The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1920-02-26
Farm Bureau Notes.

A great zeal VI Interest was taholA
last week in the demonstrations
held over the county on the poultry
and orchard spraying and pruning.
Now is the best time of all the year
to prune your fruit trees and begin
to get ready for the spraying that
should follow. Most farmers are, as
rule, too busy with other farm
work to look after their orchardo
properly in the season when thl
spraying should be done. but by TAX
ing time by the forelock and getting
everything ready now it will greatly
facilitate the work and enable you
to get il done at the proper time
and in proper manner. Now is
the proper time also to get your in
cubators and other hatchlng facl:-
ties as the early chicks are the ones,
that make the money and the good
breeders. If you are feeding your
flock for the production Of eggs be
sure and save some OF them for
setting purposes for the hens that
are laying now are the ones that
produce the greatest number or eggs
during the year; II selecting Tor an
eggs producing strain do not wait
and save eggs to set from the hers
that will be laying later as you will
be breeding down instead OF up for
egg production. A good "ation for
laying hens consists Of the follow
ing: cracked corn or whole corn, .
parts, oats 2 parts, wheat | part.
Throw this in litter for scratch feed.
For mash to be fed dry and should
be place before the hens all the
time: parts corn meal, part bran.
4 part middlings, | part beef scrap
or meat meal tankage.
A little sprOuted oats is great
egg producer if care it taken in the
feeding of same, be careful to not
feed sprouted oats that are moldy
and not TOO much that it Will throw
their digestive apparatus out OF or
der.
Many Inquiries have ONE to .he
office lately for bulletins on poultry
and fruit tree pruning and spraying
anu VIII say that we have a s5ood
supply of each and will Glady, send
what you wish if you will only let
Many people are butchering late
this spring and are wanting the SUI
gar cure recipe We are giving it
again herewith:
For each 100 pounds of meat 2
pounds of salt, ; pounds Of brown
sugar, 2 ounces of saltpeter, and .
gallons of water.
Mix salt. sugar and saltpeter TO-
gether very thoroughly, rub each
piece of meat with same and pack in
barrel skin side down except top
layer. Boil water, let cool, dissolve
balance of salt mixture in this and
be sure to have all meat covered
With the LIQUID . On ; the seventh t,1
over the meat and if not enough add
fresh brine prepared as before. Brine
need not be SO strong as first time.
On the Gath day repack the meat
for summer or remove and smoke.
Much trouble. is being experienced
by parties who have bought farms to
make settlement for same as money
has suddenly frightened up and those
who have bought and made a pay
mcnt down and expecting to sell
again soon at good advance have
failed to do SO and are of necessity
letting the farms thus bought go
back to original owners. Much diff
ficulty is being experienced by par
ties expecting loans also as the land
stock banks 10 close their books tor
further loans until the supreme
court renders the decision as it will
effect them very materially. The
federal land banks are still doing
business as before but can only loan
up to $40, 100000 on real estate to
any one individual. There is al
DDS of the two banks. federal land
hanks and Joint stock land banks.
that should be given some serious
thought by the farmer. The aSlta-
ton that is being made 10 have the
tax free feature OF the bonds OF
Joint stock land banks abolished OF
the banks themselves entirely done
contention. 1t is claimed that the
Joint stock land banks are making
great dividends for private capital
and are detrimental to the federal
land banks They charge slightly
higher rates of interest than the
federal land banks and since they
are not limeed as to the amount
tically all the business above $1O,-
10000. Their bonds are sold on
the market to eastern capitalists at
a premium for they are tax free and
furnish the capitalist a place where
he can invest his capitsl where he
can dodge the local and income tax.
They also do business where the cost
not really help the sections where
the loans are needed worst Both
of the banks are provided for amer
the federal legislation, and both
make amortzed loans, that is loans
spread over long periods OF time:
The main points seem to- be, that
with the Joint stock land banks pri-
which run from 91a per cent up
while the federal land banks turn
the profits back to the borrowers
themselves and it is made 70 pay a
part of your obligation. Which sys-
tenn will YOU support? What is your
attitude toward the federal loan sys--
tenn? These questions will depend
upon the stand taken by the borrow
ers themselves. The money that is
being rlaced upon farm loans at the
present time is tight for the reason
that the joint stock land banks are
tied cup by the supreme court de-
cision. the federal land banks can
only loan up to 100000. and the
insurance companies are not making
loans until the wave of sickness and
death sweeping over the country has
abated some what and they are sure
they will have the money to place.
The claim has been made that the /
mortgage banks themselves are re-
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