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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 13, 1952)
. CHAMBERS NEWS Mr. and Mrs. George Jorgen sen and daughters, Kathy and Judy and Jens Jorgensen and «on, Larry, all of Carroll came on Saturday and visited until Sun day night in the Ruben Peltzer and A. A. Walter homes. Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Thorin vis ited her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Johnson at Page on Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Walter at tended services at the Lutheran church in Atkinson Sunday and were afternoon guests in the Bob Martens home. They were ac companied by Mrs. Louise Cran dall who visited relatives in At kinson. Rev. and Mrs. C. D. Ankney tand children were called to Cleve land, O., Friday, November 7, by the illness of her mother. Mrs. Keith Sexton is substitute teach ing for Mrs. Ankney. Blr. and Mrs. Edwin Wink and iflamily drove to Neligh Sunday to fxelp her father, L. A. Houston, * ^celebrate his 80th birthday anni versary. Mr. and Mrs. Steve Shavlik and daughter, Pamela, drove to Ew ing Sunday where they attended ^church services and then went to the Wilbur Napier home where they were dinner guests. Mr. and Mrs. William Ritter * kmsh and Mr. and Mrs. John Rit- j tterbush were Sunday dinner j .guests of Mr. and Mrs. Albert Rit- ! terbush. Mrs. Lyman Covey and mother, j Mrs. Hertel and Mr. and Mrs. i lieon Hertel left Thursday for Illinois to visit Mr. and Mrs. Omar Bratton and family and Mr. Mrs. Leon Hertel’s daughter, Leo- 1 ta. Mrs. Bratton is a sister of Mrs. Covey and Leon Hertel. Mrs. Eldon Brotherton ana son of Eugene, Ore., and Mrs. Matt hinne of Napa, Calif., came re cently to attend th~ funeral serv ices of Mrs. Katie Jacobson. Mr. Brotherton has been visiting his daughter and husband, Mr. and Mrs. Glen Taylor for the past two weeks. John Adams of Austin, Tex., is spending a few days with his mother, Mrs. Sarah Adams and other relatives. A group of extension club mem bers and friends attended achievement day in O'Neill last Thursday. The Better Ways club of Chambers won first on their safety booth. Mr. and Mrs. Irwin Crotty of Amarillo, Tex., were Saturday guests of Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Hubbard. Mr. Crotty assisted his grandfather, Isaac Baldwin for several years in operating a mer chandise store in Chambers about 45 years ago, where the Joe Daas store is now located. They are also visiting relatives at Inman. Banns Announced — LYNCH—Banns of marriage were announced the second time in the Assumption BVM church, here Sunday, November 9 in be half of Charles Faye Courtney, son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles C. Courtney, sr., of Lynch and Ger trude Fay Hull of Niobrara. Mr. and Mrs. Lee Osborne, Wayne and Norman of Parker, Kans., were Saturday dinner guests in the home of Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Gaskill and family. Price9s Soil Speech Winner Edward Price, 17, son of Mr. 1 and Mrs. L. B. Price of O’Neill, recently was declared winner in a soil conservation speech meet held here. Members of FFA and 4-H groups from At kinson and O’Neill competed. Subject: “The Job Ahead in My Soil Conservation District.” The winner Is an O’Neill high school senior. Text of his speech fol lows: By EDWARD PRICE The soil conservation district is a means farmers and ranchers have available to help maintain and improve our great land. Now, before we see what it does, let us look at the district prgan ization. In order to form a district a group of farmers or ranchers pe titions the state committee. If the state committee finds that many local people favor a district a referendum is held. If this is approved by the people, the district is established. The soil conservation districts are governed by local citizens rnese citizens are cauea super visors who receive no compen sation for their time. The powers of the district are very limited. It does not have the power of eminent domain, can not lew’ taxes or forpe farmers to accept the conservation prac tices proposed. Now that we have seen how +1_ie soil conservation district op erates, let us see what it has ac complished in Holt county. The Holt district was formed in April, 1944. There are 1,468, 351 acres in the district. This acreage is divided into 2,300 farms and ranches. At the beginning, the district served more or less as a clearing house for trees and grass seed, in 1946 the supervisors borrowed i one thousand dollars to buy trees and seed for reselling to cooperators, thus making it pos sible to get a larger selection of seed and trees. Also, tree plant ing equipment was obtained and the district hired personnel to operate the machines. 