Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 35, Number 220, Decatur, Adams County, 17 September 1937 — Page 5

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program Is Set I For Annual Soy I Bean Field Day

■catur Industries To [■Sponsor Bin Day l or B|arnu'i'. <Mhers. ()<t. 2 iHln Adams County. ■ bean car here ■ . . mpl- t" program was an-] K,./.,, toibv lor th- second an 1 ■E. <■„• 1P..” in Id <iay. Saturday, ~t , V;. Ill” interest to farm--8,..(t „, !: , : s of this community. cpo.i'e.it creamery is <owith the <’ entral Soya !■.. . a ultnral leaders the day. program is: Mg ~ \ M Registration at the Company office headed by - Inspection of the Ek sylvania soybean car. j a. M Inspection of the Sugar and feed plants. |,”, ; . h-ell at the Sugar well the cooperation of K Ki,pp..| and the Cloverleaf |K ... I' M lii.-p.. lion of the Clov t'.i'aiii’: y and tile new ClovCheese plant. |Mj ... p M Inspection of the soyH in variety plots ht the Krickfarm on route No. 27 at south eiise ot Decatur under direction of K E. Beeson. Ex ot Purdue. and Hy. \ ! Adams County AgAgent. En.-iuoiistram.il of the Purdue shield. ■ lns;»-ci ii of the Purdue sugar fertilizer test plots. ■ j J; I’.l . V ISllrelativ. s and friends here.

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APPLES NEED STORAGE CARE Good Orchard Practices Useless With Poor Storage 1 The go.vi results of careful cul- ! ture, spraying, ipicking. and handling fruit are often lost >by a delay in getting it into storage says T. .1. Ta'bert of the Missouri College ( of Agriculture. Often, by making ‘ previous arrangemente. delay In moving the packed product may be 1 ; avoided. .' The softening rj fruit after pick- , ir.g depends mainly upon the terrt- . perature. In general, fruit needs to be kept as cool as possible after i J picking. If several days elapee be-j (tween picking and (packing, the fruit ( .(should never be piled up under the i . 1 trees or left out in the sun. It a celHlar is available, it can be used for ( storing between the operation of picking and packing. Frait picked during the day may be left outd.x>rs during cool nights to lower its temperature, and then can be placed in the cellar early the next morning. I I The management of common stor-1 .(age of any kind is quite simple. Op.en every <or, window, or other a[iperture during the cool nights so . 1 that the cool night air may sur- 1 I round the fruit. Close every open,l ing during lit® day to keep the cool ] air in and the warm air out. if cellar space is trt available it is Jtetter to store fruit under some shelter rather than directly in the faun as some growers do. The same ■ I thing applies to the packed fruit for ' it needs to be kept as cool as pos-

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1937.

sihle and away from the sun. After ( packing, fruit should ibe rushed as ■ quickly as possible to the refrigerator car or cold storage If delay is neceesary, a cellar above ground or shed can be used. Apples soften more in a week at outside fall temperatures than in several months In cold storage. Jonathans may beagne ae soft as thqy ever get in ten days outdoors at the temperatures prevailing at picking i I time. SWEET GLOVER SHOULD STAND — September Is Very Poor Month To Clip Sweet Clover Sweet clover, unlike red clover, should not be clipped during September if best results are to be expected for the next year. During the early part »■ the fall sweet clover makes very vigorous growth and during this period stores plant food in its roots at a more rapid rate than other clover commonly grown. Removal of the top growth during phis critical period prevents the roots from properly storing plant food and so reduces the eoil build (ing power of the crop as well as the chances for over wintering. Farmers who wish to make hay from spring sown sweet clover ebould delay cutting until late Ocj tober when the activity of the plant has practically ceased and root de- ! velopment has been completed. | 1 Although sweet colver gathers ap-! I proximately three-fourths of its ni-' trogen during its first year, it is iwt I advisable to plow it under in the i fall or winter, since it will not be ( killed, and will volunteer vigorously the next spring. By delaying I ] plowing unti the clover has made (at 'east six inches of growth in the spring, gkilling is easily accomi plished. Attorney Samuel Jackson of Fort I I Wayne attended to business in De- ( Icatur Thursday afternoon.

