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sumption ot manufactured dairy product* in January was slightly less than a year earlier. Though a slight decline took, place during 1937 in the number of milk cows on farms, the number of heifers and heifer calves on hand I is believed to be more than enough to provide for normal replacement ; in 1938 and 1939. The Bureau ex pects that the number ot milk cows probably will increase some in the next few years. INTEREST GROWS IN CORN CLUBS Members Find Hybrid Corn Outyields Open Pulinated Varieties in recent years the work of the 5 Acre Corn Club in Adams County .'has greatly stimulated the interest in Hybrid corn. Hybrid corn, on the average, will outyield open pollinated varieties by at least ten per cent. Mr. B< nJ. D. Mazelin. I president of the County Crop Improvement Association. I states that enrollment for the 1938 5-Acre Corn Club can be aken any ; time now up to and including June I , Ist. Applications so r membership can be made to any director of the Adams County Crop Improve-; inent Association, or the County; Agent. The directors ot the Crop I Improvement Association are as follows: Otto Hoile, John E. Heiman. Otto D. Bieberich, Franklin Mazelin. Ralph S. Myers and Ben ; Mazelin. Membets who have joined to i date are: Fred B. Rlnes. Adolph’ 1 Schamerloh, David D. Habegger, Eli Schwartz, Robert Myers. Ralph |S. Myers. William Neadstine. Ben ■ Mazelin. and John Heiman. Membership in the 5-Acre Corn Club work requires the payment of a fifty ■ cent fee, which also makes one a member of the Indiana Corn Growers' Association. The money thus collected is all I turned over to the secretary of the | Indiana Corn Growers Association and is used to purchase medals j and finance the checking of 5-Acre i Corn club plots. ■ o— Horses, Mules Down In Numbers, Values The number of horses, including I colts, on farms January 1. 1938, is estimated by the Bureau of Agricultural Economics at 11,163,000 head, a reduction of 282,000 head, or 25 percent, from a year earlier. The reduction during 1937 was larger than during 1936. Although the number of colts raised in 1937 was larger than in 1936. death losses of horses were

FARMING IT. . . BY WILLARD BOLTI

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Some folks are just too stubborn to learn from anything but personal disaster. A Wisconsin farmer did not believe that there was anything to the idea that you have to buy new hybrid seed corn every year instead of saving it from your own crops. So he planted half of his cornfield to new hybrid seed—and the other half to hybrid seed from his last year's crop. The upper left drawing -'shows what he learned. Twenty hills of the purchased seed produced 80 ears of corn last year —and twenty hills of his own seed produced 62 ears. To make a handy metal feed or S&lt box, cut an old oil drum length-

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT FRIDAY, MARCH 25,1938.

ADVISES LARGE HATCHING EGGS Minimum Weights Given For Best Quality Os Hatching Eggs In the spring, when the demand for hatching eggs is greatest, , sometimes there is a temptation ,to round out a setting with eggs that are a little undersized, says W. P. Albright, poultry specialist at Purdue University. Various tests I have shown that egg size is an inherited characteristic. Hens hatched from small eggs may be i expected to lay small eggs. Recently the U. S. Department of Agriculture tested hundreds of ' eggp for hatchability. The eggs were from one crossbred and from ' six purebred flocks. Eggs averaging between 23 and 25 ounces to the dozen hatched best. Those weighing up to 28 ounces to the dozen also hatched well. But eggs under 23 ounces and eggs over 29 I ounces hatched poorly. This is the reason, says Albright ' that the National Poultry Improve- ! ment Plan, in which Indiana is co- . operating with 41 other States and I the Deparment~of Agriculture, has i a minimum egg weight as a reI quirement in each of its fixe breed- ; ing stages. I Eggs produced in the first two ■ breeding stages must weigh a minimum of 11 12 ounces each or at the rate of at least 23 ounces a ' dozen. Eggs of the next higher or ! third stage have a minimum of I 1 11112 ounces each and must weigh at least 26 ounces per doz ; en. Department of Agriculture men. lin testing more than a thousand i Barred Plymouth Rock pullet eggs, found shape had no effect on hatchability. o First Lady Aids Idle Girl Cleveland (U.R) — Regina Weil, a senior typist, wrote Mrs. Rooseevlt after the President was elected the first time and told the First Lady of her need of a job. Within 10 days Miss Weil was working. unusually large in a number of States. The average value pethead January 1, 1938, was 190.83 compared with $99.16 a year earlier and the total value ot $1,013,960.000 was $121,000,000 smaller. The number of mules on farms January 1, 1938, was 4,477.000 head a reduction of 94.000 head, or 2.1 : percent, from a year earlier. The value per head of $122.43 was $. 50 i lower than a year earlier and the total value of $593,898,000 was about $46,000,000 smaller.

wise—roll the front edge-and turn the back edge into a hook to hang on a fence board. A Michigan farmer made an excellent tank beater from an oil drum by fitting it with a smoke pipe and a feed door and placing stones in the bottom to hold it down. He says that the draft is strong enough to burn green wood. But hov* do you get the ashes out? He didn't offer to tell me. Bottom drawing shows six aged Holstein cows from the Parsons (Kan.) State Hospital herd. These six old lad)-: L.ve produced as much milk as 54 average Kansas dair’ cows during their lifetime.

