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Show THE RICH rOTTNTY REAPER. RANDOLPH. UTAH THE RICH entered ea COUNTY REAPER aocond ! matter Feb. 8, 12, H the Post Office. Randolph, Utah, nnder ti Act ef March S. 187. Wm. E. Marshall. Basinet Manager SUBSCRIPTION 81.5 Per Year in Advance Layton Marshall. Editor and Proprietor GRAIN SOYBEANS DEPLETE THE SOIL But if Plowed Under They Increase Soil Nitrogen. Jap Invasion Bases in New Guinea Strengthen Drive Against "Australia; Promised Dominion Status for India Fails to Result in Expected Harmony In the Mlinoi, h7 (EDITORS NOTE When pinion ( thi aewapapor.) nr ttui ol th new nnljrt and not npriuti Btctaaarlly . (Releaaed by Wcitcrn Newspaper Union.) ui By PROF. GEORGE D. SCARSETH (Soil Chtmict, Agricultural Zxpirianl Station, Purdue Vruvtttity.) Many farmers do not realize that soybeans harvested for grain are a rather than a soil- If soybeans are building crop. plowed under or cut for hay, and the manure therefrom is returned to the soil, they do increase the soil nitrogen and thus increase the corn or wheat yields that follow in the rotation. But harvested for commercial purposes such as oils, plastics, etc., they represent a drain on the soil. A crop of 20 bushels of soybeans harvested for commercial purposes removes 15 pounds of phosphate (equivalent to 75 pounds of 20 per cent and 20 pounds of potash per acre. Soybeans are certain to play an increasingly important part in the present war effort. At present very little information has been obtained on how to provide a profitable means of directly fertilizing soybeans at the time of seeding, but experiments now in progress at Purdue university involving plowing under phosphate and potash indicate that effective means are being found. With a favorable price outlook, a greater acreage will be planted to soybeans this year. Farmers will find it advantageous to fertilize the crop, unless their soils have been adequately treated previously in the rotation. Based on experience at the university, the following suggestions may be of value: If the soil is acid, lime it adequately this winter. This is important for otherwise the fertilizer will be lost. In many cases about three tons per acre will be effective. Then just before plowing the ground for broadcast about 300 soybeans, or 500 pounds of pounds of and plow under. Do not use any fertilizer when planting the beans. The benefits from the lime will last at least 10 years, although it has been found profitable to relime in about six years. Indicative of the importance of plowing down fertilizer for soybeans, was a test at the Purdue experiment station last year. On an unfertilized plot, the soybean yield was 15.7 bushels of grain or 3,570 pounds of hay an acre. When an equivalent of 1,000 pounds of had been broadcast and disked into the topsoil immediately before seeding, the yield increased only 1.9 bushels. But when this same amount was broadcast and plowed under, the yield per acre was 23.4 bushels of grain or 4,653 pounds of hay. When lime at the rate of three tons per acre was used with the fertilizer and plowed under, the yield was 28.2 bushels of grain or 5,377 pounds of hay per acre. super-phosphat- Successful poultry farmers pay nearly as much attention to the way they feed their pullets and laying hens as they do to the kind of feeds they provide. For one thing, abrupt changing in the diet causes the birds to go off feed and results in lower egg production and slower growth as will the use of stale feed. If a change in diet must be made it should be made gradually and extend over a period of a week or ten days. One practice followed by many of the better poultrymen is to provide only a little more feed each day than the birds can clean up. The if clean and dry, can be mixed thoroughly with the fresh feed in the hoppers. In this way there will be no accumulation of stale feed at the bottom of the hoppers, reducing likelihood of mold. s, Some Mighty Trees The tree with the largest circumference is the sequoia, 101 feet, 6 inches, in California, and the tree given the widest spread (168 feet) is a liveoak at Hahnville, La. The liveoak on the Lien-d- o plantation in Waller county seems to be unrecorded on the banks of the Potomac. A California redwood with an altitude of 364 feet is given the palm for the greatest height. The worlds record for girth is given to a cypress in Mexico. Probably the largest, oldest, slowest and fastest growing tree now in Texas, is the cypress. Its wood also has had more home and industrial use than any tree. wide-spreadi- ng NAZIS: Need Man Power For Spring Drive THE CHEERFUL GHERUD Whether Germany was planning peace or not, London had been hearing reports that the Nazis were seriously short of manpower which was needed for the spring offensive against Russia. The first indication of this was when the Nazis issued an estimate of losses thus far in the war which was by far the largest figure they had ever admitted, though still far short of the Reds claims. The Germans admitted loss ol 1.500.000 men since the start of the war, and said that half of these had been lost in the winter on the Russian front. The report had come out of London that the Nazis now were asking for 2,600,000 fresh troops from Italy, Hungary and Slovakia for the spring offensive. Soviet authorities claimed that the Germans had lost 6,000,000 men on the Russian winter front alone, of these 1,700,000 killed, 2,000,000 seriously wounded, and the rest missing or prisoner. Cf the new troops Germany was said to be asking for 1,500,000 from Hungary, 1,000,000 from Italy and 100.000 from Slovakia. Rumania was said to have given an army of 1,000,-00- 0 last fall, but the Reds asserted that practically all of these had been wiped out. e) Feeding Laying Hens left-over- By Edward C. Wayne WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS HARA-KIR- I: On Bataan Reports from Australia emphasize the importance of Allied attacks on the Japanese invasion bases of Salamaua and Lae in northeast New Guinea. From Salamaua to Thursday Island, off the northern tip of Australia, the distance is 400 miles. From Port Moresby, the nearest major harbor to the mainland, to Cape York, on the northern Australian tip, the distance is little more than 300 miles. INDIA: AUSSIES : On the Spot Britains Problem Hardly had the battle of Java reached