Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 57, Number 303, Decatur, Adams County, 26 December 1959 — Page 6

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Hog Market Predicted To Drop 11 Per Cent

Farm Market Trends By WILLIAM P. GRUBER United Press International The prediction that 11 per cent leas hogs will be farrowed next spring is good news for most farmers—except those who raise corn. If the USDA’s estimate based on a recent survey is correct, it means there wil be fewer pigs to devour this year’s record Corn crop. Corn prices may suffer? an economist said. But soybean growers, as well as hog farmers and meat producers, will benefit from the smaller production, said Clarence Galvin, of the Francis I. DuPont & Co. brokerage firmHog prices are running about one-third below last year’s level. Overly large marketings of hogs will continue through early next summer, the USDA said, with prices trending steady to slightly lower. The trend should move upward when the spring crop pigs hit the market. A side result of the smaller Galvin said, will be a cut in lard production. Prices of that commodity wil rise. Soybean and vegetable oils—now at the lowest prices in years—will be in greater demand. “What will te lost in meals with less pigs to feed will be more than made up in oils,’’ he said. ■ - —... Most farm products brought higher prices this week. Heavy snow and generally unfavorable weather cut into deliveries at the market. Demand was higher. Hogs sold at the highest levels in two weeks on Thursday. Prices at the nation’s leading markets rose 25 to 50 cents—and in some cases, sl,oo—per hundredweight. Sales at Chicago averaged $12.00 Thursday, compared with $11.60 last FridayFed cattle were steady to SI.OO higher. All prime grades and good and choice cattle under 1,150 pounds were in good demand. Cows and replacement cattle sold , steady to 50 cents higher. Sheep were unchanged to SI.OO higher. The USDA predicted that sheep prices next year should be about the same as in 1959. Wheat, oats, rye and soybean , futures moved up on the Chicago Board of Trade. Com was steady. Heavy qpows across- the nation's midsection touched off commercial! and commission buying. Wheat and soybeans were also sold in large amounts to Europe. Drummed lards, vegetable oils and soybean meals were lower. In potatoes, russets grew firm and round reds held steady. Onions | were little changed. Wholesale prices for live poultry, eggs and butter were slightly higher. Shell eg futures on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange ranged from off 45 cents in the January contract to up 30 in the October. Butter was steady and potatoes firm the National Live Stock Producer foresees tower prices for fed cattle in 1960 and in the next several years. Supplies of -cattle on the market Will continue heavy, the magazine said. Temperatures deep inside the earth probably range from 1,000 to 3,500 degrees Fahrenheit, according to John Verhoogen, professor of geology at the University of California. BETTER FARM CONSTRUCTION AT LESS COST with READY-MIX CONCRETE from DECATUR Ready-Mix, inc. E. OAK * FORNAX Phone 3-2561

OF THIS AND THAT "Ring out the old year. Ring in the new." The new year is here. Well, what will be bring? Here are a few predictions for 1960. No significant cost of living increase is expected in 1960. The cost of housing and transportation will be higher in 1960. Most items of food, clothing, and household furnishings probably will cost no more. Food. In 1960 we can look for an ample supply of food; therefore we can expect a decrease in average food costs. Poultry and meat prices are expected to stay near current levels, so we will have to be careful shoppers. Egg | prices are likely «to be higher j during the spring of 1960. There will be more milk from, fewer cows which is good news, for milk drinkers. Government programs continue to dominate milk pricing, so exoect to pay about the same price for all dairy products next year. Ample supplies of most fruits and vegetables were packed this T year. Look to the weather in the southern states as the key to fresh | produce markets. Housing. Building material costs increased about two per cent and other housing coats increased about one per cent in 1959. Wages increased about five per cent. In 1960 we can expect housing costs to increase as much as this year. Transportation. The cost of transportaiton, both public and private is likely to increase from three to five per cent during 1960. more than autos, parts, gas. and oil. The cost of 1960 model cars likely will be somewhat higher than their 1959 counterparts. Medical care will increase aboutfive per cent. State and local gov- j ernmental expenditures have increased about 10 per cent annually | during the last few years; so a" comparable increase can be ex-| pected in 1960. For the clothing and home furnishings outlook watch next week’s Os This and : That, • I “Should old acquaintances be : forgot and never brought to I mind.” Are you planning to help the new year in? If so, you might try this sparkling red punch which Gloria Koeneman brought for our Christmas Open House. Holiday ranch (Makes 2’4 quarts) Dissolve 2 packages cherryflavored summer drink powder in 4 cups boiling water. Stir in % cup sugar, tea. salt, Vi teas, nutmeg, % teas, cinnamon. Chill. Just before serving, stir in 1 6-oz. can each of frozen lemonade concentrate and frozen pineapple juice. Add 1 12-oz. bottle of chilled gingerale. Serve in punch cups over ice. T More than half of all the fresh 1 water in the world lies within Canada. Ocean-going tankers can load > petroleum products at the rate of ) 40,000 barrels an hour. • / More than 1,000 divorce decrees r were granted each day last year in the United States. Americans are spending 22 billion dollars a year for medical senrces, according to a survey by the. Chase Manhattan Bank. This is double the 1950 amount and six and a half times the 1929 figure. Perrine To Retire From Central Soya Frank L. Perrine, Central Soya’s northern division credit manager, has retired after 22 years with the company. After a Florida vacation, he will return to Fort Wayne and continue to maintain his residence there. He joined Central Soya in 1937 as manager of its Master Feed and Seed Co. warehouse in Alliance, O. Since 1951 he has occupied his present post. ORDER Fertilizer NOW! SAVE (Early Order Discount) Delivered or Picked-up about March 1 USE - NEW GREEN BELT Gran-U-Lets N-P-K in every Granule The GREER BELT CHEMICAL CO.

