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The Improvement Era May ^m^si^ few ' MBWfM rV*i f Vv 1 '. *v* ffi 1 : 941 -ii7 Kr MAY, VOLUME 44 NUMBER 5 RETURN POSTAGE GUARANTEED »*• *.. Y, UTAH f j# #: : :*: ::!:: : . ¥: : %*&&:::: LJO TO UTAH FARMERS In the rich, table-level Platte Valley of Nebraska's Dawson County, I talked with a man who's figured a lot of answers during over 40 years of farming in these parts. Partly retired now, living in Lexington, Elmer E. Youngs still actively supervises a 320 -acre farm. "Pumps are my answer to dry years," Elmer Youngs told me (photo shows one of two Youngs' pumps) . "When you give it plenty of water this is just as great a feed country as it was when my wife and I came out here back in '97. In the old days you never saw pumps in this section. We depended on rainfall and what water we could get from ditches off the Platte River. But there's little water in the ditches lately. It's been necessary to irrigate corn land to make a crop. I get ample water from my two pumps. It's only about 20 feet down to water and each of my pumps will throw about 1200 gallons a minute." For ten years Mr. Youngs was president of the Dawson County Farm Bureau and state president for two years. He now serves on the board of governors of the U. S. Livestock Breeders Association. —Your Safeway Farm Reporter TAKE IT FROM ELMER YOUNGS... "Farmers today have just as much opportunity as the "No matter how high the price of grain goes, feed old-timers ever did. But the present-day farmer in it to your livestock and market 'em on the hoof" this plains country needs a pump so he can survive "I've seen great market fluctuations in my long ex- dry years" perience selling livestock. So I fully appreciate the "Plant lots of trees — they give you a windbreak stabilizing effect of those producer-consumer cam- against blizzards and also provide shade and shelter paigns put on by Safeway and the other food chains. for stock" Growers had no such help in the old days" "It pays to store feed for lean times — at least one "Speaking as a consumer I admire Safeway's direct, year's supply if possible" efficient plan of food distribution — it means wel- "Keeping alfalfa hay under cover helps prevent nu- come money-savings in the store" trients from leaching out. I'm a strong believer in big storage barns." (One of the Youngs barns is said to be the biggest in Nebraska) "Grind corn fine for starting out young calves. For finishing animals I favor shelled corn plus cotton- seed cake and a small amount of linseed oil meal" "Every pound of feed I ever grew has gone to finish either beef or hogs," Elmer Youngs said. "I've finished off from 400 to 500 head of beef cattle a year and mar- keted my feed on the hoof." Youngs' beef has consistently brought top prices ; one year he topped the fat cattle market in Omaha G>1 THE IMPROVEMENT ERA MAY. 1941 V.^-f 1^1 By FRANKLIN S. HARRIS, JR. Tt takes the average college teacher * from twelve to fifteen years to win the rank of "full professor," according to a survey conducted at Indiana Uni- versity. An instructor who stays at the same college has one chance in four of being promoted to assistant professor, one in nine of becoming an associate professor, and one in eleven of becom- ing a full professor. Teachers who get their jobs in the school they themselves attended have a better chance of promo- tion than those who obtain posts else- where. Tt has been estimated that the wind in * a dust storm may carry as much as one hundred and twenty-six thousand tons of dust per cubic mile. Tn special tests under extreme condi- Don't Bargain With *• tions rayon cord tires have given as much as thirty times the mileage of j#Lfl--- ordinary cotton cord tires. In one overloaded, high-speed run in hot coun- Baby's Diet! try, rayon tires lasted eighty thousand miles while the ordinary tires wore out in three thousand. Straine I HPhe giant clam of the Australian Insist On Heinz * Barrier Reef and other tropical Foods Prepared With Th< regions has a shell a yard or more in Same Care And Skill That diameter. Have Made Heinz Foods Famous For 70 Years! HpHE frog's frequent change of color •* is due to a pituitary messenger car- Bargain FOODS are not for your the blood to the pigment cells ried by baby. Quality should be your of the skin. PAY NO PREMIUM first consideration! And certainly YOU VITAL ASSUR- no name inspires greater confidence FOR THESE HTo substitute for metal currency is an than Heinz a world-famous sym- ANCES OF QUALITY * old practice. In the later years of — bol of uniformity and flavor in 57 VITAMINS AND MINERALS are Seleucid rule and early in Parthian rule 1 preserved in high degree by scien- in