Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 44, Number 57, 16 January 1919 — Page 3

THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM , THURSDAY, JAN. 16, 1919.

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"Rag Dolls" Show if Grain Will Grow; , Gives All Her Clothes for Seed Testers

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A Kentuclty county agent's daughter who wore a tub after her clo'thes had been made into the seed testers shown in the picture.

A young lady a very younK lady in Union county, Kentucky, is believed to have done at least as much as any American of her years in helping to Increase food production in this country. She gave all her clothes for use in making rag-doll testers of the germinating power of seed corn. An her years are only two. Her father, a county agent of the United States Department of Agriculture and the Kentucky extension organization, used up all the spare cloth around the house in making testers for the farmers in his territory, and then he turned to the baby's wardrobe. The need for testers was acute, and baby didn't need as many clothes as formerly. The result was that the baby had to wear a tub until her mother could prepare new raiment. The Bed-corn situation in the spring cf 1918 was serious. It is not expected to be so serious in 1919, but in many sections of the country farmers will have need for rag doll testers or other apparatus in Mnding what seed will produce corn and what will' not. They may not have to use the baby's clothes but they should be ready with testers. How to Make Rag-Doll Testers. Various kinds of apparatus for testing iM-Hd corn are for sale by commercial firms. Others may be manufactured a home with simple materials. Some of these testers, such as the sand box tester and the sawdustbox tester, are described in various publications of the Department of Agriculture and the state agricultural experiment stations. The rag-doll seed tester has proved to be one of the most convenient and satisfactory forms, aB well as one of the least expensive. The cheapest material which has given entire satisfaction is bleached muslin. The muslin should be cut into strips 16 inches wide and from 3 to 6 feet long. With a pencil or crayon draw a line down the center of the strip. Leaving at least 4 inches at the ends, mark the strip crosswise every 4 inches, numbering the sections, t Use the Rag Dolls. Moisten the tester before putting the kernels upon it. Number the ears and place them In definite order. From different places on ear No. 1. take out 10 kernels and place them in Section No. 1. Similarly take 10 kernels from ear No. 2, place them in section 2, and continue in this manner until every section of the tester has been filled. Care should be taken to place the kernels some distance from the dividing lines, so that slight displacements caused by handling the testers will not mix the samples. Fold each side of the tester over, so that the edges meet in the middle. Press the cloth down firmly over the kernels,

and, using a cob or some other clyindrlcal object as a core, roll the tester. Tie a cord or slip a rubber band around the middle, and the doll is complete. I The Testing Process. The dolls should be thoroughly immersed in lukewarm water. From 2 to 4 hours have been found sufficient for the soaking, and it is best not to soak for more than 10 hours. Remove the dolls from the water, allow them to drain, and place them where they may be kept warm and moist. During the germination period the dolls should, not be subjected to a temperature higher than 100 or lower than 50 F. A temperature between 80 and 90" F. during the day and 60 and 60 during the night will give good results. It is not advisable to give the dolls a second soaking. A good way to prevent drying out is to wrap them up in a piece of wet sacking or put them upright in an ordinary water bucket and cover them with a wet cloth. In either case, provision must be made for draining off excess moisture. At the end of five days, with temperatures approximating those recommended the kernels should be sprouted sufficiently to show their fitness for seed. If any sample has a noticeably weak germination or has more than two dead kernels, the ear from which the sample was taken should be discarded. There may be times, such as the spring of 1918, when the supply of good seed corn is extremely limited. In such seasons, it is well to retain all ears showing a germination of 60 per cent or more. The poorer germinating ears will have to be used if the supply of seed germinating 80 percent or better is not sufficient. Keep the poorer seed separate and if it must be used, plant it thicker than the rest. If the dolls are to be used over again, they should be thoroughly scalded in order, to destroy any mold growth. When to Use Rag Dolls. Of course, the testing of the germination of each ear is some trouble. However, to obtain a successful corn crop it is work that must be done by those who have not retained seed corn of good germination from a previous crop. The holding over of good seed corn from a crop that matured thoroughly makes it possible to continue the improvement and adaption of a strain without losing seed and is less troublesome than the making of separate ear germination tests. The use of the rag doll, therefore, is not recommended as the best practice possible, but as the most satisfactory way of geting suitable home-grown seed when a supply has not been held over from a good crop and fall freezes have occurred bo early as to injure the germinating power of the crop.

