Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 35, Number 274, Decatur, Adams County, 19 November 1937 — Page 5

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■feed is •SSARY FOR HOD RESULTS H(,iven For Illinois nhtr'ity High Pro"Wiction Cow K n „ Nov. 19 — Despite look, some cows tilK>i be satisfied. is the conclusion of gKlns. chief in dairy cattle A. F. Kuhlman, assoin Kry husbandry. College University of Illilg fir ' look at the production I of illini Fobes Bess, one of gK's prized Holsteln-Fries-|Mbes Bess may look conA she is not satisfied with ime production of only 100,23f of milk, a claim to honcows. Having already ■118.357 pounds of milk in is, Illini Fobes Bess All into her seventh lacta- ■ she celebrates her 10th ■January 23. Barring mismay be able to push production record past o,®o pound mark. 3h» avy Producer l&nr she produced 25,357 ■ milk and 821.7 pounds of of a dairy cow as ■ctory depends to a large the raw product, or in ■Hu feed she receives. As ■t by staff members of the ■d airy department, the provided for Illini FobMs: year averaged 16 lbs. ■ t'i pounds of dried mopulp. 25 pounds of corn ■pounds of hay and a very ■runt of pasture in the ■e kin mixture is made up at If 300 pounds ground corn. Is ground oats, 150 pounds fen. 50 pounds brewers’ kins. 50 pounds soybean i 50 pounds linseed oil pounds hone meal and 15 lit. obes Bess is milked three lay. .She is one of a num-gh-producing cows in the y of Illinois herd. In her record is reflected the tendency of dairymen evto keep production recheir cows year after year an for short periods only, ellie, the famous World's I Brown-Swiss cow in the r herd, has a lifetime proBcord of 138.721 pounds of i is now in her sixth laco iage and Bake Sa'e istian Church. 9 a.m.

FARMING IT. .. BY WILLARD BOLTE fcsESElt Ba ssiiiiEßa nwSIF sss y 1 "~Zh, ■BIx/A WEATHERPRCOr 1 I ' \/ I RANGE SHELTERS . Wsil i . i •«■■»> ”— UUM •e made aheatedtank from an old boiler

OwHialf of the fine old dairyat the top now houses of leghorn pullets—that 'wer set foot to the ground. And in the other half have to make as much money owner. MBovering the sides and back of ran S< shelters with cheap sisal pashown in the center sketch, "6?lan be used for housing breeds j 4 the spring and fattening stock tnl fall r The paper is removed ventilation in summer. hand illustration shows ■ folks call the Me--2?W ton plan for beans. *%jjgyou drive a steel fence post

DRUG CREATES I GIANT PLANTS Experiments Being Conducted On Cell Growth In New York Geneva, N. Y„ Nov. 19 — Recent newspaper reports on the work of; Dr. A. F Blakeslee of Cold Springs Harbor with the drug "colchicine" I in producing giant forms of plant ' growth has focused attention on ’ studies with this drug in progress at the State Experiment Station here where its effects are being in-1 vestigated in connection with the ■ Station's fruit breeding project. In the course of ttiese invcstiga- , tions, Dr. M. L. Ruttie and Dr. B R. Nebel, working under a grant ' from the Haskins Laboratory in I Schnectady, have this past year. produced several giant marigolds. 1 a giant snap-dragon, and a giant petunia. They have also obtained changes of a less favorable nature in tomatoes and poppies, indicating that the use of colchicine may have detrimental as well as advantageous affects from the standpoint of the plant breeder. Stops Cell Division . "Colchicine has been known and I used since the Middle Ages as a I 1 remedy for gout and in recent years ■ has been used as a tool in growth studies in experimental medicine I because of its ability to arrest cell division, but probably it was not • used by plant breeders in this coun-1 try prior to 1937,” says Dr. Nebel' in commenting on his own studies I The drug is said tb he highly toxic and must be used with great care. When properly applied, however, it may cause cells to lose the power of forming walls between dividing nuclei, thus a single cell may contain two or more nuclei and from these cells may come what are known as polypoid tissue, shoots, 1 and even plants. A polypoid, explains Dr. Nebel, contains a higher multiple number of chromosome sets than normal. "Polyploids are common among cultivated plants, such as wheat, potatoes, tomatoes, apples, and grapes.” continues Dr. Nebel, adding that, "in ornamentals where size is a feature, polypoid is highly desirable, but it remains to bo shown whether increased polypoidy will yield any better potatoes, tomatoes, apples, or grapes. There are at least three distinct advantages from polyploidy which apply to all cultivated plants, however, and which are worth experimental consideration. These are. first, that infertile hybrids of wide crosses may be made fertile: second, intersterility between related lines and probably self-sterility may be overcome: and third, races with new adaptions to the invironment may be secured.”

