Editorial & Business Offices: 122 South Fourth Street
O'NEILL. NEBR.
“ CARROLL W. STEWART, I&itor and Publisher
Established in 1880— Published Each Thursday
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We Can Eat Our Cake and Have It Too
Every citizen of Holt county and adjoining counties—including
landowners, tenants, businessmen, employees, housewives and school
children—should have a vital interest in the conservation of our
soil and water.
Preservation of our land can assure a good future for all of us.
A wasteful agriculture can despoil our farms and ranches, turn our
thriving communities into ghost towns and drive our young people
away from home. It has happened elsewhere, it can happen here,
but it is entirely unnecessary. We can eat our cake and have it, too,
merely by “treating every acre according to its adaptability and its
needs/’ as the Soil Conservation authorities recommend.
Even though the Holt county Soil Conservation District is do
ing an excellent job and making progress, under the direction of its
supervisors and Conservationist C. R. Hill, we are below the state
average in percentage of farmer-district agreements and acreage for
which plans have been made. In many other agricultural activities
we have made outstanding accomplishments. We can match and
even exceed other counties in the adoption of recommended land
use practices if we take our problems seriously and work toward a
nroDer solution.
One of these problems is the tendency to plow land which
can better be used for grasses and beef production. Another is the
need for soil building legume rotations in our cropping programs.
And, of course, we need to be always on the alert to prevent ero
sion, which not only increases the price of crop production, wastes
time and damages equipment, but takes with it needed plant food.
Even on some pasture land we may need lime and fertilizers,
because grass, too, is a crop which needs to be fed, and conservation
practices have been proven to increase the carrying capacity of
grassland.
All of these phases of agriculture can be converted into dollars
which represent either profit or loss. Comparing the profit from row
crops with that from grasses and legumes the figures may surprise
us. For example, in 1949, the latest official statistics reported for
Holt county, we produced some 89,000 acres of corn averaging only
22.1 bushels per acre, a total corn crop slightly under 2 million bush,
els. The value per acre was put at $25. However, university studies
show that it costs from $11 to $13 to produce an acre of corn in dry
land areas. Therefore, it appears that on the average we are only
netting about $12 per acre. At the same time we are exhausting fer
tility and organic matter, and succeeding yields gradually fall.
Wheat isn’t an important crop but in 1949 we harvested 30,000
acres of oats with an average yield of only 10.4 bushels and grossed
an average of only $6.80 per acre. We lost money on the average.
'We harvested some 18,000 acres of rye, giving us an average re
turn of $9.20 per acre. As a grain crop it appears unprofitable. With
an official 681,000 acres of cropland and 858,000 acres of pasture land,
hay is our big crop, mostly native hay, of which we harvested al
most *400,000 acres, and 20,000 acres of alfalfa. The statisticians fig
ured it all at an average value of $10.90 per acre. That is over four
million dollars, which is about half the value of our entire farm pro
duction. Very little of that hay land washed or blew away. Grazed
and fed as hay, it doubtless paid more net money in livestock gain
than it would have returned in grain crops. Our hay can be improv
ed in feed value as well as yields with good management.
As a cash crop too, grass seed is paying big money, sometimes
producing more every year than the land itself is worth.
In tome respects Holt county farmers perform far above oth
ers with similar land and climatic conditions. For example, we
rank fourth in the entire state in number of milk cows, with 13.
390 on January 1. 1949. Our dairy products income is about 10
percent of our entire farm income. Ii« "all cattle on farms," we
rank third.
Poultry acounts for another 10 percent or more of our income.
All livestock products, including dairy and poultry, make up 90 per
cent of Holt county’s income of approximately eight million dollars,
■bout 10 percent coming from the sale of all crops. Feeding to live
stock on the farm isntead of selling our crops off as grain helps to
maintain our fertility, and at almost any price level provides a high,
er net income for both tenant and owner.
By such farming practices we cannot only assure prosperity
for the future, but within only a few years we can materially in
crease our net income and keep it up indefinitely. Not only do farm
ers make more money, but merchants also are benfitted; schools,
churches and hospitals can be maintained at a high level. We can
all enjoy better living advantages and our young people will be
guaranteed a good future here at home.
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Prairieland Talk—
After Sojourn in ‘Ham and Eggs’ Country,
Next Stop Is Los Alamos, Then Prairieland
By ROMAINE SAUNDERS
LOS ANGELES, CALIF.—Cal
ifornians are tax conscious. Like
elsewhere throughout the coun
try, it is still
in the gripe
stages. They
think they are
being .imposed
upon by old
timers from
other states
coming here to
get a dip out of
their 330 - mil
lion-dollar bud
get for the su
perann u a t e d
Romalne patriots — the
Saunders “ham and eggs”
R. W. Doe, a chain store ex
ecutive of the San Francisco
bay area, says our loaf of
bread is spread with 151 tax
items.
t>o that is why a loaf Bentley
sold for a 5-cent piece in O’Neill
now is 23-cents. The tax bill. Mr.
