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Montana farmer-stockman., 1948-04-01
Safflower, the Cash Crop That
Wristbands DrOuth
b. ALFRED REHBEIN SR, Richldnd County

is where the real proof of the
pudding lies. After the results of
our commercial test run were for
warded to the department of agri-
culture, the bureau of plant indus
try found it advisable to issue cir
cular No. 800, which gives complete
information on safflower and may
be obtained from the county extern
sion agent.
To our knowledge there are over
80 Indian types of safflower, rang
ing from 16 to 35 percent in oil
content. The types T classified as
early medium and late maturing,
also as short, intermediate and tall
plants.
The rate of seeding depends on
the termination of the seed and,
therefore, only seed with a germin-
alton test of 80 percent or over
should be sown at the rate of 80
pounds per acre. The lower the ger
mination is the heavier the seeding
must be, as a good stand is neces-
sary to keep the weeds down. The
plants per row or acre Will deter
mine the yield, but without some
rain we can not raise Safflower, be-
cause Safflower is no wonder crop.
Frost. Drouth- Resistant
The plants are resistant to spring
frosts and will stand a freeze of 20
degrees F. Safflower is remarkably
drouth-resistant, is not injured by
excessive moisture and is not very
subject to insects or diseases. 1t suf-
fers less damage from wind and hail
than the small grains. 1t will not
lodge and does not shatter after ma
turity. The seed does not discolor
if left standing after maturity. Be
cause of these desirable features
safflower is a safe, dependable crop
and offers great possibilities to the
farmers of the northern great plains
where the altitude is not over 5000
feet.
The following points have an i'm.
portant bearing on the crop anC
should be remembered:
/. Proper selection of the land
Montana farmer-stockman., 1948-04-01

IF A CASH crop that would success
L fully withstand drouth could be
found it would be a great benefit
to the farmers of the northwest.
Such a crop seems to be promised
in Safflower, an oil seed crop. SAT-
flower is a doubly useful crop be-
cause the oil produced from the seed
can be used as a drying or as an
edible oil and therefore can be sold
on either market, whichever may be
the higher.
On account of its root system it
stands drouth much better than flax.
Safflower offers many advantages to
the farmer, and it is the most profit
able oil seed crop in the northwest.
The growing of safflower works well
in the average rotation practiced in
these regions and requires no change
in either methods or machinery now
used for the production of small
grains. Safflower deserves a place
in agriculture and should be intro
duced as a source of oil to supple
ment the domestic production of oils.
1s47 Banner Year
The year 1947 was a banner one
for safflower in yield as well as in
price, because the seed was con-
tracted in early spring with a Min
neapolis commission firm at rs per-
cent of the price for flax on a pound
basis f. o. b. Minneapolis. Some
fields produced from 650-800 pounds
per acre, which gave some farmers
a gross return up to S72 per acre.
The price for safflower for seed
should be figured on the prevailing
price of flax plus a fair allowance
for cleaning the seed. Sack should
be furnished at cost. Whether there
will be a market for the seed thi.
fall Q948) must be seen. So far M
company has expressed itself pub
icly that it will buy the seed O.
contract it at a stated price as il
the past two years, 1916 and 1874
respectively.
Our opinion is, if sufficient see,
is raised, there will be a markei
but at what price we do not know
If the oil is classed as a vegetabl
oil, (Which it is) the price for tn
seed may be quite low, as safflowe
oil has to compete with other vege
table oils such as soybean and SUI
flower.
Raised $50 Acres
We started to grow this doub.
useful crop in 1923 on a small acr,
age and have increased our acreaf
from year TO year SO that we he
last year over $50 acres in safflowe
Manufacturers who experiment.
with the oil found that it was S
perior to any other semi-drying {
on the market, and here, of courS
o-AprA |, 1o48
Montana farmer-stockman., 1948-04-01
Swampy Wasteland Salvaged
Wyoming Rdnchers Reclaim 1,4OO Acres

