Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 36, Number 120, Decatur, Adams County, 20 May 1938 — Page 5

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■BBT OF >f« GIVEN fc*!sTs ui (lover Crops Explained By |K’ui(lue Men . . i ■ ■’:i . - I. ll.' ‘ '4 : . i ■ K., K i '"i . ' lh" r . little ■ KI '" H , I ■ '' - ■ I . ’■ A K<E K seed crop. Crop Clover j^K:., . _ may bo s . . I |H HK n i lu K . .: which ■ku in <> pul.'d rolled .. < Bph will elbow up so . i 881 Alsike Clover t<> HBC We Make A Federal ■Mb® Loans if A ‘ fl 4% be Pleased to talk «iih jou at any rtf'' COUNTY B™ 7 ONAL FARM LOAN association 133 S. Second St. .■WE' Ind. Phone 2 Schurger, Sec.-Treas. f &J6P? |H[ MP tell you about the .SP a l nsuf ance «KP an y’s new Farm if 8 Pl ar L Cow rates, a ■F r repayment plan, ■JBerve Fund Safety fiK? e > a liberal pre-pay-f®P r * v ilt‘ge, no com- |® n > appraisal, or title fff at ‘ oQ costs to the fWwer. i t ’ s wort |j KKgating. Representative I B»» this territory SBtes-Edwards Co. ■ton, 358 D ' Suttles - Mgr. ■ Residence 194

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(By John Schwab) I Purdue University Swine Specialis I (Purdue Univ. Swine Specialist) Success in saving pigs in the farrowing season depends largely upI on the health and condition of the ■ sow and comfortable quarters. The I loss of vigorous pigs is an economj ic loss to the hog raiser, as a pig at birth represents an expenditure I of approximately 70 pounds of feed. The common farrowing pens in Indiana are individual hog houses. They are reasonably warm in cold weather when new and tight, old houses can be made comfortable .by banking and covering them with straw or corn fodder. Sows in good medium condition will care to eat very little or no I grain the first day after farrowing. ■ Plenty of drinking water is esseni tial. and it should be warmed on I cold days to prevent chilling the I sows. As soon as sows want to eat grain after farrowing, feed equal parts, by measure, of ground oats

moth in that it is also a single crop clover and for the best yields of seed should be allowed to make full growth without first pasturing or cutting for hay. Alsike may | lodge badly and is sometimes difliI cult to harvest because of short top growth. Making common red clover for i hay anytime after the full bloom ■ stage reduces the percentage of j proteik and the total amount of | proteini per acre and at the same Htne nwterially reduces the stibseI quent seed production. Red clover I should be cut not later than full I bloom stage to produce the most feed per acre and also best seed I yield in the second growth. o New Book On “House Plants” Is On Hand “House Plants", a 24-page extension (bulletin No. 206, has recently been revised by K. R. Honeywell, Purdue University floriculturist, and may be obtained without charge from the county agricultural agent’s office. The revised edition will interest Hoosiers in that it contains information on the essentials of plant growth, the care of flowers, insect land disease control, and characteristics on varieties of house iplants.

The Living Soil ITS MODERN CARE

By Charleg H. Salt, Director, The Living Soil Institute Because we include in our discussions here the modern care of the soil, we are frequently contacted by people who feel that they have what might be termed a soli practice contemporary with our progressive times. One of the recent ideas presented that seemed to be quite sensible was the adaptation of the fundamental method of operation of large farm soil machines to hand operated tools. As the tractor or horse pulls tho plow, harrow and cultivator through the soil, so it was this particular individuals contention

that garden equipment should be pulled through the soil in a similar manner. In spite of the fact that farmers have been using for a good many years this method of soil care in their extensive plantings, it is interesting that apparently enly a

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iand bran. When good oats are not i available, bran alone for three or four days is excellent. Slop teed■|ing is not recommended. •i When the pigs are three to four ■ I days old, gradually start feeding ■ ■ the sows a mixture of feeds that • will increase milk production. One ; 1 bushel of shelled corn. 1 bushel of ■ good oats or 2 pounds of ground . ! wheat and S to 10 pounds' of good ■ I meat scraps or tankage will make .I a satisfactory ration. When the I 1 young pigs are three to four weeks old, feed sows all they will clean I up twice daily. When pasture is ' not available feed bright alfalfa i hay in a low rack. Also, it is very I important to allow suckling sows 1 .' free access to salt and minerals. j A satisfactory mineral mixture is i made of 10 pounds of pulverized ' limestone. 10 pounds of steamed i bone meal and 1 pound of salt, i Minerals and salt should be fed in ' a self feeder and not mixed in the grain feed.

