Show V" - T7' (' f Greater Cacti -- VaJlay Edition Horald Journal --Thursday Juno 1 8 1959—7 rtmenf of fj By Frank United Eleuer — A per cent of our people are living In town City Folk Harassed These city folks now are harassed by too many cars and no place to park too much sewage and too little water too many people and not enough houses too few schools and too many slums and by so many other crises she said it's time we set up a government department to try to help figure the answers Rep Albert Rains who has a similar bill said "in the next generation this it th biggest problem we'll have to face’’ Brown said from the way farmers are singing the blues he couldn't see that the Agriculture Department had exactly solved the farm problem despite spending billions of dollars Brown was righf Mrs Griffith allowed and that's why wo better pass her bUT In a hurry that-7- Preii Interna WASHINGTON n House Government Operation! subcom-mltte- e waa considering setting up a new department of urblcul Hep Clarence Brown wanted jo know was whether this meant plans were afoot to plow undier soma 1 city dwellers According to Rep Martha W Griffiths authbr of one of a number of proposals to create this new agencylhat wasn't the idea at all Nelthe was it her plan as Brown apparently had suspected to pay window box farmers for not raising onions tomatoes and parsley Mrs Griffiths' argument seem ed to be that we set up the Agriculture Department years ago to help out the country fellow and now' we've pretty near helped him clean out with the result 1 (D-Al- pro- knoware getting that smart on so sweet their own iy “all the farmers are soon -- Rep Robert R Barry told the Subcommittee going to be in the cities " “I want Brown let that one gonyind to say y word in support of Mr said he bet Congress originally Rains’ proposal and In the next never suspected the Agriculture brfath knock It down" What' Barry meant it' develpayDepartment would wind-uthat it rained here ing fanners for what they don't oped w grow He said if we create a new night before last and the traffic lecretary of urb:culture might was awful It took him so long n't he wind up solving the water getting home from the office he I ihortage by paying city folks not and his daughter missed to take graduation But that didn't mean bathy! he favored a new federal agency “Everybody else Is paylng-jutHe said cltidk have to solve these sidles" Brown said “So “Under the present farm gram" she said ever tR-N- her maybe he'll pay people not to have things for themselves babies or not to drink water" Rep Dante Fascall who wants to create a study on city problems instead of a new government department suggested helpfully maybe Mrs: Griffiths' secretary of urban affairs could Just pay city folks to move out of town WASHINGTON (UPI) — The Brown said some people he Eisenhower administration was 'reported to have dropped Its proposal for a bill cutting wheat — iii ii mu vi price supports TVst V' :V'!Jl- — ' AS ) Instead it will back a bill by " jt Rep Page' Belcher bill many high officials believe would persuade farmers to vote the wheat control program down for the 1960 crop Sources close to the administration said the White House will not formally withdraw Its original plan But whatever Influence the administration Jias in the House will be - thrown behind Belcher’s plan Under Belcher's measure the present price support flow and acreage allotment floor would not be changed But control regulations would be tightened and the exemption from marketing quotas for small farmers would be eliminated exempRepeal of the tion would make hundreds of thousands of smiall wheat farmers eligible for the July 23 referendum of 1960 wheat controls Many officials believe enough of these small farmers would vote against controls to’ defeat the marketing quotas Belcher's bill provides price at 50 per cent of parity world This engaging picture was taken as the support with no production eon tool it two crossed Logan River Bridge on South Main marketing quotas are beaten (D-Fl- aI com-nlssio- n SCENE OP BEAUTY is this of the lowland pastures in Benson 'Ward bordered iy fertile farmlands Increasingly more atten- - Alfalfa Hay Is! rm Best Protein i T Feed Bargain i 'tidh is being devoted to the plsnting and care of good pastures and advances are being pointed up by- Experiment Station Combination Plus Good Managernent Legume-Gras- s legum- d - S70-a-to- ad clover-bromegras- I 15-ac- re summer period when it was needed most It was found however that best yield distribution of all came Flrst step in aiming at the 5300 from five monthly shots of 20 target is to select the right legu- pounds each Whether additional me-grass combination for a spe- fertilizers such as phosphates or cific locality In one area It might minor elements' are needed will be Ladino in another an alfalfa depend on local conditions Grasses will vary widely Cbtmty Another big boost for manure agents and Soil Conservation Ser- resulted from the Idaho studies vice offices will know which have Regardless of the legume-gras- s proved best by experiences and team or the supplemental fertiltests in the area ization there was a marked ini n'ia 15-ac- ' Every dairy fanner can count stick fo rate our own pastures on at least 300 pounds of butterfat Now all we have to do Is comof cost a of The pound protein from each acre of his irrigated pare our own butterfat figures depends on where it comes from pasture providing he has a with those from the experimenttt1- but when it comes from alfalfa e-grass combination that has hay it's about the best bargain proved itself in the locality — plus ’you can get according to year-rounmanage-me- n at South Dakota State good spread-ou- t pasture fertilization and College Irrigation In fact if you figure alfalfa adequate This statement made by O A ton total S12 the a at digestihay in the Grassland Farble protein It contains would cost Fitzgerald Digest not ming Headquarters — barely a nickel—or 57 cents a only sums up recent pasture stupound This compares with 95 dies at the University of Idaho's