"warden I by w Yl/PXTEB HIUDUtONjy I Start with the Soil ALL GARDENING must begin with the soil Many new bouses have gardens that were made trout Soil taken from the foundation excavations. Such soil is dead—it lacks the humus that decaying vegetalle matter leaves tn a cultivated soli. • • • • S'”IL should be given a two qr three inch covering of humus (5uC lbs. will give a two inch covering tr. one hundred square feet), before digging is begun. Then as you dig the soil. I the humus may te worked into the toj ten inches. While the ground is still rough, scatter a complete garden fertilizer, using ten pounds t - ’ every two hundred square feet. Then rake the top three inches rt soil to make a 1 One surface for seed- sowing or ; planting. Finally, firm the sol) by tramping or rolling. .... LIGHT SANDY SOILS may be Improved by the addition of buwus or peat moss. These materials not orly improve the mechanical ccndltlwn of the soil and give plants a mor- satisfactory rooting medium, tut most important of all. they help such soils to retain m lsture. .... HEAVY CLAY SOILS which tend to cake after rail or watering should have sand and peat m.'ss added to them. It is also good to dig in garden rubbish, leaves, etc. • • • • GREEN MANURING is an excellent way by which to add humus and mineral foods to the soil. Vetches, rye, buckwheat and critnscn clever are ordinarily sewn fir tills purpose. Fea and bean plants should never be burned, big them into the soil for they contain valuable nitrogen deposits which are released into the soil as the plants decay. pmeTeveHF REMAIN STEADY No Marked C hange Expected In General Farm Prices Soon The Bureau of Agricultural Economics said today it looks for no marked change during the next few months in the general level of prices received by farmers. Prices of farm products as a group have been holding fairly steady recently, following a decline of nearly 30 per cent since last summer. hi its current reports on the demand and price situation for farm products, the Bureau says that “some irregular improvement from present levels of industrial activity during 1938” is indicated, but again points out that the improvement wpuld be “not enough to result in any marked increase in domestic dematld for farm products.” A continued increase in exports of farm products was reported. Experts are expected to icrease more since the signing on March 7 of the reciprocal trade agreement with Czechoslovakia. The importance of the British market as an outlet for American farm products also was emphasized. Possible short-time improvement in foreign demand for United Stat Uncle Jim Says — — V /i T"‘ “Yes, old Uncle Sam's wheat supply varies from year to year, but our consumption stays fairly stable. It sounds like good business to me to level out our market supply.

es wheat was indicated, inasmuch as shipments from Argentina and Australia to importing countries “probably reached their peak in late February.” Prices of all feed grains are expected “to continue near the present level during the next month or two." but it was pointed out tha the effect of weather conditions on he growth of spring forage crops and on the acreage sown to feed grains will become an increasingly important price factor in the domestic feed I grain situation. * ’’ I J sense: Now is a good time to get a hot I bed ready to produce early plants. Replace any broken glass, see that I each sash is glazed, and then ap--1 ply one or two coats of good white lead paint. Purdue University extension dairymen say the best ration to ' feed consists ot plenty of legume : hay of high quality, silage where ; the herd is large enough, and a i home grown grain mixture of 500 | pounds of corn and cob meal. 200 I pounds of ground oats, aud 75 pounds of ground soybeans or soybean oil meal. The Indiana state tag is your guarantee of the fertilizer you purchase. Read the tag and be guided by the analysis on it. Shrinkage costs usually are less on hogs trucked to market when they are loaded in the early morning without feed and are fed at market upon arrival. Burning destroys vegetable matter. Conserve soil fiber by avoiding fires. Change the litter in the brooder houses two or hree times 3 week. Further information on any of the foregoing topics may be obtained by writing to the Department of Agricultural Exension, , Purdue University, Lafayette, hid. Butler University Otters Scholarships ■ Indianapolis. Ind , March 25- Butler University will again offer two SIOO scholarships to high school seniors living In Adams county, according to ;ui announcement made ' today by Dr. James W. Putnam, prei sident ot the local institution. All students that are interested in apI' plying for the awards should con.l suit with the county superintendent i ■ at once. ’ One of the scholarships will be

The Living Soil ... ITS MODERN CARE

By CHARLES H. SALT I Director, The Living Soil Institute 1 ' I The farmer or gardener who pays close attention to maintaining the supply of organic matter or humus in his soil will benefit greatly in the way of increased yields, the production of more flowers and vegetables in the prize-winning class and decreased costs. It represents one cultural practice which, when followed, will aid appreciably the curbing of the gradual but ever increasing loss of valuable surface soil through erosion. Organic matter or humus, as it is popularly called, is the partially decayed plant and animal remains which are found in the soil. Many years ago when the animals roaming about the Middle-west heard for the first time the ring of an ax on wood, the then virgin soil was high in this material for the leaves falling from the trees and the bodies of dead animals annually replenished HOW TO TURN HUMUSUMOER. TURROaM | -RIGHT ' i the supply of organic matter. Since Lhen (# however, this original humus has long since been exhausted and is present only in small quantities unless recently replaced. The most important source of organic matter today is that of crop