Professor Honeywell discusses the use of flower boxes and also suggests plants for sunny and shady locations. o Uncle Jitti Says "Teets show that on some land in I continuous corn almost six inches i of soil is lost in 40 years. One way to stop costly losses and to build up soil fertility is to use good sound rotations, containing plenty of legumes and grasses endorsed by farmers in the Agricultural Conservation Program.

very few home owners have ever i put this idea into practice. Probably the most commonly foli lowed procedure in working the [ sot! in the home garden is the chopi ping principle. As the word implies, the particular tool operated . in this manner is chopped into the soil. Anyone of the present generation who, in his younger days, . spent any time on the farm ia undoubtedly acquainted with this practice. It can not be denied that I much time and lab r is involved in I this operation. Progress down the weedy garden row 1? indeed very slow when the gardener must advance on the enemy an inch at a

time. j And that is one big advantage of the pulling method, we gathered. When the pulling principle is followed, much more ground is covered with each stroke of the tool. Thus, it is claimed, a great deal of time and labor is saved.

PREMIUM LISTS ARE ANNOUNCED State Fair Board Gives 4-H Premium Lists Available In 1938 Every person in the state of Indiana who is planning to show this year in Agriculture or the 4-H Club Department should either see his County Agent or write to the Manager, Harry O. Templeton, Room 332, State House, Indianapolis, and secure one of these Imoklets as soon as possible. These booklets I give the rules, regulations and also premiums that are offered. The Indiana Board of Agrlcul-| ture takes great pride in the 4-11,1 Club work at the State Fair and has the record of doing as much for the 4-H Club Boys and Girls in this state as any other state fair. It is not only a pleasure trip for the boys and girls to attend | the Fair but an educational one as well. The Fair this year is to be held from September 3rd to 9th. Following is a list of the amounts offered in the various Agri- ’ cultural Departments: Agriculture .. $4,246.25 Horticulture 1,700.75 Floriculture 2,164.00 Apairy 590.50 Total $8,701.50 Summary of Premiums in Club Work 1938 Shorthorn Calf Club $178.00 Hereford Calf Club 398.00 Angus Calf Club 398.00 Beef calves from dams owned by exhibitors 121.00 “Get of Sire” steer class .... 224.00 Championship (Beef) 15.00 Jersey Calf Club 319.00 Holstein Calf Club 319.00 Guernsey Calf Club 319.00 Ayrshire Calf Club 319.00 l Brown Swiss Calf Club . 319.00 I Uimb Clubs 328.00 i’oltand China Pig Club 222.00 I Cluster White Pig Club . 192.00 ' Duroc Pig Club 207.00 I Berkshire Pig Club 192.00 I Hampshire Pig Club 192.00 | Spotted Poland China 207.00 \rr by w W PETER HENDERSON W The Rose Garden MAKE the rose garden the most cared for part of your garden. I Roses liberally repay those wbo give them reasonable care. • « • • HERE ARE some of the most dependable everblooming varieties, arranged in colors— Dark Red—Ami Qulnard, Gruss Au Teplitz Bright Red—E. G. Hill, Etolle I de France Pink—Lady Alice Stanley, Radiance Yellow—Souvenir de Claudius 1 Pernet, Ville de Paris Orange—Talisman, Duchess of Wellington White—Double White Klilarney A MEDIUM SOIL, not too light, and not too heavy, is the best soil for roses. If your soil is heavy clay, add peat moss or coarse sand. If your soil is too j j light, the addition of humus will make it satisfactory for roses. • « • • PLANT ROSE'BUSHES from j April until June. Dig a hole suf- j ficiently large to hold the roots without crowding. Set the bushes so that the bud or graft, where the stem joins the roots, is slightly below the surface. Water thoroughly ts the ground is dry. Space the bushes one and one-half to two feet apart • • • • BONE MEAL is an excellent fertilizer for roges. Use ten pounds to every one hundred feet of bed. Mixing it thoroughly with the soil. • • * • PRUNE ROSE BUSHES in the spring before growth has started. Cut out all dead wood and weak wood, and cut back the strong canes of last season's growth to half their length. • • • • FREQUENT hoeing between the bushes will keep down the I weeds, and supply a mulch of fine soil that will help to conserve the moisture in the bed. « *" • • THE NEW CLIMBING ROSES will bloom from June to October. Blaze is a good red. New Dawn , is an excellent pink.

