Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 April 1919 — Page 6

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MONEY TO LOAN on LIVE STOCK and CROPS WALLACE & BAUGH Lafayette, Indiana Will be in Rensselaer on every Thursday Room 7, Odd Fellows’ Bldg.

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Department of Farm Welfare Conducted by County Afent Stewart Learning.

To Develop Soil* and Crop*. A trial of different varieties of torn in every township in order to determine the “best” local variety was one of the fifteen lines of work planned by the county soils and crops committee March 28th. “In every locality” says W. H. Pullin, chairman of this committe, we find a dozen or more types of corn being grown. Every fanner believes his type the best but if we plant the varieties side by side in the field we can get first hand information on the subject." The committee will also push an investigation of •■the value of liming in the county, the use of soybeans with corn as a means of increasing feed and soil fertility. It will conduct eleven trials and demonstrations as to the value of acid phosphate, potash and manure combinations on the different soils of the country. The committee will carry on an investigation of the value of Rosen Rye as a crop for the county and will test out the most promising varieties of wheat and will conduct trials to determine the cause and control of wheat scab and other grain diseases. . Aside from the corn variety trials, the committee will have charge of the 5-acre Corn Club which has for its object the growing of the greatest number of bushels of corn per acre at the least expense. It will arrange for a country Corn Show next winter and supervise 15 corn disease control trials. One of the most important projects of the committee is an excursion to one or more farms within a radius of 75 miles where remarkable results have been secured, for the purpose of studying the methods employed. FARMERS CLUB MEETS. President H. J. Dexter announces that the regular meeting of the North Union Farmers club will be held at Virgie, Saturday evening, April sth with the following program: Song—Old Folks at Home Everybody Recitation Evelyn Harrington Recitation Rosa Reed Recitation Leslie Wood Song—Mickey Quartette Lecture— . Monroe Doctrine and its relation to the League of Nations ... .M. L. Sterret Negro Selection. Liza & Sambo Long Intrumental Music ■ ■ Mr. and Mrs. Hooper Advantage of a Stock Feeding Association Learning Song—Till We Meet Again. . . . Quartette To Demonstrate Multiple Hitche* Wayne Dinamore, Secretary of the Percheron Society of America will give a state demonstration of various multiple hitches for the horses at Noblesville, April 9th. With a gradually growing realization of the fact that anything which enables one man to control more power offers a solution of many of the farm labor problems, farmers are taking greater interest in working great groups of horses together. At the. present time few fanners are finding it practical to use more than four horses in a group and the advent of the tractor makes the power supplied by four horses seem small. Horse breeders have developed very practical methods of handling up to eight or ten horses as a unit and anyone who can get away can afford to attend the demonstration at Noblesville.

No better Job work produced in this section of Indiana than that turned out by The Democrat.

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BILLIONS FROM THE NICKELS

Ever Stop to Think of Vaet Sum* That Can Be Saved From Small Amounts T If every peraon In the United State* saved a nickel in one day It would mean that at night the people would be ju»t five million dollar* richer. And then suppose the people kept thia up for one month? It would mean that at the end of thirty days they would have saved one hundred and fifty million dollars. Why not keep It up for the rest of 1919? What would be the result? One billion five hundred million dollars. Sounds like a lot of work far one little nickel to do, doesn't It, yet there are Mcoreß of industries In the United States which are paying big dividends on the little nickels gathered day by day, This immense sum if invested in War Savings Stamps would earn for the savers approximately alxty-four million dollars in 1920—the work of “old man interest,” who never takes a day off and who Is continuously on the job.

Obituary

Mrs. Lucretia Scott Lucretia E. Anderson was born on a farm near Gosport, Owen county, Ind. Oct. 1, 1847; died at her home in Wheatfield Meh. 28, 1919, aged 71 years, 5 months and 28 days. She had four brothers and four sisters, of whom John and Laura Anderson of Gosport, Mrs. Evangeline Gray of Spencer, and Mrs. Mary Weaver of Staunton, Ind., are living; Daniel, Matthew, William and Julia having preceded her. She was married to Franklin H. Scott Sept. 1, 1872 —Mr. Scott died Dec. 21, 1913 —and to them one child was born, Mrs. Ita Helmick, of Wheatfield, who faithfully ■nursed her during her long illness of some 1 5 months. Mrs. Scott had been a continuous resident of Wheatfield for 30 years and was known by nearly every person in the north end of the county. She was a member of the M. E. church, and largely through her efforts was the First Methodist church at Wheatfield organized, and, until she became physically unable, was an untiring worker for the church, Sunday school and for the general upbuilding of the morals of the community. In her passing Wheatfield loses one of its oldest and most respected residents. Funeral services were held at the M. E. church Sunday at 2 p. m., conducted by Rev. G. A. Emerich of Pittsford, Mich. Interment was made by the side of her husband in Wheatfield cemetery.

