Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 36, Number 296, Decatur, Adams County, 16 December 1938 — Page 5

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rning given AINST WRONG [IND OF SEED estions Outlined For irchase Os Good Crop Seed •— — (By Oliver C. Lee, ■due Extension Botanist) importance of obtaining iced perhaps does not need ((•ssed as much as how to the desired product. Everyows the value of good, clean [owever, many a farmer has ip prices for seed, thinking e desirable, only to find, atbiting, that many new and , us weeds had found their to the field. e is always an element of no matter how careful the ser may be, but there are Kr of suggestions that, if d. will cut down the risk to mum. When buying seed, buy only E t So-called "bargain seeds” ten the cause of trouble and ed buyer should shun them. |n be fairly certain that when s offered for sale much bele established market price

wublic Auction December 19. 1935, at 10 a.m. Acre Farm, located 2 miles North and 9 miles East of Kirkland township. 2 miles North and 3 miles M o f Monroe, 4 miles South and 3 miles West of Decatur. ■is is one of the most desirable farms in Adams county, soil, eight room housi. 40x80 hip roof barn, and tool shed 42x28, chicken house and other out buildings, 10 acres of timber, fences fairly tile drained. farm must be seen to be appreciated and is being (■to settle the Geo. Crist estate. Easy terms: SIOOO cash sale, SIOOO 60 days from date of sale, liberal terms Possession first of March. ■ GEO. CRIST, Estate. Owners Fred Reppert, Auctioneer. ■ I I give B continuous pleasure iff the whole year ’round I A SUBSCRIPTION TO I Decatur Daily Democrat ■ A gift that REALLY keeps on giving! Every ® day of the vear, the persons to E give the Decatur Daily Democrat will thank B you all over again. You'll he giving aai y B gift of absorbing reading matter . . .news, B editorials, amusement .- • al ' . u P 4o4h . e ; B minute ... an essential to the well inform B An attractive Christmas card will be B to each subscriber, showing your m ■ ■ donor—or you can come to this onic I Mail Subscription Rates Bl Within 100 mile zone Beyjond 100 mile J«one I $3 °° $3-50 year B NOTE—Christmas Gift subscriptions will run ■ from December IS- ‘‘*3B to Januaiy 1. I”'-

something is wrong. These bargain seeds in most cases are screenings, low in germination and high in weed seed content. (2- Buy the seed early while there are still several lots of seed from which to select. Shop around a hit for seeds free from dodder, Canada thistle, quack grass, bindweed. Johnson grass and other noxious weeds. < 3) Beware of seed sold by mail order firms from outside of the state unless they are known to be reliable. We have seen enough of the ruinous results of purchasing so-called “bargain” mail order seed to feel it unwise for anyone to indulge in such a practice. (41 Don’t purchase seed at public auction unless it is properly labeled in accordance with the requirements of the Indiana seed law and examine the tags carefully. (5) Avoid clover seed from tho south, from foreign countries or of unknown origin. Such seed will not produce hardy plants and will result in a high percentage of winter killing. (6) Do not ignor the Indiana seed tag when purchasing seed. Note the variety, purity, germination. origin and weed seed content. The most valuable information is found on the back of the tag where twenty noxious weeds are listed. The law requires that the number of seeds of each of these noxious weeds per pound of crop seed be stated.

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT FRIDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1938.

GESTATION IS FEED PROBLEM Schwab Gives Best Sow, Gilt Rations In Short Course Talk "During the gestation period sows and gilts must receive a ration that will supply all the feed nutrients necessary to build up bone and muscle so necessary for producing strong vigorous pigs,” declared Mr. J. W. Schwab, of the Purdue Anima! Husbandry Department at the Monroeville Purdue Short Course, recently. Feeding trials at the Purdue Agricultural Experiment Station show that a combination of one bushel of shelled corn, one bushel of whole oats and 5 pounds of good tankage is one of the best rations that can be fed to bred sows,” continued Mr. Schwab. "When good oats are not available, ground wheat or middlings may be substituted. In addition to this ration a mineral mixture consisting of 10 pounds of pulverized limestone, 10 pounds steamed bone meal, and 1 pound of salt should be fed. Alfalfa hay, from the second or third cutting should be fed in low racks during the gestation period. Corn alone should never be ted to bred sows as strong vigorous pigs can seldom be obtained with such a ration,” declared Mr. Schwab. o LOCAL DAIRYMEN ATTEND MEETING Adams County Represented At Huntington Guernsey Confab A number of Adams county dairymen attended the sixth annual banquet of the Huntington county Guernsey breeders association held at Huntington, this week. Among those who attended were: Dan Lehman, Mr. and Mrs. Edison Lehman, Rufus and Chris Inniger, all of Adams county. Others among the 206 members and guests from Indiana and Ohio were: Fred Sicos, of Lebanon, president of the Indiana Guernsey cattle association, Field Greensburg, represenattive of "Golden Guernsey” milk. Dick Holden, representative of the American Guernsey cattle club. W. W. Yapp, of the University of Illinois, well known here having judged a number of dairy shows was the spealker. ‘He discussed breeding, telling how some of the country’s best herds have been developed. He discussed health stand-> aids of herds. HOBSE - SENSE Livestock damage woods soil at any season — especially al times during the winter, when the ground la soft. Woods pasture doesn’t pay There is no better time to do garden planning than in December Glasses which have stuck together may be easily separated if a little glycerine is dropped between them and allowed to stand a tew minutes, says Purdue extension economists. Within any one dairy breed, the largest cows are usually the highest producers. This fact emphasizes the importance of liberal feeding young stock. Limestone is cheaper than clover reed. Acid soils should be limed before clove ris seeded unless a crop failure is desired. The name “Indiana’ applied to Indiana farm products should be just another name for all that is ex cellent. Now is the time to have socd»recleaned and tested. If samples are

