The Daily Independent from Murphysboro, Illinois • Page 7

FREDAY, APRIL 24, 1942 'THE DAILY M0RPHYSBORO, ILLINOIS PAGE JACKSON- ILLINOIS AGRICULTURAL ASSOClATMti FARM BUREAU JMSONWRY SPRING OFFENSIVE FARM BUREAU NEWS VOLUME 7 NUMBER 37 Publishes! each Friday by the Jackson County Farm Bureau as a supplement of the Daily Independent. FARM BUREAU OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS Fred Heininger President Murphysboro F. W. Dietz Vice President De Soto William McKee ONFARIMUST'BE AT U. S.

Wheat Are Full As -official spring heralds the opening offensive for the greatest farm production year in labor' shortages and acreage boosts make it- imperative that farmers operate more efficiently than ever before. Jacob Ota Cornett One of the most important equipment items is the corn planter. A. Secretary s. Payflon, extension engineer tlie University of Illinois' College Treasurer Veriennes COhfMITTEEMEN Jesse Klein Carbonnale Warren Crews William Saner Theodore Kneker H.

Harding Harry Provart D. D. Williamson Murphysborb Mnrphysboro Ava Ciitlei- Du Quoin Pinckneyville FARM BUREAU STAFF J. G. McCall Farm Adviser William Ziegler Organization Director Louise Phemister, Office Secretary Rosalia Born.

Ass't Office Secretary SUBSIDIARY COOPERATIVES The following cooperative companies are subsidiary organizations of the Farm Bureau that offer their services to, its membership: Twin County Service Petroleum products, soyoil paint and other farm supplies. Illinois Fruit Growers Exchange vegetable Fruit Growers Supply Fruit growers' supplies and fertilizers. Producers Livestock Commission' Association Livestock marketing. Producers Creamery of Carbondale Cream processing and mar-. keting.

I. A. A. Insurance Service Ail- to, Life, Windstorm. Carl Robinson, Gen.

Agent. Farm Bureau Serum Association cholera serum and virus. Murphysboro Fruit Growers As- tociation. Jackson-Perry Co-operative: of Agriculture, says a few minutes spent checking, the following items'may save time money later this spring: .1 i. Clean up external clutch parts and replace those badly-worn.

On. enclosed gear box type planters, make sure that the is maintained with a light 'lubricating oil. 2. Worn check arms exceedingly, hard the arms-and save the wire. 3.

Be sure all" valves, are free from and arid operate 1 freely. 4. Perfect hill checks are impossible unless the proper planter piates are used: Seed 1 corn and implement dealers have plate recommendations. Check the plates ap you plant to make sure they are doing the job right. 5.

Most planters will excellent cross checks if adjusted and operated correctly. See the planter instruction book for the distance the hill should behind wire bxittoh, (i. Planting with a tight wire is not only hard on the wire but also on the planter, the. team nnd the driver. With' proper adjustments a loose wire will usually give as good or better results.

7. Fertilizer attachments, if not properly cleaned, become very badly resulting in the necessary replacement of parts every year or two. Stringing of liills may be caused World War II finds the United States well supplied with wheat, says the U. S. -Department Agriculture.

As the chart indicates, tlie supply is double that of 1917 when America entered the first World War. It is estimated that on July 1, the Nation's supply will be nearly billion bushels', enough for two years of domestic use. instead of plowing up land and expanding wheat acreage, farmers are able to use land, labor, and equipment in turning out other war commodities more vitally such as dairy, poultry, meat products, vegetables, arid oil crops. GROWING IS MADE BYUICIRCUMR Fruit-for-freedom, how it can lie Town in the back yard or small orchard and preserved for home use, is the. subject of "Growing- Fruit For Home Use," Circular'No.

524, which has just been published by the University Illinois College of Agriculture. Prepared by V. W. Kelley, extension fruit of tlie University ol Illinois College of Agriculture, the circular lists fruit varieties adapted to different sections of Illinois, suggests the size of garden needed, spacings Of plants; what to look for in selecting plants caie plants during transplanting, management' of Hie soil aiicT gives aclMee on spraying, pruning'. and keeping the garden.clean.

