Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 60, Number 262, Decatur, Adams County, 6 November 1962 — Page 6

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Adams County Farmers’ Corner

I County Agent’s Corner

By Leo N. Seltenright, County Agr'l Agent 4-H ACHIEVEMENT MEETINGS Monroe township held their 4-H achievement meeting Monday evening this week. Jefferson township will hold their meeting Wednesday evening at 8 pm. at the Jefferson school. AVOID HUNTING ACCIDENTS Small game season opens this Saturday. A lot of people look forward to this hunting season, so let’s keep it safe. Improper gun handling techni-. ques will bring fatal or near-fatal accidents to some Hoosier hunters again this autumn, points out F. A. Willsey, Purdue University farm safety specialist. So he suggests that hunters follow gun safety rules as outlined by authorities on gun safety. They recommend: Treat every gun with the respect due a loaded weapon. Guns carried into camp or home, or when otherwise not in use, must always be unloaded. Unattended guns should be unloaded. Always be sure barrel and action are clear of obstructions. Carry your gun so you can control the direction of the muzzle even if you stumble. Keep the gun safety on until you are ready to shoot. Be sure of your target before you squeeze the trigger. Never point a gun at anything you do not want to shoot. Neyer climb a tree or fence or jump a ditch with a loaded gun. Never shoot a bullet at a flat hard surface or the surface of water. Avoid alcoholic drinks before or during shooting. And, Willsey stresses a single hunting accident is one too many! BE ALERT FOR SHIPPING FEVER With cattle and sheep moving into Hoosier feed lots, farmers should be on the lookout for shipping fever, advises Dr. F. A. Hall, Pursue University extension veterinarian. This highly contagious respiratory disease generally strikes when the animals’ resistance is lowered by fatigue, chilling, irregular feeding often accompanying transportation and crowded quarters. Like the common cold in man the disease often starts with watering eyes, nasal discharge and

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I coughing. Body temperatures skyrocket. Complications may quickly set in, resulting iin pneumonia. Acute cases may die in 24 to 48 hours and chronic cases may live and become unthrifty or die later. Dr. Hall explains that the primary infection is probably caused from a virus, while bacteria cause the secondary involvements. The disease spreads rapidly though a feedlot and also to other cattle on the farm. Newly purchased feeders should be isolated and kept in a small lot where they may rest and can be easily observed. Their diet should consist of low quality hay or hay and oats, A sudden change in diet or high concentrate diet would add another stress factor, Dr. Hall says. If you notice sick animals, call your veterinarian so he can initiate treatment and suggest management of the rest of the animals until the danger passes. Most farmers who “buy” their own treatment usually merely change acute cases to chronic cases, Dr. Hall adds. Each outbreak differs and there is no “shutgun” treatment available which will adjust to all ■cases. TAKE SOIL SAMPLES NOW “Take soil samples now because you will probably find ways to improve the plant food condition of your soil ” advises Russell K. Stivers, director of Purdue Universitys soil testing laboratory. “This generally results in better crops and increased profits.” Many farmers have used tests to improve their soil. Os those who used the Purdue Soil Testing Laboratory in 1961, approximately two-fifths found that the soil needed extra phosphate fertilizer and more than three-fifths were low or very low in available potash. About three-fifths of the samples showed the need for lime. Soils may fall in one of these categories where more than maintenance amounts of phosphate or potash are needed Stivers warns, and the only way for most farmers to determine this is the test their soil this Fall is one of the best times to take these samples and get them tested. After corn and soybeans are harvested is the time to do this sampling in the fall. During this season the weather and soil are nearly ideal for taking soil samples —until

the soil freezes. The soil is generally more firm in the fall than in the spring, and spreader trucks can usually broadcast lime and fertilizer without sinking in the mud. Where corn is to be grown the. following year, hay, or pasture sods, or small grain stubble can well receive needed broadcast applications of lime, phosphate, or potash. In addition, there is relatively more time to take soil sampSes in fall than in spring. GRAIN STORAGE STOCKS Stocks of old crop com, wheat, rye and barley in all storage positions in Indiana on Oct. 1 dropped i below those on hand a year ago, according to state-federal agricultural statisticians at Purdue University. However, supplies of oats old crop soybeans and grain sorghum topped stocks of a year earlier. Old Zofjn in- all positions totaled 80,84L000 bushels, 29 per cent smaller than the record amount on hand Oct. 1, 1961. Farm-stored corn made up* a fourth of all stocks. Wheat stored in all positions amounted to 17,275,006 bushels, down 20 per cent from the year earlier total . Rye stocks of 817,00 bushels were eight per cent smaller than a year ago, while Oct. 1 stocks of barley amount 605,000 bushels had fallen 35 per cent from Oct. 1, 1961, figure. Old crop soybeans in all storage positions had more than doubled the supplies of a year ago. Stocks amounted to 1,520,000 bushels, of which 231,000 were in farm bins. The on-farm storage is up 78 per cent from last year. Oats stored on farm amounted to 25,384,000 bushels, up 16 per cent from Oct. 1, 1961. Farm stocks accounted for 85 per cent of total stocks which amounte dto 29,877,999 bushels. Oct. 1 stocks of grain sorghum totaled 25,000 bushels, nine per cent larger than those of a vear earlier. WATER EVERGREENS NOW Watering the evergreens around your house this fall can make the difference between having scrawny, sickly shrubs or vigorous colorful evergreens all year. Purdue University extension horticulturists say you should water your evergreens this fall because they lose moisture all year through their leaves. If your evergreens dry up this fall and stay dry all winter, youll see “winter injury” next spring. And sections of your

