Sterling Daily Gazette from Sterling, Illinois • Page 7

STERLING DAILY GAZETTE. SATURDAY, DEC. 6. 1930 NEWS OF PRACTICAL INTEREST TO THEFARME JHJtt Premiums Offered In Both Men's And Women's Classes At Erie Indications to a large entry list at the 38th annual farmers' institute of Whiteside county to be held at Erie Thursday and Friday of next week. Mrs.

Will Hawk, to whom the entries arc being sent, reports a number of entries already. Schools arc also respondinf nicely to the entry list, for which there will be prizes of $5, $3 apd $2 for the best exhibits. The exhibits are-divided into two classes, thosti-made by men ant! those made by women. All entries are free. Other rules are: No person shall have more than one entry for the same premium.

AH cattle remain the property of the exhibitor. All exhibits must be made or grown by the exhibitor. All exhibits must be in place by Thursday noon. No premiums will be awarded if the judge considers the exhibit unworthy. The premium lists are as follows: Women's Premtam List The women's premium list is follows prizes being listed in first, second and third order: Loaf white $1 and 75 cents.

Loaf gratiatn $2, $1 and cents. White layer cake, white $1.50 and $1. Chocolate layer cake, chocolate $1.50 and $1. Dozen plain Hand 75 cents. Dozen plain ginger $1 and 75 cents.

Dotsen drop 91 and 75 cents. Light kitchen apron $150, $1 and 75 cents. Dark kitchen $1 and 75 cents. Most appropriate work dress of new $150 and $1. Best made-over $3 aw! W.

Best dress of old material for girl under 14-43, $2 and $1. 'Child's coat of old $2 and $1. Darning cotton hose $1.50. $1 and 75 cents. Hooked $2 and Found dairy $land 75 cents.

Beet dozen $1 and 75 cents. Men's Ust The men's premium list has been announced as follows. Beat ten ears com in Ten ears men's yellow $3, $2 and $1. Ten cars men's white $3, $2 and $1. Ten ears boy's yellow corn $5.

$4, $3. $2 and $1. There will be ten $1 prizes for Smith Hughes, 4-H club and other boys under 21. Fifty ears any variety $10. $5, $4.

$3 and $2. Single corn $1.50. $1. 75 cents and 50 centa, Banker-Fanner On Line For More Profits URBANA, ILL. -i R.

c. Taylor, banker and fanner of Caas county and one of the largest landowners in that section of the state, is banking heavily upon to multiply his profits, accordins to a report by C. M. Llnsley, wUs extension specialist of the College of Agriculture, University of Illinois. Last year he spread 38 carloads, or 1.800 tons, of limestone on his farm and in 1928.

he spread as carloads. or 1.400 tons. He expects to lime all of his acid land as fast as he can get the material hauled and spread. He knows that on such land no limestone means no clover, no clover means tow yields and low yields mean high cost of production and little or no profit. Linsley pointed out.

FATHER: Well. Willie. I received a note from your today. WILLIE: la that so. pop! Grre me a quarter and I wont, breathe a word about it to Mete.

Paris. Another King TWO GRAIN KINGS gran ktegs crowned at International Livestock Show In Chicago are Herbert C. Watsta. of Upton, IwL, left, king of corn growers, an Tntk, rt Wembley. Alberta, Canada, inset, champion wheat Watatn, former Fordoe University stadent, fa dteplayiair hfe nlnK ReHTs yeBow com.

Trelte carried off first wheat honors DOME CROP OF CLOVER FALUCY Bureau County Fanner Had Value Proved To Him By Experiment URBANA, TLTV A popular fallacy held by fanners who have never tried sweet clover for soil building has been burled under a double corn crop produced this year by Ernest Malmquist. a tenant farmer in Bureau county, according to a report by L. B. Miller, assistant in soil experiment fields of the College of Agriculture. University of Illinois.

