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Show SOUTH C 'THE COURIER Immense Task of Soil Rebuilding Faces Managers of Nations Six Million Farms Youthful Preacher Soon Had Them All at Sea! Asked to address a mission to seamen, a young preacher thought to add point to his remarks by drawing illustrations from the sea. He spoke of the captain at wits' end navigating his ship through a twisting channel abounding ia swift currents and rocks..Washington, D. C. Ultimately, to the captains deLATEST ON CIVHJAN GOODS his ship was driven on a The Truman committee is about spair, and the bank, preacher, now thorto issue a report which will be good worked up, exclaimed draoughly news to manufacturers, to say nothshall we do What matically: ing of the housewife who has been now? rescrimping along with a worn-oGoodness knows, said an old frigerator, no washing machine and sailor who had been listening an electric iron that blows out fuses. For the last 15 min-itThe Truman committee will recdrivin stern forebeen yeve ommend that the War Production most I board go much further than the army has been willing in restoring Harvested crops rank text in depleting the soil and are- in normal years responsible for taking out an Robert Ripley' exploiter reports additional 4,600,000 tons of nitrogen, that Ripley is the researcher on it 700,000 tons of phosphorus and 3,200,-00- 0 . . . That Herr Goerings first name, tons of potash. Herman, came from a Jewish docNearly a third of the fertile toptor, Herman Eppstein, of Tyrol, Aussoil of American farms has been tria . . . Goerings father was GovAmerican farmers face the lost due to erosion, floods and the ernor of German East Africa. A most gigantic soil rebuilding damaging effects of overcropping, widower, who couldnt take along his in all history when World job according to a statement Issued by Infant son so he boarded him with War II is fought to a successthe Middle West Soil Improvement Dr, Eppstein . . , The physician Committee. raised the boy sent him through ful conclusion. Six Inches of Topsoil. That is the considered opinschool in Bavaria and paid the tui"A century and a half ago, says, tion until he graduated as a lieuten- -' ion of farm economists, soil the statement, there was an averant . . . Dr. Eppstein passed on in conservation experts and age of nine inches of topsoil spread production of civilian goods. The 1935 . . . No. 2 Nazi Goerlng atof state leading agronomists over the entire United States. To- - committee tended the funeral . . . When he will not urge anything colleges throughentered the synagogue, he paused agricultural near unlimited production, but it out the country. will point out the following imporat the door and asked if he should What this job will cost, no one wear or remove his hat . . . Ripley knows tant facts: yet, but it will be consider-abl- y adds: In case you didn't know, the (1) War contracts are being canabove the 250 to 300 million dolname Winchell in German means lar celled at an increasing rate. The expenditure farmers have been divining rod, the instrument that de making for fertilizer in recent years. war department cancelled 10 biltects the truth. lions in contracts as of January 31, Virtually all of the nations 6,00,000 bilwhile the navy cancelled 2 farms will need serious attention. In the foyer of the Barberry Room lions up to February 5. This means Two major reasons are cited by more factories and more men availthe other night Raymond Paige took soil experts for this situation: A corporal notio 1 able for civilian production. this snapshot Wartime crop goals necessary to produce foodstuffs, meat, daiing a colonel losing one of his eagles (2) Tremendous stockpiles of steel meekly offered to pin it back . and other materials have been acry products, oil and fiber crops "Thanks, for victory, are eating up the grumped the colonel, cumulated far more than can be "the damb things catch on everysoils resources of nitrogen, used for the war. Already alumithing. num plants with a capacity of a phosphorus and potash much n "Gee, sir, was the reply, "I wish faster than they can be replaced pounds a year have been I had your troubles! to correct this must closed because the supply of alutoday. Steps ' be taken immediately the war minum is so great. crisis is over. Bigtown Marais: At about 8:30 (3) The military was slow in cure the other Monday night (during a 2 The job of soil contailing civilian production. Now it servation must be stepped up. is slow in letting the country get heavy rainstorm) a packed Amstere dam Avenue trolley stopped at 128th operations can be postback to civilian production. poned no longer. The fifth colStreet. The conductor got out went Therefore, the Truman committee umn attacks of erosion are beto a bar and grill ordered two sandrecommends that while we cannot An aerial view of a large Georgia farm on which several soil conserwiches and a beer while the pascoming more menacingly serie soon resume civilian proous. Wasteful 20 . . . The minutes vation methods are nsed. In the upper part of the picture appears a duction, we can farming practices sengers waited limited produce over a century and a half have newsreel theater in the Grand Cenlarge meadow strip, which serves as a safe water disposal area for sur- quantities of a few score additional squandered precious topsoil to tral Station. It features a clock to face runoff from adjoining fields. The curved bands are contour strip items classified as