into the ground—then you make a bed of straw around the base of the post to protect the beans from dirt and moisture—then you build up a narrow stack of beans. This idea works just as well for curing soybean hay in wet weather, too. Two North Dakota farmers bought a discarded 18-foot steam boiler—had it split lengthwise with an acetylene torch—and now each of , them has a stock tank that will not freeze. The concrete foundation has a smoke flue through its entire . : length. A fire is built in a firebox . at the right end and the smoke pipe pulls the smoke and heat under the : tank. — I

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Photo shows: The SIOO,OOO International Champion Six-horse Clydedale Team owned by Wilson & Co., meat packers which will be shown at Chicago's International Live Stock Exposition, November 27 to December 4. and their owners < L 'to R) Messrs. Thos. E. Wilson, chairman of the board and Edward Foss Wilson, president of the company.

H °^ E SEIMS £ Practice safety first: remove animals from herds or flocks immediately after symptoms of disease are noticed. Protect your efforts to produce economically by marketing livestock, crops, and other products of the type in most demand, say Purdue marketing specialists. i | Uncle Jim Sags ■ 55 | "1 surely-get a kick out of growing bumper crops, but farming is | not a sport; it is just one way of making a living. If we farmers make our work a sport by growing more every year it won’t be long before surplnsses will pile up and prices will start down again.” a. faun loan? Let us tell you about the jEtna Life Insurance Company’s new Farm Loan Plan. Low rates, a 26 year repayment plan, a Reserve Fund Safety feature, a liberal pre-pay-ment privilege, no commission, appraisal, or title examination costs to the borrower. It’s worth investigating. Authorized Representative in this territory Suttles-Edwards Co. A. D. Suttles, Mgr. Phone 368 Residence 194

These magnificent horses weigh-; . ing from 2000 to 2200 pounds apiece ; are from 16 to 18 hands high. They | ’ are said to compose the finest i 1 stable of draft horses in the world 1 ’ The horse on the right is “King”, I > four-time International Champion j > Draft Gelding. He and his stable-i . mates are matched Clydesdale j 1 bays. In addition to the Six-horse ! • championship they are the current | holders of the two and four hitchi

To keep non-breeding or irregular breeding cows in the herd is like depending on weak or non-germin-ating seed corn for a bountiful crop. Keep idle horses on cheap roughage and feed them little grain, but always keep their feet tn good condition by trimming and shoeing as needed. Plan now your livestock breeding and feeding programs so they will interfere the least with Important field work next spring and summer. Only the unprofitable farm practices suffer when you keep a compete farm record. Be fair to your self and to the practices that return profits by finishing and summarizing your 1937 record book. Operating a newspaper and a farm make similar demands upon the owners: timeliness, long hours of hard work, plenty of thought and consideration of plans for the future, and the problem of finding interesting types. Further information on any of the foregoing topics may be obtained by writing to the Department of Agricultural Extension, Purdue University, Lafayette, Indiana. o Cafeteria Supper Zion Reformed Church, Saturday 5-7.

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■ titles. For the past twenty years Wil- , son & Co’s prize horses have been I exhibited at all recognized fairs 1 and expositions here and abroad. I Mr. Thos. E. Wilson personally j supervises the buying and training ■of his champions. Their home i stables are literally papered with ’ blue ribbons won in competition | with prize horses throughout the I world.

STOCK NUMBER BELOW NORMAL I Livestock Numbers Will Not Be Normal Before 1940 Urbana, 111., Nov. ’9 — Not until | '1940 or 1941 will livestock num-1 bers be back to average, shat is; the opinion of R. C. Ashby, chief in livestock marketing. College of Agriculture, University of Illinois, who bases his conclusion on the outlook for meat animals issued Lyttle U. S. Bureau of Agricultural Economics. The trend in all livestock numbers is expected to be upward during the next few years, with the larger production of feed in 197 expected to result in an expansion in hog production aud in cattle feeding in 1938. if feed crop production in the next three or four years is equal to average, supplies of feed will be large in relafion to number of livestock, and livestock prices will be high in relation to feed prices. Such a situation would be the reverse of that which has existed , in most of the past four years. Total supplies of meats, exclud-

