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The Current Farm Land Price SituationPrices of land in all states went '-

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farm real estate market.The average increase for the ;.:~:_1~2_Z~t

entire U. S. during the periodamounted to four per cent. ‘

Washington, Idaho and Montanawere below the national average, .. _ .. _

each_ with 3 three_ per cent increase Here is the farm land price situation In northwest states at a. glance. Changes in percent-but In Q1-egon pl-Ices went up only ages, are shown for each state for the year, Nov. 1, 1949, to Nov. 1, 1950. The biggest Jump,two cent The four month in ll per cent, occurred in Minnesota. Rises were steeper after the Korean war began in June.

crease in North Dakota was fourper cent, the same as the national slightly higher now than it was estate dealers report that they haveaverage, and in Minnesota prices then. relatively few farms listed for sale,increased ve per cent. The dollar-value of farm mort- and in some areas the number has

For the year, ending NOv_1’195(), gages recorded in the nation as a decreased since the middle of thethe situation was different. Minne- Whole durlhg the th1I'§1 quarter et Yeah ,

sota land. which was down in 1949 1950 was latgehthah 1h any e°m' The Bureau’ pnor to makmg usfrom its 1948 level, bounced back Parable Perled Slhee 1934, When eh report’ asked farm real estate deal‘in 1950, making in all an 11 per extensive renaywlng program was ers Whether they 1°_°1< f°1‘ anycent increase in the year. Washing- Under Way, and It W85 hlhe Per eeht changes m Senmg Pncfas of landton land’ on the other hand, Showed more than 1n- the previous third and the volume of sales in the nexta net decrease of two per cent in qhartehpeak, after 1934, Whleh 0e- 51X m°hth$- Over °he‘t°u1'th °t thethe year. The total increase for the curred 1h 1946- Reeerdlhgs 1h the dealers expect the pn.°e of farmsyear was only one per cent in Ore_ third quarter of 1950 showed a gain pf avirage quglitly to 11’1CIi(:18€)€

gon and Idaho and in both Montana of 12 per. cent In number and 28 W04 Ir S Sal ere wou e 1 'and North Dakota it four per (gent 1n total amgunt Qver the tle change. LESS than one-tenth Of

cent same period in 1949. The average gel? lookgorl prizes to _<;Hecgezi1se.

' ' ' ea r i er W1 1 -A eempartseh of Present lahd ?:)ze$‘fg1garirII11 lI$1)g0tgfT'%?rsi lirticlggsig tle £85112: inathiz volifme of fales.

prices with those of 1920, the top 1949_ ’ ’ They are having, in fact, fewerpoint after WOI'1d War I,Sh0WS 14]:-land values are expected to farnls thern for salein Minnesota North Dakota and show continued strength during the then in ethel‘ years-Idaho they still are under the high coming year,” the Bureau’s report ia-levels reached that Year but that said. “Net farm income in 1951 is At acost of $5,500,000 the Alumi-in Washington, Oregon and M0h- likely to be at least 15 pericent num Company of America built atene, Whieh Were effected e0IT1p81‘8- higher than in 1950 and net rental new factory at Vancouver, Wash.,tively little by the 1919 and 1920 returns are expected to continue to manufacture aluminum wireadvances, the range of prices is favorable. . . . Many farm real cable.

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Department nj .-Igrirullllr-0| bevrlopmenl rnent Stations under re: Slmrl PdI'lI§I'IIP'll About Alrlcullure in7 Northern Pacic Territory

NORTHERN PACIFIC RAILWAY gf§}r'Ietwrfr1;°‘}f.r‘r’r‘rr'idoo'§’r>r'oa§;,“f e e e - 4J’. w. HAW ...... ..5....r .... ..st. Paul, Minn. Many _Paeic Iglorthwest farmers The Northwestern Seed Growers

irec or ' ' - - ’are ralslng mm - Inc., Moscow, Ida., is making contractsw. J. HUNT .................. ..St. Paul, Minn. An 85-gallon portable pilot plant With f=;1rm@I‘S f<>1‘ Pfodlwfioll Of Saf-

Assi5‘*"* ‘° ‘he D"°°‘°' for peppermint oil distillation has °w°r m 1951'A.J.DEX'1‘ER ................ ..St. ram Minn. been built. Operation of the plant Growers rrr Cube bu -' . . y certied seed

“""°}‘$‘,§",“.,‘_.,l{,°1’,'§“;*§,';1.$‘;.;‘g°“‘ has m_d1cated that th_e Steam con‘ from North Dakota farmers to producesumption of commercial plants can a winter crop of Triumph potatoes. Last

A. R. iviIE_sEN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..st. Paul, Minn. be reduced about 25 per cent and year they took _150 carloads of NorthAg"°“"“m1 De"°1°pm°“t Ag°“t that cooling water can be cut 40 per Dagfqta r5‘i°dAWh1°i1 was ‘mg and $h1P'

