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LXV O’NEILL, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, MAY 11, 1944 NO. 1
O’Neill High Trims
St. Mary’s Ball Team
The St. Mary’s Cardinals and
O’Neill Eagles met in a baseball
game at St. Mary’s diamond, two
blocks west of the power plant,
Tuesday afternoon with the
Eagles from O’Neill High finally
winning out in the seven-inning
ball game. It was a rough and
close game for five innings with
the score at the end of five in
nings reading St. Mary’s 8,
O’Neill 7, Then in the sixth and
seventh innings O’Neill started
to hit and the wind handicapped
the St. Mary’s fielders as the
Eagles assumed the lead and
won the ball game by a 16-8
score. Edward Campbell, south
paw of St. Mary’s, and Ted Beck
with of O’Neill, both pitched a
great brand of ball for early in
the season. This was St. Mary’s
first year of baseball for quite
some time and O’Neill had a
baseball team last year. O’Neill
also played a game with St.
John’s last Sunday ending in a
1-0 win for St. John’s although
the game was stopped because of
the rain.
St. Mary’s will play St. John’s
here Sunday afternoon with the
game starting about 2:30 or 3
o’clock.
Bill Marne, center fielder of
St. Mary’s, broke his finger dur
ing the game.
The starting lineups:
St. Mary’s— O’Neill—
Golden, If Fox, If
Sullivan, cf Cole, rf
Early, rf Korab, rf
Froliech, lb B. Marrow, lb
Merriman, 2b S. Marrow, 2b
Clark, ss Riley, ss
Wilson, 3b Adminson, 3b
Baker, c Porter, c
Campbell, p Beckwith, p .
Capt. Catherin Ullom
Chief Nurse Camp Butner
From the Office of Public Re
lations, Camp Butner, N. C., May
6.—Arrival of Captain Cathern
L. Ullom, of O’Neill, Nebr., at
the station hospital Camp Butner,
N. C., was announced today by
Col. James M. Troutt, post sur
W geon and director, medical divi
" sion. Captain Ullom assumes
the duties of chief nurse, suc
ceeding Capt. Agnes Hasson who
recently joined a medical unit at
Camp Blanding, Florida.
The new chief nurse has been
in, the military serviqe for thirteen
years. From 1936 to 1939 she
was stationed in the Philippine
Islands. Prior to her arrival at
Camp Butner’s station hospital,
she was assistant chief nurse at
Kennedy General Hospital, Mem
phis, Tenn.
Farm Labor Meeting
Here Last Tuesday
. L. R. Snipes, who is in charge
of the farm labor progam for the
extension service m Lincoln met
with County Agent Lyndle R.
Stout and the Holt County farm
labor committee last Tuesday to
discuss and make plans for the
coming hay and harvest season.
Mr. Snipes explained the possible
sources of labor which may be
recruited from outside Nebraska
and the procedure to be followed
to secure this labor.
In some areas in Nebraska it
is planned to use prisoners of
war. Japanese evacuees, con
scientious objectors and mem
bers of the military service in
units. Mexican nationals and
farm labor recruited from Ar
kansas and Oklahoma. In order
to secure farm labor from any
of these sources it is necessary
to make definite plans now.
In all cases the farmer must
sign a contract to employ im
> ported laborers 75 per cent of the
time at a going wage rate to be
set at a publjc hearing in the
county prior to the contract. The
workers will be transported to
and from the county by the gov
ernment.
The Holt County farm labor
committee were unable to fore
see the farm labor needs of the
county at this time and it was
decided to inform local farmers
and ranchers of the possibility of
recruiting labor from these
sources and that it would then
be necessary for the farmers to
make the expected needs known.
Any farmer or rancher who feels
that he could use any of the
above sources of labor should im
mediately contact County Agent
Lyndle R. Stout in O’Neill.
Former O’Neill Boy
Promoted To Captain
O’Neill relatives received word
the first of the week that Lt.