■How we’ve missed thee, dearest sister, For thy place no one could fill In the Master’s golden harvest. Fields are ripened, waiting still. For a hand, as thine, so willing, To wield a scythe of love so keen, To the needy sick and dying. There thy form was ever seen. No task too hard, no foe too bitter For the touch of thy kind haod; And thy service hath been rendered Unto all, at Christ's command. Thou wert faithful, and we honor On this day of thy demise, And with those who mostly loved thee, 'Streams our tears from flowing eyes. Thou art gone where God hath called thee, And we begrudge thee not thy rest. For Christ hath said to “Those that love me, Lean thy head upon my breast.’’ A few more years of pain and sorrow, A few more hours of toil and cares, Then we’ll meet thee on the morrow In the home which Christ prepares. For the faithful true and trusting, Who never fails, or doubts Ibis word: ■He will say to us as to you, “Enter in” to your reward. A FRIEND.

A RENSSELAER MAN’S EXPERIENCE

Can you doubt the evidence of this Rensselaer citizen? You can verify Rensselaer endorsement. Read this: Landy McGee, fur dealer, says: “I suffered from a lame back and sueh severe pains across my loins that I co*uld hardly move. I couldn’t rest well and my kidneys were too active. I used several medicines, but nothing seemed to relieve me until I got Doan’s Kidney Pills, at B. F. Fendig’s Drug Store. The backache and pains in my loins soon left and the kidney secretions became natural.” (Statement given May 31, 1907). On February 22, 1916, Mr. McGee said: ‘‘Doan’s Kidney Pills are still my stand-by. I think they are fine and I am never without them in the house.” Price 60 c, at all dealers. Don’t simply ask for a kidney remedy—get Doan’s Kidney Pills —the same that Mr. McGee had. Foster-Mil-burn Co., Mfgrs., Buffalo, N. Y. — Advt. ThToughot the British empire the naval salute of /the king is twenty-one guns, excepting in-Indla, where it is 121 guns.

MODERN BUILDING FOR LOWLY SWINE

Clean, Comfortable Quarters for Hogs Worth While. FARMER’S CHANCE NOW HERE Removal of Government Restriction* Enable* Him to Construct Building* That Ar* Badly Needed. By WILLIAM A. RADFORD. Mr. William A. Radford will answer questions and give advice FREE OF CCBT on all subject* pertaining to the subject of building work on the farm, for tbe reader* of thl* paper. On account of hl* wide experience as Editor. Author and Manufacturer, he is. without doubt, the highest authority on all these subject*. Addresr all inquiries to William A. Radford. No. 1«37 Prairie avenue. Chicago, 111., and only inclose three-cent stamp for reply. • The lias been denied during the lust two years the new buildings the expansion‘bf his business hus required, will hall with satisfaction his chance to put up that new barn, silo, horse barn, or cattle or hog house that he has needed for many mouths. But during the time of his inactivity there huve been rapid strides made In designing commodious and sanitary

farm buildings. One of the things that the modern idea of farm efficiency demands is that the hogs be housed In a building that can be kept clean and is so arranged that the swine can be cared for with the least amount of effort. It may be trite to say it, but hogs are valuable property these days. A little more money spent on the hog house means falter and healthier animals, and each additional pound is worth real money about the time snow Illes and the hogs are marketed. Herewith is shown a modern swine establishment, in which are embodied a corncrib, granary, feeding platform and scale house. The building is what Is known as the saw-tooth hog house. While the floor plan shows the arrangement of these features, it might be explained a little more fully by a description of it. Room for Eighteen Sows. The hog house proper was laid out to accommodate eighteen sows; two stalls In one end were used to provide plenty of room around the water place and another stall in the other end for the scale box and small store room; so, as it is arranged now it contains fifteen usable stalls. The ventilation is taken care of by two combination smoke stacks and ventilators in the roof and a slat ventilator built In the end above the door. This ventilator Is fitted with a door on the inside, so that It can be closed tight when necessary. All the gates between the stalls are removable, so that one or more pens can be thrown together. The feeding platform also can be used as outside yards by putting iu the cross gates. Each six feet there la

