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Show THE RICH COUNTY REAPER, RANDOLPH, UTAH Rich Prankster Tried to Win Prize With $11 Nag Agricultural Tools Rationing Called Off, But War Demand Will Limit the Supply Hughes, a wealthy New Yorker who died in 1924. Of his scores of practical jokes, all succeeded but one: an attempt to win a prize at a Madison Square Garden horse . Wind Strip-Croppin- g show in the 1900s with a nag he Blowing of Soil had bought for $11. Noticing that the animal would not move until its rider jingled a little bell in its Time at Hand to Plan ear, the judges became suspicious For Future Protection and questioned Hughes, and he confessed trying to fool them with FARMERS ard making more and this horse which he had purchased from a streetcar company and more use of wind to help protect the soil and increase named Orphan Puldeca (often food production in areas where Bare, pulled a car). dry soils are subject to blowing by constant winds of high velocity, according to the War Food administration. When the fertile topsoil is Big Increase in Parts, However, Will Be Available Halts The farmers of America are continuing, as usual, to do a magnificent job of producing foodstuffs. In 1944, for the eighth successive year, they produced a record food total despite a steadily dwindling manpower supply that reached its lowest point in 35 years. Agricultural tools are no longer rationed, but that doesnt mean that the farmer, though he has the money, is going, to be able to get that new tractor or combine he wishes so he can improve on the production miracle he has already accomplished. Its the same old trouble weve had since Pearl Harbor. Theres a war on! Manufacture of farm machinery, although recognized as an essential civilian must program, has to be balanced in relation to direct war production. Here is the way the government sums up the situation: During the 1945 crop year it is expected that American farmers will obtain approximately the same amount of new farm ma- - Probably no American ever spent as much time and money playing pranks as did Brian G. strip-croppi- ng gResr coo to Ease Sore, Aching Muscles MENTHOLATUM Potato Digger That Handles Two Rows at a Time. ing supplied 20 per cent of the food as cast iron, rubber, zinc, copper, eaten by American troops stationed that had gone into farm machines there. Australia has supplied near- in pre-wdays, had to be diverted to for food all American make the tanks, troops military trucks, ly in the South Pacific. landing craft, guns and other war A ar goods. In 1939 American farmers were able to buy 161,000 new tracActual Production tors. But that was a year when ITEM 1940: this comtry made only 2,141 Tractors 222,009 In the calendar year of planes. Corn pickers 11,436 American farmers when 1943, .. Mowers 110,413 to were able buy a mere 85,000 Bakes (side delivery) 28,053 new the United States '. tractors, . . . 22,977 loaders Hay Pick-u- p manufactured more than 85,000 balers 2,047 Grain drills (plain and fertilizer) 33,248 planes mainly for war. Manure spreaders 49,425 The critical shortage of raw ma113,830 Disc harrows terials that put a ceiling on manuIrrigation pumps, turbine facture of new farm machines in Moldboard plows, tractor; 1942 has been superseded by a short112,472 One to three bottom of manpower and components. age 2,509 bottom five Four and During the first quarter of the 1945 Tractor mounted: farm machinery production year, 23,259 Two bottom 1. 14,214 y manufacture of new machinery exdisc plows.. well 253,105 shallow and clusive of wheel tractors, repair systems Deep 43,816 Combines parts and attachments was approx31,526 Milking machines imately 25 per cent behind sched82,835 Cream separators ule. 149,361 d cultivators This lag in production was caused 36,232 cultivators One row, horse-draw-n manpower shortages and the diftractor-drawn by 81,320 Planters, horse and 14,166 ficulty in obtaining components, Planters, tractor mounted 4,142 . . chiefly malleable and gray iron castPlanters, potato , In the Middle West, where ings. all Order plus Includes production carried over from WPB Limitation American farm machinery of most production from appeals and supplemental authorizations. the labor supply is inadeis made, 1944. Production through September 30, quate, a condition that will not American farmers will be able to change while war goods are still urchinery and attachments as they howobtain no more new tractors, side gently needed. One concern, that did in 1944. There will be, in more delivery rakes, combines, or other before the war made approximately ever, nearly $20,000,000 ma- haying and harvesting machinery 35 per cent of American farm repair parts. In other words, there is still not enough new farm machinery to go around. Farmers, in many cases, are going to have to conserve and repair and get along the best they can with what they have, rather than buy new replacements. Approximately 90 per cent of the new farm machines (except tractors) that will be made in the United States during the 1945 production year July 1, 1944, to June 30, 1945, will be available to American farmers. About 10 per cent will go abroad approximately 7 per cent in commercial exports and 3 per cent according to the through Lend-LeasForeign Economic administration. d farm machines (that totaled only 2.5 per cent of the entire production of U. S. farm machinery from the start of the Lend-leas- e program from March, 1941, to June, 1944), had to be sent abroad to step up food production for our Saves Labor. Cultivating Corn, Four Rows at a Time, This farm boys fighting overseas. 