South Bend News-Times, Volume 36, Number 46, South Bend, St. Joseph County, 15 February 1919 — Page 7
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AGRICULTURE
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CDflDT IC PDCRT Ulli IdÜIILnl .Shows Indiana Food Production Record Tilade to Help Win World War. Th venth annual report of the department of agricultural extension of Purdue university, which is just !T the presn, jrivs an excellent resume of Indiana's war-time foovl production rrccrd. The extension forces, with ItH county agricultural and home demonstration aurentH led the drives for increased production in various lines, which contributed Jn a rir way toward the winning of lhr war. "This work could not have born accomplished if we had not the hearty cooperation and support of farmers throughout the täte," 5aid T. A.. Coleman, acting' superintendent of extension work. "It was tho response of the IIoosiT farmers to the appeals for food that really counted. Iarxer cropa were not accidents. They were obtained by hard work and application of sound principles in farmlnsr, and the extra effort by the farmer?! working shorthands in thousands of cases to meet tho world call for food. Indiana farmera carried their load second to none in the nation and better than those in most ttates, records for the entire country show." The report shows that 13 projects were taken up, the U. S. department of agriculture cooperating and supplying a largo part of the funds to make the work possible. The various subjects on which work was undertaken follow: Organization of cooperative agricultural extension work; county ascent work; home economics work; farm poultry and egg management: farmers short course?; animal husbandry demonstrations; soils and crops demonstrations; dairy production demonstrations; weed and plant disease control demonstrations; boys' and girls' club work; farm management demonstrations and rural engineering. The report points out tho 2," per c ent increase in wheat acreage sown in 1&17, and the 22 per cent sown last fall: the 20 per cent increase in th number of brood sows in the fall of 2317. and the Increased amount of pork last ummer and this winter aü . result; the increase in dairy producta, poultry and eggs; rrcat prowth in the back yard garden movement; planting of unusually large acreage of corn the last two seasons in spite of serious seed situations, and many other features of a similar nature.' In addition to these points, thousands of farmers throughout the state cooperated witli county agricultural agents and men sent from the extension department, in demonstrating better methods in feeding and handling of livestock, better methods of handling soil so as to increase crop production, and the control of plant diseases which cost farmers of the state many millions of dollars annually by reducing crop yields'. "Through tho cooperation of tho department of agriculture it was possible to unify all forces, thus eliminating duplication of effort and securing for the people of tho state a l.nrce and valuable service," tho report concludes. With the report of the superintendent is one from each division of the extension organization, including boys' and girls' club work, county agricultural agents, farmers' institutes, short courses and exhibits, farm management demonstrations, animal husbandry, botany, entomology, dairy husbandry, home economics, horticulture. poultry husbandry, rural engineering, soils and crops work and veterinary science. Copies of the report may be obtained by writing to the department of agricultural extension of Purdue university. GOVERNOR TO ADDRESS DRAFT HORSE BREEDERS CJov. James P. (Goodrich will adf'.jc.s the Indiana l.iit Horo Hreeders nssoci;ition at the annual lucetincr to be held at the Lincoln hotel. Indianapolis, I b. and The governor is know n as a believer in pood livestock and who has confidence in the ability of Hoosier .-tockmen to produce tlie be.-t in the v. orld. The oflici ils of the ;isfci ition are delighted at having 'tair.- . 1 him for an address. He vill rpeak at 1:15 o'clock. Feb. .". The horse breeders of the ptaf arc looking forward to one of tiv greatest fissions tl.cy hae ever !.;h1. What promises to be of ur i.-.iil interest will be the evening keior.s. when tl: adherents of e.:ch breed will mctt u .s. 'jiar.it s'iior , where they will talk oe." lh ir troubles and their triumph; V-tr.d will plan their future activities. I.elian breeders have been pusaii;-,' tliemse!v-s t the front and it i expected that they will be oJt in larcre numbers. Port hern breeders w ill rot permit 'hmflvp; to be outdone by pelgian rr.ihui.isi, an ! 1 dvdale breeder?, will have a to; 1 oostcr met tin.-:. The meetings of the a.-s.ciat:on .'.re ojt n to the pi:1 he. They will r;irt ni 10-30 on tho morning of J'. b. I with an address by the j.-n-a-i:.r.t, Homer C$. I;mser. of Fort Wayne. Following that therv will le u surifssivi of good f h i M - f tb.ii'jgh the afternoon of that day :r.d the folio a d ty, w h n the s i-.-ioi.s will conclude with an ad dress Ly lr. T. A. iKler, of Grecr.caetle.