H. W. BYERLY . . . . . . .._. . . . . . . ..St. Paul, Minn. cent, This will eegt 3 saving in pe m ae ugus 'I'“'“’g"“‘°“ “g°"‘ the fuel and water costs in the eldd. on t. f .1 L b t 1 R. E. Sylvester, near Mandan, N.D.,L. S. Macl_)ONALD . . . . . . . . . . ..Missoula. Mont. IS 1 3 1011 0 O1 . 3. OI‘ COS S 8 S0 seeded 30 acres to Sudan grass on June

Agricultural Development Agent can be reduced. 10, 1950. E_xactly 30 days later he turned

“’w‘°".s"“’,lLE-T"1‘I"""i"5.;""i"s°“‘§“ii “’“f“‘ S"P*‘"‘“°“ m°th°ds °f the mint iii.¢ii’bi¢“ii>° »iii1‘:Zniii‘i=§‘§i§>i»§§?kii}i§'<iCS ETD gricu Ufa Ve 0 men en ' ‘ I1005 Smith Toweg g O11 and Water after they are con“ by frost, they gave more milk than on

densed in a separator have bi-3811 any other summer pasture Sylvester. . . . . . . . . . . .. ea e. asi. ‘ ' ' e d_

Agricultural Development Agent lmprpved much 011 whlch usu ev r use1005 Smith Tower ally is lost in the waste water and

This magazine is sent tree for ve months which pollutes r1YeI'$ and §tI'tE3IIlS _ The Great Weseln sugar campanyv- - in its factory at Billings, Mont., handledto those indicating an interest in the North (gan be 5aVed_ Th15 may ellnunate .

west states. _On expiration of that Deriod it h d f d- -11- h In 85 days the 300,000't0l'1 crop °_f51-183!‘mgyzgecggg1riledpggaizeygezlypgasgagrigafrgd; t e nee or 1'_e 15“ mg t_ 9 W35_te beets produced on 24,000 acres in 1950mmps_ coin or money orggr -mode our §o water to reclaim all the oil. Red1s- by its farmer contractees.Northern Pacic Railway. It you wi h t ' ' ' 1' e_ ' renew on a complimentary basis £0: vg tlued O11 ls of a lower g adrrégnrigzhgigrs may be done by making a writ- The current market price of mint Oats grown by Henry Tintzman on

e»--e€@ °i1 is aPP'°Xima‘°1Y $6 a P°“"di iiii; L<§‘}gi~711§S.§i“§"l’n‘5‘ §§§i§é§‘i2§§°i’§—* ijm Wfgul which is about a pint" raised, by L E Peterson also in Bitlter

FEBRUARY’ 1951 i Root,dw§re‘thehonly entries from trile* —~ * - mm "'*: Unite tates t at won p aces in t eFliom 4%‘ alere; lastt £8850 region l oatg givision of the hater-

' . overc ec arves e , nationa ay an rain show in C ica-Mlnt Process Improved pounds of clover seed on the Pasco g<r>- Therfthel‘ “rin"eT$ in she rst 28

More efficient methods for dis- unit of the Columbia Basin Irriga- P aces a were mm Cam 3'tilling mint oil than have been tion project in Washington.

Yellowstone county farmers, in Mon-tana, grew 97,100 acres of wheat in

I i W. i i“ W W 1950. Th, I e crop averaged 23 bushels an§i"(I('hIlI(P Tk 000!‘ Back-Bending Farm J00 ll acre—nearly double the county averageI-~~ — K — me a ~ ~ - - -- —- a‘ for 1949. The total amounted to 2,233,-300 bushels, valued at $4,064,606.

Research scientists at the Oregon- ___ Agricultural Experiment station found

that the following special items maybe made from cranberries: jam, spicedbutter, an ice cream topping, concen-trated juice and a carbonated cranberrybeverage.

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Contractors clearing timber on a res-ervoir site for the U. S. Bureau ofReclamation in western Montana usedseveral hundred feet of heavy wirecable pulled along the ground in a bigloop by two tractors. The cable caughton trees and brush and knocked themover. A four-and-a-half-ton steel ball,eight feet high, attached in the middleof the loop, made this method of clear-ing more eective.

Because of recent changes in theoutlook for ber ax, including the

‘d disappearance of current sup-American Crystal Sugar com an an h i l t i It it i t Mi , rap‘ .Mont. It does a clean job on stoges yfl"(Il:‘;s3b0?ltnl8e!E i?ll:lfa3l1i1°;‘i'l:ll?t:rll‘::8 iiicliirlsliaii diailsigltlg. Phesv 3 greater acreage “(Ill be seededIt can can-y over a ton of rocks. Hydraulic dump located in the bottom empties the body. in Oregon this year than in 1950.

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"“"’* screening committee and if theyare found worthy, they are eligiblefor registry with the Brangus asso-ciation at Venita. Okla. The nishedproduct is a black polled animal.