essential. a dangerous degree. the right of the screen . . . The cropping, and terracing. The owner. Dr. A. C. Brown of Royston, also SOME REVEALING FIGURES Farmers recognize that the pres- follows improved rotation practices. clock is set two minutes fast so The impending Truman commitent on their soils wartime drain . . wont miss trains spectators Commoincreased acreage. In order to pro- day this averages only six inches tee report will reveal that 100 big The clock at the near-b- y fertility level is a necessary contricorporations hold 70 per cent of all dore Hotel bar Is set three minutes bution to victory. But they should duce the extra crop quotas, not only in depth. in bear mind the fact can do that ahead. Indicating The present war emergency, as the war orders; furthermore, these imperative get you existing acres have to do a big100 first companies of the nation away from a newsreel sixty seconds that wealth borrowed from the soil ger crop yielding job but more and well as the future pf American agri- had only 30 per cent of the countrys sooner than you can part from a to help win this war, must be re- more acres have to be tilled. Much of culture itself calls for a determined business before the war and the on. later drink. this land represents a lower strata fight against the forces of soil depaid Dr. George D. Scarseth, head of of fertility level and hence it is not pletion. The effectiveness of the in- Roosevelt administration was supto help the little fellow! The defacing of St Patricks the agronomy department of Purdue able to bear the burden of heavy dividual farmers soil management posed g assistNorman summed when Littell, things up cropping effectively. A glance at plan in wartime as well as in the Cathedral and other churches by university, boost will a ant he said: attorney In get general, tells to era the can be aided of acreage figures peace story. follow, what some crackpot reminds us "Farmers in the Middle West and 1941 the total harvested acreage of by the cooperation of agronomists from the Truman committee for hurhappened in Paris at the Place de la Concorde when the Nazis marched elsewhere throughout the nation are principal crops in the United States at state agricultural colleges and ex- rying up government payments to In 1942 it rose to periment stations. Through research the farmers and others whose land In . . . Ten German army bands making a sacrifice in the war pro- was 334,130,600. held a concert and 8,000 Frenchmen duction program to an extent not 338,081,000 and in 1943 to 347,498,000 and experimentation over a long was seized by the army and navy. were forced to assemble . . . fully realized by the world. Soils acres. New production goals for 1944 span of years, these experts have The committee will recommend that that have had to produce war crops propose the yse of some 380 million developed information concerning all government purchase of land be Through the microphone the assemfertilizer needs for various crops and handled by LittelL by fertility exhaustion practices will acres. "Who was doesnt asked, blage not to have dividends after the American labor doesnt look so soils that is helpful to the farmer pay of Land Ruined. speak German?" The whole crowd e who is striving to rebuild his soil's bad when contrasted with British When we turn to the raised their hands, and a picture war, but will require their own kind labor. The Truman committee will was taken . . . Which showed up in of taxation in the form of fertilizers. job of soil conservation that has been productivity. "In reality, farmers are in the accumulating since the pioneer set- - In combating the destructive ef- find, despite the national service act, South America via the Goebbels manufacturing business, the same tlers plows first broke Americas fects of erosion, individual farmers long operating in England, there propaganda machine with this caption: "French crowds acclaiming as munitions makers, or steel pro- virgin farm land, we find an even and organized agriculture are con- were 1,638 English strikes involving n a manpower loss of 1,676,000 man-dayfronted by a stealthy, German army in Paris with Nazi ducers. They are turning out essen- more serious situation. Taking into account the larg' salute . . . Dismiss this incident tial products for our armed forces. Hugh H. Bennett, chief of the U. S. enemy. Erosions damage is gradual and in the first stages, barely er population of this country, U. S. foods, soil conservation service, is authoriat these worshipping shrines as the They are manufacturing fibers and oils out of the raw ty for the statement that 50 million noticeable. But once it gains head- strikes were only .025 per cent worse job of those desperately trying to feeds, materials of the soil the nitrogen, acres of the nations 600 million till- way, winds and rains not only carry than England even without a na cause disunity' and trouble. phosphorus, potash and lime. able acres have been completely ru- away valuable topsoil, but also re- tional service act our not all soils are President Roosevelt didnt know it move needed fertilizing elements Fortunately for agricultural purposes. ined The Wireless: "The Song of Berexhausted of their inherited riches. An additional 50 million acres, he such as nitrogen, phosphorus and but the Truman committee had prenadette, so beautiful to read and But exhaustion is on the way even estimates, are seriously damaged potash. pared some devastating evidence