CWAMPY wasteland worth a dol
~ lar an acre when purchased
some 10 years ago is now being
brought into production through
the farsightedness of two Wyoming
ranchers, Fred and Smoky" Grab
Montana farmer-stockman., 1948-04-01

bitches being built on his ranch to
bring into production I.4oo acres of
swampy wasteland.
bert of Big Horn county. The 1,40o-
acre piece of water-logged land is
being drained by bitches sometimes
Z feet deep and more than 10 miles
long to date.
The drainage program was under
taken without the assistance of any
government agency and is being
paid for by the Gradients them
selves with no conservation repay
ments. The drains are tiled and
subsurfaced in the field to allow
continuous operation of machinery
over the land.
The cost of the small shovel and
four-man crew which did much of
the work this summer was about
$3.50 a day for 10 hours of work.
About 800 feet of 7-foot deep ditch
was dug in this time. The tile used
for the subsurface drains cost IS
cents a foot. Drains that came out
along the roadsides were left open
and not tiled.
Irrigate With Drain Water
One 400-acre field is irrigated
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-01-01

The entrants in the Presidential Sweepstakes are paving the
ground hard these days like 50 many nervous lined
Mr. undoubtedly viii tandard bearer his
ay carries at least good odashioned party politics
goals and for the first time in nearly twenty the Republicans
curoasy Republican unquestionaby has the largest
number of pledged delegates present has
leadership when It statistics However this margin
have fatemed to anv great extent ecn f & ppe tho
polls indicate that leaders would prefer Taft
This does that Senator Taft enthusiastically regarded
have recently complained k that the Senator Ohio
be % ep s as Repua D DG H @ S9aOr Toey the II Pfesd
Vandenbeg occasionally irritation at some
% oregon eg5 Rfe rs @ po e c the the a "d make 1 & like
about it. Taft paying certain penalty for having taken fortnight
and the world be to Dew advantage that he hasn't
Plan and compulsory military training the last of which Taft Ody
went a lime lineup G fla favorss @ Fsad % Dewey Taft
eu%stsnces re %ep the @ e We did G IN 94o e Gen @
professional quarters reports indicate that TT he may Ba7e
stsSn and Warren are openly field but they are long shots
second place on the ticket should he desire it. Finally there the
usual lengthy list of favore who have perpbe chance
ruoni washf d t not Mt9 G psn a5 @ @ 59pS D the %
will will be no lack Of issues I o to make the campaign M @ Lively Mr.
pF eono almost equally certain that Tie andar
dynamite PP this issue Keep onteDe s gog Pee s
this 6ased and its abysma failure in Europe will also gve
the Republicans a strong argument.
to of
living problem the
attempt initiation top
take-home buy things think Mr.
Truman, for his part will with different kind of
which would
incomes rather than including the whole income scale His
the bill
of Congress indicated that
What all this particularly important that
who will win-which different
obtained before the last elections when every dis
Republicans
the House and Senate the elections of November 1916 began
digging for the Democrats Then Mr. Trumans stock,
revealed by the polls remarkably short time in the
elections, Democrats
Republicans this started COP leaders thinking hard
1t looks the election will be very close ndeedhe closest
the Wilson Hughes when California reversed it's
usual field and for Wilson by majority after Hughes
had been all but conceded the
However long time until next November and in the present
of the country the world anything happen
Improvement in the international pctrea depression or
continuation of decline
pricesmore strikes prolonged period industrial
these could turn the scales they have
before Right all that said that looks like
good
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-01-01

conditions.
The AFL union declared that
now there is urgent need for salary
increases and said it is working
for an $500 blanket raise in base
pay for all government employees.
James B. Burns, president of the
AFGE, asserted that the good work
unions have done in building up
the character of the service is being
sabotaged by the constant stream
of abuse directed at government
employees. He said that spokesman
for the private powerful interests,
anxious to save tax money and to
attack labor standards generally,
spur this campaign of abuse even
though it may cripple the federal
service.
Mr.. Burns said the AFGE holds
to the belief that government en-
ployes are conscientious and eff
cient to an exceptional degree, and
that stigmatizing them as loafers,
time-wasters, and taX-eaters is
wholly unjustified.
He declared that the American
Federation of Labor endorsed this
stand at its recent convention when
it passed a resolution condemning
in fortnight terms the unwarrant-
ed attacks upon government en-
ployes.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-01-01
Air Line Pilots Gain
Wage Hike In New Pact

