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Show THE RICH COUNTY REAPER. RANDOLPH, UTAH FARM Sally Sez -- ,mm SILAGE FED FOR PRODUCING BEEF Profits From Two Methods Found to Vary. In a test recently completed at the Ohio experiment station, an acre of corn iu the form of silage produced 752 pounds of gain on yearling steers. A similar acre fed as shelled corn produced only 372 pounds of gain in the form of beef. The silage fed steers were given no grain. On a ration of 47.4 pounds of silage daily, two pounds of cottonseed meal and a small amount of mixed hay, they gained an average ot two pounds a day for 174 days. The lot fed shelled corn, cottonseed meal, stover and mixed hay gained somewhat more, but the increased rate of gain was not important enortgh to equalize the low cost of gain on the silage fed steers. The silage cattle made a profit of $8.5S per head, including pork gains, and the grain fed cattle, $3.46 per head. ' An acre of corn fed in the form of silagt returned a sum of $71.05 an acre. In the form of shelled corn, the A4 OfFOVFL 7 By ELMO SCOTT WATSON S AMERICANS prepare to celebrate W a s h in g t o ns birthday again it should be welcome news for them that just a century and a half after the Christmas day fire which in 1780 destroyed the old colonial Wakefield, homestead in which the Father of Ilis Country was born, the foundations had been laid for a new Wakefield to rise upon the original site and by the time of the great Washington bicentennial celebration next year the restoration of this historic home will have been completed. Credit for the restoration of Wakefield is due principally to the Wakefield National Memorial association, which originated in the summer of 3023 among residents of Westmoreland county, Va who felt that it was a matter of national concern that birthplace was still Washingtons comparatively unknown to most Americans and that pictures of houses falsely represented as the birthplace were being published. Their cause was taken up by leaders in various patriotic organizations and high government officials, and since that time Iilans for the restoration have steadily. At the start the association faced a serious difficulty, for no one could say with certainty in what sort of house Washington was born. There were a wide variety of opinions, some asserting that the Wakefield house was only a mere cabin, others that it was a real colonial mansion, and still others claiming that Washington was not born at Wakefield at all. Students of history, however, under the auspices of the association began researches which led them to what they consider the truth of the matter. No stone was left unturned (and this familiar saying is literally true in this case) in the quest and no document, however remote in its bearing, was left unexamined. When all the evidence had been collected, sifted and used in a final decision, the actual plan was formulated. Then an architect was entrusted with the task of reproducing the house and the plans which he drew up have been approved by the National Fine Arts commission. The next task was to acquire the land upon which the restored home was to stand, and this was made possible by John D. Rockefeller, Jr., who purchased 2G7 acres of the Wakefield estate and organized a corporation to hold the tract in trust for the Wakefield organization. The actual site of the house where a monument was erected with funds provided by a congressional appropriation has been under the jurisdiction of the War department, but early last jear the War department turned it over to the na tional park service of the Interior department. which has officially designated it as the George Washington Birthplace National monument. The national park service is with the Wakefield association and the United States Commission for the Observance of the Two Hundredth Anniversary of the Birth of George Washington in the plans for rebuilding Wakefield. The Washington family first settled on a part of the present Wakefield estate in March, 1665, a full century Col. John before the Revolution. of the Washington, Washington, had come to George Westmoreland, Va., in 1656. He died and was buried there in 167C. Maj. Lawrence Washington and Maj. Jon Washington, his sons, succeeded him in the ownership of Wakefield. After their marriages, the family lived on separate parts of the Wakefield estate until the house In which George Washington was born was burned, in 1780? After that, the Washingtons continued in other houses un the land, and descendants still live on part of the same Wakefield estate gone-forwar- -- V great-grandfath- er , a continuous possession, in whole or in part, for 206 years, eight generations. It was at Wakefield, then, that George Washington was born on February 22, 1732., according to the modern calendar. Between three and four years later the family moved to their estate of 2,500 acres which embraced the present Mount Vernon. There Washington passed about four more years of his boyhood. Then he moved again with his parents, this time to King Geoijpo county, Va., to an estate (with a mansion house) which had previously belonged to William Strother, located approximately two miles distant eastward from Fredericksburg. This property his father, Augustine Washington, purchased on November 2, 1738, and there Augustine Washington died in 1743. George Washington lived there steadily until his fathers death, afterward alternating his stays there with his sojourns with his brother, Augustine Washington, Jr., at Wakefield, and with his mother on her estate at Little Falls on the Rappahannock. When he was sixteen, he returned to Mount Vernon. After passing some time in several places essential to his social interests in the counties of Fairfax, Stafford, King George, Westmoreland and Fredericksburg (including a visit of three months in the West Indies), and to his professional duties as official surveyor for the County of Culpeper and, at large, for Lord Fairfax and other? in the upper northern neck of Virginia, as the historian expresses it, he went back to Mount Vernon again, having inherited it ini 1752, and other members of the family lived on at Wakefield until the fire on Christinas day in 17S0. Probably owing to its comparative inaccessibility in the past, Wakefield has been neglected during most of the years that it lias been known as Washingtons birthplace. When the project for the bicentennial coinmeuforation was formulated it was at once pointed out that the event should take into consideration the birthplace of the man whose birth is to be celebrated. Great importance has attached to the place where he died, Mount Vernon, but it is his birth that is to be commemorated in 1932. Until the Wakefield association began its work seven years ago, this historic estate had been sadly neglected. As a part of