County Agents Corner by L. N. SELTENRIGHT Ag. Opportunity Day The schedule of events is as follows: 12:45 p.m. "Welcome to Your Purdue,” by President Frederick L. Hovde and "College and You" by Dr. Frederick H. Andrews, Animal Science Department; 2 p.m. —Discussion Sessions with agriculture faculty members; 3:ls—Tours of Co - Educational Recreational Gymnasium and Residence Halls; ; 4:45 p.m.—“Paving Your Way to j College"—Dean D. C. Pfendler and 6:30 p.m. Purdue - Montana State I basketball game. Chairman Paul Kohne reports that transportation will be by school bus. The bus will be starting from Geneva at 8:15 a.m. and stops will be made at Berne school corner at 8:30 a.m.; Coppess Corner nt 8:45 a.m. and Decatur Post Office at 9 a.m. to pick up those i planning on attending. ■ I.F.Y.E. Wayne Nierman, International Farm Youth Exchangee from Whitley County to Brazil reports that he is staying on a farm located In the southern tip of Brazil near the town of.Pelotos. It is approximately’ 45 hectares (18 acres) in size and is considered to be a very small farm in Brazil. Fruit is the main source of income and consists of peaches, oranges, pears, and grapes. Corn, oats, alfalfa, potatoes, and sugar cane are also grown—but in smaller quantities ‘ and are used on the farm. The live- | stock consists of a few hogs, three - cows, 5 calves, three horses and [a pair of oxen. Wayne worked last summer as ! county 4-H club agent in Wells county. Agricultural Importation Total imports of-livestock, meat and fneat .products into the U. S-. in 1959 will be close to S6OO million, i Exports remained close to the 1958 level of $287 million. However, even this high level of meat imports represents less than 4 per cent of U. S. production of red meats. The imports last year consisted primarily of meat products and livestock, while exports consisted large of livestock by-products and speciality meats. Market Tour The Extension Service of Adams and Wells counties are planning a market tour to Chicago on Jan. 11 and 12. The trip is planned for about 40 people. If you are interested in marketing, I would like for you to go along. One day is spent 1 on livestock at the stockyards and the other on grain at the Board of Trade and dock facilities. I 1 4-H Beef Enrollment 4-H Beef Enrollment cards should be turned into the County . Extension Office by January 1. . This reminder comes from Paul Kohne, beef committee chairman. Mechanical Cow ' Dick Burdg has called to my atr tention that a mechanical cow has ’ now been produced.' This was re- ’ ported from the American Drug- ’ | gist. “Grandfather’s Cow is not only ’Old hat’ but may be consid--1 ered inefficient when compared with a new mechanical “cow" invented by Gritish Glues and Chemicals. London. Grass, peanuts, or vegetables, l are “fed" into this mechanical de- . vice and bombarded with shock ! waves transmitted in slightly alkaline water. Pure protein is report--1 ed to come out. The machine is said to be about ; 10 times as efficient as an ordin- ’ ary cow in producing proteins for 1 human consumption, according to Dr. G. R. Fristram, a company scientist Farm Forum Considerable .interest is being shown in the Farm Forum schedule for January 6 at Taylor University. The program starting at 8 p.m. has the three farm organization leadefs'and a dean of school

