Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 37, Number 11, Decatur, Adams County, 13 January 1939 — Page 5

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->.! OUTLOOK ®|fflß!933 <|S IMPROVING ■ilnal Outlook lor ■Wgriculture Shows YBg improvement H national outlook «* •£• prepared by the 1 ■ ,\g! culture indicates will he «<’>«e i ‘ nP ‘ ,!>.■ 1,11939 : b 1 ;- activity and incomes are ex|K „> domestic de- ■ fl <-:.<::» 1.1-ln os which will offset less favorable prospects. "f ’he "utlook for ,he crops ami products grown prepared by the Un„f Tennessee extension ,c. ::.• Kj Va'ic:...'. .uilook statement i Outlook In Brief ■ T lacco supplies of Hurley M;.l will be large relative KXappearan-' unless 11'39 proM, js reducd Foreign connare growing more of their ■tobaccos and U. S. leaf will Eg Jr represent a smaller proK/., •,.<„. « rid consumption E,> ar than at any time before. and I'-'.mseed World of U. S. cotton in is expected to show little 1 million bales last season. The increase ■’"'i promised in this KjEr is likely to be offset by decreases in the use S cotton in Europe and Jaworld supply of cotton AK fM 1 wlli a “ aI “ be ,lle high " record. — A curtailed U. S. * pM 1 acreage in the prospect for the world wheat acreage lively to be decreased. UnKw vi> Ids .re materially beKr i'.e 1939 average, domestic prices in 1939-40 may conM l° w cnipared with recent) Kw »JI Tr k i o Tim 1939 acre-

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age and production were the largest on records, returns not so good. With acreage reduction in prospect for many vegetables and consumers' income Increasing, prices to growers are likely to be "Somewhat higher” next year. The sweet potato acreage seems likely to be about the same as in 1938. Hogs — Larger slaughter supplies of hogs, continued expansion of hog production, and improvement in consumer and storage demand for hog products highlight the hog situation. Changes in consumer income during the next few months will be a major factor in hog prices. . Cattle — Increased consumer Income plus smaller cattle slaughter will be price • strengthening factors but the large supply of hogs and all meats will be pricedepressing factors. Cattle numbers are expanding but in the present cycles are not expected to reach as high a peak as in early 1934. Sheep and Wool — More sheep and more wool is the outlook for next year. Unfavorable returns from lamb feeding last year may discourage some feeders. Some improvement in demand for meats and in wool prices is expected. Horses and Mules — Numbers of horses and mules will continue downward for several years, as the production of colts, although increasing, Is still insufficient to replace work animals dying off. Poultry and Eggs — Larger supplies of both poultry and egg are expected in 1939 but any depressing effect on prices shotlld be partially offset by an increase in consumer's income. The present favorable feed and egg price situation is expected to result in an increased hatch next spring. Dairying — Any marked improvement in milk and butter prices is likely to depend on further business recovery and a rise in the general price level. The long time outlook is for comparatively large milk production and increasing cow numbers. o * . « I TODAY’S COMMON ERROR Do not say. “We reverence i the memory of George Washington;” say, “revere.”

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT FRIDAY, JANUARY 18, 1939.

ANNUAL PURDUE SHORT COURSE OPENS MONDAY Record Breaking Attend* ance Is Foreseen For Annual School Indications today were that the record of 200 students for the 1938 eight weeks Purdue University winter course in agriculture would be broken on January 18, when the 1939 course gets underway, according to advance applications being received by acting dean of agriculture, V. C. Freeman. The winter courses in agriculture, started in 1887. have attracted during recent years a growing - group of young men who have found this short course type of training fitting their limitations of tine and money required for a four year plan of study. Dean Freeman said be expected a larger number of county scholarship winners this year than during previous courses. These scholarships are earned by taking part in county essay contests held in all Indiana counties. County winners receiving the scholarships have certain fees canceled when they register. Fourteen Sears, Roebuck and Co. scholarships have been awarded to winter course students who could not otherwise obtain the necessary finances to attend, Freeman said. Course work this year.-as in the past, will center about. four lines of study; general agriculture, animal husbandry, dairy manufactures. and dairy production. Further information on tht winter courses may be obtained from any agricultural agent in Indiana or by writing to acting dean V. C. Freeman. School of Agriculture, Purdue University, Lafayette, Ind. o SEPTIC TANK TERMED BEST Septic Tank Cited As Best For Farm Sewage Disposal Urbana. 111., Jan. 13 — For the modern farm home bathroom a properly constructed septic tank is as important as the faucets in the bath tub, says R.. R. Parks, extension specialist in agricultural engineering, College of Agriculture, University of Illinois. Laciting the facilities made possible by community action tn cities and small towns, farm homes are faced With a problem of sewage disposal that can best be solved by the installation of a septic tank Parks explained. The cesspool can not be recommended for sewage disposal, since its leachings may contaminate the drinking water supply and thereby spread serious diseases. Neither is It advisable to depend up on a single tile leading Into a field, a ditch or a stream. Large rivers are capable of handling reasonable amounts of pollution without apparent damage, but email streams become foul when sewage is turned into them. One type of septic, tagk that has proved successful on many farms and that is economical to construct according to Parks, is a tank built of prescast concrete slabs with dove-tail corners and toiigue and groove joints. It can be made up in a central place where a mixer and materials are handy, hauled to the farm and installed, with -a 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. j Phene 2 Rose M. Schurger, Sec.-Trcaa.,

