Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 36, Number 138, Decatur, Adams County, 11 June 1938 — Page 2

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MORE MOISTURE BENEFITS LAND Rainfall Is General Over Country During Spring Os 1938 Summer starts with abundant moisture in the soil over almost all of the United States. Dryness prevails only in a few areas along the southern border, in the extreme northeast, and locally in the far northwest, according to J. B. Kincer of the weather bureau. Areas dry during part of the spring ’—-in eastern Montana and western North Dakota, in the Ohio Valley and in the Atlantic states—were | relieved by rains the last half of I May. Spring this year was warn and wet, in marked contrast to last year, when rainfall was deficient nearly everywhere, especially in the Great Plains, which had only about half normal precipitation over a wide area, April, May, and June rainfall this year was generally from two to three times that of last year's spring months in the Great Plains, where drought had persisted for several years. May rainfall was above normal in most of the country, especially on the Atlantic seaboard, in the central ‘

The Living Soil . . . ITS MODERN CARE

By Charles H. Salt, Director. The Living Soil Institute The writer recalls having been awakened from his usual classroom slumbers back in college by the comment of his Botany professor regarding the almost unbelievable pressure that a seed is capable of exerting in germinating, or, in everyday terms, sprouting. Running up into big figures, it makes one realize that if seeds do not germinate and push through the soil, there must be something radically wrong. Germination of seeds generally depends upon the viability or life in the seed, favorable temperatures and the proper amounts of air and moisture. ‘ | I M/O---or FIRM SOIL about SEEDS Proper soil care will increase the percentage of germination appreciably, providing good seeds are sown. The important task of sowing his seed gives the enthusiastic gardener almost as much concern as would the impending appearance of a new arrival. The

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[valleys, and in the Great Plains. Spring was especilly wet in the upper Mississippi valley and in | the southern Great Plains. RainI fall whs far above normal in most I places west of the Rocky Mountains. One important exception to the general wet condition this spring was the severe drought in Florida, which damaged citrus fruit" and truck crops. Rains the latter part of May, however, broke this drought. Despite a few abnormally cold spells, with frost damage over wide areas, spring was generally warmer than normal. Temperatures for the tlTree months averaged above normal throughout practically the entire country. May was unusual for its uniform, moderate warmth. Average temperatures for this month recorded i at first-order weather bureau staI tlons were within one degree of normal. May temperatures ranged from about one degree above to one degree below normal in all but a few cases. "Rarely”, says Mr. Kincer, "dos any month showaverage temperatures so uniformi ly normal as did May. 1938.” o Appointment of Executrix No. :u\i Notice is hereby Riven, That the undersigned hns been appointed Executrix of the Estate of Adolph Bie- I berich late of Adams County, deceas- I cd. The Estate is probably solvent. Clara Bie berich, Executrix I'rnehte A l.ltterer, Atty*. May 6, 1938. June 4-11-18

first question that should enter his mind is the depth of sowing. This depends upon two things, the time of year and the size of the seed. In early spring when soil moisture is high, may be sown in the upper and drier layer of soil Late spring finds a much lower soil-water content. The gardener may then sow his seed at a greater depth. The size of seeds must likewise be considered. Fine seeds are best broadcast on the surface and pressed into the fine soil with your roller-rake. larger types require a furrow made with your hand-plow or rake. A useful rule-of-the-thumb is the one advising the gardener to sow seeds at a depth no greater than tw’o to four times their diameter. The seeds in the furrow, covering with soil follows. The best plan is to pull the soil lightly over the seed and compact it with a roller-rake. The amount of moisture in the soil and the size of the seed determines the amount of firming that is desirable. Excessive packing when the soil is very moist will prove unsatisfactory. Temperature control is out of the question for the gardener. His only means of regulating this factor is to sow only the seeds of hardier plants In early spring. Title Copyrighted, 1938, The Living Soil Institute

