THUESDAY, AUGUST 8, 1935.
PIATTSMOUTH SEMI - WEEKLY JOUBNAL
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Cass County Farm
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Bureau Notes
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of County Agent Wainscott
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4-H'ers Prepare for State Fair.
Boys and Girls 4-H clubs are in
lull swing of activities preparatory
to state and county fair. Wendes
day, August 21st Is the time set for
the county elimination contests, In
demonstrations, health, style show
and home economics judging, and
will be held at the Farm Bureau of
fice in Weeping Water. Judging
work will begin at 9:30 a. m. and
continue until completed.
Each county may enter one boy
and one girl in the statl health con
test. Contestants must be 15 years
of age by December 1, 1935. Any
club members who will qualify as to
age and are interested in competing
in the contest should report at the
Farm Bureau office, Wednesday aft
ernoon, August 21st between the
hours of 1:30 and 4:00 p. m. for
physical examination.
A number of 4-H members within
the county interested in having a
county song group to sing at state
fair, met at the Nehawka school
house Wednesday evening, August
7th for try-outs. For the past sev
eral years the Seward county song
group has won top honors at state
fair. Cass county 4-H'ers should be
able to give them some strong com
petition. Come on, boys and girls,
let's show them we can sing as well
as herd baby beeves and swine around
the ring, or walk away with Judging
and demonstration honors.
LOANS Oil GRAIN
Sealed Under Farm Grain Storage Act
5 Int crest
Loans Due June 1, 1936
Make Your Application Thru, Either
Mr. Dan Switzer, Weeping Water
' Mr. Henry A. Tool, Murdock, or
SOUTH OMAHA
Production Credit Association
South Omaha, Nebraska,
CONSULT (US when ready to Buy
Cattle ' for Feed Lot or Pasture!
Many Women Enrolled
in Project Clubs.
New clubs continue to enroll for
Live-at-Home Series IV, the women's
project club work for 1935-36. To
date 43 clubs have filed their enroll
ment blanks for the fall, and two
more clubs which were organized
last year are expected to reorganize
soon. About 850 women are enrolled
in these clubs in Cass county.
New clubs to be enrolled this year
include the Clover Leaf Club, south
west of Weeping Water, The Louis
ville Project Club, and a club organ
ized this week northeast of Union.
The women enrolled in the latter
club formerly belonged to the Ex
tension Club in Union but the en
rollment became so large4they .found
it more convenient to organize an
other club.
The miscellaneous demonstrations
continue to meet with so much favor
that the 1935-36 program is planned
to include six different topics; with
one lesson on each topic, which are
as follows: (1) Vegetables, Vitamins
and Variety; (2) Suggestions for
Christmas Giving; (3) The Home
maker Entertains; (4) Flowers for
Every Yard; (5) Home Seedlework;
(6) Laundry Methods.
Enrollment blanks should be filed
with the Home Extension Agent by
August 15th. Any group of seven or
more women Interested In having a
project club should meet and elect of
ficers at once to be ready for the first
lesson which will be presented In
September.
Re-Organization of County
Wheat Control Association.
The district wheat production con
trol association meetings were held
July 30th in the respective districts.
All district chairmen were re-elected
for the coming year. They are: Dis
trict 1, E. H. Armstrong, Green
wood; District 2, S. C. Boyles, Alvo;
District 3, Wm. H. Rueter, Wabash;
District 4. Henry Ragoss, Louisville;
and District 5, Everett Spangler,
Murray.
The district chairmen met at the
Farm Bureau office Wednesday even
ing to re-organize the board of di
rectors for the association for 1935
3 6. The officers for the coming year
are: E. H. Armstrong, president; S.
C. Boyles, vice president; D. D. Wain
scott, secretary; Everett Spangler,
treasurer; and Wm. Rueter and
Henry Ragoss, allotment committee.
that neither the decision of the first
circuit court of appeals holding the
processing tax unconstitutional nor
any other attacks in court on the tax
and the adjustment administration
should cause farmers any hesitancy
about signing the new contract. New
amendments passed by both the sen
ate and the house specifically enact
the rates of processing tax, he said,
and signers will be fully protected
as to compensation for actual per
formance of compliance with the con
tract up to the time of termination.
"Even if an adverse decision by
he supreme court should materialize
at some future time," Davis declared,
"the contract In its present form is
admirably devised to protect both
farmers and the government."
W. II. Brokaw, state AAA admin
Istrator, this week said Nebraska is
"ready to go" on the new program
and hopes to have contracts in the
field at seeding time.
All 1935 signers who complied will
receive their benefit payment regard
less of whether or not they sign a
new contract. Some contract hold
ers have become confused regarding
the 1935 agreement. The new con
tract will be entirely separate.
