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Show MILLARD COUNTY CHRONICLE, DELTA, UTAH Rundown Pastures Can Be Productive Soil Test Is First Step In 'Face-Liltin- g' Plan for old, rundown, A " edy permanent pastures is reco-mmended by Purdue University "Ironomists. A good renovation pro-gram supported by liming and the e 0f commercial fertilizer can bring a pasture back to lush, vigoro-us production, they say. It can dou-ble the pasture's carrying capacity and improve the quality of the herb- - a erg. First step in the program is a soil test to find out the needs for we cwt ppopi 6IMCE WE HAD T2J VTC) OUtt PACE L1PTE0 , I P wg vf eoc-i-- o ,J j. .. 'A ' yl 0011 pqoouction: ;;: v f 'limestone and for nitrogen, phos-phate and potash fertilizer. Making a new seedbed on an old ;sod can be satisfactorily done with a disc harrow or field cultivator, 'the agronomists say. The operation can be eased considerably by worki-ng the soil in one direction and then working it crosswise. Timothy and smooth brome grass are excellent for supplementing blue grass. How much these grasses in-crease pasture output depends on the legumes used in the mixture and the amount and analysis of fertil-izer. The agronomists say that a good seed mixture should contain two pounds of red clover, three pounds of broadleaf trefoil and a quarter pound of Ladino clover. The Purdue agronomists stress that a good application of commerc-ial fertilizer is essential in pasture renovation. They recommend using 400 pounds per acre of or fertilizer at seeding time. The phosphate and potash fertilizer helps get the new seeding off to a good start, and supplies the nutrie-nts the legumes need most. tv' - , . v 1 j . I t." ' 3 , v ft4.1 i?vd 4'4"44 WAGE ENFORCER . . . The wage stabilization board has named Miss Helen Humphrey, Detroit, chair-man of its three-memb- national enforcement commission. She pre-viously served as attorney for re-gional offices of the national labor relations board. te E H It I a ( (V Jjk THE LATE IRON OP BASEBALL, HAS ONE j s , RECORD BEHIND HIS NAME THAT WILL PROS- - I I A6LY NEVER BE EQUALLED OR EXCELLED. THAT HIS STRING OF 2.130 CONSECUTIVE V U MAJOR LEAGUE GAMES PLAYED! GEHRIG'S y CLOSEST RIVAL IS GUS suhr, I H"2 T0DIT I ! IwuFM THE IMMORTAL I HV. THE INDIANAPOLIS 1 VV rwRrSTY HAATHEWSON I Ni- - SPEEDWAY GET SPEEDS I Wl mp IIP TO THE OIAMTS 1 UP TO 170 M.P.H. ON THE STRAIGHT- - 1 VbL 7m Voni HIS SALARY 1 AWAY, "SLOWING DOWN TO ABOUT ... t ' i I Wtaijfc'pv--iipimw- - if : 'ft - ' , - - " : " j v, 7f ? - t!- - "rf?-- f ir JETS FOR ALLIES .... Jet fighters are loaded aboard the aircraft carrier TJ.S.S. Corrcgidor at Port Newark, N.J. The planes are for delivery under the mutual defense assistance program to Norway, Denmark, Netherlands, Belgium and France. The Corregidor, a baby flattop, was recently by the Atlantic reserve fleet. The planes are E jets. SPORTLIGHT , Rice Wrestles Boxing Division By GRANTLAND RICE 1 It is .now evident that with a fighter one who had lost his last four important matches to Louis, Charles and Layne the new world's champion, the quality of this rickety division isn't any Mt. Everest peak. It has to be pretty low. But as long as it is now a big matter among old rivals, it has at least taken on a keener degree of national interest than anything we have seen since Gene Tunney and Jack Dempsey left us, over 20 years ago. For example, most of the e boxers that I talked to after the Marciano-Layn- e fight were confid-ent Charles could take both Walcott and Marciano. As it developed Charles couldn't take Walcott alone in his third stab, and Marciano's status, he man who wrecked Layne who beat Walcott who knocked out Charles, is still a mystery. Where does this lead us? We are deeper in the underbrush than we were at the start- of the argument. If the Past Performance Chart means anything at all the four men left are about as evenly matched as one could hope to find. Rex Layne is still two years away, waiting for the day when he can discover what a left hand means. Rocky Marciano might be in the