Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 September 1916 — Page 8

This is a picture of an Indiana wheat field. It shows the rows the farmer didn’t fertilize. A comparison with the ones on either side is a convincing argument that fertilizers pay. More fertilizers are used intelligently each year with not a single disappointed farmer among the users.

KILL THE SMUT

PREVENT LOW YIELD AND POOR QUALITY BY GIVING YOUR SEED WHEAT A BATH. Disinfection and proper methods of sanitation help keep the human family free from disease. Crop rotation helps keep the soil free from disease, while certain treatments of seed prevent particular wheat diseases. Wheat rust may be avoided largely by growing an early maturing variety. Stinking smut in wheat may be treated the same as smut in oats, that is, by giving the wheat a bath. Spread the seed on the barn floor and thoroughly sprinkle it with a solution of one pound of formalin to 40 gallons of water. Shovel the grain as it is being sprinkled, cover with sacks 2 to 12 hours, and spread out to dry. If there are smut balls in the wheat the sprinkling method is not effective but the wheat must be dipped as follows: Pour the formalin solution Into a tub or barrel, put in the wheat and leave it there for ten minutes. Stir constantly with a paddle and skim off all smut balls and scum that rises to the surface. The solution may then be poured into another vessel and the grain spread out to dry on a clean, disinfected floor. The formalin treatment also checks the disease known as anthracnose. Disinfect the drill box and tubes and dip the sacks that hold the treated seed in the solution and dry before filling.

INDIANA WHEAT VARIETIES

The varieties named in the above drawing, after many years’ testing, are "being recommended by the Indiana experiment station as those best adapted and most profitable for the Indiana farmer. When a new variety is introduced let it bear the approval of your Experiment Station.

WHEAT AND EFFICIENCY

Farm practice on thousands of American and European farms, together with the results obtained by more than 50 years’ testing by foreign experiment stations combined with more than 30 years’ work by American experiment stations have demonstrated that the yields and net profits from the United States wheat crop can be increased many times. The elimination of Smut from wheat in the United States would save American farmers from ten to fifteen million dollars annually. The control of the Hessian fly would save many times that amount. The use of a sufficient amount of a balanced plantfood ration has added 8 to 12 bushels per acre to the average annual yield of a single community. Sixteen Indiana farmers, by the use of 200 pounds of fertilizer per acre, raised an average of 30 bushels of wheat per acre. Last summer, 36 farmers in Ohio averaged 38.1 bushels per acre. These results secured by farmers on their own farms, demonstrate without a question of a doubt, that it is possible to greatly Increase yields and profits.

John A. Hunter Dies.

Bloomington. Sept. B.—John A. Huntef, fifty-two, the largest stone quarry •operator in the Bloomington district, dropped dead. He was prominent in the affairs of Indiana university.

Youth a Plague Victim.

Elkhart. Sept. B.—Dwight Thornton, nineteen, and an Elkhart high school graduate, died in the home of his parents of Infantile paralysis. He had been ill two weeks.

CROP FEEDING PAYS

WHEAT IN THE CORN STUBBLE

METHOD OF SEEDING GROWING POPULAR BECAUSE OF LA-BOR-SAVING. The growing of wheat on corn stubble is a practice that has stood the test because it helps to solve the labor problem, makes the popular threeyear rotation of corn, wheat and clover possible and insures an excellent crop of wheat at a good profit providing the land is properly handled. As a general rule do not plow, but disk corn stubble for wheat. Prepare the corn field well, keep it mellow, free from weeds and conserve the moisture by frequent cultivation. The corn should be planted early and be of a quick maturing variety, so it may be cut in time to sow the wheat on a well prepared seed bed. The shocks should be close in the row and the rows as wide apart as the corn can be carried to advantage. An evener stand of grass will be secured if the shock rows are seeded to oats or barley and grass in the spring instead of endeavoring to seed in the fall between the corn shocks as some do. In Standing Corn. For seeding in standing corn use the one-horse disk drill. The same rules of seedbed preparation and cultivation apply as when seeding On corn stubble. Proper cultivation during the suinmer should leave the land In a fine mellow condition. If the land is hard at seeding time, loosen it with a strong one-horse harrow or cultivator. During the winter, break or cut down the cornstalks, leaving them as a mulch for the wheat and young grass. Never drag or roll the land after the wheat drill. Leave the seedbed as the drill has left it with the small ridges intact. These will molder down during the winter and feed the roots of the young wheat and grass and thus prevent their heaving during freezing and thawing weather.

