Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 35, Number 197, Decatur, Adams County, 20 August 1937 — Page 5

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■ FARM LOANS it 4' 2 % payable In sor ten years. Part payment required each year. Payments may be made on interest pay- ■ Lun. .t 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. I Hie Suttles-Edwards Co 6tore Bldß - Decatur, Indiana ■ PUBLIC SALE HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE BmDtell at public auction all my household furniture at BB*idence at the Decatur Cemetery on West Monroe .-i., IVtor, on SATURDAY, AUGUST 21.1937 Commencing at 1:00 I*. M. Mohair Living Room Suite, new; 3,-piece J 9* Living Room Suite; Axminster Rug. old rose-pater . |»new; two 9x12 Axminster Rugs, block and flora HHrtt ne w; 3 new 9x12 pads; one good 9x12 A x '™ ns J p j pr g .i |®Unoleum Rug, 9x12; one Congoieum Rug .'x-- - ■ |V throw rugs, new; Beautiful Oak is new. Hoosier Kitchen Cabinet. t . BBj? an< l chairs, set bought new last fail, solid oa , . Boy Circulator heating stove, good as • tables; Floor Lamps and table : . 3-pieee Walnut Bed Room Suite 4 poster tjpe. ■f” Ms, complete; one Inner Spring } 9h^ : 2 Dressers t Sewing Machine. W indo , y t ha n es; °» 1 Brooder Stove; Brooder house Ado. Garde Glass Cans. Jars and Crocks ; Porch Swing, D shea BW'ooking Utensils, and many articles too numerou. to ■l” Baby Bed with mattreM! small book I °Perh may he inspected any day before sale. 1 MRS. BERTHA L. KIAIRMAN ®K-ash. Telephone 502 °"' Eh ■ ■ Johnson, auctioneer.

t largent area reported Infected wait I above four countiea wide extend | Ing along the Wabaah river from Vigo to Wabaah countiea. Oat« Variable | Although the oata heada have [generally been well filled, Indiana farmers reported variable test I weights per bushel. A production > of 49,212,000 bushels is forecast for [ 1957 compared to 38,502.000 bushels produced last year and the five ' year average of 63,810 bushels. The | condition of the crop was reported i to be 81 per cent of normal, which > ie 26 points above last year and I four points above the ten year avi erage. Barley with a condition of 81 per | cent of normal, a drop of two , points from a month ago. was foreI cast k by Justin at 572.000 bushels, - compared to the five year average |of 1,027,000 bushels. Rye is ex I pected to yield an average of 12.5 ' bushels per acre with a total production of 1.912.000 bushels. Potatoes Better Indiana was forecast to produce I 5.358,000 bushels of potatoes for | 1937. On August 1 the condition I of the crop was 80 per cent of normal. five points above the ten year i average. It was estimated that , the state would produce only 8,400,000 pounds of tobacco as compared with the five year average of 13.- | 266,000 pounds. Most, of the. hay harvest during i July was completed under favor- ' able conditions, except for areas 'in the northeastern part of the 1 state. The second cutting of alfalfa ' was severely damaged by leaf hoppers and it was also weedy caused by the serious winter and spring killing of the alfalfa plants. The ! 1937 tame hay crop was estimated to be 2.316.000 tons, compared with 1.760,000 tons last year and 2,024,1 000 tons for a five year average. I The condition of soybeans on Aug. I 1 was 85, compared to 82 for a ten I year Pastures were rei ported to be in relatively high conI dition dur to plenty of rain earlier I in the season. Condition of fruit was materially i above last year and the ten year average Following is the estimated production: 3.394.000 bushels of apples, 432.000 bushels of peaches. 609.000 bushels of pears, and 5,300 tons of grapes. TODAY'S COMMON ERROR i I Never say. "My dog harks I when he wants in;” say, “wants | ’ to come in." NOTICE I will start my cider mill TuesI day. August 24 and will make cider thereafter every Tuesday and I Thursday until further notice. [ Factory is located North Third st. PETER KIRSCH I .

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT FRIDAY, AUGUST 20, 1937.

