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The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1945-09-20

III you went out once month dur
l. ing the winter and poured a sack
full of dimes down that woodchuck
hole in your back pasture, your
neighbors probably would think you
were candidate for a padded cell.
Yet I've been on dairy farms
where just about that same kind of
waste takes place, because the dairy
man fails to provide bedding for his
COWS when they are stabbed.
1t isn't just a matter of cleanliness
and better milking conditions. Those
aremighty important, ofcourse. Good
bedding will help a great deal in
keeping COWS clean and keeping dirt
out of your milk.
But Idaho University also
points out that if you fail to
catch the liquid part of manure,
you are losing dollars in fertili-
ger value. They figure that you
lose $1.OO worth of fertilizer in
every ton of stable manure, if
you lose the liquid.
Figuring ten-ton-per-acre appli-
cation, that's ten dollars per acre.
The liquid in every ton contains 72e
worth of nitrogen, two cents worth
of phosphate and $50 worth of pot
ash. These figures are based on ferti-
lizer cost in Idaho, and may vary
slightly in other parts of the country.
Any way you figure it, bedding will
pay for itself. Straw is best for bed
ding, but shredded corn slower, shaw
ings and other things can be used.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1945-09-20
CHAPTER VII

1CuSty AAO"AASNs HI gums IA
to hit the telephone. There are
/ other feeders"
There were, but they were load
ed win all the stock they could
handle, considering market con-
ditions.
ITO bad your brother didn't
stick to range CATTLE" one remark
ed. your new breed brings more
and better beef, but it won't stand
up so we'll on the range"
Didn't she know that? AND
didn't she know also that it would
take more hands than she had TO
keep an eye on what she had and
the increase the spring roundup
would reveal?
But what to do now? Ordinari-
ly she could have left the year
lings where they were, but not
now not with black market rust
lers roaming the highways. She
hadn't enough hands to spare to
set the guards they'd need.
Thoughtfully she rode back to
Piney. noticing the thunderheads
piling up in the north. That was
good. AS long as there were
spring rains, the grass would re-
main green, and the watering
ponds would be filled.
''Piney'-her voice was thought
ful-''drive them back to the cliff
stretch. I'll talk things over with
Uncle Jed. We may sell so see
they don't stray up the Nopocos.
"Sure will, Miss Rusty"
Decker was at the house wher
she returned to it.
''To sell or not to sell?" she
4 asked him.
Mot" he answered promptly
and added, your mother told me
I suppose you're considering the
local market"
s'Not considering she count
cred. sitting on the arm of ter
race chair. "Just wondering"
Ralph would be against it." he
said. 'And if you hold on until
winter, you'll be able to ask your
own price for anything that car
ries more than hides and hoofs.
Rusty looked at him in sur
prise.
"Small Fry''-he sat in the
chair and twisted to look up at he1
-''you know Ralph and I didn't
get along too we'll the last few
years. But I'm thinking of Ralph
getting primed to fight for us
The least I can do is help hold this
ranch for his return. When ]
horn in on your business, Rusty,
remember I'm guy deferred
trying to make up for it."
Rusty patted his shoulder and
turned toward the door.
''Staying for supper?" she ask
ed.
''Not tonight. Just rode over
to square things with you. You
walked out on me last night, re-
member"
'Why. that's right" she agreed
$50 l did. Well, bye, then"
Rusty was stocking the stove
when her mother came into the
kitchen.
Rusty, I do declare. there isn't
another potato on the place. What
will we do?"
EAT cake" said Rusty prompt
1y. 'Hoecake. I'll make it."
The two Rowland women talk
ed across stove and table as they
prepared the evening meal. Mrs.
Rowland was stoutly optimistic.
Everything will come out all
right; it always does" she insisted.
Gust listen to Decker more. Of
course he sold short and little
green, but then he knew this was
coming up, this closing out of the
feeders. And he'd ordered that
new stock from California and he
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1945-09-20

