DEC:IIMBEB ... ·1.,.. S fA ..�. CONTINUING MAIL & BREEZE 111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIU This pump house on the Putthoff form contains a 3-way pump that supplies water for the house, the stock and the yard. Note hand faucet along- side the door. of Savings $50 a month thru use of electricity on his farm is reported by F. E. Irons, Brown county dairyman, shown here putting milk in an electric cooler. Mrs. Irons finds it fine for ice-box puddings. A deep cooker compartment in an electric stove gives Mrs. Herman Putthoff, of Atchison county, an oppor­ tunity to put a meal in the stove, then do other work. eo: Requests lor electricity alter the mar generation of Kansas fann­ ers' will look back at the on lamp-hand­ TOMORROW'Spump economy of today, and it will seem a far-distant world-because rural Kansas is to enter the Mrs. ready power age, with low-cost, de­ Lukert looks over contents of her electric refrigerator electric lines pendable threading the state. before preparation of the evening meal. Electricity for War has home the brought to the average farmer, Lukert farm comes from the Kansas Power and as nothing else could, the tremendous advan­ Li.ght Company. tages of electric power for better living and top production. Struggling long hours under great handicaps and without sufficient help, he has Jackson county. Locally organized in less than looked around and 24 it found.many of his neighbors hours, was attended by 44 farm men and much more with less women doing effort thru electric from 4' townships, and was only 1 of 6 , and, at the same all the such power time, enjoying meetings held within a 10-day period on comforts of city life. .the outskirts of the area served b;)' the Brown­ Only 3 years ago representatives of REA Atchison REA Co-op. were co-operatives making house-to-house can­ Park Hatch, manager of this Co-op, said that vasses along rural routes, to sell electric­ 3 trying years ago an attempt had been made to put a to the farmer. were convinced and ity Many line in the neighborhood represented at the hooked on to the lines, but many more did not. Pleasant Grove meeting but that it had been un­ this situation is Farm­ Today, - entirely changed. successful. At this meeting, however, 20 farm ers now are the initiative and are taking families signed at the conclusion of the discus­ swamping REA ,officials with requests for serv­ and most sion, of the others planned to sign' as ice. Some of relaxation restrictions by the Fed­ soon as they could contact landlords or neigh­ eral Government is a farmers permitting fe� bors unable to attend the meeting. A preliminary near established lines to this but the get service, check by the REA indicated that a line would bulk of the rural will have to great population be assured as soon as materials can be obtained. wait until after' the war. What farmers want once they get on the power Aroused to thei:r need, farmers are not sit­ lines runs the gamut of everything electrical, be­ ting by idly. 'They are calling meet­ cause organized their wants are as varied as their per­ ings in rural schoolhouses over the state and sonalities. But above all they want light-light REA officials to them in blocks iJ}viting sign up in the home for comfort and convenience, and so surveys can bemade and laid now plans out light in the outbuildings and in the barnlot for for extension of lines as soon as materials are an ' Having electric sweeper gives Mrs. F. H. Lukert, chore speed-up and safety. available. Shawnee county, one of the prized conveniences "If anyone needs electricity, the farmer does," A typical example of these was one meetings of city life. Most any farm wife would delight in says Mrs. Fred Bareiss, Jackson county, whose held at the Pleasant Grove recently School, such a husband at on possessing helper. signed up (Oontinued Page JilJ , r �V;\1.\CULTURc "''''-<:'> c!f ''',�, L .:..},·,d Y � c-, -e � ::J D , p c:: o ··�_0 1944 t: c..' c., [",,;t H:nAN � �c.' ,," ,�r. � Kansas-Farm:er for December 16, 19H KG: ucts. Such FarlD Bureau Hears All Sides changes in eating' habits farm. "If the farmer doesn't have would mean adjustments back on the money to buy farm machinery we farm in the don't kinds of crops or products work in the machinery plants," " Farm but he Anticipates Expansion of Co-operatives grown, would not mean over-all said. reduction in farm , \ output, he explained. It will take more than full industrial }\1 Mr. Hormel also believes that when production and full employment for la­ of industry, labor and Co., stated that in his belief there is the full 'force of chemurgy is felt in bor to bring prosperity to the farmer agriculture walking hand in hand little danger of too much the industrial world it APICTURE production may keep farm­ said Dr. Roger G. Corbett, toward a common of in . generai goal high the postwar era, but that full em­ ers busy on acre the every supplying secretary for the American Farm. If; production at fa.ir prices was painted ployment at high wages might mean needs for food and manufacture. 