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Purdue Receives Grant For Study Os State Forests A new technical study by Purdue University during the next three years will seek new ways of improving the yield of forest products from Indiana woodlands. The study is to be financed by a grant of $7,800 made by Container Corporation of America with the first check for $2,600 being presented by Ed Hall of the company’s Carthage mill to Dr. William C. Bramble, head of Purdue’s School of Forestry, during a recent meeting of the Society of American Foresters here. In 1958, Container Corporation converted a paper mill at Carthage (Rush County) which had used straw as a basic raw material fq r more than 50 years. It naw uses pulpwood for its fiber. Prior to this time, relatively little pulpwood was harvested from Indiana woodlands for papermaking. Hall noted that complete studies of harvesting practies which assure the highest dollar return to the landowner and still leave the forest in the best possible growing condition for future crops of saleable timber have never been made in Indiana. “This study,” he said, '‘will be designed to furnish some of the answers for Indiana timberland owners who are marketing veneer logs, sawtimber, stave bolts, handle bolts and pulpwood.’ Container Corporation is one of the nation’s forest industries which sponsors the American Tree Farm System of growing timber for profit on privately owned taxpaying lands. It has its own “Tree Farm Familv” in Indiana. The Family is made up of conservation-minded tree farmers who are marketing their timber crops when economically mature and protecting the remaining stand and future crops from fire and grazing. Container Corporation gives Family members free forestry advice in' return for the first chance to buy the member’s pulpwood. This study will aid the members of the Tree Farm program as well as all other Indiana woodland owners. A I of agriculture as speakers. ■' Inequality For Agriculture is an editorial from the Farr# Journal’s Carrojl Streeter. 1 think you’ll find' it something to think about. “Can this country defend the practice Oft giving one kind of deal to labor and an opposite kind to farmers? Take two examples: The idea is becoming widely accepted that if wages increase no faster than gain in productivity, this is “fair,” is not inflationary and hence all right. Is it really? Most of the increased productivity comes from better ; tools. (In mate* ing steel, 95% of the energy comes from the tools.) The tools are paid tor by the stockholders who invest their savings. If capital gets none of the "increase, what is the incentive to go on providing still better fools? If the public gets nope of it, people are deprived of the lower ’ prices that better productivity is , supposed to bring. With farmers it’s very Output per man hour has gone up 64% in agriculture since 1950, as , against 14% in non-farm industries. ‘ What sky-rending howls would we be hearing if farm prices had gone [ up 64%! A second example :■/ Many current labor contracts contain an “escalator clause” which provides _ that wages shall fluctuate with the 5 cost of living—which means fluctuating up. When you take a case * of eggs or a load of hogs to town t does any buyer ask what it costs you to produce them? The only ! farmers whose costs receive any recognition are the minority whose support prices are based on parity—and their percentage of parity has been going down. Farmers have no toeans to en- ( force “productivity" or “cost of living" increases. But you can demand of Congress that the laws be changed to put labor on the same t basis as the rest of us. If you do nothing, don’t complain." ! A red sandstone cave near Clarksville, Ark., has Indiana hieroglyphics which have never been deciphered. : A recent survey of dentists showed that three out of five of them ’ charge lower fees for children than * for adults, according to the Health ' Insurance Institute.