REDUCED COSTS OF PRODUCTION HELP SOYBEANS Crop Is Now Raised At A| Profit Through Modern Machinery Urbana, 111., Sept. 17 — Millions I of acres of soybeans are being harvested this year, despite the fact that for a long time after this new crop was first introduced, there was a very general feeling that the I cost ot growing It was so high 1 there was no profit in it except for, seed purposes. Today, and in fact since 1932,1 soybeans has been one of the most i profitable crops. Figures compiled by H. C. M. Case, head of the de- i partment of agricultural econom-' ics at the College of Agriculture, University of Illinois, and other! members ot his department show I that since 1930 the cost of growing soybeans has been low enough and> hte yields high enough so that the: cost for each unit of the crop has, placed it in an advantageous posi-i iton for commercial and feeding uses. Along with higher yields, a better knowledge of how to handle ’ the crop and better adapted machinery have operated to reduce the bushel cost. Costs Estimated With a good yield ot 28% bushels of beans an acre, the modern- ( day cost is 52 cents a bushel comi pared with a cost of 11.16 in 1930. I The acre cost then was $24.39 on an average yiefd of 20% bushels, i The total acre cost in the most i recent figures is $14.98 on the 28% I bushel yield. This total cost of $14.98 is made up of $5.12 for the expense of growing. $1.89 for harvesting. sl.18 for taxes and $6.79 interest on land valued at $136 an acre. Jfeeed is the biggest item in the 1 giowing cost, with $1.89 going for this purpose. Tractor use is next ; with $1.02; then man labor, 58 (cents; general farm expense, 54 (cents; machinery, 44 cents; horse labor, 32 ceßts; fertiliser, 28 cents: miscellaneous, 4 cents, and truck, use. 1 cent. The harvesting cost of $1.89 an acre is made up of 29 cents for man labor, 25 cents for combining,. 22 cents for tractor use, 10 cents, for horse labor and 3 cents for, truck use. . One reason why farnfers fo\\ many years felt there was no profit in soybeans is found in the fact that in 1930, for instance, when the everagd net cost of growing a bushel was $1.16. the average farm price on December 15 was exactly that same amount. Today if the average December 15 market price of soybeans is as much as 70 cents a bushel, farmere can produce the crop at a profit over and above costs of production, provided they can get yields of 25 bushels au acre or more. Since 1930 reductions in costs of

FARMING IT . . . BY WILLARD BOLTE —I Sil fii Slmt V>- ■sir ■ |L~_—__ 1 ■ ■- • I L 1 I ~ . J fir ildl _~ SkV | Stock Tomlc

Sanitary hog raising requires moving the farrowing houses to fresh ground every year. Purdue university moves four "A” houses at a time on the home-made rig ahown at the top. Left center: Jim Kirk of Gage County, ‘Nebraska, has filled his 300-foot trench silo for three years in a row. He turns his steers into the trench to tramp down the>silage ' during filling—and he claims that : they pack it much better than it

production have been made all a-' 'long the line, notably, for instance,, I in combining. The modern-day cost ( I of combining Is only 25 cents an ' acre. 'SMUT LOSSES MAY BE LESS — I Fall Treatment Os Wheat Means More Money For Growers Losees due to stinking smut of wheat have been lower than usual I this year. Advantage should be 1 taken of this situation to keep the ( yearly smut loss to a low minimum This can easily be done by seed I treatment, according to R. C. ThoI mas of the Botany Department of' the Ohio Agricultural Experiment 1 i Station. » Last fall a very large proportion of the seed wheat sown in Ohio I was treated, either by individual i farmers or by seed dealers. Results ’ have been very gratifying. The , most conspicious losses this year : in wheat crop have been caused by ( i leaf rust and scab which resulted i lin shriveled grain or grain below normal weight. Unfortunately. I 1 neither of these diseases can be [ controlled by seed treatment. For the control of stinking smut,' either New Improved Ceresan or I I copper carbonate containing not' more than 18 to 22 per cent of copper is satisfactory. Both have, been thoroughly tested and found reliable. Treatment may be made, by any form of mixing which thor- ( oughly disperses the dust so that i every grain becomes coated. Some I form of closed container gives best results, because none of the dust will be lost. The smut spores are on the outside of the grain. As the seed germinates in the ground, the spores also start to grow. The only time that infection can take place is ' during the short interval of a few ■ days after the wheat has germinated and before the plant appears '(through the ground. It is during i | this short period that seed treatment protects the grain froni inI faction, since it is the only time in the life of the wheat that the (wheat is susceptible to smut infection. It sometimes happens ev- ■ en with smutted seed that the , wheat germinates and comes up (so rapidly that it actually grows a- ’ way from the smut before infection can take place. This, however, can ,lnot be depended uporr. It is more sensible to rely upon seed treatment. —o Saves Golfers’ Nerves Cleveland.--(U.R>—The steel frame-] work of a two-story building under, construction for the Lincoln Electric company is being put together I entirely by electric welding instead of by rivetting. Golfers near by] have seen 1,314 tons of steel erected without a single jar to their nerves. o Trade In a Good Town — Decatur

can be packed with a tractor. Right center: A short piece of round handle, placed in a bloated cow’s mouth and held in place with a rope halter, will frequently cause belching and relieve the bloated condition. Thirsty cattle often bend stock tanks by crowding against the walls. The guard rail shown in the bottom illustration is a piece of old iron pipe, fastened to corner posts. It will save many dents.