And say if you don't cherish your chickens you should. 1 A hen house or cheerless shed, which isn't a HOME for the flock isn't what the hen and her children are entitled to. Stick a pin there, act on it, and prosper in eggs. Bulletins printed for the warm Gulf coast country are of no interest in this latitude. Nor are corn belt bulletins of interest In the Sunny South. Make your own selections according to individual needs. To do this get your name on the mailing list at Washington and indicate the class of bulletins you need In your business as hog raiser, fruit grower, poultry fancier, or what not. Next: Read the bulletins and clip or file whatever is of value to you. A list of new publications is printed every month. Just ask the Department of Agriculture for it and it will come right along. In the list before us is one entitled "Steam Sterilization of Seed Beds for Tobacco and Other Crops." Farm Bulletin 996. Do you get the idea? A little hot water, practically, to kill the bugs and eggs and worms that infest garden soils, etc. We haven't seen this bulletin but will bet a big apple that many of our readers would get something out of it. Then there is a bulletin devoted to water systems for farm homes. Many of you can install such systems at

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you wouldn t be without that luxury for untold millions. Farm Bulletin 941, price 10 cents, one of the very few bulletins for which a charge is made, it being a technical document. In the new list we find the Spotted Garden Slug (No. 959), Bean and Pea Weevils (No. 983), and Culture of the Logan Berry (No. 998), the later being of particular interest to the berry and fruit grower. The pith of all this is to impress you with the real value of Farmers' Bulletins. They cover all conceivable problems which confront the man who lives on and from the soil and you get them for the simple asking. Of course many of you are in the habit of getting Indiana Farm Bulletins from Purdue University at Lafayette. These are specifically written to cover your wants. If you don't get these bulletins, write for them and when received glean all you can of benefit. College Steer Tops Market The department of animal husbandry of the University of Missouri sold on the St. Louis market, December 17. 1918, a pure bred Hereford steer. Guardian 2d, just about one year old and weighing 940 pounds, at the price of $27.50 per cwt., which was the high market record price for beef steers on the St. Louis market. This steer sold for $2.15 per cwt. above the former record. To Disinfect Seed Potatoes. The same disinfectant as applied to wheat last fall to control smut, can be used to control the common scab on" Irish potatoes. This disease, as well as several other potato diseases, are carried on the eed. All these diseases can be largely controlled, where potatoes are planted on new land each year, by disinfecting theseed before plainting. There are several ways of doing this, but the method recommended by the Missouri College of Agriculture for the average grower is to use formalin. Use it at the same strength as for wheat, one pint of the forty per cent formalin solution, cost-

Government Bulletins of Special Interest to Farmers of County

By WM. R. SANBORN. A recent list of "Farmers' Hulletlns" Issued by the Department of Agriculture has been received The.se bulletins are not printed merely to keep the government printing office busy, nor simply to furnish paper makers a market. The purpose of those bulletins Is to instruct, to help, to make plain to the reader the operations of cause and effect along productive lines, in all soils and under varying conditions. The department wants to help you, Mr. Farmer. It aims to simplify your problems and lighten your labors, and to increase the meat, grain and fruit supply of the nation for the benefit or all the peopled. This means Immediate betterment of plans and ideas and instant action, where a new and better way is pointed out. True we have traveled farther agriculturally in the lnt forty years than in the previous forty centuries, as related to farmiug in civilized iands. We don't live in a land of bread fruit and where trees actually produce milk, or where the sugary date

palm and other palm trees, furnish all that Is needed to sustain life and grow in profusion. The palm family is the most wonder-

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clothes needed in the tropics, the houses that shelter and ail the food really essential to life Is produced by the palm tree in abundance. But the palm doesn't grow in Indiana, and that's why we raise hogs and

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COLLEGE ORATORICAL CONTEST POSTPONED

Earlham's orator will not have an opportunity to test his ability against the spellbinders of other Indiana colleges this year. The annual intercollegiate oratorical contest has been postponed. Disturbed conditions in the colleges, owing to the students' army training corps until recently, is assigned as the cause. Manager of the interstate contest, to which the winner of the Indiana contest is sent, decided to, postpone the contest this year. Earlbam, Notre Dame, Franklin, De Pauw, Butler, Wabash and Hanover have participated In a contest annually for many years. Some ' of the colleges, Earlham included, have chosen their representatives. The contest usually was held in February. OXFORD BANK ELECTIONS

OXFORD. O., Jan. 16 Officers and directors were chosen for the Oxford National bank yesterday, as follows: President, G. C. Welliver; vice president, George C. Munns; cashier, C. A. Shera; . assistant cashiers, W. M. Shera, C. A. Shera, Jr., and P. D. Shera; Wm. F. Baughman. Dr. R. Harvey Coo'i, R. J. Brown, G. Burkhart and C. T. Jones. The Farmers' State and Savings bank stockholders elected the following: President, S. E. Fye; vice president. Dr. H. M. Moore; cashier, J. Gilbert Welsh; assistant cashier, Alex. L. Johnson; G. N. Samuels and W. E. McCoy.

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