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Finding Uses for Wasted Crop By-ProductsAgricultural wastes offer wide vines. Much of this material is termined, too, that three pounds of

possibilities for making prots in available for silage after the peas pea vine silage replace one poundthe Pacic Northwest, according to themselves are removed and some of hay.animal husbandry specialists at the of it is used, but not all of it. A restricted grain ration was fedState College of Washington, who - . . . - h .- -conducted erimem . th When experiments in wintering wllh t 9 Youghages, °°n>15tmg

, P 5 m 9 use chie of barle and oats.of pea vme sllage to feed beef Cab l_iIeeiIf€el‘(sri1ver1e\nc%)lr1iiiu:l]e(ll 2§tht)lltE:h<?dl?- “lnyaddition lto pea vines " thee‘ lege, the specialists learned that the college men said, “many tons of

The pea vines were called can- animals gained faster and were in peas which necessarily are wastednery waste before they were con- better health if they received pea at the canneries could be ensiled.verted into silage. Some 50,000 vine silage and alfalfa hay than These peas are rather rich in pro-acres of green peas annually are when the roughage consisted only tein and should have a high feed-raised in the state vfor canning. The of hay. Also, when pea vine silage ing value for cattle."average yield of vines is eight tons was fed with the hay, the cost of It was pointed out we that 400,-per ‘acre, the college men said, the ration was lower than when ()()() tens of Sugar beets are raisedmaking in all about 400,000 tons of only alfalfa was given. It was de- every year in Washington and that

Green peas, for cannery use in central Washington, furnish 400.000 tons of vines after the .

milling has been done. .\lui-Ii of this material would make useful feed for livestock, trials with blgger war probably would meancattle show. Beet tops, pear. apple and corn wastes could be used also more than they are. more lI18t1On, Cagle lI1Cl1CE1t€d.

several hundred thousand tons ofbeet tops are one of the valuablebyproducts. Some of the tops areutilized as feed. Many thousandsof tons, however, are not, althoughit is recognized that they have somevalue as fertilizer when they areleft on the soil and plowed under.

Also there are normally largeamounts of waste remaining fromthe process of canning apples, pearsand sweet corn in the Pacic North-west. the college men said, andthese wastes could be ensiled andmade available as beef cattle feed.

Land Price Leveled OffArthur Cagle, farm management

specialist at the State College ofWashington, believes farm landprices in his state won’t changemuch for the next two or threeyears, provided the Korean wardoesn’t spread to other areas. A

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Publlllled Monthly by IllaDepartment 0/ Agrirullurol Development

Short Poragraplll lbolll Agriculture in

NORTHERN PACIFIC RAILWAYJ. W. HAW . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..St. Paul, Minn.

Director

W. J. HUNT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..St. Paul. MinnAssistant to the Director

A. J. DEXTER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..St. Paul. MinnAgricultural Development Agent

A. R. MIESEN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..St. Paul. MinnAgricultural Development Agent

I-I. W BYERLY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..St. Paul, Minn.Immigration Agent

L. S. MacDONALD . . . . . . . . . ..Missoula, Mont.Agricultural Development Agent

i Stepped Up Power \ \ CL()SE.UPS

Northern Pacic Territory

’ J. C. Williams, who works in Port-land, Ore_., bought land in the cutovercounty near St. Helens, in the samestate, along the Columbia river, wherehe hopes to raise cattle.

In a ve-year study on actual farmsin the wheat-pea area of the Palousecounty of eastern Washington, it wasobserved that when grasses and le-gumes were put into the crop rotation,peas and wheat yielded 17 per centmore, net income per acre was pushed

w. P. STAPLETON . . . . . . . . . . ..Seattle. Wash. “P 33 Per Cent and 1°ss°5 °f s°i1 thrsughWestern Agricultural Development Agent

1005 Smith Towererosion were one-third as large as be-

Dual tires on the rear of his f°"e~ “iKENNETH L. COOK . . . . . . . . . ..Seattle. Wash. wheel tractors are a great help in whe“ H°me1‘ 1' Prim?» 3 captain. in

Agricultural Development Agent . . . . the army, becomes eligible for retire-1005 Smith Tower seedmg gram and» In fact, 1n any ment in seven years from now (he will

spring eld work, Norman Ernst, be 41 at the time) he and Mrs. PriceThis magazine is sent free for ve months in Clay County, Minnesota’ learn‘ and his two children expect to live ,0“

to those indicating a_n interest in the l\{orth_- ed by experience on his Own farm_ 45 acres he bought recently 0n Whld-

s.*:t::..3.2.*::';“‘;22.?; $22.; a§"s..lr “D 1 - 1- - 1- be Island» In Puget Sow on themg sotcems for one year qr $1 for three ua tires e iminate s i_ppag_e, coast of the state of Washington.