in simplifed form IL different ra-
tons, balanced to give the most
possible food based on quality ofhay
or pasture. | think you'll want one.*
Also, have just received Bulletin
u, Feeding Dairy Cattle" from the
Extension Service, Ohio State Uni
versity, Columbus, Ohio, which is
one of the clearest and most COM
plete outlines of feeding practices
I've found. 1t contains 40 pages
packed with a wealth of material on
how and what to feed dairy cows,
food value in various kinds of rough
ages, pastures and so on. You surely
will want this booklet
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right, then, because HE was diff
ferent from the men she'd always
known?
purple slippers she told the
kitten, ''are too expensive for a
gal in my position even to con-
slider. We have a ranch to run,
and running ranches in these days
is no cinch."
Rusty sat in her office, looking
over worn map of the Double R.
She was trying to decide where
to pasture the yearlings that the
feeders had refused to take off her
hands. With her was Hank, vet
eran rider of the Double r, who
had been on the ranch since the
time of her grandfather.
AS she studied the map, she
realized that the Nopocos though
an asset, were also a liability.
They blocked access to parts of
the ranch that would be useful
to her now.
Don't know why I didn't think
of it sooner" said Hank. ralph
run a makeshift trail in there a
few years ago, while you were
away at college. Made map of
it and figured he might try out a
new strain of cattle in Low VAL
ley, where no strays could get in.
But he never did anything about
it and I don't know what became
of the map. Let's see that map
there"
With a grubby finger, the old
man traced a route from the To-
cation of the ranch house.
''Now see here where the No
pocos sorta switch their tail
think Ralph's trail began right
about there"
Rusty considered. "But the
valleys so far west. If we pas
tured the yearlings there while
they're putting on weight, they'd
run lot of it off when we drove
them back here to send them to
market"
1T amt necessary to drive them
back" Hank said eagerly, turn
ing again to the map. Ralph
thought of that problem and found
solution. Now see, here's Low
Valley and here's it's south wall
Somewheres along here, Ralph
found an easy trail up over that
south wall, down to the Big San
dy, and straight across to the
highway. You write him, Miss
Rusty. That map he made must
be somewheres. Or ask your
MON. She might know"
When Rusty asked her mother
Mrs. Rowland recalled that Ralph
and Hank had packed into Low
Valley, but she didn't know any
thing about a map. However, she
produced an album of pictures
which Ralph had taken on the
trip.
Rusty settled into an armchair
in her room to look them over
Ralph had arranged them in Or
der, with notations under each
one. First came a long series
taken during the difficult trip
over the ridge.
Then Rusty came to a snapshot
of Hank and his horse on an ele-
walton looking down into the val
ley-"First view of Low Valley.'
| A pocket in the heart of the No
pocos range, it's floor was level
and bisected by a stream, its
sides rising like great solid walls.
The next page gave more init
mate views of the valley-views
of big trees and parklike expans-
es of grass. And then, Rusty for
got the beauty of the scenery, for
there was a notation-"October
9Th. Grass still green; plenty of
water in stream. Stream fed by
springs. No bog land"
Feeders Paradise" she muir
INJURED.
The final picture showed Hank
crouched over a fire, iron spider
balanced between the rocks, fry
ing fish.
Softly Rusty quoted, "'A great
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1945-09-20

Food production still remains
paramount problem because
millions of hungry people must
be fed.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1945-09-20

When somebody invents machine
which will take over all the work on
a farm while you rest in the shade,
there will be a lot more fat farmers
around the country.
The extension folks, figuring
that invention is a few years
away, spend their time develop
ing better ways to do the jobs
around a farm, to save time,
labor and money. The new book
let's they issue from time to time
always seem to me a little bet
ter than the ones before.
A couple of weeks ago / mentioned
special circular Feeding the Dairy
Herd" from the Extension Service,
University of Wisconsin, Madison,
Wisconsin. It is a most handy leafet
to nail up in your barn, containing
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1945-09-20
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WOODMEN OF THE WORLD LIFE INSURANCE eor,,,,,
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1 rom Previous Year ------- S1sa a9o 15o oz
lncoIne-From Members
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senens-To Members 1l'zOo1z
cenaneous $4094 948 "a; -------- Total 13o4e7aaAo
BUSINESS written during year-Number If 1o'o4o''5545
Poollc1es S4oo2 --------3----- Amount 4o7a57,soo
Business in force year-Number If 49'oonoOO
Fohcles 5405O7 ------------- Amount 9os ono ,,1oo
Ascrre "" o7''SOA'll4O
Value of Real Estate Cess anont If ono,b > q ~
Mortgage u eiculorances) y 691 8213O
Liens loans or other credits oe 649,38775
of members e' ''eo1S on certificates
of Bonds and StocE. II 132O3679
Deposited in Trust Comnaniee .nd l25848789O7
not interest --- .,oo,.o.
Deposited in Companies and Ranle On 4'zoda84O
interest and Rents due accrued t0'ooU'o
All other Assets in statement aoo1zcS1
--------- 1'ooo'looOo
TOTAL --------- s11e--1oooo--
Less Assets admitted ~ co. Ivy uSOS 90
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Sol'lo9Ol
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The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1945-09-20

