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Show THE RICH COUNTY NEWg. RANDOLPH, UTAH FARMER CAN MATERIALLY IMPROVE HIS HAY REVENUE BY CAREFUL PREPARATION HI!f VALUES OF DAIRY PRODUCTS .Leaders in Fight Against H. C. Judged From Economy and Nourishment Furnished. I Since the high cost of living is still a problem and since New York Is one of the two foremost dairy states of the union, the workers, in dairying and travel in a circle.- In buying a press (Prepared by the United States Department of Agriculture.) of this type the purchaser should pay Were it as easy and simple to save especial attention to the power mechhay when it rains as it is to make hay anism, the material used for Imporwhen old Sol has his blast furnaces tant parts of the press, size of the - home economics at the state college Ithaca, N. Y., are calling renewed at at- tention to the relative cheapness and high food values of dairy products. To eat these products Is to increase the prosperity of the state and to decrease the drain on the pocket-boobecause, the folks at Ithaca say, there is a double advantage to the New York housewife, from the viewpoint of economy and of nourishment, if she makes a larger use of them in the family diet. Not only do these foods contain the g substances needed by children, but they are among the recheapest foods of animal origin in content. lime and to protein spect cottage cheese Whole milk, skim-miland American Cheddar, or common store cheese, are good, cheap foodk and the workers at Cornell advocate their use. working to capacity, hay producing and, feed opening, plunger return device, g attachment, and convemarketing problems would, to a certain extent be simplified. To put a nience in tying the bales and in setgauge on the weather man and' to reg- ting and moving the press. ulate the amount of dew, rain and , The reversible lever type of press e sunshine served out during the hay- Is sometimes called the making season, would be the hay farm- press, since the team travels half a ers dream of Utopia. Although the circle, turns around, and pulls the hay raiser cannot cash in on any such lever to the other side, a charge of hay a vision, he can materially Improve being pressed for each half circle. This his hay revenue by more careful mar- type is easily portable and Is always ket preparation of his cash crop of ready for work, since it is not necesUncle Sam wants to help sary to take off the wheels or lower forage. every farmer to make the most of his them from the ground to the axle or surplus hay crop, and hence he has to stake the front end of the press, just published Farmers Bulletin 1049 It has a smaller hour capacity than ,, ", A which is replete in helpful hints and the continuous-trave- l press and re' i, .. to operat on why, te'tm when, a practical suggestions quires and how to bale hay and manage bal- it to capacity. ing crews. BETTER TO KEEP GOOD BULLS Large Growers Use Power. is graded according to the way to the matin of Hay and wfit-bualso, course, part and shippers growers RGufNIZED as the Nationhay uniLarge of Bales in which It is baled. ter of supply and demand. and bale large quantities of hay Farmer Sold Registered Holstein for al Motor Truck Developof form size and of neat, attractive ap1900 1S99 the to From population use power presses. These of fleet ment Tour," a $50 That Afterwards Proved to congenerally other the United States increased 21 per pearance bring top prices, in common use in sections where are Be Worth $5,000. unabout 20 trucks and paswhile ragged, ditions being equal, cent, and even with improved meththe usual practice is to bale hay from In senger cars is on a 3,000-mil- e are baling bales penalized. sightly ods In these days it was only possible are the windrow or the cock, such as the (Prepared by the United States Departjourney through six to increase the 'production of food hay for market, various practices un- alfalfa and Johnson grass and prairie ment of Agriculture.) middle western states. The followed some are are stuffs 10 per cent hence the in- in operation; South. certain farmer a few years of the AVhen a They sections the of enterprise, hay extra object consciously in order to avoid creased cost of living. sometimes used in preference to the ago sold his registered Holstein bull dewhich is the first of its followed are others while work, In 1880 70 per cent of the popultype on alfalfa and Johnson to his local butcher no records had to deceive the kind, is to demonstrate to the farmers on liberately with intent lived States the United of ation South and farms, even where the hay been made by any of the bulls North hay grass marof Illinois, Iowa, buyer, which tends to lower the for then was farms. It is the necessary Wisconsin comparatively small, say daughters. Within a year 11 of the in the bale irre- acreage Dakota, Minnesota and each farmer to produce only sufficient ket value of hay 50 to 75 acres, for the reason that daughters freshened at the ages of from varied uses of motor equipment In agspective of its actual quality. food for himself and a mere fraction Records were then will bale hay about twice as fast two .and three. riculture. Maj. Gen. Leonard Wood, The new department of agriculture they 70 over of another could be done with a Today family. madet of milk and butterfat producas it off from Chicago U S. A., started it various the types describes the tion, and to the astonishment of everyper cent of the population of the publication with an address on preparedness. Thetheir adapta- press, thereby greatly lessening bad body the average milk production was to due to United States lives in the densely pop- of hay presses, discusses of hay injury WOOP final demonstration Is set for Milwaubility and operation under differentn danger, ' ulated cities. Each farmer must proweather. 