'Now let us see what has been done. Todate, these practices have been accomplished: Contour Arming 2,537 acres, crop residue management. 25,421 acres, strip cropping 11.018 acres, range im o-ovement 23.701 acres, seeding of range 4,800 acres, tree plant ing 1,317 acres, 95 farm and ranch ponds, 36 miles of terraces, 90 miles of field windbreak, 123 acres of water - wavs, 900 acres seeded to rotation hay and pas ture and over 2,100 acres seeded to hay and meadow. These plans were completed on about one-fifth of the district. By this, you can tell what remains to be done. The district needs publicity to familiarize the people with the services which they may use. It is imperative that the fact of soil erosion be brought before the peo ple of the district. We have come to the point where there is no more virgin land in our country so we must adopt and use con servation methods. Our land in the past centuries has suffered abuse at the hands of the people. Our land has had to support vast armies in two wars and it has had to help for | eign people as well. If we are to keep up the pres ; ent rate of production and even • increase it we must practice con servation, not only the stopping of erosion but also stopping the abuse of the elements in the soil. The most productive part of our soil is the topsoil. Good top soil and water are the main things that make land produc tive. When the land was first broken : the average depth of topsoil was I nine inches. Npw the average I depth is approximately five to | seven inches. Nearly half of the ; topsoil is gone because of im- ‘ proper land management. The | next 15 years will decide wheth- 1 er or not we have any topsoil left. Here in Holt county we have good soil and adequate rainfall but if we keep up some of our present practices in a few years the land will have lost much of its productivity. The soil conservation district has technical advisors and sur veyors who will come and help you decide what would be the best for the land. If a farmer were to go out and try to make a terrace, chances are he probably would not bet the best results. If he were to get a surveyor and a technical advisor to help him decide and helD him build a terrace, it prob ablv would be successful. T^hese advisors are not restrict: ed to terracing alone. They will make soil conservation survey maps which will aid in planning your farm so that each acre can be used for the production of the crOD for which it is best suited. Another of the services per formed is the planting of trees. In earlv times windbreaks were planted more for protection around the home sites than any thing, but now we know that trees, if properly used with other control measures can help to prevent soil blowing and loss of crops. Trees aid in conserving mois ture on the fields, although the roots take moisture from the . fields the beneficial effects us- . ually outweigh the detrimental. In the Holt district 90 miles of field windbreak and 1.317 acres of trees have been planted. One of the problems today in the farming business is adequate feed. If we allow the pastures to be overgrazed or let the cat tle out to pasture too early in the spring or leave them too lat. in the fall we risk killing the better grasses. Even in pastures that have had good care there are manv undesirable grasses. The conservation district will help the farmer choose +he mass es best suifad to He i » n ** o-fi they rent grass seeders to enable the farmer to improve his na tures. The pasture is rot t"p °*uv grass bearing land that needs to be improved. Manv of the mead ows have suffered and undesir able grasses have come in. Here, too, the soil conservation district gives helt>. Thus far we have been mostly concerned with hav, pasture and trees but these are only part of the problems of con servation. Every time a new field is brok en we introduce new conserva tion problems, but there is al ways a wav to combat these problems. Here are a few of the approved conservation practices and how