see, suffers from the slows on the with our best we face a and Conservation surare soils, methods the supporting him on one of the most kilocycles. It comes to the ears as future where these raw materials and a very large further acreage est means of reducing these losses of controversial phases of the tax bill has suffered a marked decrease in which it never is bemust be added to the soils as fertirenegotiations of war contracts to soil fertility. As a result of the valuable topsoil and plant nutrients. tween covers and on the screen . . . excess war profits. in greater amounts than in soil conservation lizers has It found been recapture that soils having services work and The west coast comics "localed you the past. Unless we do this, the the efforts of a cover crop suffer only a fraction all the members of Nevertheless, state at at California's their with agronomists dizzy jibes soil will sink to of the of the losses the Mead of New committee from erosion productivity other that except unusual weather. What you might agricultural colleges and experiment farm areas experience. Not only York, Kilgore of West Virginia and dangerous level. been have for steps call house-orga- n stations, significant comedy, strictly Concerning the future outlook, he taken in recent years in combating will grasses and legumes provide ef- Wallgren of Washington voted to the family . . , One coast announcer said: his tax bill veto. trend. But the major fective vegetative cover for holding over-rid- e this got a mouthful of esses, and it came Our war debt wont be only a task menacing topsoil in place and furnish a ballies ahead. out: "Upton Close on the Noose matter of taxes and maturing bonds. LOUIS BROMFIELD, THE anced ration for farm animals, but Six factors are responsi. . . The guffaw of the month was Our farmers are asked to mine their ble forprincipal PROPHET . the foregoing losses, accord- they promote nitrogen fixation, imuttered by a Berlin radio expert soils because fertilizer materials are soil tilth and help increase of Agriculture Claude the prove Secretary eroare to Bennett. Mr. named Von Hammer, who whimThey ing scarce. must Is But over a letter on be made Wickard in the rotation. crops crop chuckling yields following fertiof pered that the Red Army is using the fat of the soils. This means sion, leaching, the removal This is particularly true where adehe has receivel from the Readers . . elements harvested . lizer tactics by crops, unmannerly military a of the future will have Digest, signed by William Hard Jr., livestock and livestock marketing, quate fertilization is undertaken. Fulton Lewis blast at certain con- that farmer a more exhausted the Will of Bonds editor. It is the last, paassociate Provide Funds. handicap oxidation of soil organic matter, and was gressional soil and smaller crop yields to pay fire. Fortunately the means for accom- thetic note of a correspondence be. . . John B. Kennedy taxes that will follow this war. Erosion is the worst offender, re- plishing this soil replenishment job gun last summer when the Digest was also aroused into slugging back the Tremendous Drain. are in the hands of virtually every published the Louis Bromfleld arti2,500,000 tons of niat them. moving We Arent Going to Have Just how big a drain on the soils trogen, annually American farmer. Dollars invested cle, 900,000 tons of phosphorus fertility resources does this extra and 15,000,000 tons of potash the in war bonds now that farm cash Enough to Eat.. Ethel Quotation Marksmanship: At the time, Wickard wrote to the crop production impose? foods which make income is at the highest level in three Smith: She was the light of his life, The answer is plenty! Take one the major plant of and at farm debt the Digest, refuting Novelist Bromfleld, lowest history crops possible. productions but it turned into an awful glare . . . single crop corn in many years, can provide offering to write an article to tell the for example. point Ambrose Bierce: Woman would be Agronomists estimate that the 1941 the ready cash to pay for the purother side of the story and saying more charming if one could fall into corn crop in ten midwestern states chase of nitrogen, phosphorus and we would have plenty to eat But her arms without falling into her removed 2,645,404,730 pounds of nithe Digest declined to hear the other potash needed to restore the fertilihands . . . Eleanor Roosevelt: No trogen, side. level of farms later on. and potash from ty phosphorus one can make you feel inferior withthe soil. Increasing wartime yields It is not too early to begin planThey confided privately to Bromout your consent . . . Mme. Deluzy: boosted this tax to fleld that they were embarrassed by for this agricultural reconstruc3,093,123,334 ning A coquette is a woman without a tion job, any more than it is premareactions to his story, but publicly pounds in 1942 and 3,227,393,770 heart, who makes a fool of a man pounds in 1943. ture at present to lay plans for fu- they stood on his gloomy forecast who has no head . . . D. R. HenHe had said: I would rather not ture political and economic peace, Large as this removal was, it repderson: The V for Victory is only resents but a a statement by the Middle West Soil think about next February. By then, of the fertility t"; portion half the W for Work . . . Christopher loss from a M Improvement Committee concludes. most of our people will be living on single region. Add to Morley: There is so much for me it the