Half Monitor Type of Hog House Popular in Indiana
t i A? The half monitor hog house is a popular type in Indiana. The accompanying design which was taken from a picture of a Decatur county hog house shows a neat, attractive building which is a credit to any farmstead. Note the windows, ventilators, concrete floors and foundations, all of which go to make a sanitary structure. The tree in front should be moved to get full benefit of the sunlight. The accompanying floor plan gives an idea of its convenience. The floor plan shows the location of doors, windows, troughs, board mats, etc. The doors leading into the alleyway may be opened so as to form passages from one pen to the other. They may also be used to turn the hogs into the pen desired and for including a section of tho alley with any one pen. This tloor plan is designed for Loth a half monitor and gable roof house. Much interest in new buildings is being shown this year by farmers throughout Indiana and hundreds of inquiries for plans of barns, houses, hog houses, cattle sheds, granaries. L IHtl .l i J , 7.-1 How to Grow Oats. The oat crop makes but little profit and Is often produced at an actual loss, yet oats must be grown for the following reasons: 1. Crops must be rotated to maintain yield. 2. Nurse crop must be grown for clover and other legumes. ?.. Oats are needed for human food and feed for animals. 4. Labor must be distributed. The methods are simple and not expensive, with a little care a tw bushels per acre can be added to the ield with little expense. What to Io. 1. Fan and grade seed. L Sow early. ;:. F.ve early and medium varieties. 4. Prepare a good seed bed. Prill instead of broadcast. .. Treat for smut. T. Sow plenty of seed. ADVISES WHAT TO DO WHEN ENGINE BALKS A cas engine on the farm is a Kieat time waster, depending upon the skill of the operator. An unskilled :r,m may spend time and energy in tryin to start an engine to pump w.iter or do some other task than would be required to do the work on hand, often crews of workmen hii d to help thrash, bale hay. cm ensilage, etc., uraw full wages tor hours spent in idleness, owing to inefficient handling of the engine. Such delay. are preventable, for engine trouble is usually due to the operator's ignorance of some of the d tails essential to proficient operation. Knowledge of the engine, then, is one way to conserve farm labor and avoid trouble. To supply such knowledge the United States dej urtment of agriculture has recently published Farmers" Bulb-tin 10 13. "Practical Hint? on Kunning a (las Engine. " The aim of the bulletin is to call attention to some, of the common cuusts
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INFORMATION FOR FARMERS AND ORCHARDISTS
self feeders, etc., have come to the Purdue university extension department during the last few weeks, ever since the ban on building was lifted. The accompanying Illustrations are pictures which appear In a hog house bulletin which is just off the presv of the extension department. Its authors, C. A. Xorinan. of the rural engineering department, and J. W. Schwab of the animal husbandry staff, have picked out some of tho best type of centralized as well as individual hog houses in Indiana and pictured them in bulletin No. 76, entitled "Practical Hog Houses for Indiana." Advantages of a centralized hog house over individual houses as enumerated by Mr. Schwab yesterday were: It economizes labor in feeding and handling animals; can be constructed warmer and heated easier; Is more durable, has better distribution of sunlight in the pens; floor space may be used for feeding lloor in other than the farrowing season; hogs may be shown to prospective buyers and it adds to the value of the farm. AITJT S. Harvest at right time, neither too green nor too ripe. 9. Make weather-proof shocks. 10. Stack and thresh from stack. Smut Treatment. Cornell recommends the dry treatment. Mix one pint full strength formaldehye to one pint of water; uso a quart atomizer or other sprayer, one man spraying as another man r.hovels over, holding the atomizer close to the shovel. One quart Is enough for 40 to T0 bushels of oats. Cover the .seed for five hours after treating. This process has its advantages. There is no danger from freezing and heating, and because the grain is not swollen there is no need to increase the amount to be seeded. Oat smut damages the crop from ( to 2T per cent. Millions of dollars are annually lost from this easily preventable disease. of engine trouble, to suggest a method of locating quickly the seat of the trouble when an engine fails to run as it should, and to offer a sort of reminder in the form of a condene9 trouble chart, which may frequently be of assistance cen to experienced engine operators. Stop, think then follow a definite system to locate the trouble, advises the bulletin. It gives directions for testing the ignition system, fuel system and compression, also points on starting and operation, and ghes suggestions which will aid in starting the engine in cold weather. Particular emphasis is laid on the importance of a thorough knowledge of the KU3 engine. A copy may be secured. o long as the supply lasts, by applying to the United States department of agriculture, Washington, L. C.
