Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 35, Number 109, Decatur, Adams County, 7 May 1937 — Page 5

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'ISMBE IS '■<E 9F poor crops L| ds Find Material ■ Year n a common expei'ialfalfa begin after the third year. Al . n fom'i! to be a poor reseed an old alfalfa b the yield has been h an extent that it profitable. Hb.jm. including soil r failure to RXphl. »»t injury, and HK,;'r 'sax- been advanced ■Kt for alfalfa failures. In I^K.. of these K, j.|s ;l i ' omit' d for the difliK. X in many other instances E ( n requirements for alfalKltti have apparently been Klei results have been disapof seeding 3 years i K Aer ‘ only reveals that Kep action has been reductrue even to a where old stands' time. to ~~K Wil res.-mb d. Plants grow ■■■ a substance ’ 1 • l,|p growth of l('g-' is frequently found with the roots of the m -oil. This inhibit- ... - tile tie I- gtiino bacteria or -s < such an extAt til- ar.' no longer cap|Mßi . co.iale formation. Hu' Thomas of the Botany the Ohio Agricul-

■ FARM LOANS (ns at 4' /2 % payable in sor ten years. Part payment required each year. Payments may be made on interest paying date. ns 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. fflie Suttles-Edwards Co Store Bldg. Decatur, Indiana I Gel Your GARDEN TOOLS | At LEE HARDWARE and amateur gardeners alike ail to realize that a garden is no better than the you use. So this spring make your time spent B'th while .. . get the best tools and get them now al Hpst reasonable prices. I SHOVELS - RAKES llph GRASS SHEARS > HOES I And All Other 1 yi Kg WS Equipment // I I

II LOTS FOR SALE Li No. 19 . Thlci P 1 single building lot, 44 by 98, on Jefferson at /th street, inis P<>c;ited in the heart of Decatur's residential section and affo d pcss to schools, churches and shopping center. Improvments r sewerage, sidewalks and paved streets. I Mercer Avenue ,lot 40 by 148. This fine lot is on fully land offers a desirable sight for that home you have bee ng. SPECIAL 'can also furnish a number of desirable lots in Decatur’sl new "food Addition. These lots are just north of Nuttman Avenue on 12th street. If you are looking for a location on . a home, or for a safe investment that will be sure to become o 1 value, see these lots at once. ' " R for lots in South and West part of Decatur. Properties have been priced to sell with terms that aie leas OLD ADAMS COUNTY BANK Corner 2nd and Monroe Sts.

I tural Experiment Station. When the inhibiting substance 1 is mixed, even in minute quantity, with a pure growth of the legume organisms, the bacteria seem to I disappear as if they were dissolvI ed, and the liquid again becomes 1 clear. It we assume that the nod- ) ule formation is necessary for the ‘ normal growth of the alfalfa plant, ! we must be a limiting factor in alI ical disturbance of normal growth salsa production. Such a physiologmay be considered a disease in which the development of the leglume is interfered with to such an extent that death results. Experience has shown that a field where alfalfa has run out I ’ may be reseeded after 2 or 3 years, , 1 provided nonlegume crops, prefer- ' ably those which require clean cultivation, are grown during the in- ■ terval before the return to alfalfa. Insurance of a good stand can be strengthened by inoculating the 1 i seed with a culture of legume bacteria known to be highly resistant to the inhibiting factor. Uncte Jim Says~| i ‘AIM Sl ■ laSL 6l 1 ■ t Everybody is better off when i farmers are prosperous because ‘ i their spending helps business men, t city workers, and investors. o t Don't forget the sale of < Shrubbery Friday eve at the ■. Decatur Riverside Sales. Also ( 50 bu. Rural N. Y. Potatoes, i

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT FRIDAY, MAY 7.1937.

