The Syracuse Journal, Volume 29, Number 37, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 14 January 1937 — Page 5

THURSDAY, JANUARY 14, 193?

Grain Prices to Continue High This Year

BOARD TRADE HEAD REVIEWS GRAINMARKET Says Price Upturns Greatly Aids Farmer | By ROBERT P. BOYLAN President Chicago Board of Trade CHICAGO, Jan. 14 (INS)— The grain trade as a whole has shared in the prosperity that has come to the United States the past season. Although a disastrous visitation of drought over large areas of normally productive farm lands again reduced yields of several cereal crops to a severe extent, increased prices have made up for this to a large degree. Improved general business and the expansion of buying power resulted in fair prices for farm products during the early months of 1936. And drought damage later stimulated activity both in futures and in cash grain. Fortunately for our great farming areas, price upturns in all grains were substantial and 'steady throughout the harvesting periods and grain growers, as a result were the principal beneficiaries. A notable feature of the year is the fact that in all grains, and at all times, the cash markets have dominated the situation rather than any speculative activity. Regardless of substantial advances in future contracts, the cash markets have kept ahead. Highest prices for all grain futures were registered late in the year, the general average reaching top levels since 1933, the main incentive being the persistent absorption of cash grain at material premiums over the futures. An outstanding development, one which promises to result in increasing benefit to farmers, wag the establishment on the Chicago Board of Trade of the world’s only futures market for soy beans. * Future trading in soy b£ans was inaugurated on the exchange October 5, after the most thorough investigation had been made intojthe need for such facilities. The new market has performed splendidly, adding a buying demand which broadens the field once occupied almost exclusively by processors. The cash market for soy beans had broken from a price level of $1.51 per bushel to the $1.20 maifk before our futures market opened. Since October 5, a date which poincides with lie usual start of soy bean harvesting in the central west, soy bean values have advanced materially at the time this is written, with all offerings absorbed readily in the Chicago Grasshoppers-Were Busy During the Past Summer Fortunately, farmers h|ave the American trait of being able to laugh at misfortune. * Take the recent grasshopper plague, for instance, which produced almost as many stories as ’hoppers, observes a writer in the Country Home Magazine. Here are a few from an lowa correspondent: Ini Kansas the chickens got so fastidious they took the grasshoppers apart, eating only the second joints?. . A South Dakota woman had to stand guard over her Monday wash to keep the ’hoppers from eating the clothes off the line. . . In lowa a farmer woke up after a noonday nap to find the back out of his shirt and part of a pitchfork handle gone. . . Probably none of them equals the true story of the grateful Mornions who erected a monument to the sea gulls from Great Salt lake, which destroyed a plague of grasshoppers. . . . Unless it is the current one about the residents of Cedar City, Utah, who sold fifty barrels of grasshoppers to a California fish bait company. Then a Hollywood film crew dug a trench 125 feet long,, crammed it full of dead ’hoppers and made a Chinese locust plague scene. The farmers who harvested the ’hoppers got SIO,OOO. Trees Tested 20 Years Twenty years of experimentation have brought about knowledge as to the relative value of various types of tree for shelterbelt planting, which is proving of great assistance in planting projects in the drought areas. At Mandan, N. Dak., the first test trees were planted in 1914. Eighteen types of tree were set out. Seven survived the (extremes of temperature and the periods of drought. Os these, the Chinese elm, the ash and the box elder were found most effective. Fishing By Radio BERLIN, Jan. 14 (INS)—Electric waves have been enlistee I by the German fishing industry to help, trawlers locate large schools of fish. An apparatus called the “Radiolot” sends out electric waves to the bottom of the sea. It indicates every obstacle which the waves incounter and the presence of shoals of herrings is thus revealed. Tie electric waves are thrown back, aid the indicator warns the fisherman, whose only task is to haul in the nets. COAL FIRE GREENFIELD, Mass., Jan. 14— (INS) —After smoke had filled her home for two days. Miss Mary Cummings called in a plumler to fix what she thought was a faulty furnace. The plumber discovered that the source of the smoke v as buring coal in a coal bin. Firemen extinguished the blaze.

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Judge Gives 3 Rules For Happy Marriage

VANCOUVER, B. C?» Jam. 14— (INS)—Three estentials for happy marriage are “compromise, consideration apd courtesy, in the opinion ’of Judge Helen Gregory McGill of Vancouver. The woman jurist listed a number of “don’ts” for husbands, including: “Don’t forget the baby is half yours. “Don’t fall out with your in-laws. They can be useful when yau want

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someone to watch the children. “Don’t expect your wife to clean the fisn you catch. “Don’t forget that career men are as hard to live with as career women. “Don’t try to make over your wife. “Don’t try to be a kitchen manager. i “Don’t forget that if you keep your wife for a pet she will develop into a pest!”