DOUBLE PROFITS FROM WHEAT

Millers pay more per bushel for high quality wheat than they do for that which only grades number four or five, according to a Chicago Board of Trade Member. Ohio Experiment Station Bulletin 243 shows high quality wheat and large yields go together, thus giving the farmer double profits. The experiments reported in Bulletin 243 show a yield of 8.45 bushels of wheat per acre with 51 per cent plump and 49 per cent shriveled kernels, where no fertilizers were used, against a yield of as high as 34.15 bushels per acre of which 94 per cent of the kernels were plump and but 6 per cent shriveled when the wheat was fertilized. From 300 to 500 pounds to the acre of a suitable wheat fertilizer produces wheat that has nearly 100 per cent plump, heavy kernels and at the same time increases the yield. This means double profits on the money invested in fertilizers as there are more bushels of wheat grading No. 1 or 2 instead of No. 4 or 5 or lower.

The proper place for wheat in a crop rotation depends upon local conditions, but is usually after corn or oats, potatoes, an early truck crop, or an annual legume, as soy beans or cowpeas. The most bushels per acre of high-quality wheat are more likely to be obtained following clover. However, it is better to follow’ clover with corn so the clover can grow the entire season instead of being turned under early, as is necessary when followed by wheat. Seedbed preparation is one of the most costly factors in growing wheat. Plowing is the most ! expensive part of seedbed preparation, I and when it can be eliminated without decreasing the yield of wheat it should ' tfe done. Disking instead of plowing is all that is necessary in preparing potato ground, corn stubble, sandy or ■father land that is clean and friable.

“I ani the candidate of a party but I am above all things else an American citizen. I neither seek the favor nor fear the displeasure of that smal| alien element among us which puts loyalty to any foreign power before loyalty to the United States.”—From President Wilson's Speech of Acceptance.

WHEAT ROTATIONS

100 PER CENT. AMERICAN.

SCRAPS

New yJrk city has eight pension funds. The efficiency of the steam turbine has increased 35 per cent in the last two or three years. New South Wales, Australia, is expecting large immigration froni the United States after the war. The buildings of Amsterdam are bpilt largely on pilings. The town hall stands on 13,000 such supports Baboons possess a remarkable instinct for finding water and have been used for that purpose in South Africa. Land now above sea level, 25,' 000,000 square miles, if uniformly spread over the globe, would make a crust of 600 feet thick.

Fifty-five miles in five hours is the remarkable record recently established by Siberian huskies drawing a sledge over ice. Industrial accidents in Pennsylvania during the first six months of this year resulted in the killing of 954 workers and in the injuring of 100,287 others. Central station plants rating has risen from 3,000,000-horse power in 1902 to 11,000,000-horse power in 1912, with a probable further increase of 20 to 25 per cent since. The Russian government has decided to reconstruct the waterway system between Petrograd and Archangel so as to enable vessels of large size to navigate it. A machine which adds, subtracts or multiplies numbers having no more than eight figures, yet which is small enough to be carried in a man’s pocket, has been invented.

Adam Zutzitz of Detroit, planning, perhaps, a lady killing career, has petitioned, the court to have hie name changed to Jake Hug. Judge Edward Command ordered it done The possibility of charging storage batteries by exposing them to sunlight is advanced by a German scientist, who has charged experimental batteries with ultra-violet rays.

After four years of experimenting .a Kansas City electrician has perfected an accumulator with which, he contends, electricity can be obtained from the air at practically no cost for operation. The Japanese are paying much attention to Australian ores suitable for refining and smelting in Japan. A. party of Japanese engineers is about to visit Australia to make a study of this question. Refining nickel by a new process is reported as having been discovered in Canada. The assertion is that >OO pounds of matte can be converted into 50 pounds of metal in 48 hours, and that the low grade iron bres of the Laurentian hills nea: Ottawa can be used. In the bill of fare of New York city the most costly iteni of food is meat, which costs annually something like $200,000,000; daily consumption of meat a person is about half a pound. If all this were beef., it would require more than 3,000 cattle to supply New York everyday. Calculating the candle power of a fire-fly’s light is no easy matter, especially as it shows its brightest light only when in flight; but William H. Pickering of the Harvard astronomical station at Mandeville, Jamaica, managed to do it by comparing it with the light of Certain stars.