COCCIDIOSIS IS I NOW CONTROLEO Sanitation Found Best Means To Combat Poultry Disease I During June and July farmers are likely to spend considerable money for remedies that are recommended in the treatment of coci cidiosis, one of the most widespread pasasitic diseases of young chickI ens. The acute form of the disease often causes death among birds up to two months of age. A. J. Chadwell, University of Tennessee Extension Poultry Specialist, says that many treatments have been tried and advocated for curing coccidiosis, but the opinion of poultry investigators is that none of these treatmens is effective. The best way to fight coccidiosis, says Chadwell, is to practice rigid sanitary measures and thus prevent its getting a start in the flock. Daily cleaning and disinfec- I tion of the brooder house and poul- j try yards are effective in preventing spread of the disease. A well-balanced diet which is Supplemented by a generous amount of green feed is important I for building up the young bird's resistance to coccidiosis. Feeding I of a mash containing 40 percent dried skim milk or buttermilk has been advocated generally as effective in protecting young chicks from infection. The results from I the use of milk have not been entirely consistent, so it cannot be 1 recommended as a cure for this disease. Coccidiosis is easily recognized by such symptons as ruffled feathers, pallor, rapid emaciation, and bloody droppings. The disease is spread by contamination of the feed, water, and soil with dropping of fowls which harbor the parasites. The parasite t may be carried by water, or on shoes, grain sacks, or other objects. It is also spread by birds or in- , sects which fly from one poultry yard to another. Rats and mice also may serve as carriers of the organism.

HORSE smc Three “strikes" and she's out — that is, any hen going broody three or more times during a season should be sold or eaten. Good woods and good pastures are like a road and a stream —they aren’t found in the same place. Things that add to the comfort of sewing: good lighting, a comfortable chair, plenty of table space for cutting, an iron and ironing board near at hand, and a lin-

DECATUR DAILY. DEMOCRAT SATURDAY, JUNE 11, 1938.

Intestinal Round Worms Stunt Young Pigs . ' Z A. \ ,"T" ..

The intestinal round worm, it is believed, does more damage to young pigs than any other single factor except, perhaps, improper rations. Young pigs from the time they are a few weeks old until they reach about "0 pounds, are very susceptible to these parasites, and suffer more seriously than do older hogs. Pigs should have special protection to prevent them from becoming infested. This can easily be done by moving sows away from old hog lots, a week or more I before they arc to start farrowing, to land where no hogs have been kept for at least a year. If the far- j

oleum covered floor which is easily swept. Heaven to a hog: plenty of fresh water and good shade close to the feeding place in a legume pasture. Even “Old Dobbin” needs a lotion, say Purdue University horseman. Mix I’i ounces each of lead acetate and zinc sulphate in a gallon of water. Shake the lotion before applying to the horse s shouldI el ' s - It is estimated that more than 566,300 tons of commercial feed were sold in Indiana last year. Attention tax reduction associations! Reducing the weed tax is not exactly your job, but it is one upon which you and the farmers could do a lot of cutting. Weeds reduce crop yields, reduce the quality of products, cause livestock losses, and reduce land values. Are your milk cows still on blue grass pasture? If so, you better start feeding a protein supplement as the grass fast becomes woody and stemmy. A tip to the small gardener; use a duster to control disease on your vegetables and flowers. Use dusting sulphur on roses, phlox, and hollyhock, and copper lime dust on all vegetables and other flowers. Be sure to apply this dust when the plants are wet with dew. Further information on any of the foregoing topics may be obtained by writing to the Purdue University Department of Agricultural Extension, Lafayette, Ind. Breaking flowers off may crush and injure the stem. A doll knife or shears may do the same thing with soft steins, but a sharp knife makes a clean cut that will not close up the water tubes in the stem.

i! rowing pens or individual hog > houses have been used for hog ■ shelters during the winter, they ■ i should be scrubbed out well with ■ boiling water and lye, one can to I each fifteen gallons. Do this ten days or more before farrowing . I starts. Never allow sows or young pigs i to crawl through the fence into an j old hog lot as they get wormy ' there. A wormy pig is a ruined pig ’as these parasites, in their life | cycle, damage the liver, lungs, l small intestines, etc. Keep pigs j free from parasites, comfortable ' every night and feed them right |to assure success.

