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Montana farmer-stockman., 1955-04-15
Beef From Beets
These Blaine County Farmers Fed
Their Sugar Beet Crop TO CaIDes

Brothers planned to chop the beets. But
last fall was a wet one. The beets went
into the cellar pretty dirty-so dirty.
in fact, that they clogged up the chop
per- Tt turned out to be just as well.
The calves ate the beets whole and
there was no trouble all winter.
With the beets the Pitch Brothers fed
rolled barley mixed with chopped hay
about pounds of barley day per
head. They like to mix the chopped
hay with the barley. as they believe it
helps control bloat The calves also
had access to all the good long alfalfa
hay they wanted.
On the basis of their years of expe-
rience in feeding. the Pitch Brothers
are well satisfied with sugar beets as
a feed for livestock
Montana farmer-stockman., 1955-04-15
Seed Treating
Stops WireWOrm
Bv ED MOGEN
Roosevelt County

ON SOME OF MY fields for two or
three years I have noticed damage
spots. Talking with Don Hunter. Roose-
welt County Extension agent, ana
others. confirmed my opinion that the
damage was from wireworms.
In February last year, attended
meeting in Culbertson. Mr.. Ellsworth
Hastings, entomo1ogist from Montana
State College, reviewed recommended
wireworm control measures. He em-
phasized that when using indane, one
full ounce of the active ingredient
should be used per busheI of seed
wheat
I sowed two-tI1irds of a 20-acre strip
with seed treated with ceresan only.
The other one-third of the strip was
seeded with the same seed wheat but
it was treated with one ounce OF active
lindane per busheI in addition to the
ceresan. The field on which the seed
ing was done has been strips of altern-
ate crop and fallow. The fallow was
kept free of weeds.
The untreated grain when 3 to
inches high showed wireworn damage
I'D to the very edge of the treated
area. No damage spots appeared IN the
treated area. Even where there were
no spots there was definite line OF
noticeable difference between the
treated and untreated areas The
treated wheat about three weeks after
emergence was inches taller. The
treated area yielded about four bushels
more than the untreated.
Montana farmer-stockman., 1955-04-15

OF course, my three associates be
lieve a nice, hard downpour rates
their admiration cause it means
their precious grass and grain and
beans are getting moisture those
things need to whoop their growth
or sprout their seed; and hence,
though they might fret and stew
when they can't work day or two,
they gladly tolerate the drops cause
there1l be more work when it stops.
My love for rains not quite the
same. What makes it wonderful. I
claim, amt what it does for crops,
by gee, but its advantages for me.
AS long as skies are dripping wet,
need not do thing but set and
let the music of the rain help ease
away my aches and pain Mirandy
cannot make me go out in the field
to pillow or sow; need not be
ashamed to see the way her helper
looks at me; and neighbor amt got
no excuse to say that I'm no earthly
use. AS long as it's rainy day. I'm
working just as hard as they.
Montana farmer-stockman., 1955-04-15
Noted Cattle Feeder Suggests
Program for State Operators

The following is the main text OF
a talk given by Warren Monfort at
the Great Falls Farm Forum. Mon
fort. who annually feeds out about
$4,000 head at his lots in Greeley.
Colo, reviews the main features OF
his own operation and suggests
feeding programs that might De
feasible for Montana operators.
BY WAY OF INTRODUCTION, ! may
saw that we are rather large feeders,
Montana farmer-stockman., 1955-04-15

