Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 61, Number 149, Decatur, Adams County, 25 June 1963 — Page 6

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Adams County Farmers’ Corner

County Agent’s Corner

By: Leo N. Seltenright County Extension Agent Agriculture CEREAL LEAF BEETLE: The cereal leaf beetle has been getting a lot of publicity lately. It is a serious pest and probably there will be a quarantine set up for a good part of Indiana. It has not been found in Adams county to date and as of now Adams county is not included in the quarantine area. If you have any suspicious looking insects in the cereal grains, that are causing serious leaf feeding damage, I would be interested in seeing some specimens. 4-H CAMP: The Adams-Wells counties 4-H camp started last Sunday and will continue until Wednesday afternoon. The site is the Purdue Limberlost camp on Oliver Lake in LaGrange county. 4-H CONSERVATION FIELD DAY: A training program i for 4-H i members in the conservation pro- j jects; soil and water conservatipn, forestry, wildlife and entomology, will be held Friday, starting at 1:30 p.m. The location is the Paul Neuhauser farm in French township about one mile east of Vera Cruz. Instructors for the sessions will be Milt Spence, conservationist in soil conservation, Don Bickel, farm forester in wildlife. Herb Krauch, extension forester, in forestry, and Dave Matthews, extension entomologist in entomology. 4-H SWINE TOUR: The annual 4-H swine tour will be held Monday, July 1 .starting at 1:30 p.m. The stops are first, at the Wilbert Thieme farm in Union township, and second, at the Richard Mailand farm in St. Mary’s township. The purpose of the tour is to offer tips and suggestions on how to improve feeding and showing 4-H pigs. Discussion leader will be Jim Foster, extension swine specialist. 4-H FAIR BOARD MEETING: The 4-H fair board will meet Monday July 1, at 8 p.m. at the 4-H fairgrounds. The board will review plans for the 4-H fair scheduled for July 30, 31 and August 1. INDIANA WHEAT CROP FORECAST: Indiana’s winter wheat crop prospects declined during May, but state-federal agricultural statisticians at Purdue University forecast production of 46,944,000 bushels—2l per cent larger than the 1962 crop. As of June 1, the expected average yield is 36 bushels an acre, one bushel smaller than indicated a month earlier. The anticipated decline in yield is largely due to frost damage occurring May 1 and again May 22 and 23. Conditions of all hay in the state was rated at 85 per cent of normal, compared to 86 per cent a year ago, and a five-year average for the date of 90 per cent. Legume and grass growth was slowed by cool weather, and in some areas by inadequate moisture. Indiana’s peach crop, the statisticians report, will be 5,000 bushels compared to last year’s production of 100,000 bushetls. Extensive winter kill of buds coupled with freezing temperatures May 1 and 2 and again May 22 and 23 left few buds for peaches this year. May egg production in Indiana amounted to 197 milion eggs, down six per cent from the May year ago production. Milk production in the state during May totaled 323 million pounds, one per cent higher than the May, 1962 output.

Used John Deere Self-Propelled Combines All locally Owned! 1962 55 John Deere 13 ft. Combine-chopper, header control. 1961 55 John Deere 13 ft. Combine-chopper, pickup reel, header control. 1959 55 John Deere 12 ft. Combine-recleaner, chopper. 1959 45 John Deere 10 ft. Combine-chopper, recleaner. 1956 45 John Deere 10 ft. Combine-chopper, recleaner. 1956 45 John Deere 10 ft. Combine-chopper, recleaner. 1951 55 John Deere 12 ft. Combine-chopper, recleaner.' 1959 60 Massey-Harris Combine. 1955 25 John Deere Combine with PTO. 1955 66 Allis-Chalmers Combine. 1953 60 Allis-Chalmers Combine. ALL IN A-J SHAPEI 7 ft. No. 5 John Deere Mower. , 7 ft. Massey-Harris Mower. 7 ft. New Idea Mower. 7 ft; Ford Mower — SBS Used Myers Hay Conditioner __— • Used John Deere 4-row Cultivators $395 • Paul W. Reidenbach Equipment John Deere Salos & Service = 1 mile South of Decatur on U. S. 27 Phone 3-2159

