Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 61, Number 166, Decatur, Adams County, 16 July 1963 — Page 6

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Adams County Farmers’ Corner

County Agent’s Corner

By Leo N. Seltenright County Extension Agent STATE FARM MANAGEMENT TOUR: The state farm management tour wil start at 9 a.m., Thursday at the Max Townsend farm. The farm is five miles southwest of Marion. The swine operation wil) be the point of interest on this stop. Other farms to be visited during the day are Ernest and Don Erwin, Byron Nixon, Jr., and John McDonald. I’m sure you will find it to be an interesting day, so plan now to attend. REMOVE HEAVY COMBINED WHEAT STRAW: Indiana farmers should clip and remove heavy combined wheat straw from young clover and alfalfa stands, remind Purdue University extension agronomists. Leaving young legumes under a blanket or bunches of combined wheat straw severly damages them. These young legumes need sunlight and air. Molds and fungus diseases also often develop under the straw and injure the plants. Purdue trials show the best practice to protect the legume stand is to mow the stuble soon after combining, rake up all loose material and remove it. Low clipping is necessary in most cases to retard weed growth. However, removing the loose straw without mowing will help avoid smothering the young meadow. Pasturing with cattle also helps by breaking up masses of straw and trampling it so as to let more sunlight and air reach the legumes. Oats straw is softer than wheat or rye straw and has not proved too damaging unless bunched more than usual. The agronomists caution farmers that sweet clover is likely to be damaged by clipping. Mowing tall sweet clover plants kills many of them and heavy tractor wheels mash the plants. Too, this crop will stand more shading than alfalfa and red clover. LONG SWAMP ON TRI- ,r , ' STATE FIELD DAY: The long swamp, once the bane of settlers in this area of northeastern Indiana but now the producer of bountiful crops, will yield to dozens of pieces of drainage equipment come July 31 and Aug. 1. Those are the dates of the Tristate drainage and water conservation field day to be held on the Stanley Riddle farm on state road 109. The event is expected to attract several thousand visitors from Ohio, Indiana and Michigan. The field day is sponsored by drainage contractors’ association of the three states, in cooperation with the cooperative extension services of Ohio State, Purdue and Michigan State Universities, soil and water conservation districts and the soil conservation service. Demonstrations of drainage equipment in action, plus nearly 10 acres of exhibits, will be features of the big, 2-day program, reports Don Sisson, Purdue University extension agricultural enginer. Demonstrations will show trenching machines, blinding and back filling equipment backhoes, earth movers and land leverers, bulldozers, stump cutters, root rakes and grading and irrigation

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equipment. Displays will include several kinds of drain tile, trenching equipment, irrigation pipe and other land improvement items. Long swamp, referred to at the turn of the century as “God’s country, because no one else would have it,” has since gained — and lost — its reputation as a producer of onions and peppermint. Today corn and soybeans have replaced the onions and mint, and cattle numbers are growing, due in part to the mineral soils found between the muck areas. The Riddle farm contains, both muck and mineral soils. Field day visitors will have an opportunity to see how modern land improvement equipment can put these different soils to productive use. FLY CONTROL PUBLICATION AVAILABLE: Flies around the farm pose a potential hazard as well as being a nuisance to dairy and beef cattle. The house fly, blo w and lesser house fly just annoy the animals, but the face fly, horney fly, stable fly and several kinds of horse fly actually feed on cattle. And all are capable of transmitting diseases. Efective fly control is a combination of thorough sanitation and insecticides. Both are discussed in the newly revised Extension Mimeo E-12, “H o w to control flies in bams and on cattle” prepared by Purdue University entomologists. Oitined in this short publication are (1) the importance of a sanitation program, (2) the insecticides approved for use in farm building, on dairy cattle and on beef cattle and (3) how to apply these insecticides. Mimeo E-12 is free from the local county extension office. SEASONAL SOIL MOISTURE: “You don't mies the water until the well goes dry.” This saying can also apply to soil water as indicated by everyone's interest in the moisture conditions during our present dry period. The agronomy department has been cooperating with the weather bureau for the past 7 or 8 years in taking periodic soil moisture samples during the growing season and reporting the results in the weekly crop and weather report. These usually appear as a short note with very little explanation or interpretation. The samples are presently taken at three locations, the agronomy farm near Lafayette, the Southern Indiana forage farm in Dubois county, and the shnd experimental field near Culver. Admittedly, this is not enough to give a complete picture of the soil moisture conditions in the state, especially in dry seasons such as we are experiencing this year. The samples are taken as a standard reference and are all taken from a grass cover to make this variable as near as possible a constant throughout the year. This, therefore, is not strictly comparable to a corn field, since with an annual row crop, the cover condition and the root development is a constantly changing variable until about the third week in July. Die soils at the above mentioned locations vary from sand to silty clay loam. One must accurately know the particular soil being sampled as to its water holding