Darrel Griffith of Hondo Field,
Texas, had been promoted to the
rank of captain. Captain Griffith
is the eldest son of Mr. and Mrs.
Charles Griffith, now of Kear
ney, Nebr., but former residents
of the Meek neighborhood of
this county. Capt. Grifith is a
navigator and has been in the
army over two years.
O’Neill Woman’s Club will
meet with Mrs. Seth Noble on
Wednesday, May 17th, at 2:30
p. m.
V
Former Chaplain Will
Deliver Address To High
School Graduating Class
The O’Neill High School grad
uating class will have their com
mencement exercises at the
O’Neill High School auditorium
on Tuesday evening, May 16th,
at 8 o’clock. Dr. George D. Mc
Clelland of the First Baptist
Church of Fremont will deliver
the graduation address.
Dr. McClelland attended pub
lic schools of Texas and was
graduated from College of Mar
shall, Texas, and from Baylor
University. Later he received his
Th. M. from Southwestern Bap
tist Theological Seminary and in
1940 was awarded his doctor’s of
theology from the Central Bap
tist Theological Seminary.
Dr. McClelland served as pas
tor of the First Baptist Church,
Fairbury, Nebr., from August,
1936, to June 9, 1941. He was a
chaplain in the United States
arniy reserve and entered active
duty with the Third Infantry Di
vision June 9, 1941, being re
lieved of active duty because of
physical disability October 27,
1943. His active duty included
more than eight months of serv
ice in Africa.
The pastor was awarded the
silver star citation November 28,
1943. “During the action at Ain
Seba, Casablanca. French Mo
rocco, on November 10, 1942,
Chaplain McClelland displayed
extraordinary gallantry. When
constantly under heavy fire he
went among the wounded and
ministered to them. Chaplain
continued his efforts at the bat
talion aid station, which was
under heavy artillery fire, and
assisted the medical personnel in.,
caring for the wounded. Chap
lain McClelland’s disregard for
his personal safety and the ex
ample he set were an inspiration
to the personnel of the battalion.”
Dr. McClelland has been pas
tor of the First Baptist Church
at Fremont since October, 1943.
He is married and has one
daughter.
BANKS PAY OWN
BOND EXPENSE
The fifth war loan drive is sched
uled to sweep the country in June
and Nebraska bankers have al
ready volunteered their services,
without any cost to the government.,
Preliminary work for this whole
sale cooperation was started at all
the six group meetings of Nebraska
banks held in various districts of
the state within the past two weeks.
Complete bank cooperation in a
war loan drive is no small under
taking because it not only calls for
active sales effort and clerical work
in issuing bonds, but it entails a
heavy expense which the banks as
sume without hope of reimburse
ment. The expense of extra cleri
cal help, working exclusively on
war bonds in Lincoln banks alone,
totalled more than $80,000 last year,
while the figures for the balance of
the state raised this expense total
in excess of $150,000.
In explanation of the willingness
of Nebraska banks to continue to
assume this heavy burden of ex
pense, Robert I. Stout, president of
the Nebraska Bankers Association
i said:
“The figures of the state admin
istrator of the war savings staff
; show that banks issue between 85%
and 90% of the total sales. Nebraska
: bankers all feel that the money
I subscribed for war bonds should be
devoted 100% to war effort, with
out being depleted in the least de
gree by expenses deducted. For this
reason the bankers of Nebraska
wish to assume their expenses in
cident to the sale and issue of these
bonds as their added contribution
to the war effort.”
Bankers willingness to assume
this additional work and expense
has caused comment in many quar
ters because it is well known that
many small banks over the state
complain they have difficulty stay
ing in business because of the com
petition of government subsidized
lending in the farm field. However,
| even the banks hardest hit by gov
ernment bureau competition main
; tain that no bureaucratic or political
interference shall influence their
I actions in helping win the war.
Con Keys left Monday for
Omaha where he will spend sev
j eral days on business and to
I visit friends.