Yorkshire Pig Club 192.001 Champion and Reserve Champion Pig . 50.00 I H Litter 580.00 C,/ Club Filly Club iso.oo Lynnwood Scho larshlps 300.00 Poultry Clubs 231.00 Corn Club 150.00 Potato Clubs 2l!*.oo Apple Clubs 1 Kt on Garden Club 160.00 Baking Club 172.50 Canning Club 270.'*0 Clothing (Tub . 232.50 ; Room Improvement Club 126.00 i Home Economies 4-H Club Trip Awards 385.00 |‘ Livestock Judging Contest — Trophy 200.001 Two Scholarships to Purdue 175.00 I Team to Internal ionol .... 150.00 Team to Dairy Show irm.on Individual Trips 270 t'O I Vegetable Judging Contest 375.00 Boys' Camp Scholarships. 220.00 Total $9,865.00j o TESTS ARE MADE ON FERTILIZERS Nitrogen F o u n d Not Needed In Corn Fertilization Test Plots Improved fertilizer distribution , on corn planters have made corn ferlilizeation a profitable practice. These distributors place the fertilizer from one to two inches on either one or both sides of the corn and at the same level or slightly below the seed. For the past six years at the Purdue Soils and Crops Farm 63 pounds of 0-14-6 fertilizer applied near the hill has produced an average increase of 13 bushels of corn per acre. The same increase was also produced by drilling between 125 and 250 pounds of the same fertilizer continuously in the row. Last year an average increase of 8.9 bushels of corn per acre was I produced on 48 fertilizer demon-1 st rat ion farms by using 90 pounds of 0-20-20 per acre. This average increase was sufficient to double the money invested in fertilizer. These results were obtained on Indiana farms and the fertilizers were applied with a fertilizer attachment on the corn planters. The results of last year’s demonstrations show that for most well drained silt loam soils 0-11-6 ami 0-12-12 are the most profitable fertilizers. For sandy loams or dark poorly drained silt loams of central or northern Indiana cither 0-12-12 or 0-10-20 was best. In southern Indiana either 0-20-0 or 0-14-6 was most often profitable. Past, results have shown that fertilizers containing two to three per cent nitrogen in addition to phosphate or potash has not been

FARMING IT BY WILLARD BOLTE .-mnn 1B x-.. \ * I*.l’.A? z *« “ ® ”,:1 IC_ -U>- °**i JeEMEB Blllljr 1 »’ JI The bunch of Missouri Durocs on top of the mash in the hoppers, shown at the top gained 1.6 lbs. once a day, they can get their hens per day on wheat and tankage. They to eat more mash. And more mash 1 made 100 lbs. of gain on 469 lbs. consumption means more eggs, of feed—compared with 1,020 lbs. Some of them achieve the same reof feed required by another lot of suit by merely stirring up the mash similar hogs that got nothing but in the hopper. corn. The Nebraska turkey breeding The bird feeding platform illus- house shown in the bottom sketch trated at the right center turns with is 28 xl6 feet and will accommodate the wind—thus preventing snow and 56 breeders. Note ventilator open rain from reaching the food. It’s in the rear wall. Front openings easy to construct. can be closed with cloth screens in Alert poultrymen have discovered bad weather. Roosts are set over a that by sprinkling a little fresh mash dropping pit.