SUGAR BEETS make good cattle
feed. The Pitch brothers, George and
Alex, of Blaine County know. They
fed 14O tons of them to about 22O head
of calves last winter and think it paid
The Pitch brothers have raised beets
and fed cattle for many years. They
like beets as a crop to raise on their
Milk River Valley place and they like
beet products for feeding.
But they didn't like hauling the beets
to the beet dump over unreliable roads
in the fall and they didn't like buying
back beet pulp and beet molasses for
feed. They had a bunch that they
could net as much feeding the beets to
their cattle as they could selling them
for sugar and buying back the pulp.
Tt was theory but it had some pretty
good reasoning behind it.
In the first place there'd be the saw
ing on hauling and there'd be no tare.
The beets would be utilized 100 per cent
right on the place. If beets test out,
as they usually do, about 16 to IL per
cent refined sugar content, then with
the nnolasses and all there should be
about 20 per cent sugar for feed. And,
of course, the pulp and all the other
values would be there.
Any way you figure it, they reasoned,
a ton of beets ought to replace ton of
hay or u ton of barley Either way.
they'd be ahead feeding beets. Give
beets an edge, say, at SIS ton sold
for sugar. A ton of hay is $40 and a
half ton of barley over $40. And the pal
atability and feed value of the beets
is something else again in any feed ra-
tion. There's no question what the
calves think of sugar beets. When the
beet wagon enters the lot they come
running and slick them up clean.
The Pitch Brothers raised Is acres of
beets this year. Every operation
planting, irrigating, thinning, hoeing-
was carried out just the same as if the
beets had been destined for the factory.
The only difference was that at harvest
time the beets were dumped into eel
lar instead of being hauled to a tipple.
Each day last winter the truck was
backed into the cellar and ton of beets
loaded on-enough for 10 pounds for
each head being fed. At first the Pitch
r
Montana farmer-stockman., 1955-04-15

two children. Our son is carrying most
of the load in Colorado and our son-ln-
law runs an elevator in Nebraska and
takes care of buying most of our grain.
I must not fail to mention that we
have some twenty-five efficient and
loyal employees. We are fortunate IN
having such a closely knit group who
like their work. That is one point
wish to make. A persons who likes his
work is most likely to succeed. This is
especially true of the livestock business,
be it feeding or raising, even more than
almost any other business. 1T has been
well said that the ''eye of the master
fattens his cattle
We farm very little so we must buy
practically all the feed our cattle (some
Is, 900 of then) eat during the year. We
feed steer calves, yearling heifers, 2
year-old steers, heifer calves and year.
ling heifers. The proportionate num-
bers of these vary from year to year
and within the year. depending on many
factors. We feed these cattle only as
long as is necessary to get them into
the grade they are best fitted for, and
about IS per cent of this is average
choice or better.
100000 Pounds of Beef
We use about 10000 tons of corn sill
age, about 5000 tons of alfalfa hay,
around 400, 900 bushels of good yellow
corn and about 1000 tons of protein
concentrate, cotton cake or finseed or
soy bean meal, or a combination de-
pending somewhat on cost delivered to
us. With all this we are able to sell
around $4,000, 900 pounds of dressed beef
per year. or enough to supply a city
of 100000 people with their normal re-
quirements of beef for a year.
We never know what kind of cattle
win work the best, nor do we know what
we can safely pay for these cattle. Con-
sequently, we sell cattle about every
week of the year and replace in SINH
lar manner We do get more cattle in
the fall months than at any other time,
since that is the cheapest time to buy
and we get better selection then. Our
toughest months to buy are usually jan
uary through April
Now. keep this in mind, for am
going to refer to this again before
ann through What is true with the Mon
fort Feed Lots is true of most of the
large operators and many smaller feed
ers. In the cattle business you never
know when to buy nor when to sell, SO
it is one of the gambEngest businesses
there is, but very interesting for one
who likes cattle and work.
Needs Vary
We have never gone to a percentage
mix like most of the large feeders have,
but rather figure that different lots of
cattle may have different needs as far
as feed goes.
We make health inspection each
and if needed again in the
afternoon. At this time we take out any
cattle that may need medical care OF
any kind. We have a full time veteri-
marian and we have pretty complete
hospital and laboratory. The cattle that
&r1~ ~ ~ CO
Montana farmer-stockman., 1955-04-15

WITH NEIGHBOR, hired man and
wife, I've argued almost all my life,
but there's one thing on which we
three without no trouble can agree:
There's nothing else that brings the
gain as does a first-class April rain
Arizona sun., 1955-04-29
Getting
Along
BY LAUREN WHITE