Ordnance Mechanics
Return To First Love
Headquarters, European The
ater of Operations.—After train
ing and working for two years
on all types of Army combat
vehicles the members of an Ord
nance Motor Maintenance com
pany now stationed in England,
all skilled mechanics, are back at
their old familiar job of working
on civilian automobiles. The unit
is reconditioning all the civilian
cars now being purchased from
the public for use as staff vehicles
by high ranking American offi
cers.
Located in a huge warehouse
recently vacated by the British,
their shop is a strange combin
ation of American and British
machines and tools. Mobile motor
maintenance equipment designed
for use by the company in the
field has ben set up in the shop
and is used for a large part of
the work on civilian cars recently
impressed for Army duty.
Members of the company re
port little difficulty in shifting to
work on British built motors
since many of them are built on
American design.
Working on civilian cars is a
far cry from the early duties of
the company when it was iron
ing out the “bugs” in the now
famous “Duck”, Captain George
W. Killstrom, 2741 Melrose Aven
ue, Chicago, Illinois, commanding
officer of the unit says. The
company too over the “Duck” in
its infancy and gave it the initial
try-outs in the surf at Fort Ord,
California.
Equipped with machnes, tools
and experience to service “any
Army vehicle on wheels” this
Motor Maintenance company is
enjoying its pre-invasion inter
lude of work on civilian vehicles
for it is the type of work in
which most of the members first
learned about motors.
The company is made up with
men from eleven states, with
trree from Nebraska. These
three men are Pfc. Peter W.
Donohoe, O’Neill; S. Sgt. Clem
ent R. Hahn, Valentine; S. Sgt.
Clarence F. Bicek. Verdigree.
How To Canserve
Scarce Protein
One of the best ways to con
serve scarce protein, says Suc
cessful Farming magazine for
May, is to be sure that all ani
mals are'’ free from intestinal
parasites.
Cover your hands with mineral
oil or lard and use a good anti
septic after helping a pigging
sow*. Neglect of this precaution
.may mean a case of undulant
fever.
Nits of bot flies on the legs and
jaws of horses can be destroyed
by bathing with warm water.
Whenever cattle begin to chew
wood—mangers, fence posts, or
stanchion—it is a 10 to 1 bet that
they need phosphorous. Success
ful Farming magazine recom
mends bonemeal or flourine-free
dicalcium phosphate.
.Hold down parasites in sheep
by a lick containing one part of
phenothiazine well mixed with
nine parts of salt.
Ringworm on cattle is due to a
fungus and is contagious not only
to other cattle but also to human
beings. Round, heavily crusted,
hairless spots ranging in size
from a dime to a half-dollar,
more common on the head and
neck, are characteristic of this
trouble.
PLAY SAFE AND
GET YOUR COAL IN EARLY
At a recent conference of coal
dealers, distributors, and producers
of this area, E. N. Ahlfeldt, area
distribution manager of solid fuels,
expressed concern because home
owners and school districts haven’t
heeded government warnings to
store bituminous (soft) coal now.
“While many home owners have
taken advantage of present oppor
tunities to acquire their supply of
coal for the coming winter,” Mr.
Ahlfeldt said, “Others are throwing
this chance away. We are disturbed
over householders’ and school dis
tricts’ failure to buy their coal now.
Apparently they are waiting to se
cure their favorite coals, but such
coals will not be available in suf
ficient quantity to supply their
needs.”
“Full year-round production of
mines in this district,” he continued,
“must be maintained if a fuel short
age is to be kept to the minimum.
Demands of railroads, utilities, and
the war department’s requirements
for use in the United States and for
export, are such that home owners
must be convinced that this is not
a coal dealers’ sales campaign but
that they are urged by their gov
ernment as a wartime measure de
signed to see them through a crit
ical coal crisis.”
