Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 60, Number 256, Decatur, Adams County, 30 October 1962 — Page 6

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County Agent’s Corner

CORN FIELD DAY! Dr. Eric Sharvelle, extension plant pathologist (the old plant doctor), will be the speaker at the corn field day Friday, 1 p.m., at the Gerald Bayless farm in Wells county. The Bayless farm is located three miles south of Uniondale, then Vi mile west, or on county road 300 N, about 2¥4 miles west of Murray. Dr. Sharvelle will discuss corn diseases on a tour through the corn field. Also on the Bayless farm you will see about 90 different corn varieties

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being grown. Yield, per cent lodging and moisture records have been determined on each variety. Anyone interested in corn or corn diseases is invited to attend the meeting. 4-H ACHIEVEMENT MEETINGS: 4-H township achievement meetings this week are Preble and French. Preble was held Monday evening and French township will be Thursday evening.

HOME DEMONSTRATION CHRISTMAS LESSON: The Home Demonstration Christmas lesson will be Friday at 1:30 p. m. at the Decatur Community Center. The theme is “Share Christmas Decoration Ideas." Miss Peg Buchan of Indiana & Michigan Electric will demonstrate “Cookie Baking." INDIANA FEEDER CATTLE NUMBERS UP: Indiana farmers are fattening more cattle this fall than last. State-federal agricultural statisticians at Purdue University estimate the number of cattle and calves on feed Oct. 1 at 131,000. This is eight per cent more than the number in feed lots a year ago. Cattle and calves on feed three months or less as of Oct. 1 totaled 85,000, 15,000 more than at the same time last year.- Hoosier farmers placed on feed 89,000 cattle during the July-September quarter. This reflects the 23 per cent increase in the number of feeder animals shipped into Indiana during this period. Cattle weighing 900 pounds or more totaled 30,000, or 23 per cent of the Oct. 1 number of feed. However, this was 23 per cent fewer than a year ago. Marketings of fed cattle during the July-September period amounted to 78,000 head. This was seven per cent fewer than those sold during the same period of 1961. Cattle feeders indicate they will sell 66,000 head during the last three months of the year. CHOOSING ANTIFREEZE FOR FARM ENGINES: C. L. Hill, Purdue University extension agricultural engineer, calls the old time methanol antifreee with today’s additives “The best choice for radiators of engines to be stored this winter or used only on light loads for short times”

Keep the cooling system full to prevent rusting which will result if the radiatot is drained and left empty, he advises. However, engines used for heavy work need an ethylene glycol base antifreeze which will not boil away because of high engine temperatures. Two new versions of ethylene glycol antifreeze are now available. One type includes additives that make the antifreeze permanent. An antifreeze with a permanent guarantee will prove economical if it is used, in a fairly new tractox or truck which you reasonably can expect to own for the next five or six years, Hill explains. Keeping this antifreeze three seasons brings its cost per year to the same level of fluids which are drained and replacedeach year. Farmers living in areas in which the water is extremely hard may be interested in an ethlene glycol antifreeze mixed with pure water. Antifreezes of this type

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are guaranteed for two years. Their cost per year is higher, Hill points out, but this may be worthwhile to insure a scale-free cooling system. MORE DAYS IN MILK MORE MONEY FOR DAIRYMAN: The more days a year cows are milked the more money the dairyman receives, observes Sam Gregory, Purdue University extension dairyman. To illustrate the point, Gregory analyzed 1961-62 Indiana dairy herd improvement association records. Here is what he found’: Herds of 33 cows averaged 1,200 pounds in body weight and in milk 76 per cent of the days on test averaged 9,290 pounds of milk. They received an average of 3,200 pounds of grain, 6,600 pounds of silage, 4-100 pounds of hay and were on pasture 154 days during the year. Income over feed costs per cow was $241, or $2.59 per hundred weight of milk. Another group of cows with a herd average of 34 and body weight of 1,200 pounds produced an average of 11,000 pounds of milk. They were in milk 85 per cent of the days on test. These cows were fed an average of 3,500 pounds of grain, 7,600 pounds of silage and 3,900 pounds of hay. Each cow spent 164 days on pasture.