Like other fanners who hold to the fallacy. Malmquist thought that he could not afford to wait for sweet clover to benefit his sou. So strongly did he believe this that he was considering buying a fertiliser attachment for his planter. However, a demonstration was planned In which a strip of common white-blossom sweet clover was seeded across a 40-acre oat field in the spring of 1929. The land bad never grown sweet clover and was tow In organic matter, although it was naturally sweet and therefore suited to the growing of legumes.

-The clover made a fine stand and good growth and the entire field was plowed late In the fall of 1929 for the corn crop. That part of the field having sweet clover on It produced 52.2 bushels an acre, while the balance of the 40 acres yielded only 34.6 bushels. This difference of 27.6 bushels an acre in favor of the sweet clover land resulted from the seeding of sweet clover at a cost of about $1' an acre. Fortunately. Mahnqnlnt needed no limestone in this field, but said that he would gladly haul limestone when it was needed to get such results.

He reported that the only place in the field where he could find good seed ears was on the strip of sweet clov- land. Phosphate, potash and complete fertiliser were applied in the row at com planting time on a small part of the field as a comparison with, and also in addition to. the sweet clover. Results from this treatment were disappointing, ranging from a slight loss in yield to a gain of only bushels an acre. Farmers who an looking forthe kind of results Malmquist got can start now preparing for them.

Miller pointed out. If the land on which the 19X2 com crop is to be grown is add. it will first need, some limestone. Limestone spread this fan win be weathered and ready for prompt action on the clover seeding next spring. Plowing down the clover next fall will put the land in shape crop.

TOPPING MARKET MAT EAT PROFITS URBANA. Hi. "Topping the market," or getting the highest Trice, which is considered the 3e4gbt of success by of stockmen, often Is not the most profitable is pointed out by X. C. -Ashby.

associate chief in livestock marketing at the College of Agriculture, University of Illinois. Canny feeders long have the feeding margin more important than the seiUng price Oareful feeders check the cost of feedlot gain and. obaenrinc carefully market prices, on their particular kind and grade of stock, sen wheuewt the ratio of gam- to aaarket price indicates the last leCuiu. Tnte apnttM vpadaUy on At mast nogs that are fat enough to grade "pootr Jim thoxt fatter to unVim feed to cheap, the often doss tet- ter oat to terry bit ban tttfwtd the "good" stage. A prob- totejr to not to top but to sbow ptvjflt an hto tte 5 Fail To Show Favorable Ef feet On Growing Swine And Chickens URBANA.

iodine supplements are a common ingredient of mineral mixtures sold throughout the corn belt, they failed to produce any favorable effect on growing swipe and growing chickens hi experiments by the College of Agriculture. University 67 Illinois, according to a report by H. H. Mitchell, chief in animal nutrition. Until unimpeachable evidence to the contrary is obtained there is no good reason for using iodine supplements in livestock feeding except to combat unmistakable goitrous conditions caused by a.

lack of iodine in feed and water. Animal goitre is either unknown or but rarely encountered in Illinois, he pointed out "Results of the experiments should be welcome information to those discriminating farmers who consider the home-mixing of minerals for livestock feeding an. economical practice. Iodines are expensive and not available on the farm. "Animals have a truly'remarkable ability to extract iodine from their feed and water.

The iodine thus obtained seems to-be largely, if not entirely, used In the nourishment of a single organ in the small gland, situated in the neck or at the Junction of the neck and the trunk. This gland is called the thyroid. If the iodine contained in this gland is much below normal, it enlarges into a goitre and the whole body suffers in a number of characteristic ways. If such a goi- tre is produced by an iodine deficiency in the food supply, the addition of-Jodine as potassium or sodium iodide to the food or water, will cure it completely. "In farm animals, goitre occurs frequently in certain areas of the country, particularly.

in the states of Washington. Oregon. Idaho and Montana and in parts of Wyoming, Utah. North Dakota The most disastrous effects of animal goitre are seen in the new- bom young. In the goitre areas of the country, livestock raising would be impossible without iodine medication of breeding females." SOOT THBBK.

CEDAR RAPIDS. T. Sorum went hunting recently and spent most of the day getting two birds. Disgusted with thf way things turned out flonnu climbed ur his car and speeded for home. On the way something crashed Into his windshield into the car.

