Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 54, Number 251, Decatur, Adams County, 24 October 1956 — Page 9

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1958

THURSDAY SOYBEAN SHOW—2:OO P. M. Judging and placing of ribbons on Soybean Entries at the Decatur Youth and Community Center. Medals will be presented to all winners and a Trophy to the entry judged best of the show. SOYBEAN DISCUSSION—2:3O P. M. Soybean Varieties best adapted to Adams County, by Dr. A. H. Probst, Soybean Specialist of Purdue University, followed " by a question and answer period. ', ' > SOYBEAN FESTIVAL BEAUTY QUEEN CONTEST—3:OO P. M. Contestants to be judged on beauty, appearance, poise and talent. Five finalists will receive a diamond wrist watch and compete for the title of Soybean Queen in the finals. Bth ANNUAL RURAL-URBAN FISH FRY—6:3O P. M. At the Decatur High School Auditorium. Harold W. (Mickey) McMillen, master of ceremonies. All the fish you can eat. Final contest and selection of Soybean Queen. 45-Minutes of entertainment. Announcement of Soybean Show winners. Presentation of Trophies to Soybean King and Soybean Queen by Mary Jane McNulty, Miss Indiana of 1956.

Help Celebrate Decatur’s Annual CALLITHUMPIAN HALLOWEEN PARADE A Gigantic Celebration With Fun and Amusement For Everyone—A Thrill of A Lifetime WEDNESDAY EVE. OCT. 31 - ON THE STREETS OF DECATUR PMUDE STMTS AT 750 P. M. CASHAWAAIIS Best Comic Strip Mans 4 Best Decorated Boy’s Bike —s4 Best Adult Clown $4 Best Comic Strip Womans 4 Best Decorated Girl’s Bike $4 Best Kid Clown $4 Best Comic Strip Boy —s4 Most Original Adults 4 Best Witch $4 Best Comic Strip Girl $4 Most Original Boys 4 Best Ghosts 4 Wnmon’ Il Most Original Girl $4 Best Decorated Toy Wagon Fa BoT ““ S 4 Most p et.. $3 or Tricyde M Best Fat Girl $4 Best Trained Pet $3 Best Masked Couple $6 Best Masked Group of 3 or Best Decorated Pet-drawn Best Comic Band $6 more $6 Toy Vehicle $4 Best Animal Impersonation $4 FIRST PRIZE /hOr - SECOND PRIZE /hn* High School Band or JK High School Band or Drum Corps in Uniform Drum Corps in Uniform THIRD PRIZE <h 1 r FOURTH PRIZE A 4 r\ High School Band or I High School Band or | II Drum Corps in Uniformy * v Drum Corps in Uniform v , mi BEST DRUM MAJOR LEADING BAND—lst Prize $5, 2nd Prize $3, 3rd Prize $2 Be sure to see it-Bring the whole family j Sponsored bv Retail Division of the Decatur Chamber of Commerce ' ; DECATUR STORES WILL BE OREN ’till »:OO P.M. >■ . . - - - . ' - ’ I

The DECATUR CHAMBER of COMMERCE Presents The 1956 ADAMS COUNTY SOYBEAN FESTIVAL THURSDAY, FRIDAY, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 25, 26, 27

FRIDAY and SATURDAY SOYBEAN BARGAIN DAYS IN DECATUR STORES STORES OPEN BOTH NIGHTS A 1-Lb. Bag of Soybeans will entitle you to a discount on the i many items advertised by the Decatur Retailers. BUT YOU MUST HAVE THE SOYBEANS. For the people who do not raise Soybeans, or live in the city ... the Boy Scouts will be on the streets of Decatur and have Soybeans for sale at 5c a pound. All proceeds from this sale go to the Boy Scouts. CARTOON SHOWS at the Adams Theatre, Friday 1:00 P. M. and Saturday 10:00 A. M. Admission charge will be 1 tb. of Soybeans. ■ ' ,< FESTIVAL PARADE—FRIDAY NIGHT—B:3O P. M. Parade led by the 1956 Soybean Queen. SOYBEAN BALL—FRIDAY NIGHT at the Decatur Youth and Community Center. Admission will be 50c, plus 1 lb. of Soybeans. GRAND PRIZE DRAWING—SATURDAY 9:00 P. M. All the Soybeans taken in at the Cartoon Shows ... the Soybean Ball . . . and by all the stores will be placed in this one big load, (100 Bushel Load guaranteed). Register for this drawing at any Decatur Retail member of the Decatur Chamber of Commerce. Nothing to buy. You need not be present to win. MANY OTHER PRIZES Many of the stores are offering valuable prizes to the person who guesses nearest the correct number of Soybeans in a variety of containers displayed in their window’s.