JOHN MCDONALD FARM ON TOUR: A cattle feeding operation for 2,000 head capacity yearly, and a cropping program of 750 aeries of corn, 50 acres of wheat and 17 acres of oats, five miles sop th of Muncie and one-half mile west of State Road 3. will be visited on die state farm management tour Wednesday afternoon, July 17, at 3 o’clock. This 850-acre farm owned by John McDonald has a labor force of three full-time men and features a modern feeding program for cattle in six paved feed lots wRh three 100-foot and one 130-foot feed bunks and automatic water fountains. An auger system is used to convey a feed ration of five pounds of grain. 30 pounds of silage and two pounds of supplement per head, per day. from three 20x50 Harvestores, i with a shelled corn capacity of 12,500 bushels each), a 60x200-foot bunker-type silage 3.00 p-ton capacity! hauled via truck to auger feeder, and a 14-ton capacity supplement storage. Heifer feeder cattle are purchased from Tennessee and Kentucky in October and fed until May to weight of 850 pounds and then trucked by the owner to the Cincinnati market. Two harvesters are rented from the Oakville elevator for additional storage. McDonald, who is also a blacktop road contractor, is a native of Henrv county and has been farming since 1948. He and Mrs. McDonald are the parents of three daughters, ages 14, nine and seven, and a son, five. Following the visit to the McDonald farm an outlook banquet will be held at Ball State College, Muncie, at 6-30 p.m. farm management association personnel along with Purdue University agricultural economists and extension agents from the New Castle district will be in charge of the banquet program. Thursday, July 18, three other farms in the area will be visited and a luncheon will be served at Linders, Roads 67 & 9 south of Anderson, at 1 p.m. Overnight accomodations will be available for tour members in Muncie*. Tickets for the banquet and the luncheon will* be available from county extension offices or from E. E. Carson, agricultural economics department, Purdue University, Lafayette, Ind., after July 1. WATER TREES AND SHRUBS: Chances are your trees and shrubFwill need extra water sometime this year, according to Don Scheer, Purdue University extension horticulturist. It’s easy to forget about water—it’s so simple. But the fact is that plants are made up of about 90 per cent water and rainfall is short sometimes every year. Trees and shrubs get almost all of their water through their roots —roots which are below the surface—so you must water deeply, says Scheer. For small trees and shrubs that were set out recently, an easy way to water is to flood the area around each plant, then let the water soak in completely. Add water and let it soak in about three times. Watering large trees is more of a problem. Here one of the best ways to water Is to use a soil spear, which you attach on the end of your hose and spear in the ground. SUMMER LAWN CARE: Do you want your lawn to stay

Purple Pennings Many of you may have seen copies of the yearbook of “Fifty Years of Learning and Service" which the women purchased at homemaker’s conference. For those of you who want your.own copy I have them in the extension office for $1 a copy. June 27 is the county picnic, so don’t forget. July 2, ten girls from Adams county will attend the district judging contest at Columbia City. Mrs. John King is to be chairman of the Foods judging for the day. DIFFERENCE BETWEEN SPICES AND HERBS: Recently at one of the club meetings where I was giving the lesson on herbs, someone asked me the difference between a spice and an herb. Therefore, I thought several other readers might want to know the answer. Spices are parts of plants (the bark, roots, leaves, stems or fruit of aromatic plants) usually grown in the tropics. They are always dried and available whole or ground. Herbs are the leaves or blossoms of soft, succulent plants, available fresh or dried, whole, ground, crushed or rubbed. Herbs are always leaves of temperate-zone plants. CHOCOLATE THAT’S TURNED WHITE: Don’t throw out chocolate just because it’s turned white. Food specialists in the U. S. department of agriculture say this is simply a sign that some of the cocoa butter has separated. This happens at temperatures of about 85 degrees F. The cocoa butter in the chocolate melts and comes to the surface. When the cocoa butter hardens again, the chocolate turns white. Only the appearance of the chocolate is affected by this separation. Usually, there is no loss of flavor. If the chocolate is melted for cooking purposes, it will turn brown again. To prevent chocolate from turning white, store it in a reasonably cool place (under 75 degrees F.) 1 : 7 vigorous this summer? Then give it special care, urger Don Scheer, Purdue University extension horticulturist. Short cutting kills lawns. A twoinch cut favors blue grass survival. So- follow the key to summer lawn vigor — cut at a two-inch height. Cutting at this height aids in disease resistance and encourages a deeper root system .which helps turf withstand hot, dry weather. Chemical contral is important too. The amine form of 2,4-D will help control dadelion and plantain and other broadleaved weeds. Scheer cautions to use the chemical carefully since the spray drift could damage your desirable plants. Proper watering makes a difference in summer lawn vigor. Water every week when there hasn’t been a soaking rain. Enough water should be applied to soak the soil to a depth of at least five inches. This means you should apply an inch of water in open lawn areas and two inches under trees. You can check this by measuring the depth of water in containers placed, over the lawn. ’ Scheer doesn’t recommend fertilizing most lawns during summer because this often encourages weed growth. Best time to fertilize the lawn is about Easter and Labor Day.