W The pictures show only the rstcross and it will take two morecrosses to produce the Brangus.

Peltz, who is a native of Wyom-ing but has spent a considerabletime in the southwest, states thatthe purpose of this crossing is toget early growth. hybrid vigor andscale. These cattle have becomepopular during the last 10 years.and cattlemen state that by reasonof the fact that Brahma calves areordinarily small at birth, this cross-ing simplies many of the problems

hThese re] llirst-cross Itsrzihma-Aberdeen Angus calves on the Keystoine ranch. owned by at calving time, With the I‘8SL1l'[ thatJo n Q. N c os, south o ivingston, ont. After two more crosses, t eir progen' will b ' ' .known as Brangus, a new breed which is valued for hybrid vigor, early maturity and first gain; Operators achleve hlgh pel centagesin the number of calves saved. Theb <1" 1 " <1, d' gBrangus Cattle Tried in Montana t§e‘i>e1'§z,a Z‘; r§§§1g<ii§T§ vZ§§°rhi§hdressing percentages when the ani-Cross of Brahma and Angus on Ranch in Yellowstone Valley mals are slaughtered He feels that

Something new has been added An us and Brahma cattle. 'Ihefrom the standpoint of commercial

g cattle production this program willgo Monten agriculture;-the_Bran£ Brangusthbreed ii one eiftqhebpeg Work in exceptgnally wen with aus, w 1c 1s a com ma ion 0 ones in 1S coun ry, an e oo We -ed An herAberdeen Angus and Brahma cat- lines of these cattle contain three- p Thlelreneh iiueslse eir in anum_tle. John Q. Nichols and Hugh F. eights Brahma and ve-eights ber of Quarter horses e¥1d%We outPeltz are raising them on the 800- Angus. Standin Stamens The eons reeeiveacre Keystone ranch,in the Yellow- The Brangus animal is produced earl egre eed txleinin whieh estone valley, south of Livingston. as follows: the rst cross consists to rgeke a ne Sedd1e%el.Se gNichols, who is vice president of a Brahma bull on Angus fe- . . '.and treasurer of the Yellowstone males; in the second cross, the heif- The "inch Itself 15 wen equlppedPark company, is the owner of the ers from the above mating are bred Wlth bulldmgs and corralls .and. Itranch and Peltz is the manager. to Angus bulls; in the third cross, ‘S a picture of neamesS* lndltmtmgThey are raising Quarter horses, a half-breed bull is used with the good. m‘~j‘\}‘}§’.§‘="¥‘°“t amé a“e"“°'? topurebred Aberdeen Angus cattle heifers from the second cross, and deta1_l' 1 e It may e Zome “meand Brangus. The latter are the re- this produces the Brangus. These befole the Brngus bree becomessult of a cross between Aberdeen animals are then inspected by a popular In thls arfea" local peoplewill watch this project as the cattle

are reputed to be exceptionallygood rustlers and are said to havethe ability to make fast and earlygains in weight.—L.S.M.

He Bet On DairyingCharles Dixon, a young farmer

on 77 acres on the Pasco unit of theColumbia Basin Irrigation project.in central Washington, has gone in-to dairying. “We have 60.000 peopleright here, around Pasco, Kenne-wick and Richland, who want milk,cream and butter,” Dixon said. “I’mgetting $4.50 a hundred pounds formilk containing 3.8 per cent butter-fat. My costs are low—I put up 2C0tons of alfalfa hay from 36 acres.It was branding time on the Keystone ranch when Warner F. Clapp took_this camera shot. I-Iav_ silage and grass are my prin(;i-Cowboys. who work under Hugh F. Peltz, the ranch manager. were putting the Keystone " ..imprint on Brahma-Angus calves. This ranch also has Quarter horses and purebred Angus. P31 fe9d$-

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Farmers Feeding Them to Livestock Get Large Gains t'(e)rl(§et;htti)st‘ht:!u£t)(;t€:$)re:eeds under It

In the Pacic Northwest farmers farmers in the Yakima valley fat- Golob has tattehed heth eatvesrecognize the value of potatoes as tens several hundred cattle every and heather eattte eh Petateee Ohelivestock feed. They began using year on potatoes. He has been do- Preeahtteh he ehserves 15 always tothem in their cattle operations long ing it for more than 10 years. Usu- ke?P Plenty Of potatoes before thebefore the federal surplus program ally he puts in 800-pound cattle off ahhhats 5° they ‘_”°h t heeeme teefor this crop ever was thought of. the range, where he buys them, hungry at ahy thhe ehd overeat"In the Yakima valley, in central and he starts them on potatoes, Bhhks er troughs are hhed dehy'Washington, cattle fattening, on a grain, straw, mineral and black- Ih teeehhg them _large Phs Sth”ration of whole, raw potatoes, was strap molasses. Generally Golob’s Fehhded bY eleetrle genie, t 9 W111?