Income over feed costs per cow was $302, or $2.75 per hundred weight of milk. Gregory said the additional 33 days in milk per cow in the second group resulted in an increase of 1.710 pounds of milk per cow and s6l more in income per cow above feed costs. This additional income above feed costs of $2,013 for the 33-cow herd would justify attention to breeding cows 60 to 90 days after calving, checking for pregnancy, establishing and following a herd health program and using DHIA records as a basis for selection, breeding and culling. VEGETABLE JUDGING: A Tyner high school vegetable judging team turned in a perfect score to win the 1962 Purdue University vegetable judging contest. The Marshall county 4-H club members scored 489 points to defeat by one point a 4-H team from Geneva. One hundred ninety-sev-en other teams competed in the contest, largest in the country. Members of-.the winning team are Roger Swanson, Loren Berkstire and Sharry Truax. They were coached by Alvin Boise. Runner-up team members were Arnie Lehman, Jim Biberstein and Ronnie Mossier, all of route 2, Geneva,- coached by Bill Kipfer. Third place went to a Kendallville team of Don Richards, Denny Ringler and Ronnie Leighty. A Wolf Lake, Noble county, teaiin took fourth. Members were Ray Earnhart.a Wayne Edwards and Bob Turner. Two Marion county teams tied for fifth. One team, from Lawrence high school, was made up of Jim Trittipo, Jim Barbour and Art Staddon. Tied with this team was one from Pike township, New Augusta, made up of Jack Glunt, Lyn Brewer and Les Tyler. Teams from these schools had won a trip to the national junior vegetable growers association convention in the last five years, according to Roscoe Fraser, Purdue extension horticulturist. A Southport, Marion county high school team took first place in competition for schools which had not won a trip in the last five years. Members were Harriet Schooley, Ray Darlinger and Kim Sanderson. The seven winning teams and their coaches will receive trips to the 1962 NJVGA convention Dec. 1-9 in Miami Beach, Fla. FALL ROSE CARE: Your rose care shouldn’t step when you pick the last bloom, caution Purdue University extension horticulturists. If it does, and you don’t care for your roses this fall and mulch them for winter,

ROGER s,ngleton Democratic Candidate for SHERIFF oE Adams County BHklHli' E W'*nc®il I Earnestly Seek Your Support „ Pol. Advt.

Ann Thompson Gives Past OfChile Miss Ann Thompson Miss Ann Thompson, former apprentice home agent in Adams county this summer, and now an IFYE in Chile, has sent the second of a series of articles giving the background of the country in which she is studying and working. Miss Thompson has now left the capital city, Santiago, and is in Rancagua, just south of that area. Her address is still Miss Ann Thompson, c/o Sr. Ramon Bricenyo, Casilla No. 3727, Santiago, Chile. Primitive Indians The first inhabitants of Chile, Miss Thompson writes, were the Araucanian Indians. These people had no organized form of in-ter-village government. Chile was first entered by Europeans in 1535 by the expedition of Almagro, a .Spaniard. Five years later Pedro de Waldivia, also a Spaniard, led the second expedition into middle Chile, and founded a settlement which became present-day Santiago. The history of Chile from this date is filled with continual fighting against the Araucanian Indians, raids by the English, French and Dutch; earthquakes and floods. Chile obtained her independence from Spain in 1817, after several years of fighting in which Bernardo O’Higgins, the national hero, remained as dictator until 1823.

Peace This Century Even after independence, there was continued battling, civil war, dictatorship, and unrest until the latter half of the 19th century By that time the Indians had been pacified, and Chile incorporated the northern nitrate coast which previously had belonged to Bolivia and Peru. In the 20th century, Chile has had a relatively peaceful history with no foreign wars and no internal f revolutions of great consequence. Chilean statesmen have played important parts in the Organization of American States, and the United Nations. Her strong respect in these organizations is undoubtedly due to her strong respect for her democratic traditions, Miss Thompson explained.

you may find few blooms next year—or even dead bushes. Protect your garden roses, such as hybrid teas, floribundas and grandifloras, by mounding soil up eight to 10 inches around each plant. Do this after the first killing frost, and the plants have lost some of their leaves. Don’t take soil from around the plant roots, but bring it in from another area. For extra protection, add a straw mulch on top; then more

Fl*a-WaW*rt —1 Citizens Bond Radio Down On The Farm

■' • / >. . | '* fl I ... Walter D. (Ding) Davis, a Sioux City, lowa, farmer, demonstrate* how easy it Is to keep in touch by means of citizen band (CB) radio while isolated out in the field — here he has been chopping alfalfa- Ding and his father, Walter E. Davis, farm 860 acres of land some 20 odd miles southeast of Sioux City. Most of the land is in corn, oats, soybeans and hay. Ding carries his walkie-talkie unit in the tractor’s toolbox. t