•IPRRT OF STRAW MAT RE BURNED a Excessive Straw May Endanger Next Y ear’s Crop e When heavy growths of wheat e straw left by the combine are turnd ed under, the crop following Imh mediately thereafter may be in d danger says W. A. Albrecht of the r- Missouri College of Agriculture. The young plants are often stunt-; r ed. are of a sickly yellow color and o fail to move forward with enough . !• vigor to carry them on schedule ; t, because of the low supply of sol-, e üble nitrogen in the soil. t- This damage results from the 5 competition of the soil bacteria >• with the crop for the supply of soluble nitrogen in the soil. This damage results from the e competition of the soil bacteria r with the crop for the supply of n soluble nitrogen in the soil. The '- bacteria win out in the struggle r because they are more uniformly t distributed and much more num- ,- erous in the soil than are the scat--1 tered plant roots. Bacteria are able ,- to exhaust the nitrogen supply to. , a low level beneath that possible k ' by the plants. The straw is the car- -' bonaceous part in the bacteria ras tion, which they must balance by e'taking nitrogen from the supply r of this in soluble form in the soil. >• In rotting the straw, they combine i it with this nitrogen into complex K compounds of a humus nature. b ■ This must be simplified and the I'nitrogen set free by a long-con-i t|nued later process before the 1 i detrimental effect disappears. In order to prevent the disast-| ;. | rous effect of turning excessive a straw under, some men consider: 1 i burning it. This means a loss of I i- the nitrogen in the straw and the j r I valuable effect from turning un- > Ider the organic matter or increas- 1 y! ing its supply in the soil. The I r simplest solution consists in add-! i- ing nitrogen to the straw as it is [ i- turned under. This process is sim-: f ilar to that of artificial manure | i, making, which uses 150 pounds of I an ammonium sulfate-fine lime- * stone mixture per ton of straw. * This balances the straw with soluble nitrogen to make a suitable iguterial ration. It hastens I rotting of the straw and moves the i entire process forward requiring ‘ only a few months to give all the 1 beneficial effects from rotted or- " ganic matter and applied nitrogen. It handles the straw by methods - similar to those used in making r manure by adding the nitrogen of 1 the animal urine. With the increased use of the combine we need to think of applying nitrogenous material on the wheat straw, either broadcast ahead of the plow, or scattered on it through an attachment on the plow as the sod is turning under The deficiency in organic matter of our soil and the possibility of raising the amount by the added nitrogen and the straw otherwise wasted should make any farmer hesitate before burning straw. CRABGRASS MAT BE ELIMINATED Crabgrass Is Flourishing in Thin Turfs This Year The abundance of rainfall this year has been favorable for the establishment and growth of crabgrass. according to F. A. Welton, lawns specialist of the Ohio Agricultural Experiment Station. This hot weather pest is a summer annual and will die with the coming of cool weather. Unless seed formation is prevented, however, crabgrass will continue to recur tn following years as long as the stand of desirable grasses is allowed to remain thin. If the turk grasses are thick and growing vigorously in May when the crabgrass seedlings usually appear most of the crabgrass will fail to gain a oothold on account of competition. The basic remedy, therefore, is to fertilise liberally in the early tall and thus promote a maximum of growth of the desirable grasses during the cool weather of late autumn and early spring. Several seasons may be required to combat the crabgrass successfully. in the meantime much may be (I X to limit seed distribution through destruction of the crabgrass plants themselves. Crabgrass can be killed by shading with some material likS gaidtD mulch paper for a period of 8 to 10 days. This procedure will discolor but not kill Kentucky