The chewing gum habit has cost the American people for chicle alone nearly $35,000,000 in the last 10 years, or almost five times as much as we paid Russia for Alaska, according to figures furnished by the bureau of foreign and domestic commerce of the department of commerce. A warm wrnter artesian well on the Arthur Burro farm empties into the river a • short distance from Ludden, N. D., the water being warm enough to keep the stream from freezing at that point. Thousands of fish have swarmed to this point until they are so thick they can be shoveled out by the wagon load. There is a child born every four minutes in Texas, seven homes ar built every working hour, 14 per cent of the young women between the ages of 15 and 24 are unmarrie.d. 4 66,562 men have never braved the matrimonial seas and there are 20.000 spinsters. The average size of a Texas family is four and ninetenths. H. P. Stabler, county horitcultural commissioner of Yuba City, Cal., has been busy giving away Blastophaga wasps, necessary for tie growing of Smyrna figs. The wasps arrived rc cently from Capri island in fully matured figs. The figs containing the wasps are hung in the fig treat and the insects fly from one tree to another carrying pollen. The Ladies’ Order of St. Anne at Munich was founded by the widow of the Elector Maximilllan 111 in 1783 and originally was composed

of 10 women who could prove 16 generations of nobility. There are now three classes, with 25 members in the first, 42 in the second and a third class to which daughters of military officers are eligible. The Rev. V. Kushinoff, iu charge of St. John the Baptist Russian, Orthodox church 6f Charleroi, Pa./has gone on strike. He failed to appeaT at- services on a recent Friday. This occasioned comment, but not until Sunday, when he refused to hold services, did it become known that he really was striking. He says his full salary is not paid Ever since Captain, a St. Bernard dog belonging to John J. Grady of Worcester, Mass., saved Mr. Grady’s little son from drowning last year in Lake Quinsigamorid, he has objected strenuously if any of the Grady family went in bathing, but if he can not keep them out of the water he wades in as far as he can and barks as hard as he can until they finally go ashore.

Cashier Morse of the First National bank of Mays Landing, N. J„ is puzzled over a $5 banknote is sued 65 years ago,by the Merchants bank on Mays Landing, which he received from R. L. Dittrich of Lorraine, Va., who ran across it in settling up an old estate. As the note purports to be “secured by pledge of public securities in the state treasury,’’ Mr. Dittrich will be advised to seek payment there. The motorcycle which has distinguished itself as a family vehicle and a bearer of dispatches in war time, is being tried as a supplement to municipal fire fighting. A machine of the sidecar type is equipped with racks for chemicals, axes and other light fire fighting apparatus and manned by a crew of two .men. Jt thus provides a light, speedy mobile unit which can make fast time to the scene of a fire, and may be able to check a serious blaze in its inception. The Turks’ Arabian campaign is being fought with the aid of a railway that is unusual. It is a railway without shareholders, for its capital was raised by means of subscriptions given by pious Mohammedans. The sultan gave a personal offering o< 50,000 pounds, and his good example was followed by the Turkish government, which levied a toll of onetenth of a month’s pay on every civil service official, and on the whole army from general to private. This line is officially the “Hedjaz railway,” colloquially the “Haji railway,” and is actually the “Pilgrimage line.”

How to Dodge Lightning.

The fear of being struck by lightning is both very real and a sensible fear. But lightning can be avoided like all other evils. It will strike in certain places and will not strike in other places. There are reasons for its behavior in both cases, for nature never operates by chance. A steam engine or railroad coach is as Safe as any place in the world as far as lightning is concerned. No one has ever been struck by lightning while he was aboard a train. The business part of a city likewise is never struck by lightning. Neither are tall skyscrapers ever hit. It is a matter of record that insurance companies never have any losses from lightning striking any building with metallic sides and frame work of steel.

A steel battle ship is also safe from the clouds, as is a steel wind mill tower. This is because every one of these objects is its own lightning rod and needs no further protection than they can give themselves. There is another list of things lightning will strike. It will strike a country house or a house in the outskirts of town. It likes to hit a barn, church, schoolhouse, tree, stack or animal, especially if it is near a wire fenced As for a house, the safest place in a lightning storm is in your brass bed or iron bed. It is very dangerous to stand near the bed because you are taller than the bed. The reason why you are safe w'hen you are lying on it is that the bed head and foot extend above your head. The current will not leave the bed to pass through your body. The walls and the floor may be ripped to pieces, but you will be safe as long as you lie still in your bed. Feather beds offer no protection whatever from lightning unless you lie on a metal bed. If the bed is of wood and the springs are of steel, the wood of the bed may be split to pieces, but you will nevertheless remain unharmed. During the day the safest place in a house is in the center of a room provided there is no stove near. Contrary to the popular opipiou it makes no difference whether the doors or windows are opened or closed. Lightning can get in under any circumstances if It wants to.— Ex. ”

HOW ABOUT THIS?