Here's another one of those jobs
which does several things at the
same time. If | run into enough of
these, maybe / can figure out way
for dairy farmer to 60 out after
breakfast and get his whole days
work cleaned up in one operation.
This particular several-in-one
item is simply using superphosphate
on the stable floors and in cutters.
Such use of superphosphate helps
preserve nitrogen in stable manure,
lessons stable odors, absorbs mois-
ture, helps keep floors dry and
reduces the number of flies.
Texas A & M College recon-
mends using 80 to so pounds of
superphosphate per COW per month.
The college has demonstrated how
this increases fertilizer value.
A ton of fresh manure is equal in
plant food value to 100 pounds of
1O-5-1O commercial fertilizer. But
nitrogen escapes, and loss of liquid
reduces the value to 100 pounds of
SIS. Using superphosphate on the
floors and in the cutters brings the
manure value to 1O0pounds of8-10-10.
Another thing, too-you save
spreading operation since your phos-
plate goes on right at the time the
fertilizer is spread on pasture or field.
Just the kind of a job-saver which
appeals to a fellow like me, with
not too much energy to waste.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1945-09-20

jars, cans, or packages that are
heat-sealed. Ordinary waxed
lunch paper will not do the Job.
Filipino forum. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1928-196?, 1945-03-01

Conchia Mchor Mehor
letter
large clothing collected by members of Girl Scout
W. McIhy,
of the troop and wife the Commanding General
Belvon, look
Filipino forum. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1928-196?, 1945-03-01
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-10

year and deferring 1t another. You should handle it the same eacn } car. If you have started reporting it you should continue. The schedule on eac bond tells how much the value increases each var.
 The following list of non-tax- able income may help to dete. .h.ne if you had any that you need not report for taxation. These are not taxable
 Allowances for support of a de- pendent, received either under court order or by agreement. Requests and inheritances. Dividends" from mutual insurance companies. Com pensation for sickness or injury, re- ceived from insurance, workmens compensation, court award or pri- vate settlement. Gifts from persons for whom you have done noth ng. Income earned outside the United States by persons who were abroad during the entire year as bona fide residents of foreign countries (but income earned abroad is taxable
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-10
COMBINE ARMY
 HELPED TO CUT
 RECORD CROP

Chicago, Jan. i0-CUp)-A har- vest brldade of 500 farmers driving an armada of self-propelled com pines have swept through grain fields from Texas to Minnesota to reap more than 100000 acres of farmlands and help America pro- duce a record wartime crop this year.
 The War Food Administration sponsor of the brigade, said the farmers had harvested many acres of grain that might have been lost because of the shortage of man. power and farm machinery.
 Long before harvest time, 800 combines were manufactured and strategically distributed over areas to be covered, and emergency re- pair and maintenance depots were set up along the routes to be taken.
 Then combine operators, selected on the basis of their experience and dependability, each pledged to cut a minimum of 2,000 acres with each machine.
 Tn May, the machines got under way in southern Texas. By June they were in the Panhandle ready to take on the wheat crop.
 After weeks of rain, the oper- ators moved on to Oklahoma, then the crop.
 Eleven of the brigadiers, operat- ing l3 machines, covered @ total of 4,53l acres, an average of 3,656 acres per combine and 4 Ia acres per hour.
 They are: william Harrington, Grandin, N. D.; H. Horn, Jr., Car negie, Okla; Al Germolus Felton, Minn.; Julius Honl, Oakes, N. D.; Justin Allen, Rocky, Okla; T. E. Foster, Tulia, Tex; E. Bundhung, Williston, N. D.; L. D. Skinner, Slidell, Tex; Ben Isackson, Nio- brara, Neb.; R. Brighton, Willis ton, N. D., and William Little, San Antonio, Tex.
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against persons who were out of this country only for the purpose of working, and who intended to re- turn and resume residence whsn the job was done).
 Interest on adjusted service bonds anc on bonds issued by states, counties, cities, or any local subdi- visions of states. Loans. Marriage settlements. Money received in re- payment of loans, unless they had previously been charged off as bad debts. Pension and disability allow ances to war veterans and their families. Social Security benefits of any kind. Value of quarters provided by parish to its clergyman. Amounts paid by the Government to wife or dependents of enlisted per sonnel of the armed forces--and al- so the service mans own contribu- tion to his dependents.
 The service mans extraordinary exemptions and special privileges VII be discussed in special articles later.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-10
ii SERGEANTS
 SERVE ARMY
 FOR 17S YEARS

