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THE niClOIOXD 1'AL.l.ADICM ASD Sl'X-TELEG R AM. I'RIDAV, FEBRUARY lO, 1911

Corn Improvement Discussed By Christie; President Stone of Purdue Speaks Tonight

PRES. 8TONE 8PEAK3. One of the feature attractions of the Khort CourHO and Corn School, which l coming to an end. will be the addrcHH at the high school au dltorlmn this evening by President V. K. Stone, of inmluo university 1'rof. M. V KUliardrt also will ieak on "Decoration of Homo IJrouwla.' Music will bo ftirnUhcd by a male .quartet. Tho program will begin at 7:UJ o'clock, and will bo nhort lit order to allow all who may dohlro to attend tho basketball game at tlio Coliseum.

undesirable in the breeding stallion of mare. Itations for the mare while nursing the foal and for the foal after weaning

causes for the production of eggs. Hens over two years old must be discarded because they will not lay well; heavy meat producing hens do not

were then discussed and the necessity i make good layers; and breeders posof keeping the foal In a thrifty, grow- j sessing poor vitality can never be exlng condition during the whole period : petted to lay or produce hatchable of growth was shown. Horses weigh-, eggs, no matter how well they may be lug above sixteen hundred pounds on fed. Any fowl showing the least signs one animal in worth $23.0o per bun- j of low vitality should be discarded, drcd as is demonstrated in the sales , L'ggs are made of the feed given to pavilion every day in tho year. (the hens and grain alone will not The value of breeding mares is pre- j make eggs. If winter eggs are desired potent, pure bred, stallion was shown j tho poultryman must attempt to reand Illustrated by a chart showing eta- produce summer conditions. This tlstics gathered In Wisconsin. These 'can be done by supplying beef scraps

ABIJOTT DISCUSSED SOIL IMPROVEMENT

"Commercial fertilizer has been qulto largely used In Indiana for a good many years, but the men who aro using It all too often full to take tho trouble to understand Its relation to crop prduction and the permanent maintenance of the fertility of the koII." nald J. II. Abbott In his lecture on "Soil Improvement." Continuing he nald, "there neems to be a tendency to regard It much as patent medicines nro regarded: to attribute to It some mysterious stimulating effect on tho soil, and to fear unfavor

able after results, particularly if Its uso Is dlm-ontlnued. This attitude Is all wrong and Is costing the users of fertilizers a god many dollars every year. There is nothing mystrious about fertilizers; nothing that is not easily comprehensible to everybody; and It looks llko mighty poor business policy for tho farmers of Indiana to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars every year without any clear idea as to what they arc buying or why. The farts behind the use of fertilizers, as hearly as can be summarized In a few words are about as follows: . . "Fertile virgin soils keep on producing a luxuriant growth of vegetation Indefinitely because nothing Is removed from tho land, and the supply of plant food is used over and over again, but cultivated soils will not keep on producing crops indefinitely because every crop or portion of a crop that Is removed takes away some of the none too abundant plant food, thus In time reducing the supply so low that the soil ceases to produce profitable crops. Three elements of plant food nitrogen, phosphorous and potassium, are liable to thus become deficient; and when we buy fertilizers we are simply buying one or more of these elements as a direct food for our crops. Fertilizer Is Just as truly a food for plants as corn or clover buy Is for Steers, and it Is Just as Important from the financial standpoint to know exactly what food our plants require and whero we can buy It cheapest. . Field fertilizer tests conducted by the experiment stations In various parts of the state have shown that the solU fall to supply enough phosphoric acid, nitrogen or potash for maxi-

figures showed that at the age of four to six months there was a difference in actual selling price in favor of colts sired by pure bred stallions of $27.52 at the age of one year a difference of $47.84; at the age of two years, $59.30; and at the age of four years a difference of $$102.80. A consideration of the work ration and methods of cheapening it and retaining its efficiency, concluded the lecture. Substitutes for oats suggested by different experiment stations and which have proven satisfactory aro ear corn, pound for pound; bran, oiio part; corn one part; oil meal or cotton seed meal. It is wise 1o give the horse on Sundays or holidays a much lighter ration than he gets on working days. IJran. a little corn or oats; and plenty of hay; together with light exercise should be given on the Day of Rest. Monday morniug disease is thus avoided.

