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Greeley Daily Tribune, The (Newspaper) - July 15, 1975, Greeley, ColoradoTues. July 15.1975 Greeley Colo Tribune 7 a department official testifies during hearing without sugar act Industry free to grow and respond with said monday. Washington a with said monday the demise of the sugar act on the opening Day of near he sugar Industry is Ings on the Suga Trade a year free to grow and respond to after the act was killed admin Market conditions in a manner Istratov Kenneth e. Friek of the agriculture stabilization Teress of producers a key and conservation service pre dieted further Price and Supply upheavals in the sugar Busi Ness. Us a sees no need he said to reinstate the act s quota Price support and import restricting systems. Frick concluded i Hope i have made Clear the fact that economic changes in the sugar the hearing without a Republic Industry have not been com can member present As re plated. I do not believe that quire by the House rules was there is a consensus on the part briefed last week in secret ses of our Domestic Industry on Sion by the Central intelligence where this commodity is head Agency on sugar industries in ing. Reps. Mark Andrews r-n.d., and Bob Traxler d-mich., testified in support of a new sugar act saying the one that was in effect for 40 years protected both Consumers and growers or busting International sugar Cartel. But Deputy assistant Secre tary of state Julius l. Katz said in my View the threat of Cartel action in sugar is not the committee which began u----., .uutfuiv4 411 Wui Tui Lei ill aural is Nui nations closed to . Agricula who said they Are now threat serious. This is not to say that Tural attaches such As Cuba. Ened by a Price boosting farm producers will not seek to con sult among themselves to coordinate their policies and. Even to compare their Price policies. I seriously question however whether any group of producers can without con Sumer cooperation succeed in regulating Broom Corn statistics swept out but growers Lucky to regain costs forty potato Harvest under Way Here the Early summer potato Harvest got under Way in Northern Colorado on monday. Fred Weigandt who farms Southeast of la Salle was one of the first of the area producers to Start digging operations monday. Weigandt s potatoes will go for Chipping As will most of the Early Harvest according to the potato administrative committee s Jim Lang. Lang said the Harvest of potatoes will continue in this area through october. Early potatoes generally will go to Chipping while the local potato Sheds used for sorting of table Stock potatoes won t get going until mid August. This year s crop is Likely to fall Short of last year s exceptional production however according to Lang. There is no doubt that last year s crop was a Good one straight across the Board. Many producers had yields of 250 to 300 sacks hundredweight per acre with most of them number ones right out of the Field. But we re Likely to be Down to about 200 sacks per acre this year. The Factor which will make the difference Between a profit or loss is the grading breakdown. If the producer can get three sacks graded number one to every two sacks graded number two he might be Able to make it. But it will be that Grade ratio it which will determine his land said. The Grade ratio of last year s crop saw 85 to 95 per cent of the crop in the number one category although that s not Likely this year. The cold temperatures stayed cold too Long and then it got hot too Lang said so that Plant just did t have enough time to get a Good there is one positive Factor for this year s local crop however. So far there Are no signs of late blight although the conditions Are Good for it. There s generally been a heavy Dew in the Early morning followed by hot temperatures during the Lang said. Over All i think local growers will generally be Lucky to regain their Cost of production with this year s Lang concluded. By Don Kendall a farm writer Washington a after 60 years of keeping Broom Corn statistics the agriculture department has decided to sweep them out the door. Broom Corn acreage has declined sharply during recent years and has reached a Point of minor importance at the 4-h news Ashton the club will hold its annual tour of members projects at 8 a.m., july 12. The group will meet at the Ashton school House. The club is also to Host a paper drive on aug. 16. Barrel Brethauer reporter some 400 million Board feet of Timber from dead Douglas fir Trees May decay before log Gers can Cut the Trees this year. National level with production limited to three the department said monday. Thus us a said Broom Corn statistics no longer will be re ported. Officials said Broom Corn is produced Only in Colora do new Mexico and Oklahoma. But Back in 1915 when us a started Broom Corn figures it was a fair sized crop. It was not As big As Ordinary Corn or wheat but out in the Southwest and even in parts of the Corn Belt Broom Corn was important for Many Farmers. It was also essential for housewives who did t have the fancy new electric sweepers. And brooms were also Handy for shooing stray cats and stub born salesmen. They still make brooms from Broom Corn says h. James tip Pelt of the department s Statis tical reporting service. But imports from Mexico and brooms made from synthetics have taken a big share of the Market. In 1915, according to Tippett s records Farmers harvested acres of Broom Corn some tons which brought them a ton. By 1923 the Broom Corn acre age was at its Peak at acres and was bringing grow ers a ton. Another big year was 1935, when Farmers had More than acres but the Price was less than a ton. Then in world War ii prices Rose again and in 1944 Broom Corn was harvested from 000 acres the most since 1935 and brought a Ion. Prices stayed relatively High and soared to a ton in 1951, during the korean War when about acres were har vested. But by 1970 the acreage was dwindling fast. That year farm ers harvested acres of Broom Corn for an average of per ton. And in 1974, according to us a Only acres were harvested in Colora do new Mexico