Syracuse-Wawasee Journal, Volume 46, Number 18, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 15 February 1952 — Page 7

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 15, IHB

Farm Page

Early Chicks Earn Larger Profits Lafayette, Ind., Feb. 11th. — “Have you ordered your baby chicks?” R. L. Hogue, extension poultryman at Purdue University is asking poultry raisers. Hogue points out that the early ordered chicks for egg production usually return the greatest profits to their owners. Poultrymen are urged to order chicks bred or developed for the purpose the mature birds are expected to be used. Egg strain birds are bred for large egg production and meat strain birds are bred for either hatching of broilers or meat flock replacement. Today, there are very. distinct differences in these varieties. The price received per egg by Indiana

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farmers has always been higher during the late summer and early fall months. It is important that poultrymen who expect to receive a major portion of their income from market eggs have their pullets matured and housed so that egg production will start early in the late summer. In placing orders for chicks it is advised that baby ehicks be purchased as close to home as possible. Transportation by public carrier is becoming less favorable for handling of baby chicks as some trains have been discontinued, making deliveries to rural areas less frequent or direct. The Purdue poultryman says that Indiana hatcheries offer some of the best breeds available in the country. Poultry raisers are encouraged to contact local hatcherymen to see if their needs can be furnished. Stocks of wheat on Indiana farms on January 1, 1952, totaled only 2,353,000 bushels as compared with the 1941-’SO average of 5,433.000 bushels, and 3,219,000 bushels on the same date a year ago, according to a report from the Bureau of Agricultural Economics of the U. S. Department of Agriculture. The report was received at Purdue University. ,

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TIMELY TOPICS By Mrs. Ruth R. Snellenberger Home Demonstration Agent In refinishing furniture, boiled linseed oil is preferable to the raw. That boiled linseed oil is more concentrated and dries more rapidly. Mrs. Delmar Clark, of Silver Lake, inquired about this and I thought some others of you might also be interested. By the way, if oil alone is used, it penetrates better if heated over hot water. Heat only what is needed for one application, not the whole amount each time. Some use equal parts of linseed oil and turpentine mixed. This penetrates well but requires more applications. ° One of the more recent inquiries regarding the purchase of rugs has come from Mrs. Don Metzger of near Silver Lake. It is not possible to give all the information here but I will make a few comments about judging quality. The chief feature by which a customer can judge quality is density of pile — number of tufts per square inch. A good quality axminster rug, for example, may have as many as 77 tufts per square inch. Less than 60 is not recommended for good wearing quality. If a printed description of a rug states the tufts per square foot then the density (number per square inch) is found by dividing by 144—the number of square inches per foot. For example if there are 8640 tufts per square foot, the density is 60. During a conversation recently Dr. T. S. Schuldt, County Health Director, made this statement: “It would be fine if every mother whose daughter also had a daughter could say ‘I want to raise my daughter just like my mother raised me.” A similar thing might be said of a father by his son. Isn’t this a good challenge to parents? With spring fast approaching, homemakers will be considering furniture arrangement changes. I like to suggest for the living room that the activities of the family members be considered and furniture placed so that these can be carried on to the best advantage. Instead of placing furniture around the walls, group pieces for convenience. Maybe, too, some pieces that really serve no purpose should be eliminated. Service As President Offers Many Pleasures Lafayette, Ind., Feb. 11.—The joys and satsifactions of being a women’s club president are many when the president reflects upon her service to the organization. Miss Elizabeth Roniger, assistant state leader of home demonstration agents at Purdue University, reminds the new club president that the position prompts every effort to improve her skill and knowledge. Educational development should be a primary satisfaction. Her self-confidence should be increased because of the group’s confidence in and respect for her. Her growth in executive ability becomes a personal satisfaction. _ ‘ There can he pleasure in the president’s contact with other presidents which widens her acquaintances and gives her a broader view. She likewise should share experiences which would make someone’s job easier or would contribute moral support. The president is able to help the group plan and work together to reach its goal. She should be able to see growth in others | as they accept responsibilities in the club. Group response should increase as she encourages discussion and participation. She should find satisfaction in having “taken her turn and done her part” in the club. The family’s increased pride in the mother’s accomplishments are a source of satisfaction. No doubt they assisted her to make the job easier. Miss Roniger points out that the president, her family and the community should benefit from the leadership she has taken in the club. A card received from Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Long, who are on a 6-weeks‘trip in the Carribean, says that they have been experiencing some - rough weather, so far. They were at Tarjita in Old Mexico for a short stop.