capacity and how much of this water the plants can actually take up before they wilt, to interpret the data. • Diese s o i 1 characteristics are reflected in the moisture reports. The inches of water deficit is the amount necessary at sampling time to fill the soil to its holding capacity. In other words, it takes that much rain before any will perolate down to a lower depth. Occasionally, a report will show a minus quantity at some depths. This indicates that the soil was above its holding capacity and normally that amount would drain down. The water available is the amount in inches which die plant can still use. Again especially on the surface layer, a minus quantity frequently appears The reason for this is that air evaporation will dry the soil lower than the plant can effectively use it. The moisture conditions at the agronomy farm, Lafayette, under fescue cover, July 8, 1963: Depth 0-14 %-l 1-2 2-3 3-4 4-5’ T Deficit 1.3 1.2 1.2 0.6 0.4 0 4.7 Avail. -.3 0 0.4 1.0 .9 1.5 3.5 • 0 0 0 0 .1.1 .2 * from week ago. Very little extraction top 24” as soil is practically at the wilting percentage. Roots are extracting to the 42” level, sufficient to keep the fescue green. Total moisture change .35 inch plus .59 of rain give water use for week of .94. PLANT NOW FOR FALL VEGETABLES: You can have fresh vegetables from your garden this summer and fall by planting now, according to Don Scheer, Purdue University extension horiculfurist. But for success- you’ll have to supply plenty of water. Scheer says when it’s dry to add water so it soaks in deeply before you sow seed or transplant. Then fertilize with 3 to 4 pounds of 12-12-12, or its equivalent, per 100 square feet of garden area before you prepare the soil. If you are setting out plants for fall harvest, such as cauliflower, broccoli, or cabbage, use a starter solution high in phosphorus when you plant. An analysis such as 10-52-17 will do it. And, of course, keep new plants shaded and watered, and set them in the evening when it's cool. Scheer offers some special suggestions if you are sowing seed of carrots, beets, lettuce or similar crops. Have a moist seedbed. It’s a good idea to work peat moss into the soil, particularly near the seeded areas so there’ll be good moisture retention. Plant the seed a little bit deeper than you would in the spring, and keep your soil moist until the seed germinates. Lois Ann Neuen Is Ball State Freshman MUNCIE, Ind. — Lois Anne Neuen, 405 Columbia, Berne, spent two days at Bail State Teachers College this week participating in the freshman orientation program and enrolling for fall classes at the college. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Leland Neuen. Miss Neuen will be the second member of her family to attend Ball State. A brother, Donald Leland Neuen, is presently " doing graduate work at the college. A 1963 graduate of Berne-French high school, she was a member of the Y.F.C. club, Hall Echoes, band, and a capella. Miss Neuen plans to major in speech and minor in journalism.