—hi i —■ bluegrass. For nnvlous reasons,! i shading is not practical except for small areas. In late August much can be accomplished by preceding the lawn mower with thorough raking and cross raking, thus raising the prostrate seed stems so that they can 1 be collected in the grass catcher, j removed, and burner. Crabgrass can be killed also by spraying with sodium chlorate, 2 ounces per gallon of water for 100 square feet. Sodium chlorate will discolor, and may kill some of the' fine grasses. If the treatment is; deferred until late Augtist, the: period of discoloration is reduced to a minimum and reseeding, if necessary, can he done promptly. Some care should attend the use of sodium chlorate, for, under cer--1 tain conditions, it may become a fire hazard. o PURDUE TO HAVE FAIR EXHIBITS State University Will Be Represented At State Fair Lafayette, Ind.. Aug. 20 —Thousands of Indiana farmers who plan to attend the Indiana State Fair, Sept. 4—lo, will find in the Purdue University building more than 1 a score of large, well planned edu- ■ cational exhibits that were pre-1 pared by the University's agricul-[ tural specialists, who have packed ' into the displays the latest scientific, practical information available for the solution of common agricultural and home economics * problems, according to a statement I , made today by Prof. G. M. Frier,' i in charge of the exhibit arrange- i I ments. i “Each exhibit unit will present [ 1 in a concise and practical way, ■ one important aspect of farm and j j home life, giving usable help and j I real light on problems now vexing i the minds of Indiana's farm inter- : ested folks," Professor Frier said. ' “With each exhibit will be one or more regular Purdue staff mem- 1 , Iters, who will be glad to give out sound and authoritative information on most farm and home questions.” Professor Frier added that the gross weight of the materials included in the 21 displays will be I approximately ten tons. The exhi-l bits are being constructed at the | University and will be shipped to ■ the Fair Grounds at Indianapolis! in time to be set-up and ready for' inspection Saturday morning, September 4. Following are among the many' subjects about which exhibits will! be found this year in the Purdue Building at the State Fair: a portable seed cleaner and treater, treatments for common wheat diseases. methods of eradicating “pub-. lie weed enemy No. 1" Bindweed, i controls for garden insects, meansfor controlling the spread of bar-1 berry bushes, practical ways of j killing rats, information on com-| mon hog diseases and ailments.: essential pointers on livestock) marketing, the value of keeping] dairy production records, ways of; increasing quality tomato produc-J tion. and many others.

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MODEL GARDEN TO BE SHOWN I Mechanical Insects To Eat Profits At State Fair “Control Harmful Insects —Have a better Home Garden." This is to . be the caption of a colorful exhibit, which Indiana State Fair visit-! ors will see this year in the Purdue [ University building on the fair I grounds. The educational exhibit j is being prepared by the entomology department of Purdue, and will show the value of garden insect control, according to G. E. Lehker, extension entomologist, who will be in charge. Mechanical insects will be htisy during the fair week, carrying the profits out of a small model garden. Lehker said. This novel idea will show, in a graphical way. why fully 20 percent of all garden i crops in Indiana are destroyed each year by insect pests. The use of. controls will also be demonstrated I special emphasis being placed on the fact that there are two class-: es of insects, those that eat' plants and those that suck the, juices from them. Each type must [ be controlled in a different man-' ner will be pointed out. Stomach I poisons such as lead arsenate will i | destroy many of the chewing in-| i sects, whereas those that suck the ■ plant juices, can be killed only with the use of a contact insecticide of one kind or another. Another important feature of the exhibit will show the v|ilue of j clean up practices as a means of I controlling insects. Lehker said ! that all pests must overwinter j someplace or another in order to I be ready for a new generation the ! following year. In many cases this | overwintering takes place either j in the soil or in trash and debris on the surface. For this reason such practices as fall plowing or the disposal of all weeds and plant residue will do much to control the pests. o HORSEJENSE The blower of a silo filler makes an excellent elevator for small 1 grains. i After the small grain harvest is a ! good time to terrace. The newly I constructed terraces should be [ thoroughly cultivated and seeded •. ■ a small grain cover crop early I in the fall. ! A barrel equipped w-ith a float .valve for uee on the 'poultry range will save much hard work in providing water for the pullets. Remember, the fastest gains are made on colts before before they , are one year o'd. — Hot weather is a challenge to I dairymen to keep all equipment i clean and sanitary. It’s important [for the health of the people is ini volved. I It pays to study livestock production and price cycles, say Purdue