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SWEET CLOVER IS AID TO BLUE GRASS! Increases Value for Pasture When Crops are Grown Together. Perhaps there Is no use for sweet clover that gives such promise and that seem of such wide application as its combination with blue grass for pasture, according to Farmers Bulletin 1005, recently Issued by the United States department of agriculture- Both crops grow together well, even when there is a perfect stand of each. The sweet clover adds nitrogen to the soil, and where the stand of blue grass is poor this helps it to thicken and produce a much better stand than would bo possible without sweet clover. Furthermore, the clover adds greatly to tho total amount of pasturage produced and gives a longer pasture season. It comes on in the spring two or three weeks earlier than .most other grasses and the live stock can be turned out to pasture just that much earlier. In ;ome instances this combination has more than doubled the carrying capacity of an acre of blue grass alone. A first class pasture of this kind will tasily carry two 1,000-pound steers on an acre in the spring and early summer, and as a usual thing, will carry more, than one such steer during the remainder of the pasture season. May Harvest Seed. If not pastured too heavily the sweet clover will produce seed enough to reseed the pasture, and often a crop of from three to eight bushels of seed an acre can be harvested, in addition to the pasturage produced throughout the season. The experience of a few men is that when a combination pasture is handled in this way it will maintain itself from year to year, and it Is unnecessary to sow any great amount of seed to keep up the sweet clover in combination with blue grass. In establishing a combination sweet clover and blue grass pasture the problem of getting a stand, as compared Vlth the growth of sweet clover in rotation, is fundamentally different. In some instances the pasture must be plowed, limed, and seeded anew. On old blue grass pastures of long standing, which still have a fairly good lime supply, a stand of sweet clover often can be secured simply by sowing the seed late in March or early in April and allowing live stock to trample the seed into the ground. In other instances it is more convenient to start such a pasture on a part of a rotation area, a seeding of sweet clover and timothy being made in oats after the necessary application of lime, the blue grass being allowed to come in of its own accord. FJxicriments Often Necessary. To determine the method that will succeed in getting a stand of sweet clover and blue grass for pasture, it will generally require some experimenting, as local conditions vary greatly. In some instances it has been found successful to sow sweet clover with timothj', the blue grass being allowed to come in, so that in a few years there is a perfect stand of sweet clover and blue grass. Pastures of this kind will make luxuriant growth annually, and if care ia exercised to permit a part of the sweet clover to produce seed each year, no other attention is necessary. LIME PULVERIZERS WILL UNDERGO DEMONSTRATION As means of encouraging the wider use of ground limestone to correct acidity, a series of three lime J pulverizer demonstrations will be neia in southeastern Indiana durln? the latter part of March and early part of April. The first demonstration will be held at Madison, March 20. 21 and 22; the next at North Vernon, March 27, 23 and 29, and the other one at Batesville. April 3, 4 and ". The ones at Madifion and North Vernon will be especially for farmers in these two counties and tha agilcultural agents there are in charge of the demonstrations. In the Hatevllle demonstration, agricultural agents in four counties, Dearborn, Franklin, Decatur and Itipley, have gone together and will have farmers from the four countie3 in attendance. Manufacturers of limestone pulverizers will have their outfits on the ground and tractors will be used to supply the motive power. Lime spreaders also will be shown and demonstrated and it is probable that ditching machines will be there. In connection with the demonstrations at the three places, lectures will be given by soil specialists from Furdue university and special emphasis will be laid on the us of ground limesone'in that section of the state and the grinding of the ! stone at home, as it is found in abundance in that corner of Indiana. As a result of one of these demonstrations last year at North Vernon, iZ limestone grinders were pliced in Jennings county before January 1, this year.
