The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, March 18, 1931, Page 2

THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 18, 1931 Dairying Promises to Outrank Any Branch of Farming Industry - - : Pacis re | WHEAT STORED ON ~ RESBARCHIS CAUSE OF GREAT GROWTH IN LAST 3 DECADES Science Has Enabled Farmer to Treble Cow’s Production Since 1850 @ ORGANIZATION CAME FIRST Movement to Eradicate Tuber- culosis From Cattle Was Important Step Washington, D. C. March 18— (NEA)-—Dairying, mushroom of the agricultural industry of the United States, is fast becoming farming’s hig- gest asset and promises to outrank any other branch of the industry. The cause, according to the Untied States bureau of dairy industry, ts research. It is only within the last 30 years that science has played such an im- portant part in dairying. Previous to 1900 the production of milk on farms of the country was just a sideline, and a costly sideline at that, on many farms. But today dairy farming is a spe- cialty and farmers talk of proved sires, butterfat content, inoculation against tuberculosis, cooperative marketing as- sociations, production research labora- tories, and herd improvement associ- ations. “The future of the dairy industry will depend very largely upon research work and upon the general application af the results in commercial practice, is the way O. E. Reed, chief of the bu- reau of dairy industry, puts it. He ex- plains that the bureau is constantly at work conducting research along the following lines: Take in All Angles Breeding, feeding and management investigations; herd improvement in- vestigations; research laboratories; manufacturing investigations; market- milk investigations; engineering; co- operative extension and information. In 1850 the average yearly produc- tion of milk per cow in the country was 1,436 pounds. By 1900 this figure had been raised to 3,646 pounds, and in 1927 it was increased to 4,600 pounds, at which figure it stands to- day. Organization, according to the bu- reau of dairy industry, was the first move necessary to increase the qual- ity and quantity of milk production. To organize farmers all over the country was a huge task, but through such agencies as field representatives and agricultural schools this was done. The dairy farmers responded and formed the Dairy-Herd Improvement association, which increased in num- ber from 353 in 1918 to 1,143 at pres- ent. These organizations foster the better principles of selection, breeding, feeding and management of dairy herds. Results Readily Seen Research worked out in the depart- ment was then imparted to these farmers, and the results have been evident in the increased milk and but- terfat production of cows all over the; country. ' One of the major steps in improving the quality of milk in the country was the introduction of the movement to eradicate tuberculosis in the cows of the country. This movement, com- paratively new, has weeded out thou- sands of cows. The dairy-herd improvement idea 1s gaining all over the country. Although only a little more than 2 per cent of 23,500,000 dairy animals in the United States are under test now, this per-/ centage is increasing rapidly, In this respect the United States is well down the list in comparison with other countries, being excelled by Denmark, Netherlands, Scotland, Sweden, Fin- land, Germany, Norway, England, Austria, and Ireland. All parts of the country have bene- fited from the progress of the dairy industry, which at present is located chiefly in the north central states of Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, Nebraska, Ohio, Indiana, Tlinosi Michigan, the Dakotas, and Kansas, and the western states of California, Oregon, and Washington. Tt is also noted that dairying in the south has increased considerably with the dairy-herd improvement idea. Money From By-Products One of the indirect benefits of the research in dairying is the develop- ment of the by-products of milk. Years ago farmers were content to sell their milk, butter and cheese, with little emphasis on the latter product. Today, in addition to having built a huge industry out of the production of cheese, farmers are realizing reve- nue from the following by-products of milk: casein, a substance used chiefly for the coating of paper to produce a better printing surface; skimmed milk, evaporated milk, but- termilk, and whey Today about one-fourth, or $3,000,- 000,000 of the total annual income re- ceived by American farmers for all farm products, is derived from the sale of dairy products. This is two and a half times the value of the beef and veal production, and more than three times the value of the wheat crop. SAVES FORMER ENEMY © Nairobi, British East Africa, March 18,—()—His enemy in war; his savior in peace. Captain Campbell Black, British flier, spotted the black Maltese > cross on a disabled plane in the des- ert. He made a risky’ landing and found that the pilot was Ernst Udet, his rations ‘There are 150 national forests in the United States, with a total area THE POMP OF ecco LORDS IT Ote te ve Three fow-lettered words, all com- Fol legallagy ies the above vere. Can you 2 thecn? | BE MOST REALISTIC PADDLE A “TRU Pe When He Knew Every Car Owner in City Editor's Note: Reminiscences {| of the days when the automobile | was merely a “new-fangled” ma- chine which scared the horses of | more conservative people are re- | called by C. B. Whittey, one of | Bismarck’s pioneer automobile re- pair men, in the following article, | written for The Tribune and pre- sented by this newspaper on the eve of the annual Automobile show, which opens Friday, March 20. } By C. B. WHITTEY tional Harvester Company, In | Bismarck. In looking back over a period from | 1912 to the present date, there’ comes | to my mind numerous changes in the automobile industry. I have seen, during that time, the number of au- tomobiles owned in the Bismarck area grow from possibly 30 cars to well into the thousands. In those early days I personally knew nearly every automobile owner in or near Bismarck and was familiar with the make of car he was driving. This statement does not apply to the present time, for the car owners have increased so rapidly that I am now ; acquainted with only a small minor- ity of them and the autos they drive. At the time I came to Bismarck to assume the position of shop foreman | for the Lahr Motor Sales, the auto- mobile industry was just emerging from the one and two-cylinder stage. The Lahr company at that time had just taken on the agency for the | Willys-Overland line, though they had been handling cars for some three years previous. In 1912 the four-cylinder motor was in its early stages as applied to pop- ular-priced cars. There were a few makes using six-cylindered motors, but these were in the high price range. | Even the Cadillac was at that time and until 1914 @ four-cylinder job. Casting New En bloc casting of the motor was in its experimental stages, most of the cars having the cylinders cast singly or in pairs, There was at that time a wide difference of opinion as to which was the better type of cylin- | der casting—the L-head, T-head, or! valve-in-the-head. The T-head type | was popular in those days, but now is practically obsolete. | The clutches on those early cars were rether crude affairs, compared | with the present type. They always had a tendency to engage rather suddenly, and it was worth the price of admission to watch the average car owner start his car. He and the/ other occupants of the car would| brace themselves; a strained expres- sion would spread itself over the driver's countenance; then he would try to engage the clutch as easily as possible, with the invariable result that the car would lunge forward and kill the motor. Then the driver would do it all over again, and perhaps several times, before they fi- nally got going. ‘ ‘Well, this was quite a strain on the oc@upants of the car and on the rear axle of the car itself; in fact, it made business good for the repair depart- ment. | ‘There also was much discussion as to the proper place for the transmis- sion, some of the cars having them mounted amidships and the others on the rear exle. Each manufacturer claimed Li type of mounting was the best. owever, the rear axle mount- ing of the transmission is now obso- lete, due mainly to the fact that it produced too much unsprung weight, making it shorten the lives of the tires. Touring bodies were the only types sold in those days, and EGAD, BUSTER, TVE HAD A SPLENDID BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY OFFERED “To ME THIS MORNING ! «VAL HARRIS, A FRIEND OF MINE,WANTS ME “TO DOI HIM IN A VENTURE “THAT WOULD BE KNOWAS AS “THE “HARRIS-HOOPLE SYATHETIC GOLD-FISH CORPORATION”! ---THE GOLD-FISH WOULD AND COMVINCING, BEING LY LIFELIKE MANNER !~ w NO FEEDING, OR CHANGING OF WATER , ASD QUITE ORNAMENTAL , EH 2 MADE OF A GELATIN COMPOSITION, SO THEY || SPECTACLES WITH WOULD WIGGLE EASILY! ~~ THE WATER IN HE BOWL WOULD CIRCULATE BY A SMALL AND CAUSE “THE GELATIN FISH To SWIM AROUND “HE Bowe IW cloudy day with an automobile 15 or would give him some such directions as these: “You take the main road | and go straight north.” |_ Following that advice, the driver | would proceed for a few milés over a road that ran in every other direction ‘but straight north; then he would Premium winners of the seed grain [tll rammed alae nti Durum wheats—Kubenka wheat— Otto Klindworth, Fessenden, Ist; Ot- FELLA ~ UP IN A “TREE, OR DID You “TALK “To Him “THRU A GRATING 2~ ¢ 7 5 ‘come to a place where the trai forked |‘© Leitner, Fessenden, 2nd. Mihdum ISAC HE “TH? Guy in'three on four directions, Well free | Wheat — Earl Zellmer, Hamberg, 1st; WHO WAS INVENTING that point on it was just too bad,| Otto Klindworth, and. When morning came he might find|ARY other variety Durum wheat; {that he had gone 40 or ete in|John Lies, Cathay, 1st; and Edward | the wrong direction. GRAPEFRUIT ND, ARMS