Show I 1 11 I 1 12 0 OF 1 I 1 10 0 a it I 1 I 1 6 I 1 Nati grasslands stand I 1 1 I 1 for hr I 1 security in agriculture P I 1 I 1 www V u t I 1 lly I 1 news y analyst anil and commentator 1 I 1 ic grasslands hay lands I 1 and forested 1 4 1 I 1 11 I 1 30 y rii lands of the entire united states cover more than a bil I 1 1 I 1 1 I 1 lion acres ill nearly 60 per cent of the total land area they fur I 1 i nish bout about hall half of the feed for all the livestock I 1 that statement Is quoted from the pow agriculture YEAR BOOK I 1 I 1 titled gross grass last copies of which now are being delivered to congressi benfor men ator their constituents A purpose of this book is to contribute to tho the lore and practice tico of the tha I 1 Amerl american car farmer so ho be may help to attain permanency jn in agriculture this perma permanency noncy Is obtainable 1111 I 1 pays P V cordon cardon in the opening 1 chapter of this I 1 splendid 00 W I 1 I 1 t I 1 I 1 IN I 1 1 I 1 page book I 1 b by y I 1 11 11 I 1 I 1 I 1 1 I 1 means of an 1 I 1 I 1 agriculture that p 1 is stable and secure lor for farm I 1 end and farmer armors s I 1 I 1 I 1 consistent in I 1 I 1 prices and earnings I 1 ari an agriculture that can 1 11 sa isly indefinitely nil all our 1 I I 1 XI needs need 8 1 of df food fiare fibre and in keeping with the living standards standard swe we tet set eve everybody ry I 1 has a stake in a permanent agriculture grassland Is according to the I 1 1 rainy ana ny experts who have contributed I 1 10 to this volume the foundation P Y tU security in agriculture I 1 1 1 1 grasslands by the sheer cheer force of I 1 I 1 their need have hava increased from an I 1 I 1 1 1 I 1 original million acres to the I 1 present bullon billion Bel believers lovers in grass expect that acreage to ba increased and I 1 it have ve no doubt that 4 th this Is book will he help lip 1 I I 1 I 1 F I 1 grass graga means means to these students of 0 tho the family ill 1 17 wheat 11 corn ri alco ce sugar 1 I 1 I 1 cane sorghum millet bar barley ley I 1 oats ints many of the ho sad nod crops I 1 which provide forage or pas burage arago and the leg I 1 1 i imes aimes cloyer al Is fala ila ind and others q r I 1 I 1 tho the trend toward grassland ag I 1 ri culture in ame america rica existed for I 1 I 1 some 10 years buteas but was interrupted 1 for intensive cultivation during the tha war now it la Is increasing again I 1 according to cardon who has been I 1 engaged in agricultural research since 1910 dut but he points out that I 1 g r n s a I 1 i 6 dl 4 agriculture supple 1 ments ment rather than replaces other I 1 1 I 1 farm production for example ik 1 I 1 t Uv estock stock production with which it is I 1 inseparably linked i grassland grassland agriculture he I 1 isaas under good management i may equal or 0 increase the production I 1 of digestible nutrient red reduce uce I 1 I 1 I 1 1 1 maternally mater jally the labor needed to I 1 grow thorn them and lower the cost of I 1 f n supplying protein necessary to I 1 iv nourish animals I 1 I 1 there are many interesting and I 1 I 1 widely varying chapters IKc progress gress I 1 1 ingstrom Ing the general to the tha moret more the tha editor alfred crud has haa summarized the book as al I 1 I 1 separated tepa rated into four parts the first la hn an examination of grass as it applies to people anywhere with the on livestock and soils b and c conservation forage for livestock I 1 the use arid and value of pastures gross and rotations the ranie range as a major resource reso urco and k 0 c I 1 i I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 k I 1 pt an I 1 I 1 4 I 1 k I 1 3 I 1 I 1 11 sai k 11 14 1 k k h I 1 I 1 q at V 11 1 AU g 14 R i I 1 W I 1 f IV v g P s hg g t J A g U M k 1 I I 1 4 WA k I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 fag q 1 I 1 I I 1 selecting males male i buffalo grass to secure pollen for brooding to improve strains at tho ahe buffalo bult ilo eraas nursery at I 1 I 1 woodward Wo adward okla I 1 egrass grass for happier living on the X ti I 1 playing fields lawns highway shoulders and airfields I 1 other parts of the book are devoted to the uses nature kiture and identification I 1 of various grasses and finally there are tda detailed il charts larts I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 ta tables bles recommendations tor for I 1 I 1 I 1 and mixtures ai 1 scope of the topics ti Is wide I 1 1 for tho the subject involves not I 1 only the varying conditions of 1 I coil and climate but also so cial conditions affecting the he ten wo tire of land and the lives of the I 1 people along with shifts in