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C><»<iTge Rebel Britah Arrogance and Oppression Decide Him for Freedom v

Georg e Washington’s role as lender of the freedom faction in America which put over the Declaration of Independence was a natural role. He wai it rebel from childhood. He had i doleful time with his own mother, Miry Bell Washington, second wife of his father. The only Interest shs showed in him, after he left tone following his father’s death to live with his half brother, was to ask him for money. Outraged by this sort of parental concern ai d hysterical domination, Washington had little patience with dominat.or from other sources. Along v'itli the quality Virginians of his c.aj he was angry at England. Unlike Washington, most of these Virginians, however they may have disliked colonial government, were servile before the crown. But too many of the crown’s arrogant ofiicers had pushed Washington around during his service with colonial troops in early wars for him to have much respect for the king’s services or for the king himself. Economically, too, the British pinched. Washington. They required that he ship all his tobacco to England and sell it there on terms dictated by English brokers. When' he quit raising tobacco under these condition; to grow wheat, he was bothered by more British edicts. A British Loyalist insulted his morals by accusing Washington of paying attention to the Loyalist’s wife, eve a after Washington married the widow Custis. The Loyalist asserted that Washington was forcing him to move to England to remove his wife from Washington’s influence. The accumulating result of all these indignities was that Washington was violently anti-British long before most Americans were angered by the colonial rulers. Most colonists wanted a redress for British wfoigs without complete independence from the mother country. Indifferent to the ruffled feelings of the colonists, England was fall-

Salt Boosts Hog Gains By Use In Daily Diet Lafayette, Ind., Feb. 11.—Even the nia iy of the latest swine nutrition experiments reported in recent years concern the use of Vitauiin 812 and antibiotics, farmers should not overlook the use of salt in the pig’s daily ration. Results obtained from swine feeding experiments, conducted only a few years ago at Purdue, proved clearly the importance of feeding salt to pigs. Two lots of fall pigs were started on feed in the middle of December. Each lot contained seven pigs with an average starting weight of about 57 pounds. Both groups were fed the same ration except that one lot received loose salt free choice and the, other did not. The pigs receiving salt gained two and one-half times faster than those without it. When the salt-fed pigs averaged 228 lbs., the group without salt averaged only 125 pounds. For each pound of salt eaten, there were 45 ext ra pounds of gain. For additional information on feeling salt to pigs, write to the Agricultural Publications Office at Purdue and ask for Animal Husbandry Mimeo AH-23, “Prevent Salt Hunger in Hogs.” A discussion of the para-typhoid preb 'em in turkeys will be given by It. J. O. Alberts, of the department of veterinary science at University of Illinois, as a highlight qf the annual Turkey Trot, at Purdue University Feb. 13-14. Di. Alberts will speak Wednesday moraing, Eeb. 13. CARD OF THANKS I wish to thank my friends for the flowers, cards and gifts sent me while in the hospital and at home. Marlene Cripe.

£1 it An American Immortal “First in war, first in peace, first in the hearts of his countrymen.” These oftquoted words are as true today as they were when first spoken, over 150 years ago. George Washington occupies a special place in American history that can never quite be equaled by any other man. .... No banking business will be * transacted on Washington’s Birthday STATE BANK OF SYRACUSE Syracuse, Ind.

