Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 60, Number 285, Decatur, Adams County, 4 December 1962 — Page 6

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County Agent’s Corner

ANNUAL CONFERENCE: This week is the annual extension workers conference at Purdue University, so I will be at Purdue all week. The conference is designed to provide training exchange of ideas and inspiration for extension agents from over the state. And besides, we can find out what is going on in other areas. ST. MARY’S TOWNSHIP 4-H MEETING: The St. Mary’s township 4-H achievement meeting will be held Monday evening, December 13. The meeting will be at 8 p. m. at the Pleasant Mills school. AU 4-H members and parents are encouraged to attend. MUSKRAT CONTROL IN FARM LANDS: Some farm pond owners are having considerable difficulty with muskrats. They can cause considerable damage in the dam if not controlled. Trapping, of course, is one way to keep them in check. A suggestion from David McGinty, conservation department wildlife biologist, is to put the large crystals of copper sulfate in the muskrat runs. This discourages the muskrats to the point that they will move out of the area. TEST SEEN NOW: AU farmers who will have seed to seU or sow next spring. should get the seed tested during the faU or early winter. The extension office offers to help farmers in this testing program by supplying instructions for drawing samples and special seed envelopes for seeding them to the state’s seed laboratory at Purdue for a free test as weU r,s by furnishing information on other seed matters. Seed that is advertised for sale by farmers is required to be tested and tagged and aU seeds must be free of prohibited noxious weed seeds and must not contain evcessive amounts of other weed seeds to be legaUy sold. Since the test is free, aU farmers should take advantage of this service. The tendency of farmers to postpone sending samples to Purdue until just before planting time usuaUy results in a congestion of samples in the laboratory in February and March. Anticipating

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Adams County Farmers’ Corner

seed testing requirements and sending samples early is recommended. Care should be exercised in seeing that the sample is representative of the lot and is large enough for test. A teacupful of clover and grass seed and at least a pint of soybean or cereal seed should be submitted. NITROGEN APPLICATION: A common fertilizer question in the fall is ‘‘Should or could I apply nitrogen now for next year’s corn crop?” Several reasons are often advanced for fall application of nitrogen: 1 It will start the stalks rotting faster; 2 there is more time; 3 soil conditions are better; 4 it helps manufacturers and dealers spread out their season. One of the main objections raised to fall application of nitrogen for corn is the fear of loss from leaching. Most of the fertilizer nitrogen will eventually end up in the nitrate fornj of nitrogen which will move with soil water unless used by roots of growing plants or by micro-organisms in decomposing plant residue. In the late fall and early winter there are no growing roots in the corn field unless a winter cover crop has been planted. Also most of the micro-organisms which decompose plant residue become quite inactive at temperatures below 50 degrees F. It is now known that the micro-organisms which convert ammonium nitrogen to titrate nitrogen are more active at temperatures below 50 degrees F than those decomposing plant residue. This further adds to the concern of leaching losses. Normally soil temperatures are down to 40 degrees F in northern Indiana by the last week in November and by December 10 in southern Indiana. This fall, temperatures under grass at a depth of 4 inches wete still above but approaching the 40 degree level on this date in central Indiana. Ammonia type nitrogen applied after this date should be available for decomposing residues next spring except in event of a warm, wet spring. In such .a ease the nitrogen could be converted to the nitrate form and carried below the residue before being used by micro-organisms. The general recommendations for fall application of nitrogen in Indiana are: (1) it is all right to apply ammonia type nitrogen after soil temperatures drop to 40 degrees F; . ■ • (2) if nitrogen is applied earlier it should be incorporated into the residues at the rate of not more than 20 pounds of nitrogen per ton of corn stalk residue, and the ammonia type should be used here also. — Cliff Spies, Extension Agronomist. CORN STALKS PROTECT SOIL: Shredding corn stalks after harvest can reduce runoff and check soil erosion losses from sloping fields, points.out Harry Galloway, Purdue University extension agronomist. Shredded corn stalks on slopes of two to four per cent may cut runoff only slightly when heavy rains continue. However, soil loss can be reduced to less than half because the water picks up less soil as it moves across the fields. Galloway says a flail type chopper which cuts and spreads stalks