being carried on 12 to 15 years ago cattle are in the lots for 100 days, 15 moved lh tewarl the Potatoesby men who were farming inten- sometimes more and sometimes Whehever the eatt e eve ,eetféhsively and who needed animal fer- less, before they go to market. To- ehehgh Se that more eah t etilizer to maintain the physical con- ward the last of the feeding period, reaehett .

dition as well as to enhance the with some bunches of cattle, he Ahether teeter that gmies thlevel of fertility of soils that were includes in the ration ve pounds evththhg ehekthg. ahd b1°.a* ts theirrigated heavily and which were a day of grain which consists of use et .e geed ththerel mlxthhe thfurnishing big yields of crops. half dry beet pulp and half a mix- the hett°h' Pa"1°"1.‘“‘ly et. the he'Some of the same men still are ture of equal parts of cracked peas, gthhlhg et.the teethhg period‘ Get"feeding cattle today and others, wheat and bran. eh S expenehee ts that eettle tekehhaving observed their results, have Golob feeds potatoes mostly in ett rehge grass hshehy ere,hhhgryfollowed suit. They feed either the long piles on the ground. They are fer hhheret It they eheh t. gwehcull potatoes obtained from their dumped from trucks. The piles are ehy th. e Shpplethehtel mtxthhe’own elds or they buy the pickouts several feet deep. Timbers 8x8 are they Whl eat tee mehy petetees thwhich accumulate at any of the big placed along the edges of the piles eh ettert te thehe. up tor the deh'sorting warehouses in the area. to hold them and a one-wire elec- etehey' ehd dtgesttve trehhtes maySome who depend on this source tric fence is used to enclose each he the result‘ . .

of feed do not grow any at all them- pile. The animals push through, Geteh and ethers th the Yehhheselves but they arrange with a under the wire, to eat. Thus they Valle?’ who teed petetees have ee'grower or a warehouse operator are forced to keep their heads down terhhhee that eetves eeh hsetrethfor a supply which will be constant and this fact alone makes it possi- he to eh pehhgs per heed dehy titor at least large enough to last ble to avoid much of the choking Ezséztggzlfthfog ggugggrditggiggelthrough the feeding season. that otherwise mi ht occur. He - '

J. W. Golob one of the good feeds too from 10% bunks but Several of the men feed no gram’ ’ ’ g ’ at all and get very good results.Generally alfalfa is not used.

' ‘ Gains in the valley on potatoesrun two pounds per steer per day.In exceptional cases three poundsdaily are obtained. From this, it ispossible to make an estimate of thevalue of potatoes for cattle feeding.

. Under present conditions, some of. the feeders gure they can afford

to pay possibly 30 cents a hundredpounds, or $6 a ton, for cull pota-toes. If they are using their ownculls, they are able to give them asomewhat higher value.

Potato growers in the Red Rivervalley of North Dakota heard somuch about the success of feedingoperations in central Washingtonthat several of them tried it them-selves. Excellent results have beenobtained. Take W. J. and M. G.Dickson, in Grand Forks county,North Dakota, as examples. Thesebrothers, who farm together, havebeen feeding cattle for 20 years but

i for the last three years they haveThe view above WI tak J. W. G I b’ h, 1 th Y kl ll . It h -surplus potatoes and grein sfrlhwtrmready !oroGooldb’rs“e§ttle.nTheese ttwomitethdz zflye thes rltihvlh lptatitltt used p0tat0es' They have ad ac

oi’ their fattening ration. See line on pole carrying electricity to hot wire across the yard. CESS 110 3 large supply WhlCh W38

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are in front of them, the Dicksons Alpshave observed.

During severe winter weather, BEpotatoes are kept inside, under a In our January issue on page 2roof. They are taken out to the ’ - ’bunks four or ve times daily. L: tilg-aboltttghi ts-ale’ wfhlch wasTherefore they do not have a pe mg a a 1me’O go-vern-

. . ment-owned sagebrush land in anf}§‘§;:_°f1Sfe‘}LffIf§:s°a‘;“§(_;%h "° lmpa“ area called block 40 of the Colum-

' bia Basin pI‘O]8ClZ, between Mosesb ¥g°mt.th“ie weellzst 31 aDI.nl(:nth Lake, Wash., and Wheeler._ Watere re ime o mar e e ic soncattle, potatoes are discontinued 3712181 kigsgalilélgge 530222 to nglgaéeem aci cand a fun feed of com’ supplemem railwa also has land in block 40tal pliotlein and hay are given‘ N0 suitablle for farming a part of itsprotem 1s.furmShed before that‘ original land grant. ylt consists oftoghindflgleugggllgggndg; limit‘: 2,192 acres, appraised in 1950 at an

. average of $6.42 per acre.Bfgririboug ghe same as m the west" The railroad land will be put oniga e areas