[marketing specialists. The wise sari mer shifts livestock production on his farm in oppoaltion to the production cycle, not with it. A young leguminous crop turned under is one of the best possible I fertllizzers in making big crops and |i»ich land. Further information on any cf the foregoing topics may be obtained by writing to the Department of , Agricultural extension, Purdue. : University, Lafayette, Indiana. PROFIT SHOWN ON DAIRY COWS Alfalfa Is Sufficient Food For Economical Feeding What w 771 a dairy cow produce on good alfalfa hay alone? Fifteen Holstein cows, in a test conducted by the United States Department of Agriculture, average 1 11.125 pounds of milk a year on i alfalfa alone compared to 19,207 I pounds on a full-grain ration with I hay and pasture. They averaged nearly 400 pounds of butterfat on; alfalfa alone compared to 650 1 pounds on the full-grain ration. The test was conducted by the Bureau of Dairy Industry at Huntley, Mont.; Mandan. N. Dak.; Ardmore, S. Dak., and Woodward. I Okla. In certain sections of the I west, especially in irrigation districts, there generally is an abundance of alfalfa hay. This test, says J. R. Dawson, feeding special- . Ist of the bureau, shows that a straight alfalfa ration may be fed ] profitably when the hay is of good J quality. o CONTEST DATES ARE SELECTED II __ I District Locations, Dates Os Contests Are Announced I.afayette, Ind., Aug, 19 — Announcment was made today of the dates and places for the district judging and demonstration contests in which county champion 4-H club girls will participate in connection with their home economies projects. The announcement was made by Purdue 4-H club officials. The places and date for the district contests are as follows: LaPorte, Oct. 2; Mitchell. Oct. 2; Ter- , 1 re Haute, Oct. 16; Fort Wayne, Oct. 16; Madison, Oct. 30; Evansville. Nov. 6; Newcastle, Nov. 6; Indianapolis, Nov. 13; and Lafayette, Nov. 20. During July and continuing, through the first half of August, nearly all Indiana counties either 1 have held or will hold county deminstration. judging, and dress revue ’ contests. These county contests are participated in by girls, who have won in their respective 1-H community or township clubs. County champions in judging and demon- ’ stration contests will participate for district honors in the district contests with both the district winning and runner-wp teams going to the State contest held in connection with the annual Purdue 4-H club round-up. The county dress revue champions will participate in the state contest which will be held on Saturday, September 4, the first day of the Indiana State Fair. Thero is no national contest for 4-H demonstrations in home economics, but there Is a national judging contest for state champions in clothing, baking, projects, wh-ich Is held in connection with the National 4-H Club Congress. o TRAFFIC TOLL (CONTINUED FROM WAGE ONE) dent. Personal coutresy on the highways is the great need of today, the I state official said. Tao many motor-1 ists, he sadd, drive utterly regardless of other persons rights on the highway and with sackless disregard of traffic laws and privileges. Uniform traffic Jaws are also nec- I eMary, the speaker said. He pointer to the variations in traffic laws and lights between the various states , and from one town tc. another. In closing his discussion, Mr. Dunbar told from his own expert ence of a number of tragic accidents on the highways of the state. A. R. Holthouse, maycr of Deca- j tor. was chairman of the program. o Trade In a Good Town — Decatur

BETTER PRICES | ARE PREDICTED Illinois Expert Says Hog« NVill Bring Continued Good Market Urbana Pl., Aug. 20—(UP)- Good prices for hogs are In prospect for) farmers at least through this coming winter, it is reported by L. L. Norton, chief in agricultural marketing, College of Agriculture, University of Illinois. Basing his conclusion on the summer hog-outlook report issued | by the United States Bureau of I Agricultural Economics. Norton [ | anticipates that fewer hogs will be ' slaughtered during the first half of | the 1937-38 hog-marketing year which begins in October. Since average weights of hogs ! marketed are expected to be much 1 heavier than a year earlier, only a small decrease in the total live weight seems in prospect. j “With indications fairly favor-] i able for a continuation of the pres- 1 I ent relatively strong demand for.' meats, hog prices this coming fall [ and winter probably will average [ ] as high as or perhaps higher than I in the fall and winter of 1936-37,” j j Norton said. The July 1 crop report indicated i I that this year's corn crop would 1 I about equal the 1928-32 average, I and conditions have Improved I since then. This means that supplies of corn for hog feeding will | be the largest for several years,] a situation that will be reflected i in a rather high hog-corn ratio during the late fall or early wint-. I er. “This high price ratio,” Norton 1 pointed out, “will encourage pro-] ducers to delay marketings of, spring pigs to feed to heavier] weights. Consequently the propoi - tio nos this year’s spring pigs marketed before January 1 may: be much smaller than usual, and the seasonal decline in hog prices, I this fall may be less than average." Hog prices in early June were the highest in about nine years, owing chiefly to the marked decrease in hog marketings. With] : a smaller number of hogs more] than six months of age on farms' June 1 Than a year earlier, market] supplies of hogs are likely to con ] ! tinue small during the remainder i