thev work. Stripfarming is probabV one of the most widely used and more flexible of conserva tion methods. Bv using tbp stvm farming method there are no large exposed areas that the wind can reach. Mo«=t scrips are 10 rods or less in width. This places veg etation close enough together that the wind is not able to car ry awav ™uch valuable too soil. ' When using stripfarming in areas wherp tbp land is rolbng or hilly it should be done on +he contour to prevent unnecessary j erosion bv runoff. When sloping, rolling or hilly land is encountered while farm- j ing we almost have to u<=e con tour farmin'* Tf we did not. much i of the soil would probably wash : awav. We must plow, plant, cultivate and harvest sloping fields on the j level, that is, farm on the con- ! tour around hillsides with curv ing fufrows to fit the lay of the land, instead of straight furrows up and down hill. By doing this we not only stop erosion by water but we also conserve water. If the land is extremely hilly terracing should be used if thf land is to be farmed. Since water conservation and soil conserva tion are inseparably combined a terrace can be used to an advant age. Terraces, where applicable, are but one of the many elastic combinations of control measures that may be used in a field. If we use terraces and on some illy and sloping land the run off water often eats hungrily into the land. Here again we come to an acute problem of erosion. These waterways will rapid’y become gullies if they are not promptly controlled. Con trolling the runoff water starts on the contour or the terrace but the runoff water can become an erosion hazard too. By planting grass in the water way we can go a long way toward stopping this erosion. Farm ponds sometimes are the best use for a certain piece of land. This piece of land may be at the mouth of a gully or a very low spot. Usually ponds are put in places where it is either impossible or impractical to farm the land. These ponds provide water for livestock and they may provide fishing and other recreation. Ponds can be made the center of a wildlife refuge. Too often we fail to leave a refuge for game. If one is inter ested in conserving wildlife he can greatly aid it by planting ; shrubs, grasses and trees on small patches of eroded land and around farm ponds. Useful wild life on your farm helps pollinate clovers and fruit trees and it af fords excellent recreation. By leaving crop residues and soil improvement crops on the ! ground instead of plowing them i under or burning them, cuts ! down on erosion and evapora- 1 tion. This practice is quite bene- j ficial in areas where there are j few trees to stop wind erosion. We have now reviewed some of I the ways to stop erosion but • fhere are two important things left. When the soil is misused, when improper crops or poor rotations are used, we rob the soil of much of its productivity. Quite j often we fail to realize how bad- | ly our soil is depleted. The way we can offset this is by having our soil tested. The district en courages the farmers to take soil’ samples and send them to the University of Nebraska to have them analyzed. This will tell us what the soil lacks. By follow ing conservation practices and "etting the correct fertilizers we can save the soil. The soil conservation has a wealth of knowledge for us to use for the betterment of our land. We have only to take ad vantage of this knowledge. Last but not least is bringing fVe conservation problems before the people and the fact that there ’s an organization ready to assist them. The newspapers cooperate bv publishing articles but this is not enough. By practicing con servation methods ourselves we spread the idea. If people knew there was an organization and knew more about how it operat ed they would receive it with greater favor. It is to everyone’s advantage to help save the soil. We should all remember that the soil is our heritage and that it will be no better than we leave it. African Missionary Speaks ai Ewing — EWING—A large crowd gath ered at the Ewing Methodist church Monday evening, Novem ber 3, where Dr. W. B. Lewis, a Methodist missionary and super intendent of the Hunda hospital, Central Congo, spoke on his ex pel lences as a doctor and surgeon, among the tribes of the Congo. Mrs. Lewis also gave an inter esting talk on her work in an or phanage in Tunda of which she has been