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Show Over the back fence pretend Tractor clinics help save fuel You may be getting only 60 horsepower from a tractor designed to give It will use the same amount of fuel but wont put out the work that it should. Dr. Von H. 80. extension Jarrett, agricultural engineer, Utah State University, has put across this idea to farmers and ranchers state in a tractor testing program conducted under grant from the Utah State Energy over the Office. In tractor clinics he has conducted throughout Utah since the fall of 1976 Dr. Jarrett has tested nearly 1000 of the far- dred by Margaret Russell miles or so for tractor repair service especially appreciate it when adjustments can be made at a local clinic. the When trip is necessary, they appreciate knowing in advance what repairs are needed. Dr. Jarretts aim is not so much to provide the testing service as to take advantage of the teaching moment to get farmers to understand and take better care of their tractors. Frequently at the clinic localities conducts an he evening Memories can be such fun. At my age the trays of the mind are literally spilling over with little nuggets from the past. Its exciting to select special ones to muse oyer. Black nuggets bring smiles and rueful shakes of the head. Red ones are to chuckle over. Green ones offer glimpses of days on the mountainside. My favorite nuggets, of course, are the ones that are pure gold These are the memories of my children. This morning I picked up and polished a nugget Jmswi, Chairman of the Sanpete Scout to be some of the District displays trophies a on Saturday, awarded during the a tickets May a at Snow College. The are on sale Iroin individual scouts, and the public is invited to attend. Scout-O-Kam- Scout-O-Kam- Open letter Ephraim reader likes Pyramid Editor, Pyramid: just wanted you to know I really enjoy the Pyramid. I I'm orginally from know most of the people in the North Moroni, so Thursdays for the paper. It is the most newsy paper I've read, and it also inprovides a lot of formation. I Thanks again, Sanpete area. I really look forward to Kuie Keisel Ephraim connects to the power take-ofHe pulls the wheelmounted dynamof. meter Aging conference set the ALL DAY GOVERNORS MINIMay CONFERENCE ON AGING will be held at the 10, 1979 Richfield Senior Citizen Center. Registration will be at 9:30. Senior Citizens who wish to have meaningful input into legislative and executive proposals in the State of Utah should plan to be there. If Seniors themselves fail to attend, the input may well be limited to the social service employees of the state according to those making the announcements. behind his to clinics arranged to the according Nebraska Fuel Consumption Test Report, an HP diesel average tractor will develop 14.6 50 needle with alcohol to sterilize it. Next, he would chase anyone avaiblabe all over the house and squirt them with alcohol. If the anyones were girls, the squeals and shrieks were unbelievable. Then Bryan would walk toward Mark, child number seven, with hypodermic , k - year eyed youngster a few times, I asked him what the trouble was. He said Im afraid Ill sadly, forget what day it is! those golden Ah, nuggets. . . how precious they are . . . Why dont you get a few out and polish them? Maybe there's even a diamond in there! -- and a line of anxious eyed children all crying, I "It he all right? examined Mark carefully, looked at the pupils of his eyes, and completed the procedure by asking him what day it was. He said, "Monday, which was correct, so I told the children their brother was all right. The children were fascinated by that what day - is - it business, so they followed through unknown to me by asking the child throughout the livelong day what day it was. That night I put Mark to bed at the regular time, but he didn't go to sleep. After passing through his room and observing a wide- - Buy products on the basis of initial cost plus operating costs rather -- on than the basis energy-efficie- save money and energy over the lifetime of such equipment. oven will 4, 1979 Featuring the complete line of Litton ovens and ranges. Micro-Wav- e THE LITTON HOME ECONOMIST AND THE FACTORY REPRESENTATIVE WILL BE ON HAND TO ANSWER ANY QUESTI0NS.EVERY0NE IS INVITED HO MATTER WHAT MAKE OF MICRO WAVE OVEN YOU OWN, OR IF YOU MIGHT BE INTERESTED IN The ONE, demonstrations Micro-Wav- e THE COOK SCHOOL WILL BE will run from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. HELD FROM 7 P.M. TO 9 P.M. LITTON. .. CHANGING THE WAY AMERICA COOKS AT 130 West Main Mt. Pleasant (DESK'S APPtmCDGQ Phone 462-269- 8 horsepower hours per gallon of fuel under full load. Multiplying the gain m horsepower by the number of hours the tractor is used in a year and dividing by 14.6 gives the owner an idea of the annual fuel savings achieved from testing his tractor. Mother-daught- er Farmers and ranchers soon see another value. At event annual This r gives Day in purat Snow College is daughters an opportunity present a prices the cost tractor, chasing to their mothers honor scheduled for May 5. well per horsepower Invitations have been and it gives mothers an exceeds $200. With 10 to sent to all mothers by the opportunity enjoy restored to Relief Societies of the participating with their horsepower the tractor, the owner has daughters. College Wards. saved - you might say gained - over $2000 in power value. Farmers and ranchers have been keenly interested in seeing and discussing the tests and adjustments needed on their own tractors to performance. improve Where more extensive mechanical work has been needed, Dr. Jarrett has suggested that they We have pull type as well as take their tractors to their gooseneck ana other trailers dealers' repair shops at an early date. Those in the more remote areas of the state 436-237- 6 Mt. 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Jarrett notes that time was g terrified sixteen old, a bruised little one, having Micro-Wav- e cooking school and demonstration uncommon for a farmer to bring his tractor from the field for the checkup, then after the tune-u- p adjustments are made, go back in the field on the same implement and find that he could travel two gears higher than before. That means a big savings in both time and fuel. Where records were kept at one time period, an average increase of 11.25 horsepower output per tractor was gained on Dr. shot-takin- far from dull. First, Bryan would fill the Becks Appliance in Mt. pickup by the local county extension agents. He says it has not been 273 Bryan, merry child, however, and uvJ that dynamometer Insulin Shots. child number four, was a diabetic and took a daily shot of insulin. He was a "M mers' and ranchers tractors a using Arlo labeled, "Mark And The poised. Mark would lift his arm, and Bryan would to give him one a shot. Well, down Mark came day with a bad cold, and I took him to the doctbr. During the course of the visit, the doctor came toward him with a hypodermic. Mark, knowing this game well, placidly lifted his arm. But the doctor played by different rules, lie stuck the needle in! Mark bellowed outrage all the way home. Bryan-MarAnother nugget occurred only a few days later. Bryan loaded the back of the with truck pickup children, started up with a jerk, and Mark fell out. The first thing I knew, I was confronted by a 732-WH- 732-CL1- 732-BZ1- |