PUBLIC SALE As I ain moving to Hoagland and have rented my farm. 1 will sell on my farm located on the Adams and Allen county line. U mile west ,of Williams, 2 miles south of Hoagland, or 7 miles north west of Decatur, on SATURDAY, AUGUST 28,1937 Commencing at 12:00 Noon 3 — HEAD HORSES — 3 Roan gelding, 3 years old, sound. Roan mare, smooth mouth. Bav gelding, 11 years old. These horses are all real workers. 8 — HEAD OF CATTLE — 8 Shorthorn cow, 8 years old; roan cow, 4 years old; roan cow, 5 years old; guernsey cow, 7 years old; these cows are all giving good flow.of milk now, and will all freshen in November.. Red stock bull, 18 months old; 3 heifers. 19 HOGS—2 sows, will farrow' October 15th. 17 head of real feeding shoats. 10 SHEEP—IO head of good breeding ewes. POULTRY—7S head laying hens, and 3 geese. HAY AND GRAIN—IO tons mixed hay, 400 bushels oats, 10 acres corn in field. MACHINERY . Silver King Tractor, used one season. This tractor is all comj plete and in good shape; 12 inch tractor plows; Massey Hari ris binder, 8 foot cut, as good as new, has only cut 50 acres of grain; Clod crusher, bought new' this spring; 7 foot tractor disk; riding plow; riding cultivators; Rude manure spreader; John Deere hay loader; a mower; side rake; wagon; rack with grain bed; w'agon and grain box; a walking plow; corn planter; drill; spring tooth harrow; 4-door Model T Ford Sedan; harness; collars; garden tools; and many other ar--1 tides too numerous to mention. — ; WM. KLEINE, Owner TERMS—CASH E. C. DOEHRMAN—Auctioneer “A Bed Time Story” By SIMMONS — Act 1— She retired at 9:30. After a half hour of tossing and turning she is still wide awake and trying the book technique, also counting sheep. Eventually she’ll drop off to sleep from sheer exhaustion. — Act 2 — Then she purchased a new mattress. Now she goes to sleep in a few minutes and wakes up in the morning as happy as a lark. She is now sleeping on a Simmons Beauty Rest. We have a full line of Simmons mattresses, selling from $16.95 to $39.50. Liberal trade-in allowance for your old mattress. Sprague Furniture Co. 152 S. Second St. Phone 199 ■ inn i i

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of the summer. Therefore bog prices are expect- | ed to be well maintained in the late summer and early fall, Norton stated. From a long-time I standpoint, there will be a considerable increase In the number of I pigs raised in 1938 in view of the larger corn crop in 1937. This upward I rend is hog production will he stimulated if there is an average or better than average corn crop in 1938. But even i under continued favorable conditions it does not seem likely that hog slaughter will reach the average of the five years preceding the of6l a.ioj.iq qtnojp »V6l Uncle Jim Satjs iwS W' 7 'I' 1 ? "Overcropping beyond market ' demand makes for price depressI ing surpluses, mines the soil of its | fertility, and exposes land to erosion. It’s good business to diversify and grow more soil conserving crops on which Agricultural Con- | servation Payments are made.” .

- The Cemetery Association will sell at Auction at the Bertha Fuhrman sale Saturday, Aug. 21 1 o’clock 75 barrel Water Tank; i 36 ft. Steel Tower; ' Bxlo Mell House; Good Well Pump. _______