He Successfully Scrambles Steak and Eggs the Action by John A
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11111111111111111111 30 30. 60 50 50 30 10 10 30 ZO 20 to GSA 0 10 00 14th year 50 no. 9 April 30, 1968 70 70 70 50 40 Dairy IncomeHighest Since '48 40 Cash income from milk and' Milk separated on the farm 40 cream sold by Kansas farmers totaled a record high of $5770 for sale as cream totaled100 Million in 1967. This was 4 per- ,30 during 1967 was the highest million pounds, down 29 ,30 since 1948, according to the per- cent above the previous record ,30 cent from last year and approxi- a year earlier. Kansas Crop and Livestock Re- mately 6 percent of the total Returns for combined mar- .20 porting Service. produced. .10 ketingsof milk and cream Cash receipts from market- Milk retailed by the farmers averaged $5.06 per hundred- .10 ings of milk and cream in 1967 .10 direct to the consumeras fluid weight in 1967. This was a rec totaled $78,437,000, up 6 percent milk and cream M 1967was es- ord high, exceeding by 22 cents .10 from 1966 and 24 percent above . 10 timated at 20 million pounds, per hundredweight the previous the 1961-65 average. down 1 million pounds from record in 1966. 50 Receipts from sales of whole .00 1966. The farm value of all milk milk to plants and dealers reach- Milk used on the farm, includ- produced in 1967 was $6,036 mil- .00 ed a new high of $74,358,000. .00 ing that consumed by the farmlion, a 4 -percent increase over '.00 Milk and cream retailed by family, fed to calves and churn- 1966. farmers brought in $1,908,000 ed into farm butter, toaled 96 .00 and '.50 farmseparatedcream million pounds compared with I.00 $2,171,000. The average per cwt.107 million pounds a year ear- Professional Shearer returns for milk marketed as lier. KQHA Sale It's sheep shear ing time,as Paul Osterfund of. Otta- milk or cream was $4.75, a rec- The average number of cows wa County shows here. He was shearing sheep for ord high. in Kansas milk herds declined Tops At $1300 George Kepple near Tescott. Kepple had 150 headto The gross farm incomefromto 221,000 in 1967, the lowest in clip. He has been in the sheep business two dairy products in 1967, whichin- a 44 -year period. NEWTON - The 14th annual years and spring sale of the Kansas Quar- thinks that it is a better deal than raising cattle.Oster - cluded value of milk,cream and Milk production per' cow, fund has been in the sheep business for manyyears and butter consumed on the farmas however, increased sharply to ter Horse Association topped at is well known in this area as a sheep -shearer. well as the marketingstotaled7900 pounds in 1967, a new $1300, with a 2 -year old palo- Isi $81,145,000, the highest since high and 410 pounds above mino filly, Tee Jay Bar Lady, 1952. 1966. Total milk production in going for that price to Cole & The value of all milk produc-1967 was up slightly to 1746 Thomison of Wichita. The filly is, Allow Grazing ed, including also the value of million pounds, some 8 millionwas consigned by Jo and Duane On milk fed to calves, was pounds above 1966. Walker of Canton. $82,935,000 in 1967. United States Cole & Thomison also paid Kansas farmers sold an all- Milk production in the Unit-$1200 for a 2 -year sorrel stallion Western Soil Bank time high of 1530 million pounds ed States in 1967 was 119.3 bil-consigned by G. H. Phillips of TOPEKA- Gov. Robert ment while in service, it was of whole milk to plants and deal- lion pounds, down one-half per-Elkhart. Bob Wilson, sale manager, St. Docking was informedlast said. Such farmers would not ers in 1967. Whole milk sold tocent from 1966, as a decline in week that the U.S.Agriculture have to reduce their planed plants accounted for 88 percentcow numbers more than offsetGeorge, reported many out-of- Department isoffering grazingacreage when the acreage dispo-of all milk produced in 1967, a rise in output per cow. state buyers who purchased priviliges to sition date is reached the noticecompared with 85 percent in Farmers' cash receipts from some 27 head in the $400 to reserve crop land $1000 range. In all, 53 head sold. in 42 WesternKansas counties said. 1966. marketings of milk and cream where normalpasture has badly deteriorated becauseof winter drought conditions. The governorwas informed of He Successfully Scrambles Steak And Eggs the action by John A. Schnitt- Few farm enterprises in the old hens produced more income5000 hens. ved itself as a supplement to ker, undersecretaryof agricul- lure, following G&G area are catching the at- than one stock cow." By 1962 Sauble put in a