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ORCHARD EXPENSE Purdue Professor Makes Tests Covering Period of . Five Years. The co-t of bringing aa orchard into bearing may be met by planting cash crop? between the rows of trees. In one five-acre orchard, where beans and other cropa have been grown for the past five years the total operating: expeenses were S'ibS.Gl, while the total returns from crops amounted to f8S7.Sl. These ligurcs arc given by Prof. O. G. Anderson, ct" the horticultural department, Purdue university, who will discuss the topic "Making tho Orchard Pay from tho Time ot Planting," r.t the Fruit Growers' Short Course, -which will be given February 2 4 to March 1. The owner feels confident that two more seasons of inter-cropping will pay for the original cost of the land and at least a part of the interest on the investment. By that time the varieties of apples planted in this orchard will yield a small crop of fruit and the owner will have a balance iu the bank aboe operating expense connected with the enterprise, according to Prof. Anderson's statement. Melons have been successfully grown in southern Indiana orchards as inter-crops. In other states corn has been one of the crops used during the non-bearing period of tho orchard. Other crops, such as turnips, bu-ckwheat, strawberries, etc., may be used with "good results In some cases. The grower must exercise good judgment in the selection cf his crops, keeping In mind that tne. orchard is moro important than the inter-crop. The trees must not be checked in their growth by planting heavy feeding" crops which compete with them for moisture and plant food. GOVERNMENT WANTS SPRING BILLBOARDS FOR VICTORY DRIVE The government is asking 4 for a spring billboard cleaning before the ictory Liberty Loan campaign begins. Hundreds of thousands of tattered old posters from former patriotic drives still cling to walls, windows and fences in the Seventh Federal Reserve district. It is recommended now by tho heads of the district and state loan organizations that citizens everywhere get their premises in order for the new loan. Great patriotic enterprise, it is pointed out, was displayed by the people in offering window space, bill boards, the walls of handsome new business buildings, and other space for the posters of the various Liberty Loans and for the Red Cross, United War Work and other such campaigns. Positions such as no .amount of money could buy for use by advertising agencies in the usual course of peace-timo propaganda, it is explained, were offered free to the Government and to the semi-Governmental agencies helping to care for the armed forces. Property owners and tenants allowed their places of business and residence to be plastered over with these bills. Now, however, the patriotic gift of this space will not be complete until all'old posters have been removed and everything made ready for the reception of the new posters that are being printed at Washington for distribution. Some ten million of these will be sent out to the various districts. It Is greatly desired by the loan authorities that no trace of former literature be left to compete with the appeal of the Victory Liberty Loan posters. The old dirty posters have long since disappeared from the regular billboards, but thousands of them are ft ill in evidence in empty store windows, on fences and buildings walls. PROHIBITS SALE OF "NATURE'S FERTILIZER" The secretary of agriculture on Jan. in iss-ued an order prohibiting" the Nature's Fertilizer company, 12 South Market st., Boston, Mass, from selling their product, variously known as "Nature's Fertilizer" or "Nature's Plant Food and Soil Rectifier," "under any form of representation, direct or indirect, that it has a distinct value as a fertilizer or is- equal or superior tothe usual and well recognized kinds of commercial fertilize r." This order is the result of a very careful investigation into the merits of the product, including a three-day hearing in the Boston State House, at which witnesses in favor of and opposed to the product were given a full hear- ! ing. The conclusion is that the prodI uct contains or.ly four percent of potash, which is practically unavailable for plants, and that, therefore, there is nothing ia the na-ture of th:material to justify Its sale as a fertiliser or plant food. Tin: timi; the plack and tiii: coal. This is the opportune time, Defrees office Is the place, and TtKMANCrj: Is the coal. A trial will convince you. Passes over shaker screens and is hand picked; no slate or clinkers. Call phones, Bell 219; Home 5278. C. II. Defrees, Sole Ajrent, ZU S. Taylor st. AdvL 13460-1
