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Show r THE RICH COUNTY REAPER, RANDOLPH, UTAH Some Scflfi THE RICH COUNTY REAPER Entered as second class matter Feb. 8. 1929 at the Post Office, Randolph, (Utah, under the Act of March 3, 1879. 91.50 Per Year in Advance. SUBSCRIPTION Wm. E. Marshall, Business Manager Layton Marshall, Editor and Proprietor ESi RJew Soil Fumigation Has Been Proven Sound Machine Application ; Successfully Tested By W. J. Dryden WNU Farm Editor While fumigation of the soil for n Ihe control ,of plant pests soil-bor- has been under- taken during the past 20 years, it is only recently that the practice be- comes of commercial importance. With the development of hand and drawn machines, it is now possible to fumigate the cold frame, hot bed or greenhouse soils as well as the garden or farm tract. There are several types of fumigant on the market such as Dowfume G, which is a mixture of methyl bromide and chlorinated hydrocarbons. It is highly toxic to nematodes (ellworms) and soil insects. The rapidity of action has also been improved. It will kill most nematodes in four hours of exposure and permit the HERBERT HOOVER HESITATED WASHINGTON. Secretary of Agriculture Clinton Anderson had a hard time at first persuading Herbert Hoover to come to Washington for the food conference. Anderson caught the at Key West, Fla., where he was fishing. Ive promised my family for seven years to take them fishing, Hoover told the secretary of agriculture, and now at last here I am. Anderson, however, emphasized the urgency of the food crisis. We need your experience and advice, Mr. President, he said. You can go back to your fishing immediately afterward. . But this is a time when your country needs you. Hoover finally consented to come. ... In 1936 there were desolated homes such as KANSAS SAHARA this around Liberal, Kansas. Pasture lands were ruined an grasshopnot a green pers aided drouth in destruction of crops. In thing was in sight. mid-summ- er ofl HDcocnilEn There wont TOPEKA, KANS. dust be a repetition of the 1934-3- 8 bowl" in Kansas, Texas and Oklahoma. At least thats what a lot of people out here say as they scoff at the U. S. department of agricultures report that another drouth is developing. Of course, if it doesnt rain for four years, itll go blowing again, Eck Brown, banker and rancher of Dalhart, Tex., admitted: but the soil is tied down now. The agriculture departments pessimistic prediction prodded a sore spot in the memories- of Sooners and Jayhawkers alike. Farmers - Many Sections Fearful Of New Dust Bowl in '46 BRICKBATS WIN ELECTIONS Two of the bitterest opponents on the house floor and in the inter- (A WNU News Feature) THE dust bowls rich land, after several good years, is dry state commerce committee are Rep- enough in some spots to take wings again. But whether it will or resentatives Clarence Brown, con- will not is the question. Millions of people would like to servative Republican of Blanches-te- r, know the answer before the soil starts moving. Ohio, and Vito Marcantonio, So there has been "a little American Laborite of New York blow far, out in western Kansas and some in Oklahoma 64-doll- ar -- $- City. Off the floor, however, the two respect each others ability and get along well. Sitting in the house lobby the other day they smilingly concluded an agreement which will probably never be carried out. They were talking about campaign expenses, when Brown proposed: Vito, Ive got a suggestion. Why dont we both cut our campaign expenses to the bone? Heres how to do it: You go into my district and make three speeches against me.' Call me a reactionary Hooverite, an isolationist, an economic royalist and anything else yon can think of. Thatll elect me. Then IU go into your district and make three speeches. Ill call you a Red, a Dago, a new dealer and an Horse or tractor drawn machine With the proper literature about developed for field fumigation. you in my district and file proper literature about me in district, successful seed planting ih two both of us are a cinchyour for days and most plants within four when we do that. days. Marcantonio agreed that the idea Application is made at staggered had merit, and they shook hands on injection points to depths of 5 it. inches. The surface is sealed by thoroughly soaking with water. Out- NAZIS REMAIN IN GERMANY A secret report on failure to door fumigation is practical wherever there is sufficient water availGermany has been made to able for soaking the surface after the war department, but is considered so shocking that it probably application. In many parts of the country, in- will be destroyed. It is now' in the festation of the soils by the root-kn- office of Brig. Gen. Frank A. nematodes is so extensive that Meade. The report shows complete many garden crops cannot be produced on otherwise