Illustrated and afiter and light and'wrong photographs-of 'pruning, planting and cultural method's, and with picture's of disease and. insect injury, the circu- lai is designed specifically for the small'home fruit gardener, instead of the commercial -orchardist. copies of "Growing Frilit For Home Use" may be obtained froin home and- farni advisers or the university. THIS MORE FARMERS WORKING toGBTHER' UNDER ORGANIZED LEADERSHIP TO HELP WIN' THE Frozen Dessert Demonstrations landscape Field; Day Guernsey Breeder's Purchase by faulty valve operation or by badly worn planter shoes or furrow openers. Three members of the Jackson County Guernsey Breeding Association.

Theodore Kueker. Louis Dietz and Tony Van Cloostere, started out Friday on a search lor two new herd sires to replace! the two recently a ope. thousand' mile trip to the leading Guernsey Breeders of the State, they purchased two young bulls sired by Maple Lane from the Jonacre Farm near Dundee, Illinois. Maple Lane Challenger, one of the outstanding sires the Guernsey breed from a production standpoint, although he is now 13 old. still shows fine type.

He has nine'Advance Registry daughters with records above 500 pounds butter fat made at 2 and 3 years of nge. The dam of one of the youn bulls has a record of 848 of butter fat as a six year old and the other dam a record of G35 pounds as a two year old. The two young sires should make dairy history in Jackson County. The Association members should be congratulated in their program to develop better dairy cattle South'- ern Illinois. MEETING Twenty-five dairymen met at the Farm Bureau Building, Wednesday night at the Annual Meeting of-the A field clay program is to be conducted at the homes, of five of the ten cooperating families in the landscape project.

Interested persons will Be given an opportunity to see examples and hear discussions of landscape developments. The schedule for the tour as follows, Thursday. April SO: P. G. Ridge, 3:00..

a. T. ConantJ 10:45 Ernest of -Du Quoin. 1:00 p. m.

C. A. Jackson, of Car- bomlale, 2:15 p. m. E.

D. McGuire, south of Carbon- present to assist the cooperatois in" the discussion of home ground problems. Rural people are interested in learning more about the use of trees, shrubs, flowers and othei 1 landscape features about -the" homes- stead. Anyone interested in seeing a wide variety of materials and hearing these landscape problems. discussed should plan to make the tour on April 30, since many questions will come up that an answer to his own problem.

I One' of the out'st'antlin'g demonstrations of the year, -sponsored' by Jackson-Perry Home Bureau, was tlia't on frozen, desserts given by Dr. Kar.l Gardner of the- Dairy De- 'partment, 'College of Agriculture, j'Unive'rsity of Illiuos. D.emonstra- 1 tibns were lield in the basemerit" There ate two ways to prevent the Evangelical church in Piuck- cutwdrms from cutting up in the. rieyville on April 21 and in the worms or bar- basement the Elks' Home in 2 Ways listed to Curb Cutworms in Vietory Gardens Murphysboro on. April 22.

ricade the gardeners advised today by H. B. Petty, extension entomologist of the cussions on the need for milk in flute News The Brush Creek' Girls held their first meeting" at the home of the leader. There were eight members Officers were elected as follows: Lucille Bbtt'erbus'cli, president; Mary Aleri'e' Jaequot, vice president; Ellen Marie Heiple, secretary'; Freda Botterb'usch, club reporter; Bonnie June Jacquot, r.ecre- atio'n leader; and Eunice Heiple, song leader. Games were played and refreshments were served to the follow- Dr.

Gardner gave excellent dis- ih g. Lucille and Freda Botterbusch, University Illinois College oj Agriculture. the diet and on the various ways by which it may be fitted into that cutworms arelcip'es. The demonstrations includ- night Workers and that they are ted the making of frozen-fruit sal- most likely to bother victory gardens where sod or crop refuse has ad, of ice cream in which', honey was substituted Jor the been recently," Petty said. "Re-isugar requirement, and of choco- Office; Schedule member also that cutworms have' done the dirty work if the plants are cut off completely above or be-, low the ground:" Here are Fifty's recomnieiida- ed recipes calculated to give tions, either ol which may be used' smooth 'texture to ice cream fvo- Today we own more Hres lhan we ever did! These fires are in service on vehicles of the Army, Navy and Marine Corps.