Less coal is being moved into
consumers’ bins than at this time
last year, and officials stated that
this will result in serious conse
quences to consumers because it is
not reasonable to hope that the
coming winter will be as mild as
, the last one.
Members of the coal industry in
attendance at the conference agreed
that continued negligence of home
owners and school districts to stock
soft coal now will create a difficult
I situation next winter.
BREEZES FROM
THE SOUTHWEST
By Romaine Saunders
Some of the official “directives”
sound more like the pronounce
ment, “I am the boss,” than an
honest effort to aid either the
home or battle front.
Let both sides agree not to
spend a dollar this presidential
campaign and see what the voters
will do in November, minus the
high pressure politics.
The southwest is out of hay.
Not that there wasn’t abundance
last season but too much was
hauled out to market the fore
part of an unusual winter. The
late wet, cold spring has taken
a toll of oalves, lambs and young
turkeys. Nebraska is being wet
from end to end and as the late
J. J. King said under Similar
weather conditions, irrigation
stock is not in demand. South
east Nebraska is a va^t mud
puddle and no one to get into the
fields if they do dry off but dad
and mother. This is going to be
one hard season for farmers down
in the grain belt. Our prairie
land is wet. Mists hang across
the valley and gray clouds blot
out the sun and stars. Two
nights last' week the ground froze
and nearly, an inch of ice was
formed. But the grass is green,
robins are nesting. Meadow
larks venture a few notes and
prairie roosters greet the gray
dawn with their dull bugle call.
Hardly a roof in the neighborhood
that hasn’t sprung a leak and
lumber yards will need to get in
a supply of roofing.
“Equal and exact justice to all;
peace, commerce and honest
friendship with all nations and
entangling alliances with none;
the support of State govern
ments in all their rights as
the most competent administra
tion of our domestic concerns, are
the surest bulwarks against anti
republican tendencies.’ Who is
speaking? Thomas Jefferson,
that political patron saint of
democrats of the old school of
whom there are two left in Ne
braska, one at Columbus and one
at Clay Center,
While the hosts are gathering
for the march to the western
front for the great Allied on
slaught, churches throughout
this country and England are
developing plans for communi
cants to go to their knees in
prayer when the blow is struck.
The prayers will be answered to
the extent the English speaking
race is willing to be used to pro
mote gospel work in the world
rather than political formulas.
And it will be because of the
steady virtues of God fearing
fathers and mothers and not the
dizzy-headed playboys and girls
of the dar)p.e and card deck.
H .. -■—
A group of money spenders in
the senate want fifty million dol
lars for school lunches. Some
of the most substantial citizens
of Holt county went to the
country schools a half century
ago carrying a lunch of corn
bread. Our public schools have
about crowded out useful studies
with modern frills. Educators
that have taught that man sprung
from a monkey tribe have been
shown tup as monkeys by the army
intelligence test. It is a problem
with school boards where to call
a halt. Rivalry among schools
in adding entertainment features
goes on at the expense of solid
learning.
Do you cherish with pride a
European ancestry? Listen to
the Colonial patriot, Pat Henry:
“I am not a Virginian, but an
American.”
I was recently told this story:
An Illinois farmer gave appli
cants for a job on his farm an
original if somewhat nonsensical
test. He had a pile of rock al
ways at hand. An applicant for
a job was required to convey by
wheelbarrow that rock to a desig
nated spot and pile it in orderly
fashion. When this was done he
was required to wheel the rock
all back to where it was origin
ally. Not many men fifty years
ago would be made a monkey
of that way. All such a test
would prove would be that the
one who carried it through was
of meager intelligence and low
spirit, capable of doing only
what he was told to do. When
it was suggested to the friend
who told this to me that it would
be an ipsult to ones intelligence
he was rather inclined to “get
mad.” He thought the farmer
had the right system. It was
such an attitude among employ
ers that has brought on antag
onism of labor and industry.
Employers are now bitterly
learning that the workmen’s ser
vices are for sale but not their
souls. The workman no longer
fears that he will lose his job.
