Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 61, Number 72, Decatur, Adams County, 26 March 1963 — Page 2

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Adams County Farmers’ Corner

County Agent’s Corner

Weather “Whether” er NOT: An extension school on “Weather or not” will be held Wednesday, March 27, 8 p. m. at the Farm Bureau Co-op meeting room. Lester Smith, extension agronomist, will discuss climate and weather and how it affects our crop production. The important part of this discussion will concern weather forecasts and how they can be helpful to farmers. An analysis of weather records with improved forecasting will be very helpful in crap production. You are invited to attend. Wheat Referendum: Plan now to vote in the wheat referendum. Get the facts from the ASCS office and vote your choice. Hybrid Corn Bulletin: Com crop profits are affected by the farmer’s choice of a hybrid, say Purdue University research agronomists in research bulletin 761, "Performance of Commercial Dent Corn Hybrids in Indiana." is 1959-1962,” recently published by the agricultural experiment station. The bulletin lists the yield, stand, water at harvest and broken or lodged plants—up to four-year averages—of the hybrids of 22 companies on 11 locations throughout Indiana. A copy of research bulletin 761, “Performance of Commercial Dent Com Hybrids in Indiana”, is available at the county extension office. Take Good Soil Samples: Even soil which appears uniform may vary in past management, cropping, fertilizing and liming history. Russell K. Stivers, Purdue University agronomists in charge of soil testing, says the aim of soil testing is to utilize fertilizer and fame with greater efficiency. Soil tests detect the areas’where fertilizer and lime are most needed. Stivers emphasizes that one composite soil sample should not cover more than TO When too large an area is represented by one sample, the result is often a mixture of soil which does not closely correspond to any part of the field, he explains. Therefore, it can not be truly representative. Lime and fertilizer treatments based on such soil somples will not fit the field because the sample does not tell the truth about the field. Samples taken according to soil types and previous treatment on areas of 10 acres or less will show location of fertility differences. With this type of specific information t,he farmer can take steps to correct soil deficiencies. Since the largest source of error in soil testing is ih the sample, the extra time spent in taking samples from smaller areas is worthwhile, Stivers adds. And, iljhere is a limitation because of time and weather, a farmer is farther ahead to do the detailed job of sampling on two or three fields than to try to cover the entire farm. Soil probes are available, either purchase or use, from both the This Spring Buy Your from Chris Inniger Monroe, Ind. Ph. 6-6345 DeKalb Dealer Since 1942

