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TEST PLOTS ARE BEING LAID OUT Demonstrations Are Planned To Show Latest Developments Oat demonstrations are now being laid out on the Ed Neuhauser and Otto Bwel farms in Adams county to give farmers the opportunity of seeing the latest developments of plant breeding. Five different varieties have been sent to the cooperating farmers by County Agent Archbold for planting in variety demonstrations. These varieties have all been tested by the agronomy department on the soils and crops farm at Lafayette, as well as on the outlying experiment fields where they have shown out-

\rF by w! W PETER HENDERSONjr/ Keeping the Lawn Green THINK of your lawn as a bed of grass plants . , . Feed it and water it just as you do the other parts of the garden. • » • » DON’T let bare patches develop in your lawn. Rake up the soil, scatter some grass seed, sift some fine soil over it, and firm down. Patches, besides being unsightly, offer excellent accommodation to weeds. •• • • DON’T shave your lawn. Never cut the grass shorter than one inch. Your lawn will keep greener because there will be less evaporation from the soil, and the grass roots are protected from the sun. »- » • THE AVERAGE lawn grass mixture will make a good lawn if you sow one pound of seed to every two hundred square feet of ground. Never cover the grass seed too deeply. Barely cover the seed with fine soil, but make a firm seed bed by tramping over the soil, or by using a roller. Be careful if your soil is heavy clay, or you may make a hard surface crust. • • • • WATER your lawn thoroughly during hot weather. Don’t sprinkle the surface—soak the soil to a depth of two inches. Mere surface watering draws the grass roots to the surface of the . soil. Deep soaking encourages the grass roots to grow down into the soiL • • • • LAWNS should be given regular feeding of a complete lawn enricher. New lawns need ten pounds of lawn enricber to every two hundred square feet of soiL . Rake it into the top two inches i of soil before sowing the seed. Old lawns should have monthly , dressings of fertilizer through- : out the growing season. Scatter five pounds over every two hundred square feet of lawn, and water in thoroughly. •

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The Living Soil . . . ITS MODERN CARE

By Charles H. Salt, Director, The Living Soli Institute What do you do when you find you lack sufficient room at the dinner table and you are not getting your share of he food? Depending upon the circumstances, you may do “something” about it or simply endure it. However, were this to continue for any length of time, you would soon lose weight and become ill in health. The difference between the situation above and that confronting plants which are improperly spaced in the garden is that you and 1 can take corrective measures while the plant is a victim of Its circumstances. Thus it falls upon the shoulders of the gardener to see that each plant gets its just dessert in his garden There are a great many rea •ons why plants should be even ly spaced in the vegetable garden or in the flower border, if plants had a vote in the decisions of our national government, we wouid undoubtedly have a Plant Act defending the “masses” which specified the quota of air, light, food and moisture each plant was entitled to consume. Since plants do not enjoy such privileges, they “hope” for the next l best thing, an even break from the gardener. Spacing plants evenly with the aid of a row marker or seeder will more than repay the gardener in the way of

standing merit. Experiment stations in Ohio. Minnesota. Missouri, Canada, and Australia have contributed to the development of the varieties being used this year. These new varieties will be ] planted dn the Neuhauser and Ewel farms where they can be compared with the demonstrator's own variety as well as other local varieties. At field meetings to be held prior to harvest at each of the 1 demonstrations, the different varieties will be observed and compared on the basis of earliuess. stiffness of straw and indications of yielding ability. Some of these newer varieties are outyielding some of those commonly grown by 15 to 25 per cent, and in addition have greater stiffness of straw that greatly reduces losses in harvest dut to lodging. Type of Oats The oats being used in these demonstrations are; Gopher. Columbia. Cartier, Minota, Wayne, and Victory. The first four named are new varieties that are already in commercial production and are ; being made available through seed certification. | According to Purdue experiments, supported by previous dem- | onstrations. some very definite i comparisons can be made between j the new and old varieties. For example, it has been found that , ’ Gopheg, a variety developed by the I Minnesota station, is earlier than Big Four, widely grown in Indiana, I