It turned out to be a fine fat pheasant. Sorum got three birds with two shots. Girl TOADI HHBffmB- JIMMY'S THE GRAND CHAMP Some Of Brightest Fireworks At Present Are Seen By Bye Crowd By John P. Boughan (Associated Press Market Editor) CHICAGO Speculative trade which just at present has been largely diverted from wheat is making the other grain pits fairly apar- kle at times. Rye, oats and corn have shared in the borrowed activity, and through force of circumstances, sonie ol the brightest fireworks for the moment are being witnessed in the rye crowd.

Extreme scantiness of deliveries of rye on Chicago December contracts bare drawn sharp attention to barsain- counter aspects of the rye market, and has sent rye soaring to a point where rye imports from Canada appear imminent, Compared with a week ago, Chicago values of rye this morning ranged all the way from 15-8 to 8 1-4 cents a bushel higher. Simultaneously, oats were 13-4 to 31-8 cents up. and corn at 1-2 to 21-2 cents advance, with wheat tm changed to a rise of 21-4 cents, and provisions varying from lOc decline to35c gain. Unusual demand for all feedstuffs to meet livestock needs owing to shortage of the 1930 corn crop is largely back of upturns hi the rye market and other grain as well- Furthermore, there is evidence of a concentrated holding in Chicago December rye contracts, a holding that traders who are short at rye to meet delivery requirements before the current month's end to have good reason to be afraid of Prices of December rye nave been gaining fast on May of late, and although recently 7c under May have now Jumped to practically the leveL Meanwhile, notwithstanding The grand champion steer of them all at the International Livestock Show hrld in Chicago Is Black Aberdeen Angus rammer yearling shown J. Frank McKenny.

of King City. Jimmy's owner, and Jrsse Brown, left, who fed and cared for the an shown with thr IftGj-ponnd bine ribbon animal. that the oats crop was of ttbera size this season, the movement of oats to market has been relatively smaD. and promises to continue so as a result of heavy rural use. Friends of higher prices for corn contend that prices being paid for future deliveries of hogs suggest 85c a bushel or upward is warranted on corn.

However, despite a reduction of more than half a billion bushels hi the 1930 corn crop as compared with last year, the receipts of corn at terminal markets since Nor. 1 aave been practically the same as in 1929. On the other hand, a good class of buying has generally sprung up heretofore on setbacks in the corn market, and commercial users of corn are reported as watchfully awaiting developments as to the crop movement daring "wintry weather. to regard to the wheat market, leading trade authorities say that he last of the big bearish factors his season will be in evidence within the next few the onset of the bulk of newly-harvested wheat from Argentina and Australia. Seasonable appetite for packing- louse products is given expression in higher prices on nearly the entire list.

ANNHSM Name 40 Boys And Girls To Honorary Position URBANA. ILL, CAP) Rewarded for their outstanding work, 40 Illinois farm boys and girls have been named 1930 state champions of the various farming and homemaking projects canted on by more than 20.000 4-H members of the state under direction of the extension service of the College Agriculture. University of Illinois. With the exception of three of the girls who are under the required age. all of the champions enjoyed free trips to the ninth National Boys' and Girls' 4-H club Congreaa held in connection with the Chicago tion.

International exposi- State champions in the boys' 4-H club projector ag named by I Pilchard, boys' club specialist oi the college, include. Llewellyn Ricks. Reddick. first year dairy: Earl Mays. Btoomington.

second year dairy; Betty Jane Rudy. Matioon third year dairy; Cyril HuHmg. Geneseo, beef; Frank Prell. Springfield, barrow; Clem Umdcii.stock. Mundelcin.

gilt; Selmar Ledmmi, tteasant Plains, aow and litter; Harold Blunter. Eureka, corn: Ro- wrt RengeL Bloommgton. lamer Montgomery. Grecnvicw, Irst year poultry; Ralph Taylor. Fairview.

year poultry: Bloomington. garden, and Gilbert Reimer. Chc.ster, alfalfa. Waneta and Sylvan Henry, MendoU. demonstration Marion Kiser.