national nai I 1 I 1 I 1 policies kolides and political trends I 1 I 1 there la Is no move more striking ex ample of how these purely external conditions affect the farmer than I 1 tn in england today where a complete I 1 I 1 change in that count rys agriculture I 1 I 1 ri was brought about dur 11 I 1 11 1 i ing the war var and continued since J the great t yate estates I 1 pre preserves serem and forests hive have been I 1 broken up under pressure to raise I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 0 A V foad which formerly was imported tho the general trends trenda in america have been less obstructed by external influences grass la Is a book for city man is as well as s farmer and among the vast compilation of data resulting from experiment record and research there are even ft a few pages given to a panegyric whose poetic fervor I 1 makes up for or what wha may be a lack of 0 purely scientific background I 1 cant he help ap quoting from I 1 the ore ar tide tl I 1 alln in praise of blue grass by john james ingalls ingalla who was senator from konsa kansas from 1873 to 1861 1801 it Is reprinted from than tha kan sat sas magazine in which it Iti appeared ln in 1072 and has been widely quoted ever since after describing the beauties of a ride through his primeval prim eval winter in kansas ingalls describes 11 i X 74 it 11 W aw K Z 51 I 1 X 41 4 1 rw 1 M I 1 1 1 2 A 1 J I 1 q 1 1 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 1 ll 11 x I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 Z I 1 1 1 I 1 g aal 1 close up showing method of pollinating pollina ting female buffalo srab grass lower with pollen from selected malo strain I 1 his descent into intha a valley where 0 he says was created the spectacle alq of june I 1 in january peculiar to his native st state afe A sudden descent descans nl afi 10 shelter belter derod fil valley palley ho he itri tvs rev revealed Med an ag cres crescenc cresce coul nf ol of vir ver dure ake a meadow in wl early I 1 y spring unreal 1111 real as ats an incantation sur sor at aj the sea ita to the soldiers ors ol of Zenop zenophon bon as ai hey aboy stood flood upon ibs shore and shouted it was ts dine blue grass gran unknown in W eiben the fical amal triumph ol of nature tia birs reserved rojer ved to fo compensate her lav favorite orile offspring Pring its in finn tip paradise ol of kansas for the me loss 0 of lb the old upon the banks of flit anil euphrates 1 Is truman another boy on burning Hurning deck it rna may be just as well that washington has not only its ita proverbially unbearable weather but that it has a political campaign as well to take its mind off more serious tr troubles it started out as a rather dull campaign with tho ahw n republicans positive 9 of victory and tho the dimio crate showing an overweening willingness to get used to the idea of looking tor for another job hut but ever since harry tru mans peppy speech at the democratic convention you frequently run into a democrat who actually thinks his party has aaa A chance in november ono one loyal adherent to the part y of jackson and ad jefferson approached me with a theory that truman had avery a very good god chance of winning on the psychological basis you know kno he said to me deep down in tho the subconscious of every ever american Is s a boy od anthe tho burnen dock deck complex I 1 4 at boy stood on nn the fifth deck I 1 hence ill all but him bim had the flame shot ibal tit is the me battles terbeek shone bons round him oer the dead I 1 got get it at first but th explanation is simple and oot not ll il logical there probably never hai beer a moro more outstanding example ot of a one man show than harry Tr performance at UK the democratic convention my triona went on 11 bost 1 amert amerl tons cans at one time or br another have pictured themselves as rising to the th occasion alone and unsupported taking on all comers swinging to the right and left regardless of the odds holding the fort or storming the ho fl redoubt or saving the child whence oil all but him had bad ged fled 10 ile he went on an to say ay amerl caus see gee this spunky little fight er who wears wear a confident smile when most of his colleagues have laces faces as long as it a new look shirt and they imagine themselves in his place j As any schoolboy who ikas hat studied psychiatry knows there will be a transference displacing th affect from one person to another motivated by the unconscious iden ideation of the voter with the boy on oil the burning deck and from the boy on ithe the burning dock deck to the democratic candidate candi dati 11 quien tabet |