Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 36, Number 30, Decatur, Adams County, 4 February 1938 — Page 5

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' 1988 This year a larger proportion of the four month’s slaughter is expected to occur in January and February than last year. Feed Grain Supply Relative to feed grain supplies, Johnston explained that the total I supply of all feed grains for use | in 1938 Is larger than in any year since 1932 in relation to the livestock to which these grains are • to be fed Even though as much as 100 million bushels of corn are expported this year, a larger than normal carryover of corn is likely at the time the 1938 crop is ready 1 for harvest. 1 Seventy-one per cent of last year's corn crop was still on farms January 1 as compared with 64 per cent for January 1, 1937, and 65 per cent for the average of the ' years 1928-32. As a result of drouth the 1937-38 Argentine corn crop has been unofficially estimated at only 197 to 236 million bushels as compared l 1 with 360 million bushels produced - in' 1936 37. The United States ex-1 ports and price of corn will be influenced by the amount of corn available for export from the new Argentine crop which will be available in April or May. Johnston said. o '■hk-9 sme Large herds of dairy cattle do: not necessarily mean large Incomes. When testing seeds, those that ■ develop weak sprouts should not , bo counted because they may not I develop into normal, strong plants, j Take an interest in the laws and ! regulations for the control of animal diseases for they are to pro- . tect you as stockmen and poultrymen against losses from infectious i ‘ diseases. Now is the time to apply manure | to the garden in preparation for jthe early spring plowing. The average garden will stand an annual application of stable manure up to 30 or 40 loads per acre, according to Purdue extension hortlcultur- - ists. Trim your colt’s feet every i month to six weeks. Clean the dirt , from the hoof with a pick or hoof knife and then proceed to cut ai way the excess of wall growth | with a pair of hoof nippers. Be on the outlook for any indications of

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1938.

• PURCHASING POWER OF CATTLE 12 H IS AFFECTED BY . <"1 qA4 53 CATTLE NUMBERS a 9oi— | I 1 —i — ™ ml J Via, \ _ «« I I I I I l?n Ou US I0»0 1000 'Sio l,:o 1,30 1,40 • urm ow TKM WILK co*. 4-i ii i i i -J Cattle numbers and the purchasing power of cattle follow cycles varying from 14 to 16 years in length. When purchasing power of cattle is high production is stimulated. When purchasing power is low pro--1 duction is curtailed. For example, in 1920 there were about 49 million head of cattle. In that year a steer was worth, in terms of other commodities. 79% as much as it was in 1910-14. Ten years later, there i were 38 million head of cattle and a steer was worth 134 per cent more in goods than it was in 1910-14.

thrush. Treat such cases promptly with a good disinfectantDecide now to allow no grazing in your farm woods. Results of pasture grazing: poor animals because of low pasture value and a decayI ing woods property. Block salt is cheap. Keep it ' where all the horses, cattle, and hogs can get it all the time. Never ■ give block salt to sheep since it i breaks out their teeth. Further information on any of ' the foregoing topics may be obtain- | ed by writing to the Department I of Agricultural Extension, Purdue University, Lafayette, Indiana. MUTTON PRICES CUT LAMB VALUE Lamb Prices Expected To Advance Slowly; Wool j To Remain Steady Prices of lambs have broken sharply in recent months due largely to decreased consumer demand [ for meats and to declines in prices of pelts and wool, the Bureau of Agricultural Economics reported today. Prices are expected to advance less than seasonally this winter, and to average below prices a year ago. The Bureau bases this conclusion upon the larger supply of sheep and lambs to come to market, the weakness of consumer de-! tnand for meats, and the lower prices for wool and pelts. The number of sheep and lambs ( on feed at the beginning of the., year was reported as the second larges.t on record. The number was' j 11 percent larger than a year earl-| ( ier. This means heavier marketings I of fed lambs from January through ; April, but this movement will be | offset in part by smaller market-' ings of Texas grass-fat yearlings j in March and April this year than lastOn the basis of the estimated number of lambs on feed on January 1 in the several states, the Bureau expects that marketings will be much larger this year than last in most of the Coni Belt States. Texas, and Colorado. Smaller marketings this year than last are expected from states west of the Continental Divide, where the number of lambs fed last year was the largest, in 14 years of record. As for wool, the Bureau expects prices to hold near present levels during the next few months. Domestic wool supplies are large and wool prices, despite recent marked declines, are still high in relation to prices of other textile raw materials. —o —, EARLYSETTING IS PREFERRED I Missouri Expert Advises Immediate Plans For Small Fruit ■ i Where it is planned to make new , plantings of small fruits — straw-: berries, raspberries, blackberries. | , currants, gooseberries, and grapes' , -this spring, arrangements should , be made now so that nursery stock I < may be secured and other prepat-. < ations made for setting the plants < early says 11. G. Swartwout of the 1 Missouri College of Agriculture, i Spring planting is satisfactory with all of these fruits if it is doue i early. , Currants and gooseberries 'begin