fertility drain caused For it is becoming increasingly a diet well below the nutrition level. pro3 by to say, but your eyes keep interruptclear that the whole structure of fuof February has now come and gone. huge ducing yields wheat, soying me , . . B. Lytton: A stiff man. beans, potatoes, alfalfa, clover, oats are eating well despite Bromture security will rest on the proPeople . . . Garry starched with and other crops and you have some of the soil. While every fleld. American farmers have writductivity Moore: He sweeps women off their idea of the encouragement will be given to soil ten the refutation. Actually, we have depreciation of fertility feet a Beau Broomel. ' resources. But that doesnt tell the rebuilding projects by the federal a greater accumulation of stored whole story, either, for the job of government and by state agricultur- foodstuffs than at any time in his$64 Question: The President, they al livestock and producing agencies, the major responsibility tory. dairy prodsay, was asked (by a reporter) to uct! requires heavy amounts Wickard couldnt resist the tempconsidered prac- for getting the job done will rest on often land of Hilly plant name the member of the United Natation to rib the Digest, and can be made to the shoulders of individual farmers. food, JOO. worthless tically tions he considered the most imporThe plain fact is that every time a yield good returns by proper strip By earmarking part of present war recently sent to Editor DeWitt tant ally. "Is it Great Britain, China is harvested and hauled to marcrop cropping. C. D. Blubaugh, Danville, bond purchases now for peacetime Wallace a few figures about the or Russia? or livestock are shipped to a Ohio, is shown weighing the harvest soil rebuilding expenditures, farmgranary. In reply) he ket, Ill ask you one," FDR said. packers yards, some of the farms from such a field. lie is one of the ers can be ready when the materi- overflowing received merely a short note from "Which is the most important leg three million farmers now included als and manpower become readily William Hard Jr., saying, Mr. Walfertility goes with them. Those esstool? on a three-legge- d lace is home, fighting off a cold. sential elements, nitrogen, phos- - in 693 soil conservation projects. available in the postwar era. Land Being Mined by Excessive Cropping Will Need Fertilizer phorus and potassium, in various compounds, have been drawn out of the soil by the plants that grew on it. The bigger and better the crop, the more vital minerals extracted. Ordinarily, much of these elements is replaced by rotation, fallowing, or application of fertilizers, but during these war years when every field must be made to yield to the limit, there is an annual loss. Also, the scarcity of fertilizers, and shortage of help and machinery have conspired to impoverish the farmers land. There is still another important factor in this present ing problem. That is the matter of ut t- ... half-billio- long-rang- Big-scal- full-scal- open-mouth- es '30(30)7 S&(303D CHILDS coughing at night caused by throat tickle or irritation, mouth breathing, due to a cold can often be prevented by YOUR rubbing throat ana chest with Vicks VapoRub VAPORUBS at bedtime. poultice-and-vap- or action loosens phlegm, relieves irritation, helps clear upper air passages, thus tends to stop mouth breathing and invite restful itl sleep. Try f 1 llviYd V VapoRub Blimps Prey on Fish Fish as well as submarines' are ?rey of the navy blimps patrolling 'Jorth Pacific waters. 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"Alcohel ham-heav- BIGoodrich under-the-belte- self-estee- Once William Allen White was ... at- tending a Democratic national conA Senator, smiling, vention announced: "In looking over the delegates I fail to recognize any clergymen, and so I shall call upon my good friend, William Allen White, to open the convention with a prayer. Mr. White arose. Stabbing the Senator with a glare, he sarcasmed: "You will have to excuse me. I'm a little out of my element, and the fact is,' I prefer the Lord does not know I am here! Ammonium Nitrate Will Boost Yield of Hay Or Brings Pasture to Grazing Stage Earlier The use of nitrogen as a means of increasing vitally needed hay and pasture production to meet wartime feed requirements, was recommended by Dr. D. H. Dodd of the Ohio State university. Summarizing the results of a series of experiments, Dr. Dodd declared that: 1. Sixty pounds of nitrogen, equivalent to 175 pound per acre of ammonium nitrate applied to a good or other hay-typ- e grass by April 1, will on the average produce an extra ton of 6 to 9 protein hay if cut at the proper early stages. 2. A similar application of nitrogen applied to a good grass pasture sod will bring the heroage to the grazing stage two to three weeks earlier than without the nitrogen. By the time untreated pasture is making sufficient growth to carry its nor sod of timothy mal load, the nitrogen-treate- d grass will have exceeded it by 700 to 1,000 pounds of herbage containing 175 to 250 pounds of protein per acre, figured on a dry basis. 3. The inclusion of 20 to 30 pounds of nitrogen with phosphorus or phosphorus and potash in a first treatment for general pasture improvement, may be expected to increase the returns the first year by 50 to 75 per cent instead of 25 per cent, which is a reasonable expectation for the first year for the mineral without nitrogen. 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