Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 46, Number 272, 26 September 1921 — Page 7

THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, RICHMOND, IND., MONDAY, SEPT. 26, 1921.

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PURDUE ISSUES WORM ' WARNING TO INDIANA AGENTS AND FARMERS LAFAYETTE. Ind.. Sept 26. A warning to county agents and farmers throughout the state to be on the lookout for outbreak of the fall army worm was Issued today by the Agricul

tural Experiment Station of Purdue

university. The warning came follow.

lng receipt of reports from Lawrence and Laporte counties, widely varying sections of the state, that the worms had been discovered there and that they were doing considerable damp.ge

to alfalfa and clover.

"The fall army worm Is quite different In appearance from the common army worm which occurs In Indiana

nearly every year." says a statement from Prof. J. J. Davis, head of the en

tomology department. "It Is a dark

gray to black caterpillar, resembling

in size and shape the common army

worm. The lower half of the body Is

a sort of yellow or pale. The head

is black with a Y shaped suture, more

conspicuous than la most other com

mon caterpillars. The larvae are

greedy feeders and attack many crops

In general, crops now growing are too1 far along to be much damaged but young clover and alfalfa fields, if defoliated now, might be permanently damaged or killed outright. Care should be taken to detect the presence of the army worm in such fields as quickly as possible." Spray Recommended Spraying the crop with an arsenical spray, such as powdered arsenate of lead mixed at the rate of one pound to 30 gallons of water, or the use of poison bran bait such as is used in controlling grasshoppers or cutworms,

may be used. If the worms are traveling from one field to another, a furrow may be plowed in front of them and the bait scattered In the furrow. The poison bran bait is made by mixing Vz pound of Paris green . or pound of white arsenic with 25 pounds of bran. Then add two quarts of strong, cheap blackstrap molasses,

which has been diluted with three or four quarts of water. Add additional water if necessary, to make a damp, crumbly mash, which must not be

roppy. This is scattered broadcast at the rate of 10 pounds to the acre. Reports also have been received from Elkhart, Fulton and Lagrange counties of damage to alfalfa by garden web worms. These may bo controlled by the same arsenate of lead spray as that used for army worms, but the poison bran bait is ineffetive against this pst.

The Farm and The Farmer By William R. Sanborn

As a matter of fact, nobody's seed

corn Is better than your own if you

already are growing a satisfactory strain and will select seed ears carefully from the standing stalk. It is claimed that one bushel of ear corn contains two gallons of water at

shucking time. Handle and store seed corn accordingly. The buying price of corn delivered In Richmond was marked down to 47 cents Saturday, the lowest in ' many years. The fencing you do before frost will not have to be done next spring when yon are a sight busier. -To do all your fencing and fence repairing be

fore the ground freezes is the part of wisdom, but as you are better informed on the subject than we are.

we ehall offer no advice.- We shall

not even mention fencing, party fence, cross-fence, hog-tight fence or lawn fence, rail fence or stone fence. No,

sir, not in this department of philosophical farm literature. Corn Borers Actual Menace It is the opinion of the entomologists of the Ohio State U. that the corn borer is an actual and serious menace to the corn belt states. Thirty American entomologists have re

cently visited corn fields in Ontario

and found many of the infested fields account.

Well, that old lady now has water in her kitchen. Her Journeyings for water are over. How much did it cost to pipe it in? Oh, a little matter of 18 for pipe, and the labor of laying it. Instead of having to walk 140 feet to her well, a 280 feet round trip, she now has the well pump in her kitchen. Armour's Trade Review. What Mr. Armour says relating to meat cuts an prices is of interest to all farmers, also to consumers. This weekly review may be accepted as from all the packers; all being in the same boat. Here is the Armour review for the past week: "Meat trade held virtually steady

this week. There were no developments of outstanding nature and Improvement in fresh pork trade was the most encouraging feature. The demand for fresh pork cuts remains

good.