Doe discovered, exceeds the en
tire food bill of the nation. Yank
eeland has always been able to
master situations, so doubtless
the tax headaches will be given
a dose of aspirin in due time.
i * • *
A woman fell and cut her head
on the concrete. Two Good Sa
maritans happened to be going
that way and stopped to aid the
fallen woman. “I will go to the
car and get a blanket and some
whiskey for her,” said Samaritan
No. 1, “that is the only thing in
such cases.”
"No, no," said Samaritan No.
2, "I will hold har head up and
check the flow of blood until
the ambulance gets here."
“Do you want her to die of
shock here on the pavement?”
snapped Samaritan No. 1.
“Where did you learn first aid,
in a distillery?” came back Sa
maritan No. 2.
And the police interrupted a
Good Samaritan knockdown.
• * •
Two docs and their wives had
a drawing room party. Now there
is a damage suit on for $105,000.
One of the ladies tossed a high
ball glass at the other. . . Two ex
pectant fathers and mothers
picketed a telephone office with
a banner, “Unfair to the stork.”
They had been refused telephone
connections. . . A mock trial re
sulted in the conviction of Secre
tary of State Acheson, the vote
resulting in 793 for conviction,
13 against. . . A marine sergeant
killed in action in Korea last No
vember has been summoned
twice by the draft board to ap
pear for induction. The father
and mother of that dead soldier,
their only son, cry out, “Why
can’t they let us alone!” . . Evan
gelist Billy Graham is back in
this modern Sodom. . . Oranges
45 cents for 10 pounds, loin steak
$1.05 a pound, fat hens $2.
• • •
A little over bVi inches of
rain has fallen on Southern
California until late February.
Weather observers despair of
getting the normal 15 inches of
rain.
m • •
Time writes no wrinkle on thy
azure brow; such as creation’s
dawn beheld thou rollest now.
So wrote Byron.
Man has cluttered up the land
with his works. His “control
stops with the shore.” Yesterday
we wound our way through
mountain passes to the ocean’s
edge. The blue waters of the Pa
cific lay calm—except for the ev
er restless surf beating upon the
sands. The sun bathed in radiant
splendor the surface of the deep,
permitting a clear view to the
horizon limits.
Near-naked humans lolled
on the sand, sunbrowned bod
ies stretched in indolent ease.
Being Washington’s birthday
it was a holiday for schools and
public offices, when many such
workers drove to the ocean
shore. It was the first time one
of our party of land lubbers had
looked upon that 6,000 miles of
ocean depths, and, of course, was
properly impressed.
My next stop will be Los Ala
mos, N. M., where my elder
daughter and her husband make
their home. Then on to prairie
land.
* * •
The newborn babe comes into
the world with a cry of pain, goes
out with a groan after accumu
lating the frosts of many winters.
From the maternity ward to the
funeral chapel tears and laugh
ter, joy and pain haunt the steps
of humanity. A millionaire leap
ed to his death today from a 100
foot precipice. A prominent civic
leader pulled the trigger that
sent a slug into his heart. Traffic
deaths for the year in one Cal
ifornia county totaled 90 by late
February. The nude body of a
woman strangled to death lying
on the beach. A girl beat the
brains out of a guy who got fresh
with her. Maybe more of them
should carry a club.
A Hollywood notable came
home and informed his spouse
that he had enjoyed his freedom
while in Italy and wanted a di
vorce. The discarded lady accom
odated him. After the judge
granted her the decree, she was
asked by a nosey reporter if
there was another romance for
her. “No, I’ve had enough!’» ,
Real Estate Transfer*
WD—Thelma F Adams to Fred
D & Grace E Smith 2-19-51 $5900
Pt SEy4SWy4 20-26-12
WD—Fannie Schiffbauer to
Gustav M & Magel H Suhr 2-14
51 $5,200- SWfi 14-27-9
QCD — Thelma F Adams to
Chambers Village Inc 12-13-50
$1- Pt SW,/4 20-26-12- For public
street
WD—Zedona Knoell to Clare
Otto Knoell 12-14-50 $1- E% Sec
21 Twp 30- Range 10 except 1
acre for school house
WD—Gail Boies to Frank C
Kruntorad et al 2-19-51 $2545
Lot 12 Blk 15- Pioneer Townsite
First Add- Ewing
WD—Fred L Kanzelmeier to
Lloyd & Alfred James 12-8-50
$800- Lot 1- NEy4NWy4 7-25-16
WD—Roy Krohn et al to Wm
L Hanley 6-9-50 $11200- EVfe 21
29-11
WD—Wm L Hanley to Edward
E Hanley 2-19-51 $11200- EVz 21
29-11
WD—Carl H Christensen to
MeHe & Delmar Spangler 1-30-51
$17500- SEl'i 15- less *20 acres off
North side- EM>SEft 22- NWft
23-31-9
WD—Virgil Laursen to Walter
B Johnson 2-23-51 $4000- NWVi
WV2NEV4 7-29-9
WD—J J Harrington to Walter
B Johnson 10-27-50 $12390- S%
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O’Neill, Nebraska
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