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Indiana Bank Robbed, Hold Two Suspects DAYTON, Ind. (UPD—A whiteshirted bandit who “looked like a businessman" held up a bank in this Tippecahoe County town near Lafayette today and Escaped with a batch of bills stuffed in a pillowcase. Roadblocking police picked up two men at different places on U.S. 52 south of Lafayette soon after the robbery and recovered about $1,500 which they said was the loot. Mrs. Wiggins said the man approached her cheerfully and handed her a counter check from the Farmer’s State Bank at Frankfort, asking her to cash it. This was the only time he spoke, she said. As she read the check, he pulled the revolver and shoved a pillowcase and note onto the counter. Mrs. Wiggins said he was 30 to 35 years old and wore a ■'clean shirt “like any casually dressed businessman.” '■“He walked in just as if he were a regular customer,” she said. “But I didn’t want to argue when he showed me that gun.” It was the first bank holdup in Indiana in nearly two months, and the 11th of the year. The last previous holdup was April 30 when a woman held up a branch bank in an Anderson shopping center and got $1,676. Three banks were held up in April, one in March, two in February and four in January, for a total of more than $77,000. Sales Tax Problem Political Paradox GREENCASTLE, Ind. (UPD— Governor Welsh’s legislative assistant referred Monday night to the Indiana sales tax developments as “one of the most curious political paradoxes in state history.” , “A Democratic governor is fighting to save a Republican tax measure that has been declared unconstitutional by a Republican judge,” said Dr. Karl O’Lessker of Wabash College in a speech to the Greencastle Lions Club. . “Governor Welsh and the Democratic minority in the General Assembly are clearly on record as having opposed the sales tax. The Republican majority—particularly in the House—is clearly on record as having favored the sales tax,’’ O’Lessker said. O’Lessker reviewed the sales tax situation including Republican Lt. Gov. Richard Ristine’s casting the tie-breaking vote which passed it in the Senate, GOP Atty. Gen. Edwin K. Steers declining to defend it after Republican Judge John L. Niblack called the tax unconstitutional, and Republican State Auditor Dorothy Gardner and Republican State Treasurer Robert Hughes declining -to help Welsh fight for retention of the tax. “Only Governor Welsh, it seems, cares enough about the well-being of Indiana to take the risk of living up to the responsibilities of his office,” O’Lessker said. “Yet it is he who could most easily have accepted the Niblack decision and sat back and done nothing.” O’Lessker said if the Niblack decision stands, “property tax rates throughout the state will rise as much as $2 and $3.”

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’i a Jci f I dir ’J *d <d / . ' EIGHT 4-H JUNIOR LEADERS attended junior leader training camp at Limberlost Camp beginning last Thursday. Left to right: Suzy Zeigler, Don Egly, Carol Tonner, Karen Bollenbacher, Ken Selking, Judy Bultemeier, Brad Bayles and Kay Bultemeier. Sunday. 30 other 4-H’ers joined them from Adams county. They will all be attending camp which is held in conjunction with Wells county They will all be coming home Wednesday afternoon.

