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Show Milk House Heaters Solve Farm Problem Easily Attached to Walls in Winter Time Nobody enjoys working In cold milk house. But until very recently, farmers could do little about it except ex-cept perhaps, add another layer to their already uncomfortably bulky clothing. Experiments conducted In the last two or three years, however, have helped solve the milk house heating problem. One type of equipment, developed de-veloped as a direct result of such agricultural engineering experiments, experi-ments, is shown in the accompanying accompany-ing illustration. It is a 3000 watt, 240 volt, thermostatically controlled electric space heater. Easily attached at-tached to the milk house wall, it is five feet high and produces a temperature tem-perature range of between 40 and 80 degrees. Other new developments along this line include the use of small hot water wa-ter radiators which are connected to standard dairy water heaters, and i - r Hi ' ' V ' . I,. . I'M M '""i t' j if v. u$d Arthur Miller of Union, 111., d-mi d-mi ret the new heater recently Installed In-stalled In his milk house, the conversion of electric milk cooler cool-er compressors into heat pumps. Most farmers, however, are interested in-terested primarily In "spot heating" heat-ing" that is warning only the specific spe-cific places in which they happen to be working at Hie moment. This is a relatively simple job and can be done by placing heat lamps directly di-rectly above or adjacent to the space to be warmed. Those Greener Pastures The old saying that "grass is greener on the other side of the fence" has a scientific basis in fact, according to Dr. William A. Al-brecht, Al-brecht, head of the soils department depart-ment of the University of Missouri. Cattle's grazing habits, he said, are based on a search for feed that will best nourish them. "When a cow risks her neck to get grass on the other side of the fence," he declared, "she Is showing show-ing good sense. She does this because be-cause the neighboring grass not only looks, but is greener. She is Instinctively seeking grass from soil high in protein producing elements." ele-ments." Feed that contains body-building bone-making values comes only from soil that is high in mineral W . ; fertility, Dr. Albrecht said. Declining Declin-ing soil fertility means a decline in the health of our livestock, our crops and ourselves. Dr. Albrecht warned that widespread wide-spread loss of "life-giving elements" ele-ments" from the soil is becoming more serious. Rebuilding the soil's fertility strength so that it can produce crops with body building values, said Dr. Albrecht, depends on proper soil management. That includes liming, the growing of deep-rooted legumes regularly in the rotation, the use of phosphate and potash fertilizers and the return re-turn of barnyard' manures and green manures to balance fertility losses through crop removals. |