the mopping up stages than the battle for the approaches of Australia had started with rumblings from within the continent that the Aussies were far from pleased with the amount of preparedness they had. The signal for the beginning of the curtain-raisfor the attempted invasion of Australia had closely fol- Churchill had informed Commons, which had been demanding some forthright action on the problem of Hindustan, that nothing could be done now, but repeating his promise of dominion status for India after the war. So far this problem was the most trying one facing the British. In Burma they had found what they were up against with the Burmese n lowed the of communicarevolutionaries joining the Japs, and tions with Java, and came at the many of the others turning frankly same time news was received that against all white men. some 3,000 Australian troops, badly The British defenders of Burma, needed at home, were still fighting cut off by these tactics, had been a hopeless fight on the island of forced to retreat more and more, and finally, in a daring maneuver, Java. The spearhead of the projected had struck northward, and had invasion was apparently to be based smashed their way close to their on the island of New Guinea, just to Chinese allies. What Britain feared more than the north of the continent and immediately threatening it as the anything was a frank and open upshortest airline flight from the East rising of all of Indias 350,000,000 Indies. people, and to this the best ChurchThe Japs had landed large forces ill could do had been to what at Salamaua, Lae and at Finscha-ve- had been offered back in August, and had been busily engaged in 1940, and which, apparently, had acthese positions as complished nothing. consolidating bases of supplies. But this time he went a little furThis was enough to set at rest any ther. He told the Indians that the doubts Australians might have had government had adopted a definite that India and not they were going plan as to how the dominion status to be next on the Jap time table. would be carried out, and that he Not only that, but the Japanese, with was sending his own right-han- d brutal frankness, had broadcast that man, Sir Stafford Cripps Australia was going to suffer the to India to explain it all topersonally them. same fate as had the Dutch East Indias and caste religious probIndies. lems were, admittedly, severe, and How much American aid and rewhether Cripps could dig his hand inforcement already was in Austrainto and come out with Britlia was dubious, and a closely guard- ains India little white rabbit remained to ed military secret. If we were weak, be seen. the military leaders naturally didnt He want the Japs to know how weak, and a was a miracle man in Russia, miracle man before Commons. and if we were strong enough to deCould he perform a third in this feat them, when and if they should war? Britain hoped so. land, these same leaders didnt want to warn them off. TAXES: The only stories concerning the amount of aid had come from Mc- Millions Pay Daniel, who had written that the Millions of Americans, many of town of Perth was so full of Ameri- them making their first to Uncle can troops that it looked like an Sams tax windows, hadtrip made their American city, and from British Cor- income tax returns for 1942, but only respondent Harr, whose dispatch a percentage of them were able to had caused an immediate tempest pay the full amount. which hadnt gone anywhere at all. At the same time they were aware Harr it was who, apparently writ- that 1943 taxes would be much ing from the midst of an American er, and there were thousands highwho convoy bound to Australia had said had a different picture of their famthat the sea was covered with ily budgets after making their reships and that hundreds of Ameturns than they did before. ricas best fighting pilots were In the meantime, in Washington, aboard. though some government authorities America also was sending men were against the sales tax as putting from the plains states he added, the burden on the weak, began seribut gave no hint of their status. ous consideration of some form of It was from Australian leaders sales tax as being probably less themselves that the hint came that painful and more sure of large the continent was One returns than increased income said: levies. It is the plan of the Japanese to The house ways and means comattack us before we can get pre- mittee had taken the bit between pared, and before we can receive its teeth in demanding that reinforcements. officials furnish them with treasury data on had Secrecy muddled the picture the probable yield of some form of for Americans, but certain it was sales tax. that in going after Australia the Secretary Morgenthau had taken Japs were really biting off a chunk the position that a sales tax would which would take a bit of chewing, be not only inequitable, putting the for theyd find no there heaviest burden on the poor, but that to be taken over. waiting ft would be inflationary. er shut-dow- Though there had been little action on Bataan peninsula, there had been a change in Japanese commanders with stoutish General Hom-m- a reported to have plunged a ceremonial knife into his own rotund vitals, and General Yamashita, the conqueror of Malaya, reportedly taking over in his place. In the best tradition of the Samurai, to be replaced by another general as having failed calls for a quiet trip into a secluded room, there to take a swift trip to visit ones ancestors. No soft berth at a desk awaits the unsuccessful commander in the field. For him comes swift dishonor, and death just as swift, at his own hand. Such is the code of the Samurai. When General Homma met General MacArthur he met more than a superior general and superior fighting men he met the end of the road. At the time Yamashita was organizing his forces for the purpose of wiping out MacArthur and thus wiping away his predecessors dis- honor (or of encountering some of his own) there was a huge demand ws v V vw s It yeem 5 wo jViovld ' tpprocvbJte. Whatever i dullne) p Fortune, brings, tvtKor now re. i writing Looks TWt jwat sm wr joy on WNU Service. CLASSIFIED DEPARTMENT PERSONALS Will the United States be invaded? Read the answer in WASHINGTONS VISION. Copy 50c postpaid. LATTER DAY SIGN, FILER, IDAHO. 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