. . ,, - .¥::.::-,'2.rsaisd:‘:'srt:%i2..§:.';*'r:..2:; WW“ Y°" gel Wm‘ Smgle "P651" —Railway. 1! you wish to renew on a compli- Wet: Soft elds In the sprlngv Ernst More acres of oats are ralsed m 0t’mentary basis for ve months, this may be ' “ ' ‘ ' tertail county, Minnesota, than in anydone by making a written request. exp1a1neq' This Improvement In other count i th United St t

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Robust Tree GrowsFast

the traction means that I can go a y n 9 a es‘

mile 01' two an hour faster in the The rst sugar beets in the Red Rivereld and I can pull heavier machin- valley were raised on 17 acres, nearery, a 14_f001; drill, for example, East Grand Forks, Minn., by Carl We-

- - - gand, in 1919. His son, Dave, later be-wlth a tractor of medlum slze‘ came an agricultural eldman for the

“Also, I have eliminated the loss Amalgamated Sugar company after itof time involved in getting the OPP?“i-11111221lf8;l01'%:YtE:$gr§l§:;d1‘;?Ft1;%tractor stuck in wet elds. With W 1°. eca y

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dual tires, I skim over the top and mencan rys a “gar companyPopulus robusta is the name Qf 3 d0n’t mire down. Another thing, _Alfred Putnam, in Ottertail county,

tree. It is new in the United States, You can‘ 599 Fhe Whe<_?1't1'a¢k5 In g‘;;‘§rst°t;§ h(§‘3e?’r‘t19s:_f§§r‘ZZ‘;,’;‘3i§1°‘;IS1i‘{‘{(h'§l§

having been brought here from my 5e_eded gram" That ls’ th,e mac‘ head of young stock, 3,000 turkeys andEngland as a result of a search be- 1101‘ W1_th_ dual Wheels doesnt Pack 500 laying hens. The following are theing made for a better kind of fast- tge soil in th; tracgr and, thereiore, a}/erage yiflgs plertacre pver a pterigd)

' it ‘ t ese stri s on’t r out an ast- 0 Years 8 8 11 Ham armi O8 S.

1g,:ot"1‘§;n%o§{)he(;:“;(€:33S_for plantmg er than tllie remaind>er of thg eld. bushels? °°1'.n» 4° bushels? barley’ 4°bushels; spring wheat, 25 bushels.

With sin le wheels ou et uneven-. populus robusta grew Seve.n fe.et ness, ant‘? the germiliatign is slower Average production of sugar beets1“.°“e Yea’ 1“ a ‘est. Plantmg 1“ in the single wheel track than per we in the Red River valley orMinnesota. The tree 1S hardy and where you use duals North Dakota and Minnesota was 10.47disease resistant and it doesn’t K W Ch . ' f E , tons (without irrigation) from 1940 toproduce that objectionable cotton . ' ' nslensen’ one 0 m.StS 1951' "‘°1“s“’e'which annoys people when it is neighbors, said, “Dual rear tires i

. _ - _ O 380,733 ' ' th Y k’-shed in profusion by common kinds on my whe.e1 firactoriglveé me per ma l1l‘I‘lg3ti0na(]i>Ii‘i:i§(?tl,nl,lll:gl’{l€r8leIN:sli-of cottonwood trees, formance Slml ar to t _at O a _track' ington crops valued at $73,836,980 were

type tractor but I still retain the produéed last yearThe new tree is readily reproduc- mobility of the wheeptype ma- _'_

ed bY_l1he ‘~1_$9°f°utt"18$-Thewood chine.” Christensen is seen above Dsvld W‘n“"“s' s 4'H club b°y 1“' - - - ’ Stutsman county, North Dakota, owns

oflithls variety ls Sald to be of ex left’ wlth one of his '",a°t°1"$ aild 12 cattle which are valued at $7,700ce ent quality. the dual wheels whlch increase its From his small herd he has sold three

The gta’ of the schgol of For- usefulness. bulls for an average of $555 each.

estryat aha University of Minne- By giving testosterone, a male sexso a is s u ying populus robusta Idared, a new apple developed at hormone, to beef came, research pgo.under local conditions and, if it the Idaho Experiment station, has ple at the Oregon Experiment stationcontinues to look good here, tree been planted in 26 states in three were able t° increase weigh? gai“s -4

- . . ’ f d d d f 150gtrowers will have a chance to try provinces of Canada, in Europe and gognggugf fjg £2: :Qcha1%)?;v;,I:,%,?dS of1 . ~ -In M9X‘¢0- gain was made.