4 Bureau Federation. To illustrate, he recently by representatives of the 3 considerable adjustment in produc­ James executive it c Carey, secretary reviewed the situation in 1927 When groups appearing before the annual tion. and treasurer of the basi national CIO, told and labor were both convention at industry prosper, Topeka, of the Kansas For instance, he pointed out that as Farm Bureau members that labor real­ mw ous, but when farmers were frozen out Farm Bureau. wages and salaries in the cities rise izes full at is rore employment good wages of the market thru a for C. Hor­ families a buying cheap Speaking industry, Jay have tendency to eat less impossible unless farmers get a high food sas of the Hormel policy. mel, president Packing gra.in products and more meat prod- price for the things produced on the He .'] pointed out that industry can ---------------------------------------------------. a tng gain monopoly by shutting off pro­ duction and mot maintaining high prices; said labor, thru closed backed shops, by ave! strikes, has a certain in its monopoly rnur field, while the farmer has no way of · othe absolute control over his production or ". ther marketing. , wor The only protection the farmer has is to fight:' for a with S] parity industry leve and -labor in the economic life of the stat nation, indicated Mr. Corbett. ran] Harold Harper, was re­ Beardsley, cent -elected president of the Kansas Farm to II Bureau. W. L. Olson, Dwight, was re­ wou elected vice-president. J. A. Martin, Mound City, John Ramsey, Benkel­ peri 18 o man, Neb., and Emmett Blood, Wich­ the ita, were re-elected to the board of di­ rectors. C( W. r. Boone, Eureka, was the elected to the board for the first time. dirt fanner knows that from wtth Mrs. M. Hendrikson, Atchison, was Every farn re-elected chairman of the state home experience. · and community group. ing over Elected to the committee were Mrs. Harlan wen If tractor tire tread has Deaver, Sabetha, Mrs. Dan · your pockets the Lynn, Liberty, and Mrs. Doris Ham, that "gum up" with mud and dirt, Hugoton. to t The farn to three top-ranking officers also the tire's bound and And · that slip spin. were elected, to the same posttlons in that means less wasted fuel and the Farm Bureau Mutual Insurance busl pull, , Company. Harlan Deaver, ers I more time in Sabetha, spent working every was renamed treasurer. I In the session furrow. closing the conven­ , �fa: tion adopted resolutions calling for: Admtntstratton of the AAA by Tl So just get an' eyeful of thc great farmers. · gra]: Commendation of the tion tire with its ever-normal Goodyear Sure-Grip granary and commodity loan pro­ briru grams. , full-: time-preved , selj-cleaning O-P.E-N Recognition of the need for sound sas C-E-N-T-E.R tread, here. insurance. · pictured crop . ing, Note those wide, Support of the 1910;14 parity for­ coun deep channels, open mula. SI at both ends to let dirt slide oU't. There Improvement of livestock and live­ Rota stock products. dicte are no mud there-no dead-end traps Commendation of Congressional bean woul pockets to snag on roots and stones. postwar parity laws. Improvement of rural schools. of fl the l Support of a military training pro­ Note, too, that those husky lug bars gram best suited to the best interests of American youth. are extra wide at the base Ask fo� strength More and better farm-to-market roads. Ca to stand alone.That means deeper bite. Further expansion of the Rural to 8\ And they're even spaced for smooth, Electrification Administration. Karu Rich and smooth steady pulling annu rolling, Did Hybrid Best tion Five · third There's your answer to the "gum-up" hybrids averaged 2.2 bushels an acre more than the 3 best adapted Stat4 is problem. We know because we've open-pollinated varieties in the corn til test plots in Jefferson hi 1944. rolIn. tested on our Arizona county Sure-Grips farm, Top yielder was Kansas 2234 with proved they top other makes in pulling an average of about 100 bushels an acre. This on one made in of soil-on variety plot power, every type cover 105 bushels, and 93 bushels an acre 011 another.