Harvard Army Air Field, Neb. Jan. 10 - (U.P) Soldiers who have served in the army since conscrip- tion for World War II began are mere infants compared to ii mas ter sergeants and first sergeants now stationed at the Harvard Army Air Field. Their army life totals l78 years.
 The II sergeants are assigned to various departments in the supply and maintenance sections. and have experienced overseas service.
 First Sergeant Harry Kramer heads the list with 23 years exper- fence After leaving his home town of Philadelphia, he served in the Philippines, Hawaii, Japan and Pan- anna.
 Master Sergeant Siedband enlist cd at Fort Logan, Col, 21 years ago. He was in the Alaska -Aleution the ater and in the Philippines before the war and is now an armament chief.
 Wears 4 Combat Stars
 The wearer of the Presidential citation for Ploesti oil raids, having served IT months in the European theater, Master Sergeant Elijah H. Smith also has accumulated four combat stars on his ETO ribbon during his 19 years army service. He enlisted at Lynchburg, Va.
 Seventeen years in the army have been fulfilled by Master Sergeant Carl Kouker and Master Sergeant Columbus H. Hatton. Sergeant Kauker enlisted at Peoria, H., and has been overseas two years. Serg- cant Hatton enlisted at Anniston, Ala. and has served with both the air forces and infantry in China, the Philippines, Hawaii and Pana- ma.
 Master Sergeant Raymond Fuller and Master Sergeant BayliS A. Bruce have served 16 years each as GIs. Sergeant Fuller wears the Presidential citation and three stars on the Asiatic ribbon for par ticipation in the East Indies, Pap uan and New Guinea campaigns. He enlisted at Fort LeavenWorth, Kan. Sergeant Bruce, who enlisted | at Williamstown, s. C., has spent six years out of the United States, oneS year at Guatemala since the war began.
 Two Years In Pacific
 Two years of Master Sergeant Philip RieSter's Is years service has been in the South Pacific during this war He has served also in Hawaii, Cuba and Nicaragua since enlisting at Linton, Ind.
 Master Sergeant Walter Stewart, enlisted at Fort Bragg, N. C., IA years ago, also bragS of his four brothers in the armed forces. He has served some time in Hawaii.
 Master Sergeant Oscar Quail, who enlisted at Alcester, s. D., and Mas ter Sergeant Lawrence J. McCabe have served 10 years each with Uncle Sams army. Sergeant Mo- Cabe, repair chief at Harvard, was with the Eighth Air Force for two vars. He enlisted at Stamford, Conn.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-10
BY s. BURTON HEATH NEA Staff Writer