CORN IMPROVEMENT CHRISTIE'S TALK

In the corn room on Friday, Prof. Christie gave a talk on "Corn Improvement." He said that the corn this year in Indiana is in very bad shape, and in many corn shows the question of vitality had to be left out altogether if prizes were to be awarded. Corn in the neighboring states is In as bad condition and it is not safe for farmers to send to these states for their seed corn. He advised every farmer to select, one hundred ears of their best corn and lay them out on a table, take out tho best ones and compare it with the rest and in this way select twenty-five good ears. Shell off the tips and butts and use only the remaining kernels for planting. These twenty-five ears should be planted in a separate bed in the Bouth or west side of tho field to prevent the wind blowing the pollen from other corn on this seed corn. Every farmer cannot have a breeding plot, he said, but every one should have a seed corn patch. He advised the farmers to go through this plot as often as' possible and pull out the young stocks that "knuckle over" barren and smutty. Should the stocks be quite grown when these are noticed, he advised pulling out the tassel. Llko produces like, ho explained, and the offspring of a corn stock that has been pollinated with pollen from a smutty or barren stock have a tendensy to reproduce barren stocks. In the fall, go through this plot and pick out

or skim milk mixed with bran and shorts accompanied by some green food Buch as sprouted oats, cabbage, or beets. Few Indiana farmers know bow their flock of poultry stand financially, due to the fact that few records aro kept. No one can tell the standing af any line of business without records and Mr. Phillips and Mr. Crane heartily recommended the keeping of a few records at least.

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is left by Having manure, straw, cornstalks, etc. The next thing to consider is the growth of clover or cow peas to furnish nitrogen and decaying organic matter. Hut Is Is important to

remember that legumes fix atmos pherle nitrogen within their own tls

sues rather than In the soil, and If the crop Is removed from the soil the .nitrogen goes too and leaves the soil

a little better orf than before. Tly mineral elements of plant food, phosphoric add and potash, must be pur

chased In the form of commercial fer

tilizer or raw materials, and of these mineral elements phosphoric add Is

by far tho more Important; though both may bo needed. "The experiment station does not advise the purchase of commercial ni

trogen for general farm crops except In relatively small amounts for wheat.

as It docs not usually pay."

"HORSE PRODUCTION" THOMPSON'S TALK The last lecture on Friday was by Prof. Thompson who spoke on "Horse Production." He said a survey of the borso situation in the state reveals that while hero and there a farmer of a group of farmers are breeding and rearing draft or havy horses in an intelligent, painstaking, and thoughtful manner, the majority of our farmers, the men who produce tho great numbers of horses of the state are not gov. ernlng their operations by a consider at Ion of tho horse market demands. " Three of tho things which the market is most particular about the things for w hich it condemns a horso If he b faulty in them and tho things whici tho producer should therefore pay attention to aro soundness, weight and conformation. The subject of conformation has been taken up pretty thoroughly in tho instruction in Judging as well as tho examinations for soundness. Hence, these unsound licsses which aro considered to unfit a horBO or mare for breeding purpose will bo considered her. Moon blindness, glass eye, and cataract, heaves,, broken wind, spavin, ringbone, slda bones, navicular disease, malformation .of the hocks, feet, couplings, and pastern, aro generally conceded to b

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cause ho has seen it grow and knows It Is free from barrenness. Kvery ear should be tested and the best way to test an ear of corn is not by biting tho germ, but by placing five kernels from each ear in a germinator and only cars that showed the fire kernels germinated should be used for planting. Mr. Christie says It takes fourteen ears of com to plant an acre of corn and by careful tending and management we should get seventy bushels per acre. Then each ear reproduces five bushels of corn and this corn sold at fifty cents per bushel makes a good seed ear worth $2.50 At this rate it Is worth the farmer's while to germinate their corn for

should a poor car be planted farmers not only lose the $2.50 but also the

time and labor as weel as the uso of

the land.

Many elevator men over the state

are putting in germinators and hiring

men to germinate the corn for the

farmers In the vicinity. This work

Is done free of cost to the farmers,

the elevator men paying all expenses This method is proving very satis

factory in that the farmer plants good corn, gets higher yields, and the elevator man has more and better corn to

sdl and both are benefited. Seed corn should bo properly stored be

cause tne germ is filled with water

and when this water freezes it has a tendency to break down the cells in the little germ and in that case the germ is dead and will not sprout. Mr. Christie is advocating that all farmers who sell seed corn, instead of selling it by the ear or bushel from the seed house as is now done,, germinate each ear before selling same and sell only those that germinate one hundred per cent. This will keep only the good ears on the market and will have a tendency to help the average farmer who does not germinate his corn, to grow good corn.