MUCH ~~ BELOW ESTIMATES azz Survey. Shows Only About Half a as Much as in 1930 Being Held in Northwest i WINDSHIELD WIPERS Some different now! Graded,| Hard wheate~Marquis wheat—si- ON Em 2 |hard-surfaced highways; -roads- well |™mon Dallman, .Chaseley, 1st; John. . {marked; good road maps; high-|Litke, Fessenden, Ceres | powered cars; balloon: these | Edward. Meyer, Sykeston,. ist; Fred tend to make driving @ pleasure in- | Muscha, Harvey, Any te- EN Y 4 stead of hard work. =) You may talk all you please about the good old days, but, as far as I am | x3 " |concerned, Tl the good new e@days. 43 GET PRIZES AT | WELLS COUNTY SHOW {Compilation Is Made by Man- agement of Annual Alfalfa | Hay Exhibition quist, Cathay, ist; Herbert we Manfred, 2nd. ~— Oats—Early oate—Otto Klindworth, Fessenden, Ist; John Litke, Fessen- den, 2nd. Medium early oate—Earl Zellmer, Hamberg, 1st; ©. G. Smith, Heaton, 2nd. Late oate—William Kra- mer, Fessenden, ist; Herbert Weigelt, early ai y — Six-row — Fred 5 Harvey, ist; Emus I, Bellaut, Get Albert Weigelt, Manfred, ist; Edward. Meyer, Sykeston, 2nd. Alfalfa, seed—Grimm—John Schus- ter, 3 Edward Meyer, Speltz—Edward Meyer, Sykeston, 1st; Paul Zumpf, Hamberg, 2nd. Corn—Northwest dent—Fred ?dus- cha, Harvey, 1st. Minnesota No, 13— Karl Krueger, Fessenden, 1st. Fal- coner—Otto Klindworth, lat. Blanco fadrres an the event were awarde following: Mrs. Jacob Kleinsasser, Chaseley, 1st; Gordon Raile, Fessenden, 2nd; John Fessenden, N. D., March 18.—Forty- three of the 310 exhibitors at the fourth annual Wells county alfalfa show here Monday won prizes, ac- cording to a compilation by the show management Wednesday. In addition to the local"exhibits, a large number of the prize - winning samples shown at the state seed show, Minot, were exhibited here, The event was sponsored by mem- ‘bers of the Fessenden Lions club, C. B. Whittey Has Watched Growth | of Auto Through Mechanic’s Eyes jaided by local business men and County Agent Edward W. Vuncura. Members of the Lions club committee were William Barr, Fred Jesson, Steve Litke, William Keiper and A. F. Bel- cher, The exhibits were juaged by Dr. E. G. Booth of the State Agricul- Edigner, Cathay, 3rd; George People, Fessenden, 4th. WANTS WYOMING HUSBAND Cheyenne, Wyo., March 18—(P)— An English maiden is looking for a ‘Wyoming husband. She wrote lucky. sible for the short life of the tires; in other words, springs too stiff, too much unsprung weight, load center too high, and poor front axle con- struction. Other engineering defects contributed their quota to rapid wear and shortened life of the tires. There also was the tendency of the manu- facturers to undersize the tires. This condition was brought to my ttention rather forcibly one warm evening after a hot day in midsum- mer. A very well known and re t= ed old-timer of Bismarck, who in 1913 had bought a car from the that.employed me, drove up in front of the garage and started to relate a sad story of tire grief. It seems that he had started that | Service Engineer For The Interna- morning from the Detroit Lakes re- gion, and ,his day's drive had been { just. one Puncture and one hlowout after another all day long. He used up all his spare tubes, spare tire, spare patches, blowout boots, etc. The last 40 miles he trusted to faith, hope and charity—faith that the last patch would hold—hoping that it would, and ready to accept the charity of any passing motorist in case another tire went flat. The language he used in describing these incidents was lurid, and I am sure it caused the temperature to rise perceptibly. Oversize tires from that time on for him! Well, cars have changed a lot since that time, due to advanced engineer- ing practices which among other things have given us cars with a low center of gravity, even distribution of | weight, velvet clutches, properly de- signed front axles and steering gears. The average owner kicks like a steer if he docsr't get 20,000 to 30,000 miles from a set of casings. The methods of merchandising and servicing motor cars have changed in this period of years. Curbstone methods of selling are a thing of the past. The modern automobile dealer has a good sales force and a better serviced organization to take care of the cars he has sold. This means & good stock of parts and competent mechanics. Is Day of Specialists During the first few years after I came to Bismarck an auto mechanic had to be an all-round man; he had to be able to make mechanical ad- justments on-any and all makes of cars. Your mechanic of today is a specialist... He knows one or possibly: two makes of cars, but he knows them well. This also gives the car owner better service at less cost. In 1912 the Lahr Motor Sales was located in a one-story building occu- pying the lot on which is now located the Dakota National Bank and Trust company. About 1917 the Lahr com~- pany built a new three-story building on the corner of Thayer and Fourth St. A while before this the Missouri Valley Motor company