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The National Future Farmer Owned and Published by the Future Farmers of America How to build a Farm Pond Financing Chapter Activities Contest Winners Pholo by John Farrar Dctober-November, 1956 irc — gives lO SPEEDS PLOW IOZmore FORWARD with a McCormick^ FARMJALL 300 or 400traetor Now, start and quit with the neighbors, but outwork them all with a Farmall 300 or 400! Pull the TA lever for two speeds in each gear 10 forward and 2 reverse! Match power to the load exactly to plow 10% or more in a day — to go acres farther between gas fills! Call on a TA power-burst — up to 45% more draw- bar pull — to keep going when others stall or shift down. Plow tough spots without time-killing shifting or gas- eating wheel slippage . without shallowing out! Try the BIG 5 farm-easy features — Torque Amplifier, Hydra-Touch" , Fast-Hitch, power steering, completely in- dependent pto — on your farm. Your IH dealer will dem- onstrate how they can help you farm faster, easier, far better than ever! Use the IH Income Purchase Plan. SEE YOUR INTERNATIONAL HARVESTER DEALER International Harvester products pay for themselves in use — McCormick Farm Equipment and Farmall Tractors . Motor Trucks . Crawler Tractors and Power Units— General Office, Chicago 1, Illinois. Change speed instantly. Pull theTA lever to reduce speed one-third . increase pull -power up to 45%. Stay in TA all day, if needed, or just push the TA lever to resume full gear speed. Sod . steep slope, but no shiftdown! Pull the TA lever instead of shifting to keep going, non-stop! Plow nearly two extra acres daily with a Farmall 300 and Fast-Hitch 3-furrow plow. Send for FREE Catalog TODAY! Inlernalional Harvester Company P. O. Box 7333, Depl. NFF-10, Chicago 80, 111. Tell me more about Torque Amplifier and other lime ond cost-saving FormoH advantages. Send catalog checked: D Formall 400 Iroctor Q Formoll 300 troctor |4-plow) (3-plowl Nnm» n ^ttirlont 1 1 AHHrA« J Po^t nffir»> ^.tntf My IH A^nl^r U i You can drive right through! Quonset Rigid Frame 28 farm machinery storage building All-steel Quonset Rigid Frame 28 farm machinery storage building (28' X 100') on Ekkie Paben's farm near Beatrice, Nebraska. That's right. You can drive right through the big sliding handling farm machines. And, you don't have to jockey side and endwall doors of the new Quonset Rigid things around. Just open a door and there's the equip- Frame 28 building. It's an all-steel building designed ment you want. Farmer Ekkie Paben of Beatrice, especially for farm machinery storage. You reduce Nebraska, says, "I especially like the large side doors. repair bills, maintain value for higher trade-in, and I can bring any piece of equipment inside for storage, simplify in-and-out machinery handling. With self- matter big it is." cleaning, semi-concealed guides, doors won't stick or no how jam. They really open easily. Besides being ideal for farm machinery storage, the The new Quonset Rigid Frame 28 for farm machinery Quonset RF 28 building provides excellent facilities storage provides 100% usable interior space. There for loose cattle housing and hay storage. For full infor- just aren't any posts to interfere with storing and mation, see your dealer. At Ellis, Nebraska, Claude Bartlett uses his Rigid Frame 28 each winter and has to grind feed every day. Along with farm to house large scale feed grinding operations as well as for machinery and feed grinding equipment, he still has plenty of machinery storage. Claude feeds several hundred head of steers room for hay storage in his new Quonset Rigid Frame 28. STRAN-STEEL CORPORATION • Buyers may usetheeasyStran- Steel Purchase Detroit 29, Michigan Plan — Va down and 5 full years to pay balance. tfi teel NATIONAL STEELUyUUCORPORATION THE PROPHETS of agricultural the 17th century now grow white For example, corn land that pro- decline are fond of declaring pines as tall as virgin timber. duces 50 bushels per acre without that our farms are fast becoming fertilizer can turn out 100 bushels But much New England farmland wastelands because crops and per acre with the addition of 120 has flourished through 300 years of pounds of nitrogen, plus phosphorus erosion are mining away soil agriculture. Chemical fertilizers, and potash. For $20 to $30 in extra fertility. Yet the "land of the Pil- manure and sod have improved the fertilizer, the farmer gets 50 extra grims' pride," the stony soils of thin soil that the Pilgrims scratched bushels of corn — a most practical New England, are growing more for their livelihood. Good farmers way to meet the cost-price squeeze. productive and profitable. put more plant food into their