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evenly does a better job than a disc which cuts them into the soil, exposing more loose dirt. Grazing stalk fields lessens tae soil cover and compacts the surface, the agronomist cautions. Stalks, as left by the picker, give fair soil protection, but a month’s grazing may greatly reduce their value as ground cover. i While winter protection is important on sloping crop lands all over Indiana, it is especially needed in the southern part of the state where at least a third of the erosion producing rains fall in the off crop season. SOYBEAN SEED DAMAGE WIDESPREAD: Hot and humid weather in many parts of southern Indiana during August and early September created environmental conditions unusually favorable for the development and spread of pdd and stem blight. Pod and stem blight is a fungus which infects the plant and pods and kills the plants prematurely, usually just ahead of normal ripening. In this respect the killing might not be differentiated from normal maturity. The infection causes the whitish-grey wrinkled appearing seeds plus additional ones which might be infected but do not show severity to the point of much discoloration. Infected seeds will not germinate. The organism is saprophytic and grows on dead and decaying organic matter of numerous crops and weeds. Thus, it is perpetuated in the absence of soybeans. Some samples of soybean seed received appear to have suffered heat damage also, as evidenced by the green discoloration. Both of these factors have combined to give us some seed samples with very low germination. Be particularly careful to check germination before saving your beans for seed. The use of dis-ease-free seed is recommended as a control. Certified seed is your best assurance of high quality seed with a high degree of varietal purity and a minimum guaranteed 80% germination. If you want certified seed, get your order in early. Seed supplies may be short in southern and central Indiana. Demand for certified soybeans will be high be.cause many farmers will not attempt to save seed from their own beans.—M. L. Swearingin, extension agronomist. PLANT LAWN NOW, NOT SPRING: Plant your lawn now rather than waiting , until next spring, say Purdue University extension horticulturists. You’ll avoid probable spring delay because of wet weather. And if y<su mulch after you plant this fall, you’ll avoid mud this winter; Perhaps best of all, your grass will be up faster next spring, and you’ll be mowing a lawn, instead of planting one. Before you sow, , pick a time when the soil isn’t muddy or frozen, loosen it and mix in fertilizer. -Twenty pounds of 10-3-7, or its

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equivalent, per 1,000 spuare feet, is recommended. Then smooth the surface, sow seed and rake it lightly. Finish by adding a mulch of two bales of straw per 1,000 square feet. For seed use either pure bluegrass, or a mixture containing bluegrass and no more than 40 per cent ryegrass. A mixture containing several of the newer bluegrass types such as Marion, Belta, Newport, or C-l is excellent. Paul Liechty Cow Completes Record Sallie Burke Maiden 4499520, a three-year-old registered Holstein cow owned by Paul E. Liechty and Sons, Berne, has completed an official 290-day record of 14,951 pounds of milk and 547 pounds of butterfat. Purdue University supervised the weighing and testing of production as a part of the official breed improvement programs of The Holstein - Friesian Association of America. In announcing the new record, a spokesman for the national Holstein organization said that it compared to the average cow’s annual output of 7,211 pounds of milk containing 270 pounds of butterfat.

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Central Soya Tries Steel Slot Floors An experimental floor section of a steel slotted floor, with inverted U-shaped channels, has been installed at the Central Soya Feed Research Farm in Decatur, U. S. Steel announced today. High-strength, corrosion-resitant steel called Cor-Ten, is being utilized. Slotted floors are new for hogs, and are used to get rid of the manure problem more easily than the older methods. Early attention on this problem centered in Indiana. Some farmers seem to feel that steel floors are cleaner, prevent build-up of manure on the slat sides, elminating much of the odor; easier on hogs’ feet; open widths stay uniform, with no wrap, ing or wearing; less labor in installing long life; etc. This was the original T-bar type floor. According to U. S. Steel, officials at the local farm are highly satisfied with the performance of the steel slats, and are convinced that the slotted floor concept will continue to grow. At present, the slotted floors are being sold as part of a pre-fabric-ated hog building package. The building is installed over a four-foot-deep, dirt-bottom pit filled with water. Posts 4x6 or 6x6 support the building. The slotted floor allows the manure to fall between the slats into the lagoon beneath, which acts as a natural septic tank. Purdue university is conducting an extensive experimental program with the floors. Beef and dairy cattle are raised on slotted floors in Europe, and this may be tried some day in America, too.