minimum of labor. Information on the construction of precast septic tanks may be obtained by writing the college of agriculture at Urbana. Tn many communities, the local lumber dealer, plumber, or farm adviser has or can obtain forms for precast tanks. STANDARD OATS SEED IS URGED Regular Hoosier Varieties Os Oats Are Urged For Fanners Fine appearance of the seed, high test weight per bushel, high prices for seed oats and high sounding or foreign names are no assurance to Indiana farmers that they will be able to grow larger yields of oats of any better quality than can be obtained from the use of recommended standard Hoosier varieties, according to extensive tests carried on since 1915 by the agronomy department of Purdue University. One of these so-called new or improved varieties of oats alleged to have come from Belgium, was grown in the variety teat plot on the Soils and Crops farm near Lafayette, in 1938. Although the seed sown was of unusually strong test weight the grain harvested actually yielded 14.3 bushels less | per acre than Cartier, one of the new early varieties, adapted to j Indiana and Columbia, another excellent early oats which can be bought as certified seed for less than one-furth the price of these imported oats, the agronomists report. No oats of European origin, so far tested at Purdue, have been equal in yield or quality to adapted varieties developed in this country, which is probably due to a difference in climatic conditions here and abroad, the specialists explain. A comparison of the yield and test weight of two recognized oats varieties grown in this vicinity, tested Tor the last four years, show a wide variation in both yield and quality. During this time the Victory, a late white oats, has averaged 47.8 bushels p<r acre with a test weight ranging from 21 to 31 pounds per bushel while the Columbia, an early gray oats, has averaged 57 bushels with a test weight ranging from 29 to 35.7 pounds per bushel. Oats produced last year were generally of low test weight due 1 to the damage from rust, the agronomlsts report, but they can be recleaned and used for seed satisfactorily if they have been properly dried and gtored. Minota, a mid-season, and Waype, slightly earlier, are high yielding, white, stiff-strawed varieties recommended for central and northern Indiana on soils of average fertility. Gopher, an early white variety, is high yielding, very sTiff strawed and particularly recommended for the darker or richer soils of the northern oats belt. Cartier, an early white oats variety of high yield and test weight and moderately stiff straw is now aHxilable and for tfhe jxast twoj years has proved highly satisfactory in central and northern Indiana. For the southern half of the state or where oats are grown strictly for feed, the Columbia, an early gray oat, Js one of the high-

60,000,000 Tax Headaches r i a || i>r y " W “gr l ..w k... s. bBIs Warren C. Benjamin, clerk at the bureau of internal revenue, in Washington, holds his head and rests after mailing some sixty million of the income tax blanks around the country. They are for 1938, due to be returned, with »t least one-fourth payment—to Uncle Sam by March 15.

TIMBER CAN BE MADE TO PAY

, Timber Can Be Made Paying Crop For Indiana Farmers (Editor’s note: — Following is another in a series of articles written for the Daily Democrat farm page by Roman ■ Lengerich, secretary of the Adams county fish and game conservation club.) Timber can be made a paying crop provided the farm woodlot is managed correctly, for timber Is a renewable crop, which can be handled In such' a manner as to increase the income and permanent value of the farm. In farm forestry the farmer Is chiefly interested in the return in dollars and cents per acre from his land. Here in Indiana woodland owners can realize profitable returns from their timber by practicing good forest management and by taking advantage of the woodland classification act. The forest essential in management of a farm is absolute exclusion of livestock because grazing J is fatal to the future value of the i woods. The animals pack the soil, causing loss of moisture. Harmful effects are also caused by the grazing and trampling of trees. The final effect is a very slow growth and eventual death of the i trees. Another very important sac--1 tor is the fact the trees will grow l in less fertile soil, which is not needed for agricultural uses, and while growing they do not require fertilizer or cultivation. Alf submarginal land should be included in such forest projects because it will decrease soil erosion and at the same time provide the farm with a wood lot. Because of the recuperative powers of nature even a severely depleted stand of timber will be improved if the diseased, defective and undesirable trees are removed and turned into lumber of fine wood. A farmer who has 15 or more trees per acre over 15 inches in diameter is the possessor of a sort of saving bank account that will yield hinr a yearly income if managed under a sustained yield plan. It may be drawn on each year without reducing the principal. NEW GRASSES SATISFACTORY Brome And Reed Canary Grasses Prove Highly Satisfactory Lafayette, Ind. Jan. 13 — Two new’ grasses, Brome and Reed Canary Grass, are proving highly satisfactory for grazing of hay under certain soil conditions or in combinations with other grasses or legumes, according to observations of Purdue University agronomists. “Possibilities of Brome and Reed est yielding varieties, excellent in seed quality. Sources of adapted seed oats may be obtained from county agents or by writing directly to the agronomy department of Purdue University.

