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Show UTAH THE RICH COUNTY REAPER, RANDOLPH, Grass Seed Turns Waste Land Into Green Pastures The need for beef and beef products is so great these days that all available feed must be utilized. And one feed is grass. Grass is meat for our fighting men, for civilians and for Native grass seed stands well to the forefront of the feed picture. Native grasses are handy, economical and highly palatable. They supply about 65 per cent of the forage and feed for livestock in the western range states. As a result of the plant explorations of the U. S. Soil Conservation Service among native species growing here in America, specifically to and range find better forage plants, a number of grasses not previously cultivated have been brought into use. The seed of a number of native grasses could not be purchased anywhere a few years ago. The SCS personally had to collect all the seed needed for its land rehabilitation projects. But, since then, the agency has carried on an educational campaign for the harvesting, processing and planting of the seed. Interest in the importance of the seed was spurred. Prices went up. The seed of a number of native grasses is now being sold on an important scale by seedsmen. The establishment of a new farm industry collection of wild grass seeds has been the result. The SCS can now buy most of its seed from farmers and ranchers. Just what are the native grasses? Some of the principal ones are buffalo grass, blue grama grass, side oats grama, various bluestem grasses, switchgrass, sand dropseed, tobosa grass, western wheatgrass, galleta, Indian grass, and various wild-ry- e grasses. Some of these native grasses took quite a beating from expanded dryland farming in the latter part of the 19th century. Farmers kicked up more dust than the thundering herd. Subsequent drouths and severe winter storms didnt help matters any. The dust bowl was inevitable. Much of the range area is eroding to a certain degree. On most farms in the Great Plains and western states there are fields that should be revegetated, and the native grasses of the region, together with a few adapted introduced grasses, have proved most suitable for the purpose. Although farmers have come to the rescue of the land by providing grass cover for more than 75 per cent of the former dust bowl, still more native grass seed is needed. It is needed for producing meat, for curing sick land, and for healing unsightly gullies. In considering the particular use to which a grass known to be excellent in erosion control can be put, it is necessary first to know where this grass will grow. If a grass that protects and enriches the soil grows on many different types of soils and under a wide range of climatic conditions it will rank high among the grasses used in conser-- vation plantings. Since artificial revegetation requires planting, the seeding habits of grasses must be studied. Some grasses shatter their seed soon after it ripens, some are not reliable seed producers, and some grow only in scattered stands or in locations inaccessible to harvesting machinery. Other native stands produce seed of Now fros fcrent the. funny things With shiny eyes stick way out I just 'could tW ? stores, .t one For hours And Wonder whict thinks it Wbout. lend-leas- e. WNU Only TJ. S. Features. Free Port Did a Huge Business Before the war closed many of them, about 50 cities in the eastern hemisphere maintained a free port, or a foreign trade zone, in which goods from other countries could be stored, processed, repackaged and reshipped abroad without the payment of .import duties, says Colliers. Of the six free ports in the wes- ng tern the hemisphere, the only one in United States was d at Stapleton, Staten Island, com-plete- New York City, in 1937 and has handled as much es $88,600,000 worth of merchandise in a single year. Scattered tufts of coarse grass was all that grew on this desert land near Lordsbnrg, N. M., before the Soil Conservation service began work, (upper picture). Below shows the same section three years later. Tobosa grass has been planted, and it has flourished. The floodwaters of the rainy season have been utilized to irrigate the land instead of eroding it. Earth dikes and wire spreaders slow up the flow of the water, and allow it to sink in and soak the soil. The grass not only prevents further erosion, but provides abundant food for livestock. S- grasses has developed rapidly Many of our native grasses have awns or vested. in that require special been made have appendages Improvements the methods and machinery used in drills. Since seed of different spethe collection of seed of native cies vary in amount of processing grasses. As a result, unit costs have required to give a product of standbeen reduced and the harvesting of ard quality, processing schedules certain species formerly considered giving duration of treatment and economically prohibitive have been mill speed have been determined by undertaken. Direct purchase of seed various types of mills. Milling from farmers and ranchers has been costs are very low considering the on the increase. improvement obtained in the qualThe pocessing of seed of native ity of the seed. good quality that can be readily har- - Steamy Borneo Really Is a Story Book9 Land 6 Allied invasion of Borneo has reopened the worlds third largest island, after Greenland and New Guinea. It is a story book territory lying between the Japanese homeland and the main nerve centers of the Netherlands Indies, says the National Geographic Society. Borneo, straddled by the equator, is the typical tropical land dreamed about by readers stories, fictional and true. In many sections rankly growing vines lace trees together from ground to top. Rare and beautiful orchids thrive in the shadows. Spikelike thorns tear at clothing and flesh, and paths can be kept open only by continual hacking with heavy swordlike knives. The steaming heat is oppressive. Twenty-foo- t pythons glide along the ground and among the