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Show Payson Hospital re-accredited mm January 3, 1974 "J 1 1 Dr. Robert J. Smith (left) and Smith present papers of Mormon Utah dairy fanner's success story Fog-shrouded New York held mystery and suspense for 18-year-old Alex Papageorge. It was 1911. He was small and wiry, strong and full of hope. He was tired from his long sea voyage and the crowded, noisy confusion of the ship. And he was filled with anticipation as he waited to go ashore the first step toward a reunion with two older brothers in a far off place called Utah. He landed in New York and, later, traveling across plains and mountains, he found his brothers waiting for him in Ogden, in the north country of this new state. He went to work for the railroad at first and then he and a cousin started up a candy-making candy-making business in Ogdea Alex had grown up on a farm in Greece and he wanted to be an American farmer. He rented a small acreage and bought a few grade milk cows and worked at two jobs, trying to make a go of both the confectionary and the farm. The farm won. He invested everything he had and everything he could borrow and all his time and energy in his farm. And slowly he prospered. When the Great Depression of 1929 hit the country Alex weathered the lean years between bet-ween 1933 and 1939, carefully managing the farm and his herd in order to keep financially solvent while much of the nation floundered and fell bankrupt. Two sons and two daughters came along and the prospects looked bright until an epidemic of Brucellosis, a dreaded cattle disease, galloped across America. It wiped out hundreds of cattle and dairy businesses and ruined the hopes of thousands including those of Alex. "We lost every animal on the farm but three cows," said Alex, who is now 80 and still wiry, still strong and full of energy. "We weren't down for good, though. We were able to come up again, better than before, with more knowledge and with more ideas. We started over, my family and I, and we won." He was standing with his son, Harry Papageorge, near the milking parlor on their dairy farm called Pappys Farm, five miles west of Ogden in the lap of Utah's giant towering mountains. moun-tains. Alov ic pptiroH nnw and his run sons, Harry and Jim, run the farm. But he stays close to the dairy operation and watches his sons carry on the work he started. "After the Brucellosis epidemic of 1939 and 1940, my father started over again with fine, registered Holsteins," said Harrv. "Of course, he couldn't buy very many at first He started slowly. But from 40 acres in 1924 and only 20 grade cows, we have built a farm of 120 acres and 183 registered Holsteins, 93 of them milk cows," said Harry. "When my father started Pappys Farm in 1940, he paid only a few hundred dollars for a good cow. Now we sometimes pay $5,000 for a superb Holstein. " "My father started this herd by buying only select animals, the best in the area. He went all over the country, attending stock shows and state fairs, and little by little increased the herd. "He finally reached the point in 1950 where he could sell some breeding stock, and over the last 20 years this has become an important product of Pappys Farm. ; "Selective breeding and careful buying have paid off. Now we have some of the best Springville, Dr. Oliver R. pioneer Jesse cattle in the business and customers come from all over the United States to buy from our herd." Most of those visiting the farm did not need to be told this. Most of them had read earlier that one of the family's Holstein bulls had been sold to a Japanese dairyman for $20,000. A mature Holstein cow weighs from 1,000 to 1,750 lbs. Some can even get as big as 2,100 lbs. The color is black and white or, in some rare cases, red and white. "There was a time when no solid color animal could be registered and no red animals allowed. Now, since four years ago, the only Holstein that can't be registered is a bull with a black foot or a pure white animal, which is rare," said Papageorge. "It is all right for a first generation female to have a black foot and the red color is now sought after," said Papageorge, who is an expert on Holstein registration and a member of the board of directors direc-tors of the Holstein-Friesian Association of America. He explained that originally Holsteins were red and white but that black and white was dominant and won out over the centuries. He said the red color is simply a genetic rarity. The average Holstein calf weighs about 80 to 110 lbs. at birth. A heifer, or young cow, is bred when it is about 15 to 20 months old and will freshen from 24 to 30 months of age. While some dairy herds are grazed on pasture land, the Pappys Farm herd is kept together in dry lots with loose housing which Papageorge explained means a concrete corral arrangement a fenced-in fenced-in area with dirt floor stalls covered daily with clean wood chips for the animals to lie down on. Completely automated feeder troughs at one end of the 11 concrete corrals furnish each animal with a daily diet of about 22 lbs. of alfalfa hay, 25 lbs. of corn silage, 18 lbs. of 14 percent protein grain and, depending on the temperature, 25 to 60 gallons of water every day! Papageorge, who milked