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county extension office and the soil conservation service office on r First street. , Band Seeding Test: i Band seeding helps small grass - and legume plants compete with , oats and weeds in spring seedings, ■ says Lester H. Smith, Purdue Uni- - versity extension agronomist. The seed is placed just above - the band of fertilizer through this - method. When the seed germin--1 ates, the fertilizer helps it develop - an extensive root system neces- - sary to withstand drouth and > shade, he explains. > Too, band seeding saves seed. One-half less grass seed and onethird less legume seed gives better t stands than from broadcast methi ods. The saving in seed can eas- : ily offset the cost of converting a grain drill for band seeding. Smith emphasizes that it’s important to remove the drag chains I from a drill that has been converted. Tire drag chains scatter the i seeds away from the band of feri tilizer. I Band seeding has been a popular : practice of seeding for about 25 years, but many drills still need • to be converted, Smith says. Grass-Legume Mixture for Diverted Areas: Indiana farmers diverting acre- ■ age under the feed grain program can improve their farms by sowing an adapted grass-legume mixture oir these acres, assert Purdue University extension agronomists. These seedings contribute to fertility, erosion control, wildlife cover, and in some cases, to establishment of a valuable sod for future use . In addition, they lend themselves to weed control. Sowing of oats with the grasslegumes as a companion crop is strongly recommended. Haphazard broadcasting is likely to bring disappointing results. Os course, the oats can not be harvested and will have to be clipped, but this aids the legume-grass seeding. ed soil, alfalfa is the No. 1 legume. Culver, Vernal and Ranger are winter hardy and wilt resistant. Too, Culver is resistant to spittle bug. Where long life Is not desired,'“Atlantic ahd vigorous growing varieties such as the DePuits, other Flemish varieties and certain strains of common may be used. Brome aid timothy are excellent companion grasses with alfalfa. Sweet clover may replace alfalfa in the mixture, but sweet clover primarily is a soil builder, while alfalfa serves all of the purposes indicated. For inadequately limed, poorly drained soils, legumes such as Korean lespedeza and alsake can be mixed with red clover and grass. Tall fescue and- orchard ' grass are hardy grasses. On exr tfemely wet soils Reed canary • grass has the best chance of sur- • yival, with tall fescue ranking i secend. « - - I Wise Tree and I Shrub Selection: I When the first warm days of spring arrive, so does the urge m homemakers to improve the ap- ' pearance of their property. One ! way to do this is to plant trees, shrubs and flowers that comple- , jnent both house and garden and provide an attractive setting for summer activities. Often the next impulse is to rush to the nearest nursery or garden shop and stock up with whatever happens to meet your eye. But curb that impulse, cautions H. W. Gilbert, Purdue University extention landscape architect. So homeowners can avoid disappointment and financial loss if buying nursery plants, Gilbert offers these suggestions: First, consider the location in which you wish to plant. Think about the size of the plant or plan's at maturity; whether you want green all year around, or only part of the year; whether you prefer broad leaves or needles, dark green, light green or something in between; or a growing-up or a

spreading-out effect. If you would like flowering shrubs, consider colors that will look best in your garden and what season you would like them to . bloom. Consider too sunlight, soil 1 and drainage. How many hours 1 does the sun hit that spot’ Is the soil sandy and well drained, or is it heavy clay and inclined to be ’ moist or very dry? 1 A reputable nurseryman can ’ help you to find the right plant for the right place if you share this information with him. He can al- ' so guide you in overcoming minor ’ soil difficulties which may make the difference between healthy and ' sickly plants. Or you can read ' the labels that are provided by careful nurseries to guide the buyer in avoiding costly and discouraging mistakes. Delicious Home-Grown Strawberries: For luscious home-grown strawberries, start with virus-free plants, advise Purdue University horticulturists. Virus-free plants produce more fruit under adverse conditions than plants infected with virus diseases. Popular virus-free varieties include Sparkle, Vermillion and Sure Crop. These varieties are also resistant to Red Steele disease and are well adapted to home planting. Order them from a reputable nursery. Set strawberry plants as soon as ' the soil can be worked in the spring. If you aren't able to set your plants when they arrive, heel them in a moist, well-drained, shaded area is best. Before planting them, work five pounds of 5-20-20 fertilizer per 100 feet of row in the soil. Set your strawberry plants 16 to 24 inches apart in the row with three or four feet between rows. Crowns should be flush with the soil surace and the soil should be packed around their roots. Water the plants before setting. Locally Bred Cow PETERBOROUGH, N. H. — A new record .placing seventh in milk production among the 10 highest of the Guernsey breed in her class has just been completed by the registered cow, Mayflower’s L. Duchess, a six-year-old, owned by Jack C. Foust, Mayflower Farm, Urbana, Ohio and bred by Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Arnold and Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur Sheffer, Decatur, Ind. “Duchess” produced 20,140 pounds of milk and 886 pounds of • fat in 305 days on two times daily milking. "Duchess” who is classified Very > Good for type also has a Class i Leader record of 21.392 pounds of I milk and 901 pounds of fat, made 1 as a junior four-year-old, in the • Herd Improvement Register, in ' the 305-2 x division and a record ■ of 14,323 pounds of milks and 674 ! pounds of fat, made as a junior three-year-old, -in the Herd Improvement Register, in the 365-2 x division. "Duchess” was sired by f Crand View Noble Rocky. i The record of this cow was - supervised during the test period i by Ohio State University. ' Purdue Ag Alums I To Attend Meeting t LAFAYETTE, Ind., March 22. , A northeastern Indiana Purdue ■ University Ag Alumni Roundup will be held April 4 at the 4-H - Community Building at Columbia f City. The stag tenderloin dinner - will begin at 7 p.m. » The 40-member Fort Wayne Pur--1 due Center glee club will enter--1 tain. 3 Dr. Richard Kohls, Purdue ag- | ricultural economist, as principal f speaker will discuss the question, ' “Can Your Grand Children Go To f College?” Dr. Don Gustafson of 1 Purdue’s school of veterinary . science and medicine will be toastmaster. , Purdue Ag Alumni chapters- in Adams, Allen, DeKalb, Elkhart, Huntington, Kosciusko, LaGrange, Noble Steuben, Wabash, Wells and Whitley counties are sponsoring the event.