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Asparagus Reliable Cash Crop NEW W0NllERS INYakima Valley Growers Get $600 Per Acre Gross Return

Striking advances have beenFarmers on irrigated land in small and that a prot will not be made the past three years towardYakima and Benton counties, in realized until at least the third reducing the volume of labor re-Washington, along the Yakima riv-rtyear. However, if it is kept in a quired for blocking and thinninger, have 7,000_acre_s in commercial ' vigorous condition by good care, sugar beets. This has been accom-asparagus which is sold in three asparagus will produce for 20 years plished through the developmentways—on the fresh market, to can- or more without replanting. A well of a machine that travels downners and to processors who put up established eld, ve years old, either four or six rows at a time,a frozen pack. may be worth $1,000 per acre. cutting out a predetermined num-Many growers have less than 10 Mary Washington is the standard ber of exeees beet Plents (endacres each, and there are several variety of asparagus in the Yakima Yfeedsl a§b1t %eels' By teas Ilfettledh ddfth .F 1,300 ll ,bt d l d’ llspessleeeavea na In‘

fzalieilneies gear egiindyrsieleeariedlsee as- (léeiliegrnild, eallleevd, OSIl’1pf)Y,e£g.e 5010: nee stand °.f beets that requiresparagus; there are 40 at Granger; is gaining favor and a number of gnly alfraetlen of the hand labor80 at Outlook; 50 at Mabton; 70 at new plantings have been establish- ermer y used to hoe the WeedsGrandview; and 90 at Prosser. ed with it in the valley. from the r°W'

The average grower in the Yaki- Mary Washington usually has to Thls Partleuler meehme was de'ma area, with a good mature plant- be cut before it reaches nine or 10 velepee by our Great Western Sufing that is well fertilized and that inches in length or it may begin to gar" eompehy agrletlltural ehg1-receives proper cultivation, obtains go to seed. No. 500 has gone as high heers in 1943 after Years of triala gross return per acre of $600. His as 31 inches in test plots at Sunny- and eI‘l‘0F- This Yea? (1952) at leastma_]or expense is for hand labor re- side, with 24 inches of the stalk 45 per cent of the company’s entirequired to cut the plants and to edible. acreage has been gone over withgather them at harvest tlme "1 the Ne_ 509 harvested in the valley the thinning machine to reduce thespmngf However’ the expense of for the rst time last year, begins labor requirement. N0t Only that,eitlebllltehmg is Flergtlng %;Oe)e?S1g§56 bearing some 10 days earlier in the some 15,000 acres, including manyZn Zcre_m€.Zn Otgougggad plan; per spring than other varieties. individual holdings of 100 acres ofacre are required. Labor and ferti- Several hundred pounds of seed beets or mere» Were eompletelylizer are important items in getting have been put into nursery rows thmhed by machine-the planting started. to produce plants so that more Some growers paid not over $7.50

Experienced growers State that elds of No. 500 asparagus can be per acre this spring for all the handin the early years after asparagus established in irrigated areas of the labor done on their beet crops,has been put in, the returns are state. which is a substantial reduction

from the $19 per acre due for workdone in the old way.

The benets from this advance inpractice ow in all directions. In-dividual growers benet directlyfrom reduced labor costs and theearly-season clean cultivation ofthe ground in the row. The use ofthe thinning machine has reducedthe number of workers needed in

'* every territory. It has made pos-sible the procurement of betterworkers for growers who needthem, the quality of work perform-

- ed by labor on the ground has been._ improved and the laborers have7., ~-_..§»;."_ earned more money with less ef-

-l fort. Thus, the labor picture isbrighter than it ever has been in

T-Q i 3 the history of the industry.—FrankA. Kemp, president, Great Western

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d“ Sugar company, in an address at. oy i er, grower at Sunnysi e, Wasli., is shown measuring asparagus No. 500, left, -which was 31 inches long and had 24 inches of edible stalks. Several hundred growers in the annual corlvenuen the Mon-Yaikima valley produce this cash crop for freezing. for canning and for shipment to market. ulna Bankers association-3

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Ofcers of the United States Bu-reau of Reclamation recently an-nounced that initial constructionwork on extension of the Kenne-wick Irrigation project, located inthe famous Three Rivers districtof central Washington, will get un-der way late this year. Containing21,500 acres of fertile desert land,in addition to 4,000 acres al-ready under irrigation, this projectwill provide new productive farmhomes for 360 families. A 12,000kilowatt power plant on the Yaki-

For 360 Families

ma nver will be an Integral part of This is a view at harvest time in Richard Lee's irrigated mint eld, near Kennewick, Wash.

the d9V910Pment-_R9Wl "5 from the Field yielded 100 pounds per acre of mint oil, which was sold f0l' sioo, or $7 per pound. Moresale Of pOWEI‘ Will absorb part of land, similar to the eld shown will he watered by the new project to be started s00Il.

the cost of constructing the irriga-non Works‘ lished communities. Thus, farmers dle of April to the middle of Octo-