"The extremely low prices that nave characterized the beef trade for the last few weeks have served to stimulate fresh beef business somewhat. The market is not showing much aggressiveness. ' "Export buyers seem to be waiting in order to assure themselves that present values all along the line are steady ones, and as a result there has

not been so much buying for foreign

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IN GULLED FLOCKS WAYNE CHART SHOWS

By WILLIAM R. SANBORN " If you have hens to cull, prepare to cull them now. Cull them before they eat up the profits made by the bens which will lay all fall and winter, or will at least return a fair average In eggs for their cost and care. To tell the truth, culling as a rule In the handling of farm poultry flocks, is of rather recent origin. Trapnesters and professional poultrymen have long been in the habit of disposing of the

slackers. They did this in the inter

est of breed-building, rather than forias 2s

the saving of feed. It pays to breed vage of 302. The egg record stands

showed that there were 20 No. Is, 80 No. 2, and 25 culls. This left 100 hens In the salvage pen. Before culling, 350 eggs, one week after, 315 eggs. The 25 culls laid 6 eggs in the seven days. A crowd counted as 130 witnessed the Baldwin demonstration, and it was figured that 115 were present at the culling on the same afternoon, at the Arthur Curme home. Of the Curme flock of 117 hens 70 were saved and 47 put in the cull pen. The Curme egg record showed, according to Mr. Dolan's report Bheet, 84 eggs laid the week before culling, which was on Aug. 30, and but 42 during the week following, In which the 47 culls did not donate a single egg. Harris Has Large Flock. The William C. Harris flock in Clay township was culled on Sept. 3. This flock consisted of 359 hens, of which

86 rated No. 1 and 216 were graded

This netted 57 culls and a sal

rated No. 1 and 71 No. 2s. Prior to i judged for utility, and of these 57,4 s the culling on Sept. 6 the week's in-(were marketed as culls., Demonstra-

f low of eggs was 115. or lust one egg tions ware held in 67 counties ana an

per week for each of the entire flock. I attendance record showed that more

LIGHTNING FIRES BARN. LAFAYETTE, Ind., Sept. 26. A barn on the farm of Newton Borum, near Shawnee Mound, was struck by lightning Saturday night and burned to the ground. A large quantity of hay, 600 bushels of oats and one cow were burned. The loss is partially covered by insurance.

THREATEN MISS ROBERTSON. MUSKOGEE, Okla. .Sept. 26. Letters threatening the safety of Miss Alice Robertson, member of congress, were turned over to postal authorities for investigation, it was revealed by the friends of Miss Robertson. They said they believed the letters were the work of fanatics.

absolutely unfit to harvest in this,

only the second, year of its known occurrence in Ontario. The fact that every lake shore township in Ohio from Cleveland east is now slightly infested and that seven western townships already show

thi3 infestation is to result in a concerted effort to stamp out this pest. It has now shown up in six Ohio counties. The Plai to Follow Farmers along the edge of the lake were early advised to cut their corn close to the ground, and to ensile all of it; this will kill the borers. Next step is to plow early and thoroughly, to cover up all vegetation in the corn fields. Be certain that no growth from infested fields gets -on the manure piles; then burn all weed3 around infested fields. This plan takes it for granted that

every corn grower in that district

owns a silo, which is to be doubted,

Then, too, a silo owner does not limit

his corn field area to the corn needed

for his silo; he has use for extra

corn, to sell or to feed. It is thought that the moth of the

corn borer was blown across the lake

to the islands and mainland. 1 Embarrjo May Follow. It is confidently expected that, as a result of corn borer infestation an embargo will be placed on the shipping out of corn from several northwestern Ohio counties, to prevent the spread of the past. This would be logical action, considering the danger from and the activity of the pest, and farmers would surely endorse the confining of, and the stamping out of the borer, right where it has been discovered. v Has Walked 5,710 Miles. A rural engineer, one of the Ohio state extension force, discovered a farmwife in Lawrence county, who has not only walked 5.710 miles, from and to her kitchen door in the past 50 years, but has at the same time carried in more than 2,000 tons of water for household use. Think that over for a minute. Think

fo going out in rain and snow for that drinking water, also in blistering sun.

The Tariff on Wheat.

The emergency tariff providing an import duty on wheat will expire on Nov. 27, but a bill will be introduced into the senate this week to extend

the tariff until the permanent bill can

be adopted. Favors Orderly Marketing.

In an address delivered before a farm body, in August, Secretary Hoov

er tentatively endorsed the farm bu

reau idea of "orderly marketing," as

follows:

"No sensible person will predict prices, but our farmers should realize the broad economic factors current in

their industry, and form their own in

dependent judgments. The receipts at the western primary terminals show over 30,000,000 bushels during the

first 30 days of this harvest year against about 68,000,000 in the same period last year out of a somewhat larger crop."

