The Syracuse Journal, Volume 29, Number 39, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 28 January 1937 — Page 5

Thursday, janVary 28,1937

Township Farmers Elect Five New Officers

DISCUSS NEW 1937 FEDERAL SOIL PROGRAM Fifty Attend Largest Meeting Ever Held More than fifty prominent Turkey Creek Township farmers met at the Syracuse Grammar School last Thursday evening, elected new officers for their organization and spent two and one-half hours in discussing the soil conservation program for 1937. Burton Howe. Township Chairman, in turn introduced Mr. Daniel Leininger, County Chairman. Mr. Leininger discussed at legth the 1937 soil conservation plan and after answering many inquiries in reference to the new program, he asked that those who were interested sign up ’ and pledge themselves to the conservation of soil. * Mr. Leininger also pointed out that no two farms were alike and that every fanner had individual problems, it thereby becoming the duty of the new Chairman to discuss each farmer's problem separately with him, so that a successful program for this Township might be consumated. a Discuss New Act. After the discussion of the Soil Conservation Act, an election of officers was called. The first ballot taken was for Chairman, and Mr. Burton Howe was re-elected Township Chairman. Others nominated for the office of Chairman were Sherman Deaton and Russell Warner. Thirty ballots were cast for Howe, eight for Deaton and three for Warner. For sub-chairman, Russell Warner was again nominated, along with Wilmet Jones and George Strieby. Warner, on the second ballot polled nineteen votes, Jones seven and Strieby twelve. Inasmuch as the vote did ot show a pleurality, a second ballot was taken, giving Warner twenty-one votes, electing him, and giving George Strieby seventeen votes. ' Strieby Elected. The htird member of the Board was elected from four nominees: George Srieby. Vivian Disher, Wilmet A. Jones and Clark Green. On this bal- , lot, Strieby polled twenty-six votes, winning the election. Disher received three, Jones four and Green one. For the fourth and last member of the Board, three names were placed in nomination: Wilmet A. Jones, Elmer Baugher and Vivian Disher. Inasmuch as there was no pleurality, with Jones scoring fifteen,! Baugher, nine and Disher six, a" second ballot was necessary, which gave Jones he election with sixteen votes, and Baugher fourteen votes. According to Chairman Howe and County Chairman Leininger, the meeting Thursday night was the largest that has been held so far. All those in atendance expressed a great deal of interest in the Government’s new program and many thought hat it might be worked out to a successful conclusion. Sash Greenhouses Make Plant Growing Less Work Sash greenhouses have so many advantages over hot beds for growing plants from seed that every commercial vegetable grower should have one, believes C. H. Nissley, extension professor of vegetable growing at the New Jersey college of agriculture, Rutgers university. In sash greenhouses, which are usually heated by a wood stove or with a hot water system, seed sowing and transplanting may be done in comfort, even during extremely ' cold weather, and watering and ventilating are easier because of the larger air space under the glass. Last winter many of these struc*, tures were built. Some of them are located in the garage, With this Arrangement, the heat is furnished to the garage and to the washing and packing house as well as to the greenhouse. These structures are not expensive to build. An 18-sash greenhouse complete with boiler and head house, new sash and new materials should cost less, than S3OO, not counting labor. Where sash is on hand, there may be no need of buying new. Instead of purchasing a new boiler, a good second hand one, purchased at a low price, may be used. For permanent structures, a concrete or hollow tile foundation and walls are recommended. Wooden sides may also be used if lumber is available. In the Feed Lot Dairymen who make the highest income from their herds plan their business so that the volume of milk production is maintained in winter months when prices are normally best. • • • An annual farm inventory will show a farmer just where he stands financially whether he is gaining or losing, and how much. The inventory also provides a valuable property list in case of fire. • • • . -3 A cemetery for cows on Langwater farm near North Easton, Mass., stands as a monument to. some of the greatest dairy cows ever bred. • • • About 2% million farmers are now marketing some or all of their farm . products co - operatively through their 8,400 associations.

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Daniel Leininger, County Soil Conservation Chirman is inspecting the 1937 soil conservation program with Burton Howe, who was re-electe d township chairman last Thursday evening at the Syracuse Grammar School, as four of the newly elected assistant chairmen look on. (Left to right) Wilmet Jones, George Strieby, Burton Howe, Russell Warner, Daniel Leininger and Ralph Sittier.

Good Storage One of the most important factors in good storage is maintaining the temperature in which each fruit and vegetable keeps best. Failure to provide this temperature shortens storage life. Proper amount of moisture in the air of storage rooms is also essential. Other causes of spoilage may have, come from storage diseases such as rots and molds. Then there are varieties of fruits and vegetables which are naturally poor keepers. For winter storage, potatoes keep best in piles small enough so that not more than three feet can be measured from the center of the pile to the outside. Potatoes need air, and they should be free from loose dirt when placed in storage. Moist air helps in preventing potatoes from shrinking, especially if the air temperature is somewhat higher than that recommended. Frequent sprinkling of the walls in the storage room is beneficial. Has Close Call Bk • ■ Sally Rand When Sally Rand arrived in Boston to keep a theater engagement. she was hard pressed for time so the much-publicized dancer prepared for her act even while she was leaving her taxi, all of which was a break for the cameraman. *