EGG PRICES TO INCREASE MORE Poultry Prices Expected To Decline Due To Larger Hatches Eggs are one of the few farm commodities currently rising in price. Reason is the reduced production which has lessend shipments to market and to cold storage plants. The Bureau of Agricultural Economics expects prices , to trend seasonally upward for the next six months. Supplies of eggs during this per--1 iod are expected to be less than in 1937. Storage stocks are not accumulating so rapidly as a year ago, and a substantial reduction from 1937 is considered likely in August 1 holdings of both shell and frozen eggs. But prices of chickens are expected by the bureau to decline during the remainder of this year, even though supplies of poultry, both in storage and on farms, are rather low. The larger hatch expected this year and the smaller consumer incomes are price-de-pressing factors. The bureau points to the fcivorable feed situation and the present small numbers of layers on farms as major factors tending toward a larger hatch in 1938 than in 1937. Hens have ben laying heavily this spring. But because of the I smaller number of layers on farms, the production of eggs per flock

on Muy 1 was six per cent below that of a year earlier. o MARKET REPORTS DAILY REPORT OF LOCAL AND FOREIGN MARKETS Brady's Market for Decatur, Berne Cralgvllle, Hoagland and Willshire Closed at 12 Noon. Corrected June 10. Corrected June 9. No commission and no yardage. Veals received every day. 100 to. 120 lbs _ |B.OO 120 to 150 lbs 8.20 150 to 225 lbs 8.80 225 to 250 lbs 8.60 250 to 275 lbs 8.40 275 to 300 lbs 8.20 300 to 350 lbs 8.00 j 350 lbs., and up _ 7.90 ■ Roughs 7.00 ; Stags 5.50 i Vealers 8.50 ' Spring lambs 8.00 | Spring buck lambs 7.00 I Yearlings 4.00 Clipped lambs 5.50 FORT WAYNE LIVESTOCK Fort Wayne, Ind., June 11.—<U.R) —Livestock: Hogs, steady: 160-180 lbs., $9; : 180-200 lbs., $8.90; 200-220 lbs., I $8.80; 220-240 lbs., $8.70; 240-260 lbs., $8.60; 260-280 lbs., $8.50; 280300 lbs., $8,40; 300-325 lbs.. $8.30; 325-350 lbs., $8,20; 140-160 lbs., $8.65; 120-140 lbs., $8.40; 100-120 lbs., $8.15. Roughs, $7.50; stags, $6.25. Calves, $9; lambs, $9; clipped lambs, $6. LOCAL GRAIN MARKET BURK ELEVATOR CO. Corrected June 10. Prices to be paid tomorrow. No. 1 Wheat 60 lbs or better $ .66 No. 2. Wheat etc 65 ' New No. 2 Oats 21 Yellow Corn G 2 to .74 i New No. 2 Soy Beans 73 Rye 56 j CENTRAL SOYA CO. New No. 2 Soy Beans.. 73 ! I Test Your | Can you answer seven of these ten questions? Turn to page Four tor the answers. » J 1. For what government agency j do the initials FCC stand? 2. Which state is nicknamed the “Sunflower State?” 3. What is a millennium? 4. From what fruit is cider made? ’ 5. What is the astronomical name for the minor planets? 6. Which state is represented in Congress by Senator James J. Davis’ 7. What is a cosmopolite? 8. What is the designation for animals that feed only on plants? 9. Can the President of the U. S. suspend or dismiss the governor I of a state? 10. In which country is the sea-1 port Gravelines?

Uncle Jim Sags f f REFER- !■ >■ Al endum fl 1 M 1... .. “We farmers arc not super-hu-man-beings —of course we make ' mistakes occasionally. As in any business, we have a few folks who 1 never allow their cooperation with anything conflict with their selfish interests. To me, the referendum provision in the new farm program is the last protection the government will offer farmers after they have made the mistake of over-1 planting their allotments, bringing 1 about ruinousiy low prices through heavy surpluses.” »■ #■ ! 1 Summer Prices On Coal Hauxk’s Coal Yard Phone 660

