The Holly chieftain., 1924-03-06
ELKs COMMUNITY MEETING

up in enthusiasm what they lack
ed in numbers; greeted the Elks
Community meeting last evening
at the Holly High Auditorium.
+. j. Thayer briefly presented
the chairman. Bob McGrath of
Lamar Exalted Ruler of the Elks;
who stated that the purpose OF
these series of meetings, OF which
six had already been held. was to
induce better feeling between
town and country. There are
twenty speakers scheduled in the
series of which three were pres
cnt. In the farm subject the Elks
are depending largely on the
Science Club of Rocky Ford which
is composed of twelve agricultur-
al State graduates. employed in
some agricultural capacity in or
near Rocky Ford.
Excellent vocal music was fun
! nished during the program last
night by seXtette from the Elks
of Lamar who sang several selec-
tions including enchores. Messrs.
Finn and Main sang duet and
later each sang a solo. Especially
enjoyable was the chorus song
so Long Holly
| Addresses for the evening were
given by A. w Skuderna and j.
p. Hopkins, both of the Research
Dept. of the A. b. s. Co. of Rocky
Ford and also by H. n Hodnett
of the Union Central Life ms. Co.
of Denver. c. H. Wooden who was
to have spoken on "A Camp
| Ground for the Farmers, omitted
| his speech because of the late
ness of the hour.
Mr.. Skurderna soke on Handling
Soil for profit He advocated the
economic use of barnyard manure
and showed how the use of 1t
increased Production on the farm.
1t is worth $500 ton to the Val
ley farmer On the demonstration
farm at Rocky Ford it increased
alfalfa three-fourth of ton, corn
| u bushels to an acre and beets AZ
tons to an acre Manure should
he applied in the Fail and disced
in, and the ground narrowed.
Or green manure may be used
preferably sweet clover or red
clover, For the culture of the lat
| 95~r there Gs good mgiket for red
| clover seed. Or cOmnsercfal feftt
lizers. especially phosphorie acid
can be employed. 1t win increase
sugar beets tons to the acre.
He closed by declaring that our
soil about here had four times as
much alkali salts as in Rocky Ford
OF Pueblo and that our first cui-
ture of reclaimed lands would be
discOurageing but later years
would Justify the work on seeDy
land
Mr.. Hopkins spoke on dairying
as part of farming. There should
be or ) cows for each 40 acres.
He showed how such farms pro-
duced an increased yield in beets.
! alfalfa and corn. He said the
Diary COW returned to the farmer
more in proportion to what she
ate than any other farm animal.
The dairy will return the neces-
sary kumuS to the ground. In sell
| ing instead of feeding we give
| away one-half acre Of n farm each
year. The advantages of the dairy
are: The COW will eat up all the
cheap rOughage. The dairy distri-
butes the labor OF the farm
| throughout the year. 1t provides
a steady and sure increase thru
, ont the year He spoke OF the
plrpOses of feeding-tor growth,
for maintainace, for milk produe-
tion, for, weight and for produc-
tion of offspring. He showed the
value of protein, carbohydrates,
fats minerals and vitamlns In the
feed. He said Feed the COW all
the roughage she will eat, feed
one pound Of grain for every .
pounds of milk she gives, ana
| rive her all she will eat without
| increasing her weight.
| The main speaker of the even
! ing was Mr. Hodnett. He gave
snoech full of hOmely wit and
wisdom and loaded with sarcasm
and investive His subject Quit
your belly aching" suggests the
/ tenor of his talk He said the
farmer and merchant had talked
so much about being broke that
! Ihn,. ,rnrn nlnnSI hrnkn yet were