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Show SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1951 TIIE JOURNAL FARM TOPICS NEEDLECBAFT First Iron Lung Life of Farm Machinery Is Cut To Half by Exposure to Weather Saved Boy's Life Since farmers reduce by half the life of machinery left exposed to the weather through the winter months, according to a recent university survey, they will find it in their interest financially to replace old, inadequate and inefficient sheds d with modern, strucwell-planne- tures. The survey showed the life of equipment, housed and unhoused, as follows: Walking plows, 20 years or 15; cultivators 20 or eight; gang plows, 20 or 10; mowers, 12 or seven; corn planter, eight or four; binder, 12 or five; wagon, 24 or 19; and disk harrow, 15 or eight. No matter what the cost of build- - , v..- The picture above how one farmer houses his machinery in a modern structure. The life of machinery left exposed to weather is reduced by half, experts report. ing, it is always cheaper than ma- chinery, reports. an agricultural engineer No building on the farm will pay better dividends than the machinery shed. Typical of the modern type machinery building being used on many farms is the one pictured above. It is located on the Vincent Lilly farm near Rochester, . Minn. Its dimensions, 24 by 48 feet, and the absence of inside posts due to the arched roof construction, provide ample room for this farmers machinery. City People With Money Inflate Farm-Lan- d Market The agriculture department reports that city folks with money and worries about possible further shrinkage in its buying power are helping to inflate the farm-lan- d market. Many buyers are businessmen and investors who are seeking good farms as an investment hedge against inflation. As a result farm prices increased on a national average basis 3 per cent between July and November of last year. They now are 5 per cent above the rec- ord set in March, 1920. The department said land values advanced in all states. The east north central states showed the largest average gain for any region 8 per cent but the west north central, west south central and pacific regions were up 5 per cent. Average prices are higher than a year ago in all but thre states. Florida showed the largest gain--19 per cent largely because of favorable returns from citrus fruits and pasture lands. PATTERNS Square Lunch Cloth Filet-Croch- et CLASSIFIED Just 21 Years Ago NEW YORK Just 21 DEPARTMENT years ago mechanical cotraption played an important part in a hair raising drama of life and death. Since then it has become one of the greatest inventions for life saving in the United States. Can Hurt Bad Utensils The contraption was a Drinker Quality of Milk, Cream respirator, named after its inventMilk pails, milking machine con- or, Dr. Philip Drinker of the Harvard school of public health. The tainers, strainers or milk and cream cans often are the cause of poor public quickly dubbed it the iron quality milk and cream, according lung. Twenty-on- e years ago there was to dairy marketing specialists. only one in existence and its future Dairy utensils with open seams, was uncertain. No one knew if it rusty spots or rough surfaces caused could save human life by taking by dents, rough solder or milkstone over human BarThen breathing. cannot be properly cleaned. Bac- ret was stricken with polio. Hoyt teria thrive in these places because The youth was dying. He was small portions of milk or cream smothering to death, his breathing lodge in the crevices. muscles paralyzed. Physicians gave him half an hour or so to live. Dressmakers Tried With One Patient Attending Hoyt, then a Harvard university senior, was Dr. S. D. Dramer. Sometime before, Dr. Drinkers new machine had been tried on a polio patient, but the patient had died of pneumonia. Dr. Dramer decided that the iron lung was Hoyts only chance and began making telephone calls. Dr. Drinker rushed to a warehouse, got a taxicab, and raced to Peter Bent k Brigham hospital. Dr. W. L. of the Harvard poliomyelitis commission, hurried over from his office across the street to help set up the machine. Dr. Drinker arrived just as an ambulance brought in young Hoyt. He was barely breathing when he was put in the machine. The These 12 girls captured top prizes motor started and the pressure in the national clothing achieveneedle flickered. Pumps ment contest at the International gauge raised the air pressure inside the Livestock Exposition. Each won a airtight chamber in which Hoyt $300 scholarship for her skill. They lay. Air was forced gently from are, left to right: Arlene Olson, 18, his lungs. Then the pressure inside of Hartland, Minn. ; Bonnie Needier, the machine fell and air rushed 18, Hartford City, Ind.; Joan Engle, back into Hoyts lungs through his 18, Abilene, Kan.; Evelyn Waugh, nose and mouth. 17, White Plains, N. Y.; Mary Dick, Helped Thousands 17, Yukon, Okla.; Bettye Deen, 16, In a few moments the iron lung Jena, La.; Patricia Lynch, 17, Mom-baDolores was Md.; Hoyt Gaithersburg, pulsing rhythmically. 16, Las Cruces, N. M.; Nancy fell asleep, exhausted from the long Boyd, 16, Seedy, Tenn.; Dorthy hours of straining to make his Straus, 18, Johnson, Vt.; Wilma breathing muscles operate. He lay in the lung for four weeks. Beale, 17, Pomeroy, Wash.; and Dorothy Heideman, 17, Sheboygan The machine never faltered, but Dr. Falls. Wis. Drinker had his own anxious moments for the next few days and Cost of Accidents nights, wondering and worrying Accidents are costing the United whether it would keep on with its States $14,000 a minute around the life giving pulse. Hoyt was discharged from the clock, day in and day out. hospital and now lives with his family in Brookline, Mass., and BY works for an insurance firm. HAROLD Since then, iron lungs have saved ARNETT or helped thousands of victims of polio and respiratory diseases. The nation has a supply of some 3,650 iron lungs, ranging, from the Drinker type, made by several firms and costing $1,500 to d $2,000 each, to portable chest plates. a Ay-coc- 4-- H FARMS AND RANCHES 120 ACRES, Rl.lXlS., REA, 513.200. Used automatic Delco plant, 32 volts, motors, etc. Paul Moline, Benson, Minn. Buy U.S. Savings Bonds! "World's Cough Medication I" best-tasti- SMITH BROTHERS WU6H MW WM 7467 TJERES a real find! This filet- crochet square is su large that nine in heavy cotton make a stunlunch cloth! ning 60x60-inc- h Square is 13 inches in No. 50 cotton, 20 inches in heavy cotton. Pattern 7467; charts; directions. Send TWENTY CENTS in coins for this Publication! pattern to (Name of your Box 162. 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