Commissioners Order Brooks Road Changes Viewers appointed to investigate the

change in the Brooks road, in Clay

township, reported in favor of the

change Saturday, recommending a 30

foot highway. The county commissioners approved the recommendation and ordered the change made.

PARACHUTE JUMPER HURT. NEWARK. N. J., Sept. 26. Attempting a parachute drop of 100 feet when his balloon burst at an exhibition at Hilside park, Sunday, Harry Karnshitz, 33 years old, received a broken spine and other serious injuries when the parachute failed to open in time. Karnshitz was acting as a substitute for the balloonist scheduled to make the ascension. He is not expected to recover.

BRITISH EDUCATOR DIES LONDON, Sept. 26. Prof. Henry Jackson, one of the best-known educators in the British Isles, died Sunday at Bournemouth. He was well known as a writer on ancient Greece.

only from good layers, and to contin

ually perpetuate from the best of

each generation. ( This explains outstanding egg records and extia fancy prices for "settings" of eggs, and for show birds that class as perfect, or nearly so, according to variety and standards. Now, the farmer, if he will, can readily learn to cull his own flock, after

which he can band the legs of the few

birds he aims to use for roasts and potpies during the winter; or can save the bands by selling all the slackers, right then. Report on Wayne Cullings The benefit of the culling record will

be shown by the reading of some home demonstrations by County Agent Dolan. A number of such records are being printed in various states, and, as farm papers show, with frequently surprising results. One of the requisites to a good record is that a daily count of the eggs laid be kept for the entire flock for one week previous to the culling. The next essential is to pen up the slackers for one week after the culling, to note the number of eggs these may lay, if any. The selected hens will range abroad as usual and their eggs also be recorded for the same week.

This gives you a practical demonstration of the saving in feed, by selling the useless birds. In considering your records due allowance must be made for the season, and if the birds are naturally coming to the end of their laying periods, or otherwise. The Results Shown. A few sample Wayne county records will suffice at this time, the cullings

described dating from Aug. 26 to

Sept. 16. The first of these cullings

was held at Frank Branley's farm in

Boston township, where a flock of 81 hens was tested out.

In the Branley flock were found four

No. 1 hens, 30 No. 2s, and 47 culls.

The number saved was 34. During

tne week before culling a total of 82

eggs were gathered. The week following culling the eggs found num

bered 69. Although 47 culls were

shut up these laid but six eggs in the

entire week, against 69 eggs for the

si hens in the first two classes.

On Aug. 26 a culling was pulled off at the Roy Stauffer farm in Abington

township, following that at the Bran

ley place in the forenoon. There were 129 hens in this flock, of which six

ranked No. 1; 57 No. 2; and 66 No. 3, these comprising the 66 culls. This left 63 to be saved out of a total of 129 birds. Previous to the culling these 123 had poduced but 78 eggs, and after the culling 70 eggs were collected for the seven days. No eggs were laid by the culls that week. The culling of the A. L.Baldwin farm flock of 125 hens, at Webster,

125 week previous to culling and 75 for week after. The 57 culls did not lay an egg during the test week. The R, C. Mendenhall flock of 115 birds at Economy produced 13 hens

But there were 31 culls mark you.

which laid but two eggs during the test week, while the selected hens laid 112 eggs in seven days following the demonstration. . Lack of space forbids going into further detail, except to state that several other cullings were made -as follows: At the Earl Wright farm at Fountain City, at Omer Smith's at Hagerstown; at Harry Heinbaugh's in Boston township, and at the homes of L. E. Kinsey; Mrs. L. M. Pike, Vera

DeHays. Starr Souder and Robert

Beeson, the latter in Wayne township, where 200 hens comprised the flock.

As a matter of fact some of the above

failed to complete their records, or sold the culls immediately after the

culling.

Lively Culling in Ohio. The records of the summer culling of Ohio flocks are of interest here, by way of comparison, omitting the egg records. Returns up to Sept 10 showed that 231,614 Ohio hens had been

than 50,000 persona were present to

see the slackers picked out.

FIRE, RAZES WHOLE TOWN TRENTi Italy, Sept. 26. The entire village of Comasine was swept by fire yesterday,,and three firemen were killed. The Are started by the explosion of cartridges In a warehouse. The firemen had nearly extinguished it when a keg of dynamite exploded, causing a spread of the flames. The government has sent aid to the sufferers.

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