OUR AIM At long as Kras are needed by the Nation's military forces, the Illinois AgVi- cultural Mutual Insurance Company will attempt to share with you your problem of keeping your car in serviceable condition. If you wreck your car and ruin a tire or two, we will mafce every effort replace those iires with used ones. If, after reasonable effort, we can fin'd no tires for your car, we will reimburse you' for tKe ones destroyed. For full details about our insurance services, see our representative at your Bureau office. ILLINOIS AGRICULTURAL MUTUAL INSURANCE CGMPANr £08 South Dearborn Street, Chicago CARL ROBINSON Gen.

Agent Southern Illinois Dairy Herd Iiii- provement Association. -A full -report of the Association's work was iven by Clinton Haney, tester. K. E. Gardner.

Dairy Extension, urged the members' to carry on with the excellent work of the Association, especially the cooperation with the two Dairy Breeding Association. National Dairy Association Diplomas were presented to members having a herd average 300 pounds butterfat or better by Farm Adviser, J. G. McCall. Dairymen receiving these diplomas with breed and- herd aperages are as follows: Louis Dietz.

451 Ibs. B.F".,, Allen Rountree, Du 422 Ibs. B.F. Edwin P. Hartsock.

Du -Jersey and Holslein, 344 Ibs. B.F. Joseph Tretter, 339' Ibs. B.F. Wm.

Timprier. Pinckneyville Holsteiri, 336 Ibs. B. F. Theo.

Kueker, Ava 1 324 Ibs. B.F'. Carl Thompson. 314 Ibs. B.F.

'Frank Easterly, 301 Ibs. B.F. Ziegler. Murphysboro Guernsey, 300 Ibs. B.F.

The same members were elected as directors for the.coining year as served during the past year. The len reelect.ed were: Allen Roun- tiee Edwin Haisock Tlieo. Ku'e- tei Wm Timpnei and Louis Dietz. At a meeting, of the Board of Di- A'ileri' Rountree was elected Theodore Kueker, ice ptesurent, and Loiiis Dietz, seci etai ti easln ei The Board of Directors took steps to' em-ploy a- tester for the next year as the present tester, Clinton, had 'esigned effective at that date: Murphysboro 8:00 to 5:00 p. J.

G. McCall. a. to 4:00 p. tor rural people interested in solv- 8:00 a.

m. to 5:00 ing their home landscaping prob- 3:30 p. m. This field day will be a clinic I i It is a part ol' the landscape program being conducted by Jackson-Perry County Farm Bureau and Home Bureau in cooperation with p. m.

and every morning from a. m. to 9:30 a. Robinson, Gen. Agent.

Pinckneyville Tuesday, office, 10 a. m. to 3 tlie University of Illinois College of p. m. Adviser J.

G. McCall. Agriculture. Henry W. Gilbert, rep-j Friday, 10:00 a.

m. to 4:00 p. m. resenting the University, will be Robinson, Gen. Agent.

EXCHANGE LIST Exchange items will be run two weeks only, unless notified to cqn- tiriue them longer. In case items advertised are sold, notice to discontinue advertisement will be appreciated. FOB. roots, Martha Washington variety, $2.50 per thousand. L.

E. FOR. Master Deluxe Chevrolet with radio and heater. The car ca-ii be seen at Porter Bros. Service Station, 14th Liberty, Murphysboro.

FOR and Loreadb Van Cloostere, Horstman Farm, Vergennes, 111. PAY your debt to your soil UPPLY LIMESTONE J.RAISE CLOVER APPLY aPHOMATf OOTA5H. raw ma FOR Alfalfa Hay J. O. Gale, Gorhani, 111.

temient on fully equipped fruit and livestock farm. L. C. Reichert, Pinckueyville, III. FOR G-volt Wind Route late ice cream, all frozen in the mechanical refrigerator, and of ice cream made the usual freezer Persons attending learn- Bonnie June, Ellen and Mary Alene.