Us plan for the restoration, the association secured permission from the War department to make excavations on the site of the house, and these excavations established the fact that the house was of brick, not, as had ben erroneously reported, of wood. The exterior view of the house was decided upon only after research had established the details. A frontage about double the depth was indicated These by the extant foundations. walls extend down only a few feet below the surface, and the fact that the surface at the present time averages at least a foot above the level it had when young George Washington ran across it, owing to grading done for the monument, clearly defines the basement story indicated by the small half-window-s. The room in which George Washington was born was at the left, back corner of the house; that is to say, the right, front room from the other side; for the house was double-facein the custom of the period, with one front toward the highway and the other toward the water, two front doors connected by a hall running across the house. ' The kitchen, outside, will fie rebuilt on the site of the foundation of the great chimney whose foundation is still there, outside the main foundation walls, indicating that it was large enough to roast an ox in. The caretaker will live there. A round table, saved from Wakefield at the time of the fire, and which tradition in the Washington family says was brougjit from England in 1660, has been presented by Mrs. H. L. Rust, president of the Wakefield association, for placing in the house when it is restored. The broken. Washington platter, in the salt glaze in vogue 'in 1735, ha3 been restored by potters and duplicates will be soon available. Other pieces of furniture and other belongings from the .original house are doubtless extant In various parts of the country, and the association hopes by purchase or' by gift to acquire them lor the memorial. These will be entered in the Golden Book of Wakefield, as a record of the donor. Aiming the pictures that will be the walls are a replica of placed-oGilbert Stuarts portrait of Washingd, President, and Rembrandt Peales Lafayette, painted in Paris, which have already been presented by Mrs. h K. Graves and Mrs. II. P. ton as Woodruff. Another project, apart from the rebuilding and refurnishing of the house, which the Wakefield association has undertaken, is the rebuilding of the ancient log house. It will stand on the site of a log house that used to be on the estate. ''Furthermore, the association has purchased, by formal deed of conveyance executed by the present Washington heirs, title to the family burial ground. In the ancient arched vault ten members of the Washington family, including the father of George, are buried. The Wakefield Memorial association has asked the United States government to dredge and improve the harbor, to admit visitation by boat from the Potomac river, to build an adequate wharf and to landscape the grounds, after the present granite shaft has been removed from the site of the birthplace. It is expected that will be given, so that such will be ready for the comeverything memoration of the two hundredth anniversary of Washingtons birth in 1932. by Western Newspaper Union.) return was $50.80 per acre. As silage, an acre of corn furnished enough feed to last one steer 375 days. When fed as shelled corn, one crop acre carried a steer only 1GG days. The field of corn used yielded 48 bushels per acre as grain and S.8 tons per acre as silage. Dressing percentages were 59.6 on the silage fed sleers and G0.6 on the grain fed cattle. Backers said there was little difference in the quality and condition of the two lots in the beet. Prof. Paul Gerlaugh of the Ohio station points out that profits from the two methods of feeding will vary from year to year according to market prices, but he believes that any .method of feeding which produces the results obtained oy the test i worthy of consideration. you up on the ice. Neither will the wheels of local industry be able ve you much support if you deal only in foreign markets. to-gi- These Brands are Intermountain Made and deserve your support Hewletts Jams Home Fruit Home Sugar Home Labor Best Qualit- - JPJSJPBB WINTER GASOLINE Starts like a Flash CLAUDE 1046 So Main The Efficiency Should Be Increased population on farms is on only a replacement basis. The average age of work animals is higher than it was a few years ago. The significance of this situation is not .that horses and mules are going to disappear from all farms, but that horse farmers must make more efficient use of their work animals. There is no good reason for keeping the harness a horse that is unable for one reason or another to do an honest days work. Is the animal Inherently unfitted for the job? Get rid of it. Is it merely a case of neglected upkeep failure to feed the animal properly, or to take care of his ailments? Mend your ways of handling the beasts. Is it a case of the two or e team being inadequate? Try multiple hitchings. in Ci- - Greater use of Intermountain made good-- , bring more factories here and th money for raw materials, power, labor, and transportation would be left at horn, instead of going to the eastern states. Use home manufactured goods and make th region part industrial as well as agricul tural, stock, mining, and 'lumber. 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The used corn, legume pasture, rape, alfalfa hay, skim milk, soy henns, tankage, oil meal, limestone, bone meal and salt in corn ' With their pounding Iheir rations. sanitation and good rations farmers were able to produce 200 pound hogs in six months or less time. Many of the pigs went on the market in to hit the peak of good prices. THE ONLY HOME OWNED MILK Tune in on MORNING MILK PROGRAMS KDYL 7 :00 to 7 :30 p m, Sun. Arabesque" KSL 10:0 to 10:30 a m. Week Days KSL 10:00 to 10:30 p ra, Tues. and Fri. KGIQ (Twin Falls) 9:45 to 10 a m, Wk. Du. APEX HAIR OIL AN INTERMOUNTAIN PRODUCT For Every Baking Purpose Sperry Drifted Snow Flour Consumers Demand for Lamb Meat Increasing of all of the lamb which the nation produces is consumed in greater New York. The drop in price which has occurred during the past six months has put lamb on a price basis with beef and pork. As a result, many people throughout the central and western part. of the United Stales have been purchasing it Needless to say. a liberal percentage of these folks have become lamb boosters. This should result in a fairly reliable consumers demand for iamb meat In the future, and providing the price does not become unreasonably high, it would seem as though there would be a dependable outlet Standard Since 1852 One-thir- d VJULLnUi in IAAAW Tuesday GOLDENttfQUALITY morning at 10:30 KLO: Every morning at 10:15. TUNE IN ON VITANUT PROGRAMS in 00 K8 Li aasaasaaiM. |