more delectable vegetables and more gorgeous flowers. Insects and diseases have been aptly described as the bug-a boos of gardening. Crowded plants are not only more frequently attacked by these pests but are also less easily sprayed and dusted, spray ! and dust guns catching in the tangled mass. When there is ample open space around a plant, air circulates, drying excessive moisture. As a result, infestation by insects and disease is curbed. Plants benefit by little atten- j tions such as pinching, tying up fallen branches, removing seed pods and other cares. The gardener who has attempted to carry out these practices in a poorly arranged garden and likewise in one where the plants have been seeded or planted evenly knows how much more pleasant tasks these are under the latter conditions. Weeds are also reached more easily with your pull-hoe weeder when the correct space Is i allowed between plants. Thinning-out constitutes an annual plant-loss of considerable ■ proportion. When your seed bed is properly prepared, good quality seed sown and evenly spaced, a minimum of thinning is neces- . I sary. Title Copyrighted, 1938, The Living Soil Institute

' and higher in yield by three bush- 1 els. in addition to being higher in : . test weight. The Gopher has a rather short, stiff straw and should be grown on good soils, where 1 lodging is a problem. Cartier, a new oat from Canada, has yielded even better than the Gopher, grows taiier but weaker straw and ranks the highest of all varieties tested in weight per, bushel. It is a promising variety on fair to medium soils. Wayne, a new Ohio oat, is earlier than Big Four, much stiffer stalked and higher yielding. Columbia, a grey oat from the Missouri station has given splendid results in southern Indiana • where it out-weighs and out-yields practically all other varieties. Farmers should be especially, careful in buying new varieties of I unknown performance in this state, I warned the specialists. Many have I already learned to their sorrow I that high prices for oats with alluring names do not make such ; varieties perforin in Indiana. And ; this goes for most oat varieties of foreign origin. Those farmers interested in obtaining better oats will profit by visiting their nearest variety demonstration at the time field meetngs are being held this summer just prior to harvest. 0 — Trade In A t.ood Town — Decnt nr

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT SATURDAY, APRIL 9, 1938.

OLDER YOUTH CLUB TO MEET Meeting Is Scheduled To Be Held Tuesday, April 19 Here The April meeting of the Teens and Twenties Club will be held on ' Tuesday. April 19. instead of the i second Tuesday in the month. The ! meeting will be held at the DecaI tur High School auditorium at 7:30 P. M. Elmer Nussbaum will be in charge of the discussion. 1 which will be in the form of a deI bate. This promises to be an ex- { ceptionally interesting program and everyone betw’een the ages of ! 16 and 30 is invited to attend the meeting. A district Older Youth meeting will be held in Converse. Indiana. ; (near Peru) at the School gym. I Monday evening. April 18, at 7:30. i F. L. Mcßeynolds of Purdue will i talk to the club and games and a I playlet have been arranged. Boyd 1 Stepler. president of the Adams I County organization, is anxious for i as many of the members to attend . as possible. Anyone wishing to at- ! tend this meeting should get in ■ touch with Mr. Stepler or the Conn ty Agent’s Office in order to arj range for group transportation. LAWN PRACTICES ARE DESCRIBED Good Soil, Good Seeds Are Requirements For Successful Lawns Whether you live in a mansion or in a cottage, why not try to I enhance the beauty of its sut roundings with a beautiful lawn? To be 1 beautiful, a lawn must be free from weeds, and the job of keeping out plantain, dandelion, crabgrass is the most difficult of all. However, the selection of proper grasses and keeping the earea well fertilized, so as to keep a good stand of grass will do much to eliminate both the backache of lawn care and the weeds from the greensward. The first move of lawn improvement is to make certain that the soil is in shape to grow a decent crop of glass. Too often the fundamental cause of weed-ridden lawns lies in attempting to grow grass on clayey sub-soil and building trash that accumulated when I the house was biult. Heavy clay I soils and gravel are not suitable! ; lawn soils. Most grasses like an ! i open soil high in humus. Only by ' the addition of top soil, or comi posted manure can such a condi- ■ tion be remedied. If the soil is in good condition 1 the next step is to- check up on I the stand of grass. If the stand is j thin or bare spots are present, re-j seeding will be in order. For the j open, sunny lawn, use a mixture of two parts Kentucky blue grass and one part red top. If white clover is desired in the lawn, a small a-1 mount may be added to the mix- [ ture. For shaded areas, add Poa