POOR LAMB CARE COSTS SIOO,OOO Heavy Loss To Indiana Herdsmen From Poor Docking, ( astrating "Lamliis docked and casterated when less than one month of age will never lose a single day’s growth unless the operations have been unsatisfactory,” writes Claude Harper, | Purdue Univereity extension sheep | specialist, in extension bulletin No. I 200, “Dock All and Casterate All Male Lambs Intended for Market”, which was reiprinted recently. “It is safe to estimate that the annual loss of Indiana sheep breeders is more than SIOO,OOO per year due to lack of docking and casterating their lambs,” says Harper in jthe eight ipagewell illustrated publication which may he obtained free lof charge from any Indiana county i agricultural agent's office. Harper lists the following advanItages of docking and casterating jlambs: whether carcasses grade I higher and sell higher than ram lamb carcasses; feeders will not | buy long-ailed buck lambs; whether 1 tnubs fatten ibetter than ram lambs, (dock lambs do not collect so many dung locks: long tails interfere ; with many ewes breeding; lambs are more easily casterated than pigs; and careful operators have few losses. as profitable as a similar fertilizer without nitrogen. Nearly all of the corn planter manufacturers have developed fertilizer attachments for corn planters pureltased before the improvements were made. No farmer need miss the opportunity of obtaining larger corn yields and better quality because of unsuitable equipment. Jimmy Mann's Star Dust Band. Sunset Sunday Dance. BUCHER Tin Shop ALL KINDS OF roofinc;, TINNING and SPOUTING Get Our Prices on FURNACES and STOKERS. Tin Work of All Kinds. 134 E. Monroe St.

Many Are Registered In 5-Acre Corn Club A total of 28 farmers have enrolled In the Adams county 5 aero corn cltigb this year, according to records In the office of Adams County Agriculture Agent L E. Atvhlxdd. It Is expected that approximately twice as many will register before tho closing date of the enrollment. June 15. o Fortner Wealthy Oil Man Is Sentenced South Bend, Ind., May 20 (ITT*) j Harley M. Highsmith, 50, one I time well-to-do oil company executive, today faced a jury’s reconi--1 inendation of ten years on each of FOR SAL E 1934 PLYMOUTH COACH. One Owner. 1 Runs like new. P. L. Macklin & Co. Madison St.

FOR SAL E 1934 PLYMOUTH COACH. One Owner. Runs like new. P. L. Macklin & Co. Madison St.

Public Sale On account of ill health, we are compelled to sell at Public Auction the following property at my residence, 4>o miles West of Monroe anil 7> j miles East of Bluffton on road 124— 80 rods South off road. THURSDAY, May 26, 1 P. M. 3 Head of Milk Cows. 2 Guernsey Cows with second calves by side; Hereford and Guernsey cow, fresh, a good one, 5 years old. One Hereford Bull, 2 years old in July. HOGS 2 open brood sows; 13 weaned pigs weighing 50 pounds. ALSO—2 rolls of fence, 40 and 60 rods; one good oak end post; some iron posts; one log chain. 10 ft. long; one trip rope; some grain sacks; large mail box; two ladders; one harrow; two water tanks; scoop shovel; 4 pitch forks. HOUSEHOLD GOODS One side board; one glass door cupltoard; one extension table. 10 foot long; om- settee and three chairs; one dresser; some dishes; one DeLaval cream separator; one rug, 9x12, good as new; one sausage grinder. CHICKENS —2 dozen Barred Rocks; 1 dozen White Leghorns. Other articles too numerous to mention. TERMS—CASH. El) ROMEY, Owner J. N. Bulkhead. Auct. fSTvYy ' t > rep.lT. I recover and a’Xf rebuild your S' 1 present r / I \ \ “T Furniture We also have a large and complete showing of New LIVING ROOM FURNITURE. We also do all kinds of furniture refinishing. Free estimates. Upholstered Furniture REPAIR SHOP 606 High St.—Berne—Phone 419 (fiififfiffiffiSlSlfilfiSlfilfilfilfiS'fiSStfWWSlfiHfi | Beautify | | Your Home | s with s | Mayflower Wall Paper | S We know you will like our wide yj £ selection of colorful patterns for le every room in your house. jfi I Prices As Ca Per | | Low As Uv Roll | I Kohne Drug Store I u* Decatur, Indiana nJ

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two counts of ariiim! robbery. Highsmith obtained only sls in the holdup Formerly, he wa« at various times stationed In Clinton, Terre Haute, 14i Porto, Elkhart and Sturgis, Mich, Moose Lodge Plans To Form Drill Team All members ot the Decatur lodge of the Loyal Order of Moose, willing to take part I na drill team, are asked to be at the Moose home Friday evening, May 27, at 7:30 o’clock. WANTED Rags, Magazines. Newspapers, Scrap Iron, Old Auto Radiators, Batteries, Copper, Brass. Aluminum, and all grades of scrap metals. We huy hides, wool, sheep pelts, the year round. The Maier Hide & Fur Co. 710 W. Monroe st. Phone 442