superintendent of for several years. Doctor and Mrs. Lewis have spent 30 years in Africa and this is their fifth trio back to the U. S. A covered dish supper was served at 6:30 p.m. Tune In! Voice of The Fron tier” . . Mon., Wed., Sat., 9:45 a.rn. a.m., 780 kc., WJAG. -m / . S , "One of the finest supplements foe growing stock we've ever used" say cattlemen. And they're right? LASSY 22% is a great 2-in-1 supplement—rich in both PROTEIN and MOLASSES SUGARS that steers need to develop fast . . finish into market-topping ani mals. In addition, there's plenty of minerals, vitamins and other bone and meat building nutrients that stretch grains and roughages cuts feeding costs to a minimum. It's easy to feed Cost is low Start feeding LASSY 22% today. See us for a supply. SHELHAMER FOODS PHONE 173 O'NEILL - I — .1 I I ■ .—1 ■■ ■" 1'■ 1' ' ■■■—■ Whether yew drink beer frequently or occasionally (* I STORZ...BREWED BY THE SOS PROCESS i Look around you! You'll see more Storz everywhere. Your own go<^d taste will tell you why. Storz is a beer less filling — one - glass to another. And here's why. Storz is brewed by the ex clusive SOS process . . . brewed especially for the modern taste. Enjoy Storz . the year round. ry thisbftforftdinnertest / ing** when you- drink Store - T—. - j , Premium Dry. You'll find Sr ^rl Store sparkling refreshment perfect hospitality on any occasion. i Whether you drink beer oc* ' casionally or frequently, you'll find a bottle of Storz doesn’t take the edge of! your appetite even before dinner. Because Storz is starch-free, it adds appetite appeal to any meaL After work, before dinner, open a bottle of Storz. See if you don t notice the ab sence o! that "filled-up feel SCTORZ IUW1NO COMKAMY. OMAHA. NIIRA»«* ...the beer.. EVERYBODY'S LIPS \ VERY SPECIAL CHRISTMAS CARD OFFER % Thurs., Fri., Sat. NOVEMBER 20 - 21 - 22 • We will take your picture, give you four proofs and make up a dozen Christmas Cards from one of vour choice for *2 50. Additional dozens can be purchased for $1.80 per dozen and oth^r types of photos can be or dered from these negatives, also. • This offer will not be re peated this year so plan to come while we are running the special. O'NEILL PHOTO COMPANY I_ I H_| IN ORDER TO SETTLE the estate of the late Charley Ross, the following described personal property will be offered at public auction at the Ross place, located FROM Midway (on U.S. highway 281) — 4 miles east, 2 miles north and one-fourth mile west, or FROM Redbird — 7 miles west and 2 miles south, on — MONDAY, NOVEMBER 17 Sale Starts at 12:30 P. M. Lunch on Grounds by Paddock Ladies Aid 68 - HEAD OF CATTLE - 68 (These are High-Class Hereford Cattle) I 30-Stock COWS 6-Yearling HEIFERS 29-CALVES 2-Milk COWS 1-Registered Hereford BULL * ' 1-Registered Brand THREE HORSES — Including one Team and One Saddle Horse I 37—SHOATS FARM AND HAYING MACHINERY IHC Model H Tractor, 1942 Model IHC Model H Tractor, 1939 Model Winch Underslung ’36 Chevrolet Truck with ’48 Motor IHC Power Mower, ’51 Trail Mower & Hitch Flared Wagon Box Trailer and Box John Deere Spreader Hayrack and Wagon uuzz Saw Vega Cream Separator Horsedrawn Mower Bradley Disc One-Row Cultivator Two-Row Cultivator for IHC H Tractor 2— John Deere Two-Row Go-Digs 3- Section Harrow Corn Planter Tuttle Hay Baler Gang Plow, 2 14-in. Lays Osborn Rake Wagon Stacker Many Shop Tools r-1' Steel Cattle Chute Roll Cable G1 One-Row Corn Picker 1HC 9-ft. Duck Foot Loader Superior Fanning Mill 1 2-Wheel Trailer of Tractor Chains Gehl Bros. 9-in. Hammer mill 40-ft. Endless Belt, Rubber, 6 -in. 2—One-Row Drills; One JHC, other Superior CASE THRESHING MACHINE, 28-in., with Belt John Deere 10-ft. GRAIN BINDER 9 100 IONS OF HAY 700 BD. FAR CORN 560 BU. RYE Hay, Grain, Etc. This lies north of Eagle creek, is easily accessible to Boyd county buyers, 2 miles east of Highway 281. This is good corn, picked by neighbors and ran better than expected. SOME FUEL BARRELS 4 HIVES OF BEES \ Property Consigned by Clarence Ross | 14 Calves 4 Yearling Heifers Saddle — Rake —- Mounted 2-Row IHC L;ster — .22 Rifle — 16-ga. Shotgun Rubber-Tired Trailer Wagon, Nearly New j V " TERMS: CASH or see Clerk before sale. No property to be removed until settled for o Estate of Charley Ross Dec. FRANK NELSON, Executor COL. ED THORIN, O’Neill, O’NEILL NATIONAL BANK, COL. LESTER PEARSON, Spencer O’Neill Auctioneers Clerk i