same fix regarding experi-ence, of which he has had little in high-clas- s boxing society. Ezzard Charles was regarded as a good, careful boxer who couldn't punch. Against Walcott he looked to be in a half daze. He made very little active effort to defend his slipping crown. He must have seen that said crown was skidding rapid-ly and yet he still wouldn't make a threatening gesture. It was a sad performance on the part of a de-fending champion. But there was nothing sad about the way Walcott finally won the big title. Looking Ahead The American League dominance in baseball will never return again by any heavy margin not while most of us are inhaling the thin breath of life. I mean by that the A.L. won't again have a Ruth, Gehrig, Foxx and Greenberg op-erating its salvos. These four hit more than 2,000 homers, if our memory is intact. Babe Ruth had around 714, Lou Gehrig 494, Foxx 534 and Green-berg had 331. But those big days are over. Joe STEPPING into the heavyweight have the feeling that we've just invaded a squirrel cage or stuck our features into a revolv-ing fan. Just what Is the heavyweight division, anyway? Walcott whips Louis but doesn't get the decision. Then Louis knocks out Walcott. Ezzard Charles gives Louis a bad trimming. Ezzard Charles then gives Walcott two unhappy evenings by knocking Jersey Joe around. Then along comes Rex Layne and whips Walcott, making it practical-ly unanimous. For v -- ""- "C" Jersey Joe is now close to 38 years m old, possibly older, tiJS?" J and he has been p" f, beaten four times f- f ma row. ' In the midst of 1 ibis turmoil and I if I confusion Rocky I 1 Marciano knocks ' " '"" ' " ' out Rex Layne, late ., conqueror of Wal- - cott. Then the aging Walcott knocks out Ezzard Charles. If you can make anything out of this pretzel-shape- d situation, you have considerable on us. Louis, Wal-cott, Charles, Marciano and Layne are all in the jumble. Three of these have given Jersey Joe a healthy powdering Louis, Charles and Layne. On a matter of percentages Ez-zard Charles is still ahead. But Jersey Joe Walcott is the heavy-weight champion of the world. He not only holds a knockout over Charles but he beat him six out of seven rounds by outboxing and out-fighting him. On top of this scrambled heavy-weight situation we have Robinson and Turpin moving into the scenery shortly. Jim Norris admits that Madison Square Garden can't han-dle over two big fights in one month. This leaves a flock of heavyweights on the outside looking in. Having won two out of three matches from Walcott, Charles de-serves his return bout. But Louis has been training for another shot at Charles for over a year. And Marciano, backed by Al Weill, says he won't meet anyone but the champion. If Walcott and Charles meet, a o contest would be highly important, as well as inter-esting, since both Louis and Mar-ciano can hit with the impact of a brick at close enough range. It would be more than interesting DiMaggio has been another Ameri-can League star along the power road. Joe had 349 homers when the 1951 season opened. So he must also be remembered on the power side of his league in the days when roar-ing bats drove the National League into submission. to see Marciano piling into Joe Louis as he piled into Rex Layne. No Big Stars The heavy-weigh- t situation today is the most highly involved in many, many years. - f i i rf t $ 1 Lmi.rTftTiftWmiri-'-"-i- ft EDITOR . . . J. Farnell Thomas, former V. S. representative who was convicted of padding his of-fice payroll, will serve as editor and publisher for Community Press Publications, which will operate three small weeklies in New Jer-sey. Crappie Lore If numbers mean anything, one of the more important game fishes in the midwest is the crappie. This is no g battler. Old "Spots" is almost gen-tle. But, make no mistake about it, he is a crowd pleaser. There's something intriguing about crappie fishing. The crappies are members of that ever-popul- family, the s. And, if they can be com-pared, they may be easily identi-fied. The white crappie has the shorter