had built a three-story building on the corner of Main and Seventh 8t., which is now occupied by the Bank of North Dakota. Chris Henzlar’s garage, one of the first in Bismarck, was located between Fourth and Fifth Sts. on Broadway, where O'Brien's restaurant now is sit- uated. He later moved to @ new ga- rage on Main Ave., now occupied by the Corwin-Churchill company, who also are among the old-timers. An- other one is M. B. Gilman, whose salesroom and service station is lo- cated on the corner of Broadway and Second St. Lest I forget, I wish to remind you that Christ Bertsch is the oldest old- timer of them all. In 1912 he was a member of Bertsch Brothers, han- dling Fords, but now is the Stude- baker dealer, located on Main Ave. between Fifth and Sixth Sts. Another old-timer is Theodore Quanrud, who was bookkeeper and of- fice manager for the Lahr Motor com- pany when I joined that organization in 1912. A few years later Mr. Lahr sold his line of to Mr. Quanrud, this being the start of the well-known automotive accessory house of Quanrud, Brink & Reibold. Reads Are Improved In closing, I wish to say a few words regarding the roads of then and now. The advent of the automobile has brought a marked improvement in the roads. | Cars of those days had a top speed of about 40 miles an hour, with an an owner got average touring speed of 20 to 25) i | five or six thousand miles from a set miles; and that was all those crooked Bismarck Voteran Recalls Day of fabric casings he thought he was| prairie trails would: stand for. When Poor car design was respon-|a man started out at night or on ajJohn Litke, Fessenden, 2nd; Paul tural college, Fargo, Winners of the alfalfa hay exhibits were: Perry Anderson, Manfred, 1st; Cal Holliday saying she understood cowboys were superior to any other species. Thirty men have applied, and the letters still are coming. Chicago, March’ 18.—()—Supplies wi eld by producers on March tL tte Enforcement Of Law Governing Perishable. Foods Two solicitors have been appointed under @ $100,000 appropriation adjust than 400 complaints arising under the act. of| Declare Returning Mexicans’ Starving i— Mexico City, March 18—(7)—An Hermosillo, Sonora, to Uni- versal Grafico Wednesday said that repatriated Mexican arriv- ing from the United States are in such a lamentable state that many have taken to eating grass as their only mears of sustenance. A number have died. Twelve workment satisfied their appetites in a restaurant at Hermos- silo Tuesday and when the bill was presented turned it back with instruc- tions that it be sent to the state gov- ernment for payment. results of the survey “as offering opportunity to increase the out- Th this case, it said, farmers delay emergence from the wilderness of below-cost wheat Productior. Unnimed “competent officials of orth Dakoja” Zz stocks in country elevators in that spring wheat aren at 65 per cent less than last year, the statement said, while an unidentified railroad declared wheat stocks in elevators along its lines- were reduced by about half. South Dakota cent of last year’s while one operating 260 elevators sup- plied figures showing 42 per cent less wheat and 50 per cent less than at this time hot instead of cold water is used fruit, the fruit will absorb the water much more quickly. Bismarck Man Is on Plumbers’ Program Grand Forks, N. D., March 18.—(?) —Election of officers, addresses and other business matters was to engage members of the state association of master plumbers at the concluding session Wednesday of the annual two-day convention here. Speakers will be A. L. Bavone, Bis- marck, representing the department of public health; D. R. Thomas, Min- neapolis, _secretary-attorney of the Central Wostern Credit association; and Joseph G. Hildebrand, Chicago, representing the Plumbing and Heat- ing Industries bureau. A dinner and entertainment pro- gram climaxed Tuesday's sessions. Speakers were Joseph Keller, Fargo, president of the association; A. W. Hoppert, Wahpeton, president of the State School of Science and Profes- sor A, W. Gauger, Grand Forks, head of the university division of mines. ©1931, Lecosrr & Mraas Tosacoa Ca. fresh, good-tasting cigarette whether you light sun-swep tb —Says ye you find me in lumber camps of the great Northwest” Thousand-mile jumps don’t mean a thing to Chesterfield. It’s the same up in the north woods or in Hawaii! For what you taste in Chesterfield is milder, better tobatcos—nothing else—blended and “cross-blended” to bring out a flavor and fragrance you'll never find in any cigarette but Chesterfield. For NINETEEN years, our Research Departmest hes kept intimate couch with every new development of Science that could be applied to the manufacture of cigarettes. ‘During this period there has been no development of tested value or importance to the smoker which we bave sot incesporated into the making of Chesterfield cigarettes, Liggett & Myers Tobacco Ca, eaches Chesterfield w at GD Seeecn aww BSPeRIS amas