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Indianapolis, Ind., May 6—Thir-ty-two per cent of Indiana farms are operated by tenants, Philip G. Beck, chief of resettlement office 'has announced. America's present farm tenure system was termed here today by Philip G. Beck, resettlement chief in the regional RA office, as an obstacle to long time security of the nation's farm families. He pointed out that approximately 213 of the 495 counties in five mid western states have 40 to 90 per cent of their farms operated by tenants. Heaviest tenancy in these states —Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, lowa and Missouri. —shows up generally in the best agricultural areas. This, coupled with the fact that tenancy has been increasing in the country during the past 10 years at the rate of 40,000 a year, indicates that tenancy no longer can be considered a rung in the ladder toward ownership. “Rather, it indicates the alarming fact that this class of farming possibly is becoming an intermediate step from ownership to the status of farm laborer- or even migratory farm worker,” Beck said. “Through intensive surveys recently completed in several of the states in this region, we have found that the tenure system, or rather lack of system, has been

\rF by wv M/PBTER HtNDtRSONjyy Roses ROSES WERE an important part in the gardens of Ancient Rome. It is generally believed that the rose was the first flower to be cultivated for its ornamental value. • * • • TO HAVE A good rose garden, we first of all must have good rose bushes to start with. A fair ' price must be paid if you want ' quality and this is as true with I rose-bushes as with merchani dise. •• • • IN SELECTING your roses, keep in mind that a short stocky or heavy plant is better than a taller light one. * * • • IN SETTING our roses, spread ■ the roots out in the pit. Cut off bruised or broken roots with a sharp knife as otherwise decay , is liable to set in. * • ♦ • ROSES ARE generally grafted upon some other understock. If suckers come up from the root i stock, cut them out; otherwise ' they will spoil the rose in time. I ROSES SHOULD BE pruned in the spring before growth begins. During the'summer the shoots that have blossomed should be cut back to within two or three leaves of their point of origin. A GOOD PLACE for grass clip ping is around the roots of your roses. As they get dry work ; them into the soil and spread fresh ones over the top. •• * • ■ THE INTENSITY of color in roses is apt to vary from season to season. A handful of iron filings in the soil around the roots will often keep red roses from j bleaching. *• ♦ • PICK OFF faded rose blooms to i prevent the ripening of seed. If the flowering stem is cut back on the hybrid teas, the new growth will often produce nice blooms later in the season.

one of the contributing causes of this situation. Tenants in many cases only know a few months in advance whether or not they can remain on a particular farm the next year. No provisions are made to compensate them for unexpended improvements which they have contributed to the farm. “On the other hand, landlords have no means of being repaid for loss of soil fertility or abnormal depreciation of buildings caused by the tenant. Schools, churches and other community institutions suffer from the constant shifting of the community’s population.” The surveys mentioned by Beck were made in Mercer county, Ohio; McLean county, Illinois; Gentry county, Missouri; and Jones county, lowa. Altogether, more than 700 |6:rm families, both tenants and owner-operators, were interviewed. In some cases tenants were Mund to be in better economic condition than nearby owner-oper-ators. “But,” said Beck, “in many such cases, it was found that tenant and landlord had entered into

WARN FARMERS TO HUNT WEEDS European Bindweed Threatens Indiana Earms This Year While working in the field this spring every farmer should be on khe lookout for European bin<i| weed, the most dangerous of all field weeds. The weed has gained a firm foothold in Indiana and is threatening many farms. Bindweed is a morning-glory-like plant having arrow-shaped leaves and white or pinkish-white blossoms. Often the blossoms are white with pink stripes at the base. The flowers are bell-shaped and approximately one inch in diameter, the vines grow to a length of three or four feet and have a habit of climbing on nearby objects. If the plants are growing alone they form a heavy mat of vegetation, completely covering the ground. Bindweed is a perennial, spreading from both seed and root parts. The root system is of the lateral type with a number of plants arising from one root stalk. The yell-owish-white roots of bindweed grow to a depth of several feet in the ground. It is not uncommon to find them ten or fifteen feet in the soil. The extension root system acts as a store house for an abundance of plant food, making the plant difficult to eradicate. If the plants of the type discussed are found take them to the county agent’s office or send them to the Botany department, Purdue university, at Lafayette, Indiana for identification. o HORSE SENSE Soybeans are the first choice of most farmers for an emergency hay crop this year. And these same farmers generally regard inoculation as one of the most important things to be done to in-1 sure success with the crop. Avoid “grass-flavored” milk, which is always objectionable to both consumers and distributors, by taking the cows off pasture four or five hours before milking time and by feeding dry roughage before turning them on pasture. Also never turn hungry cows that are in lactation on green pastures including rye. wheat, and blue grass. Even in a single field, differences in the growth of clover may be