Qutncy. health: Claude Cook, Frank Cun- and Paul Hawbcck Lanark, livestock judging team: Wil- UUBB aCacaioaw. individual livartotfc Judging; Bcftd Boyle. Donald McAllister and Wayne Chal- tand, Wattmfta. dairy Judging team; Claire Potter.

Pontiac. indi- dajrjr jadjfeK. Wilmrr Gkrdca. Html WttBaiM And waard Lawton. Ctaee, far eluo Mary UdKm.

the flrl-V 4-H fej eiub OBMH; Mama, slioft; Eleanor Knudson. Morris, foods; LouLse Anderson. Pontiac improvement: Lilah Kleckner and Marjorie Pepper. Rockford clothing Judging team; Elizabeth Chipman, Canton, first year clothing: and Dorothy Durham and Dorothy Shepherd. Harrisburg, demonstration team.

State Carries Off Many Of Prizes At Iowa Horticultural Show URBANA, ILL. lished herself as Illinois estab- the supreme apple growing commonwealth of the middla west when growers from the "corn and hog" state carried off seven of the ten sweepstakes and 123 lesser prizes in competition with 17 other states at the recent Mid-west Horticultural Exposition at Shcnandcfah. IBL, according to a- report by R. S. Marsh, horticulture extension specialist the College of Agriculture, University of Illinois.

Further honors were accorded Illinois when J. C. Blair, head of the horticulture department of the College of Agriculture, was re dectcd president of the American Pomological Society, which held, its annual meeting in connection with the exposition. Six of the severr sweepstakes prices won by Illinois apple growers were captured by E. L.

Walker. Pearl, Pike county. He won the award in the classes five best bushels, best barrel, best ten trays, best five boxes, best five crates and best peck basket of ipples. The sweepstakes prize on lest five trays also went to an jniinois exhibitor. Illinois growers.

In addition to Walker, who had entries at the exposition, included W. R. Soverhill. TWdlwa: S. W.

Hall. Griggsville: Arthur Foreman. Pittsfleld; L. W. Wise, Barry: Charles Sleep.

Hard- Frank Dirksmeyer, Hamburg; Harry Herron. Hardin: Louis Rlng- lausen. Hardin; Harry Rlnghausen. Hamburg; and Charles McDonald, Hardin. J.

H. Allison, farm adviser of Calhoun county, assisted the jrowers in his county in the selection and placing of their exhibits. Illinois' prominence as an apple- growing state which produces carloads in favorable years was brought before the exposition visitors by means of an exhibit sponsored by the Illinois State Horticultural Society and arranged by Marsh. Eleven bushels of apples were used in making a wail map niiaota, which formed the back ground of the exhibit. It also showed the prominent varieties grown in the state, the methods of packing the beat-known labels under which Illinois apples are sold.

Illinois another contrlbu- to the convention when four staff members before different sessions of were Professor chief in pomoloKicnl physiology. M. J. Dorsey, chief in pomoloyv and W. P.

Flint, cluef entomologist of Illinois Bute Natural History Survey. the meeting. They Blair. W. Ruth.

LIFETIME IN JAIL. l.fc. ever since he wa.t has -MX nt the most part in jail. captured after a robbery hero, it was revealed jthst 40 years oi h.s ife have been in various ont in England He is regarded as one of skillful thieves in the country He is an excellent JUtti and Greek student. After his recent escapade he was sentenced Tor two more years.

HE HAD EYEIIVTIIINO. HELENA: Oh, Jarfc. a strange ttiHHfd me while we were go- through that long tunnel JACK: Point him out cpa and I'll teaeh him a tteve you can- WOT CAMPBru. UM hat in CAMIHUHJL it PLAN FARMERS' ME FOR LANARK DEC. 1213 Offer Prises At 4 Club Corn Fine Program The Farmers' Institute will be held at the Lanark gymnasium Friday and Saturday, Dec.