Where Is Largest Elm Tree ?
The largest elm tree in Nebraska
discovered thus far is near Stroms
burg. It measures 162 inches in cir
cumference at four feet from the
ground.
Earl G. Maxwell, extension forester
at the College of Agriculture, is won
dering whether there is a larger elm
tree in Nebraska, when measured
four feet from the ground. If there
i3 such a tree in Cass county, notify
the Farm ' Bureau office at Weep
ing Water.
State Fair Livstock Entries
Must Be In by August 13th.
August 13 is the closing Gate for
entering livstock" at the state fair.
All 4-H clubs who expect to exhibit
at the state fair should fill out the
entry blanks and mail them to the
Farm Bureau office by August 13th.
During the four weeks remaining
before state fair, final preparatons
will be completed for demonstration
and judging teams. It is imperative
for all 4-H club members to attend
meetings regularly so that details
can be completed and practice sched
ules arranged suitable for those participating.
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one crop
New Wheat Program.
The new wheat adjustment
gram to replace the present
which expires with the year's
harvest has bee.n announced with the!
now contract following on the lines
worked out by producers and the
AAA ina conference of representative
wheat growers in Washington early
in July.
The new contract will cover a four
year period 1936-39 Inclusive, but
any grower will have the option of
withdrawal at the end of the first
two-year period. A 15 'reduction
from the base acreage will be asked
in 1936. Plantings in subsequent
years can be varied up or down with
in 25 percent maximum, according to
crop conditions. 1
Chester C. Davis, AAA administra
tor, said in announcing the program
Use Precaution in Canning
Beans, Peas and Corn.
If you put in the hot hours of niid
Eummer days canning fresh sweet
corn, beans, or peas, and then have
had to throw away precious quarts
of your product when you opened
some for dinner some fine day in win
ter, you know just how discouraied
one feels. The reason, nine times out
of ten is "faulty processing."
Dne of the fir;st precautions is be
careful not to gather more than you
can prepare and get into the cans Ji
an hour's time. Or if you do gather
more, be sure to spread them out so
that the dew or other moisture will
dry off before "flat sour" begins.
As we have stressed before, a steam
pressure cooker Is the only sure
method of processing to get the de
sired temperatures required for can
nine non-acid vegetables, but lack
ing a pressure cooker your only oth
er safe method is the hot water bath.
It may seem as if you could get tem
peratures high enough for anything
in an oven and you can get the air
in the oven up to 50 degrees. But the
food inside the cans goes little if any
above the boiling point, and may not
be even as hot as that at the center
of the can. So oven cannning for non
acid vegetables can not be relied on
to make them keep or make them
safe.
Even though you heated the food
thoroughly before it went into the
cans and packed It boiling hot, as the
Bureau of Home Economics advises
for all foods, and considers absolute
ly necessary for non-acid vegetables
even then, to be sure of killing the
bacteria and other organisms which
might cause food to spoil, you heat
the filled cans again. This final heat
ing of the food in the cais is called
processing. There are different ways
and periods for processing the dif
ferent fruits and vegetables. Inquire
at the Farm Bureau office for Farm
ers Bulletin No. 1471, "Canning
Fruits and Vegetables," for definite
information on processing. .
Stray Cats as
a Menace to the
Birds of Nation
Rev. H. A. HcKelvey Calls Attention
to Need for Protection for the
Birds That Save Crops.
There are today In the United
States of America 120,000,000 stray
cats, according to the estimates of
the International Cat Investigation
Society. Of the 130,000,000 Amer
icans not one is permitted to kill a
game bird without paying a license,
and then the number of birds are
limted, and the hunting season
short.
But 120,000,000 stray cats are al
lowed to bag as many as. they please,
and there is no closed season for these
four-footed prowlers to prevent them
from destroying game birds, song
birds and insect destroying birds.
The average stray cat kills on an
average of about sixty birds a year,
or an annual total of seven hundred
million birds a year in the United
States. Qual and pheasant are where
the most damage Is done, you can
see the staggering loss of our game
birds.
Dr. Hornaday one of the author
ities on bird conservation says, that
eacn woodpecker is worth 20 dollars
in cash, each nutthatch, chickadee,
and creer are worth $10. You
might as well cut down four good
sized trees and let them decay, as to
kill one woodpecker.
If these cats make an average kill
of sixty birds a year, and they were
all woodpeckers, one lone stray cat
destroys 1,200 dollars worth of prop
erty. Now one can easily see that
the cat is a very destructive animal
to have roving over the country de
stroying your best friends.
Now Mr. Farmer, when you have a
stray cat come to your home get rid
of it at once, and if you have a cat
that has an appetite for chickens
don't put it in a sack and carry it
away from home, the wise plan is to
cut its tail off Just behind the ears:
and that will stop its destructive life
to our game and song birds.