The employer has a perpetual
heahache for fear of a walkout.
Now the union boys have be
come arrogant if not right down
sassy. A few weeks tramping
the streets for a job will cure that
sooner or later.
Canning Sugar
Can Be Obtained
In Addition to the five pounds
of canning sugar which may be
obtained by the use of the No.
40 sugar stamp in War Book Nq.
IV, housewives may obtain up to
twenty pounds of sugar for each
person in the family, for home
canning by making a special ap
plication to the Board. In
making this application, the
; names of each member of
the family must be listed
and spare stamp No. 37 from
War Book No. IV (not Sugar
Stamp No. 37) for each member
of the family must be attached.
Ed T. Campbell, Chairman of
the Holt County War Price and
Rationing Board, has announced
that it will not be necessary for
any one to apply for canning
sugar until fruit is available, and
then only for what sugar is re
quired for immediate use, as one
can reapply for the balance at any
time up to February 28, 1945.
By this practice the housewife
can budget her requirements and
will have sugar when reeded for
essential canning purposes.
Mr. Campbell also called atten
tion to the fact that when sugar
is issued by the Board for can
ning purposes, applicants must
budget the amount of sugar they
use in order to prevent spoilage
of fruit for lack of sugar later in
the season. He cautioned that
sugar received for canning pur
poses should be used only for
canning purposes.
Applications for canning sugar
which are to be mailed to the
local Board may be obtained
either at the Board in O’Neill
or at the following places in the
county:
First National Bank, O’Neill.
O’Neill National Bank, O’Neill.
Page Co-Operative Credit Ass’n
Chambers State Bank.
The Frontier’s
Honor Roll
The following Frontier readers
have extended their subscription
during the past six weeks and
several new readers have been
added during the same period,
(of whom hav our sincere
thanks. We hope that our new
readers will be as well pleased as
our old ones with the weekly vis
its of The Frontier, so that they
will be readers of this family
journal for many years to come.
Mrs. Lillian B. Dugan
Mrs. Flora B. Lewis
Monsignor J. G. McNamara
E. J. Matousek
F. G, Bredehoft
Pearl Cary
W. F. Kaczor
Harry Page
Mrs. Eleanor Fisher, new
Mrs. A. T. Crumley
Elias Luther Clark
W. G .Kraft
John D. Pruss
Mrs. M. A. Summers
Arthur O. Auserod
Earl Hirsch, new
Mrs. T. S. Mains
J. B. O’Sullivan
W. L. Culkin. new
Martha Hanley
R. H. Parker
H. V. Rosenkrans
Cyril C. Peter
John O'Malley
C. E. Lundgren
E. J. Mack
J. B. Mellor
R. B. Geary
Mary Jane Flannigan, new
Claude Pickering, new
John Reimers
Guy Cole
George Meals, new
W. H. Harty
Mrs. S. J. Weekes
Anton Dietsch, new
FARMERICA SELECTS DEWEY
TO JOUST WITH ROOSEVELT
Farmerica has chosen Dewey
to joust with Roosevelt in the
coming election, according to the
nationwide “farmer speaks” poll
conducted for the May issue of
Successful Farming magazine.
Dewey led the Republican
candidates, with 43 per cent of
all farmers selecting him as the
one man they would like to see
as the next president. MacArthur
followed with a 22 per cent vote
and Willkie, fourth in the Wis
consin primaries, placed third in
the all-farmer vote with 15 per
cent.
Bricker and Stassen, accumu
lating 12 per cent and 7 per cent
of the farmers’ votes, placed
fourth and fifth on the poll.
Eighty per cent of those select
ing Democratic candidates
showed a preference for Roose
velt. Hull, Wallace and Byrd
1 followed with 9 per cent, 5 per
I cent and 3 per cent respectively.
According to the poll, Dewey
is favored over Willkie by better
than 5 to 2, and in the area
stretching from Ohio across the
prairies to western Nebraska,
Dewey likewise leads Willkie by
about 3 to 1, with MacArthur in
between.