New York City-The AFL's Air
Line Pilots Association signed a
new contract with Pan American
Airways Incorporating new wage
increases for its members.
Master first pilots will receive
wages ranging from 1890 to 81 1,120,
an increase of $37 to $50 a month
over the old scale. Master first
piloas flying Boeing Stratocruisers,
which are expected in service by
next June, will receive $3.50 an
hour extra for every hour of rev.
enue flight.
Regular first pilots will receive
from $717 to 1920, as against an
old range of $627 to $3.50. Master
co-pilots will receive increases of
S35 to $55, bringing their month
ly range to 1915 to $625. For regu-
lar co-pilots the new scale is $275
to $555, an increase of $35 to $85.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-01-01
UE In New Jersey
Split On TN Law,
State Clio Links

Camden LPA)-The first local
union to repudiate its delegates
action in threatening a "walkout"
at the New Jersey State CIO con-
vention last week is the big RCA-
Victor local Of the United Electri-
cal, Radio & Machine Workers.
In a membership meeting, it was
also voted to buck state and ma
tional UE leadership by instruct
ing the locals officers to file the
Communist disclaimer affidavits re-
quired by the Taft-Hartley law.
UE delegates who staged
"walkout" from the state CIO con-
vention were condemned by the
local. District Of the UE has
recommended that locals withhold
per capita payments to the state
CIO.
At the convention, held in Tren-
ton, Communist sympathizers put
up a fight on three issues. On the
first, a minority resolution on U.
S. foreign policy, they were defeat
ed by vote Of 485 to 222. The
convention then approved a resolu-
tion endorsing the Marshall Plan
and condemning the Soviet Unions
attempt to split the unity of the
world powers.
More clearcut division occurred
when a resolution was passed de-
claring that the presence Of Com
munists and Fascists within the
council Of the CIO is not represen-
tative of the feeling and sentiments
Of the membership minority" Such
people should not be elected to
union office, the resolution declar-
ed. The voice vote was overwhelm-
ingly favorable.
James McLeish, Of the United
Radio & Machine Work
ers in Newark, was defeated for the
post of third president. He was
replaced by Ernest Polak, also from
the UE in Newark. Ruth Young,
UE international official, protest
ed bitterly that the UE and Mine,
Mill & Smelter Workers, acknowl-
edged source Of pro-CP strength
in the state, had been given few
er seats in the nominations than
they deserved in view Of their num-
Ders. When McLeish was defeated
and the majority report Of the NOM
mating committee was passed, Miss
Young and an estimated 100 other
participants left the hall.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-01-01
AFL's Textile Workers
Whip CIO In Election

Elizabethton, Tenn.-The AFL's
United Textile Workers of America
whipped the CIO in collective bar
gaining election among employees
at the plant of the North Ameri-
can Rayon Corporation here.
In an election held by the Nation
al Labor Relations Board the AFL
union was the victor by a vote of
23O8 to 1917. The victory offers
further evidence of the great pro-
gress made by the AFL in its or
ganizing drive throughout the
South.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-01-01
Printers Chief
.Flays labor Act

Washington, D. C. GLNS) -
Woodruff Randolph, president of
the international Typographical
Union, said that the historical and
harmonious publisher-printer rela-
tions, based on free collective bar
gaining in good faith, are now
taken away by the Taft-Hartley
Act.
He spoke from his union hall in
Indianapolis on the CHS "Cross
Section L. S. A." program which
discussed the question "How 1t the
Taft-Hartley Act Working p
Dwight Cooke, speaking from
WTOP in Washington, was moder-
ator.
Newspaper employers in Chicago
are Withholding wage raises "long
overdue" until the union signs a
contract which would disrupt" the
union, Randolph said. Robert Dem
ham (of the NLRB) in his inter-
pretations of the act makes it very
definitely a slave labor law" he
said. In Chicago, he pointed out,
the act requires that union work.
ers in non-newspaper printing
shops set advertisements for the
newspapers, thereby becoming
strikebreakers.
Other speakers on the program
presented their views of business
and industry and of a CIO union.
The nationwide radio forum came
on the eve, Dec. 20, of the 6 months
anniversary of the Taft Hartley
Act.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-01-01
.StrikingTyp
Would BE Aided
By New ITU Levy