12 and 13. It will start at 1:30 p. m. Friday and close Saturday evening. The woman's division of the institute wffl start Friday afternoon at 1:30.

The special talks and program will be given at the Lutheran church. Another feature of the two day get-together will be the 4-H club seed corn show. Chadwlck boys will be entered in this event and according to Prof. Gnagey, local agriculture instructor, should- 'Place among the winners. All entries must be in by Friday evening so that the Judges can do the scoring Saturday.

The members of the club may exhibit in more than one class, but they will have to exhibit different samples for each doss. The premiums, which am offered on yellow and white corn only, are as follows: Ten ear class: First $7, second $5 third $3. fourth $3.50. fifth $2. sixth to eighth $1, ninth to twelfth 50c.

Single ear contest: First $3, second $2, third $1. fourth to sixth 50c. Half bushel consisting df 55 ears: First $5. second $4. third $3, fourth $2.

fifth 1. sixth 50c. The program for the institute win be as follows: Men's Division Friday at 1:30 p. Lanark gymnasium. Music.

Lanark high school. Address, "Taxation and Problems of Adjustments," Frank S. Regan. on poultry. J.

H. Florea. Friday Evening, 7 p. m. Join session in gymnasium.

Music, Lanark quartet. Short talk. Mrs. W. S.

Wilmont. Music. Lanark quartet. Address, "Community Development, Dr. J.

L. Conger. Saturday The 4-H corn exhibit will be on display and Judged In the forenoon. .1:30 p. -Utility Types Agriculture club.

Talk. "Corn Types and Values of Seed Selection lor Consumption and Yield." Clare Golden. Report on "Variety Yield Tests" George Moris. Saturday Evening. 7 p.

m. Joint session at gymnasium. Appointment of nominating committee to select officers and directors for coming year. Election of ofliceri and announcements. VYoman'f Division Friday afternoon.

1:30 m. St-siion will ojxrn at. gymnasium. Special talks and programs will be heW at Lutheran church. Music, ladies' quartet.

Talk. "Hooked Rugs," Mrs Frank L. Mann. Discussion. Talk.

-Birds and Mrs. W. S. Wilmont. Discu-ssion.

Report, of delegates to state fair school Music. C. C. Circle. SatBTday Afternoon, 1:30 JJiuic.

Bates. Heading. Rev. Earl Edwards. Ducussion.

Tali, Gladys Protzman of the Home Institute. Cixicago C. C. Circle. demonstration on of Corn," Lanark Beth Howers.

Illustrated travel Frank TRACTOR CHEAPEST POWER, BAY FARMERS U.U.E8BVBO. ILL, (AP) Now- (the fodder's in the shock farmers have turned from field to forum to decide once more of tractor or hone. von out by uaanl- ef hut a totwwm Hoary county' on whether tno nS. 1 tar tha fanas The urnm ia la FOLIAGE SPRAYS Should Not Be Used When Humidity Is Tests Have Shown URBANA. ILL.

Seven years' work by the College Agriculture, University of Illinois to solve the problems of oil spray injury to treo fruits have brought out the suggestions that oil foliage sprays should be used with caution, that highly refined oils may not be a guarantee against injury, that the under sides of leaves should not be sprayed unless such spraying is essential for the control of Insects and that oil should not be applied when the humidity is very high. Victor W. Kelley. associate in pomology, who performed the experiments, reports the results in a new bulletin which the experiment station of the college has just published under the title. "Effect of Certain Hydrocarbon Oils on the Transpiration Rate of Some Deciduous Tree Most sprays under some conditions are harmful to the plants which they are designed to protect, but perhaps no spray material been so universally suspected of causing injury as has oil.

the bulletin points out. The subject has become of general Interest since the revival of the use of unsaturated oils in the dormant season for the control of scale Insects and the more recent use of saturated oils as insecticides or ovlcides during the growing season. All the oils tested retarded the transpiration rates of all toe species and varieties studied, the reduction being in many cases more than 50 percent and in a few Instances as high as 75 percent. Spray applied to the upper surface of the leaf had no effect upon transpiration, but when applied to the lower surface produced a marked retardation. Spraying both surfaces reduced the rate no more than spraying the lower surface only.