forwarded now to the State iSeed laboratory, Purdue University, they can be tested promptly. See that your laying hens have plenty of water all winter. Further information on any of the foregoing topics may be obtained by writing to the Purdue University Department of Agricultural extension, Lafayette, Indiana. o Business Building j I Destroyed By Fire Rushville, Ind., Dec. 16—(UP) — Investigators today attempted to determine the origin of fire which ‘ yesterday destroyed a large two ! story brick business building in MelI roy, near here, at a loss ot about $20,000. Several automobiles and a large stock of merchandise in a garage on the ground floor, were destroyed. oDeaf Man Is Killed By Passenger Train La Porte, Ind., Dec. 16 —(UP) — Carl E. McCoy, 50, who was practically deaf, was killed instantly here last night when he walked in front of a fast New Yorx Central passenger train. McCoy and his wife, Hazel, had been waiting for the crossing gates to rise. When they did not go up. McCoy started to cross and des- ' plte his wife's screams, walked onto ! the tracks as the train swooped down on him. Four children also survive. o COMMON ERROR | Do not say, “We are stopping , at the Ritz Hotel;” say, "stay- j I ing at the Ritz Hotel.” !♦- * WANTED RAGS, Magazines, Newsj papers, Scrap Iron, Old Auto Radiators, Batteries, Copper, Brass, Aluminum, and al) grades of scrap metals. We buy hides, wool, sheep pelts, the year round. The Maier Hide & Fur Co. 710 W. Monroe st. Phone 442 • AIIMTBW LOANS I at low rate of interest on Ohio and Indiana Farms l Modern City property , LOANS First Mortgage. Special plan for new homes. Suttles-Edwards Co. Cor. Monroe & Second Sts. Decatur, Ind.

LEGUME BECOME IMPORTANT CROP Short Course Speaker Gives Nitrogen Values For Soil “Legumes play a more important part in present day agriculture from fertility, erosion prevention, and feed standpoints than ever befor in the agricultural history of this state," declared K. E. Beeson, of the Purdue Agricultural Extension Department, the first speaker at the Monroeville short course recently. With the reduction in acreage of corn and small grains, clovers, alfalfa, lespedeza, soybeans and other legumes along with grasses will be logical crops to use in place Os these stable crops. Rarely is there a surplus of legumes for hay or asture, and from a fertility standpoint, a surplus never exists. The rather general use of grass hay and corn fodder and the destruction and erosion of our bluegrass pastures by overgrazing. are all evidences ot the need for more legumes. Farmers are attempting to cut production costs as much as possible, continued the speaker, but such cuts cannot be made by neglecting soil fertility. Phosphate, potash, nitrogen and humus deficiencies are the most common causes of low- fertility levels. Nitrogen and humus are both returned by legumes in large quantities. Nitrogen especially is very deficient on many Indiana soils. It is more expensive commercially than any other plant food, yet can be produced right on the farm through the growth of inoculated legumes for hay, pasture or protein supplement, and so contributes a supply of cheap plant food. The importance of legumes in a rotation compared with non legum es is brought out by a ten year comparison of a rotation of corn, wheat, clover and coni, wheat tim-

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othy at the Jennings County Experiment Field. The corn in the clover rotation has averaged twelve bushels more per acre, the wheat six bushels and the hay onehalt ton more than the timothy rotation. Yet the cost of growing clover has been no higher than l he cost ot growing timothy for the soil treatment in each case has been exactly the same. The difference is due to the soil building power of clover. While farmers are reducing acreages ot such stable crops as corn, wheat and others, they gradually realize that they cannot permit yields per acre to be reduced, and still meet the cost of production. Low yields mean high cost per bushel or other unit, and decreased returns. Legumes mean low cost fertility and contribute to cheaper production costs. Crop surpluses, due to reduced demand, are due primarily to extended acreages rather than increased yields per acre and the farmer is justified in continuing to use good cultural methods for whatever acreage he plants. This was forcefully shown by a comparison of crop yields on soils having no plant food returned and those that are properly farmed.

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 Rose M. Schurger, Sec.-Treas.

ITALY APPROVES MORE DECREES Cabinet Approves Decree Forcing Jews To Register Property Rome, Dec. 16 (U.ftj -The cabiuet todxy approved a decree obliging Italian Jews to register all their property. Those Jews who own property exceeding limits outlined in a decree promulgated Nov. 17 will be obliged to turn over the excess to a government agency, which is to liquidate It and hand back the proceeds to the owners in the form of special government bonds bearing interest of 4 per cent.

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The Nov. 17 decree forbade Jews to hold city real estate on which the annual tax exceeded 20,000 lire ($1 ,usu). farm land on which th- tax exceeded 5,000 lire 15263), nr to menage any business wb:ch employed more than 100 persons. Jews who hold bonds or other property connected with the national defense must sell It to a government agency, which will nay for 't in the special 4 per cent bonds. The cabinet also approved a detree making the four Libyan provinces an Intt gral part of Italy and conferring “special Italian citizenship” on Libyan moslems. It was announced that the cabinet would meet again March 13 to consider reform of the school system to conform to the new racial laws.