and Oklahoma. Ironically prices soared to a record of per ton. Onorato to appliance 5ai.esand service Milliken. Colorado phone 587-4367 Jim Ray Pat authorized dealer Sylvania Gibson Kelvin Tor Litton Ria Zenith Philco Westinghouse Maytag Whirlpool Sony Hoover Corning Kitchen Aid one of the fast to dig Fred Weigandt who farms Southeast of la Salle was one of the first to Start the Harvest of his Early potato crop. Weigandt s crop will go to the chippers As will most of the Early crop. Potato administrative committee photo Corn crop could hold fuel secret Detroit a the nation s Corn and wheat Fields May hold the key to the coun try s future Energy sources according to a general motors corp. Engineer. Farno Green executive Engi Neer with pm s manufacturing development staff says farm Fields could Supply half the heating value of All the Coal produced in the United states annually. And he adds those same Fields also could produce enough fuel to Power 100 Mil lion cars a year thus eliminating the need for imported Oil. All the Energy Green says would come from a plentiful renewable source Cornstalk july 17-20 Colorado american Saddle horse association horse show Adams county Fairgrounds Henderson. July 18-19 Evans a 4-h club sponsored paper drive Hillside mall shopping Center. . To7p.m. Saturday 9a.m. And 5 . Sunday. Proceeds to support club activities. July 19 4-h Dairy workshop a.m., Island Grove Greeley. July 21 a Council meeting 8 ., farm Bureau office building Greeley. July 24 county 4-h style review ., Heath Junior High school. July 25-26 Northeast Weld county Junior fair new Raymer. The Montero Freeport shop Ping Center is situated in five acres of Seaside gardens near Montero Bay Jamaica. Its Sii Ops Are linked by covered walkways. And husks wheat Straw Gram sorghum and soybeans Cotton and other stalks. He said most of the materials Are now left to rot in the Fields after the human or animal feed has been harvested. In a paper presented to the recent annual meeting of the american nuclear society Green predicted the Price of Oil will become so High it will be economically feasible for farm ers to Harvest crop residues to be used As boiler fuel natural Gas substitutes liquid fuels and feed stocks. Green cited research by universities and private firms including pm into alternate Energy sources. The data collected he said fit together into a most encouraging optimistic and far reaching mosaic of ready to go Progress and ideas for development in Agri culture and Green says the residues would not be used alone but rather As supplements to Coal and other fuels. He reported one third of crop residues could be left As fodder and to control erosion and increase soil Tilla ability. Men who were legends Rode the ranges of the old West they stalked the Dusty streets of cow towns and Boom towns. They fought shot loved and Rode their Way into the pages of what is unique american folklore. But had it not been for the longhorn the cowboys of the old West might today be As unheralded As the Early american cattlemen of the East. The longhorn was a Rangy Critter descended from Tough andalusian cattle brought to the new world in the Early 16th Century by Cortez the Spanish explorer. The longhorns flourished in the sparse vegetation of the arid South West. Where a Hereford or an Angus might starve to death the longhorn could find and eat enough to stay alive. Needless to say the animals were More renowned for this survival ability than for the Quality of their meat. While the meat could be eaten the longhorn s principal commercial value derived from their hides horns hooves and the tallow rendered from their carcasses. Immense herds of these animals accumulated on the Plains and in the riverbeds of the american Southwest during the civil War. In Texas alone hundreds and hundreds of thousands of longhorns As wild and skittish As Deer abounded on the open Range. As the East and Midwest became More and More urbanized the growing population developed an appetite for meat and other animal products that far out stripped the production ability of local Farmers. Many sex Soldier from the North As Well As the South drifted Westward to capture the longhorns and drive them to Railhead in Kansas or Oklahoma for shipment to Market. It was not an easy Way to make a living but Many Texas moguls got their Start by putting lariats on longhorns. In the hot dry climate of the Southwest the longhorns hid from the heat of the Day and the insects by taking Refuge in the almost impenetrable thickets of Mesquite and Palo verde. A Man on horseback could not possibly follow the creatures into those thickets. But the longhorn whose horns commonly spanned ten feet from tip to tip moved with uncanny Grace through Brush ducking swinging and weaving with a fluid motion that destroys the old cliche about the Bull in a China shop. Longhorns vanished from the cattle markets As homesteaders fenced in the open Range. Homesteaders brought barbed wire with them and they brought English cattle Breeds. These cattle were More domesticated and they produced far Superior beef. But they were not the. Stuff of legends. Oilseed research gets Federal funds Washington a the government is stepping up re search funding to help find out More about oilseed As a food source for humans and live Stock. The agriculture department said thursday it has approved an Grant for Sunflower seed meal studies and for research on cottonseed nutrients at Texas College station Tex. Time to try the unique Back support system. Sealy posture edic in any size twin to King. Your Back deserves a modern size posture edic designed in cooperation with leading orthopaedic surgeons for firm morning backache from sleeping on a too soft patented programmed coils and torsion bar foundation for added firmness. Damask cover deep quilted to Sealy Franf try one for your size Sealy posture edic Imperial l twin size a. Pc. Officials said the Sunflower project will be aimed at producing an improved meal hav ing a lower fiber Content for use in feeds for livestock and for human consumption. 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