desirable lands. failure to clean out This system of soil fumigation will Nazis. It also shows a surGerpermit the successful operation of prising number of such land. man laborers who have secre. taries and stenographers assigned to them. is one of the latest dodges to Improved Machinery getThis around the employment of Nazis Farm Welder by the American army. According to army rules, no former Nazi can new electric welder suitable for be employed in any job more imthan that of a laborer. rural power lines portant has just been re- Result is that many Nazis are used leased by the Lin- in important jobs, but listed on the That is why coln Electric com-- p books as laborer. are secretaries and they assigned a n y, Cleveland, stenographers. Ohio. These common laborers are It has a maxi- then in of put charge important mum input current of 35 amperes and manufacturing plants. The report now in the hands of the war departprovides a machine which meets the ment was made by the public safety and inspection division of military new NEMA standards for this type of government. It may never see the light of day. welder. Under weld-has ern practical electric HOW WYATT DID IT become a must. ing If there were more men like Housing Expediter Wilson Wyatt around. President Truman would have easHog Door Covering ier sailing. The other day in Chicago, Wyatt was guest speaker at a banquet of the National Association of home builders, 3,200 strong, all hostile, all prepared to boo at the man who proposed revolutionary building reforms in order to complete 3,000,000 homes in two years. As Wyatt arose, the atmosphere was charged with hostility. However, he told stories, explained his program, made no antagonistic statements. If you gentlemen are against this program, then you dont understand it, Wyatt said. Its my fault for not making it clear. After 45 minutes, having won over a considerable part of the audience, he stopped; Then for 45 minutes more he answered questions. Every inch of the way he fought for his By the use of burlap (B), this de- program of housing for vetvice will keep the cold out of file erans. hog house. The burlap is fastened Finally, when he finished, evat the top to the door frame and ery builder in the hnge dining at the bottom (A) to a 2 by 4. Th 2 room rose to his feet and by 4 is fastened to nothing but file cheered. burlap. anti-Rankini- te. v , de-Nazi- fy ot high-ranki- ng so-call- ed mod-farmin- Mea g, low-co- st - Oklahoma and its dry too. But no one who went through the black blizzards of a decade ago would fcompare this years storms with those years. Another dust bowl may develop, but conditions would have to grow a lot worse than they are now before I would climb out on a limb one with any such prediction, Kansas official has stated after snow and rain fell. The winter has been a dry one in all the old dust bowl states. Wheat made little growth in some areas. And the U. S. department of agriculture has reported that a new dust bowl appeared to be forming in the redlands district of. Kansas and Oklahoma. Some wheat damage has been re- ported at Pratt and Liberal, Kans., places Texas, and Kansas, a black market in wheat has sprung upi Latest figures show visible U. S. wheat to half, compared to a year ago. Millers are paying all the traffic will bear to keep their mills going. Newspaper editors in the wheat-land- s, who make it their business to know crop prospects, have made their own surveys. To a man they say not yet to the governments prediction. It is going to take a lot more dust and dry weather to scare some of those grizzled old farmers who weathered the worst 'nature had to offer in the 30s. Where does the dust come from? That is easy, say the editors: Oklahomans say it comes from Kansas; Jayhawkers say the dust plague originates in Oklahoma. The rivers arent very low yet, either, one Kansas citizen reported. Theyre a little too wet to plow and a little too muddy to drink. DWINDLED . . . The old dust-boof the 30s gradually dwindled until it was no more. There has been plenty of rain the last few years. wl were fighting then to hold title to their land in the depths of a depression, prices were low, and dry, powdery dust was piled in fence rows like snow drifts. The vagrant winds were swapping the farmers real estate like careless horse traders. The people out in this part of the nation dont like gloomy Gus predictions. Theyve seen drouth, grasshoppers, blizzards, and other plagues, but theyve managed to come through them all. A little Duster doesnt scare them, and rain always comes just 15 minutes before its too late! but recently snows and rains have improved the wheat lands west of Hutchinson. At Amarillo, Tex., Gene Howe, newspaper publisher, is optimistic, pointing out that conwv.yv.ww.w.y.:.'