mod-ranch income. ,10 recommendation ern operation with automatic ,25 by Governor tention of the steak -and -eggs Sauble investigated. He decid- Saubleisstill basically a Docking. operation of Pat Sauble near ed that he had the labor and feeders and egg conveyors and ,25 Lack of rainand snow last fall washers that could handle 13,000cattleman. He's had a better ,10 and winter Cedar Point on the Chase -Mar-buildings necessary, could buy than 90% calf crop from his ,30 caused almost a to- ion county border. the feed if he couldn't raise it,hens. tal loss ofpasture in manyareas Up to 1966 Sauble handled his300 -cow herd, using artificial ,60 and ranchers Sauble's 3300 -acre Flint Hills and could turn the poultry ma- insemination for the lastfive ,15 said even normal ranch combines a 300 -cow beefnure to good use on the crop own production and marketing. spring rainsprobably would not Then he got an offer to get theyears. ,80 enable a herd with a 58,000 -hen laying land as fertilizer. Moreover, he comeback for thegraz- operation. The operation has in- figured there weren't going to liens and feed supplied if he In addition to the cow herd, 40 ing land. would supply the labor and fa-Sauble buys calves which he .60 Counties terested stockmen for combin-be many people getting into the designated were Che-ing a large-scale ranch with the egg business, so if he did the cilities. The price would be guar-winters and summers on the yenne, Clark,Comanche, Decat-lowly, often scorned chicken. job right, he'd make a profit. anteed by the contractor if Sau-bluestem hills before marketing ur, Edwards,Ellis,Finney, First Pat built a pole house toble would increase his facilitiesthem as feeders in the fall. ,05 Ford, Gove, Moreover, the traditional inde- ,40 Graham, Grant, hold 1200 hens. The next year ato 50,000 or more capacity. pendence of the cattleman is Gray, Greeley, The Sauble ranch still produc- ,85 Hamilton, Has- stone barn was converted to While contract farming does- kell, Hodgeman, tempered by a contract guaran- es a lot of beef. And a lot of ,50 Kearney, Kio- n'tnecessarily appealtoa wa, Lane, teeing price for the eggs from contain 1200 laying cages. A eggs too. Pat Sauble thinks ,85 Logan, Meade, Mor- the layer operation. corn crib was made over to han-longtime cattleman,Sauble steak and eggs go very well to- ton, Ness,Norton, Osborne, agrees that even with low egg ,40 Pawnee, But Sauble says the diversifi-dle 1200 more hens. The three gether. ,40 Phillips, Pratt, Raw- cation works. The layer opera- units were crowded to handle prices the egg business has pro- lihs ,30, Rooks,ward, Russell, Scott, Se -tion provides some guaranteed ,45 Sheridan,Sherman, Smith, income and it hasn't inhibited ,40., Stafford, Stanton,Stev- the longtime role of cattle on .50f ens,Thomas, Trego lace. and Wal- the ranch which now is in the ,75 fifth generation in the Sauble Haying ,00 and grazing priviliges on the soil family thru Pat's granddaugh- .00 bank acreage will be offered ter Lorie. ,2 for use underan emer- Sauble started the diversifica- gency conditionand those using tion on a smaller scale 13 years the landwill have a downward adjustment ago, built it steadily until this their in payments for spring when he doubled the otherfarm benefits, size of it by constructing facili- Schnittkersaid. The ties for 30,000 more laying hens. farmersundersecretary also said The move to egg production who are military reser- started during a long drouth, vists ornational guardsmen, as 1952-56 when for the first time well asthose draftedor volun- the Sauble ranch didn't raise teeringfor service, their can increase any feed. With grass short and farmaverage diversions feed nonexistent, Sauble culled Cowman Pat Sauble with 111) to themaximum percentage his cow herd and cut back re- some of his 58,00 laying hens. If theyare called to active duty. This peatedly. plantingwould allow increased In 1955 Sauble heard the as an income supple - county agent say that just "12 the direction of the Agriculturemore than enough tooffset the Rural Electricity No Longer A Department,hasextended loss of users. That's because 2 Grass &Grain loans totaling more than $5.5 more and more farms arein- coy billion to upwards of 1000 rural creasing the use of electrical April 30, 1968 Favorite Son In Congress farmer cooperatives, public po-equipment. So have many other One of the creations of the Not that the Johnson admini-wer districts and other local un- rural users, including small in- Roosevelt New Deal - the stration - nor Republicans who its since its creation in 1936.