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Show Pace Six The Cache American. Lotran. Cache County, Utah hut Comfy Not Chic Conservation Practices Maintain Soils Productivity Prevention of Frodon, Replacement of Mineral Chief Kffort in Program This youngster of Bastogne baa to be a Rrau Brum-mrl-l. All he Is Interested In Is getting and keeping warm, so he If pern fectly happy wrapped In this outfit and oversize muffler furnished from relief quotas. no ambition band-me-dow- Wins Ski Tourney What will the American farmer do after the war? Will he be able to grow and market the huge record crops of wartime? Will his land stand up under the stress of huge crops year after year? Early surveys Indicate that the sturdy sons of the soil were already thinking out these problems In the midst of completing another amaz-Inrecord harvest of food and fiber last year, according to the War Food administration. Problems of volume of crops and adequate markets must await postwar developments, but both the American farmer and Uncle Sam are prepared to make necessary adjustments that will retain for the farmer the stability he has enjoyed during the w'ar. First on the list of rural postwar planning to maintain production are rest and rehabilitation of the nations soil, reports show. Despite care to preserve the land better than in World War I, continuous years of record production have taken their toll. But WFA points out that farming for war has clearly demonstrated the value of conservation practices as protection for the soil, as well as an aid to increased yield and higher quality crops. Acre yield in 1913 was 23 per cent greater than in 1935, the year before the government's conservation programs began to receive special emphasis. The 1914 harvest Indicates a probable acre yield 6 per cent more than last year, or about 29 per cent higher than the 1935 figure. More than half the entire land area of the United States Is in farms, a total of 1.0C0.852.000 acres. This includes cropland, rangeland and woodland. About 530.131,000 acres are available for crops. More and more farmers have learned to protect their land from erosion by contouring and terracing. They are replacing minerals and other soil nutrients depleted by constant cropping, and are using soil rebuilding crops and other conservation practices to protect and enrich the land. Boost Yield In Idaho. Out in Idaho, for example, on five acres of land where sweet clover was turned under, the per acre harvest of potatoes last year was 5,991 pounds greater than on the rest of the field where no green manure was used. Similarly, contour farming with Intertilled crops in the north central states raised the corn yield 5.3 to 12 bushels per acre, and in the southern states increased cotton yield 29 pounds per acre. In addition, this practice was reported to have resulted in a national saving of soil ranging from 1.5 tons to 126 tons per acre per year. Emphasis, during the war, of necessity has been on such better farming methods as would give immediate results in increased yield and be simple to put Into effect, WFA points out Postwar farming will turn its attention to the longer-rang- e practices, the more complex measures that may take additional labor and money, and a longer time to complete, but which bring more lasting returns and make for a better balance of land and use. Expansion of irrigation is expected to be one of the Important larger conservation practices which will receive additional emphasis, particularly in the far west states. So important is planned irrigation to the productivity of western farming, says WFA, that the irrigated area, which includes only about 3 per cent of the land In farms and 11 per cent of the cropland, pro- strip-croppin- g, Hd v iSiWoiii ' Lieut. Arthur Devlin, U. S. army air corps (left), and Merrill Barber pose together at the Bear Mountain Ski Championship tournament. Barber made a jump to take 139-fo- ot top honors. Lieutenant Devlin with 125 feet took second place. ' Wage Malaria War This warning by medical units of the 12th air force bomber base emphasizes malaria control on the island of Corsica. The swamps are sprayed from air and land and the newest control methods are put into practice. Nazis May Bomb U. S. Farming Took Most Wood From Forests Era of Agricultural Expansion Cut Volume 1$ f. ! fv'-- pre-ticte- la-tra- ' If 'fT I P . ! j V ' f'i v r w n ft. V'j 'v ' te r ' s 't - a ' Vi--' ,--Jl f ' I V 1 LIME SPREADING duces some 30 per cent of the crop income. One benefit of a and executed conservation program on a farm is that fewer acres need to be planted to produce the same size harvest taken on land farmed without conservation practices. This means that a farmer, by using the right practices for his land, can rest one acreage while producing on another, yet get the same amount of a crop that in days required planting of the entire acreage. In this way, all bis soil will be kept in tip-tocondition, he will get the crops he needs, and they will be of a higher quality and better nutritional