! Ing deeper into cocky profligacy, i She assumed all the glory for win- . ning the Seven Years’ War, never once bestowing any credit on American riflemen without whom she would have been defeated. Parliai mentary elections were travesties: rich men purchased for their puppets seats in the House of Commons. Burke and Pitt’s pleas for the oppressed colonies were ignored. Even in England, the taxpayers were not represented in the . tax - making assemblies. Small thought England had of giving representation to the colonies. Realizing this, Washington wanted England’s corrupt hands out of American affairs completely. Early he espoused complete independence and he was unafraid to fight for it. Restive Virginians began to flock to his side after the Boston massacre and the Boston tea party. He was joined by Samuel and John Adams, Patrick Henry, Benjamin Franklin, George Mason and others —nqy he was in company too good for him to be called “just a hotheaded rebel.” But that’s what some of the more prosperous planters and traders and some of the more pietistic settlers who were against war for any cause called him. These were afraid of afraid of losing English markets, afraid of Washington’s “rabble” soldiers. Washington retaliated with an edict proclaiming it treason, punishable by death, to support George 111 and won over all the dissidents except some of the more powerful planters. Then the bumbling George 111 drove them over to Washington’s side: the English king appealed to the Negro slaves to enforce their masters’ loyalty to the crown. Most of the planters immediately foreswore George HI. After this, the battles of Lexington, Concord and Bunker Hill having been fought, there was little opposition in congress to the Declaration of Independence. George Washington, the natural rebel, saw his dreams coming true.

Vitamins and Range Cattle

Range cattle, because of their complicated four-stomach system, can manufacture some of their own vitamin requirements. However Vitamin A and Vitamin D cannot be made synthetically by the cow and must be furnished by sunlight or the feed intake. Os these two, Vitamin A becomes the most important one in connection with a balanced nutrition program for range cattle.

When natural feeds do not supply enough carotene or Vitamin A activity, a fortified supplement must be fed. A lack of this vitamin prevents successful reproduction, and may result in blind calves, or in extreme cases, dead calves, and it affects the nervous system causing paralysis.

bW by H. G Schaefer, Manager, Nutrition Laboratories, Ralston Purina Co.

Animals lacking in Vitamin A are also more subject to diseases of the respiratory system. Range cattle must often go for months when there is little or no grain feed available. All they can find to eat is dry, bleached grass, brush or other similar forage. This kind of forage is practically devoid of Vitamin A. By the time the caws are ready to calve, the carotene content of the grass has often dropped to the deficiency point. It is lowest at the time when the need is the greatest. Here is where a foitified supplement is necessary because the cows cannot make their own Vitamin A—- — must eat it.

According to a new Purdue University bulletin, Poultry and Egg Truck Routes in Indiana, No. 571, egg routes operating over a distance of 25 miles or less assembled only one-sixth as many dozens of eggs per route, at a cost four times as great, as routes operating from 51 to 100 miles.

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Farm Mechanization Trend Continues Lafayette, Ind., Feb. 11.— Between 1945 and 1950, Hoosier farmers made great strides in mechanization and the addition of labor-saving devices on their farms. According to the preliminary 195 Oi census of agriculture report received at Purdue University, the number of trucks in use on Indiana farms increased® flom 38,411 to 58,816 in the 5 years. Tractors increased in number from 10'5,263 to 154,040. A total of 106,052 farms were using tractors in 1950, as compared to 89,458 .five years previously. During the same period, the number of farms in the state dropped from 175,970 to 166,6*27. There were 6,'500 fewer automobiles on farms in 1950, however, with a lowering of the total from 165,796 to 1159,2173 in five years. Farms with automobiles decreased from 146,130 to 133,261. The average farm resident

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traveled six miles to his favorite trading center in 1950. Only 9,741 farms were within one mile of their shopping center, while 26,7'67 farmers were ten or more miles away. Decline in the importance of horses and mules as farm animals was indicated by sharp drops in the population of these traditional work animals. The number of horses decreased from 231,140 in 1945 to 113,087 in 1950, and the number of mules dropped from 35,0*93 to 13,849. During the same period, farms equipped with telephones increased from 97,236 to 103,994, and the number served by electricity jumped from 122,742 to 152,864. Milking machines were in use on 28,121 farms in 1950. Other labor-saving equipment on hand included 37,9'07 grain combines, 4'5,299 corn pickers, and 9,679 pick-up hay balers. TWO SYRACUSE RAILROAD WORKERS DRAW FINES Ora Harrison, 57, and James DeDousis, 27, both living at the Baltimore and Ohio railroad la-

bor camp in Syracuse, pleaded guilty before Justice of the Peace Loren Melick in Warsaw, Sunday morning and were each assessed fines of $5 and costs, totaling sl7. They were arrested by the town night marshal „ at Syracuse Saturday night and were brought to Warsaw by Sheriff Carl Latta and state police.

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