dorsal fin, is the longer of the two fish, and has a "dished" forehead. Both fish have deep-bodie-much flattened profiles so typical of the panfish. Both are sprinkled with black on a silver background. There is a difference in color pattern's, however. The white crappie has its black spots carelessly spaced in loose, vertical bars, while the black crappie is as liberally and aimlessly sprinkled as a piece of Grandma's calico; whence it gets one of its common names calico bass. As one might expect, color is the weakest of characters, for the young black crappie are barred as are white crappie. Positive identifi-cation requires closer observation. Fishermen commonly separate the two fish by counting the spines of the dorsal tip. Usually the black crappie has seven or, perhaps, eight spines; whereas, the white crappie commonly has six. A com-bination of color pattern and spine count almost always establishes the identity of one's fish. Crappies normally spawn In May in most midwest waters. Neither species is a colonial nest builder as are many sunfish. Fifteen or twenty feet usually separate in-dividual nests. Root wads and weed clumps are preferred sites, al-though depth of water is apparent-ly immaterial. Nesting areas may be found in ten inches or ten feet of water. Throughout the range of these fishes, the black is found in cooler, clearer waters and seems to prefer a hard bottom; the white is well pleased in warmer, more turbid waters and is not averse to mud bottoms. The same preferences are exhibited in choosing nesting sites. Count of eggs taken from ripe females show one-ha- lf pound fish producing twenty thousand to sixty thousand eggs. Fish weighing one and one-hal- f, pounds may produce as many as one hundred and forty thousand eggs. Such a reproductive capacity is a veritable dynamo of productivity. White crappie build up popula-tions faster than do black crappie. Since both species readily become overpopulated in small bodies of water, the black crappie is logical-ly the more desirable fish for lake stocking. Neither is suitable in re-stricted pond waters. There are occasional reports of two- - and three-poun- d crappies, and larger fish have been caught. None the less, the average good crappie weighs about ten ounces. Although crappie have been kept in aquaria for ten years, a seven-o- r eight-yea-r veteran is an old warrior. Crappie are school fish and are well traveled. A quarter-mil- e jour-ney is not unusual during the daily reconnaissance for food. Both species are weed-lovin- g fish and it is not. surprising that they take a large variety of aquatic insects. Although a bucket of small min-nows is standard equipment for crappie fishermen, food studies re-veal that these fish take about ten times as much other food as they do minnows but nevertheless a proper-ly placed minnow approaches the irresistible where crappie are con-cerned. Fly and bait casting equipment take a respectable number of fish. Small plugs, spoons, or fly and spinner combinations are quite suc-cessful when properly used. To insure a full stringer, crap-pie fishermen should first select a promising location. A submerged brush pile, a fallen tree, a weed bed these are the reserved sections in the tournament of the spotted sun-fis- Once a school has been located, strikes are numerous. But the ang-ler must take advantage of his good fortune; these foraging feeders come and go as quietly as a sum-mer breeze. AAA The long slender filaments of leathers are indifferent conductors of heat, but retain a considerable amount of air which resists the egress or in-gress of internal or external beat, thus keeping birds comfortable in hot or cold weather, AAA Large Spinners The important fact to remember when using large casting spinners is to keep them moving fast enough to make the blades spin freely, whether casting or trolling. It is a good idea to reel the lure through the water close to you a few times to get an idea of how fast it must be worked for best results. These lures, as a rule, must be moved much faster than the smaller