value. Summer Fallow. Most successful farm plana In areas such as the Pacific Northwest and the western portion of the Great Plains include summer fallow as a regular part of the year's program, according to WFA. Experimental results in Oregon and Idaho show increases of 19.3 bushels and 19.1 bushels of wheat per acre, respectively, on fallow, compared to the return from land under continuous cropping. A group of West Virginia farmers reported that forage production increased 57 per cent on their farms from the application of a ton of ground limestone and 180 pounds of triple superphosphate per acre. At the same time, the protein content of the forage increased more than 40 per cent. Some 3,650,000 farms last year carried out one or more practices under the Agricultural Conservation program administered by AAA. A considerably larger number is estimated as participating in 1944. The success of these practices, as wartime measures, can be expected to influence not only these men but their neighbors as well In carrying out a postwar conservation pro- ..I "-v- ,K ly,K' TERRACING i d I R R I 6 A I 4Uq f V i v 4 . 'ro A A 6 iu r mJL . SttrJlJ Waste cuts timber value. well-planne- d p "GAY GADGETS" Associated Ntwppr By NANCY WNTJ Features PEPPER HOLD STEADY Even though the manpower abort-ag- e Is aente In high schools all over the country, were still getting reports on steady stuff from the department. They come wider the heading of vital statistic, of course. Tag Days Everybody's wearing those little leather edged luggage tags with the cellophane centers. If she wears a boy's picture In her tag you know besrts-and-flowe- rs shes going steady. If there's nothing In the tag but cellophane, shes an Orphan Annie. Boys wear them, too, carry-In-g out the same idea in reverse. Ticker Tape One stripe of adhesive tape on a boy's jacket or sweater sleeve means hes a wolf on the prowl, two stripes mean hes going steady, three stripes mean hes engaged. Is that the same as saying, Three Strikes and Hes Out. Half n Half When a boy gives his steady one of those handclasp friendship rings, he breaks it apart and keeps one half; she keeps the other. They wear them on their watch chains or ribbons. Little Boy Mother, is it true that an apple a day keeps the doctor away? Mother Yes, son. Little Boy Well, give me an epple, mother. I just threw a ball through tha doctors window. gram. TELEFACT 54 MILLION AT WORK (PERSONS 14 YEARS OF AGE AND OVER) Mac-Arthu- That New York and other cities will soon be targets for German d vbot tomb attacks has been by Kear Adm. Jonas H. C.G. AUartio Fleet. HE demands of agriculture hav played the largest role in reduc Ing forest acreage in the Umtet States, a survey by American For est Products industries discloses. A1 most twice as much timber has beer removed as existed when th original settlers arrived, althougl sizable stands of commercial fores yel remain. The apparent paradox oi I- ex-in- PHILADELPHIA. PA. The first American flag to fly over Japan a banner raised in 1853 by Commodore Matthew Perry may make a r. return visit with Gen. Douglas The board of trustees of the Atwater Kent museum, where the tattered relic ts now on display, are considering a proposal that it be sent to MacArthur to accompany him on his invasion of the land of the rising sun. ymjQ!gk ij DISC DOINS Whenever and wherever you get together the talk Is bound te turn to Raising Okra for Oil Seed phonograph records those wonderthat you cherish more May Be New Southern Crop ful waxes than your collection of Van Okra is emerging as something highly Johnson pictures. (And thats tall a of more than vegetable debatable cherishing.) Here are some of the merit, and is making a bid as a oldies that are rapidly becoming coloil for the south. crop major lectors items. If yon have em This plant belongs to the cotton bold on to em: Mlnuta Male- - Upi family. Its fruit is a pod, 6 to 10 FUNNY TO EVERYONE BUT inches long. Usually the pod is ME The Voice with By GABRIELLE Harry James. picked when green, before the seeds NUTCRACKER SUITE Freddy have set their oil. In dry okra pods, Martin. C. however. Dr. Julian Miller, STREET IN SINGAPORE Harry Louisiana State universitys noted James and Frankie. plant geneticist, discovered seeds OLD MAN RIVER-Ha- rry James. which produced abundant oil, equal DANCING IN THE DARK-A- rtie in food quality and wholesomeness Shaw. to cottonseed oil, and suitable also LADY BE GOOD Artie Shaw. for use as a drier in paint. ESTRELITA Harry James. In addition, the okra fiber is BOOGIE WOOGIE BUGLE BOY-Wo- ody long and tough, many have a place Herman. in making cordage. Both the fiber TAKE THE TRAIN The Duke. and the pithy material surrounding GREEN EYES Helen OConnel the seeds may prove a source of and J. D. cellulose similar to peanut hulls. Dr. Miller promptly began breedTRIXIE TEEN SAYS ing new varieties of okra, to be How do you No"? (That I mean is, harvested for seed, rather than to how do you reject an invitation to pitch be used as vegetables, has come woo? Two types of gals are bound to up