1 active growth very early in the spring, and late planting seriously affects their growth. In fact, unless nursery stock can be secured and preparations made for early planting of these, it will be better to delay setting until fall- Raspberries, especially the black and purple types, should be planted early. The early-produced runner plants of strawberries are the most productive. They produce the best berries and are better matured to withstand early cold weather than I late-formed plants. In fact, very late season runner plants usually produce few or no flowers in the spring. Early spring planting is necessary to get this_ highly productive and more hardy type of runner plants. Grapes are rather slow in starting and may be delayed in plant- | ing somewhat beyond the time for i the other small fruits. But even' , with them, planting as soon as I I possible after the severe cold wlht-1 cr is past gives best results. With all of these small fruits flrstgrade fruits are worth setting. | Lnwgrade plants usually are more costly in the long run and are likely to be a continual disappointment as long as they live. One-year grape vines, in general, are better than older vines. Good grade vines ' should have one or more well matured canes at least 8 inches long, and several strong roots at the base of the old cutting. Vigorous, well rooted, one-year currant and gooseberry plants generally are . preferred to two-year plants. oSharpely Leg "Exhibit A" I San Francisco —(UP) —In a SSO- - damage suit resulting from a bite by an English bulldog. Miss Ixn-raine Llewellyn was obliged to introduce a rather shapely leg in ■court as "Exhibit A.”

FARMING IT . . . BY WILLARD BOLTE Hl j&V I MARY RAISED TWO LITTLE LAMBS w A NOtUTiwg for TREES I i • . i if r iri stable ha* CANARY GRASS SEED UNDER DIFFICULTIES ‘

The secret of raising lambs on he bottle is feeding by the clocklot too much at a time —fresh milk in clean bottles—and always warmed to blood temperature. For over 40 years California orange growers have been fighting scale insects by covering the trees with tents, as shown upper left, and then filling the tents with deadly cyanide gas. The gassing has to be done at night as the gas damages the trees if used when the sun is shining. The portable hayracks illustrated above are mounted on 2 x 4 skids. Each rack is 10 feet long by 5 feet

INCREASES ARE PREDICTED FOR NEW HOG PRICE Seasonal Improvements And Low Storage Holdings To Help Price Some advance in hog prices in the next few months is foreseen by the Bureau of Agricultural Economics in its current review of the hog situation. Prices usually I rise at this season, the Bureau said, and will probably do so this winter in view of the expected reduction in .hog marketings. | Another price-strengthening factor is the relatively small storage holdings of pork and lard. Pork stocks on January 1 were the sec- , ond smallest on record for that 1 date, and stocks of lard were be- , low average. Looking ahead to next summer, the report indicates tfiat farmers probably will market a materially larger number of hogs than a year earlier, but at prices considerably below the high level of last summer. The fact that last fall s pig crop was nearly up to that of 1936, together with the larger supply of feed, makes it probable that the number of hogs going to slaughter in the marketing year ending next September will be nearly as large 1 as in the previous year. And average weights of hogs this season will be much heavier than they were in the past season. Heavy Hogs Down The larger numbers of heavy hogs reaching the market recently are selling at some discount under the lighter hogs. Ordinarily at this Reason of the year there is little difference between prices of ' drop in prices of heavy hogs than I light and heavy hogs. The greater | in prices of light hogs reflects in I part the increasing proportion of i such hogs in the supplies in re-1 j cent months. The situation also re- i fleets the dullness in the lard mar-| ket. the Bureau states. The Bureau commented that the number of sows to 'farrow this spring, as indicated by the December 1, pig crop report, will be only about 5 per cent larger than the number farrowed in the spring of 1937 This indicated increase is' expected in view of the present low j considerably less than had been level of hog production, the large feed supplies, and the favorable price ration between ' hogs and coni. It is expected, however, that the bulk of the 1937 fall pigs will be' fed out to fairly heavy weights and will bp marketed during the j late spring and summer of 1938. This is in contrast to the situation

wide. Spacing of the side boards I depends upon the kind of stock. ' They have solid bottoms of 1-inch | boards. By forming them into a hoi- ‘ ; low square it is possible to store • a large amount of hay in the middle of the square. ( When water flooded this Wiscon- < sin field of Reed’s canary grass— 1 just when the seed was ripe—the | owner attached extra wheels, fore and aft, to his tractor—mounted a gasoline engine and a cutter bar 4 from his mower on his platform truck—and as the ripe heads were cut they fell into a canvas apron. Ingenuity saved him plenty. —. — (