Pest Control Program Underway In County Harry R. Frauhiger of Decatur, Ind., will head a country wide rat and mouse control program in Adams county. Mr. Frauhiger was recently appointed as the sales representative of the International Pest Control Co.. Cedar Rapids, lowa, in Adams county. This program is a part of a state wide elimination and control of rats and mice instigated by the International Pest Control. Ready mixed bait and bait stations are placed oft location where the contact with the farmer is made. This is a very good opportunity for those farmers who have rats and mice present on their farms to get rid of them easily. The only sure way to eliminate rats and mice in your area is for not only you but your neighbors as well to rid their farms of rats and mice. Rats and mice are known to migrate from farm to farm. The only sure way of complete extermination is for every farmer to carry out a campaign to rid his farm of these rodents. A complete campaign throughout the county will practically rid us of the rats and mice for the winter and spring. <? 11 Reappointed By Wells County Board The Wells county board of commissioners, in its final 1959 meeting Wednesday,* reappointed 11 persons to various posts in that county. James Hatfield was renamed county hospital trustee for four years; Earl Hinshaw, liquor board for one year; other one-year terms are Leonard Warner, highway superintendent; Hubert Crum, assistant highway suprintendent; Harold Porter, highway bookkeeper: Kathryn Ulmer, health nurse; Elmore D. Sturgis, county attorney; Dr. William Gitlin, jail physician; Paul E. Scott, veterans service officer; Edward add Nancy Mock, courthouse custodian and matron, respectively. ... Cecil Lockwood, Sr., was renamed for a year's term to the Wells county liquor board by the Wells county council. About 20 per cent of the total land area of the United States was either producing or under lease for. oil and gas as qf Jan. 1,1952. The average American spent $27 a year on medical services in 1929, compared with $124 today. The "rum ration” usually associated with the British navy was also part of American naval tradition until the Civil War. Petrified tree trunks are so common in the vicinity of Piggott, Ark., that many have been used as Cemetery tomb stones. Fire caused $£.056,266,000 driftage in the United State! "during 1958, according jfo statistics cotrfcpiled by the Rational Board of Fire Underwriters. ~ .*■ “Sardine” is {baffle applied to several species.pt smalt fish that have soft bones,; a, rich flavor and can J* preserved in oil. The Maine sardine, for instance, is actually an Atlantic herring. , . * Motorists in Europe who come across the words “Verboteb,” "Vietato" and “Ifiderdit” are being told that the street or road is one-way. Florida boasts.more than 3,000 varieties of flowering plants, at least 600 species of fish and 30,000 lakes.

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Cautions Drivers On County Roads Times have changed since the lady of the house filled the grease cups and checked the battery in the family car. “But winter hasn't changed,” remarks F. R. Willsey, farm safety specialist at Purdue University. “Holiday travelers should be warned that disregard for nature's traffic laws can be more deadly than a violation of man-made laws. “Slush, light freezing drizzle, isolated slipk spots, muddy spray on the windshield and fogged windows are this season’s killers,” Willsey asserts, “not heavy snowfalls when traffic is slowed almost to a standstill and many persons stay at home." Adjust speeds to allow for increased stopping distances and decreased visibility. Pumping the brakes when attempting to stop cm snow, ice or wet pavement helps, as does turning the front wheels in the, direction of skid when the Mt starts to slide rideways. , Christmas in the country can become Christmas in a hospital tor the driver who forgets, after he tarns off the clear, main highway, that little-used country roads often remain slick much longer. Visitors from the South should be warned of hazards—ice on the bridge and sections of the highway protected by trees — that hardened Yankee drivers are accustomed to expect. Match-boxes Brighten NEW YORK (UPD—Dressed-up match boxes brighten place settings; on a holiday table. Cover the boxes with red, green or white felt, but leave the striking surface uncovered. Put a daub of glue on fop and sprinkle on glitter. Add more glue and perch a tiny wreath, caroler or tree on top. The figures are available at artcraft shops and dime stores. Nine million Americans now work on farms—but about 10 million are engaged in assembling, processing, wholesailing, retailing and transporting farm products.

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Check On Corn Will Pay Off In Next Year A little time spent in checking the corn ears you harvested this all can pay off in higher profit yields next year, reports Dr. Russell Stivers,' Purdue University extension agronomist. Stivers points out that corn ears can tell you whether the crop was well fed or undernourished. They can tell you whether the soil had a well balanced supply of nutrients on which the crop could draw; and whether your planting rate was suited to the soil’s available nutrient resources. On the basis of this information, you can malre plans for moneymaking corn yields next year. " , Summing up the story which corn ears can tell, Dr. Stivers had this to say: “When ears weigh an average of about a half pound each at harvest, maximum yields are generally the result. “Large ears mean there were too few corn plants per acre and that the yield would have been higher with thicker stands. On the other hand, if most ears are too small, it’s an indication of limited fertility, too thick a stand or limited moisture. “Small ears with part or entire rows of kernels mising can indicate a shortage of phosphate. Phosphate deficiency. Interferes with pollination and kernel devel-. opment. Barren stalks also result from a lack of phosphate. “Chaffy nubbins may indicate a potash shortage. Kernels are loose on the cob and tips of ears don’t fill. “Small ears with unfilled tips

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