Now let's turn to the new, sim plified Form lO4O. This is the blank for use of those who are not eligible to file their Withholding Receipts. It also is the blank on which those who can legally file the W-2 receipt have opportunity to determine which method will make their income tax smaller.
 In the proper spaces at the top give your name, address and Social Security number-both names if both husband and wife had income, both s. s. numbers if each had wages. Then list your exemptions, referring back to Articles II and W if you do not remember how to de- termine dependency. Remember - you, the taxpayer, are Exemption No. l, your wife would be No. 2 and others are added.
 INCLUDE ALL INCOME
 AS Item enter everything you received during 1914 as payment for services rendered, whether or not 1t was subjected to withholding tax If both received wages or salary, Commissions, tips, bonuses, gifts from anybody for whom you did anything, jury fees, strike benefits, allmony and separation allowances go into this item, besides ordinary wages and salaries.
 In reporting such payments give their amount before any payroll de- ductionS such as withholding tax, social security taxes, hospital in- surance, pension contributions, bond subscriptions, union dues, etc.
 But if you incurred expenses in earning your salary or wage, and were not fully reimbursed by your employer, you should deduct the un- reimbursed portion from your gross wages, before entering the amount in Item 2. Attach 8 separate state ment of such expenses. A specimen statement accompanies this article Deductible business expenses will be discussed in Article TX.
 After entering personal service in- come from each source, with em- ployer's name and the city in which ycu did the work, add up their amounts and enter the total in the right hand column, opposite the g. sign,
 AS Item 3, in the right hand column enter the total of dividends and interest received during the year. You do not need to give de- tails. Just the total. Dividends are only those on corporate stock. "Di- vidsnds' on mutual insurance are not true dividends, but refunds of excess payments.
 INTEREST ON WAR BONDS
 Interest includes all received by you and your wife on bank accounts, corporate bonds, notes and loans: and on government bonds whose in- terest is not wholly tax exempt, If you have any. Since most smaller taxpayers have only war bonds, of the government issues, I shall dis cuss only those.
 War bonds are appreciation bonds" You do not collect inter- est periodically, but take your profit all at once when you cash them in. You do not need to report the ac- crued increases in value. year by year, unless you prefer; you can wait until you cash in each bond, ana then report the entire apprecia- ton at once.
 Since income tax rates should be somewhat lower after the war, you probably can save money by waiting. But you can't flutter around, reporting appreciation one
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-10
Jesse ADLER Looks at the NEWS

Now that Jimmy Byrnes has stop- ped horse-racing for the waration, he's known to the turfman as Their Number One Nag.
 The edict will now have the clan making book on anything from a cOckrOach race to how many snow flakes there are in a snowfall eight inches in diameter.
 AS matter of fact cockroach racing is becoming so popular you can't find a room in a Bowery Hotel.
 What with no horses to bet on the walters in Lindy's are beginning tG talk to the patrons instead of to themselves.
 Anyway, it'll give a lot of guys who need the money the chance to break even!
 The Governments order that horse racing be stopped SO that the war wouldn't be hindered was the first indication some folks had that the Human Race has 8 lot of fol- lowers, too.
 Although betting on the Human Race is very insignificant because horse sense is that second sense horses have that prevents them from betting on people.
 One industry that'll reap some gravy from the ban is the clothing industry. To conceal the fact they're layoffs the racing boys will have to buy suits with coat and pants to match.
 The reaction was felt in the West where an auction sale crowd bought a live horse for $5 but paid $l3 for hobby horse. One will take you just as far as the other these days.
 The starving tOuts will now dis cover that the fastest way to reduce is to eat nothing and then walk 1t off!
 One consolation to the jockeys now doing their riding in subways. The Army cavalry was mechanized first!
 And when yau hear 2 & 1 you'll know it's 8 sh0ep0lish, 3 & 1 an oil, 5 to the time-nOt the latest odds at Hialeah.
 At least this will end one form Of Selective Service-all the tipsteI sheets will be temporarily scratched
 The race crowd shouldn't give up all hope however. Every once in a while the Govt affects compromise on a strict order by adding a twist of its own. For instance, maybe they'll say ''Okay fellers, race-but to curtail the waste jOckeys'n have to ride side saddle"
 This completes the cycle. First 1t was impossible to get room. Now it's impossible to get Parlay, Bed- room and Bath.
 In any event the situation is pretty turf.
 If were publishing a newspaper
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-10
WORLD WAR II A YEAR AGO
(By United PreSs)


 Moscow defines it's position on the Polish border dispute; says Russia is ready to guarantee a "SarOng and independent PO- land,' if the Poles will give up the pre-war frontier and accept the 1919 "CurZon Line' as a basis; {; Moscow offers mutual assist ance treaty to Poland against Germany.
 Soviet troops within the old Polish boundary push closed to railroad junction of Sarny. In Italy, the 5th Army advnaccs two miles closer to CassinO in the south.
 American bOmbers from Italy raid Sofia, Bulgaria for fifth time in two months.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-10

Buy War Bonds & Stamps
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-10

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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-10

Here is the fifth of 10 authOri- tative, eaSy-tO-fOllOw articles tell ing the wage-earning taxpayer how to prepare his income tax re- turn. Readers should clip and save each installment of the series.