14,502 pounds and the average butter-fa- t kee. ' two adcutters, auditions, and gives detailed Informa-nCrenm ensilage separators, duce himself and for As power to drive hay presses, th' enough, balA naval band of 23 pieces under and production was 573 pounds. of concerning the management the like are connected with the ditional families In the United States, or self-pr- c steam Willson M. portable F. before these records were availBut engine, Lieut. of a command the One not crews. The question of owning and trucks engines and operated. taking Into consideration starving ing or pelling, has been almost entirely sq able the bull was dead and his hide is of work provides music alongM the way the baling Is equipped with a complete farm truck hiring press by the gasoline or kerosene had become leather. Because there to pro- Europe. helps to enlist recruits for the- Isnavy. rather fully considered, as It Is be- perseded With The power wagon manufacturers the lighting plant, and this is used a gas engine there Is no were no records, a $5,000 bull had engine. who Another incidental activity vide lights for a speakers stand and of America are face to lieved that many hay growers with for face the g and a Water haul- been sold for $50. The an record for need engine a motion picture would do well making of fact that it Is their duty to learn now hire custom balers union in current to project motion pictures. A few owners employ an engineer association tests the dams and daugher. adthe use of the to the consideration Experts figure that the farmers quickly the needs of the American to give careful when doing custom baling with a fast- ters, and the bull association makes Its commercial campaigns in South haulage and transportation problems farmer and produce and equip a ma- vantages that may accrue from havworking crew, because he keeps the enAmerica. are quite as Important right now as chine that will most efficiently and eco- ing a press on the farm. Discussed-PresseThirteen factories are represented the production of crops. This gine going and saves expensive loss oi s Types of Presses serve his needs. nomically part of the press crew. In the tour by one truck each all are divided Into three time onthethe motortruck development.- tour for crew is hired by the ton the of The States When United tires, with department pneumatic equipped is designed as a practical means of classes, according to the manner in men are not paid for time lost on acbox or loose speed, ease in handling, and reduction proving motortruck efficiency to the agriculture In 1918 made a very thorIs made which the bale break-dowand in such ough survey of truck operations In of wear and tear. In addition there American or continuous count of a people. presses, perpetual not often ema are gasofound thnt cases rural districts. the for truck engineers repairs, They is a service presses. These and round-bal- e Each manufacturer concerned In the the one of the press of hauls by motortruck presses, Usually ployed. length line tank truck, and several passenger run is horsefarmcither by machines are operated driving his truck to the 11.3 miles, as against 9 ' cars. crew looks after the engine when It redoor and demonstrating Its ability averaged ers power or by steam, gasoline or kero3.4 team the miles attention. On farms where and with that conducted by Is wagon; run The being sene engines. The perpetual press, quires to perform over every type of road v tractor is not recently organized National Assocla-- and under every condition in soft round trips were made per day with which is the most popular type in all tractors are used, if the work when it 1.5 round essential the motortruck other for needed against tlon of Truck Sales Managers,-whicmarsections where hay is grown for In other words, these build- fields. mobelt power advertisthe the to with ; bale team with the is that hay, time individual has decreed that ; that continuous ers are not merely proclaiming the' trips wheat and corn have been ket, features into the pressinga fork- press should ordinarily be used, since tortruck ing of any particular truck is taboo, are fed provpress, value of their commodity but to market at 15 cents per is, hay is costs less than the motor press, and W. F. Sturm is director general of ful at a time, and the finished bale Is it Its sturdiness and worth by actual transported ing ton 30 cents In as ton veteran a mile, it would not be good business to since per M. D. Scott, against s the tour and Purebred Bull, from the opposite end of demonstration. mile for wheat by team and 33 cents discharged motor press while a tractor a use the handling of motortruck convoys, the without stopping chamber on the bale the of need wagons The 'power per-tomile for corn by team. stands idle. It practicable to keep a bull until his will be the tour master. A. U. Kroh, press. If the hay is properly fed into farm is evidenced by the number aldiscussion is also given in daughters have been tested. These would indicate that in facts These Thorough who has had 14 years of practical farm to will be separate Amerithe press it easy ready owned and operated by to the im- two associations