some sort of agreement operating to their mutual benefit and counteracting some of the bad features of our present farm tenure system. Discussing the general increase in number of tenants, he named the depression, recent drouths and over-capitalization of farm land as another set of contributing factors toward losses of farm ownership. “Low prices, crop failures and attempts to purchase the land speculative prices are back of many foreclosures,” he said. “Nor has this unfortunate trend been halted. Many farmers today listed as owners have such small equities and heavy debt burdens that they are, to all practical purposes, tenants.” These farmers, he emphasized, are not listed among the nearly half a million farm tenants in the five states of this region. Recent census figures show that 29 percent of the farmers in Ohio are tenants. 32 percent in Indiana, 44 percent in Illinois, 38.8 percent in Missouri, and 50 percent in lowa.

I caused by differences in soil acid- | ity in different parts of the field. Cut worms attack all kinds of garden and field crops. Broadcast poison bait with the first evidence of their presence. Docking and castrating lambs pay dividends, say Purdue University specialists. It’s either dock the lambs’ tails or have the buyers dock the price. It the lambs are sold as bucks, the farmer is fined again by having ?1 a hundredweight cut from the price. There is little cost and the pay is big to prepare lambs to sell at their best. Further information on any of the foregoing topics may be obtained by writing to the Department of Agricultural Extension, Purdue University, Lafayette, Ind. PULLETS NEED GOOD RATIONS Balanced Feeds Are Recommended For Farm Poultry Flocks “There has been a tendency among some poultry raisers to stop feeding a balanced ration when their pullets reach about two pounds. The result is usually late maturing, poorly developed pullets that begin laying late in January yielding very little profit,” recently stated Scot Hinners, Purdue extension poultryman. He went to say “with the price of farm grains unusually high, in certain localities, a balanced ragrain ration, and it certainly gets tiou is really cheaper than an allthe pullets in good condition, ready for production at the time of high egg prices.” The mash mixture need not be complicated, Hinners suggests. Good results have been obtained from a ration in which whole yellow corn is fed with a mash consisting of 100 pounds of ground yellow corty 100 pounds wheat bran, 100 pounds of wheat middlings and 50 pounds of meat scrap. Probably the simplest method to use in feeding the foregoing ration is to keep the whole yellow corn in troughs and the mash in mash hoppers at all times. Where an ample supply of skim milk or buttermilk is available it may be given as the drink instead of water and the 50 pounds of meat scraps may be omitted from the ration. A good clean range is very important, he added.

SPECIALIZATION IS ADVISED FOR DAIRY FARMERS Increased Production Requires Rigid Inspections Indiana dairymen have four major market outlets for their product through present agencies, namely; creameries, milk and ice cream plants, cheese factories, and . condenserles. The structure of the market afforded by these agencies has undergone considerable change during recent years. Furthermore, an analysis of the present situation and the trend of the past three years indicates even greatr changes in the immediate future. Our state market for whole milk has been expanded since 1933 by the increased demands of Indiana cheese factories and condenserles The utilization of milk for buttermaking has accordingly shown a decrease during this period. New laws have been enacted for the purpose of stabilizing our city milk supplies. There is a tendency to-. wards more rigid city milk ordin- j ances and a tightening of state health regulations pertaining to dairy products. The butter Indus-1 try has initiated cream quality im- ' provement programs on a wider scale than at any time in the past. Eastern markets are considering future supply areas for milk and sweet cream. Indiana dairymen can now plan advantageously for the future. Spe-I cialization is probably the fore-1 most problem for their considera-. tion. More rigid quality requirements are imminent. Such require-. ments can be best met by larger herds and better equipment. Farmers with small herds should con-I sider the possibility that they may be regulated to the markets offer- j ed by creameries and that such

Cloverleaf Spends 98c of every dollar RIGHT at HOME! : THOUSANDS OF DAIRY •w. , rjiwJk XsbtitiF- herds from the surrounding „ countryside provide the milk - y"' v. ® and cream — ALL the raw ' materials used by Cloverleaf. AN industry that would pour into the community 98c of every dollar it receives would be almost unbelievable if it were not a fact established hy Cloverleaf Creameries. The money Cloverleaf collects from all parts of the United States by selling its cheese, butter, ice cream and powdered milks throughout the land, it spends right here by buying milk and cream from the dairy producers of the surrounding country-side. It buys ALL its raw materials at home—something most industries cannot do. Moreover, in its plant it gives steady employment to many, hence its money for payroll, taxes and other needs is also spent here fact.