Jacquot, Ellen Marie and Eunice Heiple, Betty Nausley and the leader. We will.have the Program planning meeting April 29 at the home of Mr. J. Botterbusch. FREDA BOTTERBUSCH, Club Reporter.

satisfactorily: beii in riie'cliariical refrigerators. Spread Paris green mixed with also received much helpful information concerning ice creani mixtures and best working tech- bran and moistened with lubricating oil (SAE 20) thinly over the ground afttJ sunset'. Do this before setting out tomato or cabbage plants, or before planting sweet FOR peas, 52.25 per man, Ava, 111, Two types of barricades can be made with waste materials. In the first method, any did' No! 2 caii will do. First, cut the bottom out of it.

shove it fii-mly into the ground around the plant, half under half above ground. The cut-' worm then.can't get to the plant. The can may be left ill'place indefinitely or removed in about three weeks. The other IJariicade method is to make a roll- of paper mixed stock or cardboard and place this J. J.

Neu- he plant so a collar protects the and enough of the paper is still below the ground to- act as a FOR peas. Louis Arbeiter, Murphysboro. FOR span mares. F. A.

Easterly, Carbondale, 111. FOR SALE Cabbage 'plants, 50c per hundred. Potted tomato plants, Spc per dozen. Vigoro fertilized and bone meal. Murphysboro, HI.

Ihle Florist, FOR bales of No. 1 Alsike $20 per ton at barn. G. M. Lingle Farm, niiles S.

W. of Carbondale, Phone 11F14. FOR SALE Pansy plants, 50c per dozen. Oregon field grown two- Charger with heavy duty lighting batteries. Batteries practically Would 1 sell separately.

Roy Becht-j lofft, Murphysboro, 111. I year-old rose bushes, 50c each. Ihle fo- I 1 FOR- bushel liens. Ota Cornett, Vergennes. FOR Master Deluxe with low mileage.

Ota Cornett, Vergennes. HELP WANTED Married man for dairy farm work. Must be a good milker. $65 around work. per month House, garden, electricity.

Call in person with reference. Chas. Trail, Carbondale, half-way between Murphysboro and Carbondale. FOR SALE Baled alfalfa hay and pea pummies. Fred Mtirphysboro, Route 3.

J. Saupe, fryers and dressed hens. Pautler's Red White store. are equipped to rebuild or repair your tractor anfl implements any make. Also electric and oxygen acetylene welding.

Beckman Implement com pany, Murphysboro. Phone 326: ATTENTION, will be equipped to bale your hay again this year. Please list'your baling early. Red Baril, FOR LIME OR SAND AND ROCK HAtTLING'See Red'Baril, Ava, HI nique for freezer ice cream. Did you know'that you shouldn't begin turning-the freezer as soon, as the ice and salt are packed tlie container? foundation.

More information about control- ing cutworms is available in Circular No. 514, which may be ob free from farm advisors, the wi sire but also good University or' Illinois State Natural History Survey. Jersey Breeders Flan Purchase of New Herd Sire Following the Dairy Herd'. Improvement Association annual meeting last Wednesday evening, Allen Rountree, president of the Jackson- Perry Jersey Breeding Association; called the association's members together in cousultatipn with Dr. K.

Gardner, Dairy Extension, for the consideration of plans to pur- chase'an outstanding herd sire-to replace oiie recently sold. We must have a new bull, to re-' the. one sold', that not only QUICK PAMF FROM MAMJRE IS POSSIBLE IN'42 Quick payroffs in war production 'arm plants are possible this year manur.e is spread in- time for 1942 seedings, and, top production can't -wait until 1943, it is pointed. out by L. B.

Miller, the agrou- my department, University of Illinois College of Agriculture. Oil 21 soil experiment fields where manure is applied every fourth year for corn, yields of ail crops during the rotation av- eraged 64 percent higher on the treated than, on nearby untreated land. Yield increases from 13 percent on fertile land at Meat Nabli to 207 percent on hilly land at Elizabethtowu. Twelve fields on.dark-colored soils showed average 'gains of 34 -percent, eight, light-colored field's averaged' ..111 percent, ana yields were 41 percent higher oh "sandy soil at Oquawka. Rate ot application in proportion to ability.