First Appointees Announced By Bayh INDIANAPOLIS (UPD - Sen.elect Birch E. Bayh Jr. said today that his top committee appointment hope is the Senate Space and Aeronautics Committee. Bayh, at a news conference held in Governor Welsh’s offices, also announced the first four of his staff appointments and said he plans to start “with a staff of 12 or 13.” Robert J. Keefe, 28, Huntington, who for the past two years has been Rep. Edward Roush’s administrative assistant in Washington, will head Bayh’s staff. Other members include Larry Conrads . 27, Muncie, legislative specialist; Robert Boxell, 32, Muncie, liaison man between the Bayh office and Hoosiers back home handling such matters as employment and patronage, and Robert Hinshaw, 26, Rockville, who will remain in Indiana on a part-time basis as a field man for Bayh. '

Bayh explained his interest in the space and aeronautics committee by saying “my main interest in going to Florida was to tour Cape Canaveral.” “I am anxious to get an appointment to the space and aeronautics committoe because I hope it will be an opportunity to get more industry and more jobs for Indiana,” he said. "I believe that with both senators working together we can get more space-orien-tated industry.” Bayh said one of the helpful bits of advice given him during a long visit with Vice President Lyndon Johnson was “buy a home, go in debt.’’ “Probably the only money you save in Washington will be what you are forced to save through payment on a home,” Johnson was quoted as telling Bayh. Bayh said this led to purchase of a house in McLean, Va. He said he and his wife Marvella hope to sell their home in Terre Haute but will maintain their legal residence as a Vigo County farmhouse they own. The Bayhs plan to move to McLean next week but Bayh said he may not be able to locate in his new office before Jan 3. /‘There’s a pecking or bumping order in getting office space for congressmen and senators,” he said. He recapped the details of the situation, including Welsh’s feeling it was necessary that Bayh return at once. A newsman asked if he tried to charter a plane when he found commercial transportation impossible. “Do you know what it costs to charter a plane?” Bayh asked. _

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South Dakota Town To Fight Office Removal MOUND CITY, S.D. (UPD - — Vigilante farmers today posted a 24-hour watch at a sandbagged building and boasted of a force of 500 “Minutemen” which could be called in if federal marshals stormed the building to recover U.S. Agriculture Department files. The marshals, who want to move the records to nearby Herreid so the county farm program can get going again, met Monday night at Aberdeen to map strategy for . the , move, which many feared could’ touch off violence. The Mound City people said they would hold the records as “the only way we 'know how to fight the government” and hold on to the last vestige of the Campbell County Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service. The government has “pushed and pushed and, pushed until we are up to the front door of the ASCS building and can’t be pushed further, so we’ll have to make a stand,” said Milton Deibert, a cattle and grain farmer and one of the owners of the building. 1 350 Farmers Meet Calvin Ochsner, Herreid, said 350 farmers met Monday night at Herreid and protested “the publicity Mound City has been getting.” “We think that 75 per cent of the farmers in this county want the ASCS office at Herreid because it is a bigger town,” Oschsner said. “Farmers can do their shopping at Herreid while they do their ASCS business. Herreid has 50 business places while Mound City has only a handful.” The Mound City group, which spent $15,000 in legal fees by its own estimate, got a court order forcing the Agriculture Department to move the county office from Herreid back here, but the order was overturned by the federal appeals court in St. Louis. “We feel a small pressure group is pushing its interests in Mound City,” Ochsner said, “farmers around here are becoming resentful.” Asked New Building He said the state ASCS committee approached Mound City five years tago and asked for a building adequate for the county office. The old one was condemned. The government next eame to Herreid and asked for new housing which Herreid provided, Ochsner said. It was after the committee had agreed to move the office to Herreid that Mound City put up a new building, although folks here clainr the agreement was made under threats by “the The other side of the coin was pictured by Deibert, who was one of five businessmen and farmers notified last week by Asst. U.S. Atty. Travis Lewin,