Our game laws work for the bene
fit of cats. The hunter is forbidden
to kill certain birds at any time,
game preserves from which he is
barred. No hunter would think of
killing the small birds In the nest
or killing, a whole covey of young
quail.
In a quail's crop that had been
killed by a wandering cat was found
48 potato bugs and 250 noxious weed
seed. These birds are of inestimable
value to the farmer.
According to an article carried in
the Omaha Bee about two years ago
said, If a child develops diptheria
it is treated at once and quarantined
so as not to spread the disease. There
are thousands of cats sick with dip
theria permitted to wander as they
please, transferring the microbes to
other cats and to human beings. They
spread tuberculosis, scarlet fever, in
fantile paralysis, and many other
contagious diseases.
Eentomologists have estimated that
insects yearly cause a loss of 700,,
000,000 dollars a year.
Were it not for the birds the loss
would be much greater, and without
the aid of the bird successful agri
culture would be impossible. A
knowledge of the birds that protect
your crops is necessary. Birds occupy
a unique position among the enemies
of insects. An unusual number of
grasshoppers In a given area soon at
tract the birds from a wide area, and
usually their visits cease only when
there are no more grasshoppers left
So also small rodents in a given
locality attracts the attention of
hawks and owls, and they soon re
duce the number of mice or other
small animals. We have birds of
beauty as well as sweet singers. How
we rejoice In the spring when we
hear the note of the robin. This bird
sometimes we hear people complain
about it eating a few cherries. If
we had no birds you would have no
cherries for yourself. He works for
you all summer, and then if he eats
a few cherries that is all the rent he
charges for his work. If he raises two
sets of young they will carry one
hundred pounds of bugs and worms
out of your garden i none season.
The sparrow family (not the Eng
lish sparrow) in a state like Iowa eat
875 tons of weed seed a year, if there
are two to every section of land. Some
idea of the value of the bird family
to the farmers of the country, in 1910
to value of the farm products was $8,
926,000,000, if we estimate that weed
seed consumed by the entire spur
row family was only 1 of the crop,
the sum saved by these birds in 1910
was $ 8 9,2 60,000. Every farmer
should make a study of birds and find
out which are harmful and which, are
useful.
The erroneous idea of hawks and
owls being destructive, and classed as
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robbers when they are the farmers
friend. The hawks work by z.7 and
the owls by night, giving you twen
ty-four hour service. As many as
100 grasshoppers have been found in
the stomach of a Swainsou hawk rep
resenting a single meal.
In the retreat of a pair of barn
owls there were found more than 3,-
000 skulls, the bulk consisting of
field mice, house mice, and common
rats, nearly a half bushel of skele
tons of pocket gophers were found
near a nest of these owls. No owl
should ever be killed, for they are
your friend, and work while you
sleep. There are three species of
hawks that should be shot on sight,
the Cooper hawk, the sharp shined
hawk and the goshawk. Every farm
er should know them by sight and
kill them, for they are robbers.
Every effort should be made to in
crease the number of our useful
birds by protecting them from their
enemies, providing nesting places for
them, furnishing food in the winter,
Then remember that the common
house cat destroys more birds than
all the other enemies the birds have
The cat without a home should be
put to death at sight.
Levinsky Stopped in First Round
VISITS AT COLUMBIA, MO.
Miss Olive Jones, long time li
brarian of this city, is enjoying her
vacation this summer at the home of
relatives at Columbia, Missouri,
where she departed Sunday. Miss
Jones will enjoy a' few weeks rest
and then return to resume 'aer work
as the faithful head of the city li
brary. The work of the library will
be in the hands of Miss Verna Leon
ard, assistant librarian, during the
absence of Miss Jones.
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Forgetting fast year's drought,
Cass county farmers are looking!
hopefully to the present season &o
produce bounteous crops. 1
King Levinsky is shown sitting' on ropes afJier asking Eeferee Norman McGarrity to stop
his bout with Joe Louis at Comiskey Park, in Chicago. Eeferee McGarrity is shown pointing Louis
to his corner. Two minutes and twenty-one seconds of the first round had elapsed when the King
sat down and said he had enough. Levinsky had been knocked down three times in the first round of
his contest with Louis, who still looms as the greatest heavyweight fighter the world has known in
many a year. An example of the speed with which International Illustrated News Service supplies
the Journal with pictures of important events -is-shown by the fact that this photo was air mailed and
special deliveried out of Chicago around midnight last night (the night of the fight) arriving here
this morning in time to be cast and appear in our Semi-Weekly issue, that goes to press at 10 a. m.
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