with an okra which yields 1,000 lose out the ones who say Yes" too to 2,000 pounds of seed per acre, easily and the ones who flare up at the with the seed having an oil content very idea. Its the gal who says No note best and last four beauty of 18 to 22 per cent. This means with charm and tact who usually wins uld be glowing, courageous, the popularity contest. Remember, its Make it red! red for your okra may produce 180 to 440 pounds just as important to save your beaus oil a of acre, per production It against s, your cheeks, your fingertips. pride as it is to save your own reputa80 to 50 of of oil 1 be a lift for your spirits! pounds per acre tion that is, if you want him to call from cottonseed. you up again. ' Ledger Syndicate. WNU Features. Flag Raised Over Japan In 53 May Return 1 here & S4MA1ION 37.980000 NON WORK ESS EMPtOYEO p,Boo.oooi uNtMnono removing more timber than we had In the beginning, without exhausting the forests, is explained by th natural tendency of trees to repro LES PLETTNER By duct themselves, when harvestec properly. Nearly 60 per cent of our original ART forest and its subsequent growth hai We went Into an artists show. served no economic purpose. Mort With sister Emmeline; than 4H trillion board feet died fronc The finer thlnga of life te know. disease, Insects, windthrow and Ere passing te decline. other natural causes. Fire killed al We saw all kinds of trillion board feet, and art, most 1 In shapes distorted strange more than 2 trillion board feet wai And some would make the eyeballs cut to clear land for farming. Wood smart. waste in industrial operations acWhile some wonld core the mange. counted for only about Vt trillion Bnt finally we came te one feet It was a simple thing Thus, wood which disappeared A simple canvas deftly done from the national stockpile in 30C With verve and dash and swing. years, but which did not find useful It showed a cowboy on caynse. occupations, totaled I trillion, 71! Before a pasture bare. billion board feet more than ther Hed stopped to light a fag limbs was when Columbus first landed in loose the New World. By light of western stars. Of the 45 per cent removed for We said, By golly, this is great, fuel, the survey discloses, the great, It struck ns right and pat. est single drain has been caused by It went to our aorta straight the farmer, who cut for fuel, or Hit us where we were at. otherwise destroyed, more than 1 Our sister looked exceeding smart 100 billion board feet of mertrillion, Superior calm and cool. chantable timber. She said, Old top, It is not art. Of past or modern school. It is a mere photography. Unworthy of serious thought. An electric light and a tin can So dont stand there come on with with removable or stationary top me, makes a cheap And look at what yon onght! and easily conWe hombly, dutifully obeyed. structed egg can-dle- r. As always we have done, But In our mental gallry stayed When being can-dieThat one . . . and only one! the eggs are held in a slanting position with the large end against the hole through which the light Br PHYLLIS BELMONT passes. The egg is grasped by the small end, and while held between the thumb and the tips of the first two fingers it is given one or two quick turns on its long axis. This causes the contents of the egg to move and throws the yolk nearer the shell, allowing its condition to be more carefully observed. The fresher the eggs, the smaller the air space. Blood spots or other foreign matter can also be easily detected as can watery whites and yolks. The Rambling Rhymster Homemade Candler WUcd to do For a Smooth Ride Many girls are hostesses at USO dances and canteens and Service organizations. These girls are doing fine morale - building work and should be complimented on the effort they are making toward winning the war. Numberless soldiers and sailors have been cheered by the smile and interest of a hostess they have danced with and talked with. They have gone out of the country, to battle stations, cheered by the smile of the girl at the Stage Door Canteen. There are maiyr, many types of volunteer war work for young girls, and every girl should do something to help win the war roll bandages, spot airplanes, donate blood, work in any of the volunteer agencies or be hostess at the service clubs. Ledger Syndicate. WNU Features. Developed by a Monroe, Mich., manufacturer of 200,000 seats for army tanks, this tractor seat eliminates all jolts which cause injury and discomfort a postwar farmers must. Farm Value Up Stock of Truck Tires Drops to New Level The supply of heavy truck tires available for civtlian use in the first quarter of 1945 will be smaller than in any three months since the start of the war, and the number of passenger car tires will be too limited to provide for A card and less essential B card drivers, tire industry sources announced. TELEFACT 7 ARM RIAL ESTATI VALUC INCRIA5INO O0OO CHICAGO. r: )Q IQ oooooooi Ui Good Cows Pay A cow that produces it butterfat a year than four cows t00 pounds each. 600 pounds will net more that average only |