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Purple Pennings BY PATSY LEE LEADERS COUNTY EXTENSION AGENT HOME ECONOMICS The district demonstration contest in LaGrange is Wednesday. The evening of July 17 will be a 4-H dress revue committee meeting to write the first draft of the 4-H dress revue script. All 4-H leaders please be sure each of yopr members enrolled in clothing has sent the questionaire to the extension office concerning the garment she will wear in jhe dress revue. PLENTIFUL FOODS: ■' The July list of plentiful foods includes: turkeys, summer vegetables, fresh peaches, milk and dairy products, and vegetable fats and oil. Local supplies of summer vegetables will be supplemented by liberal shipments of produce from commercial production areas. Especially plentiful during July will be tomatoes, lima and green beans, corn and beets. Lettuce is expected to be available in large volume. T.V.: JUly 17, Ruth Morris will appear on the Wayne Rothgeb show with the fruit basket and July 19 will be on the Ann Colone show with melon surprises. MRS. JUMBLES: Ruth Morris sent tips clever little description of Mrs. Jumbles. Is food shopping a problem or a pleasure for you? Are you a Mrs. Jumbles or a Mrs. MarketRite? You’ve met Mrs. Jumbles, I'm sure. She’s the public menace that you met while shopping in the food market last week. She's the. woman who handles her food cart like a weapon—a very dangerous weapon at that! Shoving aggressively into cross aisles without checking traffic movement first — crowding too closely on others’ heels — concentrating on food displays without frequent checking of the traffic situation ahead. Because she shops without a plan, she often changes her mind about a selection she’s made. When she does, she removes it from her cart, setting it down just anywhere, turning stock bbys into detectives in their effort to maintain an orderly classified assortment of foods. If her rocketing cart bangs into a display, dislodging merchandise, she glances quickly around and hurries off—leaving a roadblock, broken jars, spilled food —for someone else to report to a store employe. Those youngsters you see fumbling among the groceries . . .racing among other customers . ■ .belong to Mrs. Jumbles, too. But where is she? . . .parked center-aisle somewhere else, having a farefree chat with a friend! You can spot Mrs. Jumbles in the fresh produce department, too: She’s the shopper handling delicate fruits and vegetables unnecessarily tossing them aside- carelessly. Sometimes she has long fingernails which pierce tender tomatoes or damage several perfect fruits before she makes her own selections and moves off. She’s responsible for the “don’t pinch” signs your retailer puts up during the soft fruit season. The unforunate part is, we still have to pay for the damage she does. The produce that’s damaged today becomes tomorrow’s throw-away, causing higher overall prices! You can spot Mrs. Jumbles at the check-out counter, too. She disregards food store etiquette and delays the line to send someone back for one more item, or sends a produce item back for “in-de-partment” weighing. She transfers items from cart to counter, making no effort to keep “two for” items together, or arrange purchases price-side up and the cart she wheels to the parking lot is abandoned for others to return. Next week we will hear from Mrs. Market-Rite. Someone said: if you are criticized, you must have done something worthwhile; keep on.

SAFETY SYMBOL —— A new universal symbol has been announced by the American Medical Assn, which will tell anyone giving emergency aid to an unconsciousness per* son that he has a special physical condition. Details would be found in the wearer’s purse or wallet. The symbol may be displayed on a bracelet, anklet, neck medallion or elsewhere. Some jwho may use it are persons susceptible to diabetic coma. The symbol could also indicate allergies to drugs and other health problems.

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HI Neighbors! The following boys will be leaving for Oliver Lake conservation camp, Sunday, July 21, according to Hugh David Mosser, chairman of the Adams county soil and water conservation district: Dennis Girod, Rod ne y Lautzenhiser, Michael Isch, Dennis Caffee and Don Burke. These - boys are sponsored by the district, with the aide of the First Federal Land Bank of Bluffton, Bank of Geneva, First Bank of Berne, and the First State Bank of Decatur. The district's monthly meeting was held Monday evening, all supervisors, Leo Seltenright, county agent; and Milton Spence, work unit conservationist attending the meeting. Plans were completed for the district’s 4-H fair exhibit for this year. The district received a letter from the state office confirming that 1963 is the year of the district’s 10th anniversary, this theme will be used in the 4-H fair exhibit. A letter was received from the Washington county soil and water conservation district inviting the supervisors to the dedication. August 14 of the Elk Creek watershed. The Elk Creek watershed is the first watershed to be completed under public law 566. The following have been accepted as new co-operators: John Baylor, Jefferson twp.; Ray Eichenauer, Union twp., Edward Sprunger, Wabash twp., and Albert Erxleben, Preble twp. The next meeting will be held August 19 at 8 p.m. Thousands To Maine To View Eclipse BAR HARBOR, Maine (UPD— Thousands were pouring into this fashionable seaside resort this week for front row seats Saturday to nature’s most spectacular sky show, the total eclipse of the sun. The visitors, ranging from scientists to schoolboys and tourists to tradesmen, were lining up coveted sites to watch the awesome phenomenon of the moon passing between the sun and the earth. The nearby plateau-like summit of 1,532-foot Cadillac Mountain, highest Atlantic Coast elevation between here and Argentina, offered a perfect vantage point of the spectacle that will turn day into night. The total eclipse will be seen a 60-mile-wide swath from Japan, across the North Pacific to Alaska, Canada and Maine before ending in the Atlantic at sunset. The celestial event will be observed as a partial eclipse elsewhere in the Northern Hemisphere and as far south' as Venezuela. At 5:47 p.m., EDT, the moon will block out the sun entirely over this area. The air temperature may drop; stars will be vis- o ible, and the sudden darkness will trick nocturnal insects and animals into stirring prematurely. Twenty special astronomical expeditions will be perched atop Cadillac Mountain. These range from a high altitude research group from Boulder, Calif., to a high school science group from New Jersey. Astronaut M. Scott Carpenter plans to fly over Maine at 42,000 feet in a specially equipped plane. A scientist accompanying him on the flight will point out to him scientific aspects of the eclipse which astronauts may encounter in future space journeys.