his first cow when he was 10, said he and his brother and three young men do most of the work on the dairy farm, getting up before 4:30 a.m. for the first milking and then working through the day, through the 4:30 p.m. milking and on into the evening. "It's a good 14 or 15-hour day. You really have to love it," said the 29-year-old Papageorge with a smile. "All the Holsteins here are different in one way or another. They become part of the family after awhile and sometimes we hate to lose a particular cow or bull we've grown that fond of them." The entire herd's production per day, from two milkings, is about 4,200 lbs. of whole milk the Pappys Farm herd producing at the top or near the top in Utah in total pounds and butterfat content every year. Papageorge explained that his ' cows are brought to the holding . pens outside the milking parlor twice a day and come inside one by one. The parlor can ac-1 commodate six cows at a time. The milk that comes from each cow goes directly into stainless steel pipes and travels about 20 feet to another room and into a 1,250-gallon refrigerated stainless steel storage tank that keeps the milk at 40 degrees. The tank is emptied emp-tied and sanitized every other day. "When the milk leaves the cow Utah 84663 N. Smith to Dennis Rowley, BYU manuscript librarian. inspiration for others it is 98.6 degrees, just the same body temperature as a human. It is filtered and then, just minutes later, is cooled to the 40-degree level." Papageorge said an average cow gives 25 lbs. of milk at each milking, but a top performer may give as much as 50 lbs. of milk each time, or 100 lbs. a day. "Milk production is not steady," Papageorge said, explaining that top production is reached usually in April, May and June with the losest production in the hot summer months of July, August and September. He said cold causes a decrease in production, too, especially when temperatures get down to 20 below. Wind is also hard on the huge cows, he said, and explained that during the winter months cows eat proportionally more in order to maintain body temperatures. The dairy farm is inspected once a month by the Ogden City Health Department and at least once and sometimes twice a year by the State Department and at least once and sometimes twice a year by the State Department of Agriculture and the United States Department of Agriculture. Pappys Farm milk, all of it Grade A, is sold to a dairy cooperative, Federated Dairies in Ogden. It averages 3.6 to 4.2 percent butterfat. Papageorge explained that the many jobs around the farm especially cultivating the 70 acres of corn silage and the 35 acres of wheat and barley takes 3 tractors, 3 trucks and a pickup, and a host of farm implements, im-plements, including plows, cultivators, harrows, disks, corn and grain planters, choppers and harvesters. He said the farm uses about 300 gallons of gasoline a month and about 300 gallons of diese! fuel a month. Papageorge explained that he and his brother, Jim, share equally the work on the farm with his brother operating the farm's feed production, the veterinary work, mechanical duties and overseeing the morning milking. Harry takes charge of the afternoon milking, the breeding end of the farm and merchandising. mer-chandising. Harry and his wife, Helen, manage the cattle records, and Jim's wife, Kay, takes care of the farm bookkeeping records. "It's really a family affair everybody big enough to work gets a job to do." Also employed on the farm are Jim's son, Alex, 15; the brothers' sister's boy, George, 15; and a neighbor boy, Duane Johnston, 17. "Jim's daughter, Christina, 14, also helps out where she can. My three children, Ted, 6; Anna Maria, 5 and a two-month-old baby, Pipena, will get their jobs as they grow into them," Papageorge said, smiling. The farm's founder, Alex, and his wife, Anastasia, also live on the farm next to their sons' and daughters' homes. A second daughter lives with her husband in Washington. "I really believe in a family farm," said Harry. "Some people say they are going out of style, that big corporations are taking over with giant farms. "We love the farm and the land. We know what we are doing and we are here on the farm doing not a hundred miles away telling others, less experienced, how we think it ought to be done and then hoping they do it ' "We put in 14, and sometimes-20-hour days if need be, because Section Two BYU Library to keep papers of Jesse Smith The personal and official papers of Jesse N. Smith (1834-1906) (1834-1906) a Utah pioneer of 1847, were donated to the J. Reuben Clark Library at Brigham Young University this week. The papers were presented to Dennis Rowley, manuscript librarian, by Dr. Oliver R. Smith and Dr. Robert J. Smith, both BYU faculty members and officers of-ficers of the Jesse N. Smith Family Association. The materials are gifts of the sons and daughters of Jesse N. Smith: Hyrum Smith, Salt Lake City (deceased), Mrs. Lorana Smith Broadbent, Salt Lake City; and Mrs. Natalia Smith Farr and Mrs. Myrtle Smith Blocker, Mesa, Ariz. The youngest cousin of the Mormon prophet-founder Joseph Smith Jr., Jesse N. Smith settled in Parowan. we want to, because it is necessary and because it is part of our whole philosophy of life. We're