NEW YORK, (GlobaD-It isn't
easy to tell who is prejudiced. 1t
isn't easy to tell how anyone will
act toward those against whom he
has racial prejudice. However,
most heroes have been made to
feel that most white people are
prejudiced against them to the ex-
tent that they don't want to ac-
cept Negroes as equals.
This attitude of most white
people has worked a hardship on
Negroes in many ways for years
and years. In a few instances, it
has been to the advantage of Ne
groes, however. There have been
instances in which Negroes have
bought homes in white neighbor-
hoods and have been paid hand
some sum to move out. Un back
ward communities. or communities
dominated by criminals, both back
ward and criminal tactics are used
against unwelcome neighbers)
An unusually prosperous friend
of mine recently bought an ex-
pensive ranch-type home in up
state New York. The home is ideal
for gracious living. 1t sits on two
acre tract, is beautifully land
scaped, has as winning pool, and
many other features to make it's
occupants comfortable. Anyone
who is accustomed to living well,
would like my friends ranch-type
home. However, the present owner,
in spite of his wealth, has never
lived nicely and doesn't want to.
He bought this luxurious home
hoping the neighbors would find
him obnoxious and offer to buy
him out. He was fooled! The white
banker who lives on his right has
welcomed him with open arms. The
insurance executive who occupies
an estate on his left, was and is
even friendlier. The exclusive COM
munity of upper class suburbanites
surprised my friend.
So far, there has been no evil
Arizona sun., 1955-04-29

dence of race prejudice against the
new owner. OF course, he does have
one of the newest and incest
homes in the area. Further, he is
only there some week-ends. 1t
could be that the fashionable COM
munity is fascinated by a Negro
who can put $4,000 in a home and
spend only few hours a month in
Arizona sun., 1955-04-29

it. 1t could be that the inhabitants
of the community actually want
little color added to it. Perhaps
we will never know what mott
Yates them. But this writer does
know that the present owner is
sorry the community hasn't exhi-
bited a little more prejudice toward
him.
Arizona sun., 1955-04-29

The Negro Women Champions of
the World-the Los Angeles Ebon-
cites, from Los Angeles, California,
will open Rambler Field with Wig
erous competition with the PBSW
Ramblers, April Both and May LIST,
$500 e. Washington.
The Ebonettes, most spectacular
attraction ever to appear at Ram
bier Field, have renewed their an
nual contract with the Ramblers
after by-passing local competition
since 1852. Coached and managed
by Thomas Jackson, the Ebonettes
combine maximum of boisterous
and comical antics with World
Championship soft b all playing
technique.
Dot Shaw, one Of the best chuck
ers in Major Softball, rounds out a
pitching staff staff which has
placed the Negro girls at the top
championship rating for the past
Arizona sun., 1955-04-29

six years.
The PBSW Ramblers are open
ing their 23rd season Of play with
indications they are sporting one
of their most complete power
houses, headed by Catcher Dot
Wilkinson and Pitcher Margie Law.
Both rated as all-tine greats of the
game. The RamblerS have their
most solid fielding support in years,
combined with explosive batting
power.
The lead off lineup for the To-
Gals consists Of Wilkinson be-
hind the plate, and Margie Law,
Billie Harris, Anita Byrd and
Marie Bishop pitching. With Vir-
inia Dobson at 1st base, Kay Roh-
er rounds out the infield at short
stop. The outfield consists of Har-
riet Leake, rookie Wilma Hill,
Sally Carman and veteran Billie
Noack.
Evening star., 1955-06-26
COLUMBIA GARDENS

$500 sth rd., 8. Arl.--1st-n., q
bsdrm. apt: modern throughout:
large rms. through ventilation:
playground. laundry facilities: utils.
incl IA. G-6207.
FURNITURE: REAG. RATES. ia
Evening star., 1955-06-26

FORT CRAIG GARDENS
Also newly redeeorated l-bedrocn
apt. adjacent to n. Myef; S70.7H
per mo-, incl utiis. For inspection
apply Apt. Gus Q, Court House,
Arlington, Va. ii
Evening star., 1955-06-26