When water rst will be avail- moving on to the land will nd ber. The climate is characterizedable for the new land is not def- main highways, markets, market- by low humidity, warm summerinitely known. The initial federal ing facilities, schools, churches, days and cool nights, mild wintersappropriation, made for the pres- hospitals and all of the usual fea- and abundance of sunshine.ent scal year, is $1,500,000. Prog- tures of an established community _

ress of construction will depend available to serve them. The Three Rlvers dlstnet derlveschiefly on the availability of funds - -. .- its name because of proxlmitlf toand critical materials in the future. The Three Rlvers Fhstuct of cell‘ the C0lumb1a~ Snake and Yaklma

tral Washlngton 15 noted for rivers Near Kennewick a city ofThe Kennewick Project is in the its long-growing season, desirable 11900. which is “Cm thé project ii

lower Yakima valley in one of the year-a_roun_d climate, fertile soil the snake and Yakima rivers owntiost iapidly growing sections of and diversity of agricultural pr0d- into the Columbia In close proxim-t e Lllinited States. Throughout its ucts. At Kennewick, where the ele- ity is Richiand, the atomic energyengt ,_the p1o_]ect is served by the vation above sea level is only 365 city_ pasco, the largest city in the

main line of_ the Northern Pacic feet, the frost-free period averages 1‘000’000_aci.e Columbia Basin Ii._

railway. It lies adjacent to estab— 180 days, extending from the mid- rigation project, lies just across theColumbia river. There on the rstunit of the Columbia Basin project,

<busy farmers have built a new

""" agricultural community from thedesert land. A short distance downthe Columbia from Kennewick,army engineers are rushing to com-pletion the giant McNary dam,which will generate 1,127,000 kilo-watts of electric power.

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A highly diversied agriculturewell proven to that area will befollowed in the Kennewick project.Forage crops and livestock will bebasic enterprises. Sugar beets. po-tatoes, corn, beans and grain areexpected to be the chief generalfarm crops. Soft fruit orchards andvineyards will spring up on the

“"“ "" ' ""' ' ' ‘ ' ‘ slopes. Specialty crops will includemint seed crops and a wide variety

Some of the land involved in the extension of the Kennewick project has a slope such as ' -

that shown in the picture above taken in a big vineyard (Concord grapes) near Kennewick. of frult and vegetables for FheThe local growing season averages 180 days. extending from the middle of April to late fall. fresh market and Pl"0C9$$0Y$ dolng

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business there. Furnishing such r _ "tFA T supplies, the project will help stabi- Rmn MakersC S ABIIUT i. iii i ii -(iiize e economy 0 I '9 1‘_~'=IP1 Y Performance Tested In NorthTHE PRQJECT g}ii‘0Wll'lg 'IhreelRiivers disiiiiicii. '50 Oregon Area

. . t is area peop e ave tre e y __ _1' i1:‘g5i‘i§i'3si;,'? ggitfn developed the thousands during the past dec-2. Water users in develo ed or- adesmce 1940 the.combmed pop‘ when cloud Seedmg, Wlth 511VeTP P

. . .tion, approximately 2,000, of l11_al11°n °f K6-fmlewlck, P3530 and iodide, in an attempt to make morenlihlCh 1,603 héliive less than Richland has Jumped from 6,000 to rain in three Qountjes in north cen-ree acles eac ' 53,003 In adlacenll areas eXten' tral Oregon was attempted over a3- Acreage to be developed in sive suburban developments have period of Id months, specialists at

present pmglam’ l5’000' Sprung uP- the Ore on A ricultural Ex eri-4. Additional acreage to be de- g. g pveloped eventually, 6i500_ The Kennewick project has long ment station made a study of what5. Total estimated cost of pres- been fostered by local and statewide 0¢¢l1I‘I‘ed 1" an <?lT0I‘t t0 determlne

ei1;nl€P°;énY(ii1m, icziiiling Poilver organizations and state and federal the Value of rammaklng-”i. . . . .air isiooo aéifegg $i‘§"E0i%30‘?m agencies: Chief among theseaie the The experiment station report,6 iniiiai appropriation $i 500_ Kennewick Irrigation district, the made at the time the period of' Ow ’ ’ ' Kennewick Chiamber of_ Commerce cloud seeding was concluded, said7_ Power development (iii new and the local Kennewick project that the rain increased in the areaChandler plant on Yakima committee. McKinley Desgranges, but that the amounts were notriver), 12,000 lulowatts. Frank Lampson and Rf-BX Reynolds “statistically signicant.” There-8. Status tat 8XlSlZlI‘lgt poi»/er p_lant are the irrigation district directors. fore, the report said, the increasesfiigtiniafiialgiarbe °Scr§i1;‘;Je°;_t» E. J. Brand_is the district manager. may have been due entirely to9. Construction to begin late in Jay Perry-ls chalrman of the pro‘ chance rather than to Seedmg1952. Jecll ¢°mm1tt9e~—W'- P- 5- What the station observers meant

