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�.,. gZ:�4 Qo?,� KANSAS fARMER CONTINUING ow ; I. 1 DECEM'BEB IS, 1.945 n /1 .n >.r f- r r. d . I • J, � 11 11 B .. r i- . B t � '\ n n B B If - .. B t ) r ) > 1 � r -, 1: >. t 2 Kansas Fanner /01' December 15, 1945 Remove the Penalty Dear Editor-Answering your sug gestion In Kansas Farmer for ideas on how to conduct a face-lifting program on Kansas farms, I am submitting my idea. In the first place, there is no argu ment about the need. A drive over the countryside will remove all doubt about the need if there is any. I believe if the penalty for improving our farms was removed. there are a great num ber of farmers and landlords who would be willing to spend some money and effort along this line. At present, whenever new buildings are built or the old ones repaired and painted, up goes the assessed valuation which means the penalty goes on in the form of higher taxes. I know landlords who say that their land has as high a rental value unimproved as with a set of good buildings, who have removed buildings and rent the land to someone living on other farms. As long as we follow our present system of penalizing a farmer for his improvement, we are holding back any move to make our farmsteads more attractive and useful.-G. F. Jones. Wakarusa, Shawnee county. Stnck to the Farm When Jake Mohler started out to look for a family that had occupied the same farm for at least 75 years, he really started something. �e genial secretary of the State Board of Agri culture hc.s been swamped with en tries. At least 150 families in the state have occupied their farms for 75 years or more. Champion to date is the- Todhunter family, of Douglas county, which has a record of 92 years on the same farm. Present occupant is George L. McCarty, son of an orphaned niece of the Todhunters. Eleven families fell just one year short of the Todlhinters, having homesteaded in 1854·, and hav ing continuously occupied their farms for 91 years. Close Plants ...... Because the Oovernment' clairils it costs more to make synthetic rubber from grain-produced alcohol than from oil, officials have announced plants val ued at $117,000,000 will be closed. Cost of producing butadiene from grain alcohol was said to be about 40 cents a pound, compared with 8 to 10 cents a pourid from petroleum.' Present tires smooth? Hace Icearing them recapped icitl: this pOlt·er. hotl.se tread - Sure-Grip available from your Goodyear dealer. Like the West Returning World War II 'veterans using Federal loans to purchase: farms are showing a preference for the -west ern part of the state, it i�r announced. T the con tour rna tch held near better A plowing and slip less. They're self-cleaning, too, and Twenty-six veterans have purchased £\. Grimes in veteran farmer Kansas farms since July, with most of October, Clarence don't pack up icith mud." them. choosing western area. Robuck was th� crowned Champion Plovvnnan of Central Iowa. The test field was covered with a Runner-up Scores on SURE-GRIPS, Tool To Save Lives stand of alfalfa 8 to 10 inches and American food will be taken into heavy high, in the same contest was Laverne Runner-up Germany to mass starvation, was based on prevent scoring of furrow, con it uniformity Rector.Working his Goodyear-equipped tractor, is announced by Lieut. Gen. Lucius tour and land furrow D. Clay. But Germany must pay for adherence, waterway end, he the same kind of from his got super-traction' the food when its economy has been conformation, trash and and restored coverage, opening open center Sure-Grips, finds they clean better, sufficiently. furrow. district closing Says champion Robuck: pull better and less than the other slip type Senator Capper on Radio tires on his other tractor. "The . Goodyear open center Sure-Grip tires on my Every Sunday afternoon at 4 :45 o'clock Senator Arthur dis tractor icere a in the Capper great help tcinning champion cusses over These facts, straight from practical, hard-work national questions WIBW ship. They pulled better and truer, and slipped radio station. ing farmers, confirm what farm ex less than other t)pe tires in the match. impartial ll11l1l11l11l1ll1l11l11l11ll1l1l1ll1l1l1l1l11l11l11l11l11l1ll11l1l1l1ll11ll1ll1l11l1l1l1l1f1I1I1I1II11U perts have ... proved-that Goodyear Sure-Grips Last and I u.·ere KANSAS FARMER spring my neighbor ploicing in with self-cleaning open center tread pull hetter, Mail & Breese the same and he had to COlltinuing -, field difficulty going less, do more with less time through slip up 22% uork: Topeka, Kansas aeet with his :, .... spots dosed-bar tires. I'd .5 and consumed. not finish fuel Why get this greater Vol. 82. No. 24 . rounds to his 4_ There's no doubt ARTHUR whatsoever that traction and economy by to CAPPER Publlsher yourself changing H. S. BLAKE General Manager open center more Sure-Grips give traction, pull Goodyear Sure-Grips? Raymond H. Gllkesoii Edltor Dick Mann Assoclate Editor Cecil Barger Asaoclate Editor . (On' Leav.e-Army) Florence McKinney Women's Editor Dr. C. H. Lerrigo Medlcal Department James S. Brazelton Horticulture Mrs. Henry Farnsworth Poultry Jesse R. Johnson Livestock Editor J. M. Parks Protectlve Service Roy R. Moore. .. Advertising Manager R. W. Wohlford ... Clr.culation Manager EAR Member: Audit Bureau of Circulations, Ag GOOD, ricultural Publishers AS80elatlon, National Publishers AS8oclatlo�. Published the first and third Saturdays each month at Eighth and Jackson streets, To lWeJbrH� peka, Kan., U. S. A. class Elnter,elll¥l.8�ond SVre-Grp matter at the post office Topeka, Kan., U. S. A .• under Act of Congresa �f �areh -S, 1879. Five years, $1; one year, 25 cents. Kans4s Farmer for December 15, 1945 • Gene Buck farms about 100 acres of land that stop gullies is to keep the topsoil from ever starting mers and a wet one, Gene figures it pays off plenty as as a to wash. A farmers are save looks flat barn floor. good many around here in bigger crops and in topsoil saved. In wet years, and ing topsoil getting bigger crops by the contours the from away_ So lie was kind of surprised three years ago when a farming keep topsoil washing around the slopes." And in dry years, what rain there is soaks ill instead gully started showing up in one of his best fields. By of off. tbeend ofthe summer, it was so that he couldn't "Never till now that I had on running deep thought . any slopes �et over it with the tractor rig. this farm," Gene .said, "OYer the three years, Tve put 12 per cent more com in the hin from the same number of acres," That fall Gene was busy cutting brush and throw. The County Agent asked Gene Buck to go with Gene says. "By right, I L've added ing it into the diich when the County Agricultural him ona soil-conservation trip around the county to plowing figure 12 acres to farm." Agent came by. see what contour farming was doing for other farm. my ers in level sections. And Gene Buck calls this increase in the "size" of . "Sure, brush will help catch the topsoil;" the' his farm "the 12 extra acres." County Agent said. "But I believe a better way to After that trip, Gene quit plowing his land as if it County Agent's were flat. With a little help from the County Agent, he All oyer the country, farmers are getting help ...... staked out the contours of his fields, made terraces from their County Agents that makes farming better With his turning plow. 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