Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 36, Number 78, Decatur, Adams County, 1 April 1938 — Page 5

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BfMERS IffllOAIS L .M an > ,;,n:u ‘ rs lless Regarding Liut Treatment I, from the tales told by ■ .bout the W"«l 1,1 Rome K m! s last spring, it would K»t a number of oat pro- ■ a-, getting careless about l ltl „; r <.rtl Ordinarily, the ■the smut control treatment Lry three years will keel* K practically free from this r However, when there is Et imut in the oals that *’ Ea cloud of black dust aE threshing machine, this ■ has neglected to treat his E, » lot more than three lof these careless men figL they are not doing any Ecept to themselves. They E if they want to lose 20 Er more of their crop from lis their own business. PerLy do not think about the Efestation of spores left in Leshing machine to spread | Ew td the oats threshed fcis is probably the most l L way that oat smut is J from farm to farm. The I lodge on the seed and atk seedling as it grows from these spores with forntalder ethyl mercury phosphate few Improved Ceresan». Exits! work has shown that Hyde causes some injury (whereas the mercury dust c harm but both of these B’s hill the smut. The merijr is used at the rate of one Bee per bushel of seed and Highly miied with the seed dust treated oats may be I immediately or it may be Kered gr in the sack as long Wessary before planting. ) dust may be applied by lug or in a closed revolving her or in the new MinnesoI grain treater. Care must be lot to inhale any of the dust treating. Do the work in a ffntilated place and cover | no and mouth with a damp lor a heavy cloth pad. It is st to feed any of the treated

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seed to livestock. The formaldehyde treatment is well known to most farmers. It constats in mixing one pint of this disinfectant with 40 to 50 bushels of seed oats. This pint may be mixed with five gallons of water and sprinkled on the oats when they are being shoveled over or it may be used full strength and applied with a hand sprayer. Moat farm--1 ers prefer the sprinkling method. o

HORSE SWSE If spring weather makes you feel like planting something, don! set an apple orchard. Purdue University dairy herd studies show that the average Indktna herd could be redrew! in numbers 40 per cent and by proper feeding and managemnt, it would produce the same amount of milk, with a savings of feed and labor, while at the same time a substantial increase in income over feed cost would be obtained. According to a ruling issued by the State Seed Commissioner at Purdue in 1937. under the authority provided him by the Indiana Seed Law, all field corn, sweet corn, and pop corn may be labeled or represented to be hybrid seed comonly when such seed represents the first generation of a cross between strains of different parentage and involving inbred lines and | or their combinations. 'The terms ’‘second year hybrid” and “first generation removed from hybrid" are not permitted to appear on the Indiana seed taga by the State Seed Commissioner. Horses that forage in stalk fields and dry grass pasture thrive better if they get a small feeding of good legume hay each night. Join the Hoosier Ton Litter Club and produce as many ton litters as you can for the August and September market. Feed is low in price; get your spring pigs to market ahead of the fall rush in 1938. Join through your county agricultural agent, t Further information on any of the foregoing topics may be obtained by writing to the Department of Agricultural Extension, Purdue University, Lafayette, Ind. o T-mlv In A Gm 4 Town — Decatur

WANTED Rags, Magazines, Newspapers, Scrap Iron, Old Auto Radiators, Batteries, Copper, Brass, Aluminum, and all grades of scrap metals. We buy hides, wool, sheep pelts, the year round. The Maier Hide & Fur Co. 710 W. Monroe st Phone 442 Ifeed & fMm (mu'? Let us tell you about the 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 its this territory Suttles-Edwards Co. A. D. Suttles, Mgr, . Phone 358 Residence 194

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT FRIDAY, APRIL 1, 1938.

MORE HOGS TO BE MARKETED Farmers Will Market More Hogs Than In Preceding Year Farmers will market more hogs during the remainder of the hogmarketing year that ends September 30 than went to market during these months last year according to the Hog Situation report released today by the Bureau of Agricultural Economics. The larger supply of market hogs is to a considerable extent offset by the smaller storage stocks of pork and lard on hand, it was pointed out. Consumer demand for hog products in the spring and summer of this year, however, will be less favorable than in the same period last year. For the full period from now until September 30. a larger proportion of the total marketings will occur in the late spring and early summer. A smaller proportion of the total will be marketed from midsummer to September 30. The Bureau report says, ‘‘The changes in hog prices this spring and summer will be more nearly normal than they were a year earlier. Some weakness in hog prices will develop during the late spring and early summer as marketing of fall pigs increase. After midsummer. prices may advance somewhat in the seasonal reduction in market supplies. This rise in prices. however, may be limited by the continued weak consumer demand for meats.” For the week ended March 12 the average prices of hogs at Chicago was $9.39, the highest weekly average at that market since late October. With lower prices in prospect, the average price of hogs for the summer season i May through September) probably will be considerably lower than the average of about $11.15 last summer. On the spring pig prospect and the prospect for supplies of market hogs for the 1938-39 season, the Bureau says that in view of the high corn-hog ratio in the past 6 months and the present low level