land In the present farm situation, many than they take crops. out in By 1950 farmers find that 25 acres with fer- Actually, the virgin soils of this policy off the New had paid to extent tilizer turn out a bigger profit than England were not very fertile. Called that Connecticut, a New England 50 acres without fertilizer — yet add podzols, because they were produced state, led all others in per-acre in- nothing to crop surpluses. under cool forest cover with much come from farmland. rain, they had thin topsoil with only Most farming is done a long way two or three inches of humus. Plowed Even our deepest soils have been from the original Plymouth planta- and planted a few times, they had to farmed long enough to require ferti- tion. But from Cape Cod to Klamath be fed extra soil nutrients, or they lizer. As modern crops, bred for big Falls, from Grand Forks to Galves- soon went back to forest. In fact, yields, extract more plant food from ton, and from Savannah to the San some tidewater lands first tilled in each acre each year, more fertilizer Juaquin, fertilizer is building farm is needed to replace this fertility. profits while it builds fertility for The exchange is a profitable one. the future. Arcadian Nitrogen Division, long-time leading supplier of nitrogen to the fer- tilizer industry, is constantly improving its facilities for supplying low- cost, easier-to-use forms of nitrogen to make farming profitable. PRODUCTS FOR PROFITABLE NITROGEN DIVISION Allied chemical & Dye Corporation New York 6, N. Y. • Hopewell, Va. • Ironton, Ohio • Omaha 7, Neb. FARMING Columbia, Mo. * Kalamazoo, Mich. St. Paul 4, Minn. * Indianapolis 20, Ind. Atlanta 3, Ga. * Columbia 1, S. C. * San Francisco 4, Cal. * Los Angeles 5, Cal. The National FUTURE FARMER The National Do Your Work Future Farmer Easily with Ouiit'd anil l»iil)li>lie<l In llii- Future Farmers o( Amerio.i PRDTD's OCTOBER-NOVEMBER, 1956 • Vol. 5, No. 1 New, Improved Flat Wrenches EDITORIAL CONTENTS Aboxit the FFA This Issue's Specials Call to the Convention 11 Fishing Contest Winners 14 Bachelor Cowpoke 16 How to Build a Farm Pond 20 Thev Put Mr. Watt to Work. 18 FFA Goes to College 22 Sports and Fiction Two Star Farmer 26 When You Go Hunting 34 Louisiana's Top Farmer 38 The Pirate's Haunted House ... 42 Virjsinia's Best Tractor Sportrait 50 Operator 40 Cotton Kings 40 Departments Fellow 6 A Told Me CHECK THESE FEATURES 1 Reader Roundup 8 • Features . Proportion . Design Looking Ahead 13 Balance Let's Make Money 32 The First One Doesn't Have a PROTOLLOY Steels • Good Obstruc- Cartoon Caption Contest 54 Chance 54 tion Clearance Tough, Non-Slip Finish • Plainly Marked Openings. ADVERTISERS INDEX PROTO Flat Wrenches are truly "professional quality" tools, made of Apparel, Hobbies Mid-Slates Steel & Wire Co 40 specially forged alloy steel, carefully H. D. Lee Company 8 Hy-Line Poultry Farms 41 heat treated. Designs are based on Chap Stick Co 43 Anvil Brand . 24 scientific study to make them as slim American Hereford Assoc 4.3 Future Farmers Supply Service 28 as possible for convenience in tight Gold Metal Products 30 L & M Co 44 places, yet reinforced properly where Arrow Greeting 30 Remington Arms Co 36 it counts to eliminate breakage. See Tractors, Peters Cartridge 38 Equipment your nearby PROTO dealer today. Levi Strauss & Co 44 International Harvester Co 2 Send 100 for catalog of entire line to Ithaca Gun Co 32 Caterpiller Tractor Co 7 PROTO TOOLS Ferguson 9 Feeds, Seeds, Fertilizers, 2217 Santa Fe Ave. , Los Angeles 54, Calif. AUis-Chalmers 10, 11, 56 Eastern Factory, Jamestown, N.Y. Clieniicals New Holland 12 Canadian Factory, London, Ont. Perfect Circle Corp 14 Allied Chemical & Dve Corp. 4 Blatchford Calf Meal Co 6 Continental Motors Corp 28 A. NEW! Whitworth Combination DeKalb Agricultural Assoc 13 Deere & Co 55 Box & Open End Wrenches. Four sizes MoorMan Mfg. Co 23 Eli Lillv & Co 48 DuPont Co 51 commonly used on foreign automobiles Ralston Purina Co 33 and motorcycles. Whitworth openings, United States Rubber Co 37 i{t" to %". Lengths, 5'^" to Bli". Satin Wisconsin Alumni Research chrome plated. Foundation 46 Transportation Funk's G-Hybrid 46 Carousel Motel 6 B. NEW! Long 6-Point Box & Open Spencer Chemical Co 47 Firestone Tire & Rubber Co.. 25 End Wrenches. Provide greater gripping area for heavier torque loads. 5(j" %" General Chevrolet 27 to AC Sparkplug 29 openings. 5%" to 9) a" lengths. Satin Stran Steel Corp 3 Association of American Rail- chrome plated. Prolo Tools 5 roads 35 C. NEW! Ratcheting 12-Poinf Box Shipley Saddlery 6 B. F. Goodrich Co 45 Wrench. For oil filter work on new cars. Weyerhaeuser Timber Co 15 General Motors Corp 49 %"x Vi" openings.