ARE YOU MAKING THINGS AGREEABLE TO THE HESSIAN FLY? “The farmers should be no more anxious to provide food, nesting places, and costly ctare for this pest than they are to invite typhoid fever, smallpox, or the foot-and-mouth disease into their communities and homes, yet this wery thing is being done in hundreds of communites by a few careless farmers who remain indifferent to their neighbors’ pleas, to the warnings of agricultural authorities, and to their own responsibilities,” are the words of a noted institute worker at a farmers’ meeting in the wheat belt a few days ago. He further declared that co-opera-tion among farmers by late sowing, good seedbed preparation, and the use of available plant food to hasten the growth and resistant qualities of the crop, were the methods of saving the millions of dollars lost annually through this pest. The reason for late sowing is that, since the life of the fly is so short, it will have either died or have been killed by the first frost. But late sowing takes care of the fall brood only, and other steps are necessary to forestall the spring brood. This leads to the matter of seedbed preparation and the good found In a fine and well-prepared seed bed lies in the increased root system and feeding ability of the plant, for no plant can be better than its root system since the roots are the plant’s mouths. Hardness, shallowness, dryness and loose- ’ ness of the ground spell a poor crop in advance.

Late in the fall, at the time of sowing, less plant food is being made available than in the warm summer months. Particularly is this so of ammonia, that indispensible element which makes the rank vegetative growth possible. It is also ammonia that puts the rich, green healthy color in the young plants, and without which the yield of grain cannot be high. Here is where the commercial fertilizer containing at least two per cent ammonia has been returning one and two dollars and even more in profit, for every dollar invisted. The fly does not thrive on healthy, vigorous, growing wheat. The plant juice is so diluted that it does not hold enough to furnish the nutriment it requires. Consequently it turns its attack to the weaker plants, those with sap more concentrated, and the damage to the crop increases with the larger number of sickly plants. Sickly, weak and unhealthy plants are the cause of more injury from the pest than result from the fly's attack.

FEED-UP YOUR FIELDS INCREASE YOUR YIELDS

There is a farmer whom I know who shows that he is wise. He knows that larger yields of wheat come when you fertilize, With crop reports much lower than last year and prices high. The farmer easily can see that plant food is his best buy, Some nitrogen will help the growth, phosphoric acid, too, A little potash strengthens straw and plumps the kernels, too. Let’s help the plants make good stalk" growth and fill the kernels plump, By feeding them with plant food (Sir) —Then watch the profits jump! The profits come with larger yields, the average crops don’t pay So why not get your share of gain—the fertilizer way? With wheat you have a high-priced crop and extra bushels count. Fertilize your fields, bring up your yields and watch your profits mount. And when you see just how it pays this year to fertilize your wheat, Next year you’ll feed your other crops and all yciir records beat. For farming N a game in which the Golden Rus applies. You feed your crops and they feed you, so, therefore fertilize. —Melvin Ryder.

NEARLY AS MUCH THE SECOND SEASON.

“The increase in yields of the crops following the one to which fertilizer is applied is often nearly as much as that secured in the crop fertilizer. In one experiment at the Ohio Station when fertilizer was used on wheat, it caused an increase in yield of the other four crops in rotation, of 86 per cent of that secured in the wheat crop.” says J. F. Hudson, a well-known farm writer. “Fertilizers applied to the corn crop will not be entirely used up and will benefit the crops following especially when applied broadcast or drilled in evenly where the field is in sod.

NO ONE WOULD WORK A SICK HORSE.

No one would think of wmrking a sick horse, yet there are farmers in almost every community who are continuing to work their sick soils, and with the usual result of poor crops Fertilizing will help some, and lime is the corrective agent, but for the best results both should be used. With wheat, when limestone and fertilizer are used on the fame land the yield Is larger than wlen eigter one of these is used alone.