Signicant results were obtained ti; market about March 1’ thlsin recent feeding tests conducted y r‘ - - -

at the Minnesota Experiment sta- lthcatlins of l-alpphgalntsd whgh th b h wis _o purc ase rai_roa an anéglgioéltezrts zgrtoskggn “at vgggfe farm it will be considered by oili-

’ ’ . - ’ f the company’s land depart-raw potatoes made cheaper gains in cers O -.nStance th i .1aI_ ttl ment. They will select purchasersy J. a s mi ca efattened at the same time on grain for 17 farm umts“and hay. Furthermore those re- Application forms will be fur‘ceiving potatoes gained about the nlshed to those who Wls,h to apply

léegymcattlea gem in ne Yailginf valley same as the grain-fed steers and in f°rt.he1and'An eort will be.madeT3’ three fmllfias ¢§'y Vin °§§u5i1 anIdol:trt:~1“v,\?. some instances the gains on p0ta- t° 1mf°rm hsucisstfx apphcaims

toes were higher. With three dif- ear Y enoug 5° 3 ey cane ear- their land, level it and make eldsurplus under the government Sup_ ferent lots of cattle,_ the feeding d. h . t. f . . t.

port program but W J Dickson value of potatoes varied from 51.9 _ 1t€9§;.lnPl'ePal'a len °l‘1l'1'l8a len- - ' ' - cents per 100 pounds to 69.75 cents. m

Asto age“ of is :5? $2112.*2..?r2z*12§.:“*a%§:§z?.

Dlcks°n B1'°thel'5 always have prove l ii Basin water in 1952—block 41,nearfrom 200_ to 300 acres annually ef L. k W , Bl block 40. This consists of 595 acreseonnnerelal Petalees-_ They never lvestoc on t oat in ve farm units. These also willyrvlllll dllrp a_nlyt:3nlfl5d1nc tlie fn€n1'§- Trefoil, the legume which is at- be offered for sale during 1951.

ese a wi e e o ives oc . 1; t‘ tt t‘ ll A ' , M?Furthermore. they even may plant 133$ ‘$3.38 ‘Z3 £113. §X§$.e§’l§’$§$‘e . . .a40-acre eld with spuds to be used of the big hvestock pmble-mS_ Cows of Dlstlnctlonentirely as eattle feed- They he" bloat of animals on pasture. A num- Bulah, Bambi, B0nY1ib<'I‘ll Winnie,hey; lh3t:FheaP fe€;l’t'he€}11lld he ber of farmers in Oregon and in gonnigand get? are tile Wasl3lng-pro uce is way. 1 e me- th C 1'f ' h () 3 on a ies w 0 ave s ars in eirplhapical handlgpg and bul€< storage g:I¢.;-1:§3ed z;;p%n:)l? 1;:-Vef?;i1,grs(:,y1e- grown fplil lavishthmilg Idrispensgng

a are possi e, e cos s can e t' 11 d1 t h t t d th uring e mon o ovem er,kept very 10W as 10118 as high P1‘°' alrngessfilee ¢hZt“s1ivZ§§0Zka edoesrlilt 1950- Pete is a lady, even if sheduction per acre is maintained. bloat on it At the Astor Experi- has a boy’s name.Forty ae1'e$ Shenld furnish enengh ment station, near Astoria, Ore., Bulah was the high producer, thele keep 30 head ef heavy eallle en many cattle have been pastured on “Cow of the Month.” She’s a nine-fel]3:<)l_ fl?!‘ 90 gays; lotus étrtefoil) during theh last‘; 15 year-oldt I‘?)gl1S'(€é8d Guernspygf lie-

1c son ro ers a en o years u no case o oa as een onging o a e arpen er, 0 a 1-300 cattle every winter and they found. The Cornell university ex- ma. Her yearly record is good, too.have used potatoes both for calves tension bulletin N0. 797 says: She produced 17,809 pounds of milkand for 900- ounders with almost “Bloat after eating is rare in ani- and 844.8 ounds of butterfat in al pTh fd tt ltht b'dftt 305d tptPt th 'equa success. ey ee po a oes mas a graze on ir s oo re- - ay es. e e was e winnerin bunks and try to keep the bunks foil.” Research people in Oregon for cows 12 years old and over.full all the time. They give either have commented that possibly un- Owned by Ray McCarthy, of Ever-wild hay or straw but no alfalfa. der certain conditions lotus may ett, Pete produced 16,350 poundsTwo bunks lled with corn are cause bloat but that there certainly of milk and 546.3 pounds of butter-kept available but the cattle eat is less tendency than with most fat in 305 days on twice-a-day milk-very little corn as long as potatoes other legumes. ing.

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Experience on his own farm inMercer county, in western NorthDakota, has convinced Ed Schulzthat an eicient way to feed a pro-tein supplement to the breedingcows and beef calves he wintersevery year is to give them rangecubes or pellets.

