This is especially true with those who depend upon bluegrass. If, also, the feeding of hay and grain is immediately discontinued, or too markedly reduced, the cows lose flesh rapidly because the young i grass stimulates milk production | but is still so low in dry matter I and nutrients that they are unable to eat enough of it to meet their needs. Concentrates Good When cows are first turned on pasture, especially immature grass • I in the spring, it is important that i the feeding of reasonable amounts >i of concentrates be continued and hay offered as long as the cows ■ will eat it. It is usually best at the • I outset to let the herd graze on pas- ' ture for only a few hours each day, ■ to provide hay at least once a day, - and a suitable allowance of con- ■ i' centrates before the herd leaves i j the barn lots. The amount and kind of grain > to feed with pasture depends upon the abundance and quality of I ! the pasture and the milk produc-1 ■' tion of the cows. Good pasture a-1 lone ordinarily provides plenty of ! teed nutrients for cows producing 16 to 20 pounds of milk daily, and I the very best pasture may provide i sufficient feed for considerably larger milk yields, though the heavier producing cows will usually lose weight unless some grain is fed. Even when feeding grain while on pasture does no reSult in increased milk yields, it is usuali ly a wise course because it keeps 1 the cows from running dowu in

condition utid results in higher milk yields In the fall and winter. Providing a little good quality hny or silage when pastures are short, or even when on good pasture, makes ft possible to reduce the amount of concentrates otherwise needed. o European Bindweed By . . OLIVER C. LEE, Purdue University Just a word of warning to the farmers of Indiana who are for tunate enough not to have bindweed on the farm as well as to those who have a small patch in the garden, fence row, roadway or in the field. Take every precaution i when buying seed, feed, hay or straw to be sure that it is tree of bindweed seeds or roots. The roots of bindweed may be introduced when buying shrubs or plants of any type taken from an infested area. It is easier to prevent than to Eradicate bindweed after it has. been introduced. The importance | of immediate action to eradicate that small patch before it has a I chance to spread cannot be overemphasized. Many farmers hard had the sad experience of it.' spreading over entire fields mere--ly because they did not realize the importance of doing away with the original infestation. The first step to take when bindweed is found on the farm it so isolate the area. Cultivating through the patch will cause roots to be carried to other parts of the field and hasten the spread. Placing posts or stakes around the area will do away with the danger |of cultivating through by mistake. | When moving implements from ' infested fields to other parts of the farm, care should be taken to remove all root parts. Crops harvested from infested fields should I be handled separately and with i caution. When the infestation is confined to the garden a new garden spot should be selected and used until the bindweed has been

■■■■■ H 0 a, Cloverleaf Ejgjbfeiy Products I in Nation - Wide Demand Cloverleaf manufactures your milk and cream into butter, ice cream, cheese and powdered milks—products which are sold throughout the United States. It collects daily the raw products from the surrounding country-side and at its modern plant converts them into food products for the nation. Cloverleaf is thus one of Decatur’s great industries, providing a Dependable Cash Market, right at home, for the farmer’s milk and cream, employing local labor, and contributing in many ways to the prosperity of the community. When you sell your produce to ClovSELL YOUR MILK erleaf you are helping yourself by and cream to helping build the great local dairy industry which provides a substantial CLOVERLEAF share of the wealth of the community. Cloverleaf Creameries DECATUR, INDIANA

i completely eradicated. There was a change made in the Canada Thistle Law by the last General Assembly. This change should make the law more useful because it will no longer be necessary for a farmer to sign a complaint with the trustee of the township before the trustee has power to act. The new law states, “If it be made to appear to the trustees of any township that any person, firm or corporation or other occupant or tenant" has Canada thistle growing on real estate owned, he shall be required to notify the owner by registered mail, i In the event that tho person so notified does not care for the thistles within three days, it will be the duty of the trustee to cause them to be cared for and pay for thia work out of township funds, the same to be charged on the tax duplicate and paid as taxes by the owner of the land. —o HORSESENSE Make it a point to keep the horse collars clean and well fitted, and every night and morning inspect the horses' shoulders. Bathe their shoulders and collars with warm salty water after a day’s work and also clean the face of the collar. Now is the time to start flushing sows for spring breeding for fall litters. Purdue University experiments and the experience of hundreds of successful Indiana - hog breeders show that this prac- ■ | Uncle Jim Says" | I L Many acres of rolling land in Indiana are better suited for pasture rather than for cultivated crops. Pastures furnish a cheap source of feed for livestock, and their proper use means economical livestock production. Where needed, applications of lime and phosphate result in an increased amount and in the improvement of the quality of feed furnished by pastures.

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I tice pays big dividends. i Asparagus and rhubarb are easily grown and should be found in i every garden. Cut good-elzed ipleces, when cut- . ting seed potatoes. Each piece should weigh from one and one--11 half to two ounces. 11 Most legumes require sweet soils, especially alfalfa and sweet clover. If a successi' t yield of either ol these crops has not previously been produced on the 'and, it should be tested for acldi 1 before seeding to determine its lime requirement. Farm renters are ’rusted with a big loan —the use >f a farm and posrlbly some working capital. More than muscle is required to manage such a business. And management makes little difference providin capital and labor are treated alike. Further Information on any of the foregoing topics may be obtained by writing to the Department oi Agricultural Extension, Purdue University, Lafayette, Ind iana. ——o —■ Two-Gun Sheriffs Fade Colorado Springs. Colo. (U.PJ — The days when the two-gun. straight, shooting sheriff dispensed law and order through the west is past history and this regoin now uses the latest methods of science to keep crime throttled. Officer Earl Boatright was sent to study in the second police school conducted by Federal Bureau of InI vestigatfon. & ALL SHELL HORSEHIDE WORK SHOE ir the World Bucr.sK.iH sw-W SHELL HORSEHIDE WORK SHOES $3 <>o t $4.50 NICHOLS SHOE STORE