10. First items to be constructed was that the departure above nor-include the iirstsitiondof the mal rainfall or above what wouldpower Fana» 913 an One‘ . have fallen anywav without seed-half miles, and start f u pe‘ S ' lg F rm H L _ 0 k -- -end of irrigation ciiaiipbef ta 3 as We“ c ing, was not gicat enough in their

gl“"i"g . at Cha"d1"1‘1‘- Tu“ At the state hospital near Fer- Opinion’ to be considered signi‘bines will be ordered. F i M. 9 1 ’h cant,ll. Cost per acre chargeable to gus a ls’ Inn" 7 Ogs were. . . . During the 10 months, however,Lzlngétno specic information raised last year and 790 were butch- precipitation varied from slightlyl2. .Cost of irrigation water dur- ered for Life In the hOSp.1ta1’S kltch_ Over normal up to a little more

ETEJEZ ‘§§§£€l§2‘ isami f;1§.;.°;?1kZ£i‘§‘i;‘;“lZ";*f°{‘f°°‘Z? ‘ht? 12° P" °e“‘d°2°°";§". . " S 1 8 81‘ - ou s were see e in erman,li§§“§§'<s'§,°$§‘lZ°'$fl°1 },’Lfr°§’Z}i_ They produced 381.8 pounds of but- Gilliam and Morrow counties.

tel-fat per c0W_ along the Columbia river, coveringan area, that included 2,642,000acres, in which annual precipita-

' tion normally varies from eight to12 inches, with most of it coming

i in the fall, winter and spring.l The study involved not only a

comparison with normal in thearea, but gures at other weatherstations, outside of the seeded area,were investigated, too, to determinewhether the same pattern ofincreased precipitation occurredthere as was noticed inside of theseeded area. If it had, of course,doubt would have been cast uponthe value of cloud seeding._ Improved Western Wlieat

Agronomists at the State Collegeof Washington announced that inanother year or two they will be

—l’huh>.~'. l'. S. lhii-villi if Rl‘l‘lil‘ll1llll|!l. toThe picture is representative of the 15,000 acres of sagebrush area that will be developed spring and wlnter wheat sultableinto farms at Kennewick, Wash. Lands already in production are seen back of the sagebriisli. for productlon In the Paclc North-Construclion is to be started this fall. Sugar beets, beans. corn, potatoes, grain will he grown. West-

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. - ttl to t 44 ibl t. S h idt u e a Diesel engine to pump 1.000 gallonsae¢:ss§lu:l;e:°;;l|gzlIsts¢?: \I'l'l1lcih0l\€4?r|!l(:;.l‘e1c:=i:l. 0eakes?al:l.ulr‘)e.,ovI:lth :°|s:lnu§tee?romc81mt‘eet. dsofvn. lle can irrigate 300 acres. He also

a sprinkler system. The animals have all the feed they can has a small system for his garden and fruit trees on the farm.

On fSch 'dt’ well this um-Underground Lake Water's Crops me, ,‘;§’,,,g,,,§‘,§'g.,.i ,c,e§,,,,f,,,,,_

A. R. Schmidt at Oakes N. D., Put in $15,000 Sprinkler System ed Pasture» on which 86 head of’ cattle have pastured all season and

they have had plenty of tender,to

. . 1 ' . Th ' t .,association stopped at A, R, selves With enough SpI‘1nkl.€I‘S at <'i1vlistl;<€?3et11(r:r(11elaSteg,er:11Iix(t10rI¢;=_

Schmidt’s 21000'3cre Place just Out’ least to mak ?vest,€c1€ fem?’ m ca.Se sisted per acre of tw0 Pounds ofside of Qakes in Dicke count some time i orge S O ram again.

* y y’ meadow fescue, two pounds of redNorth Dakota, one of the rst ques- We are sitting here right onti0n8 they asked him Was, “Why d0 top of an underground body of wat- nyou call this Alamo farm?” er that extends about 16 miles ~

Schmidt, a big, pleasant fellow, north and south and seven mileswith hair slightly greying, replied, east and west. The ground water i

“Well, that’s complicated. My fam- fellows call it Dakota lake. We tap-ily owned land in Texas and a ped this supply in each of our maintown, called Alamo, was built on wells by going down 81 feet. Theseit. The Spanish word, alamo, means wells are 32 inches in diameter andwhite. Our buildings here are all the casing (concrete was used) ispainted white and we try to keep 18 inches across. Behind the casingthem neat and nice and, then, my the men who put in the well for usrst name, you know, is Al. So, I (they are from Nebraska) packedguess we had several reasons for washed and sized gravel. It tookcalling this Alamo farm.” 19 cubic yards for each well. There