Cash At Full market price for your milk and cream. Honest, accurate weights and tests — check them for yourself. We’ll take your word for it.

Cloverleaf Creameries DECATUR, INDIANA

markets will require greater care, in the production and handling ofi the product from the standpoint of I quality. o NEW 4-H CLUB IS ATTRACTIVE Tomato Club Is Being Organized This Year In County The 4-H Tomato Club under the leadership of Lawrence Beckmeyer of north of Decatur, is one of the newest 4-H club projects, and it seems to attract a lot of interest. In the first place, it attracts older youth from 14 to 20 and it gives them an opportunity to earn some money. The prospective club boy, in a business-like way, signs a tomato contract, has the opportunity for having his soil tested for fertilizer requirements, and buys his plants and fertilizer the same as any adult. Instructions will be given in picking in order to obtain a high quality product. After paying a fair rental on a piece of land, paying for his plants and fertilizer, there is every reason to believe that the 4-H club member will have a good return for his summer's labor. He will have a bit of spending money as well as some for his saving account, and a number of boys are planning to use their earnings made in this way to finance them-1 selves in the 4-H calf club or pig I and lamb club work. Boys and girls who wish to join the tomato 4 II club, but have not sent their enrollment cards in are urged to do so as soon as possible, so that plants can be made for the organization meeting. o START WORK ON FROM [ comodate trucks loading with rapid efficiency. McMillen Feed Mills, Inc., was organized by D. W. McMillen in January, 1935, and has grown widely in scope since that time. Extensive additions were made to , the plant last summer and the work now under way constitutes ; the third expansion which has ! been needed to meet growing dei mands for Master Mix Feed. The construction work is being done by the Indiana Engineering & Construction company, which is I also musing some additions to . the Central Soya company soybean processing plant, which is

Cloverleaf spends 98c of every lar in the community in which it piospers. Can you name any other industry where the returns to the citizens of the community are as great? YOU PROFIT IN MANY WAYS WHEN YOU SELL YOUR MILK AND CREAM TO CLOVERLEAF—DEPENDABLE YEAR IN AND YEAR OUT.

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. operated in conjunction with the i McMillen feed mills. —o_ Kokomo Man Seized As Hold-up Suspect Indianapolis May 7 —(UP) —FedI oral bureau of investigation agents today aelzezd a man they said was Hay C. Stevenaon, Kokomo, for questioning tn connection with holdup of the Grand Rapids, Michigan National Bank, April 14. The prisoner was seized at the iront door of St. Vincent's hospital after visiting his wife, registered May 5, as Mrs. Mildred Winters, who underwent an operation yesterday. He was known to hospital attachees as Russel Winters. Three men robbed the Grand Rapids bank of $35 000. o Watches Once Small Clocks Watches originally were small clocks and were worn hung from the girdle because they were too large for the pocket. o—— - Trade In a Good Town — Decatur

FEDERAL FARM LOANS Now At 4% The Adams County National Farm Loan Association, of Decatur, Indiana has received a Charter and has been duly avthoilzed and empow- '[ ered to mak ’rru loans in all of [ Adams Oonntj If you are e.’ ..Ing to re-finance your farm Ic. a, call or write this association at once. Office: 133 South Seconu Street Decatur, Indiana E. Burt Lenhart, sec’y-treas. Fred T. Schurger, investigator WANTED Rags, Magazines, Newspapers, Scrap Iron, Old Auto Radiators, Batteries, Copper, Brass, Aluminum, and all grades of scrap metals. We buy hides, wool, sheep pelts, the year round. The Maier Hide & Fur Co. i 710 W. Monroe sL Phone 442