Slate Reformatory Damaged By Fire PENDLETON, Ind. (UPD—Fire broke out in a stack of cotton bales in an industrial building at the Indiana Reformatory today and firemen aided by about 100 convicts brought it under control within little more than an hour. Damage was estimated at no more than $12,000, most of the loss to a large supply of cotton used in the manufacture of mattresses for distribution to tax supported agencies of state government. Arthur Campbell, commissioner of the State Department of Correction, sped here from his Indianapolis office in a state police car to view the damage first-hand. He said, it was “fortunate” the fire was confined to the second floor of a building known as the “broom factory” because a large quantity of paint was stored in a paint shop on the first floor and it could have touched off explosions if the flames had reached it. None among about 3,000 inmates of the walled institution was injured. The fire was discovered when employes smelled smoke as they approached the building around 8 a.m- EST to prepare for the prisoner work force to report for duty. Campbell said the blaze was believed to have been caused by spontaneous combustion. He said it obviously had been smoldering for a long time, possible within hours after the building was closed shortly before 4 p.m. Monday. Firefighters from Pendleton and Fortville joined the reformatory’s

fire unit to put out the blaze. Campbell said the building is located next to an outside wall. The vocational school building is nearby and could have ignited if the flames had burst out of control, but other buildings were believed safe. Campbell said loss to the cotton bales would total about $9,000 to SIO,OOO and to broken windows and from water damage an additional $2,000 to $3,000. Attend Teachers Guidance Workshop Peter Schug, 617 Jefferson street, Berne, and Jerry. L. Sprunger, 658 Lehman street, Berne, are attending a secondary teachers guidance workshop at Ball State Teachers College. Schug teaches in Marion and Sprunger teaches fifth grade in Berne.

JUMPY ABOUT YOUR CROPS DURING THE HAIL SEASON If every Cloud gives you a headache and every storm the jitters—stop punishing yourself and carry some low-cost hail insurance. Cail Usl MEL TINKHAM INSURANCE HOMESTEAD Np. 40 PHONE NO. 3-4011

wwSVi s > PFM*Y OB I" 1 Hi Neighbor*! The Adams County Soil & Water Conservation District has entered the 17th annual Goodyear competition to select the nation’s top 52 conservation districts, according to Hugh David Mosser, chairman. Former Local People Escape Severe Flood Mr. and Mrs. Harold Owens, formerly of Decatur, have just survived the worst flood in the history of their new home town, Lander, Wyo. The Owens sent a copy of the Wyoming State Jounnal, which shows how the dam on the Northern Meadows reservoir broke after a six-inch rainfall. The flood from the dam, 18 miles away, took just 90 minutes to hit the evacuated city. Sandbags were used to try to hold the water back in the city, but it rushed through many residential areas, and one of the pictures showed it two feet deep just a block from the Owens' home. “Adolph (Kolter) would sure have his work cut out for him here,” Mrs. Owens remarked on the paper.

TUESDAY, JUNE 25, 1963

Activities of the district will be weighed against the performance of other districts in the state in determining the outstanding district in the annual event sponsored by the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company of Akron, Ohio. Key agricultural leaders will serve as judges and will select the state winner. Soil conservation efforts from May 1, 1963 through December 31, 1963 will be considered. Grand award for the 52 district selected nationally will be an expense paid work-study trip to Arizona in December, 1964, for one member of the district governing body and the outstanding farmercooperator in each winning district. The 104 men selected will be ». guests at Goodyear Farms, a 14,000 acre general farm operation near Phoenix. District supervisors in Adams County are: Hugh David Mosser, Chester Isch. Richard Scheumann, Hugo Bulmahn and Paul Kohne. Mosser said the district’s outstanding cooperator will be selected from among the 490 farm operators enrolled In the district program. Nationally, about 1,800,000 farmers in 2,900 districts will be eligible for the grand award trip. I SIDE DRESS NOW DON'T WAIT AND MISS OUT 1. Apply Anhydrous Ammonia 82% Nitrogen NOW! 2. Your Best and Cheapest Source of N. 3. Get Better Results. 4. Easier io Apply. 5. More Economical. ,. 4i 6. Call Our Nearest Applicator. 7. Do it yourself with our Applicator. Call Geneva Ph. 368-7228 Stucky’s Soil Service Division of Stucky’s Gas A Appliance. .