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rx ’ FHi Neighbors! Farmer A. C. (Always Curious) Jones was in the office the other day asking questions as usual. He had his Purdue soil test with him. “If I put on all the fertilizer that soil test calls for,” he said, “my corn will burn up when it turns dry—won’t it?” Now A. C. may seem like a stubborn character but really all he wants is the right answers. This what Milt Spence, work unit conservationist, told him. The answer to that question is a flat no. When properly applied, , heavy amounts of fertilizer will ac- . tually help corn in a dry year. There are two main reasons why this is true: 1. A well fertilized plant develops a better and deeper root system. This better root system comes in contact with more soil particles from which to draw moisture. 2. It develops a bigger and better leaf system which makes more efficient use of available moisture. ; It is true that heavy amounts of fertilizer put next to the corn can have a bad effect. Research has taught us to apply only a small amount with the corn and distribute the rest of the needed plant food through the soil. This is because a large amount of commercial fertilizer placed in one spot will “draw moisture” from the surrounding ground or burn the plant. When you have a heavy amount of commercial fertilizer to put on any crop, be sure to follow the instructions on the soil test. Ayrshire Herd Completes Record The Ayrshire Breeders' Association. Brandton, Vt., has announced the completion of an official herd lactation average for the herd of Backhaus Brothers, Decatur, Ind. The Backhaus’ registered Ayrshire herd completed its 16th year on official Ayrshire Herd Test ' with 17 lactation records averageing 11000 lbs. of milk, testing 4.1 per cent and having 454 lbs. of > butterfat. On a fat-corrected milk basis’, (M E. 4% Milk) the herd ■ average 11210 lbs. The high individual cow in the herd fur milk was Star’s Jonquil with 12800 lbs. in 305 days and on just twice-a-day milking. The high cow for butterfat was 1 Star’s Jonquil, also, with 537 lbs. 1 In computing an Ayrshire average. only the first 305 days production is included for each cow. 400 Attend Land Bank Meet ; Over 400 members and guests at- ' tended the annual meeting of the r Federal Land Bank * Association held March Bth at Poplar Grove school in Wells county. Charles E. Grandlienard, Wells county farmer, and Raymond A. Juillerai, Jay county farmer, were elected as members of the board erf directors for three year terms. ' Thomas E. Williams, manager of 1 the association, reported to the ’ stockholders that due to favorable ’ business during 1962 the board of f directors authorized payment of a ’ cash dividend to all stockholders ■ which totaled $6,255.10. The ass> elation serves the area of Adams, 1 Jay and Wells counties. Enter- , tainment was provided by the Fort , Wayne Purdue Center Glee Club 1 under the direction of Dr. Richard ? Smith. Refreshments were served.

|B« • ■_ 1 .. . ... . iS, ... M ’ V' ~ . .W •>, ■“> ( 0., ... .1 : . J fc ...... £ fa.... ■ ; OFFICERS OF THE ADAMS COUNTY 4-H junior leaders were , elected Monday night at their organizational meeting. They are, left to right: Paul Rich, song leader; Sue Ellen Bentz, secretary-treasurer; Don Egly, vice president; Dean Beer, president, and Dale Wass, news reporter.