The next thing that interested are two sections of screen—eachthe farm mana ers was Schmidt’s four feet lon , at the bottom of 1g 8irrigation system. In fact, he has each well. The sections of screen 1

two of them. One at his house are just like the concrete casing, Al Schmidt, himself. is seen above with a

sprinkles a large garden and or- except that they have lots of holes 3,“;‘3g‘;':e“;0f) r‘:‘s°i;“'§‘:) ggkftgschard and the green grass around in them. ' '

his residence. Those thriving spuds, “This outt puts three-fourths of clover, two pounds of alsike, vestrawberries and young fruit trees an inch of water in an hour on a pounds of brome grass, a little un-take your eye. Then he has another strip 1,320 feet long, a quarter of a der a pound of sweet clover andsystem that is capable of irrigating mile, and 80 feet wide. That makes three pounds of alfalfa. Flax was300 acres. This consists of two large two and a half acres, when you used as a nurse crop and it yieldedwells (which can produce 1,000 to gure it out. To do that job it takes 15 bushels per acre. Wonderful po-l,200 gallons of water per minute three gallons of Diesel fuel, at 19 tato yields have been obtained, too.each), 1,800 feet of six-inch main cents a gallon and one man’s labor From the other large well thisline aluminum pipe, two sprinkler for an hour at $1.25, a total of $2.07, year, Schmidt irrigated 16 acres oflines, 64 sprinkler heads, and a or about 80 cents an acre. Of corn planted for silage and a eldpump for each well powered by a course, the wells and the equip- of ax used as a nurse crop forDiesel engine. ment cost $15,000. We are depreci- Ranger alfalfa.

“I-low did we happen to begin ating them at the rate of one-tenth “An interesting thing happenedirrigating?” Schmidt asked, repeat- each year. If you spread it over 300 when the men were down 62 feeting the question of several of his acres, it makes $5 per year per acre with those wells,” Schmidt com-visitors. “It was this way. We went f o r depreciation, although w e mented to some of the people onthrough the depression and the dry haven’t irrigated that many acres the tour. “They hit a vein of coalyears here. Then we had all those yet.” six feet thick.”

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Farm and Home OpportunitiesYou 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 50 acres in cultivation; 70 acres cultiva- i W3t€I£1plp€i)d(;.O house. Six-room d(well-- ble land now used for pasture and suit- ing, t re_e e rooms, iving room, itc -bc1(£ggZ,l_l_g(:nicr§3'1lvgggegggrgrgggig‘ able for ax, has been farmed in former en, _utility room, bathroom b_ut not

ham About *%".%£ "°r"<* M t" 253%‘""i’°‘r;..§.’$‘.i¢“‘i.irél.“‘§l3i‘n§"‘°‘£s .12.;cropland, remainder pasture. Located “mes 0 I pas me‘, ne'an 'a' a _ - py ’ y’ ’on good road only four and one_half story ve-room _hous_e, largegambrel insurance now _on the house. Barnmiles from De'tr0i,‘Lakes_ Price $8,750 roof barn; both in fair condition. Well about 3_0x40, with new compositionwith windmill, good w_ater and ample rgog, C1l,llCken_l'l0\1S€, wgiodshed, %orageM_1lg_l2Q_acre improved farm, al_ supply. Buildings not wired_for electr1c- s e . ossession can e given ec. 1,most all under cultivation and in crop. ;tY- RbEA1d?"a113%l;0 gm 1meid2%5§°2q7S 1952' Price’ $6'000'- _- r in . x a , . .