larger in 1938, but will continue to ing poultry, are expected to b« be less than average. The increase in total supplies of meats will likely come In the last half of the year and will be largely in pork and the better grades of beef. FAMILY INCOME WILL BE LOWER U. S. Experts Expect Cash Income Os Farm Families To Decline Cash income available for farm family living has been higher In j 1937 than It was last year but may I be somewhat lower in 1938 than , this year. This prospect was Indi- I cated today in an outlook report ■ issued jointly by the Bureau of Agricultural Economics and the Bureau of Home Economics. Total income from the sales of farm products in 1938 may be somewhat lower than this year and it is likely that the expenses of production will be slightly higher, the report said. Income from government payments is expected to be somewhat larger next year but not enough to offset the decline in income from products sold. "Judging from the ways of ( spending now current among farm , families,” the report stated, “it | seems probable that low-income ‘ groups will devote the increased a-1 mounts made available for family i living in 1937 largely to food, cloth-. ing, and the automobile, although small increases will be made in | each of the main groups of living | expenses. Even in the case of the more well-to-do, a portion of the' increase will go for food, but con-! I siderably more will go for the pur-; chasing and operating of automobiles, for clothing, medical care, for furnishing and running the : house, and for recreation.

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Huge Crops Shown In Nov. By Miner Justine, Os Purdue U.

Indiana Rainfall in the northern part of the state was somewhat above normal for the month of October where as the central and southern parts of the state received rainfall very much in excess of normal. Temperatures for the month were somewhat below normal but the day ternI peraturea were considerably below | normal and the night temperatures only slightly below normal. The excessive amount of rainfall ac- ’ companied -by -low -temperatures during the day have been responsible for retarding the drying of corn. Many soybeans are yet to be harvested and some damage is be ing reported due to weather. The average yield per acre of corn is estimated to be 45 bushels compared with 25.5 last year and 34.6 for the ten year average, (1923 I 1932). The total production is estimated to be 209.790.000 bushels compared with the five year average (1928-32) of 155,968,000. The average yield pet acre is the largest since records were started in Indiana in 1866 and the total production has been exceeded only ( three times and that was when the acreage was in the neighborhood ’ of 5 million or more. The corn crop : is considerably larger than earlier ( predictions primarily because of the size of the ears. The acreage of soybeans to be harvested for beans is estimated to be 324,000 compared with 282,000 i last year and the five year average * of 126,000. The yield per acre is I placed at 17 bushels which will make a total production of 5.508,000 bushels compared with 3,948,000 ‘ last year. Reports indicate that farmers are experiencing some difficulty in harvesting soybeans this year due to weed growth. The condition of pasture is reported to be 78 percent of normal which is 3 point below last month and 4 points above a year ago. There is still an abundance of pasture throughout the state as there has been sufficient precipitation and no severe freezing. Potatoes The yield per acre of potatoes is estimated to be 100 bushels and the total production Is 5,700,000 bushels compared with 3.617.000 last year and 5,198,000 for the five year average. The sweet potato ■ crop, with an average yield of 125 bushels per acre, is estimated to 1 be 500,000 bushels which is about

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65 percent larger than last year and 20 percent larger than the five year average. Apple production is estimated to be 3,757,000 bushels which is more than 4 times as much as last year and nearly twice as much aa the five year average. The pear crop is estimated to be 630,000 bushels which is about three and one-half times as large as last year and two and a quarter times as large as the five year average. Grape production is estimated to be 5,300 tons which is also larger than last year and about fifty percent greater than the five year average. Crop correspondents reported 93. 9 hens and pullets of laying age in farm flocks on November 1 which produced an average of 20 eggs per 100 hens. The decline in egg production from last month was very nearly the same as the usual seasonal decline. Crop correspondents also reported that 713 percent of all milk cows in the herd were being milked and that the production amounted to 17.0 pounds per cow milked. United States Corn yields are exceeding earlier expectations quite generally throughout the country and particularly in the central and eastern Corn Belt. The average yield is now estimated to be 27.6 bushels per acre which is as high as any year since 1923. Corn production in the extreme western part of the Corn : Belt is again rather low this year i due to the drouth. o Preble Girl Named County 4-H Champ Marjorie Dilling of Preble has been awarded a handsome gold medal for the record she submitted in the National 4-H Canning Contest. The award is made by the National Committee on 4-H Work in Chicago on approval of the County Agent and State Club Leader who designated the girl 1937 canning champion of Adams county. The medal Is shield shaped nearly one inch deep on which is embossed a horn of plenty, laurel branch and 4-leaf clover. It is provided by the Kerr Glass corporation to promote better living, together with trips for state winners to the forthcoming National 4-H Club Congress and in college scholarships for sectional and national winners.