would have saved - experience, and spent some time in the can this covered the of miles publication and government time for point the bale into as many portions farmers. The potential market for the that bull. study of motorization of the farm, will motortrucks in the farm field has not motortruck is practically four times feeding as there are numbers of portant features of power presses, and and between the light-dut- y demonstration as and wagon. efficient the horse difference as hauling conduct the from varies which in Registration alone cannot guaranbale, the until recently been given appreciable And of course It Is self evident that charges y presses, the longevity of tee production. discuss motorization of the farm attention dairy Registered 6 or 8 to 15 or 20. The first box presses heavy-dutand builders truck the big by as well as facts about the hulls should be backed by good proto were before audiences of agriculturists and distributors. by hand, but now they the press, have put forth the time saved enables ofthe farmer operated They these of of A presses. economic more a representative operation preparation, are run by horsepower or by engines. perfect job townspeople. Without record duction records. no effort to supply this do depends, to backing they may be very well bred, each of the various State bankers as- practically The box press always makes bales hav- The capacity of the press skill need of motor- planting, cultivation and harvesting. the farmers but field, of the but there Is sociations along the way will confer ized The efficiency of motortrucks and ing the same or even length, a very a large extent, upon the nothing to prove It. help in the absence of man power It. The average power crew with bankers and truck dealers on the operating field of cars. of operatheir when he valuable broadening feature loading him to buy. forced has 30 tons 20 bedto more by the press should bale from financing of truck paper. Cots, Bound Bale a New Kind. Few' farmers will argue ngalnst the tions lias been Increased in a day. The capacity of a COVERING FOR CREAM CANS of pneumatic tires 'than ding and tents are carried to accomof development recent in most their One of types the the wagon of power, value nt. men 70 of under Inaverage conditions modate the personnel power press Kroh. ly anything that has come to the presses makes a cylindrical bale, bound is about twice that of a Great Part of Value Is Lost' if Product where hotel accommodations homes, says Official Lecturer In points years., with binding twine and having an air What they need is intelligent instruc- dustry ' are not available. Is Exposed to Sun While Bepress. Pneumatics materially Increase the space running lengthwise through Its lies tion as to size, power, body and tire life of the ing Hauled. Itinerary Jhe expeditions reduce and a of Press. so truck, Buying Economy operating and cost of operation. center. This press was designed .. e mile-ngthrough 80 of the most important cit-- equipment, bills and give much greater The advisability of buying a hay that hay baled from the windrow In The evolution in the methods of repairon A great part of the value of keeples and towns In the six states. gas and lubricating oil. They would cure out after it was baled, the press depends upon the amount of hand on from the farms nre made of these all stops cream cool on the farm and at the production virtually ing enable the truck and traction afford in the center being intended to hay to be baled yearly, the likelihood station or farmfor exhibitions of motorized planter, cultivator, the scythe and to negotiate mud, sand and snow on hole creamery is lost If the cream allow air to circulate through the bale of being able to obtain a crew when Is more modern machinery, to the direct rays of the sun ing equipment and addresses nt Farm- strike to the exposed riff ronds when solid tired trucks and not Is those rate bale ana This needed and the charged by prevent heating. etc., drawn by hauled from the farm to while ers' meetings, arranged for In advance. such as being Their not would cushioning operate. as easily torn apart as the continu- making a business of doing custom bal- the tractors was a of sale. Far too few people point Representatives of the department horses and later by Over increased speed. qualities permit necessary ing. Whether it will pay the grower to realize the importance of covof" agriculture, of state universities, perfectly natural trend of progress. rough roads this cushioning quality Is ously pressed bale, it being stop an whether with own or to chop a press depends upon to spilt It lengthwise as natural Is the evolution from ering their cream cans when bringing city and county officials and commer- Just the camel, the of Inestimable Importance when the ax or other edged Implement. When the total cost of baling, including la- them to town. cial and civic organizations along the the pack on the back, Expensive jacketed and live the stock damage round bales are fed In open bunks or bor, repairs, Interest and depreciation. vehicle shrinkage in coox cart, and the horse-draw- n cans are not a necessity to keep the Is proposed route, are giving active taken merchandise to are In perishable on rate the feed the Is less than the the lot, they charged by ground to the power wagon to solve the farmcream cool. In summer weather just operation in the venture. into consideration. not opened; the animal pulls out the custom baler. an ordinary piece of wet