Marriage Licenses
Julian Sojka, 31, and Dorothy
Shavlik, 27, botH of Ewing, on
May 6.
Thomas Doolittle, 24, and Bet
ty Enbody, 18, both of Amelia,
on May 5.
Omaha Man Named
Director Legion Group
Robert H. Storz of Omaha was
one of eighteen prominent Amer
icans appointed directors of the
American Legion National Amer
icanism Endowment Fund Cor
poration at their meeting in New
York April 29 and 30. ,
Serving with Mr. Storz on the
board of directors will be: Earl
Warren, Governor of the State of
California, Sacramento; Alvin M.
Owsley, Vice President of Ball
Bros. Mason Jar Co., Munice,
Indiana; Roy W. Moore, Presi
dent Canada Dry Ginger Ale,
Inc., N. Y. City; Judge Frank J.
Merrick, Cleveland, Ohio: Sam
Jones, Governor State of Louis
iana, Baton Rouge; Scott Chand
ler, Vice President Coca Cola Co.,
Atlanta, Ga.; Harry M. Moses,
President, Frick Coke Co., Pitts
burg, Pa.; Louis Johnson, Clarks
burg, W. Va., former assistant
Secretary of War; R. H. Barnard,
President Ownes-Ill Glass Co.,
Toledo, Ohio; E. A. Chester, Vice
President Columbia Broadcasting
System, New York; Fred F Flor
ence, President Republic Nation
al Bank, Dallas, Texas.
The purpose of this organiza
tion is as follows:
‘To uphold and defend the Con
stitution of the United States of
America; to foster the realization
and to develop and promote the
appreciation of the value of the
American way of life; the pro
motion of liberal and practical
education of the people at large
in the privileges, obligations, and
responsibilities of citizenship in
this country, and to aid and con
duct broad educational programs
for that purpose under the direct
ion of the National Executive
Committee.”
Robert H. Storz is vice presi
dent of the Storz Brewing Co., of
Omaha. He is a recent Command
er of Omaha American Legion
Post No. 1, America’s largest.
He is a former president of the
Omaha Manufacturers Associa
tion and director of the Omaha
Chamber of Commerce.
Up And At It Club
The Up and At it 4-H Club held
their fourth meeting at the home
of Helen and Glea Bowden on
April 30. Mrs. Lloyd Whaley
presided over the meeting in the
absence of Mrs. Johnson.
The meeting was called to order
by the president with all memb
ers answering to roll call. A 4-H
pin was given to each member.
Making and materials for sum
mer wardrobe were discussed.
The girls taking the “Learning
to Sew” project discussed the
making of their work boxes.
Helen and Glea Bowden led the
flag and 4-H pledges. We closed
the meeting after singing songs.
After the meeting lunch was
served by Mrs. Audrey Bowden.
The next meeting will be held at
the home of Meriam Schmidt, on
May 12. Friday evening.—News
Reporter.
The Weather
High Low M’st’e
May 4_44 30 .73
May 5_36 27 .04
May 6_42 27
May 7_65 31
May 8_._55 42 .71
May 9_62 40
May 10 --—65 48
May 11 -78 58 .21
Precipitation so far this month,
3.61 inches.
MOIISTURE
In our table last week of the
rainfall so far this year, as corn
compared with last year, we left
out the month of January, this
vear. Here is the corrected table:
January, 1943 -.27
February, 1943 -.17
March, 1943 -.65
April, 1943 - 2.66
May, 1943, including May 3— .00
Total, 1943 _3.75
January, 1944 -1.48
February, 1944 - 85
March, 1944- 58
April, 1944 -3.03
May, 1944, tn 4 p.m., the 3rd._2.51
Total, 1944 -8.45
Interest Taken In
Subsurface Tillage
Some Holt County farmers are
interested in the subsurface-till
i age and crop residue manage
ment system of farming. Ac
cording to supervisors of the
Holt Soil Conservation District.