an angle iron bolted to the side of the house, which holds one end of a 2 by 4, the other end being fastened to the fence on the outside of the platform. The 2 by 4 acts as a brace to hold the fence rigid and also serves as a means of fastening the top of the gates. The lower part of the gate is held in place by 2 by 4 braces on the gates dropping into holes made to. fit them in the concrete platform. In order to remove the gates it is only necessary to loosen two bolts and lift them out. Scales Under Cover. The scales are under cover in the passageway between the hog house and the granary and are fitted with a swinging gate at each end, one of them swinging inside so as not to interfere with the sliding door which closes the passageway up tight. This passageway is all under cover and makes a

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fine place in bad weather for grinding feed. etc. Tbe gate at the outer end ol the scale* swings out and joins a small gate at the loading chute, making it handy to do the loading. The sleeping pens, granary and corn crib are all floored with hollow tile with two Inches of concrete over them. The corn crib and granary have studding sockets set in the concrete on top of the wall. The sills in the hog bouse are belted down to the top of the foundation wall. There is a slat door between the corn crib and granary, so as to make it tight when the granary is full of small grain. The roof is shingled with composition shingles nnd the siding is fir drop siding. Everything is of the best materials and is built in the best possible way. All the foundation walls are reinforced. The floor of the hog house slopes to the center, so as to drain into the sewer which runs out under the feeding platform. The feeding platform slopes to tbe outside and also at one end. The feed trough also slopes and is fitted with a drain at one end. All Fitting* Are Modern. The fittings of the house are modern in every respect. One of these Js a waterer that will not freeze. Concrete floors and feeding troughs make it easy io keep the building clean, and cleanliness has been found to be a prime factor in the successful production of hogs. This hog house is only one of the buildings that will be erected on the farms this year that contains many up-to-date features in construction and equipment. There is a growing demand among the farmers for these modern build-

ings, because those who are producing food for this country and for a considerable portion of the rest of the world now realize that their time is worth money and everything that saves even a few steps a day is worth while. At the end of the year this worth-whileness is shown by the balance on the right side of the ledger after the season’s crops have been marketed and the livestock sold.

GREATEST OF ALL ASSETS

World’* Vast Store of Gathered Knowl- , edge Has Not Been Destroyed » by the War. At the one hundred and sixty-fifth session of the Royal Society of Arts the chairman of the council, Mr. Alan A. Campbell Swinton, F. R. 8., in an address on “Science and the Future,” said that undoubtedly the war had been responsible for an enormous amount of destruction of capital, but when those losses were estimated it was not usually borne in mind that capital did not merely consist of gold and silver, bricks and mortar, furniture and fitments, or even of railways, steamships and machinery, but that the main capital of the modern world consisted of scientific knowledge. The reconstruction of the material things now temporarily destroyed would take only a very small fraction of the labor and time expended when men learned how to bring those things about. When we compiled estimates of losses due tb the war we must not forget that our greatest asset, the vast store of knowledge that had been gathered together, was still Intact. In

the future, if the Industries of this country were to flourish in the face of the world’s competition, It was above all things necessary that research should play a greater part in them than it had in the past. The modern world had no room for antiquated and unscientific methods.

Abram Moses, a violinist of Baltimore, is the possessor of what might be called a barometric violin. Some time after Mr. Moses bought it, he noticed that at certain times it exhaled a strange and subtle fragrance, like an aroma of Oriental incense. Later, he observed that this fragrance was noticeable only when the weather was about to become damp. He obtained the yioiifi in Paris some yearfl ago when he was studying there. f