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RECORD OF FLOCK REVEALS PROFITS Facts on Production an Aid to the Poultryman. By C. J. Maupin, Extension Poultry SpecialUst, North Carolina State College. WNU Service. “How much profit am I making? What return can I expect from my laying flock next month? Next year?” These are questions constantly coming before the poultryman. The only way to find the answer is to keep records on the flock. Without records, there is no way of determining just what the flock is doing. Good records show the cost of feeding the flock, the gross and net returns, and the average egg production. Records made with the aid of trap-nests also show the production of individual birds. A poultryman must know these things before he can tell whether his system of feeding and management is getting proper results. Records often show when the flock needs to be culled. If a large number of hens shows no profit, the low producers should be sent to market. Properly used, the record will tell the story from month to month. If the birds are being fed well and are in good health, yet do not lay satisfactorily it may be that they are not of a good breed or strain, or it may be that type of birds is not suited to the farm where they are located. Don’t buy a highly advertised breed of chicks, then trust to luck that they will produce profitable quantities of eggs. Grit Only Poultry Feed That Has No Food Value Although grit has no definite food value in the poultry ration, tests completed recently at the National Agricultural Research Center by the Bureau of Animal Industry showed that it cuts the volume of feed needed in making economical gains when fed with a mash ration or field peas. The reason is simple and was discovered some time ago. The gizzard serves as a “grinding” mill, so that the chicken can utilize carbohydrates, proteins, and especially fats. The insoluble grit in the gizzard merely helps the grinding process. The value of grit was more apparent when field peas were fed. This pointed to the need of grit when coarse and granular feeds make up a large part of the ration. Field peas alone did not constitute a complete diet for birds in confinement, although digestibility was sufficient to justify the use of the legume in poultry feeds. Despite having a generally lower protein digestibility than corn, field peas contain approximately 60 per cent more digestible protein per pound.

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Give Hogs Range When Fattening Animals Will Produce Meat of Better Quality When Not Crowded. By H. W. Taylor, Extension Swine Specialist. North Carolina State College. —WNU Service. Contrary to popular belief, a small, filthy, crowded pen is no place to fatten hogs. Crowded and filthy, the hogs cannot be as healthy and sanitary as they should to produce good, firm, wholesome meat. Overfat hogs do not produce the best pork. Hogs will gain well and keep clean if allowed ’ a reasonable amount of range and given all the balanced ration they can eat, and some exercise is needed to keep them healthy. Since it is important that pork be produced as economically as is reasonably possible, it is a good practice to turn’ the hogs into a field where they can glean food that has been left from various crops. Fattening hogs should have, in addition to the field gleanings, all the corn they can eat and a protein supplement should be kept before them at all times. Fish meal or tankage, or a mixture containing one-half cottonseed tankage is recommended as a good protein supplement. Along in the early winter, growers should begin to think about their spring farrows, and see that the necessary equipment is available. Now is a good time to build a farrowing house. A plan for such I a house may be obtained from j county farm agents.

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Manure, Straw, Needed by Soil Careful Return of Manure Is an Aid to Land That Needs Potash. By L. B. Mttler. Associate in Soil Experiment Fields. University of Illinois.—WNU Service. Careful return of manure and straw to fields provides a “soil security program” for those lands i that are on the verge of a potash deficiency. In the growing of corn and grain crops, fully two-thirds of the potash content is in the cornstall; and straw. If these by-products of the farm are left on the land or are applied as manure, they return some potash to the “soil bank” to be used again. A study of crop yield data over a 29-year period on six soil experimental farms on the gray soils shows that yield levels were as high with manure as with potash, basic treatments of limestone and phosphate having been used in each case. The manure was applied at the rate at which with careful management it could be accumulated on any live stock farm. For the farmer who markets his crops as grain, the problem is somewhat different. At one soil experii ment field the corn yields on limed ■ gray silt loam on tight clay for I the rotation ending in 1928 were 28 ' bushels. Since that time yields have declined to 21 bushels. This decline appears to be caused by potash deficiency for, with the application of oats straw at the rate of two tons an acre for each fouryear rotation since 1929, the corn yields have been revived 'to an average of 45 bushels for the last four - year period. This treatment seems also to have satisfied the potash needs of other crops in the rotation. Analysis of the straw showed that each two-ton application contained about as much potassium as is supplied by 110 pounds of muriate of potash. After limestone and clovers have I boosted crop yields above sub- | marginal levels, farmers will do well , to watch for potash deficiency. Not ' that legume farming is a breeder of potash shortage in the soil, but as yields go up, greater demands are made upon soil minerals. When crop growth is sufficient to exhaust the supply of any one of the plant nu-/ trients, the crop is A minimum acreage of soil-de-pleting cultivated cYops such as corn and soy beans, together with the return of manure and straw, will go a long way toward making farms self-sufficient in their potash requirements. Subscribe to THE JOURNAL

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Finds Cost Varies in the Production of Milk The cost of producing milk varies from month to month; it is highest in winter months and lowest in summer months, according to Dr. L. C. Cunningham of the department of agricultural economics at Cornell university. Based on average costs, he says, January and February are the two months when costs are highest, and June ans July months when they are lowest. During fall months, the cost builds up toward a winter high; during spring months it tends to taper toward the summer low. At the same time, the farm price of milk does not change correspondingly. More variation occurs in the cost of producing milk than in the price received at the farm.

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