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FULL MOON—Among Anierfcan male school teachers, moonlighting on second jobs is popular. Almost half hold other jobs during the school year. Close to 70 per cent have summer jobs. The extra employment is not as popular among women teachers. Data: National Education Assn.

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REINFORCEMENT— State workmen maneuver into place one of the steel I-beams which are now supporting the Pleasant Mills covered bridge. Repair work on the bridge, which has been closed for about six weeks, was to be completed' ’this afternoon. It will be used until the new bridge, which is to be located just east of the present structure, is completed.—(Photo by Mac Lean.)

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SIDEWALK SUPERINTENDENTS — Pleasant Mills! youngsters, as concerned as their parents about the fate of the town’s old covered bridge, lined up Saturday to watch state maintenance workers repair the old structure. Left to right, Donna Noll, Sue Noll, Nancy Eggell, Mary Eggell, Roger Noll, Bruce Mossoth and Jim Everett.—(Photo by Mac Lean).

Four Hoosiers Die In Head-on Crash CARLSBAD, N.M. (UPD—Two cars collided head-on Monday about 13 miles south of here, killing four Indiana tourists and another motorist. • The dead were Jess Chupp, R.R. 1, Goshen, Ind., and his wife, Lizzie, 50; Daniel E. Weirich, 66, R.R. 1, Shipshewana, Ind., and his 64-year-old wife, and Julian A. Dominguez, 20, Carlsbad. Police said the accident happened in the middle of U.S. 62-180. State Policeman Bill Holder said there was “not a single mark” on the highway and authorities were unable to determine if one or both cars were on the wrong side of the road. ’ Mrs. Chupp was driving one car southbound toward the Texas state line. The four Hoosiers were killed outright except Mrs. Chupp, who died in an ambulance a few minutes later. « Holder said the,- two ears crashed in the late'' afternoon heat on a&slight crest in the highway. There were no witnesses to the accident. An inquest was ordered. “We have been unable to determine if one or both cars were o the wrong side of the road, who dodged who, or what happened,” Holder said. He said the cars hit “head-on or semi-head-on and twisted around side to side.” “They were welded together,” he said. If you have something to sell or ‘rade — use the Democrat Want ads — they get BIG results.

Delay Arraignment On Espionage Charge NEW YORK (UPD—The attorney for a Russian employe of the United Nations and his wife won a delay in their arraignment on espionage charges today in a move to establish the couple’s diplomatic immunity. Ivan Dmitrievich Egorov, 41, a U.N. secretariat personnel officer, and his wife, Aleksandra, 39, were indicted by a federal grand jury Monday on charges of attempting to send U.S. atomic and military secrets to Moscow. They were brought before Federal Judge Jacob Mishler this morning, but attorney William Kleinman obtained adjournment of the arraignment until Aug. 20. Kleinman told Mishler he needed at least a month to prepare motions challenging U.S. jurisdiction in the case. He said he would object to "every proceeding” in the case against the Egorovs on the grounds that Egorov was admitted to the United States on a diplomatic passport and therefore

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he and his wife have immunity from arrest. The federal government has denied that the Egorovs have diplomatic immunity, a privilege usually accorded only to bona fide diplomats in foreign delegations to the United Nations. They were arrested •at their . apartment here July 2, and another couple, who used the names Robert K. and Joy Ann Garber Baltch, were arrested at the same time in Washington. . The federal grand jury which indicted them revealed that the four allegedly conspired to transmit to Russia information about atomic weapons shipments, as # well as rocket launching sites and other defense matters. They allegedly attempted to “cultivate and activate" armed forces personnel and defense installations employes as members of their spy ring. A hearing was held in Washington this morning on the Baltches’ removal to New York to face the charges. , It you nave something to sell or trade — use the Democrat Want ads — they get BIG results