The reduction in transpiration was greater with older than with younger leaves. These comparisons were made between the terminal and bawl sections of the same The degree of retardation in transportation rose with the increase in concentration of the olL However, one-half of 1 percent, the lowest concentration used, caused definite decrease in rate. There was no constant significant difference between saturated highly refined and unsaturated oils in their effect upon transpiration. This suggests that the effect of the oil is physical, rather than chemical. ONE WAS ENOUGH.

ELYRIA. O. John and Sophia Boris were happily married. They went to their little love nest and Sophia prepared John a meal. John ate.lt and then went for a walk.

He never came back to his fair Sophia. She recently sued for divorce in ommon Pleas Court here. Best Judge The smile displayed by HanM Hofstrand, 15. of Churches K. ia bronchi on by the fact that Harold won first prise In tke non-collegiate cattle judging- eoatest for all the Internattoaal Livestock Show in Chicago.

scored 545 points oat of a psoMf 609. and won a $500 seholanhfe BEST FOR MICE Most Effective Way Getting Bodenti For URBANA. ILL. Mice now migrating into houses and other buildings where they will damage food, clothins; and other property can be cleaned out most efftctivel? with poisoned brut, according to a reiwrt to the College of Agriculture. University of Illinois by a.

C. Oderldrk. rodent specialist of the -Federal Biological Survey, cooperating with the Illinois State Natural History Survey. The bait recommended is made from powdered strychnine on rolled oats. bait can be used in the majority of infested buildings.

It is prepared by mixing 1-8 of an ounce of powdered strychnine and 1 Ublespoonful of common baking: soda with 1 quart of dry rolled oata. One-half teaspooniul of it is placed at intervals along the wan of a room. It should be scattered silently instead of placed in piles. "In granaries and similar pbteea where food is stored, the floor should first be swept before the bait is distributed. In bine containing grain, burlap sacks can to laid on top of the grain and the bait acatttted upon them.

"In houses, traps win xcmovw mice within a short time if carefully tended. Lack of sneceaa in trapping usually from the fact that too few traps are used. At least a half dozen should be sot in a room infested with mice. Small pieces of bacon, raisins, nutmeats, banana or cheese can be tied on or a pinch of rolled oat9 merely placed on the triggers of the traps. They should be placed along walls and near objects in the room where mice will come in contact with them.

If a number of traps are properly baited and tended, it requires but a few days to remove an infestation of mice." In 1928 the United States produced 508 471,300 tons of coal. Cattalo-Half Cow, Half Buffalo Is Developed As Meat In Canada; cow, not Buffalo raUalo hybrid asi- aial resulting Irom the CTOSA- fcreediiig of buffalo and domestic cattle, promises to become a reliable source of meat in-northern Canada whore domev.ic tattle, because severe climatic conditions, have ound it hard to Possessing of the ities oi both aiid buflalo. type animal has the melt ualitiev oft-bt-cf and like its borebears. hardy find own k-od cvta 1:1 tai The Utter is highly ble in i-attle for the tar north. By hutiuag Uieir food.

aio the labor t-r t-d- ng hay ail can left out to Jear thftr beooiainj; Joet la fccAvy snows. Ttip li thv cf government lo Mid winter, I involved a number of difficulties. I The buffalos showed a dislike for cows and ofttimes, when brcrdins; was successful, the calves bom dead, or males born were found to be sterile. Thij Jidiculy I ng into the picture an animal akin to both buflalo and Tills tho from he of Tibei. The yak acts as 1:1 the iirpyreai of The hUte of cattle Is 'A hat simllsr that of the lo It i.s haired and ble, a warm cover.

it th.ii UK- of this new wia be uaed to take the of robca which hawi almost became einuct during A of mtat is in ihe hump o( the of the of the (vrmcr not to proootmowl uast on YH ntsioz of out an Utt an tttal cmtUa mMaft, am. (Hnf.