_53”lfQ’§s1,°°,'§a§’,‘$,e"Qal§§"§§},l°";;,,§,§§' Sail? ofufarns subject tgs gil and gas W.‘l42_80 acre?’ 25 ‘Fleared and m120 feet Of’ farm lakie shore desir_ lease_ Qwnel. petalns. 50 per cent ofpll cultivation, remainder 1S pasture _andable lake 30 minutes drive from Little and mineral rights in the land. Price, 5e?°nd'gr°wth r'.We1l'. ‘W0 Sprmg5'Falls Property suitable for both lake $4-5003 $1500 cash? balance terms at falrdbam Emil segvlce bulldllngs’ fam-13;- . . - size orc ar , ve-room ouse wihome and fan“ Price’ $11500‘ four and one half pm cent Interest electricity. Eight miles west of Cen-M_l19_Good 80 acres in Todd c0,m_ tralia, on good road. Price, $3,750, cash._ty, with four-room house, 26x28, built- MONTANA w_l43_l0 ac,es_$l0,000 gross l,,_m.1?upbPardS’ °'stem' half basemellti S-92—160 aC'I‘l?$, 14 1111195 from B019“ come. Full time job for man and wife.‘fun?’ 1_°‘_)mi 10X20' Barn holds nine méinr 0" Slate hl_ghWHy- A_g00d m0lm~ Berries, fruits, nuts and chickens.LQWS. gdlage. and heft h0US8 Whlcll tain ranch_ needing attention to fences Th;-ee_be-droom home, two miles fromnull hold 250 ch1ckens' also b"9°d?1 and bl1l1d1n8$- Plenty Of Sprmg and Vancouver on paved road. City water.ouse and W°°.d5hed- REA 20 39195 1" eck Watel 30 301135 meadow 3"?! D35- $5,500 cash down payment will handleeld (heavy soil), 15 acres cleared. ve ture. 80 acres merchantable timber. itacres meadow, 25 _acres solid timber, Price, $11,000, with $3,000 down; 10-15ilPa5¥uI‘e- Towllshlphmad abgul elghi year payment plan for the balance. W-144_80 acres, level upland, shotm es rom town wit hig sc ool bus, l - -milk and mail routes. Price, $4,000. S-93—80-acre farm on the Huntley f,,‘;‘,§l’,§,°“l,,"'°‘§‘-}°,f,‘,‘,,§,,g°~"“ crotl-33,! 27 “§'§§,- - - ~ p w, sin pas eanTerms Inlgatlon pr°3ect' two mlles west of acres in brush. Modern six-room house‘W d . F - h , b f - - 'M-120-160 acres. Beltrami county. eiéllt bread dlucrolil/);inrlr1aci(r)llrrs<§she?i1,l1n:;ool—,if Em“ "}"{,h12§flta“°l}3°“s' m°“' f°' 3009leI19l‘81 PUPDOSQ dail‘ farm; $D3¢i0U5 sized milk house, root cellar and other on-S 0 a e ayl acoma city water!home, ample serviceybuildings. Oiled improvements. Price, $15,000, with half gm“ r~(iute’f crew?! -To-utekschool 17%;’mad. 9l9CtI‘i¢ 111195» all Pickup I‘0'-1185. down and terms on the balance at ve Nvetlzm esp")-IE t r-llvmg -ggn ton -ethree-quarter mile to a grade school. per cent interest. Reason for selling—- (fr tesnt as‘-C Fa‘ way‘, ls am-1 lsthree miles to highway; four miles to retil-ed_ a ap-e -0 dalrynllfoga S oc ra1Smg'a depot village, ve miles to a shing and '5 price at $ ’ ‘lizake and seven miles to a college city. IDAHO

acres open for cultivation, 30 acresalfalfa, 90 acres woodland, native grass I-75-216 acres, 40 in cultivation, 10 OREGONpasture watered by electric pump and acres fall plowed, now seeded to hay. O-89-40 acres, 18 acres strawberries,well, barb wire fencing; good seven- Large house, three rooms downstairs, six acres blackcaps, remainder timberroom frame house, painted white; elec- large unnished room upstairs. 100- and pasture. Five-room house, familytricity, telephone installed, bath, elec- foot drilled well, water piped to the orchard, ve cabins; tractor equipment,tric pump in basement supplies running house. Hay barn with lean-to, two horse and cow. Grossed $11,000, $6,000water; front porch, 8x24; white frame small hay barns, sheds and other build- net, this year. Price, $10,000.barn, 34x36, hip roof, 12 stanchions, loft, ings. Property borders Cocolala lakehay slings, drinking cups in barn; small and there is quite a little wood and O-90-171/2 acres on main highway,poultry house, double garage; posses- pole timber. Price, $9,500; $4,000 down. near Junction City. Six-room modernsion in 30 days. Price, $8,000. Half

_ home, small barn, chicken and brooderdown. ,I'76—13'a°l'e lrrlgated tract» £0‘-11' houses. Family orchard fruit nuts andmlles north of Cvevr d’Al@n@- _F1v<==- berries. Price, $10,000,’ with’ a $5,600room modern dwelling barn chickenNORTH DAKOTA house garage and one-room cabin. State veteran loamN-75_32Q acres, midway between Price, $7,000. O-91-20 acres of cholce bottom andDriscoll and Arens, on the north; all benclg landl,t_smt1-11$ $993131?! f?"K1-tillable, mostly wild land, rollin , ood can 9 CU W3 9 an 3$_0 "T183 9pasture, no waste laml some hags gee“ WASHINGTON from a well. One acre now in thornlessin Cultivation would make a mlxed W-141-120-acre farm, about 22 miles blackberries, two acres in permanentfarm for stock, small grain and corn southwest of Goldendale and eight pasture, four acres ln hay. Bean_polesprim, $3 Der ac,-e_ Te,-mS_ miles northeast of Lyle, on a good for one acre. Irrigation system with 12‘ county gravel road, with mail service sprinklers. Seven-room home withN-76—l60 acres, Burleigh county, on and school bus at the door. Owner says one-and-one-half baths, basement andgraded gravel road three miles north 90 acres are in cultivation. This is a furnace heat. Three story barn, 20x30;from Regan, in well settled farming good dry land alfalfa section. Remain- machine shed, 18x38; small hog shedcommunity. Schools, churches and mar- der of the 120 acres is pasture land. and chicken house. Five miles fromket at Regan. 37 miles to Bismarck, Property is fenced with hog wire and Woodburn, on paved road, all routes.county seat. Land is dark, sandy loam; cross fenced. Well and several springs, Price, $15,000.