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Ir * > F A “Close-Up” .' ■ II Swift & Company ’s Profit of 2.04 Im ||j cents on each dollar of sales ||l Hl HI n° O(£as o \l t II I i tfe?7 oil 'Bl \ ToStock Raiser 1 I 1 vS/ °7S ' ‘ M I AS M l IT I U is I I II i I II ' ' O Jf I I •// Expenses £a2>ar, st* / - v 857 ° If I “ To Stock Raiser 1 I ■ A 7 // I JF UNDCR ' I iffil >USMirriMG GUSS I r \ ’ The diagram at the top shows the distribution II of the average Swift dollar received from sales ,!' of beef, pork and mutton, and their by-products, during 1918. The magnifying glass brings out the distribution of the 2.04 cents profit per dollar of sales: 1.94 of one per cent goes to pay interest on borrowed money, taxes, etc. .50 of one per cent goes to pay dividends to shareholders. .60 of one per cent remains in the [ business to help in improving and financing the business. ; Total 2.04 percent 1919 Year Book of interesting and instructive facts sent on request. J Address Swift & Company | Union Stock Yards, Chicago, Illinois , 0 n ||| Swift & Company, U. S. A. : I ll' 111 I ■■ V \Pjßlv 7

A hawk can spy a lark uj>on the earth almost exactly the same color at twenty times the distance at Which it is perceptible to a man or dog. A kite soaring out of human sight can still distinguish and pounce upon lizards and field mice on the ground, and the distance from which vultures and eagles can spy their prey is almost incredible.

BIG STOCK SALE The undersigned will offer at public auction at their residence, 9 miles north, 1% miles west of Rensselaer, 3 miles south of Virgie, on the Jackson highway (all stone road), the former J. W. Faylor farm, commencing at 12 o’clock noon, on TUESDAY, APRIL 22, 1919. 100 Head of Registered and Grade Shorthorn and Hereford Cattle—Consisting of 1 roan Shorthorn bull, and 3 registered Shorthorn cows, papers furnished; 12 young Shorthorn milch cows, some with calf by side; 10 choice quality spring heifers; 20 Shorthorn heifers, wt. 600 to 800; 12 Hereford yearling heifers, dandies, wt. 500 to 600; 30 2-year-old short fed Shorthorn steers, wt. 750 to 850; 2 yearling bullfe, registered Shorthorns, papers furnished; 10 head of calves, heifers and steers. 1 pair 3-year-old Colts. 100 Head of Hogs— (Consisting of 1 registered Duroc male, papers furnished; 2 Duroc males, 6 months old; 2 Duroc brood sows, wt.’ 600 lbs. each, will farrow in M?.y, bred to registered Duroc; 3 Chester White br.ood sows, will farrow in May and June; 2 sows each with good bunch of spring pigs; 15 Duroc gilts, bred to registered male, -vpll farrow in May and June; 50 Duroc shoats, wt. 100 to 120 lbs.; 25 pigs, wt. 50 to 60 lbs. Seed corn, oats, fence posts, binder and other implements. iNo auctioneer. Stuff will be sold to the fellow who outbids the other fellow. Lunch will be given on the ground, the proceeds to go to the prisoner relief fund. Terms— A credit of 9 'months will be given on sums over $lO, notes to bear 6 per cent interest if paid when due, if not paid at maturity 8 per cent interest will be charged from date; 2 per cent oft

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for cash when entitled ato credit. * JOHN and ED EILTS. C. G. Spitler, clerk. Parties purchasing more than 5 head we will assist in delivering half way. ■

NOTICE OF EXECUTOR’S SALE OF PERSONAL PROPERTY. In the matter of the estate of Elisabeth A. Powers, deceased. Notice is hereby given. that the undersign Jed executor of the last will and testament of Elizabeth A. Powers, deceased, will offer for sale at public auction at the late residence of said decedent, in the city of Rensselaer, Jasper county, Indiana, on SATURDAY, the 19TH DAY OF APRIL, 1919, the personal property of said estate, consisting of household and kitchen furniture, beds and bedding, carpets, rugs, stoves, coal, wood, canned fruits, and other articles too numerous to mention. Said sale to begin at 2 o’clock p. m. Terms —All sums of $5 and under cash ini hand; over $5 a credit of not to exceed six months will be given, the purchaser executing his note ’ therefor, bearing 6 % interest after maturity, waiving relief, providing for attorney’s fees and with sureties thereon to the approval of the executor. Dated this 3d day of April, 1919. LOUIS HINCHMAN, Executor. Fred A Phillips, auctioneer. a 6-10

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