CONFESSES TO MURDERING MAN ‘Daddy’ In Chicago Sonny Boy Case Slain Last Night Wilmette, 111., Jan. 13. —fIJJV — John Quinn, 55. sat In a detention room today and told police a story of hate—a hate so bitter it drove him to kill his brother-in-law, Dr. Gordon E. Mordoff, 50, who in 1936 lost a sensational court battle Involving paternity of a boy he had believed was his son. QQulnn, a slight grayhaired man, is a shoemaker and an ex-convict. He was a brother of Mordofl's wife, Madge, who died Feb. 10, 1936, at the age of 51 shortly before the paternity case came to trial. At the time of her death Quinn accused Mordoff of having poisoned her, although physicians had found she had died from nat-, ural causes. He repeated his accusation during the paternity trial and again today after he had been seized at his Chicago home. “I hated the man,” he told Police Chief Henry Brautican. “He poisoned my sister. He neglected her and abused her. ‘T've brooded and brooded since her death. I wasn’t a drinking man but since she died I’ve been drinking constantly. It was his frame-up on which I was sent to prison once on a larceny charge. | “I just couldn’t stand it any longer. I planned to get him if I had to burn for it.” Mordoff was slain in his office late yesterday before two wit-' nesses. Quinn walked deliberately into Mordoff’s inner consultation room and fired two shots, both of which went wild. Mordoff fled into the quarters of a dentist, Dr. I Floyd L. McGrath, who was treat-1 ing a patient. Behind him came , Quinn, a still-smoking pistol in his hand. “Don’t shoot me,” Mordoff pleaded. Quinn fired a third shot. The j bullet went through Mordoff’s body and grazed McGrath’s abdomen. It was spent, however, and . did not puncture the skin. “After that,” Quinn said, “I left I the office and walked down the corridor. I reloaded the gun and was going back and shoot him again. I thought I hadn't done a good job. But I decided to leave.” He went home and Mordoff died in McGrath's arms without telling

Canary Grass” were discussed by M. O. Pence, Purdue agronomist, ] during agricultural conference at [ the university Tuesday afternoon. I This discussion included cultural ’ and seeding methods, rates of seeding, uses in seed mixtures and farm and soil conservations under which these grasses should be grown. Reed Canary Grass is attracting ' state wide attention where water | remains on the land during floods ; or from back water and destroys crops, agronomists say. Reed Canary Grass may be grown for hay or pasture under moistue conditions that would destroy oilier' farm crops. Smooth brome grass serves the pu'rpose ujirlcr opposite, conditions at it is a gl ass thriv- ( ing where soil conditions are too dry or the weather too hot for i other grasses. This grass fits tn well when grown with perennial legumes, particularly alfalfa, as a pasture crop that s highly drouth resistant.

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who shot him. Police got their first clew to Quinn as a suspect from Gordon Mordoff 11, son of the physician, who said Quinn had threatened his father several times and only Wednesday night had been at bls home looking for him. “I warned my father," young Mordoff said. “He laughed it off and said Quinn probable was drinking and that nothing serious was going to happen." The elder Mordoff was prominent in Wilmette, a suburb of Chicago. The case that gave him notoriety involved a three-year-old boy, known variously as Gordon Mordoff 111, and Reginald Arthur Mann, but more commonly as “Sonny Boy.” He claimed the boy was born to his wife Sept. 2, 1932, at Minneapolis. Miss Margaret Mann, Chicago, claimed it was born to her at St. Vincent's Orphanage, Chi-

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cago, May 19, 1982. She said the child had been sent to board in the Mordoff home a few weeki after birth. Mordoff testified hla wife had been In Minneapolis for the birth of a baby and had never indicated that "Sonny Boy” was anything but his own son. A circuit judge held that Miss Mann was the mother and that Mrs. Mordoff apparently had substituted "Sonny Boy” tor a child who had died. Police said Quinn had served a term tn the state prison at Joliet, 111., on a larceny charge, the case which he charged Mordoff had framed. He was released in 1915. ■ 0

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