. .wa lyrsnditions are not yet critical, and spring snows and rains may end the threat of a drouth. Both farmers and the government combatted the tendency to plow up grasslands for planting .during World War n, as was done in World War I. The land is tied down better this time. Farmers have learned to plow and cultivate so as to leave more stubble to hold the soil. In some places in the old dust bowl there has been little or no moisture all winter, and undoubtedly wheat is in bad shape. Whether or not it will survive much longer BACK IN 1935 . . . Sand storms worked havoc in Oklahoma and other no one knows. Perhaps the fate of states. The above picture was taken in Western Oklahoma and plains in field the balance, many hangs shows drifts of sand around buildings on an abandoned farm. and not until late spring will the known. be verdict Even experts in the winter wheat belt differ widely in their opinions. Some say the wheat is already gone; others hold out for an 80 per cent yield. Still others think that rain any time within six weeks will give the fields new life. In 1945, sent delegations varying in number Wheat supplies are lower than for WASHINGTON, D. C. from one to nine. many years. Some of the mills are more than 170 engineers representweek. In a five 30 Through unified development of the visited working only days foreign countries ing United States for the purpose of such famous river valleys as the Yangtse, Euphrates, Tistudying reclamation and irrigation Ghanges, and it will be posgris Irrawaddy, projects, and they are now return- sible for surrounding areas to be ing to their native soil to begin work irrigated, and for the owner-natioon similar works in their own coun- to establish hydro-electrpower tries. production, flood control, municipal Heading the list is China, with 66 water supplies and improved naviengineers, while India follows with gation. In many cases the United States will send its own engineers 24, Australia with 11, and other nations famous for deserts abroad to assist these areas, inIran, The dry cycle PRATT, KANS. Syria and Afghanistan have terior officials said. Iraq, is here again just as Fred Reece predicted 11 years ago in an article in the Pratt Daily Tribune. Recently Fred dug out the old article he had written in 1934 under the title, Sun Spots. And then he The notion of giving worn-ou- t sat down and wrote another one, aculous. Five simple steps will in which he stated: farm land a rest cure has for- transform the average worn-ou- t pasIn my 1934 article I noted that tunately just about passed, says J. ture into a productive acreage in observations over almost a century C. Hackleman, professor of crops one or, at most, two years. The showed these increased sun spot extension at the University of Illi- steps are to test the soil and treat it with needed minerals, disc these outbreaks occurred at fairly regu- nois college of agriculture. Calcium leaches out of the soil, minerals thoroughly while preparlar intervals of about 11 years. Nobody knew why or if that rate would and every ton of beef, pork or ing a reasonably good seedbed, recontinue. But on the theory that mutton or milk produced on these seed with a mixture of legumes and it might continue, I ventured that pastures removes nitrogen, phos- grasses, control grazing for at least 1946 might find us in the midst of phorus, potassium and calcium or a year and clip weeds, giving the another series of dry years. That lime just as surely as does a crop legumes and grasses a chance. Because of an increase of cultiyear is here; the sun tornadoes are of corn, oats, wheat or hay, here, perhaps a bit late but they Hackleman says. In addition, as vated acreages during the war, a started their upsurge more than a these permanent pastures become greater acreage is now really year ago. Last years wheat crop less productive they provide less ready for legumes than before the was not much affected, probably be- cover, and the result is more loss war, Hackleman says. A majority cause we have learned to conserve through erosion, until on rolling pas- of the fields limed in recent years moisture. This years crop hangs in tures the present crop is largely have not yet grown a legume, he the balance between good subsoil weeds or unpalatable weed believes. Rock phosphate which was used moisture and a hot, dry, blowing grasses. But these worn pastures are not to the full extent of its availability surface. Maybe the memories of the dust bowl days of the 30s will hopeless, according to the crop spe- during the last war years will also enable you to guess the next two or cialist, and the response of most show up in improved alfalfa and of them to treatment is almost mir clover production. thre - China, Australia and Iran Plan Irrigation Projects Kansan Says He Predicted ns ic J)routh Cycle Wornout Land Needs Cultivation And Fertilizing to Regain Vigor t i i |