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Farm Belt Voting May Test Policies

WASHINGTON (UPI) — Farm belt voting in congressional elections today may test the popularity of President Kennedy’s “supply management’’ farm policies in rural areas. Political , veterans said there had been less concentration on farm issues in this election than in most past congressional campaigns. But even a comparatively small net gain in Republican House strength could hamper administration plans for new suplus-con-trol legislation for feed gains and dairy products next year. In the last Congress, President Kennedy’s first farm bill was beaten, 215-205, in the House by a coalition of Republicans and dissident Democrats. A second farm bill carrying only one of the three Kennedy plans for new farm commodity programs squeaked through the House, 202-197. agriculture is a substantial issue with voters, Republicans generally have attacked the administration’s farm policy on the ground that it is aimed at regimenting farmers. Agriculture Secretary Orville L. evergreens will look brown and skimpy next spring and summer. Mulches of leaves or peat moss around the base of your shrubs will increase moisture retention during the winter months. When winter injury occurs, yot> sholud remove dead areas as soon as they appear in the spring. Then apply a complete fertilizer in late March or April to help damaged shrubs renew their foliage. The Ihorticulturist scaution not to add fertilizer in the fall when the evergreen faliage may grow. This growth may be weak and especially subject to winter injury. DID YOU KNOW? Agriculture is the largest business in the United States. Capital investments in agriculture amount to 75 per cent of the current assets of all Uunited States Corporations. Farmers invest $5,000,000,000 per year in new building, equipment, and machinery. AnOthejf $9,000,000,000 is spent for seed, stock, feed and fertilizer. In Indiana the average investment I per farm worker is about $50,000.

Nuclear Big Three Make last Effort GENEVA (UPI) — The nuclear big three made a last effort to negotiate a nuclear test ban treaty today before the full 17nation .disarmament conferences resumes next week. The United States, Britain and Russia were meeting for the 42nd session of the nuclear test ban sub-committee of the conference, probably the last before the main body ends its two-month recess. Western delegates said they hoped for some clue as to whether Russia will show any flexibility on the testing issue. The Soviet withdrawal of its missile base in Cuba has not been reflected so far in the attitude of the Kremlin’s chief negotiator here, Semyon K. Tsarapkin. At the last meeting, Tsarapkin continued to turn down Western demands for international inspection and control over underground tests. He said the Western proposals for on-site inspection were merely a disguise for espionage, since they would allow foreigners to roam across the Soviet Union. Lilly Endowment To DePauw University GREENCASTLE, Ind. (UPI) — DePauw University has been named recipient of a $77,000 grant by Lilly Endowment, Inc., to be used for any purpose except en downment. V,.

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Freeman said shortly before the campaign closed that he had heard reports the GOP attach on farm controls might have "sharp effects.” But Freeman said many farmers might be swinging to the Democrats because farm income rose last year and stayed up this year. Some of the impact of the “control” squabble may have been removed by Freeman’s statements in , recent weeks hinting broadly that he would not revive his 1962 proposal for mandatory acreage controls on feed grains. Another factor in the lack of widespread “fire” over farm policy was the absence from Washington of former Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson. Benson, top farm spokesman in former President Eisenhower’s cabinet for eight years, was a hot personal issue to thousands of farmers across the Midwest. Republicans have criticized Freeman and have attacked his policies. But “they’ve never built the kind of personalized storms against Freeman that were raised against Benson,” one Democrat said.

Uproar At Trial In Thalidomide Case LIEGE, Belgium (UPI) — The announcement that a sister-in-law of one of the defendants at Belgium’s “thalidomide trial” gave birth Monday night to a deformed child today caused an uproar at the trial. Jean Mottard, defense lawyer for Dr. Jacques Casters ,33, accused of conspiracy to murder, told the jammed courtroom the doctor’s sister-in-law, who ha<t taken the drug thalidomide early in her pregnancy, gave birth to a boy with deformed hands. With the help of surgery, the, baby is expected to lead a nearly normal lief, the attorney told the court. Casters’ reaction was that “there is no problem” in this case, the lawyer said. Casters is accused of prescribing the overdose of barbiturates which Mrs. Suzzane Coipel Van de Put admitted Monday she mixed with honey and fed her week-old deformed daughter last May to kill the child because “it was the only thing to do.” Another doctor, the physician who delivered the child, Dr. Edouard Weerts, was called to testify today to tell the all-male jury why he refused the family’s request to kill the little girl. At Monday’s session, investigator Rene Laurent testified that Mrs. Van de Put’s mother, Mrs. Fernande Yema, and sister, Moniqur Coipel, begged Weerst to kill the baby immediately after its birth. Mrs. Van de Put later asked the same thing. “I cannnot do it,” Laurent said the doctor replied. Defense attorneys were -expected to claim that Weerst told Mrs. Van de Put and the other women than he could not kill the childbut they should do it themselves if they wished. Mrs. Van de Put is charged with murder. Her mother, sister, husband and their family doctor, Dr. Jacques Casters, are charged with conspiracy to murder. « Casters admitted Monday prescribing the barbiturates. Taken By Ambulance To Cast Vote Today GARY, Ind. (UPI) — A Republican party worker injured in a traffic accident last weekend was taken to a polling place by ambulance today to cast her vote in the general elections. Mrs. Donna Herrold has been hospitalized since the mishap Saturday night. She was enroute to a GOP election rally when the accident occurred.