Chicago-UPA)-Preparin for
long winter Of strikes and legal
battles with the nations newspaper
publishers, the Int'l Typographical
! Union-AFL last week announced
that referendum vote on increas-
ing strike fund assessments from
/ per cent Of total weekly earnings
to Al per cent will be voted on by
the TITUS $1,000 members on Feb.
18.
The hearings before the Natl
Labor Relations Board on the
charges by NLRB Counsel Robert
N. Denham were complicated by a
vote to reinstate charge of refus-
ing to bargain in good faith. The
refusal to bargain charge had
been thrown out by NLRB trial ex-
aminer Arthur Left, on the grounds
that the wrong section Of the Taft
Hartley Act was cited by Denham
in his complaint.
Rep. Fred Hartley (R., n. j. in
tervened in the disputes between
the publishers and the printers over
wages, announcing from Detroit
that he was setting up a three-man
subcommittee to his House Labor
Committee to make a three-day in
vestigation of the controversy.
Earlier, Chairman Joseph Ball (R.,
Mimi of the Joint Labor Commit
tee charged with being the watch
dog" over the Taft-Hartley law,
had refused to intervene.
Besides the 1900 members Of the
ITU still on strike in Chicago -
Christmas Eve will mark their first
month on the picket lines-there
are 400 more on strike in other
cities, and 200 more have been
authorized to strike across the
country.
Chicago papers continued to be
printed with copy typed and photo
engraved. Says the unions daily
bulletin The Picket about the new
process:
People who aren't particular
about what they read, and who
wear glasses strong enough to
make out the imitation printing of
the current Chicago daily press,
have been reading some whoppers
about the substitute process. The
way the publishers tell it, the Vari-
type-electric typewriter substitu-
tions are big Improvements over
the genuine article invented by
Gutenberg and improved by Mer-
genthaler.
Maybe they're trying to kid US
strikers. Maybe we're supposed to
take fright at the prospect that
these toy-shop items are going to
become permanent fixtures in the
plants.
"If they are trying to kid US
strikers, they might as we'll quit
it right away. We can't be kidded
because we have been told too
often and too emphatically (by the /
very people who write and print
that kind of bunk a very different .
story about conditions inside the .
plants.
GAS the workers tell our pickets, /
nerves are upset tempers are /
short-general health is impaired. /
The publishers who have so virtu-
)usly proclaimed their loyalty to
he Taft Hartley Act are evading,
f not violating, the state law on
overtime for women. In all depart
nents workers are complaining at
he volume of overtime. There has I.
,een bigger labor turnover in the
asst two weeks than there normal
y is in two months. For every exc
utive who mutters that the pub
ishers are stronger than the union,
here are a hundred rank-and- file
who say unreservedly that
he publishers already have been
,eaten to a standstill."
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-01-01

The state of Maine has a weed
control project on northern nut
grass, the common horseradish,
and trees which are considered as
weeds when they grow in blue
berry fields.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-01-01
Comment On
World Events


is in danger Of losing its military
victory Of oWrld War ii through
defeat in the problems Of peace
is sounded in an American Fed
erationist editorial by William
Green.
Gone Of our war allies" the
Federationist says, wants to i'm
pose its system Of government
upon all others and has organized
in other countries citizens willing
to betray their own countries. This
is the meaning of the campaign
against democracy which the Us
SIR is carrying on in the United
Nations and through its agents in
foreign countries"
The editorial goes on to point
out the vital Importance Of helping
Europe and Of making sacrifices
for democracy, saying:
western European nations,
weakened by the war and now with
out the means to get their econo-
mics going again, must be helped
to become self-supporting.
"Food, shelter and fuel must
first be provided to restore health
and the elemental necessities of liY-
ing so that people can carry on.
Disruption Of normal sources of
food and bad crops due to wealth
er conditions have brought starva-
tion to many and malnutFition to
more.
"Our whole nation has voluntar-
lily changed its eating habits to
help in conserving commodities for
relief purposes. With proper lead
ership and with full availability
Of information on needs and objec-
tives, the American people will
make the necessary sacrifices in
order to help others in need.
"Those responsible for foreign
policy must realize their respon-
sibility to keep the people advised
through regular and understandable
reporting. The citizens Of this
country value their rights, their
freedom and their opportunities and
have always been willing to make
sacrifices to maintain our democ-
racy. We want our representative
government to report to US prob
lens and needs so that we may
have awareness and responsibility
in sharing III what is done.
'Inventories taken by the Inter
ior Department and the report Of
the Hartman Committee show
that in helping Western Europe
we will not unduly strain our re-
sources. Grain and steel are Eu-
ropes major scarcities. We have
coal available in excess Of trans
portation facilities.
However, our purpose should
be to give European countries the
tools to supply their own needs
and do this in way that viii leave
them free and responsible for their
own welfare What we do need is
for the Administration to call to-
gether representatives Of the main
functional groups to agree upon
the basis of cooperation.
"Let US carry out our efforts
under the Marshall proposal in the
spirit of free enterprise SO typical /
Of our democracy. There will be
place for all through their volun-
5ary organizations to do their full .
share in the rehabilitation Of Eu-
rope. And let US not forget that the |
Industrial revival of Germany is
he key to that objective"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-01-01