HARBOR TERRACE APARTMENTg
II yol are interested in an apt. con-
venient to National Airport. we
have newly redecorated, 1-bedroom
apis. from S70.76 to $55.76 per
mo, incl. utils. For. inspection
apply at Apt. /, 1901 Abingdon dr..
Alexandria.
Evening star., 1955-01-30
Todoy's Schedules

Stoes
ARENA-"The Afiser"; $50 pm
NATTONAl-The Dark u Light Enough dark tonight.
Eumes tomorrow.
Screen.
AAEBAssADoR-Reap the Wild wind: $780, 4:lo e:4S and
cAPrToL-"carmeh Jones ilo $780, $780, TAO and $50
pm.
coLoNY-nct rnterlude": aso AIS. $685. 7:so and s4o
coLUNBA-"Sx Bridges Cross" l;4o $40. $40. TAO
and 9:45 pm.
DUPoNT-"Romeo and Juliet; l:2o.4. eS5 and sI5 pm.
KETTHS2oooo Leagues Under the Sea-; 1890 2:5o 5lo
T:25 and e:55 pm.
LTTIE-"Garden Of Eden; $780, s:l5 4s5. s4O $40 and
1905 pm
MacARTHuR-"Igh and Dry: aso. 42o. $40. and $50
MISUNDERSTANDING the Wild Wind" q 4:sO. 7:os and
9:40 pm.
ONTARIO"So This Is Paris 305 5I5 725 and s:35 pm
PAIAACE-vera Cruz: 1880. 335, 545. 75o and e55
PIAYHoUSE-"Sgn Of the Pagan: l. 2:45 4so 625. s25
and 1925 pm.
PIAzA-"The Detective" lio a:5o 4So el5 and s:45 pm
TANs-Lux-Phnft": 1850. $780, 45O. s:s5. Sis and 10
pm.
wAFNER-'This L. cinerama"; 2, and $3.50 pm.
Evening star., 1955-01-30
The Passing Snow
ACheerfor Christopher Fry's Freedom
And From No Less Eloquent Star Than Katharine Cornell
Who Plays His Heroine in The Dark Is Light Enough

Enough" and sharing the zest
with which it was written.
Playing Fry, Miss Cornell
has found. is to SAVIOR the more
richly the mans art than is
probable in reading or seeing
one of his plays performed.
1T is. of course, to study him
and to search out. and keep
searching for, meanings that
increase in every dimension.
Condid Spokeswomon
AS an artist of stature who
can afford to be candid, Miss
Cornell readily admits that
Fry is more difficult for the
performer than most play
wrights. He is. by the same
token, more rewarding, ss the
more difficult things of life are
supposed to be. She is equally
certain that he presents pretty
much the same problem to the
spectator that he does to the
player.
Il am sure he demands more
of participation than theater-
goers are accustomed to find
in the black and white sim
plicity that is the current
fashion, she says. II am
equally confident that this very
demand on his part. with its
assumption of intelligence and
eagerness for the distinctive
and the different accounts for
his popularity" she adds.
The star of 1.-The Dark Is
Light Enough" is more than
willing to exchange the effort
involved in mastering Fry's
speeches for the satisfaction of
their content, and their effect.
Over a pleasant stretch of
years of discussing her plays
with her. this correspondent
has rarely heard her quote
from a current vehicle. In her
suite at the jefferson the other
afternoon, she rippled Off
speech after speech of the
Countess Ostenberg's.
Yet 1t Is not the mere shim-
mering melody of the words.
she says. so much as what they
say.
A PIoy With Scope
What they are saying in the
remote, warning mid-nine-
teenth century world of the
Countess Ostenberg is more
than reduces to terse synopsis.
Evening star., 1955-01-30