A problem, at rst, Schulz re-ported, was to get his cattle to eatthe supplement in this form buthe solved it by putting the elletedjjjj PYou see above a farm scene typical of much of Clatsop county in western Ore on-narrow - - ~valleys bordered on both sides by cutover higher land. Livestock and productlon of grass feed through hls hammermlll Wlth

seeds are the principal agricultural enterprises in the county. Some farmers keep chickens. a little grain and then feeding thismixture a few days, after whichhe switched to whole pellets orCows and Seed Brought Success cubes, am fed with a little ground

~ grain. The cattle soon became ac-This Combination Important in Clatsop County, Western Oregon customed to them this way_

Every fall Schulz starts the cat-Albin Oman, in Clatsop county, tle that way. Calves get the protein

Oregon, makes his living from 17 with 3 _$ma11 amount °f_ g1‘ain_a_l1Guernsey cows and 40 acres of bent short Cut rlvlntel‘ 1n _?unk5fa51d Wlth Pliflrlegrass. His farm is located partly in . ay °1‘_ 51 389 9 35 T0118 age-a lime valley and partly on ad1oin- wfiiea ‘;li£."‘f?“w.J?a§§ods‘}§§a Small-me cubes or Pellets are useding hill land, both Of which, in such and his cattle liked it. too. On his for them- Largefslze cubes or P91‘a combination, are typical of that farm, north of Killdeer, N. D., last lets are given (in troughs or Justpart of the State £211 illiirgfpanhhefi mori 601131 scattered on the ground) to cows.

an enc S1 O WOU Q . ' 'Oman’s COWS furnish $4,000 worth S_o, he chopped it all and piled it whéchie wmtgrgd gm suppleglegt

of milk yea;-1y_ It costs him $1,200 right on the ground and threshed an_ 91 er Pralne ay or 5 -ag v

- - - ll 11 't 11 . The ‘ thO ll .for grain, since he doesn’t raise kf t°“3usStsr€w Q; sags cm“ W1 u gramany. The bent grass supplies pas- 'p J e’ ' The big. advantage in using sup'ture for four months and then it plement 1n the form of cubes orfurnishes, in addition, a crop ofseed every fall worth from $2,000to $4,000, depending on the season.The yield varies from year to year.The straw, which is left after seedhas been threshed out of the bentgrass, is used as hay for his cows.Some of his bent has been produc-ing for 15 consecutive years with-out being reseeded. He is experi-menting with phosphate fertilizeron grass at the present time.

Oman’s high land, on the hillside,

pellets, according to Schulz, isthat there is practically no waste,whether they are fed in bunks,troughs or on the ground. Maturecattle, once they learn what theyare, clean them up better than pro-

__w tein in meal form, he has found.and, furthermore, none of the feed

. is blown away by strong winds andlost, which is something that hap-pens when meal is used.

Schulz feeds from half a pound-‘ to a pound of protein daily. His

has been cleared (it had trees, ‘brush and stumps on it) and he has '~~seeded trefoil, alta fescue and sub- "—clover. This upland pasture is used A —

for the herd while the bent grass is f*-~l~*setting seed and can’t be pastured. er. *-

Grass seed production and dairying together create about 50 pe“

'*‘”‘ herd has demonstrated that, giventhe chance, it will eat more cubes

“‘ or pellets than actually are needed.This doesn’t hurt the cattle but itaffects his pocketbook, since thefeed becomes too expensive. If al-falfa hay of good quality is avail-able, he cuts down on the pellets.At pasture time in the spring, they

cent of the agricultural income in mliigiih o;n£?;lsev;esct:€vi; aoiaegfaigsegamgagf are discontinued completely andthe county every year. seed on his 40 acfgs 0; Astoria bent, grags, not fed again until the next fall.

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Farm and Home 0pportunitiesYou may select from this listing of typical farms or ask us forother propositions suited to your needs. Additional information,including addresses of owners or agents, furnished on request.

MINNESOTA good road and near town. House, barn, country school one mile-—high schoolM_59_160_acre farm, Cass county, granary, garage, vvashhoiise, hen house, bus to White Salmon three-fourths mile

three miles from Pine river, in the hog house. Buildings said to be worth from house. Telephone line into_ com-ag,.icu1tura1_timber_tOuristJake area_ at least $10,000. Price, $45 per acre. munity. Community hall one mile. 40About 75 acres eld and meadow, 45 acres in alfalfa (dry land); other landsbrush pasture, 40 timber and fa,.mstead_ MONTANA can be cleared. Good house with base-Fenced. Dwelling is new, but not n- S-55-160-acre, well-improved ranch ment’ fuiriace’ four rooms and bath-ished. Shed, barn, corncrib and granary. in Moiese valley. Land all practically r°°,m’ umlty room and.pamry d9v.Vn'REA, mail route, telephone available. level and all irrigated. Adapted to stars‘ “”° r°°ms “rs‘_““rS- E“’°t“°"Y'School bus by the door. Too much for beets. Five-room plastered house, with pumpholise’ garage’ chicken house’ hayaging couple reason for sale. Price. lights. Good barns and service build- she?!‘ Drilled well with lots of wat.er’$7,500 ings’ Price, $14,000 spring in pasture. Would make a dairy

farm; in a good community. Price,_M'60_336 acres» one and °he'ha]r S-56-60 acres, 50 cultivated,remain- $5,000, one-half down and $500 per