THE DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT. DECATUR, INDIANA

Top Soybean Yield Is Dependent On Various Factors For Farmers

By J. WARD CALLAND To grow 60 bushels of soybeans we must start with the man, the soybean grower. We must have a man who wants to grow 60 bushels per acre and who is willing to do everything possible to get 60 bushels. If we don’t have that, we must drop our sights back to 40-30-20 bushels, or whatever he wants to grow. For, “You can’t shoot flying ducks by aiming at your feet". Once we have the man, which is the number one requirement, we need next the piece of ground where he is going to grow 60 bushels. It too should be a field that wants to grow' 60 bushels. Say, one that handily turns out 12ff bushels of corn per acre. The only way -that it can, be done on a poor of yland, 1 am told, is start with about 1,000 pounds of say 12-12-12 fertilizer to one acre, then use 5 or 6 years plowing down organic matter, applying more fertilizer, lime or anything else it needs, growing bigger and bigger crops until that field can easily give you 120 bushels of corn, then plant it to soybeans. After the man and the field, these things are important. Plow the field early and prepare a good seed bed. Soybeans like a good bed the same as you do. Check with your county agent of experiment station for the variety that likely will yield best on your field. You see somp varieties yield far better than others when you provide them with ideal conditions. Be sure to get one that does. Unless you have been growing soybeans on this particular field and have been getting good nodulation on the soybean roots, you will want to inoculate the soybean seed as you plant.

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Keller Beeson of Purdue reporting on 47 Indiana growers who have produced better than §0 bushels per acre says that row width has not appeared to be an important factor, since the vigorous growth that is necessary for soybeans making 50 to 60 bushels will completely fill the interspaces of 36, 38 or 40 inch rows. On the other hand, Tom Maddox, who won the 1954 Indiana soybean growing contest with 63.6 bushels per acre, used 24 inch rows. Maddox points out that the variety he grew, Hawkeye, with its excellent upright habit of growth, is a good variety to grow in narrow rows. Tests at most experiment stations show higher yields in narrow rows. Many good soybean growers would like to use narrow rows, but the drawback has been that to do this requires special equipment. For this reason most growers prefer to use standard corn planting and cultivating equipment even at a sacrifice of a few bushels per acre. Special equipment for soybeans is offered by some of the manufacturers of farm machinery. An example is the Allis-Chalmer Model G tractor with 3- row soybean planting and cultivating equipment, which will permit growinp soybeans in 18 to 20 inch rows. Many rowers using the ordinary 2-row corn planter have solved the problems of planting rows closer together by shortening the gague marker on the planter so alternate rows will be closer together. If you have a planter that can be set to plant the rows closer, then plant as close together as your tractor wheels and cultivating equipment will permit. The cultivating can be done by removing

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the outside shovel from the cultivator. The important point is that all of the space between rows must be fully occupied by the growing soybean plants if you want top top yields. What aout fertilizer? Let’s go back to Tom Maddox again and his 63.6 bushel crop. Maddox selected a field that had been adequately fertilized in 1953 for seed corn production, which followed clover and alfalfa used only as a green manure crop. He plowed down 500 pounds of 0-10-20 fertilizer in 1954 before planting the soybeans. This field gladly produced 63.6 bushels per acre. Let’s also see what Keller Beeson of, Purdue says the other Indiana champion growers have been doing about fertilizer. Beeson says their applications are usually 200 to 300 pounds of a 1-1 ratio phosphate and potash fertilizer such as 0-12-12 or 0-20-20 applied at* planting time with the corn planter. Where they have felt that potash might be the limiting factor they have plowed down 300 to 400 pounds of potash. Continuin, he yields. high yields in the contest have pounds of potash. Continuing, he state of fertility where the farmer follow’s excellent fertility pracbeen grown on farms in a high tices from every angle. Corn and wheat usually receive heavy fertiliatlon on these farms and the soybeans benefit from the residual effects of this plant food. Then, he points out that the champions just naturally practice such factors as good seed bed preparation, inoculation, cultivation for weel pontrol, good rotation, (Continued on Page Ten)