They speak of so many things.
among them the irresistible
power of unselfish love, the
challenge of evil to good. the
redeemable value Of recklessly
misused life. and much more.
The countess as the symbol
of maternal love in a world
that could well do with an even
inferior grade of affection is
not a grave figure for all that
she speaks more seriously than
other Fry heroines. On the
contrary. she is essentially a
gay creature who has enjoyed
living and Is brilliantly articu-
late on the recipe for her en-
joyment.
In this. lies Miss Cornell's
satisfaction in, playing the
heroine of Fry's winter COM
edy," which is. she feels. more
comic than wintery.
Fry in something Of a philo-
sophie mood is no more ex-
empt from the pixie aside than
from the philosophic comment
when his mood is predom-
inantly pixilated, she feels.
The Word of a Pro
Miss Cornell whose conver-
sation reveals the professional
as clearly as her acting reveals
the artist is not afraid of one
of the theater's most treacher-
Gus words in summing up her
feeling for '"The Dark Is Light
Enough"
II think 1t is an important
play" she says with a brave
disregard for the supposedly
dire implications OF "impor-
tant."
BY that" she continues, Il
mean more than in respect to
its meaning and its melody. 1t
is important beyond these in
that it invites the theatergoer
to lay aside any lethargy he
may have developed and stir
himself to share what to me.
certainly, is an exhilarating
experience"
Another question this corre-
spondent put to Miss Cornell
was whether she had ever had
a feeling, or a wisp of one, that
THE Dark Is Light Enough"
is a "woman's play"
Absolutely not" she said in
a voice that forever acquitted
Fry of any such partisan view
of the human comedy.
Evening star., 1955-01-30
Vehicles Are Good
AS We Are, Alfred
Politely Insists
By William Glover
Associated Press Sfaff Writer
NEW YORK,

NEW YOkth.
Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fon-
tame, the most distinguished
acting couple in the theater.
feel "there must be something
wrong with us" despite 30
years Of joint theatrical tri-
umphs.
y That Is their reaction to q
sort of gentle twin rebuke
that has pursued them through
25 plays together, to the effect
that their scripts are never
as good as they are and why
don't they act in the classics?
Lord. I don't remember
when people first said that
and I don't want to-" said
Lunt backstage at the Concert
Theater where the pair are now
starring in Noel Coward's
"Quadrille."
1.-THE list of authors whose
works we have used Is not
exactly undistinguished. All !
can say Is wait so years. This
is what I mean.
There Wos Shaw
I'VE were acting In George
Bernard Shaw playS before
he had become q classic. but
people were saying the same
thing then that they say now.
I don't know why we should
have to go back to old scripts.
eff people are puzzled or
doubtful about the quality Of
the plays. let them Just wait
O while"
With the Olympian COM
posure possible only for play
ers who are named Lunt and
Fontanne, he deprecates their
own contribution to the pleas
ure Of avid followers in
America. and abroad. Reminded
that people frequently say,
Were going to see the Lunts,"
instead of We're going TO the
theater." he waves his hand:
I'VE couldn't be duller. We
have to say interesting dra-
matte things. and we're much
more interesting on stage than
OF. No midnight champagne
suppers for us. Why. we often
go home to some cream Of
wheat out Of an old overshoe."
IN addition to this year be-
ing the 30th anniversary Of
their acting partnership, 1t b
the 50th anniversary Of the
first appearance on q stage Of
elegant and beautiful Miss
Evening star., 1955-01-30

few nights ago and was
promptly given q cool recep-
ton by the professional critics.
But at the second perform
ance. Mrs. Spewack dramati-
cally appeared on stage when
the cast was taking It's bows,
said she was impressed by the
audiences reaction and asked
her listeners to go out and tell
their friends to come.
1t was the first time Bella
had been on a stage since she
was 8 years old when II
had to walk through o beer
saloon to sing In an amateur
show"
After her stage talk. Mrs.
Spewack went on q dozen radio
Evening star., 1955-01-30
The Passing Show
By Jay cormody