n soy-becents a pound using branch station at experiment oil meal Caldwell but sets uTa definite it this way: figured They better-pastur- e goal and provides Average alfalfa hay contains a for chaindependable yardstick about 105 digestible protein — it meaning each ton has about 210 ing 300 The Is bottom the It in pounds of Soybean protein pounds target oil meal has 37 digestible pro- level of a better-pastur- e tein or 740 pounds per ton So the Idaho researchers stressed that top yield in even though the oil meal has They pointed-ou- t more actual protein alfalfa’s the studies was 346 pounds from s comlow cost makes it more profit- a Ladino bination able These facts Indicate why alfalfa Translated into dollars these Is so important to the livestock man Whether used for hay or studies indicated that the poorest in the studies came silage alfalfa is the most eco- pastures at the rate of 5225 per through nomical source of protein you acre Frfom the best the return can get South Dakota men point out was slightly over 5300 an acre It is much easier to measure that the feeder who markets his their own pastures by giving realfalfa through livestock gets his sults of the pasture studies in 4 cents a almost for protein of butterfat to the acre acpound cheaper than if he pays pounds 170 a ton for commercial soy- cording to southwestern Idaho bean meal Therefore he is up- dairy farmers “Figures on cow-daof grazing per month cows grading the value at his feed “Replacing the M0 pounds of di- per acre per month or forage tonages are interesting but dtfn-a- s gestible protein from a yard alfalfa with commercial cult sometimes to use protein at 95 - cents a pound would mean a cash outlay of almost 580 With this kind of savings alfalfa is as good for the farmer as it is for the farmer's livestock Wheat Price Plan Dropped uW w Tho 'I CONFIDENTLY MOTHER and daughter set off down the highway bound for the wide wide i Idaho studies have shown that while the pasture mixtures (usually containing several grasses with different growth rates) still yield well when properly managed it is much easier for a dairy fanner to do that good management Job with Just one legume and one grass And yield is Just as good Studies spotlight the fact that “Management is the key" paying off in dollars arid being even more important than the forage varieties For instance everyone knows that nitrogen is a “must for pastures But when it is applied means a lot' One big spring shot of 100 pounds an acre meant too much pasture In the early spring often a tight squeeze to get through the hot season A split application 50 pounds in the spring and a like amount early in July didn't mtan more total forage but it did result iiw a lot more during the ' crease in total pasture yield when barnyard manure (15 tons per acre) went on early in the spring The Importance of dividing the pasture into enough separate fields so plants get 18 to 24 days to come back between grazings was aim stressed in the Idaho research Longer rest periods were not advised as plants get too rank and coarse Regardless' of the schedule by days plants should never be eat-te- n down to less than 3 Inches from the ground The studies indicated that giving pasture top priority on both water and manure' not only pays off Immediately in more- - butterfat but again later in the rotation through marked increase in the yield of row crops that follow A creche is a reproduction of the Nativity scene' in al : EVERY FRIDAY SAAITHFIELD UTAH AT THE MOST MODERN SALES RING IN NORTHERN UTAH figures - tostHire r ipfenfy Farmers Receive None of Food Price Increases Farmers got none of the 20 pe cent Increase in food priqes over the past 10 years the House Agriculture Committee reported Middlemen got it all In fact the committee said in a study the prices paid to farmers dropped 8 per cent during the decade The amount the average family paid for middlemen's marketing and process big charges Jumped 44 per cent in the same period Chairman Harold D Cooley (D NC) said that the study "Illustrates graphically the deterioration of farm Income during recent years while other areas of the nation’s economy have experienced unprecedented purchasing power and general prosperity" The study said processors and marketing firms “have been successful in adding greatly increased charges to the farmers’ products before they reach the consumers" It said WE TOP THE MARKET EVERY WEEK ON LIVESTOCK OF ALL KINDS! Smith fieki Livestock Auction Company was organized mow 2-- 3 food was 20 per cent more expensive than years ago “and all the Increase in retail prices — and more— goes to the middlemen none accrues to far10 to provide stockmen of Northern Utah and Southeastern Idaho with a readily accessible market for their animals origin DIESEL TRACTORS -- 'I ll a 23 plow Diesel tractor that All new frorh Ford costs you far less to own to 50 percent' and more costs low If saves you plenty every hour you use iti SEE IT 111 TRY IT Ml Ml BUY if FOR thus saving costly long hends and subsequent ages wo offer you on your vary next shipment cuts your fuel bills up V keeps maintenance has extra lugging power top prices nearer tho point of shrinkage I( you have not es yet made use of our facilities we urge you to tost for yourself the advant- mers" The study said the average city family spent 31310 for food last year Of this 5829 went for marketing and processing charges and 5411 represented the farm Value pf US food Between 1947 and 1949 the typical city family spent an average of 81050 annually for food I eluding 5576 for processing and ' marketing costs and M19 for tho US commodities themselves The rest of the-- money in both periods went for imported food The committee said a greater frozen demand for and spclaliy packaged foods accounted for much of the increased outlay for processing and marketing It also said the middlemen experienced higher expenses which they passed along to consumers one paying WE SPECIALIZE IN HIGH QUALITY DAIRY CAtTLE EXTRA PROFITS! mmw 147S North Main Phono 3033 r- COMPANY - ' r 5 4 r - -- J |