1936 fall pigs were marketed early last year when large numbers of to avoid high feed coats, and a fairly large number were marketed last fall after having been fin-' ished on new crop grains. Thus it seems probable that hog slaughter in the period from May through September this year will materially exceed that of last summer. o VACATION USED MILKING COWS Many Dairymen Spend Vacations With Unprofitable Cattle i I G. A. Williams. Purdue dairy specialist says in part, "too many Indiana farmers spend their vacations sitting on milk stools, and in the main work for nothing.' Facts revealed by Mr. Williams show that many folks'on Indiana's 175,000 farms where dairy cows are milked spent their "vacations" chumming with unprofitable, low producing coxys. Williams figured it took at least 13.306 hours every day to milk Indiana's 798,351 cows in 1934, not mentioning the time spent washing utensils, cooling milk, separating the cream and delivering the products to market. The milk produced per cow on an average varied among the counties of the state from 280 to 639 gallons, according to the last agricultural census, fhirty-six of the counties had averages per cow of one gallon or less of milk produced daily, an indication of how many farmers who “worked on their vacations." Twenty-five of these counties are situated in the southern part of the state. ELECTRICITY USED BY FEW Only Small Per Cent Os Rural Homes Are Electrified In fewer than 55.000 of Indiana's 195,000 farm homes can one turn an electric switch and bring light < to every room, and in only 17,261 , farmsteads is furnace heat avail-, able. These were among the revealing i tacts brought out by Dean Mary L. Matthews oj the Purdue University School of Home Economics ' in her talk on housing in Indiana at the home economics session of I the recent agricultural conference at Purdue. Also she stated that 63.5 per cent of the farms were occupied by their owners, and that this figure has not changed greately in the last forty years. The average price of each farm is 12.245, and although the average price for the United States as a whole is 31,072, Indiana’s standing among the states is twenty-third. Dean Matthews concluded her talk with a discussion of the opportunities for individual and community housing improvement under the provisions of the new federal housing law. n O Trade In A Good Town —— Decntnv a (mih Imh? Let us tell you about the Life Insurance Company’s new Farm Loan Plan. Low rates, a 26 year repayment plan, ■ I a Reserve Fund Safety I' feature, a liberal pre-pay-ment privilege, no commission, appraisal, or title examination costs to the borrower. It’s worth . investigating. 1 Authorized Representative in this territory J i Suttles-Edwards Co. 1 A. D. Suttles, Mgr. Phone 358 Residence 194 |

BETTER PRICES ARE EXPECTED Smallest Flocks In History To Help Poultry Markets Poultrymen are starting off the year with the smallest flocks of laying bens ever reported at this season. This is cited by the Bureau of Agricultural Economics as an Item of first importance in the current poultry and egg situation. Although flocks are small, the hens are laying very well for this time of year. Ordinarily the number of eggs laid around the first of January averages a little over 16 eggs per hundred hens. This year, however, the flocks are turning out eggs at the rate of about 23 per hundred hens. The high rate of egg production | coupled with large holdings of frozen eggs and the fact that consumer buying power is lower than i a year ago have offset the effect l of small laying flocks upon the prices of eggs. The outlook until mid-spring Is for egg prices below those of 1937. The Bureau indicated, however, that later in the year egg production will be reduced as a result of the small size of flocks. , after which a gradual advance in egg prices above the like period of 1937 may occur. Receipts of eggs at New York during the past month, although much below the like period of 1937 have been about 11 percent above average. They are on the increase now, as is usual at this season. Lower Stocks Below average stocks of shell eggs, and smaller stocks than last year, were reported in cold storage at the 26 major storing centers. Stocks of frozen eggs on the other hand are about twice as great as S in 1937, which may lead to a reduction in egg breaking this spring and hence increase the quantity of eggs to be consumed at once or to be stored in the shell. As to the prospect for prices of | chickens, it is considered likelythat the favorable feed-egg price, ration will tend to stimulate hatch-, Ings this spring. The outlook, there fore, is for lower chicken prices' jn the last half of the year com-' pared with 1937. During the next few months, however, low poultry supplies, both on the farm and in storage, will tend to keep chicken prices' above those in the first half of last | year, the Bureau said.