""195 from Motley, On 800d all-Weather der grazing. 30 acres hay and 20 more year, with interest at ve per cent.blacktop highway» 180 acres eroplahdt to be plowed. Family orchard. Water . . .35 alfalfa and red clover, 40 could be right Open stock water year ax-ound_ W'73-‘I30 aereS- 50 ‘h cultwahohiopened? 116 acres Pasture VerY €°°d Six-room house, barn, chicken house, creek bottqm land’ three'bedro0meight-room dwelling. basement and tool shed. Electricity. On school bus, h°’“e' °l°°t"° P“.mr” g°°d Small r’°“l'furnace. Good hip-roof barn, stanchions milk and mail I-oute_ Price’ $3,500; try house’ marhme Shed’ large troutfor 17 head, drinking cups; cement stave $4,000 down_ stream» 5°rhe hmbeh Prrce $8500‘silo, 14x32, granary, hog house, poultry w_74_54_1 ac,-es’ with 27 in croph<l>uSe, garage, cribband othler building8- [DA]-I0 One-bedroom modern house, with preseE t ' 't , h 1 , '1 d . - - .roegcrcy (Sic ogt rm cream I_39_320 acres’ Coeur d,A]ene area sure watei system and electric lights.

0° er row mg rlver _ ' family orchard, barn for nine head,For shmg Pnce, $9,500; half cash, low about 176 cleared, level. 42 acres wheat, h. k h f 450. D blc ic en ouse or ou e garageinterest on balance. Spring possession. 45 acres fan plowing’ some fallow‘ - "Spring water piped to house and barn and fruit room. On county road. Price,

M'61"200 acres’ level dark ham’ 100' Electricity. Buildings poor, but a good $6500‘acres under Plewi small river through deal of material in them. Three-roompasture gives ample water for 70 head house granary and barn. Fenced. Grav- OREGONgr Stock Bulldrrrgs eohsrst or large el road, RFD and school bus. Eight O-50-100-acre farm, Astoria area

Ouset barn’ maehrhe Shed» €raharY1 lh miles to town, near lakes. Price, $7,875, Good house and excellent barn Placefair e°hdhi°h- Oh Paved hrghwayi three half cash, terms to suit on balance. is stocked with 25 dairy cows,'a bullmiles from small town, near Hinckley, and 15 head of young stock’ team of75 miles north of Twin Cities. REA, I-40—?40 acres» 50 faI‘m9d,_ff'>11I‘-I‘00m horses’ fun line of farming equipment’mail, telephone and s¢}iQ01 facilities house with water and electricity. Close including threemnit milking machineZg/Ziégbsle. Suitable for stock farm. Price, Fl) 3911002 311:0 3 half mlllii fgmlgfavé Located within eight miles of one of

_ ei~ms_ e e roa . acres cou e c eare th 1 t b k b h -

and farmed. 200,000 feet of mixed mill- the °“g1e; L1“ r°d_e“-°°ein deac eshl-n_ _ e wor ; c am igging an s on t isNQRTH DAKQTA able timber; lots of pulp timber. Price, beach would make a good home and

$9000N-39—563 acres, 10 miles northeast ’ ' a dairy f3l‘m- P1‘i¢9, $13,500-of_lVa1éeytC£?6' black loam’ clay sub" WASHINGTON O-51-40 acres, with 39 acres under

libel le ousi§r§§n§§1i§§t§§°§Zio?>i w-71-16 acres in good location on ‘"‘g““°“" U“°“”" ‘°“°‘"" “s°°‘ ‘°' pas‘' " . . t . L t d T l , ith RFD,Very good six-room house, basement, paved read, eight acres in grapes, one sggol Sndnézitrigig? ;r:;le_ F0u,_large hip-roof barn with lean-to large acre Of Plums, 5iX acres Pasture. m0d-’ . room house with enclosed porch, andgggnaé-y,a1::eLv ttigiular we11;g1-Qv(-3, Price, ern home. PI‘lC€ $12,500, $5,000 dOWn. bath’ Eight_Stanchion barn’ garage’

r r . rms. - -p W-72_76-acre farm, 10 miles north- shop, chicken house, granary, root cel-N-40—320 acres, Oakes area, heavy east of White Salmon, on county gravel lar, hog sheds, and store house. Price,

black land, with good buildings, on a road, mail six days a week, modern $7,500.