trivialis (rough stalked meadow grass) to the mixture of blue grass and redtop. Equal parts of ■ the three grasses make a desirable ■ combination. The seed should be scattered at the rate of two or three pounds per 1,000 square feet of lawn for reseeding while five to 1 six pounds per 1,000 square feet is required for new seedlings. After having abtalned a stand, the best w’ay to encourage grass growth Is by the use of fertilizer. Grass is a crop and needs the essential plant food elements, namely, nitrogen, phosphorous and potash. If you are interested in reducing the type of turf that will resist weeds, go to a reliable fertilizer dealer and purchase equal parts of ammonium sulphate and a 2-12-6. Then mix the two together and apply at the rate of ten to twelve pounds per 1,000 square | feet of lawn surface. The application should be made in early spring or about the time the grass begins to grow. The fertilizer should be applied when the grass is dry so it will not adhere to the grass and J cause burning.

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Are you protecting your baby j chicks from rickets? All you have to do is to allow the chicks out of doors in the direct sun-light when they are ten days to two weeks of age or to provide them with codliver oil. How a housewife can be different: Make a custard that isn’t watery by baking it in a slow (300 degree Fahrenheit) oven and removing it as soon as it sets. You see. when the custard temperature gets high, say Purdue University home economists, the liquid separates from the solids. Don't give he custard time to reach the "separation temperature.” Plan to have those lambs weighing 70 pounds or 'more and sold by I the early part of July before hot weaher, flies, and stomach worms start reducing their growth. Never let the brand name fool you; buy your fertilizer on an analysis basis always. Plan a long-time laud use program for your farm. Much time and money can be spent in culti-1 I vating land not adapted to culti- ; vation. Purdue tests have shown five to ’ seven bushels yield increases per acre where the wheat had receiv- ■ a top dressing the first part of! I April of 15 to 20 pounds of nitro- ! gen. I Often times spinach and kale will | furnish good "greens” before the i spring crop is ready for table use. Further information on any of the foregoing topics may be obtained by writing o the Department of ; Agricultural Extension. Purdue ' University. Lafayette, Ind. ” o— —■■ Trade in a Good Town — Decatur

THISTLESCAN BE CONTROLLED Cultivation Os Thistle Patches Spreads Weeds Over Fields i When preparing the seed bed for | spring planting, it should he kept in mind that cultivating through' patches of Canada thistle will hasten their spread. Canada thistle is j a perennial plant with an under-) ground root stalk. When the cul- j tivators or harrow drags pieces oT j root Ds from the infested area to I other parts of the field, new patch- j es of thistle will be started where ever the root may be lodged. It is . advisable to plow and cultivate a- ■ round the patches. Placing stacks j or posts around the patch is often ' a good practice as this will help jto avoid running the machinery t ! through the area by mistake. The method of eradication that | I is most practical should be applied I i to eradicate the infestation and do ‘ away with the source of Tnfesta- ; tion. Spraying with sodium chlorI ate can be recommended for small | patches. Spraying is possibly the ; quickest and most effective method of eradicating Canada thistle. 1 The high cost of the chemical makes doubtful the practicability ■ of its use on areas of one-half or I , more acres ‘n size. Canada thistle can be eradicated j I by cultivation. When the cultivation method of control is used it must be kept in mind that the se-. cret of control involves keeping' down leaf growth until the roots j are starved out. The infested area should be plowed in April or May. . Following plowing, cultivations should be started and continued throughout the summer and fall. It is often necessary to cultivate ; once a week to prevent top growth. The Third method of control of Canada thistle involves the use of alfalfa as a smother crop. A good stand of alfalfa will smother out Canada thistle. o Union Township 1-H Club To Be Formed The organization meeting of the Vision Township 4-H Club will be held Monday evening, April IL at the Luckey School. The meeting

Uncle Jim Says j *SSrt*r&t’” Cfe “The ever-normal granary should help reduce big swings in market supply. I know farmers, business men, and consumers are better off in years of stable, adequate marketings than they are in alternating high and low years. Hred <k fahl Let us tell you about the eFtna 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 358 Residence 194 I

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Do You We Make Need A Federal Farm Loans Loan? At 4% We'll be Pleased to talk this over with you at any time. ADAMS COUNTY NATIONAL FARM LOAN ASSOCIATION Office 133 S. Second St. ■ Decatur, Ind. Phone 2 ■ Fred T. Schurger, Sec.-Treas. 1 ,

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