Show m 9 1 U-- - b (—Greater SmIm Valley Edition Herald Journal Thursday 'June Tli 18 1957 Iceland became a republic on June 17 1944 A Pushbutton Tractor V1 Is tin The Way As the tractor rolled' out of the warehouse reporters and salesmen watching It scratched their beads'! The tractor had no driver But it was controlled— by an engnieer walking about 15 feet behind It with a small blue radio set In his hands The driverless trartor developed by Jim Plchon of the University of Nebraska is seen as a step toward eventual pushbutton farming But even Plchon' Is quick to point out that today's farmer isn't likely to see the day when he can sit bark in hls easy chair and farm by remote control while watching the operation on closed-circu- it i '-t television Nevertheless It's In the realm o? possibility Plchon's tractor is a standard production model Oliver trartnn-wi- th a radio receiver under the seat Ttbox Is hooked up to the control : system on the tractor and the operator has only to push two little red buttons By flicking a button one way the operator can start the tractor He can shift gears engage or disengage the clutch and control the speed with other button controls He can steer" right and left use the brake and raise or lower the cultivator or plow Ray Nash an engineer who Is working with Plchon in an effort to perfect the automatic farmer explained the radio set to newsmen and salesmen at a convention The set has an band that transmits high' frequency signals on eight control channels and aclugljjg very similar to a remote-contrgarage door opening system It operates on ona of two apo LINING of field ditches saves 'a high percentage of water an important consid CONCRETE radio-operate- d SHOWING ONE SIDE of the recently completed milking parlor on the Duane Griffin farm in Newton Thin new 'Grade A let up features two areas with pit between elevated milking i Milking Parlor Deluxe r-- - meant moving here ' and there and did not provide the kind of atmosphere they wanted to rear a family in So they decided on farming They bought two cows from a neighbor and milked them in a little shed so small that there' was hardly room for Dunne and the rows at the same time Loose housing was Just in its Infancy and since they had to build they decided to build an open shed and cement the corral Duane did the since he bad more time than anything else Since then he has been constantly building and Improving hls dairy set up He recently completed a new barn Those two cows' have now become 25 plual the offspring that It takes to ’keep a herd going They have 700' chickens besides All the feed for the cows is raised By MarDene Sorensen Duane and LuJean NEWTON Griffin of Newton began farm-i- n 194T! Duane graduated tng - from Utah State University M married the former LuJean Harris of Richmond that same year They were faced with the choice of settling down to farming or taking a Job The Job Bees Among lf Best Friends Of Farm Folks '"Honey bees as well as many native wild bees are among the best friends that fruit and alfalfa seed growers have It'S too bad that many growers do not realise that they have such helpful al-- J ios!’ point—out- Extension Entomologist with Utah State University When's Time To Cut Hi ay? the rule book' has said for a long time that alfalfa should be cut when about a tonlh to a half of the plants are in bloom researchers are now rewriting the rules a bit tor first cutting hay That it Is better to take the first cutting earlier — at full bud stage (or when the first few flowers begin to appear) has been shown by tests made at the University of Maryland -"When both yield and quality are considered full bud gives farmers the most for their money" Although stated Decker supervisor testa' “The old rule stll appliesr for second and htTkdded There were two varieties tested — each was seeded alone and with orchard grass The crops were 'cut at three stages of growth -on- e-tenth bud full bud and ' bloom Yield remits for straight alfhlfa were about the ame for full bud as for ore-tenMorris- - of the third-cuttin- one-ten- th th to bloom one-ha- lf But qual- ity tests showed full bud cuttingl to be superior Experimenters found In comd paring cutting with bud cutting that the quit dal “citizens band" frequencies set aside by the Federal Com- lty waa about the same buttha munications Commission and only a permit is needed to full-bu- it---- one-ten- th ' yield ran higher for full bud" Three years of testing showed no damage to plots harvested at the full bud stage Better yield resulted in the mixture when cutting was delayed till bloom stage But when quality was considered along with yield Decker says full bud cutting stijl appeared to give the most valuable returns Hover oseds scrnkblngl one-ten- th Won’t ' spot or stalnl Reaps Ssaeilsss 8 aed “Just-waxe- IMI d" ft widths! K Deckef pointed out that “When farmers delay first milting of STUCKI lfa-grass mixtures till CO SPECIALTIES BUILDING bloom they can expect to sac-- ! rifice payability Delaying usu- 170 North Main Logan Utah ally means higher fiber content Phono 3130 and leaf loss" he reported LEON alfa- one-ten- th — Asphalt and Vinyl Plastic FboirToIe NOW AT KLGN GIVES i Logan “Bees are essential for a good crop from the major apple pear cherry and pother fruit and berry varieties 'grown in Utah There in your must be orchard before yod can expect your trees to set a full- - crop of fruit There are several way a of pollinating apple trees but not one of them is as good or cheap is the insect way So follow these simple rules in your orchard: Don’t spray your trees with any insecticide until 80 ta 85 percent of the petals have fallen from the blooms Don’t spray your orchard when weeds or cover crops are in bloom Cut your weeds and other cover before you spray Don’t jspray when insecticides will drift onto neighboring crops Prices N-E-E-D-H-A-M cross-pollinati- - Between milking on the farm cows moving sprinkling pipe and cleaning eggs there is always wjyk for everyone For the past years iJuane has driven he school bus to North Cache The' Griffins are the parents of four children Annette 17 Mar- gene 15 Harris 11 and Brad 1 They have been able to live and work together and that is -- why they have remained on the farm They will tell you the farm has been good to them Duane and LuJean reside in a neat attractive yol lo w brick home surrounded with well kept A flower gardens and lawn cheerful sign on the lamp post says “Due and Jean’’ and Invites everyone in Duane's parents are Mr and Mrs Amos Griffin of Newton eration in our area This new project was photographed in Cache Valley near Dayton Idaho! 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