spin-ners to get effective flash and ac-tion. DULLES BURNED IN EFFIGY . . . John Foster Dulles was hanged and burned in effigy in Manila, while over 5,000 indignant demonstrators denounced the U.S. ambassador as "betrayer of Filipino-America- n relations." Organized by the Liberal Youth League, the burning of Dulles reached the climax of the Philippines' protestation against the "unfairness" of the proposed Japanese peace treaty when it side-stepped reparations to the Philippines for Jap war damages. M "1 . RED WRITERS . . . Two British correspondents for Communist newspapers are attending the Kae-son- g peace talks. Wilfred Burchett (left) works for the Red Ce Soir, Paris, and Alan Wilmington cor-responds for the London Daily Worker. 35 Percent of Farm Homes Have Electricity With almost 95 per cent of today's larm homes now having electricity -- an increase of more than 50 per cent in 10 years farmers today are running the city cousins a close race in equipping their places with everyt-hing from toasters and trimmers to thermostats and television. A recent study of the buying habi-ts of the American farmer showed that electric ranges, dishwashers, refrigerators, laundry equipment, clothes dryers and toasters, and automatic heating systems were bec-oming standard items in most homes served by rural electrificati-on systems. More than 100,000 families installed thermostat-controlle- d heating systems from 1947 through 1949. The study also indicated a close relationship between electrification and general home improvement on farms. For example, approximately $10,000,000 was spent from July, 1947, to December, 1948, alone for modernization. Approximately 4,900,000 of the 5.200,000 occupied farms and almost 15,000,000 of the occupied rural dwelling will soon have electricity. r ' ' ' ;, 'X1' - """V "fe" ' 3 - j I 'r ' ' " ' ' ' j WAR POSTSCRIPT ... In Berlin, a "monster" is pushed into a truck as the relieved neighborhood, cautiously keeping a distance, peers at the police and detonation experts. The "monsters" are undetonated bombs, droppd by allied planes during the last war. Although dormant for several years, the fuses are still intact and sensitive to the slightest jar. - - f 4 4; ' u-- NEW NAZIS . . . Black-shirte- d groups are in Western Germany. This Is Heino Goesche, founder of the League of Young Germans (BJD), a group dedicated to the memory and philosophy of the late fuehrer, Adolph Hitler. Skid Carrier An easy and time saving way o move turkey poults and young chickens from broodev house to r"ee is the skid carrier sketched above. Build the crate w fit a hay sled or other farm wirier and divide it into sec-n- s. Carrier is loaded through s',a'ng doors at top, then is s'dded to range where two men can lift the top and the birds ca scoot away. 4" 'H i i .X ' NEW CHIEF . . . Vice-Chi- ef of Naval Operations, Admiral Lynde D. McCormick, who automatically succeeds Admiral Forrest P. Sher-man as chief of that agency, talks over the telephone. Admiral Sher-man succumbed to a heart attack. I ; i - " i k j I u n 4 : ; , 'v, it 4 4 i-t- " AlJ tY'j KING LEOPOLD ABDICATES . . . Leopold III, fourth king of the Bel-gians, signs abdication papers, ending an unhappy reign. He abdicated in favor of his son, Prince Baudouin (standing at right) who was formally crowned King Baudouin I in ceremonies before the joint house of the parliament. Controversy over King Leopold's rule caused rioting and near revolution in the nation recently as factions clashed with groups on the streets. 1 " : I ELIMINATE NOISE of whirlpool in sTnK DRAIN BY INSERTING LENGTH OF BRASS WIRE THROUGH HOLES IN STRWNER. BENDING ENDS AS SHOWN. TWO LENSTHS OF WIRE AV 8E REqOlR-tO- . Loans to Build Grain Houses Will Continue tio?6 commodity credit program which provides loans arrners to finance construction Purchase of new farm grain stor-1951- ties wffl be continued in Bra Secretary of Agriculture n announced that the loan1 sche?!"' inlUatel in June 1949 and has ' exPire June 30, 1951, oeen extended another year, program is extendable on a basis. |