SOIL PROGRAM IS OUTLINED , I Soil Conservation Committeemen Hold Meeting Thursday An educational meeting for the 1 soli conservation committeemen was held Thursday at the Moose hall, in this city, and the complete rules and regulations placed ill the hands ot each member. They ' will be in position to answer ques- | lions by interested farmers and i their future study of the plan leads them to believe that the working out of the plan is fair, and in its working will tend to bring parity price and parity of income to producers. In the discussion Thursday, ' ' Charles Gregory, district fieldman, I stated, “we have always had an , ever normal granary, but that the | carry-over had been carried pretty largely in the hands of corpor- ■ ations with facilities for storage; t that under the new farm plan the ■ carry-over would largely remain “’ on the farms and increases in i value would come to the participatt ing farmer, the man who had > sweat over the production of grain, ' instead of others. The farmer, ‘ would be helped in carrying this i 1 garin by being able to obtain loans > ! that would range from 52 to 75% ) of the parity price of the grain. >; 75% of present parity on corn ■ would be between six and seven cents a bushel higher than the r present market.” Mr. (Gregory further stated that I the plan was designed to protect the consumer by having an ade--5 quate supply of food and fiber on ! hands at fair prices. EXPECT LARGER BEET ACREAGES f 1938 Crop Expected To Total 2,500,000 Tons In Tri-State Area Saginaw, Mich., — According to a statement made today by J. Arth- | ur Brock editor of the Sugar Beet ' Journal, a recent survey reveals the fact that the beet sugar factor- ) given to a student living in the 1 county and the other will go to a ■ person who resides in the county 3 seat. The scholarships are available - only to those students who gradI uate in the upper fourth of their - clastt. Superior scholastic record, - character, and personality will be t considered by the superintendent I ai.d county seat high school prins cipal in making the selections. j

J9I •> 4residues. This refers to the roots, stubbles, straw, stalks and sods from crops growing on the land, especially clover and grasses.- Rather than removing them as many amateurs do, a better plan is to spade or plow them under, thus returning to the soil a goodly portion of that which has been removed by the plant. Another material used is stable manure. For best results, this is allowed to thoroughly decay before mixing with the soil or is applied in the fail o' the year prior to spading, in this latter way, giving the material ample opportunity to break down before planting time next spring. Now-a-days, stable manure is more scarce than previously. Thus the gardener has turned to substitutes which ar« satisfactory. These include lawn clippings, leaves and the like, which have been saved from season to sea son. Quite frequently used are tlw many native and imported peats Native peats should be analysed so. the presence of toxic substances be (ore mixing with soil. Green manures is the name givej to a third important source d humus. Briefly, these are crop I which are grown almost to maturit; ’ and then ployed or turned undei . As they decay, they increase th; ! organic matter content of the soil I Legumes are preferred, generally because they add nitrogen as well w organic material. Several of th» more commonly used cover crops iq elude the clovers, soybeans, rye vetch and others, varying with yow particular climatic and soil condi tions. » Title Copyrighted. 1935. i The Living Soil Institute.

FACTORY WORKERS EMPLOYED BECAUSE OF RURAL TRADE employment ■ a , MILLIONS • ’’L lA FACTORY |4 14 X WORKERS rTul 14 • X j 1 j • '■* 1.0 • ' , 0 4 " I '* 4 ■ U ii *■* r jJt El * ' y • 4 ol I I I I ■ 'll -O l»2» l»J0 1931 1932 1533 1»34 1933 193 S 1937 In 1929 about 1 1 /fc million factory workers had jobs as a direct result of manufactured products bought by farmers. Farm cash income in that year was about billion dollars. In 1932 when farm Income was less than half the figure for 1929 this part of factory employment dropped to 850 thousand, because of reduced rural trade. From 1932 to 1937 farmers bought more manufactured products and factory employment increased. It is estimated that in 1933 two out of every five factory workers added to payrolls owed their jobs to improved farm conditions. The term factory workers does not include professional people, merchants, and those In the transportation industries.

ies in Michigan. Ohio and Indiana will be prepared to handle 2,500,000 tons of sugar beets next fall. “It is estimated,” said Brock, “that more than twenty million dollars will be paid to the sugar beet growers in Michigan. Ohio and Indiana for their 1938 sugar beet crop if they will take full advantage of the opportunity afforded them this year to engage in the production of this non surplus farm crop. During the past six years sugar beets have proven to be the most profitable major farm

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crop grown in the three states and ■ all authorities are in agreement that a good price will be paid for beets his year. “The fact that the government will pay approximately SI.BO per i ton of sugar beets, to qualified growers, over and above the payment to be made by the beet sugar ' companies, this year, makes sugar beets especially attractive to farmers, particularly, at a time when it is generally conceded that low prices on other crops will prevail during the next twelve months.