RATES One Time —Minimum charge of 25c for 20 worde or leaa. Over 20 worde, IJ4c per word ; Two Times—Minimum charge of 40c for 20 worde or leee. Over 20 worde 2c per word for the two tlmee. Three Tlmee—Minimum charge of 50c for 20 worde or leas. Over 20 words 2/ t o per word for the three tlmee. Cards of Thsnks 35c Obituarist snd vsrses *I.OO Open rste-display advertising 35c per column Inch. FOR SALE FOR SALE — Farm lease blanks, three for sc. Decatur Daily Democrat, 106 No. Second St. 276-tt GRAND PIANO sacrificed. Small site Grand Piano in A-l condition. Can be had for only $136.50 on terms of $7.50 per month. Reference required in first letter. For particulars write Credit Manager, box 504 care Democrat. 13>3t FOR SALE—IOO Beautyrest Innerspring mattresses; large selection of ticks. Why not sleep on the world’s best mattress? Liberal trade in allowance for your old mattress. We have Innerspring mattresses from $12.50 to $39.50. Open evenings by appointment. Sprague Furniture Co., 152 South Second St. Phone 199. 136-3 t FOR SALE—McCormick 7-ft. binder, A-l condition. EJR Implement Co., Willshire. 137-2tx FOR SALE — McCray grocery refrigerator, seven-foot front, two feet, four inches deep, six feet, two inches high. One-third horsepower Frigidaire unit. Ail in A-l condition. Gerber Meat Market. 137-3 t FOR SALE —Semi-modern 7-room home near North Ward school: price S2O0 —cash and balance like rent. 77 acre farm, near Decatur; brick house with slate roof; cash price, $3,500. Modern 7-room house with motor plumbing, in good neighborhood; price SI,OOO cash, balance mtg, at 6% interest. Fine building lot on North Third street, priced right. Suttles-Edwards Co. FOR SALE—3 doors, 2 34-lnxß2-in„ one 24x82-ln.; 1 rocker' 1 5burner coal oil range; 1 1929 Essex. Phone 973. H. JG. Schulte, 617 Winchester St. 137-3tx FOR SALE —l9 used washers, 7 makes; gas and electric. Gasoline stoves, easy payments. Guernsey cow, calf by side. Decatur Hatchery. 138-ts FOR SALE- Westinghouse electric range. A-l condition. Phone 1361. 138-3tx FOR SALE —Good seed potatoes. Willard Steele, Phone 5424. 138-3tx

LOST AND FOUND LOST—Folder containing drivers ' license and small picture. Finder please phone 846. Reward. Mrs. i George Foos. 137-3 t s_O WANTED I WANTED — To buy from owner: farm, within 5 miles of Decatur. ' Preferably north, 5 to 80 acres. ; Give description and terms. Box I 505, care Democrat. 137-3tx ■ ■ ■ ■ O■ — Tm.le In A Good Tonn llcralnt NEURITIS Rheumatism. Arthritis. Periodic Pains. Neuralgia, Lumbago and all other aches and pains are quickly relieved with Alf s Compound Wintergreen Tablets. Positively guaranteed. At all drug stzwes or send SI.OO to Union Pharmacal Co- Bluffton. Ind. N. A. BIXLER OPTOMETRIST Eyes Examined - Glasses Fitted HOURS 8:30 to 11:30 12:30 to 5:00 Saturdays, 8:00 p. m. Telephone 135. I 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.

j|" ll|, " ks 1 ’i 1 FOR RENT Modern L*! 1 i»- Snub >, F °R Ri:-\T ~,|J| 1 ("■'!•': i 1 trt I Phone 7s ',. mHw LOH RENT MB ' FOR RENT— 5 J i' 1. ■ Mark '" 11 *' ■■ CALL FRANK Hriu;i-:1-<b 'id s-.. I. v.. |,l for J ■•ollt'ct. Hail. 1;. NOTICE INtrl.-i- ■ . a . Second St. BIACKHEAOtIi SE EllMllil Turke} Disease \ > LeJ er Need Be ThrelTß National Blackhead. h go . growing c .MH States, is now largely ■ tion. mH ■ .SM it -■ plied 1... ■” < oloiat imi ei • : ■" 1 diseases, and de. - mon symptons appetite. weight. Many ' their poult 111 prevent loss. S Th. y keep ils ot and runs that , ed. and lat> 1 on pasture MH known b.''' ' by turkeys. Atty show symptons of promptly reiimr. . those which ha w di' 'I 11 ''HB promptly. Chickens may (outran case, says 1 >r. Marti::, but tXgH ually recover ami remain riers of the oimmnms »I:M discharged in tl

NOTICE! My office will be closet Friday till Thursday. June DR. C. C. IP Q, faitn (M> Let us tell you about £tna Life Insun Company’s new ti Loan Plan. Low rate 26 year repayment: | a Reserve Fund Sa feature, a liberal i ment privilege, noc( mission, appraisa*, « r examination costs to borrower. P s w 0 investigating. Authorized Represent in this territory Suttles-Ed» ards ( | Phone 35d