Syria, silver was too much in demand Varieties of good foods. Heinz tifically cooking top-grade fruits, and vegetables— vacuum-packing them for other purposes to be used for coin- Strained Foods are made to those in special enamel-lined tins. Quality is age. To save the trouble of counting controlled from seed to container. same exacting standards — yet they out large sums in bronze money the THE MOST MODERN cooking cost you no more than ordinary 2 and packing methods have been merchants had copies made in clay of developed Heinz specialists in yourself by the tetradrachm coin which in the third brands. Save hours of need- Mellon Institute of Industrial Research. century B. C. had been in circulation at less work by ordering a supply. FURTHER ASSURANCE of uni- 3 is furnished con- Seleucia-on-Tigris and other parts of your baby thrive on them! form excellence by Watch stant research work of scientists in the empire. Heinz Quality Control Department. 4 ALL 14 KINDS of Heinz Baby THESE TWO 4 Foods on dealers' shelves are for tennis, squash, "Dacquet strings SEALS MEAN checked regularly by Heinz sales- ** and badminton are now made from men and replaced by fresh stocks after PROTECTION a limited time. Quality is controlled from a synthetic material, unaffected by at- FOR BABY Heinz kitchens to consumer. mospheric changes. The string is one solid strand so that threads cannot fray, and it does not require waxing or shellacking. 4 A n unusual use for dynamite is freeing •** roads of snow in the spring. In rained Foods the fall the road is closed and the charges placed. In some places in the Heinz 12 Unstrained, Highly Nutritive Junior Foods Meet The Rockies by the end of winter the snow n & (Concluded on page 260) ft tJ 9 Special Needs Of Children Graduating From Strained Foods THmprouement Era (Do Q/oil JGwjw- Where forty-seven mothers have a "The Glory of God is Intelligence" total of 583 children? 260 MAY 19 4 1 Heber J. Grant, What the Moapa Stake agricultur- John A. Widtsoe, al program has accomplished?-264 VOLUME 44 NUMBER 5 Editors How President Grant felt when he Richard L. Evans, U was first called to the Apostle- THE VOICE OF THE CHURCH" Managing Editor ship? 267 Marba C . Josephson, OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE PRIESTHOOD QUORUMS, MUTUAL IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATIONS, DEPART- Associate Editor Who has been appointed a mem- MENT OF EDUCATION, MUSIC COMMITTEE, WARD George Q. Morris, General Mgr ber of the Council of Twelve? TEACHERS, AND OTHER AGENCIES OF THE CHURCH Lucy G. C<innon, Associate Mgr 270, 288 OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS. J. K. Orion, Business Mgr. Who have been called as assist- ants to the Council of Twelve?. 269 What elements must be considered JhsL £dxkftL (paqsL in landscaping the small home? 277 What ancient city in Opening Conference Address Heber Grant 267 Mexico had J. a National Academy of Music, Arts, and Sciences? 274 What the The General Authorities of the Church 268 "enriched flour" pro- gram signifies? 276 The 111th Annual Conference 269 How blood typing aids Harold B. Lee of the Council of the Twelve the student of ancient American peoples?__279 Richard L. Evans 270 From Out New England Frank V. Nelson 272 In what region sixty years ago a "two-horse farmer" H. Moyle 280 was consid- Looking Back Sixty Years ..James ered a man of influence? 280 Evidences and Reconciliations—XXXVII. Can Faith Be How the game of A. Widtsoe 289 basketball orig- Built On Theories? John inated? 282 New Zealand Mothers 260 Mutual Messages: What final estimate we may make Music: Heads Up, Choir Mem- Executives 301 of Porter Rockwell's life and bers, Frank W. Asper 262 M Men-Gleaners ....302 work? 283 Moapa Stake Agricultural Pro- Sportsmanship Theme Domi- gram, C. Orval Stott. ...264 nates M Men Basketball The seasonal opening and closing The Widow's Mite, Ida H. Tournament, Les Goates....303 dates of the seven temples in Steed 265 Explorers ...304 the Church? 287 Brigham Young on Tithing.. 282 Juniors 304 Whether faith can be built on Church Moves On ..286 Scouts ....304 theories? 289 Priesthood: Melchizedek 294 Bee-Hive Girls 305 Aaronic _. 297 Australian Mission, D. For- Several uses for discarded felt Ward Teaching 299 rest Greene 305 hats? 291 No - Liquor - Tobacco Cam- Jubilee Memories, Ileen Ann About the new athletic program paign 294, 298 Waspe 306 ^ outlined for Elders? 294 Genealogy ...300 Field Photos ......302, 303, 304, 305, and 306 How to keep a personal and fam- Sfi&rioL J&oiuAsiiu ily history? 300 When June Conference convenes? 301 Texcotzingo and Its Ancient Ruins Ralph V.
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