burlap thrown Every conceivable phase of the use ers haulage problems. The practice of baling hay directly over It is pneumatic tired trucks, there- hay by a mouthful at a time. It Is From 1850 to 1900, when the old cans will keep the temperature f gasoline motor power on the farm to or taken farm the cock windrow are claimed this the the of from that being way originated of the cream as much as 20 degrees feeding hand methods of farming were In fore, that Is being demonstrated as the opportu1h the semtartd West, where the weathvalues In America in- ers on this tour. Undoubtedly the hay prevents waste'. below what it would rise to if left unnity offers. Trucks go into plowed vogue, farm demonstration over every- type of perpetual presses, made er does not often Interfere with hay- covered while being transported over fields and haul grain from the thrasher creased from $4,000,000,000 to comes America are in reliable of farmer method has the This also concerns, by spread the average hauling distance. capable making. From 1900 to the present day, road that to the barn or elevator. Where' a ir. contact with and hauling every con turning out the- same kind of bates fo the alfalfa and Johnson grass land farmer has a load of cattle or pro- wrhen the more modern methods have as are made by the regulation two areas- of the South, where the weathbeen In vogue, farm values have in- ceivable type of merchandise produced duce to be hauled to town It Is the agricultural sections will go horse presses. They are designed for' er often is unfavorable: If IS popu DRYING UP COWS NEGLECTED in to from $20,000,000,000 creased effshow how for-hito just This Is due to the abil- far to eliminate any fear that may the farmer who has a small average lar because' if saves labor as comiciently it can be done. Accurate acrest in the ihinds of the farmers of hay, and they can be especially rec- pared with stacking or putting hay Some Animals Inclined to Keep Up counts of the expense Involved in each ity of the farmer to cultivate a wider still the motortruck Is not a sound ommended for the small hay grower into the barn For Instance, iff Kansas that and market more Heavy Milk Flow Until Calving extensively the acreage the farmer, is though case given In farm transportation. Is In a section where little hay and Nebraska If requires about 1 If he more Time Care Ik Needed. economy his advantageously commodity hauling is done free of charge. Is grown and where hay presses are man hours and: 1; horse hour to put' a scarce and hard to hire. The only ob- ton of hay into tlie' stack with a stack Some cows are Inclined to keep up -- The Suffra the Marquesa del jection to this type of press is its erpfter it has been brought to the the' heavy milk flow until calving small production a day. If the pros- stack with a push rake. The cost of time, and the dairyman is apt to negpective" purchaser is in doubt as to labor for stacking alone, during 1918, lect drying them up. Some cows dry How It Felt. not control of tlielr properwhich size to buy, it would probably was about PD cents a ton. This work themselves while pthers must be dried There has existed in Spain for near- men have a brawl in a Chicago resort be better in nor control of their children. There During ty feminist organized society a many instances for him is entirely eliminated1 wheti- hay. is up by the milkfer. Care must be taken a year ly Is at present almost no provision for an Irishman got poked In the eye with to buy the e baled from the field, the saving of la: or the udder! will be Injured. The press. The under the name of the Union of the the education of Spanish girls in any a stick, and he Immediately started press can be used to advantage bor being much greater in sections best practice is to cut off the grain Women of Spain. The society is workwom- class of society. proceedings against the offender. of if hay Is baled from the stack or barn where It Is customary to handle hay feed, giving no grain at all, and In ing for the education of Spanish Come, now, said the magistrate, lat a time when there is no Women of Spnin is of Union the economThe their urgent by hand. Growers are able to extend some cases giving less of other feeds. en, the Improvement the usual propaganda you: dont really believe he m.eant 2 td do other farm work. the season by baling part The cow should be milked only once peed' ic status, and the obtaining of private, worktng along , : branches and meet- put your eye out? continuous-tlines, them for or organizing The , of from their the windrow during a day for a few days, and then the rights hay and political clyil No, I dont, said the Celt.. 'but ravel, which men enjoy. ings, distributing literature and arpress is the type propitious weather and stacking or period lengthened until only once In perpetual equal to the ones Vt farther educational courses for wom- do believe he tried to put of horse press most extensively used. holding the baling until the rush of four or five days. This should be There is a great deal to be done along ranging wo en. The president of the society is In." mnrrled I. operating this machine the horses work Is over. since in kept up until the flow has entirely: Spain these lines ceased. k, self-feedin- half-circl- growth-promotin- well-traine- d two-hor- two-hor- . cow-testin- na-tlo- nal . h v. High-Clas- 10-ho- two-hor- s, . $20,000.-OQQiOO- One-hors- e, -- ciu--rie- Union of Women in Spain two-hors- one-hor- hay-maki- two-hors- e, full-circl- e, |