EGGS CHANGED | WITH RATIONS Yolk Color Altered By Management To Meet All Demands Urbana, 111.. S«pt. 11 —'By the proper management of layers and the I feed they receive, poultrymen can j alter the yolk color of eggs to meet (the demand for either dark or light , I yolks, according to H. M. Scott, ' associate in poultry husbandry, col- ' 'ege of Agriculture, Univeraity of; Illinois. Some markets, especially New ? York, usually ipay more for eggs' with light colored yolks, but bakers demand dark yeJked eggs, he explained. When hens are ranging in the, 1 spring and summer, the green grass which they pick up has a tendency to darken the yolks. Yellow corn , hae the same effect to a lesser ex-1 tent. Bakeries sometimes complain i of light yolks, especially In the fall . or winter when hens are not on range. Egg yolks can ibe darkened eas--1 ily by increasing the alfalfa leaf meal in the ration. Cottonseed meal | darkens the yolks in am obpection-( ■ ab'e way and may give the whites ' (an undesirable pinkish color. Soy- ( bean meal does not have this effect. Hens c/Mifined and fed a ration containing about 40 per cent yellowcorn and 4 iper cent alfalfa leaf meal will produce eggs with fairly | light-colored yolks. Without the J meal they may be fed up to 60 per (cent yellow corn. If darker y<Jks , j are desired, alfalfa leaf meal may ( Ire increased to 10 per cent. When , hens are on summer range, yolks Federal Farm Loans Now at 4' ( i The Adams County National Farm Loan Association, ; of Decatur, Indiana has received a Charter and has been duly authorized and empowered to make farm loans in all of - Adams County. If you are expecting to re-finance . your sarm loan, call or write this , association at once. > Office: 133 South Second Street Decatur, Indiana E. Burt Lenhart, sec'y-treas. Fred T. Schurger. investigator HEAT WHEREVE Portable There are a hundred fort and health is d< % I w ■gy Just the thing f ; Clean, Quick He sl-19

nu>y be lightened by keeping the hens up purt of the time and feeding white corn. The yolks will tell a poultryman when he has about the right balance between white corn and green range, Scott pointed , out. | liens on to,, limited range and ( white corn may not get enough vit- j amln A to keep them laying well ; ( This may he supplied without dark- I enlng the yolk by adding one-halt! per cent ot high grade cod-liver oil I I to the ration. /fnfec * SENSE Never clip sweet clover in the; I stubble fields any earlier than late I i September, as such a practice re-1 I duces the amount of plant food ; stored in the roots, cutting down | the growth next spring. When selecting your dairy breed- ( ing stock from high producing herds, it isn’t always necessary to go to some foreign state or com- | munity. Your neighbor may have 1 , just what you need. | Trash will not catch between ‘ the jointer and the coulter, if the ‘ jointer is adjusted properly, say Purdue agricultural engineering' specialists. Why not spend a minute or two 1 I daily making entries in your farm account book. At the end of the I 'year you will have an excellent! , financial summary of your farm

Public Sale HOUSEHOLD GOODS i I will sell at public auction at my residence, 328 N. 9th street, SATURDAY, September 18 at One o'clock, the following: ■ Library table, dressers, book case, tables, chairs, daven- ' port, Morris chair, etc. Garden tools. Jars, fruit jars, iron kettle, and other articles too numerous to mention. l | TERMS—CASH. 1 FRED A. PARR, Owner ' Fred W. Busche, Auct. W. A. Fonner, clerk I FARM LOANS » 3 Loans at payable in sor ten years. Part payment requir- ■ I ed each year. Payments may be made on interest pay- ■ ing date. ■ Loans at 5% payable in 26 years. Amortized plan 1-5 of loan I may be repaid In any year and these part payments ■ II may be made on any date. No commission charge. 2 The Suttles-Edwards Co I Niblick Store Bldg. Decatur, Indiana | SR AND WHENEVER YOU WANT IT Kerosene Heaters ‘d and one places and occasions when comlependent upon portable heat. SAFE, SMOKELESS & ODORLESS An economical heater suitable for the bed room — workshop — country cottage — attic — bath room. etc. SPECIALLY PRICED ®4.95 OTHERS UP TO §17.95 Electric Heaters for Cool Autumn Days. sat at a Moderate Price If • To $5-95 « '

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business, which will be helpful to you In planning next year's farm program of work and credit. Unthrifty pullets gnd cockrels are as much out of place in a high ] producing flock as dancing eleph- | nuts in u flea circus. They would ( be worth fur more as a stew. | Nearly 46 per cent of all Indj iana farmers reporting for the 1935 ! census produced loss than 20 bush- ! els of potatoes per farm. Further information on any us the foregoing topics may be obtained by writing to the Department of Agricultural Extension, Purdue University, Lafayette, Indiana. Gambling Profits Up Paris. — (U.R) — French casinos made a total net profit of 135,854.100 francs (about $6,792,700) in 1936. according to figures just made public. This year’s increase in foreign tourist traffic is expected [ to make the profits of 1937 even ( higher. O' 1 " Uncle Jim Says Ait-’ 5 . ”1 have found livesock on legume I hay and pasture make cheaper ! gains, and that means something now with high feed prices.”