t! K Im ■ A -’■ JBHI IBlslib >. ■ \ j 8 s Jr. ZB a I ■ K "*■' / 1 ; 5 di F aS XT ** ■ ' 'B JACOB M. FOSTER, of Dayton, 0., left, brother of Mrs. L. E. Chase, of Decatur, is pictured above receiving a 30-year service certificate from Brig. Gen. William W. Veal, commander of the defense electronics supply center at Dayton, O. Foster was honored for dedicated and extended Federal service.

The center, an installation of the Defense Supply Agency at Cameron Station, Va., was activated July 1 to procure, manage and supply electrical and electronic items for the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marine Corps. It assumed facilities formerly assigned to Dayton Air Force depot. Foster, technical associate for the transportation division, opened his federal career July 1, 1935, at Fort Thomas, Ky Two years later, he moved to Fort Knox, Ky., and transferred to Fort Benjamin Harrison, Ind., during 1939.

Russia Pledges Continued Red Aid For Cuba MOSCOW (UPD— First Deputy Premier Alexei Kosygin today pledged continued Soviet aid to Cuba and issued a new call for the conclusion of a German peace treaty. In an address to the nation on the eve of Wednesday’s 45th anniversary celebrations of the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution, Kosygin said a German peace settlement “can be affected without affecting the fate of any state.” But he attacked alleged militaristic tendencies on the part of West Germany and said that “without the signing of a German peace treaty there can be no idea that the West German militarists will give up their ideas.” Kosygin’s reference to Berlin coincided with the end of the moratorium on a Berlin crisis that the Soviets had declared would last until today’s American elections. But the Soviet first deputy premier notably imposed no apparent new conditions for regulating the Berlin issue. In fact, he reiterated the Soviet claim that fruitful negotiations such as those concerning Laos and West Irian (Dutch New Guinea) “show the intention of all sides to find practical solutions to problems.” Kosygin laid down a vigorous defense of Soviet Cuban policy that included a promise of future aid. But he did not specify whether it would be economic or military help. “We have been rendering, we are rendering and we will be rendering assistance to the Cuban people,” he said. His declaration brought a round of applause from the audience and from Soviet Premier Nikita -Khrushchev, who_was on the_ stage with other top Soviet dignitaries. Dedicate Fine Arts Center At Evansville EVANSVILLE, Ind. (UPD — Evansville College will dedicate its Fine Arts Center and the Carson Center for Health, and Physiused for any purpose except endowment

In 1942, he shifted to Middletown, Ohio. Foster joined DESC’s predecessor, Dayton Air Force depot, shortly after it was built in 1944 and has been in transportation field for 22 of his 30 years. The civil service veteran served in the Army from 1930 through 1933. Born November 25, 1909, at Indianapolis, Foster was graduated from Lovett, high school in 1928 and lettered in football, basketball and baseball. Shortly after graduating, he became a boxer and fisted his way through five professional bouts. Married to the former Edythe Snyder of Geneva, the DESC worker and his wife have four children: Mrs. Virginia Walters of 4445 Harding street, Bridgetown, Ohio; Richard M. Foster at Greenville Air Force base, Mississippi, and Bonnie and Cinda, both living at home. Foster, who was the first worker at the installation to receive a 10-year pin back in 1945, has been active in the Boy Scouts, Delta Nu Alpha transportation fraternity, Miami Valley Traffic club, and is a past president of the Dayton chapter of the national defense transportation association. At the center, he has been

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co-director of the recreation program, president and treasurer of the credit union, president of the advisory council plus being a member of the incentive awards committee, restaurant council, executive development association and the Officers’ club. He is an original member of the 1,000 Sick Leave club and an honorary citizen of Father Flannagan’s Boys Town. He is the brother of Mrs. Leo H. Busenbarrick Route 1 Zionsville Ind.; retired Lieutenant Colonel Robert A. Foster, Lakeland, Florida; and Mrs. Chase, Decatur. Union Official Is Arraigned Monday NOBLESVILLE, Ind. (UPI) — A union official was arraigned in City Court Monday on charges of disturbing the peace and disorderly conduct stemming from a picketing incident at a truck stop at Perkinsville. Merle Jones, business agent for Local 303 of the National HotelMotel and Restaurant Workers Union, was arrested Saturday, police said.