Miss McCheyne gave a demonstration on "Making Soda and Soda Mixtures." She stated that baking powder was made of cream of tarter and soda, together with a little flour or corn starch. When action takes place by the addition of water and heat the acid in the cream of tarter liberates the gas in the soda. Alum when added to a baking powder injures the system. Many of the cheaper baking sodas contain alum. She said baking powder was in demand because of its quick action, biscuits and small breads being in this way gotten ready quickly for the table. One trouble is that the dough in the center is not always cooked as well as it should be and the same complaint may be made in regard to the raised batter. Cake owing to its long baking is better in this respect. If bread is harder to masticato and digest on account of the moisture still retained how much more so must the mixture of Btarch and fat in the cake be. moist and soggy as it is when taken from the oven. Cakes and cookies should if possible be made at home as much of the fat and eggs used in the commercial article are not just what one would care to use.

tion among creamery patrons because their cream tests vary from time to time. It 6hould be understood that there are a great many factors that may cause this variation, and in most instances the man testing has better control of his operations in testing than the farmer does of his operation in producing. There are a few factors not controllable by the producer, such as the percent of fat in the milk to be seperated and it is found that the percent of fat in the cream varies directly as the per cent, of fat in the milk. That is when other conditions are the same, 3 ier cent, milk will produce 30 per vent, cream and five per cent, milk will produce 50 per cent cream. Then we have many conditions under the control of the pro ducer that cause a variation in the per cent, of fat in cream such as adjustment of cream screw, speed of machine, steadiness of machine, rate of inflow, and amount of water or skimmed milk used for flushing, all of these and many more cause a wide variation if not absolutely uniform. Then too there are conditions under the control of the purchaser that will influence the uniformity of the test. They are: fairness of sample: care of sample; and accuracy of test. All of the above should be considered when there is a variation in the cream test before anyone is accused of dishonesty. The farm separator is one of the most important factors in the dairy business either for good or evil, depending upon the way in which it is used. It is the abuse and not the use of the separator that has struck such a blow at the quality of butter in the past few years. If reasonable care be taken of separator cream, there is no reason why butter cannot be made from it that will compare with the best butter from the whole milk system.

BIG GAMETOfllGHT Indiana Meets Earlham in Basketball at Coliseum.

THE MANAGEMENT OF

POULTRY ON FARM tt 9 o'clock, Mr. Crane who has

charge of the poultry work at Purdue

talked on the subject of "Management

of Poultry on the Farm." He touched

first on the subject of marketing eggs

aud poultry, showing the immense annual loss of at least $500,000 due to present methods of handling eggs, and

advocating a grading system of buy

ing eggs according to quality. At the j present time eggs are bought at so much per dozen, irregardless of quality, thus providing no Incentive to ( the farmer for better eggs. Such system should be abolished. Lack of

LECTURED ON MAINTENANCE OF HOME In the Domestic Science department in the afternoon, Miss Woodward delivered a lecture on the "Maintainance of the Home." She said in part: "The Maintainance of the Home my topic for today has been chosen because of the fact that so many women make, unknowingly a drudgery of their home work. Much of the present aversion to household duties would vanish if all possessed adequate preparation to perform them, for it is a known fact that whenever one's knowledge of a subject has passed the stage of drudgery and becomes science its performance becomes a pleasure. There is little in a home more pathetic than a household in which no organization exists, no systematic direction, of activities and order. A haphazard, aimless management of home leaves its unmistakable stamp upon its inmates. Without the knowledge of it the housewife in such a home suffers infinitely more friction, loss of time, and strength and money, than it would cost to keep her housekeeping in better hand. The easiest way to care for ones home is to drive ones household duties before one and to do

this successfully it must first be

known what is to be done; second

wno is to do it; and third; when it is to be done. This however cannot be managed without a knowledge as to how to perform each detail of the

house work in its best and simplest manner which means necessarily in the long run the quickest and most satisfactory way. A routine for ones work should be planned and each women will find her own best methods although it will be possible to give some general suggestions as to it."

PROF. CRANE TALKED ON FARM SEPARATOR Professor Terry Crane had for hfcj

subject on Friday afternoon the

"Farm Seperator." He described the different methods of separatipg cream used on the farm and gave a detailed description of each. The farm separator, he said, is based upon the law of centrifugal force. Here the milk is run into the machine while warm and the speed of the bowl throws the heavier portions to the outside, forcing the lighter portions to the inside and these two products are allowed to escape through separate outlets and the result is skimmed milk in one and cream in the other vessel. He said the gravity cream or cream secured by the gravity 6stem seldom tests as high as thirty per cent, fat It will not churn as completely as thicker

cream and find a great loss of butter

fat is found as there is a larger

amount of butter milk.