thing to spoil the Kaiser's plans to
embroil Mexico and the United
States and open a door for back
yard invasion by German troops.
That's but skeleton of the story
of John Murray, silent hero and
evangelical friend of the workers
of Mexico, interpreter of them and
their kindly counsellor. Slight of
frame, stricken by disease, he chose
to burn out his life for a cause
which he deemed great. So, doing
his duty as he saw it, he served
his country greatly and selflessly.
There was a grand and courageous
Robert Murray. There was a saint
ly John Murray.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-01-01
Federation OF Government Employees
Sets Observance OF Civil Service Week

Washington, ID. C.-The Ameri-
can Federation of Government En-
ployes announced that its observ-
ance of Civil Service Week COM
memorating the .65th anniversary
of the signing of the National
Civil Service Act will stress the
theme that only unionism can make
the merit system effective.
The National Civil Service Act
became law on January 16, 1888,
when President Chester A. Arthur
signed the measure establishing
the merit system in the government
service.
Citing the fact that the merit
system alone could not attract COM
petent employees to enter federal
service, the AFGE emphasized the
need for organization among gov
ernment workers to bring about i'm
provements in pay and working
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-01-01
Economic HighHghts

Happenings the Dinner Pals Dividend Checks an
Tax Bills of Every Individual National and international Problem
Inseparable from Local Welfare.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1948-12-09
People, Spots In The News

( WEE BEE, worlds smallest plane-l5-foot
wing span, ITO pounds, 80 miles range on
its two gallons of gas-is shown being
flown by William Bouck at FL Cajon, Calf
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1948-12-09

you'll feel like singing oo-when
il you have one of these fresh-from-
the-factory Fireball engines in your
time-tested Buick.
It's swell Christmas gift for the whole
family-the gift you'll enjoy for months
or years of motoring.
Just think -today's Buick power for
The Miami times. [volume] (Miami, Fla.) 1923-current, 1948-12-25
''Spots" Click Cracking
Entertainment Color Bar

Ths audience stood up and ehas9e4
for 10 minutes. Never In AEinmi
Aisht club life has an act rsessvSa
such a thrilling ovation.
This II only one Of the mAay
glowing tributes paid by AssamRa
stald White daIlloa 90 the Iatsr-
nationally famous Ink spoa. wss
shattered all presidents IN tho shsw
world when they opened q two week
engagement on Tuesday At the
White Club Monte Carlo GA ths
Trail at TIN ave.
We would write columns of STAG
about the personable quartet list
we'd rather let you read waat
George Bourke. Amusement sditsr
Of the Miami Herald said IN his
Night Life column on Thursday.
Monte Carloon.thesTrall whieh
under various other names has Aa4
indifferent success IN recent ysars.
- now in the big.tfrue, SO beverage
minimum ranks and four mighty
fine entertainers. the Ink Spots, Of
radio. records and stage fAms, have
put them there Ia what was a Der.
rife gamble BY orCheatra leader
Tony Lopez and his associates.
The genial lads who have appear.
ed before the kings Of Eur0ps ~
those few who are left did "A ahffi.
cult task. In a room that at present
has the acoastlcal qualities Of q rain
barrel. and left their capacity aud
Isncs clamormg for more
Before the show started Ehls r.
viewer doubted IL any act short Of a
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