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E Necessary to Lay Out Fairly and Adequately Maintain System. The greatest factor In producing the modern improved conditions of rural life has been the development of the motor vehicle, both for pleas ure and industrial purposes. In the; "rue way that township lines fadt d ; and the county became the popular limit for driving, so no-w the county : and even state boundaries are dis- ; appearing before the tourist and , the range of the automobile is bounded only by the oceans. Traf- ; fie investigations have, shown that three-fourths of the tragic on our : main market highways i3 industrial and has its origin in trale center outride the township or county which built the particular stretches of road unJer consideration. Moreover, the United states bureau of public road:; estimates that 8 5 percent of the total traffic is concentrated on 15 percent of the roads. It is part of this 13 percent of the roads that should form the state and national systems of highways which will bond the various section? of the country together as closely a? the railroads have done. Centralized control is necessary to lay cut fairly ajid to maintain adequately such ä system of highways. The country is unanimous in its desire to obtain good roads. The old system of laws by which power is divided Into as many parts as there are townships in the &tate has been given a fair trial, and while it succeeded splendidly under the conditions of traffic for which it was designed it. is now antiquated and inadequate. A comprehensive btato system must be built up which will guarantee equitable location, proper construction and careful maintenance of highways. The control must be placed in the hands of a few men, and at the &ame time guarantees must be provided against the misuse of tho power thus delegated. Many people have the idea that there is inherent danger hi centralized control. They fail to distin guish between tne process or making the law and the process of putting the laws in force. Centralized control in legislation Is dangexous. Centralized control in execution is absolutely necessary. A few men can get results when a large body of men would fall to achieve anything because 'of continual differences over small points. The war against the Hun was -a on only after the allies pooled tneir all, an I agreed to t; ke orders from one man. Only by cooperative -effort under the direction of one man or a small j-roup of men can the muddy road be eliminated as an enemy of civili.ation in Indiana. MARRIED MEN WANTED BY INDIANA FARMERS Indiana farmers are facing a labor shortage now, although it is not acute at this time, according to W. P.. Brumfiel, of the Purdue university extension staff, farm help specialist for Indiana. Single men find no dilflculty in obtaining jobs, but the heaviest demand is for experienced married farm hands, he said. Farmers are offering good wages for well qualified men, besides providing a house, cow, hor for driving purpose;?, truck patch and garden and privilege of raising ' chickens. Frequently they also include a hog or two for meat. "There is a marked tendency now to attract and keep good men on the farms, said Mr. Brumfiel. "In many cases the farmer offers extra inducements to hold men who suit him. An increase In wages, a yearly boniS and a share in the profits are all being practiced now in this otae." Every county agricultural agent in the stato is giving assistance in placing men on farms. The IT. S. employment service through its branch offices In larger towns and cities has a special department devoted to farm needs and its work Is growing as laborers and farmers become familiar with it. STARTS CAMPAIGN" FOR rsi: or noo sklf-fixdmh A campaign to encourage winter feeding" and the wider use of the self-feeder for hogs has been started by County Agent S. B. Sink, of Porter county. Several farmers ar? cooperating with' him ln this world and are conducting demonstrations to show the value of the cafeteria feeding system over that of hand feeding in preparing animals "for market. Corn and tankage has ber-n accepted as the standard ration. One man is feeding out good sizd porkers which ho will market itFebruary; another is weaning several litters of November pigs, whil another ha.s 5ß head of September pigs which he is "puehlng" so thc-y will be ready for market by April. PILES! PILES! PILES! WILLIAMS' PILI; OLNTMEXT. For Bund, Bleeding and Itchin? Piles. For sale by all drirggiats. mail 50c and $1.00. WILLIAMS MFG. CO., Props.. Cleveland. Ohio. For sale by Central Drug Co. rNlEUniALCIA or Headache Hub the forehead and temples with mm I m ! um ' wm ii n i T T I I - NEW PRICES -30c, GQi, 9120
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