branches; shrieking, agile little gibbons and lumbering orangutans swing through the trees; crocodiles Associated Newspapers WNU Features. BY NANCY PEPPER NEW RULES FOR JOOLS (a gal who doesnt around) can wear her jewelry straight but it takes Cruisin Susan (a gal who does get around) to learn all the new rules for jools. Weve tracked down some of them with the aid of our own soda fountain FBI. You can take it from there. Any square know her way yours. In case youd like to know, lots of girls are doing it in Pitts- burgh, Pa. RODDY RUMORS Jape' are reported to have reverted the process for making rubber out of oil and are making gasoline and oil out of natural rubber. The One of the largest tire repair shops overseas, operated by the Ordnance Tire Repair Company In Italy, turns out 534 repaired and recapped tires per day. of-trav- stay-at-ho- "GAY GADGETS" Tires which were Introduced to the public eighteen months before Pearl Harbor, to waken the nation to the necessity of mass production of synthetic rubber, were created after fourteen years of Intensive research In synthetic rubber by B.F.Goodrich. Are you a Roddy McDowell fan? Since he grew up, hes become a teen-ag- e drool and swoon boy. Van Johnson isnt the only one who has infest streams. Flying Frogs, Midget Deer. fan clubs! We spent an afternoon Numerous other wild animals inwe and recently visiting Roddy h mouse deer, n on clude tiny, youd like the Coquettish Cameos Ask mother thought wild honey bears, rhinos, and pigs, p star. for that old cameo pin she has this high-uBorneos elephants. Among queer converRoddys favorite topic of creatures are the flying foxes which tucked away Virsation is my sister, Virginia. or somewhere; are bats and the frogs, which ginia, whos a beauty, is 17 and shes have webbed feet flying dawdle down to of extreme width Roddys favorite gal, at the mo. the dime store that serve as parachutes when they favorite comic Prince is Roddys and buy yourself make mighty leaps. Valiant. Says he really doesnt go one. Pin it to a Borneos air is filled with the shrill in for funnies, but he likes the Valslack ribbon sounds of myriads of High-broiant stuff! drawings. or at the insects. Mute Roddy and his mother (and his vivid colors butterflies show their base of the low against the varie4 sister, Virginia) entertain G.I. Joes neckline of your of the jungle. Scorpions and greens for dinner every Sunday usually new date dress. sting flies make life unhappy for six at a time. Nothing like it for the residents, who must also Roddy cleans and dusts his own faceislands glamour. the of ravages now room, that theres a servant Bar Maids Lots of girls termites. Many a European wife in Hills. problem up His Beverly flaunting those little silver lieuten- mother has removed a cupboard to find it says hes pretty thorough. ant bar pins. The newest way to had no back, or seen her beds and wear them is to pin one on either ofRoddys favorite actress (or one chairs fall apart from the hidden side of your sweater neckline. Take onethem) is Tallulah Bankhead and invasions of these ant of his favorite friends in Hollypests. a black velvet ribbon, put it around in Jungles. Headhunting wood is Sam genial Marx, producer neck and slip each end through your It is estimated that Borneo has a one of the bars. Then draw the rib- of Lassie Come Home. population Roddys favorite subject in school of whom of around three million, bon down together to the front of before the war school, of course) is civics. only your sweater and tie it in a bow. (studio about 3,500 were Europeans. Native P.S. No, Roddy really doesnt go Do we make ourself clear or must out with girls much yeW-s- o theres peoples known as Dyaks make up we draw a picture? the majority of the inhabitants, with Shoot Your Arrow Dress up that a chance for you and you and additional groups of Javanese, Chiyou! fringed kiltie skirt by removing the and nese, Arabs, Malays, huge safety pin that fastens it at the latter comprising not only true TRIXIE TEEN SAYS -one side and substitute a rhinestone Late hours are bad for one and even Malays, but those of other races or silver arrow pin. Then a pair of the Mohammedan faith. worse for two. You complain when arrow earrings to match and youre your professing An interesting feature of native all set for a date except for the parents lay down a curfew law. Comes life in Borneo is the train time and community boy. Youll have to work that part Youd like to you feel like Cinderella. Well, dwelling, or long house, built on out for yourself. whether its hard to do or not, its always stilts and often decorated with huIdea for I.D.s With a needle and better to leave a when youre still man skulls. Under one roof, a whole thread, tack your Identification having a whirL Itsparty always smarter to say village, with dozens of bracelet to your velvet hair band, goodnight to your date when families, may you still be accommodated. with the name plate directly at cen- have plenty to say to each other. Deep in the inAfter ter front. all, that Prince wouldnt have run after terior, tattooed and much ornamentLoafer Lure Everybodys wear- Cinderella unless she had disappeared just ed savages, recalling the circus adhe was getting interested. Try to vertisements of the Wild Man of ing pennies in the slots of loafer when end your Borneo, still practice headhunting evenings when youre still wishshoes. Just to be different, wear a would last forever. and strange rites and feasts in honpair of silver lieutenant bars on ing they (hats your motto. or of the dead. UU 033313 foot-hig- low-dow- dog-coll- lv f6mlAn tan Xu. am Auautv. ar ear-pierci- ng w Minute Mule-llja- A By GABRIELLB nd wood-devouri- ng so-call- ed Do the One Minute eye exercise, simply this Close and open your eyes, close and open. Do this for One Minute whenever you fee! eye strain. And remember a really good eye lotion lessens eye strain and puts sparkle in your eyes be- Its cause it clpanses them. Ledger Syndicate. 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