Annual Flowers ANNUAL FLOWERS such as Zinnias, Portulaca, Cosmos and Marigold, grow easily from seed sown tn the open ground in April and May. The seed may be broadcast where you want them to flower, but the seedlings should be gradually thinned out so they will have room to develop Into strong bushy plants. ANNUALS are the mainstay of the cut flower garden. Cutting the flowers encourages the plants to produce more and more flowers. • • • • WHITE GARDENS are now most fashionable. The following annuals are obtainable in white —Alyssum, Aster, Candytuft, Cosmos, Centaurea, larkspur. Poppy. Baby's Breath, Gladiolus, Petunia, Nlcotlana and Zinnia. FINE SEEDS such as Petunia and Portulaca should not be covered with soil. Just sprinkle them over the surface of the soil and flrm down with a piece of board. larger seeds should be covered with an amount of soil equal to four times their own displacement of soil. ZINNIAS are ideal for all gardens. The dwarf pompom are flne for the front of the beds, and the tall Dahlia-flowering types make imposing clumps in back of the beds. They are obtainable In a wide variety of colors. The flowers last well when cut. and all the varieties are remarkably free blooming. THE NEW MARIGOLDS have lost the displeasing family odor. Some of them resemble giant yellow Carnations. •• • • UNSIGHTLY FENCES and old tree stumps may be made beautiful by sowing the seeds of annual climbing plants around them. The most desirable climbers are Moontlower, Morning Glory. Canary Bird Vine. Nasturtium and Cardinal Climber.

The Living Soil $ ITS MODERN CARE By CHARLES H. SALT dium. A valuable suggested test to Director, The Living Soil Institute determine the workable condition of Th. i . . a Bod consists of bailing some soil Ihe gardener, after a long winter , j ~ of armchair gardening, is anxious to , lh ’ P ? ° f the ha k ‘u n start th. .oil th? first 7 , °£ P r * Bure - tl > e , ball J us ‘ .. . falls apart, your soil is in a good uX th.german grants workable conditjon “ver hl W n r ‘ n f■ r “ ”“ How can 1 a “ ai " “ ideal soever, he will refrain from cultivating , , , . .. bed" is a question frequently asked or otherwise working his soil until K j „ „ .-x- 6 , 7, , by the gardener. The first suggesconditions are more nearly ideal. _ . ~ . x , . , c„ ;l . 7 x , tlon would be to spade in the fall of boil worked when too wet lumps . k .. and becomes partially puddled which ' Pr ‘ nS ’ t is unfavorable to physical, chemical ‘ h .°. ugh , the P ractlcea nia y F 7 ~ followed now. In most instances, the vour AlTnl W . ether soil wi » if two to four inches L Jnd I ? a ‘ y#y ’ T°f hunius is ‘“med into the surface L,At L g y dete ™T . h k e layers of the soil. Well-leached coal ou d.tn m A/? U w a t W °A th” and sand W1 “ make a cla >ey out detnmental effects, o her things soU more poroiiß being equal. Sandy soils dry out furrowed> futrows following the much earlier in the season because con tours of the land, and high in ortho sand particles absorb and trans- ganic matter, the soil will absorb fer heat easily. They are also con- water through the winter. This, ducive to good drainage. The other combined with the alternate thawing extreme is illustrated by the clayey and freezing, will bring your soil — into good condition by spring. If IDEAL SEED BED. there is considerable slope to your land, a great deal of the valuable PUiVtRIZID 80 "* may erode ‘ Uuder such circum-TOP-SOIL stances, it would be advisable to carry a cover crop on the soil WATER ahft > •' U through the winter. CAN RISE ♦O, ri "ben this system is followed, it TO SEEDS W ** old y necessary to pull your cultiICTcIjKv griTlr .rerfi raMHIm va t or through the soil in the spring, r level with a rake, removing stones, •oil. The fineness of the particles wood and other debris> and an idea| and the general “nature of the geed b develope(t It is also well brute’ give them th. ability to t 0 incorporatei to direc . hold water tenaciously. Loamy sods tions , a complete fertiUzer . represent the happy “medium” and usually may be worked right after „ x. i . , Title Copyrighted, 1938. operations begia on the sandy me- The Livin< Soil Institute. lof hog production in many areas, ious counties in the eastern half ■it is expected that the 1938 spring of the state beginning late in I pig crop will be larger than that of March. Definite announcements , 1937. This will mean larger mark- will be made locally and farmers eting of hogs in the first half (Oct- will be invited to witness the load I ober through March) of the 1938- ing and shooting of a section of 39 marketing year, than in the ditch. same period this season. Mr. Harker says that the dynao mite used is a straight 50 per cent nitroglycerine dynamite, nil/CQ &HCTUAR which is more sensitive. The lIIVLU iVll’ilUU charges are placed nus farther than twenty inches apart in the rtF nnUnniLlD ditch bottom and only the first I R IlnrlmlNll <,|lar 8 l ’ tapped. The detonation ■ Iwlltlrwl.l V o{ tbe fj rst charge sets off succeedI ing charges. PurdllC Specialist (rives The explosion is a succession pl » , xxe individual explosions so rapid that Best W3JS Os ( leaning jt appears as one. There is scarceOpen Ditch ily any limit to the length of ditch I that may be dynamited and cleanLafayett., lnd ; — It often hap- ed if the ditch bottom is moist and pens that the ditch banks are too if.it is standing in water, so much marshy or the yardage of excava- the better. IJowever, it is custonition too light to make the use of ary to shoot only as much as a 1 heavy dredging equipment practi- crew of workmen can load in a cable. In such cases the best way half day or a day s time. to clean the open ditch is by the For demonstration purposes a use of “propagating” dynamite, three-hundred-foot section of ditch said Dave Harver, Purdue Univer- will be used. Ditching by dynamite sity drainage specialist, in a re- requires about a pound of dynacent discussion of ditching. mite to the cubic yard of excavaArrangements are under way tion. If all conditions are favorable now, the specalist announced, for the “yield" is better. a series of ditching-by-dynamite The cost of ditching in this dashdemonstrations to be held in var- ion runs from twelve to turn’y-