Publishers Accept Wagner’s Proposal

NEW YORK (UPD—Publishers today accepted a contract pro. posal by Mayor Robert F. Wagner to end the city’s longest newspaper walkout, but striking photoengravers asked more time to consider the settlement suggestion. It was the second proposal made by Wagner as a third party in the 109-day blackout. The printers accepted his settlement terms after first rejecting them. Walter Thayer, president of the Herald Tribune and one of the management negotiators, said after a long negotiating session that the publishers didn’t like the mayor’s terms. “We accepted because we wanted to end the strike,’’ he said. Wagner said the publishers, who deliberated on the settlement for more than three hours, had been concerned about “grave questions” in the proposal. The photoengravers were to consider the Ski Resort Village To Remain Closed ZERMATT, Switzerland (UPD —The commander of the Swiss army medical team fighting Zermatt’s spreading typhoid fever epidemic said today this ski resort village will remain closed to visitors until the source of the infection is found. Maj. Gustav E. Raeber said his men, in cooperation with local health authorities, are going all out in their efforts to wipe out the source of the epidemic. “Our original assignment here was until April 4 and we already are .planning to stay longer,” he said. “Zermatt will remain closed to visitors until we find the means of transmission of the tyhpoid.” Raeber spoke as his men continued their house-to-house search for infected spots. Other soldiers dug up water mains in the center of the village searching for the broken pipe they suspect may be the cause of the infection. Visitors from a half a dozen European countries and the United States have contracted the disease, and an estimated 300 persons have been infected. Two died. Pressure Increased ■ On Pres, de Gaulle PARIS (UPD—France’s dwinL dling power supply today in- ’ creased the pressure on President ■ Charles de Gaulle to find away ■ out of the worst labor crisis since t he took office. > De Gaulle called a special cabi--1 net meeting in an effort to avert -a threatened walkout by the country’s gas and electricity workers. But his regime, its prestige at a new low, made no immediate overt move to settle a strike by 200,000 nationalized coal miners that precipitated the crisis. The miners walked out March 1. Their strike, combined with a walkout of natural gas workers of the Lacq fields in southwestern France, has depleted the nation’s power supplies severely and led to a threatened shutdown of many industries. In separate meetings Monday, leaders of nationalized workers in mines, railways, utilities and the Paris subway conferred on whether .to stage a general strike. No action was taken. The mine strike, to back demands for an immediate 11 per cent wage increase, has brought on the most serious domestic problem of De Gaulle's five years in office.

proposal at a caucus this afternoon, then give him their decision later. Amory Bradford, vice president of the Times, said his paper could be on die streets within eight to 12 houis after the union members accepted a contract. The strike by the 320 photoengravers, the last stumbling block in getting the 20,000 newspaper employes back to work, began March 6. Wagner's proposal called for a $12.63 weekly package increase during a two-year contract. The photoengravers would receive a fourth week of vacation and a reduction in the work week from Whoufs t 035, both inThe second year. Record Cut In Foreign Aid Funds Feared WASHINGTON (UPD — Congressional supporters of foreign aid feared today that the aid program might be on the way to a record cut. Their thinking was influenced by these developments: —A presidential com m ittee headed by Gen. Lucius Clay issued a report during the weekend saying that the current foreign aid program could have been reduced by sls billion if reforms it proposed had been in effect. This is SSOO million more than Congress cut from Kennedy’s 1962 request. —President Kennedy told Democratic congressional leaders today, that he plans to send Congress his foreign aid message April 2. He is expected to reduce his earlier request of $4.9 billion by about S2OO million. Senate Democratic Leader Mike Mansfield said there was brief discussion of the Clay committee report at today’s White House conference and “the President found the report interesting, as we did.” —Senate GOP Leader Everett M. Dirksen of Illinois said the Clay report should help Congress cut upwards of $1 billion from the President’s original request. —Chairman Harry F. Byrd, DVa., of the Senate Finance Committee said the time had come for the United States “to reassess our entire program of foreign aid expenditures throughout the world.” —Chairman Otto E. Passman, D-La., of the House foreign aid appropriations subcommittee said he saw no reason why the program could not be cut by a whopping $2.4 billion and still have money left over. Everett Appointed Acting Police Head INDIANAPOLIS (UPD—Governor Welsh today named Maj. George Everett to serve as acting superintendent of the Indiana State Police, succeeding Col- John J. Barton. Barton resigned Monday to run for mayor of Indianapolis. Everett, 51, now is executive officer for support services of the State police and is a veteran of 20 years with the organization. He originally was from Goshen but now live? here. ‘