1944, machinery export not only helped during the 1945 crop year than dur- chines, reported in October, would it prob1945, to feed our boys, but saved urMarch, that by ing the 1944 crop year. ably be short 6,000 workers needed gently nfeeded shipping space for machines of the types to schedule. Considering munitions instead of thousands of the re- to keep production up war this tons of food grown on the wrong in use on American farms, the In effect, during the crop to placements required and its farmers side of the ocean. The chief recipiasked has s country by war, WFA ents of Lend-lease- d with less men more farm machines shifts necessitated crops raise program have been Australia, New Zealand current farm machinery the manuto do the work, to keep their to emphasize continues and the British Isles, the latter hav- farm equipment in working ormaching facture of such der somehow without counting side delivery ' T'rWn. s wit. . ery as corn pickers, haters. WFA, too heavily on replacements, rakes and pickup hay and to share their machines with the manuhowever, has requested farmers whenever and other of facture for the 1945 cropandyear wherever possible. tillage more planting, fertilizing Included To 1944. help farmers keep their mafor equipment than chines going, manufacture of repair are such items of farm equipment attachments has been inand listers, parts as corn and cotton planters, and bean drills, creased considerably. In 1944 the potato planters, beet fertilizer distribu- scheduled production of repairtopartsendgate seeders, apand attachments amounted tors tractor plows and cultivators, 28.3 per cent of the to- cultivators proximately dso harrows, walking tal farm machinery output, as com- . and rotary hoes. 14 per cent in 1940. of pared with During the war, manufacture Twenty-on- e per cent more farm recogfarm machinery, although were produced in 1944 commodities must nized as an essential civilian 5 with 1940 in per cent fewer to be balanced in than program, has had war workers. production. relation to direct The annual employment on Amerentered States United from 10,585,- When the machin- ican farms .decreased the war, production of farm because OOoin 1940 to 10,037,000 in 1944. Ap- curtailed 4,000,000 workers have ery was sharply become an nroxiirately munitions production had left agriculture for war industries demand on this country or the armed forces. steel. The steel, as well Hay Baler Saves Labor. 1944-4- 5 Schedule B (Planned) 1943-4- 4 1 One-wa- Tractor-mounte- 'L-17- 0, t e, , Plant Windbreaks Now. removed, productivity of the affected land is immediately lowered, and will continue to decrease from year .e,r Commend Of the to year unless some means of stop5robY jl0poi;4r fot tee ping the depletion is employed. Calox Wind is the use of that shine. alternate strips placed at right anCM-- O gles to prevailing winds, or in a continuous S, so that the winds cannot blow parallel to the rows. Closegrowing crops such, as legumes, grasses and small grains are plantUtXVV ts lltilN- - vYlli1 ed in alternate bands with cultivated crops, and when turned under as green manure replace nitrogen, organic matter and other plant food essential to fertility. If the strips are laid out on the contour, the water conservation that results will offer additional help in preventing the soil from blowing. Alternate strips of summer fallow Just Use and grain shorten the distance that loose soil can move during rest peWhen fallow and wheat are riods. stripped together, for example, the stubble left after the wheat has been harvested will protect the fallowed The Amazing Fast Dry Yeast I land while it renews its fertility in Use Just tike Compressed Yeast preparation for the new grain crop. The old wheat strip will then go into fallow, in progressive rotation. In many areas where it is especialhas ly suitable, wind alof the method earlier replaced ternating entire fields of fallow and Tbl&uty crops. The movement of soil exposed during winter and spring 7tecv"fc months is greatly reduced when the land is planted in alternate bands rather than in fields which would be open to the wind. The danger and severity of the winds must be taken into consideration in planning the width of the strips. The stronger the blowing, Maca requires no special meththe narrower the strips required to ods or recipes. It acts so fast, rises counteract its effect. so quickly your baking is all done Many barren wastes in America in a few hours. And what a baking could be completely salvaged by it is! Maca Yeast gives bread and proper wind rolls a rich, golden beauty, a strip-croppi- ng r 0033300 nncn.j strip-croppi- ng strip-croppin- smooth, even texture and a flavor. cious Agriculture Lend-lease- deli- In the News By W. J. Dryden WleLWitfwt CORK OAK TREE Cork oak tree cultivation is limited in the United States by two factors, drouth and severe jfj winter temperatures. The tree has withstood a minimum temperature of five degrees below zero along -- labor-savin- Atlantic seaboard. It is beto have lieved even survived ..... STcf g. Feeling Cork ! , lower tempera-- , tures in the moun tains of Spain. Poor drainage or rainfall below 20 inches per year are not conducive to proper growing conditions. The federal governments forest service is encouraging the planting of cork trees. Not only do they serve a national need, but prove valuable additions to pastures and general shades for the farmstead. The present most critical use for cork is the making of engine gaskets, Other uses for cork are insulation, floor and wall coverings, bot-tie stoppers, corn caps, handles for fishing rods, shoe insoles, linoleum, friction pads and life preservers and , rafs Maca saves you extra trips to the store because you can always keep a handy supply on your pantry shelf For your complete protection, we date every package." So bake with success insurance! Always use Maca Yeast, the original fast, granular yeast. Your grocer may be out of stock right now, because Maca is serving the armed forces. If he is, ask for Yeast Foam (Magic Yeast). It, too, gives bread and rolls a flavor. wonderful -- NORTHWESTERN YEAST COMPANY 1750 N. Ashland V COPT1ICHT IMS, Ay. , Chicago KTHWUTH U, TCAST CO. W. |