dairy farmers and we like it." jjllllBlijj JJ ' Standing beside one of his giant Holstein bulls, Harry Papageorge, of Pappys Farm near Ogden, one of the state's top experts in Holstein cattle and dairy farming, shows off some of the fine points of the animal to a group of visitors. Thousands come each year to see the farm and discuss farming with Papageorge, a member of GET AN EYEFUL . . . improve your vision! Reading the Springville Herald puts the local news in sharp focus. Gives you a broader view of events, a better perspective pers-pective on current events, public affairs, science, health a thousand things! Every page you turn to improves your vision because we keep on improving our pages! It was recently announced by Harold Harmer, administrator of Payson Hospital, that the hospital has been fully accredited ac-credited for another period of two years. The hospital was surveyed in August 31 and September 4 by a survey team from the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Hospitals with headquarters in Chicago, 111. Harmer said that when a hospital has received accreditation ac-creditation it has voluntarily chosen to strive for high standards stan-dards for rendering care and delivering services, standards above the legal minimum requirements; it offers each patient an environment conductive con-ductive to care and services of high quality and staff and personnel well qualified to provide such care. It has responded to its obligation of accountability to the community for providing the best care possible. Also it assists in raising the level of professional performances per-formances in the hospital and encourages continuing professional education; provides incentive for the continual upgrading of the quality of care -rendered by the hospital. Accreditation is evidence that the hospital observes the right and dignity of every person it serves. Harmer continued that an accredited hospital must have a given governing body composed of individuals responsible to the patients in the hospital and to the community it serves; a chief executive officer skilled in the affairs of the faculty and is qualified by education or experience ex-perience to direct the facility's day by day activities. I f I I ' .-AS I II 1 A I II J ?' I I M Niel Whiting of Springville (right) Tim- conservation panogoes Soil Conservation District chairman, West Provo. presents the annual award for outstanding Outstanding SCD at annual winter The Timpanogos Soil Conservation Con-servation District has named Hal and Lewis Scott of West Provo Outstanding Conservation Farmers for 1973. the Utah Dairy Commission and a director of the Holstein-Friesian Association of America. This giant pure-bred Holstein bull in one of a herd of 183 Holsteins at the farm, 93 of them dairy cows and producing annually some of the richest and finest milk in the nation. hK Spruit net J O K lutm r j " aef Retiring wn U ey ; members rep1 V V HiitlMlHll I ' X . 0 farmers named convention Hal and Lewis were honored at the Utah Association of Soil Conservation Districts annual meeting in Salt Lake City this month. Each year Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company assists all soil conservation districts in the nation in presenting awards to outstanding farmers. Niel Whiting, Timpanogos SCD Chairman, said, "Hal and Lewis were selected because of their continued application of sound conservation practices on the land." The Scotts started farming in 1939 when they purchased the farm from their father. They have been active cooperators with the Timpanogos SCD since 1950. Presently they are operating 200 acres and milking 40 head of dairy cattle. Hal has been active in many farm organizations and has served on the ASCS County Committee for ten years. He is married and has four children. Lewis has retired from full time farming but still takes an active part in the management of the operation. The Scotts stated that under today's economic conditions farmers cannot afford to operate without good conservation practices being applied to the land. Widespread rubella immunization im-munization of children, 1 through 12, has led to a dramatic downturn in the number of birth defects caused by the disease, reports the March of Dimes. -7 it , rf. r - 1-1 farmers, Hal and Lewis Scott of Hal is on the left UTAH EASTER SEAL SOCIETY 4868 So. Stat Murray, Utah will help in so many wayt! v helps the handicapped handi-capped 365 days every year! FREE HOME HKMMT SAFETY CHECKLIST! Aliens required to file reports Officer in Charge, Gerald D. Fasbender, immigration and naturalization service office at Salt Lake City, stated that during the coming month of January, aliens will be required to submit the annual address report. All aliens with few excestions. who are in the United States on January 1 of each year must report their address before the end of the month. The following classes are exempt from this requirement: (1) accredited diplomats and (2) persons accredited to certain international organizations. Alien address report forms are available at immigration and naturalization service offices and at the post offices. Mr. Fasbender also advised that the law provides penalties for failure to comply with the reporting requirements. J |