Purple Femings By: Patsy Lee Leaders County Extension Agent Home Economics March 28 at 1 p.m., there will be a meeting at the Farm Bureau Coop building in Monroe for all those people who served on committees in the food tent at the fair last year. It will be an important meeting, so I hope that all who received notices will plan to be there. Tuesday, April 2 there will be, a home Demonstration council meeting at 1:30 p.m. in the Farm Bureau Co-op building. 4-H OFFICERS: There will be a 4-H officers’ training school Monday, April 1 at 7:30 p.m. in the Lincoln school. The date has been changed for the craft committee meeting — it will be at 1 p.m. April 10 in the extension office. Sorry about the change but the flu bug has confused the calendar. TOY STORAGE Specialists from Purdue suggest using an entire closet to store all the toys with shelves of varying heights. If you don’t have enough closets to spare, you might try some of the other suggestions. One idea is to -install narrow shelves with a front guard, similar to a spice rack, on the inside of a closet door. These shelves could be used for balls, paste and paint jars, or a collection of small toys. Another idea is to use sturdy boxes of all sizes, especially ones with hinged lids, to hold toys. Label the boxes with crayon or a picture of the contents. Cottage cheese cartons are good for jacks, marbles and colored pencils, while gallon ice cream containers can hold large items. Try a plastic laundry basket for balls or stuffed animals. HEALTH AND SAFETY LEADERS: If any of you are preparing a lesson on cancer, we have some very good pamphlets in the extension office which you may have. TIDY TIPS: Choose pans that save dish washing time advise home management specialists at Purdue Avoid buying pans with seams and crevices that are hard to clean. The smoother the pan, the easier it is to clean. Remove a white “glass” ring from furniture by rubbing with rottenstone and a light oil, such as mineral oil or sewing machine oil. For deeper or older rings, home furnishings specialists at Purdue University suggest rubbing it with table salt and oil. BHRIMPLY DELICIOUS: Jumbo or Large Shrimp are the most expensive and best for the breaded or barbecued. Buy % pound in the shell for each serving. Medium are best for use in salads and with sauces. Buy Mi to % pound raw, medium-sized shrimp in the shell for each serving when combined with sauces and other foods. Tiny shrimp are good to be ground for pastes or canapes and open sandwiches. Shrimply Delicious Appetizers: 1 five oz. can shrimp, chopped; 2 slices bacon, cooked and crumbled; 1 small onion grated; 5 hard cooked eggs, chopped; % teasp. prepared mustard; Mi teasp. salt; % teasp. pepper; Ma cup mayonnaise; % cup chopped parsley. Combine all ingredients except parsley, mix well, and form into 8 balls. Roll in parsley; chill Serve with: % cup Blue cheese; 1 teasp. vinegar; % cup mayonnaise; % tablesp. horseradish; Mi cup chopped ripe olives; % teasp. Worces-

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