The care and setting up of the hand

separator are very important factors in the efficiency of the machine. It

must be held securely and level. The bow 1 of a separatoro not properly set up w ill tremble w hich means a loss of fat in the skimmed milk. The speed

of the separator also influences the efficiency of seperation. The machine must be run at the speed indicated upon the handle for the best results. The efficiency of separation is

also effected by the condition and temperature of the milk, the best results being obtained when the milk

business methods on the part of both

tae ouyer and farmer is the cause of iis separated directly, after beine :

jthis present condition. In order to i drown from the cows. The machine;

mey must nrst De pro-1 snouia not be forced Beyond Its capa

PARENTS SACRIFICE SAVES BABY'S LIFE

(American News Service) Chicago, Feb. 10. Sacrifice by' her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Christopher Cheevers has saved the life of Annie Cheevers, three years old. Thechild was scalded Jan. 21 by falling into a tub of hot water. The father and mother sacrificed 103 skuare inches of skin on Saturday to be drafted on their baby. Today it was announced that the baby would recover.

For the first time in several years Indiana university and Earlham will meet on the basket ball floor this evening. Indiana will arrive in Richmond this afternoon primed for a hard contest. Word from Bloomington says that Indiana is expecting a hard tight and that the regular team is in shape for the contest. The state university has five veterans on its squad as Barnhardt, Davis, Hipskind, Graves and Herndt are either playing their second or third years. Berndt has played in Richmond on the Manual Training high school team of Indianapolis but with that exception none of the down state athletes have ever been seen on a Richmond floor. Barnhart, the son of the Democratic congressman from Rochester is the big goal getter of the team. Against Purdue he scored a majority of the goals. Hipskind is a product of Wabash high school and athletic club and is captain of the team succeeding Barnhart who led the crimson five last year. He is a little fellow but fast. His game is to play dose under the basket while Barnhart plays the corners of the court. Both Davis and Berndt dribble down the floor from their guard position and as they are good shots at the basket the Quaker forwards will have to play a defensive as well as offensive game. Graves at center is said to be the best Indiana has had for some time. He was a guard last year.

DEBATING CLUB IS HOLDING PRACTICE The debating club of the high school is holding practice meets frequently in preparation for the debates which will be held with teams from the Marion. Kokomo and other high schools in the state in the spring. The debates with the Marion and Kokomo high school teams will be on the subject, 'Resolved, That a Commission Form of Government Should Be Established in All Cities of 20,000 Inhabitants.'' The datea have not been definitely fixed.

GILBERT DUNHAM'S BARN BURNED

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OF OLD AGE

And His Family Are Saved by Charity. Crippled with the infirmities of age, L. J. Jackson, colored, living with his family at Thirteenth and South C streets, has earned $6 since January 1, which went towards the support of the family. With the aid of charitable organizations and township trustee James Howarth, the Jackson family has been kept from starvation and freezing. Jackson is employed by street commissioner Genn, but his ailments prevent bim working steadily. The township has given the family about a ton of coal since the first of the year.

Last year Canada paid out $13,511,931 in subsidies and subventions, of which $1,736,372 went for mail subsidies and steamship subventions.

Defective wires caused a small fire in a brick barn in the rear of the home of Gilbert Dunham, North Tenth street, about thiee o'clock this afternoon. The damage was not great. The heavy smoke attracted many- persons to the scene of the blaze. Four hose companies fought the blaze for nearly an hour,

NAMED GUARDIAN The Dickinson Trust company has been appointed guardian of Leona M. White, the minor heir of the late Eddy K. White, the Whitewater farmer who died in December, 1909 as a result of arsenic poisoning.

TRUNKS Suit Cases Traveling Bags We are offering a select line of highest quality leather goods at the very lowest prices. Come in and order your heavy harness now for spring delivery. Miller's HarnessStore S27 MAIN ST. Quality In Leather Goods.

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HAMMOND ATTENDS WATER WORKS MEET H. M. Hammond, president of the board of works, and City Engineer Fred Charles, went to Indianapolis, on Friday morning, to attend a meet ing of water works men. There aro several matters concerning sewage filtering which the board wishes to investigate.

PATROLMAN WESTEN BERG HAS THE GRIP Patrolman Henry Westenberji, one of the oldest and most efficient patrolmen on the local police force, and former chief, has been off duty for several days on account of a severe Attack of grip. Westenberg will return to duty Monday.

The

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duced and sinee the present priees of eggs make the question a pertinent one, Mr. Crane showed some of the

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