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are farrowed within ve days ofone another. Self feeders in eachlot are used for sows until weaningtime and after that they are usedfor starter and grower feeds theyoung pigs get until they reach65 pounds. Following that, theBrandts have a local elevator pel-let the grain ration and pellets arefed the remainder of the summer,merely thrown out on the ground.The pigs recover all of them. Thereis much less waste this way thanwith grain in other forms, theBrandts state.

There Is Capacity For 5,000 gal-lons in the eld waterers that areused. They are supplied by’ a tank

. wagon, carrying 1,000 gallons at aRoland and Chuck Brandt have a large enterprise in hog raising on their [arm in Cass time-

county, eastern North Dakota. In the picture above they are feeding orphans in a home made - -

pig brooder on Terralac, a synthetic milk scientically compounded as a substitute for Dunng farroW1ng.the houses aresow’s milk. checked once daily. Yet, the

Brandts have had low losses. Thenumber of pigs saved per litter hasPork P“ s in D k t averaged from 7.3 to 9.3 since 1946

El u 0 u Last summer they raised eight perBrandt Brothers Growing 680 Pigs on Alfalfa and Limited Grain Ration litter and this year’ with 85 litters’

they have the same average again.

Brandt Brothers have decreased cut and bale a cutting of hay on the ——i——the hog costs and increased the pasture early. In fact, we haveprots on their farm in_Cas_s coun- found that pigs much prefer short, Thl! C0108 K89]! C001tx, _North_ Dakota, by limiting the tender alfalfa and, so, we mow por-grain ration after their pigs reach tiong of the pasture from time t0 Employees In the dalry blllldlng65 pounds per head but giving them time. Actually this gives us rota- at the State College of Washingtonall of the good alfalfa pasture they tional grazing without extra fenc- had l° Sweat and gel along the bestpossibly can eat. ing_ they could without electric fans to

Last year when they raised 320 “We were not satised with the keep Qhem cool at work this Sumfiplgs, limited feeding was given a small prots from our full-fed pigs f,‘}frthee§§‘,§§eai]§§§f§fie't‘o cfgefila,thorough trial on a comparative on limited pasture. The new system d t t d t th - thlébasis. The gain per day from birth is paying much hettei-_ At the time bepar {men kan.t pu emf mt blto sale time (at about 200 pounds) our pigs are 65 to 70 pounds in fams 0 mla e I mt(;1r‘etc°m(§1~ath€was 1.02 pounds when the grain weight, they are getting three old Stevlira (iglgs hiah agductionwas limited, and oh lull feed Plgs pounds of feed per head per day. ml sdo ma g g pmade l-33 Pounds Pel‘ day. It took This is cut down to two pounds at recor 5' .

longer. naturally, to make market that time. The grain is fed between one of the COWS mshed her re’weight but the feed cost for 100 9 a_ in, and 10 a_ in“ after the pigs cord recently with 980.6 pounds ofpounds of grain was only $8.40 have grazed on alfalfa all m0rning butterfat produced in a year. It’sfor the £1185 glveh llmlled feedlhg and aren’t too hungry. Watering a new top in the state for six-year-lt Wes _l4-50 Pei‘ hundred Pouhds and other chores are done at the old cows. She is a Holstein namedof galh 1h the ease of full leedlhgt same time, and then we are through chinock Imperial Catharina$6-10 m01‘e- for the day. The pigs rest in the

“The Time Factor Isl,“ impOr_ mid_dle_ of the day_but they graze — 4;

tant,” said Roland Brandt, one of agal In the evenmg When.th.ey ’the brothers. If you can keep the reac no pounds’ the feed ls m‘ Travel By Rail ‘Lcost down that is important creased to two and a half pounds

’ per head per day.” Let us quote you round trip“glhlé Syslltegl Teqhllres Ple,12l.V_ol The Brandt pigs are farmwed on fares from your station and assist

pas ur , so e supp y won give . . . .out before the end of the Season," pastuge. A type houses are used you in planning your trip to inBrandt explained “This year we and e McLean system of sanita- spect western land.have 630 pigs on 52 acres of good tion is followed. While the pigs_are J_ w_ HAWalfalfa. Since the large demand small, the pasture ls dlvlded Into . .

doesn’t come until after the pigs lots, With 8 doleh or so litters Per 115 Northern Paclc Rallwayreach 65 pounds, we were able to lot and all of the litters in one lot St. Paul 1, Minn.

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