“Happy the farmers,” the Roman poet Virgil wrote more than 19 centuries ago. But, also, there’s no more lonely man in the world than the farmer working in his field, perhaps miles away from contact with his home and other people. Today though, there’s no reason why he has to ba out of touch; because two-way walkietalkie radio has found its place on the farm. For, although Telstar may be the newest radio communication device of the space age, the hottest thing down here on earth is Citizen Band (CB) radio. Since 1958 when this class D radio band was opened up by the Federal Communicaftions Commission (FCC), the CB

Students Hurl Articles At U.S. Guards OXFORD, Miss. (UPI) — Mill-' ing university of Mississippi students, shouting “Yankees, go home,” Monday night threw soft drink bottles, eggs and firecrackers at the soldier guards of Negro student James H. Meredith. No one was hurt and there were no arrests in the demonstration which began at the university cafeteria while Meredith was eating dinner and later spread to the Negro’s dormitory where it continued well into the night. It was the worst demonstration on the campus since the bloody rioting, touched off by Meredith’s admission Sept. 30, that killed two persons and injured several hundred others. Goes Unnoticed There was no apparent attempt to harm Meredith. He emerged during the melee in front of the cafeteria and went virtually unnoticed back to his dormitory, Baxter Hall. The later demonstration outside Baxter Hall occurred at the opposite end of the dormitory from Meredith’s apartment. Several soldiers and U.S. marshals chased a few of the students who hurled eggs, bottles and firecrackers at a jeep-load of soldiers outside the cafeteria. They were unable to catch the youths, however, and the crowd of about 200 students broke up after campus police chief Burns Tatum jokingly told them to “let them (the soldiers) go on now. I’ve run that jeep off.” _ But students later began harassing soldiers standing guard outside Baxter Hall by tossing firecrackers and loud-popping “cherry bombs’’ down from dormitory windows. A group of several hundred students gathered in J front of a dormitory across the street from Baxter Hall. Talked Into Dispersing Dean of Students L. L. Love was talking with students inside Baxter while the disturbance went on outside. There have been reports of consistent harrassment of Meredith, such as slamming doors, shouting and fireworks, by students , - in Baxter. Students sources quoted Love as saying he soil. To protect your climbing roses, the horticulturists say you can bring the canes together and wrap them with straw. This method is highly effective, but somewhat unsightly. Or you can remove the plant from the trellis or support and lay it down and then cover it with soil. After the soil is well frozen, add a layer of leaves or straw.

movement has mushroomed in popularity: ... Today there are more than 250,000 licensed stations in the United States; . . . Applications are flooding into the FCC at a rate of approximately 11,000 a month. Principal reasons for this popularity are first, the FCC doesn’t require a test to qualify for CB radio operation; and second, cost of a base transceiver set and walkie-talkie unit is relatively cheap, costing some S2OO odd dollars. Cheap enough for a farmer, says Walter D. (Ding) Davis, who with his father handles 360 acres southeast of Sioux City, lowa. And besides providing constant contact with the I

had advised against housing Meredith on the campus Wut that he had been overruled by Justice Department officials. Love’ later walked over and urged the students to return to their dormitories and the group began dispersing.

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house, CB radio helps the farmer in a thousand and one ways, Ding points out For example: ... During harvesting season, the family farmer is usually out in the field alone with just his tractor and harvester. When the harvester bin is full of grain, Ding just takes the walkietalkie unit out of the toolbox of his Allis-Chalmers tractor and calls home for service. ... On one occasion some cattle got loose and wandered down the road a’piece. •‘Then,” says Ding, "a fellow Flea-Watter spotted them as he drove home for lunch, called me and told me their location. It was hardly any trouble at all to hop onto my tractor and corral them.* . . •. Ding also points out a bonus feature for the farmer using CB radio: it functions as weather forecaster, something every farmer is interested in. When weather conditions start to get unsettled in other areas, the short-wave CB radio begins to give out a high-pitched wail. Ding says that this always means a change in weather is coming his way and adjusts his plans accordingly. "So, whether I’m trying to get in touch with another farmer who is out of reach in his field, or the veterinarian out on a call, or the doctor tending a patient,” Ding emphasized, "this CB radio gets my message through.” In his opinion, the time saved as well as the convenience provide more than enough benefits to fully justify any farmer’s acquiring a CB set because it allows him to spend enough more actual working hours on the farm to pay for the set many times over. And enough of his neighbors in Woodbury county agree with Ding, including farmers, druggist, veterinarian and farm equipment dealers, to blanket the county with a CB network and provide some 60 members for the Tristate Flea-Watters club in I Sioux Citv.

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