Sioux Falls, that the records must be surrendered or they would be removed by marshals. “It’s the opinion of the farmers —and I’ve talked to a lot of them—that the office shouldn’t be moved,” Deibert said. "This is a county seat town that’s just completed a brand new courthouse and the farmers want the ASCS office to be in the same town where the courthouse is.” Photos On Ballots Offered As Solution INDIANAPOLIS (UPD— A bill , probably will be introduced in the 1963 legislature calling for pictures i of candidates to appear on bal- , lots in the case of identical names. This is the only solution Sen. . Walter A. Baran, East Chicago Democrat, can find to help the voters differentiate between him : and Sen. Walter A. Baran, Ham- ’ mond, when the two run for state senator from Lake County two . years from now. The two Barans are a present ’ headache to their colleagues but they agree the real difficulty is I going to come in 1964 when both ' plan to run again for the State 1 Senate. Most senators refer to Baran, i the East Chicago city controller, > who is a holdover senator this term and has been a member of the legislature since 1947, as “BarL an No. 1” and the new arrival, a t steelworker serving the uncom- ■ pleted term of Eugene Bainbridge, - as “No. 2.” r “I believe you could get a picture clear enough to identify a person on the voting machine beside his name,” Baran No. 1 said. “This is the only way I see to tell , which person you are voting for I when two candidates have the j same name.” ’ Baran No. 1 blames the samename candidacy of Baran No. 2 for causing his defeat in the race ' for Lake County auditor but said ! he bears no ill will. “People voted for the Baran running for senator, thinking it • was me, then didn’t vote for me : for auditor. But I brought him ! down to the legislative meeting ; and he sits next to me,” said No. ’ 1. 1 “There are about 35 or 40 Bar- ' ans in Lake County listed in the ’ telephone directories but I’m not related to any of them except my Dad, Theodore. Baran is a ' Polish word meaning lamb. There - are quite a few of us. I’m one of ' 12 children, and I have five chil- ■ dren,” he said. ' Baran No. 2, who has three chil--1 dreri, said he Is~a native of Joliet, 1 111., and lived in East Chicago be- • fore moving to Hammond. At one 1 time, their sons attended the same ’ high school at the same time. ? He said he was “agreeable” to 5 the idea of pictures on the ballot 5 for same-name candidates. e By use of No. lor No. 2 tags, or by city, the other 48 senators s expect to be able to designate ® Walter Anthony Baran of East • Chicago, and Walter Andrew Barf an of Hammond. I,’ _ __

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Indiana To Buy More Land In State Parks INDIANAPOLIS (UPD— Money paid to the Indiana Department of Conservation for sand in East Chicago will be used to buy land in state parks, according to director Donald Foltz. Foltz said today that $234,000 paid by Inland Steel Co. for the right to file in 790 acres to expand its East Chicago plant “is the same as selling a capital asset would' be in business.” JJ For that reason I feel we must try to utilize that money by putting it back in capital — in this case purchase of more park land,” Foltz said. Foltz said 200 acres has been obtained on option at Turkey Run State Park and that all of it wias land already bounded on three sides by the park. He explained that what he ter med” in holdings” —land which is held by private ownership and partially surrounded by state property—would be acquired ids far as the funds go. Among other projects expected to be included in the $234,000 expenditure is 14 acres to allow the Versailles State Park to build its own gate house. $ The money also is expected to cover 12 acres at McCormick’s Creek State Park and several pieces of property at Chain O’ Lakes and Lincoln State park. "Lincoln and Chain O’ Lakes are the two parks which we hope to spend the most time developing this year,” Folt* said.XTius 4» because Lincoln is going to get a lot of visitors because of the national monument being located there, and Fort Wayne has no good state recreational area to serve the people there.” Foltz said he feared that by the time these "in holdings” are acquired “we will have run out of money.” He said he has requested $3,000 in his budget for purchase of land on the Monroe, Salamonie and Mississinewa reservoir sites.

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