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Show PAT THE DEPARTMENT f OF AGRICULTURE I IS DOING ft II HKGVIiATINU MVK J stock surriiY 8 To legulate the supply of live f ftock according (o the demand and Keep an oven flow onto the market Is (he one big problem of the fanners in Indiana and of states In the corn 1 telt, according to the Indiana field agent of the United States Department Depart-ment of Agriculture. To accomplish this a schedule has been piepared by i the field agent In cooperation with the Indiana Federation of Farmers' ascoclatlons, and a meeting of the JoiTTtclzatlon was held In every township town-ship in the slate on March 31 to supply Infoi matlon to the ofltcers or .the federation. This will enable them fQj. advise the farmers In regard to rnelr feeding plans for the future. The schedule asks for the numbets I of rattle, sheep and swlue on farms yfJannaiy 1, 1920; the number of ipbirths and tho number brought onto the friiis during the quarter for feeding; feed-ing; the number sold, the number slaughtcivd and the number of deaths on the farms during the quarter; quar-ter; the number of females' on hand for bleeding purposes and the number num-ber of all stock on hand for feeding the number that will bo fliilshsed dining tho succeeding 90 days, the approximate date they will bo leady for maiket and about the aveiage weight per head. At this time there ao no tatlstlcal data available to tho fanneis that will cnblo them successfully to plan their feeding piojects to avoid a glut .on the market at ceitaln peilods with eduction In prices. Ihit with t ho Information In-formation now lo bo gatheied and tabulated In ten day peilods, by the counties and shipping points, tho officers of-ficers of tho federation can legulate the flow of meat animals to maiket to such nn extent that armors, when they buy their feeder stock, will be suie of a fair profit when' it is fully finished and ready for the market. The lack or stability in the live stoctt maikels has caused tho farmeis to lose thousands of dollais, and every member of the oiganlzatton were urged lo be present at his township meeting and fill out a schedule for his farm. It Is fully expected that 50,000 to 60,000 repoitg will be in the hands of the officers and tabulated tabulat-ed b- the middle of April. KKJHTV-SKVKX KAItTII-QUAKKS KAItTII-QUAKKS I.V 1919 Though the geneial public may nt be aware of the fact, the United States usually excellences. fiom 100 to 200 earthquakes each year. Thli is shown by lepoils sent to the Weather Bureau, United States Department De-partment of Agilcultuie, from tho large number of stations which it maintains in various parts of the count i y and from Its voluntaiy coop-erators coop-erators who send in notices of eaitli-quakes eaitli-quakes observed In their respective localities. The number of disturbances disturbanc-es Inst ear was 87 and the number reported tho previous ear was 127. A veiy large propoitlon of these, of course, are Rllgfht as to be entlic-ly entlic-ly unnoticed gy the public. On the Pacific coast slight earth trcmois au of sulllclent ficquency to cause no comment whatever. Tho majority of quakes icpoitcd arc fiom that region. re-gion. One smpilHlng fact huvvevci shown by tho summaiy of tirthqu:iko it-ports it-ports for 1919, which has recently been piepnied Is that moio tlinu a ecoie of thseo dlstuibances occuired In the Mississippi valley. Tin" leglou coiupi IsIiik Houthem Illinois, toutl: ei u Indiana, western Kentuckq, unci western Tennessee experienced twenty twen-ty quakes, while one was recorded In noitheastern Mlssouit, two Immediately Immedi-ately south of Wichita, Kan., and ono in Washington, D. C. Many dlstuib-ances dlstuib-ances In tho total number reported would hvo wholly escaped attention hut for tho seismographs, which are so delicate that tho usually detect a violent shock, no matter In what part of the w oi.ld It occuis. PLANT KXSlliAfiK conx KAIUJKK Planting of ensllapo corn Inst,. In-stead In-stead xC.flitil, is an expejislvo mis-take mis-take veiy generally mado JnMho not them portions of the United States, according to specialists of the United States Department of.Agilcul-ture, of.Agilcul-ture, who lccommeud that strong germinating seed of ensilage varle-tfes varle-tfes from legions rartlicr south bo planted two or threo weeks eatllei than the home giown seed which Is planted for grain pioduc'tlon. Such a planting piogtam wotks to the decided de-cided benefit of dalrjmen and other growers of ensilage comln the noith-Irn noith-Irn states. I When laige vnletlea of cnillago from as far poutli as Vliglula or Mls- so'uil, for example, aie planted In ic-gfons ic-gfons farther north lnte In Mny, they make a rapid, long Jointed, tender, succulent giowth, and arc so gieen when fall fiosts coino that they are heavy to handle, low In feeding value val-ue and make ensilage which Is sloppy nnd too sour. Hut when planted In April or very eaily In May, they mako a slower, hardlci giowth; they better withstand ..sptlng fiosts 'and glimmer droughts, reach bettor in.i-tuiliy in.i-tuiliy nd pioltice moio gialn than when planted lahu. Pall frosts, not spring fiosts, nro most to be feared. I'nily matttilng, homo grown viule-ties viule-ties do not need such eaily planting and will not bo benefitted In tho way that laigo cnsllngo vniictles arc. Tho latter, though' sbmewhnt dvvaifed by early planting, mako ample stalk giowth and leld moio and llpM' grain nnd make richer and sweetei ensilage. " The early planting supplies sup-plies the age necessary for matin lug and repioductlon. lteproductlnn Is, In this case, main pioductlon. In growing ensilage ciops In tho north ,ond should Judge tho ciop by Its feeding value, not by Its height oi weight or the amount of labor ne-cesary ne-cesary to silo It. Karly cultivation pas as It diles and waimR the soil euiface. If the toll remains wet, It stays cold and the joung coin can grow, wheieas stiriine causes the suifacc to diy rapidly, after which It will absorb heat and feel waini on tho hand a condition t.tvotahle to good giowth. |