Property Described on This Page ls Subject to Sale Without Notice7

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DRGANIZED DEERHUNTING

Alvin Gaines, stockman andfarmer who lives along the Mis-souri river, in western North Da-kota. recently described how hunt-ers killed more than 500 deer onhis property last fall, during theopen season.

Gaines and his employees organ-ized and supervised the hunting.He charged each hunter $7. Reser-vations were required and whenthese were made, each hunter sentthe deer tag number he previouslyhad obtained with his license.

When shooting time arrives thehunters are organized into groupsand each group is placed under thesupervision of an experiencedguide. Gaines furnishes six guidesof this kind. The groups then aretaken to the woods, bordering theriver, and stationed at likely places

SETTLER WILL G0T0 SC]IO0L

How many people start to collegewhen they have passed their for-tieth birthdays? Charles R. Woodshas done it. At 42 he is undertakingfour years of study in scienticagriculture.

After being in the navy for 20years, Woods was retired last sum-mer on a pension.

“Now I can try some of thethings I’ve always wanted to do butcouldn’t,” Woods said when hewent back to civilian garb after allthat time in the service.

Woods’ rst act was to move fromSan Diego and buy a 30-acre farmnear Centralia, in southwesternWashington. There he is keeping100 Black Austerlitz-White Leg-horn hybrid hens and a cow and heis growing various sorts of gardenproduce. He has apple trees, pears

Some of the hunters serve as beat- ,,,°}‘,§§,'f§ §;,§'°,§f’p‘§,’},‘f,,’°,{§',,,‘§‘,'°}‘§§"1o".§ ‘,{§},‘§ and P1§1neSi1énbt1hek%e?I:?3; tgvngill;erg while the Qthers shoot Then which he built {or $50 on his new property. e p1_c S w_ ac e e 'the shooters become beaters and the blg Pacic coast salmon run 1.“those who were beaters tr tt k the creek that goes through hls

_ _ a 5 a e fall. We ure even now there are t ' - ' vpositions where they can shoot. 250 head 0% the ranch» Proper Y’ the shmg lsn t bad‘ FuelThat wav, evervone gets a chance 1S plentiful, too, and cheap, he says.

I , " , Woods intends, while living on3:élr'pI‘8Ct1C8ll_\ e\ erybody gets 8 his little farm, to complete his“We didn,t have much trouble ,, Went to Dubhn course in higher education. He en-

. . ,, . ' rolled last fall in a nearby juniorGames saldi although It was 3 lot A- 3- Dexter, Northern Peolo college where he is to attend forof Work and expense to handle S0 agricultural development agent at two ygm Then he will commutemany hunters in the few days the St. Paul since 1927, has been given to eastel-1'1 Washington for twoseason was oPen- We spent $300 111 leave of absence to serve as food '. more years, where he will completepreperatlon before the rst day of and agrlcultural advlsor for the his studies in agriculture at Wash-225.212; “.:W":.?.-$15 §::;.W:s..€°; @“"1*"*r"=* State college atPu11m-md? 55 E tion (Marshall p an) in re and. “I think 1,11 get more good outWe 3 o o to get reedy- Dexter has sailed for Dublin, which“ . . . . f h 1' th I ldhSix people were 8]€Cli€d from will be his headquarters. 30 ?ea(1_(;1:ggo??fWI hsg atlgleiluded 33,1?the premises —- ve for careless -shooting and one for drinking. Usu- lege then”, Woods commented‘ally one or two game wardens Twins Aid Researcharrive to keep an eye on every- . . .thin too_ This might be a case of which

Doubled in 20 YearsB lg, . M. ilings, lV_Iont., gained 8,381, or

“We dQn’t furnish moms or E18 e}:;et:teS;ra(g:h ghsinlngiisggi 36 per cent, in population betweenmeals. The hunters look after those p - - - - g 1940 and 1950- The Peroentage was

“One other year we organized pair of identical twins is at least Qty‘ The last census .cOunt camehunting the sarne Way and took out 20 times as eicient as non-twins to 311662’ Fompared Wm? 23281 10200 deen We have to keep the Pop" for use in growth experiments. Years earher and 16,380 1“ 1930-ulation down or else go out of the Identical twins develop from thecattle hus1ness- That’s Why We ran same parent cell. Therefore, bothout of hey last Wlnter end, e0r1$e- have the same inheritance. Conse-

Travel By Rail. . Let us quote you round trip faresquently, Were Put to $0 mlleh eXtra entl , when one twin is fed rass - -

trouble and cost—the deer were 2341 thg th t d'ff g om ymlr statlon alld asS1.st youo er ge s none, i erenceseating our hay stacks all the time. in gain in weight and appearance In Izlanningdyour tr1P to lnspectThey got through the Winter all are due entirely to the rations. This Wes em anr1€ht—et our eXPense. fundamental truth makes possible

“There still are plenty of deer greater accuracy and a saving inleft—even after the hunting last time, space and labor.‘

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J. W. HAW115 Northern Pacic Railway

St. Paul 1, Minn.