PUBLIC SALE We will sell at Public Auction, 3 miles west and V? mile south of j Decatur, on Monday, Feb. 7,1938 COMMENCING AT 10:00 A. M. HORSES—Match team Roan horses, 5, wt. 2,880 lbs., good v orkers, a res! pulling team. CATTLE —2 Holstein Cows, 7 yrs. old; 3 Guernsey Cows. 6 yrs. old. all milking good flow; Brindle, 7. Be fresh in March. SHEEP AND HOGS—II good Ewes, 1 Buck; 4 Sows, farrow in April; 30 good Feeder Hogs, about 85 lbs. POULTRY—II 6 Head of White Leghorn Chickens. FEED —1800 bu. good Yellow Corn: 150 bu. Oats; 75 bu. Wheat; 20 ton of extra good Clover Hay; 20 ton Paled Wheat Straw. IMPLEMENTS F-20 Fartnall Tractor, used 2 seasons; Farmall Cultivator attachment, new; Oliver 2 Bottom Tractor Plow, 18 inch; J-Deere Tractor Disc; New Idea Manure Spreader, like new; J-Deere Rotary Hoe; Good Dunham Cultipacker; Oliver Riding Cultivator; Buckeye 10 hole Grain Drill; Good Dain Hay loader; McCormick 6 ft. Mower; J-Deere 999 Corn planter with fertilizer attachment; Weber wagon and 16 ft. Grain Bed; Moline Side Delivery Rake; Mc-Deering Hammer Mill, new; Mc-Deerlng 8 ft. Binder, new; Oliver 12" Walking Plow; Spike tooth harrow; corn sheller; large Feed Cooker Kettle; Self Feeders; ”rooder House. 8 x 10; 3 Double hog houses: New Grapple hay fork; Brooder stove; 2 Double sets work harness; 2 new 10 gal. milk ns. DeLaval Cream Separator; New J-Deere Gas Eng.; Pump Jack u.d Gas Eng.; 3 good Hay slings; New Hog Water Fountain and a< cles too numerous to mention. 1 Registered Black and Tan female Coon Hound. TERMS—CASH George Fosnaugh & Mrs. Fay J. Mutschler, Owners. Roy S Johnson and John L. Fisher, Aucts. T. Schieferstein —Clerk Lunch will be served by the St. Luke's Ladies Aid Its J.'.?""' - ■ ' PUBLIC SALE We, the undersigned, will sell at Public Auction, 3% miles South and I*4 miles West of Decatur, on WEDNESDAY, February 9th Commencing at 10:00 A. M. 6 — HEAD OF HORSES — 6 Bay Mare, 9 yrs. old. wt. 1600, in foal, Bay Mare, 10 yrs. old. wt. 1500 in foal; Bay Mare 11 yrs. old, wt. 1300, in foal; Bay Gelding, coming 2 yr. old; Sorrel Gelding, comil. 2 yr. old; Sorrel Mare, light mane and tail, 8 months. 9—HEAD OF CATTLE—9 Red Cow. 7, be fresh by day of sale; Holstein Cow, 3. with calf by side; Jersey Cow, 5. be fresh March 1: Red Cow. 7. be fresh April 24; Holstein. 7, milking good flow; Red Cow, 8, milking good flow; Jersey Cow. 8. be fresh Feb. 16th; 2 Heifers, bred. HOGS—-5 Sows, farrow first April; 12 Feeder Hogs, 50 to 90 lbs. FEED—SO bushel Corn; 4 ton Alfalfa Hay; 6 Lai o e Shocks Fodder. IMPLEMENTS J. I. Case Riding Cultivator, new; J-Deere Manure Spreader; Double Disc; Cultipacke Corn Planter: Haj Loader; Mower; Tedder: 12 ft. Oats Seeder Wagon; 16 ft. Grain Bed; Oliver 12” Plow; Anker Holt No. 5 Cream Separator, good; Side Delivery Rake; Mud Boat; 2-1 horse Cultivators; Single '’hovel; 1 Double Set Work Harness; Many articles too numerous to mention. TERMS—CASH. W. E. SMITH & A. L. DOCTOR Roy S. Johnson —Auctioneer. Albert Coppess—Clerk Lunch will be served.

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Uncle Jiin Sags JL "With our c 'intry’s limited exports of farm j./ocucts, it's not hard for m »o figure out what will happen to prices if we have many more bumper crop years like 1937.” o Conservation League Meets Monday Night The monthly meeting of the Adams county fish and game conservation league will be held at the Moose home Monday evening at 7:3t> o'clock. All members are urged to be present, as important business will be discussed. 1 Trade In A Good Town — Decafar DO YOU NEED A FARM LOAN? Federal Farm a Loans, Now at 4 /O ADAMS COUNTY NATIONAL FARM LOAN ABSN. Office 133 S. Second St. Phone 2 Decatur, Ind. Fred T. Schurger, Acting Sec.-Trea. WANTED Rags, Magazines, Newspapers, Scrap Iron, Old Auto Radiators, Batteries, Copper, Brass, Aluminum, and ail grades of scrap metals. We buy hides, wool, sheep pelts, the year round. The Maier Hide & Fur Co. 710 W. Monroe st. Phone 442