... . .. Professional Notice Our friends* and clients will please take notice that Mr. George A. Williams has moved his law offices from the rooms of the First National bank to rooms just across the stairway in the Odd Fellows building, occupied by Mr. D. Delos Dean, and that Mr. Williams and Mr. Dean will practice law under the firm name of Williams & Dean, with offices in the Odd Fellows building. GEORGE A. WILLIAMS, D. DELOS DEAN. Rensselaer, Indiana, August 26, 1916. s-25 Here Is the Real Thing. Mr. Farmer. If you don’t believe it take a chance. Expenses—telephones, lights, insurance, their own salary, clerk hire, rent—is quite a large item with some competitors. It takes a hard blow to RING THE BELL. I HAVE THE BUGGIES The best farm wagon on earth for light running and durability. It’s the Studebaker.—C. A. ROBERTS, Rensselaer, Ind., Agent. I quote you a spot cash price on all goods I sell. The man who whispers down a well About the goods has to sell, Won’t reap the golden, gleaming dollars Like one who climbs a tree and hollers. Well, I am hollering. , C. A. ROBERTS. Notice of Ditch Letting Notice is hereby given that the trustee of Jordan township, Jasper county, Indiana, will, at his residence, on the 16th day of September, 1916, at 2 o’clock p. m., receive bids for the improvement by cutting willows and weeds for 20 feet back on banks from each side of the Sage ditch. Plans and specifications are on file in my office showing number of miles. Bidders are required to bid on so much a mile. JOHN KOLHOFF, Trustee of Jordan Township. a-30-s-6-13 Notice of Administration Notice is hereby given that the undersigned has been appointed by the clerk of the circuit court of Jasper county, state of Indiana, administrator with the will annexed of the estate of George E. Hosmer, late of Jasper county, deceased. Said estate is supposed to be solvent. JUDSON J. HUNT, Administrator with the will annexed. August 28, 1916. a3O-s6-13 NOTICE OF GRADE LETTING No. 2907. Notice is hereby given that on Tuesday, October 3-1916, the Board of Commissioners of Jasper county, Indiana, will receive sealed proposals for the construction of the Burk’s grade in Marion township on the highway north and south through the center of Section 31, Township 30 north, range 6 west, Jasper county, Indiana. Said grade to be built according to plans and specifications on file in the Auditor’s office; all bids to be on file by 2 o’clock of said date apd to be accompanied by bond and affidavit according to law. The board reserves the right to reject any and all bids. By order of the Board of Commissioners of Jasper county, Indiana. JOSEPH P. HAMMOND, Auditor Jasper County, Indiana.

NOTICE OF STEEL BRIDGE LETTING—No. 2966. Notice is hereby given that on Tuesday, October 3, 1916, the Board of Commissioners of Jasper county, Indiana, will receive sealed proposals for the construction of steel bridge in Carpenter township between section Nos. 7 and 18, township 27, north of range 6 west. (12 foot bridge, cement top). Said bridge to be built according to plans and specifications on file in the Auditor's office; all bids to be on file by 2 o’clock of said date and to be accompanied by bond and affidavit according to law. The board reserves the right to reject any and all bid?. By order of the Board of Commissioners of Jasper county, Indiana. JOSEPH P. HAMMOND, Auditor Jasper County, Indiana. NOTICE OF STEEL BRIDGE LETTING—No. 2967. Notice is hereby given that on Tuesday, October 3, 1916, the Board of Commissioners of Jasper county, Indiana, will receive sealed proposals for the construction of a steel bridge in Carpenter township over the Gallagher ditch on the highway north and south in section 16, township 27 north of range 6 west. Said bridge to be built according to plans and specifications on file in the Auditor’s office; all bids to be on file by 2 o’clock of said date and to be accompanied by bond and affidavit according to law. The board reserves the right to reject any and all bide. By order of the Board of Commissioners of Jasper county, Indiana. JOSEPH P. HAMMOND, Auditor Jasper County, Indiana.

NOTICE OF BRIDGE REPAIR No. 2968. Notice is hereby given that on Tuesday, October 3, 1916, the Board of Commissioners of Jasper county, Indiana, will receive sealed proposals for the construction of bridge repair of the Bullis bridge over Carpenter’s creek in Jordan township. Said repair to be built according to plans and specifications on file in the Auditor’s office; all bids to be on file by 2 o’clock of said date and to be accompanied by bond and affidavit according to law. The board reserves the right to reject any and all bids. By order of the Board of Commissioners of Jasper county, Indiana. JOSEPH P. HAMMOND, Auditor Jasper County, Indiana.