This is manifested by the number
of subsurface-tillage type ma
chines that can be found on
farms.
Some machines are better
adapted for operating through a
heavy crop residue and loosening
the soil. Tne design of the blades
or sweeps running beneath the
surface is important. It has been
found that where sweeps are
large enough to provide at least
18 inches between shanks, less
difficulty was encountered in
heavy residud. Rolling coulters
attached ahead of the shanks to
cut through heavy residue elim
inates much of the trouble from
clogging and bunching while till
ing, and in succeeding farming
operations.
Frequently difficulty is en
countered with the ground being
hard for summer and fall tilling
of small grain stubble. It is rec
i ommended that such field be
! tilled about three inches deep as
soon after grain harvest as pos
sible. This not only kills weeds
and conserves moisture but also
seems to keep the soil from be
coming so hard. For fall seeding
of grasses, rye or other crops the
field is tilled later to the normal
plow depth.
Corn and other row crops can
be planted satisfactorily through
residues with a corn planter
equipped with disc furrow open
ers attahed to stub runners.
Farmers are urged to try the
subsurface - tillage and residue
i management system on a field to
see how they like it and observe
the results.
There are certain adaptations
that can be made of some of the
present farm machinery. Assist
ance for making these adapta
tions and suggestions on their
use can be had from the Holt
Soil Conservation District in the
court house annex or from the
county agent.
DEFERRED FEEDING
WORKABLE. PROFITABLE,
KANSAS FARMERS SAY
Kansas farmers have found a
plan that saves feed, utilizes
roughages, yields a fair profit,
j and fits wartime condition.
Deferred feeding is the system,
and is defined by Kansas State
College as “starting in the fall
| with good-quality calves, produc
ing 225 to 250 pounds of gain
during ithe winter1, grazing 90
days without feed other than
grass, and then full-feeding 100
days in dry lot.”
The system has enabled stock
men to market an attractive car
cass with a maximum use of
roughage and grass and the mini
mum amount of grain. Some op
erators buy both steer and
heifer calves and feed them all
the regular wintering ration.
When spring comes, the steers
go to grass and are handled ac
cording to the standard deferred
feeding system.
The heifers remain in the feed
lot and are marketed in early
summer after a period of full
feeding. This diversifies the pro
gram and makes two paydays
during the year.
One Kansan believes heiters
! will produce the good grade beef
now in demand on less grain
than steers. His 60 heifers
weighed 333 pounds delivered in
November, 1942, and cost $42. He
got a winter gain of 170 pounds,
a pasture gain of 150 pounds, and
a feed-lot gain of 125 pounds.
Calves sold off grass usually
go to cornbelt breeders, but last
year many of them went to the
packers. Selling feeders in the
fall is just another angle to the
deferred feeding system.
According to the animal hus
bandry department at Kansas
State College, the system is good
for any grass. Bluegrass and
brome grass work just as well.
The grass should be good, re
gardless of kind.
A common mistake some farm
ers make when using the system
is not feeding well in winter. The
thought has been that calves will
make cheap gains on grass if
thin in the spring, but facts prove
they get more growth on the
grass and less finish.
Because of wartime feed short
I ages coupled with a constant de
! mand for a good grade of beef,
Kansas operators are feeding less
grain in the winter than their
standard system calls for. They
use more grass and roughage,
save grain, and yet are able to
produce a good carcass at the
: end of the full-feeding period.
George Meals, one of the most
successful farmers and ranchmen
of the western part of the county,
living south of Atkinson, was in
the city Saturday and was a
caller at this office and ordered
The Frontier sent to his address
for the coming year. George has
been a resident of the county
practically all his life, his parents
being among the pioneer settlers
of the Atkinson community.
Several years ago George spent a
few years in Alaska but was not
satisfied with that country and
came back to old Holt and has
prospered.