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In the Poultry Yard Eggs are high in- food value, but rather low in fuel value. Improper temperature causes deterioration in egg quality. • * • Plan to keep the pullet laying flocks closely housed during the winter season. V • • Small amounts of salt are desirable in most rations for laying hens. Salt aids in digestion. * * • During the past ten years a big improvement in quality of eggs has been noted in the Northeast. • • • R. I. Reds are good producers of both eggs and meat. The roosters make fine capons. ♦♦• . . Poultry is a billion-dollar business in the United States and always will be growing in importance. ‘Magic’ Leopard HYDERABAD, India, Jan. 14 — (INS) —For several days a maneating leopard has the village of Bhainsa,Wrear here, and has killed a number of its inhabitants. The villagers, however refused to kill the leoprd. They believe it is a villager who recently disappeared and who has been changed into a leopard by magic.

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DpultnO CHICK FEED NEEDS MINERAL BALANCE Slipped Tendons Presented by Care of Ration. By C. S. Platt, Associate Professor Poultry Husbandry, New Jersey College. WNU Service. Slipped tendons, an abnormal condition frequently found in chickens reared in batteries can be prevented by properly adjusting the mineral balance in the ration. This difficulty arises from an oversupply of phosphorus along with a lack of calcium in relation to the phosphorus content of the feed. Baby chick feeds containing 10 per cent or more meat scrap, supplemented with bone meal, will have a phosphorus content of at least one per cent, while a phosphorus content of only one-half of one per cent is all that is needed for normal development. In order to keep the phosphorus at the proper level, it is necessary to restrict the amount of fish scrap, meat scrap, or bone meal to five per cent of the mash mixture. Any protein required in addition to five per cent meat or fish should be supplied by milk in some form. When chicks are being reared on a floor or are allowed to run outdoors, slipped tendons will not appear, even though the phosphorus content of the ration may be as high aS one per cent. Regardless of the actual amount of the phosphorus present or the condition under which the birds are being reared, it is necessary for normal development that the calcium content be kept at a level two or three times greater than that of the phosphorus. ■■■■ » Iron and Copper Needs for the Poultry Flock Chickens, like mammals, need both iron and copper for building hemoglobin, the content of red blood cells. The question has arisen whether practical laying rations contain enough of these elements to prevent anemia, or whether they could be improved by adding supplements of iron and copper. Tests at the Wisconsin experiment station indicate that a practical lay? ing ration will supply enough iron and copper to meet the needs of hens without supplementing the ration with extra amounts of these elements. At any rate, feeding additional iron and coppel in the tests failed to increase either the hemoglobin content of the blood or egg production. The pullets in these tests were of the White Leghorn breed and received whole wheat and corn as scratch feed, along with a mash consisting of 100 parts of yellow corn, 50 of oats, 50 of barley, 100 of bran, 100 of middlings, 75 of meat scraps, 25 of dried milk; 25 of alfalfa, 5 of iodized salt and 5 of sardine oil. The pullets also were given free access to oyster shells and water. When Chickens Sneeze Infectious bronchitis is one of the most dreaded of poultry diseases for four reasons. It is difficult to cure; it is infectious and it is usually fatal, besides being very distressing to the patient. One of the common signs that the birds have this dis.ease is their coughing and wheezing in trying to get rid of excess mucus and clotted blood in the larynx and trachea. Here are other symptoms: The lining of these organs becomes swollen. There is difficult breathing as in cases of gapes. The neck is extended to facilitate breathing; there is a loud wheezing. Fowls violently shake their heads; there are paroxysms of coughing that terminate in death of the fowl. Laying flocks that become infected always suffer a sharp decline in laying and’’usually 30 days or more will elapse before they get back to normal. _ A. J. Thibo deaux Watch and Clock Repairing First House South of U. B. Church Phone 889 Box 177 Lake Street Syracuse, Ind. GEO. L. XANDERS attorney-at-law Settlement of Estate* Opinions on Titles FIRE and OTHER Insurance. Phone 7 Syracuse, lad.

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Terracing Is Effective in Controlling Erosion Terracing is the ultimate and most effective method of controlling erosion on cultivated fields, asserts a writer in the Missouri Farmer. A combination of terracing and contour or strip farming reduces the soil losses to a negligible amount. No part of a terrace gradient should exceed 0.4 foot in 100 feet and the total length of a terrace should never exceed feet. Flatter grades and shorter are much better. None of the terrace slopes should ever be steeper than one foot vertical rise to four feet horizontal run. The top terrace should always be constructed first, and the others in consecutive order, down the slope. The provision of suitable outlets for terraces is very important. Artificial outlets are usually more satisfactory than natural channels as they can be so constructed as to prevent channel erosion. The essential steps in gully control in order of importance are: stopping head growth, prevention of floor scouring and side erosion,- and filling of the gully. A diversion ditch above the head of the gully will often stop head growth; otherwise an engineering structure at the gully head is essential. * WARSAW, Jan. 14 (INS)—County Auditor Jesse Bruner has announced that a sale of properties for delinquent taxes will be held at his office here February 8. Atty. Wm. Gray Loehr In All Courts. Notary Estates, Wills Deeds REAL ESTATE EXCHANGED $5 Correspondent Courses 118% S. Buffalo Street WARSAW, IND. OPTOMETRIST GOSHEN. INDIANA. D-X LUBRICATING GASOLINE AND MOTOR OILS > 3Greasing .Accessories Kelly Springfield Tire* Gafill Oil Co. Opp. Poet Office