6'ne ton of manure being applied for each ton crop removed the previous rotation. Tlie amount used on. eacli acre a year average! 2.1 tons and ranged from nearly a ton at EHzalietlitovra to more than. 3 1-2 tons at McNabb. The average value a ton of manure, on conservative prices for yielil increases, was about $2.50 on dark soils and on light Soil's: Efficient use oE manure requires it returned' promptly to.

tlie fields, Miller-points out Tliis reduced, tlie loss of nutrients in storage, helps make the barnyard' more usable and hastens ttie'- tinie of crop yield increases: An application. six to eight ton's' of manure an acre is corn planting time. Light applications well-rotted mariure caii also ba used to advantage or? pasture and hay crops. Building foundations that slope with a hillside likely to shift, say engineers of the U. S.

D.epart- ment of Agriculture. Movement can be stopped 'by under-pinning so the new footings are like steps. Tliese should extend' below tlie. frost' line. Engineers of the U.

S. Department of Agriculture say settlement of farm buildings is often caused' by failure ot field-stone foundations. Such foundations usually crack because, the stories are smalLand. there. stoiies extending through the -wall.

Rbmid-shaped stones laid, in poor lime mortar are particularly bad: Repairing the -cracks will not remedy tlie condition: the worst parts of the -wall must be rebuilt. WEUP HIM B-EST AND KEEP Hardware Hints Farmers do 'nbt need a priority rating when they make purchases of many steel 1 warehouse products. Items such as bale ties, nails, un-. coated welding rods, woven wire; poultry netting, barbed wire, staples, concrete reinforcing bars, pipes, tubes and galvanized sheets cari all lie obtained by farmers' in limited quotas. With the- reinstatement of customary minimum discounts on sales to manufacturers of bale tie wire and bale ties should be more for agricultural uses.

stated Mr. Rountree. We intend to keep looking for him until we find him. To prevent uneven settling farm buildings supported on wood posts, engineers of the-U. S.

Department of Agriculture sugge.st that the posts be treated against rot and insects and set on masonry stone slabs or the frost line. Posts used in repair biiilaings should also be treated and set on masonry. HYBRID IS A GREAT PRODUCER-fiUt HOW ME EAT! ESPECtAtiY PHOSPHORUS WHICH GOES CHIEFIY INTO THE CftAflT THAT'S SOID OFF THE FARM-AN0 DOES MOT REtOIW CAN YOU PRODUCE U.S.D.A. says: your of pandbd rtiilk program 1942? Reduced discounts have previously forced bale-tie manufacturers to twist and bundle the while tliey were operating at a margin so low as to result in financial loss. MACHINERY.

McCormiek plow, John Deere plow and mower, McCormiek mower, also new Case Hagene, Grand Tower, 111. SEED CORN BAGS We will pay as follows for Co lunibiana Funk see'd corn bags: Bushel size, lOc; half bushel size, 5c; peck size, 5c. Deliver bags when empty at the Farm Bureau office at Murphysboro or Pinckney- vill'e. Bags must be "in good cbii- Idition. TWIN COUNTY SERVICE COMPANY Petroleum Products "Soyoil Paint Blue Seal.

Tires Blue Se'al Batteries' Edison Spark Plugs Miscellaneous Farm Supplies TRUCK SALESMEN: ONE OF YOIIK COOPERATIVES tESL-IE LIPE, Murphysboro, Phone 103-1W RUDOLPH Zl-EGLER, Pnckneyville ARCHIE WILLIAMS, Vergennes Office Phones': Murphysboro, 150; Marion, 71; PiiickneyvUte, 234 LESLI'E HOGSHEAD, Manager Phone 164- THis extra an Intensified feeding plan begin needed for 1 942 than for 1 941 SM) Dairy Batancw fc Ugh proton Mrt win balance and Mid build ep herd and increasa milk production, take adi vantage of Kia higher mitt prices. Start Blue Seal Dairy Balancer NOW. JACKSON-PERRY COOPERATIVE.