Christopher Fry does not al
ways write verse. He also has
a pointed. pungent prose style.
One Of the most amusing uses
to which he has put the latter
is to be found in a gracefully
lethal little essay. "An Ex-
perience Of Critics."
Among other observations he
Is delighted to make on the
subject Of critics, Mr.. Fry
writes:
Gan artists sensitiveness to
criticism is. at least in part.
an effort to keep unimpaired
the zest, or confidence. or ar
rogance, which he needs to
make creation possible: or an
instinct to climb through his
problems in his own way as he
should and must
AS an author who has cho-
sen to follow the faint, lost
pathway of verse drama, or
to complicate the figure, to
leave the Super-highway of
machine prose. Mr.. Fry is par
ticularly in need of the artistic
freedom he asks here. With
out his especial ZeSt, or conf
dence. or arrogance, the artist
would be wise to cling to the
fashionable rut, in which case
the contemporary drama
would lack the excitement of
a Christopher Fry.
His Feeling Shared
Two enthusiastic sl1arers of
Fry's request for the freedom
to be himself are Miss Katha-
rine Cornell, currently starring
In "The Dark Is Light
Enough" and her husband,
Guthrie McClintic, who di-
rected the play at the Ma
tional.
Being tactful. gracious per-
sons, the McClintics would not
think Of Affirming Fry's right
to freedom at the expense of
anyone else's liberty; the
critics freedom to demur, for
instance. Or the theatergoer's
right to do the same.
Nevertheless. after 10 de-
lighted weeks. also popular
ones, Of playing Fry's latest
play, Miss Cornell and Mr..
McClintic have some practical
ideas on the subject of enjoy
ing "The Dark Is Light
Evening star., 1955-01-30
Pretty Ex-Stor, y, Now Woitress
Jody lawrence. Who Dueked Cheesecoke Photos.
Would Be Less TemperomentoI Next Time

dramatic lessons from Benno
Schneider and his wife. They
brought her to the attention
of Columbia, and she was
signed.
She was catapulted to star
dom. opposite Lancaster. John
Derek in Family Secret"
Anthony Dexter in The
Brigand," etc. After working
steadily. she had a two-month
rest. Then the studio assigned
her to lightweight Mickey
Rooney musical.
II was bewildered and hurt"
she recalled. II had been CO.
starred In six important pic
lures. Now they wanted to put
me in a little musical, and !
couldn't even sing or dance.
II had seen what had hap
pened to John Derek In his
last year at the studio; he was
(See THOMAS, Page C-20
Evening star., 1955-01-30
Lunts Weary of Critics Endless Mark Down of Their Poys
PIuywright's Temper
Flares and Her PIuy
Gets q Reprieve

a dreadful thing. Something
good comes out of any failure.
But Festival is q good, clean
show and when I heard the
audience laughing and ap-
plauding, I felt 1t must be
something they wanted, despite
what the critics said. People
need laughter so much"
What does the other half Of
the Spewack team think about
all this?
MY Sam-he's resigned to
me after 80 years"
Broadway Notes
1.-THE Rainmaker." current
Geraldine Page starrer. made
news this week by slashing
seat prices to a $3.45 top,
lowest scale on Broadway in
years. Saluted by the critics
and already past the Hooper,
formance mark which labels
1t q hit. the show has been
making money. But. ex-
plains Producer Ethel Linder
Reiner. TITS better to gross
$4,000 q week with a theater
full than $4,000 with the
theater two-thirds full" The
street Is watching for results
Of the cut-back lure. 80.
David Wayne Is leaving
"Teahouse of the August
Moon" February IL for tele-
vision and will be replaced by
Eli Wallach, who was q smash
success in the same role in
London Philadelphia crit
les hammered Broadway
bound comedy "Pajama Tops"
a. delicate and subdued as q
circus calliope." wondered II
the players signed contracts
before reading script.
Openings this week: Revival
OF The Wisteria Trees" with
Helen Hayes Wednesday at
the city Center for the final
two weeks Of the Center's
winter drama festival; the fol-
lowing night Eva lie Gallienne
ct the Holiday Tneater In .'The
Southwest Corner" q play by
John Cecil Holm about o Ver-
mont matriarch and her battle
against domination.