FARMING IT . . . BY WILLARD BOLTE z z

A farm power contractor dug this trench silo—-40 feet long by 6 feet wide by 8 feet deep—in 314 hours—using a tractor and rotary scraper. His cost was $2.57 for fuel and labor—and the farmer was giad to pay him $lO tor a job that would have required 40 hours with

team, scoop and shovels. When his dairy barn burned, Herman Jaeckel of Manitowoc County, Wisconsin, saved SI,OOO by building a one-story fireproof stable for the cows —and a separate 40 x 70 foot metal silo-type “hay tower” which holds over 100 tons of chopped hay.

WABH AGAINST THEE SALESMAN Purdue Horticulturist Warns Against SoCalled Experts Every spring orchard owners are confronted with the fact that something should be done about the pruning and spraying of his orchard, says C. L. Burkholder, Purdue horticulturist. Before the work really gets under way along comes a man who offers to do the entii’e job at so much per tree or by the orchard. All sort of claims and promises are made which are usually without a single vestige of established orchard management truth, states the specialist. A potent white powder is injected into the body of the tree or the trunk and crotch of the tree may be sprayed with a bug killer that is so powerful that no further spraying need be done the rest of the year. There is no more truth in such claims than there is in the following fable recently sent to us. ‘‘A sure way to kill codling moth, and other injurious orchard insects is to kill a black cat during a total eclipse of the sun and in the dark of the moon. Rub the liver of the cat on the trunk of each tree.” Still another gag that has cost Indiana farmers thousands of dollars is the tree salesman who agrees to furnish trees and plant and care for the orchard for, a term of years for a part of the crop. This offer to care for the orchard is frequently made on bearing trees. In all cases a substantial Sown payment is required and all too often the vendor of this sort of quack service is never seen or heard from again, BUT th<> payment check is cashed within 30 minutes after it lea- -s the farmer's hands. The safest plan, according to Burkholder, is to consult the local county agricultural agent or vocational teacher before paying out a cent or allowing any work to be started. ' five cents per cubic yard, Mr. Harker states. In many cases the farmer needs a small ditch opened up quickly for an outlet tor his tile j ditch system. There is no quicker i method and in many cases the use of dynamite is just as cheap.

Uncle Jim Says y i ' Ji flttL ~~~—~~ "I guess most of our g..od city cousins never realize a 10-cent loaf of bread contains less than two cents worth of wheat and a dollar shirt is made from less than 20 cents of raw cotton.'' 'S y/z/7 a a week—that’s all it costs to own this Hoover Cleaner. Payable monthly. Let us send our Hoover expert ~ to your home to show f you new Hoover con- A veniences and range terms. ,J| n ” Iwwtl 'MO OH jrL J -xsbc-’! "Joo** Service-All Makes Decatur Hatchery ; Monroe St. Phone 497

Succulent Pasture For Ewes And Lambs £ ~ j r ' -i : ::>y ' t • J ; .... - —— — -t — "Tender, growing pasture, such as that illustrated in the accompanying photograph, is probably the most efficient of all feels for sheep and lambs.” says County Agent L. E. Archbold in commenting on the Adams county sheep industry. He also pointed out that a lamb's fast est and cheapest gains were made while the ewes were giving plenty of milk, and that one of the ways to make ewes milk liberally was to provide plenty of succulent pasture. Harvey Whitton, of Cambridge City, who won the Williams trophy in 1937. produced 43 lambs from 26 ewes. These lambs averaged 87 pounds each 143 days after the first one was born. Mr. Whitton reported that these lambs and their mothers were pasteurized on rotation pastures of rye and sweet clover, and that no grain was fed after the lambs went to pasture.

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