Santa Maria Times from Santa Maria, California • 5

no TO Pd Week Stresses 1 By GARDNER BOTD Times Staff Writer This is Farm-City week. It was months. January is usually a good month to move plants. designed by the Kiwanis Interna When you move a plant that The Farm Advisor Reports tional to promote better under has ben in the soil for a year standing between the farmer and or more, always cut the top back heavily. This will help to By HARWOOD HALL FARM INCOMES In 1955 farm families received more than 6 billion dollars from non-agricultural sources.

This compares with cash receipts of $5 billion from cattle and calves, $4.2 billion from dairy products, $2.7 billion from hogs, and $2.5 billion from ootton; the largest sources of income. balance the top with the root Vegetable processing: is prob Page 5 Tuesday, Nov; 20, Farm Features which has been severely cut ably the most important of our during the moving period. Then new industries. Drying, freez ing and canning are all operations which are now done here next spring, when the plant begins to grow, the root will be able to supply the smaller top with water and nutrients. the valley.

These all mean more business to the valley and more job opportunities. Add the city dweller. There was a time, and in some places it is still true, when almost every one lived on a farm. They had to; there was no other way to get the necessities of life. But things have changed, and in, some parts of America there are people who seem to think that their milk comes directly from, a bottle, meat from the deep freeze department of the market, and olives from the bottom of a martini glass.

People have been known to have lived in the large American cities 1 Loading and unloading trac these to the expanded operations OIILY 6 per ton tors on trucks is. a dangerous operation that has to be done frequently if you farm at sev to soften our water New industries seem to be at1 a premium in Santa Maria as In other areas of California. This isn't surprising here or in any other area. New industry means more business, more and better places to shop, and more job opportunities. We all like to see our children grow.

Every business man, whether farmer or main street business man, likes to see his operation expand and grow it generally means more management return from a more efficient operation. Although this expansion is inevitable, some of us resist it. It's only normal for at least some of us to resist progress We'd much rather have things like they were in the 'good old Looking at the picture from the other side, we realize that we would be happier if instead of resisting progress we'd direct of the; Union Sugar Company and we have a very substantial operation. Some shippers of fresh vegetables frown on the new freezing operation because it competes with their own operation. People are going to eat frozen vegetables whether we like it eral locations.

Ralph Parks, U.C. Ext. Engineer, sent me the following safety suggestions for loading and unloading tractors and never see a cow in their whole life. Rut here in Santa Maria there is another nroblem. Here we don't or noi so we oeuer get our 'cut' out of it.

Actually it adds Viavp thf trouble of not. beinff able when you own a to understand the farmer or the another crop to our list of pos rit.v dweller because we never see sibihties. It also will help to even out our economy regular them. Here we have an opposite situation occurring. Here the two I nnuncn I 'IjliyilWiMiniwiiii laiiu, meals instead of feast or fam ine.

on trucks or trailers: 1) Us? dry boards. Rubber tires may slip on wet boards. 2) Use heavy planks or planks bolted together to give safe width and thickness. If blocks have to be used under planks 'to prevent sagging, nail them to planks to keep them in place. 3) Use hooks at upper ends of planks or put lower ends in holes in the ground.

4) If incline is steep, letting clutch out quickly may cause a back flip. Backing up may be safer. groups are one and mseperable. Many of the ranchers of the outlying areas liye very comfortably in their city homes and commute Shrubs or trees that heed 11 I I moving should be moved soon. Wf If LaV IW" it to our own advantage.

Good planning, whether it's use of to their farm work in automobiles. Many plants are dormant at Tn manv cases the farmer has land or location of a new build this time and have lost their ing, always pays off. Let's think leaves. Evergreen plants can be over. Perhaps we can be mas Lmoved between flushes of I I V' -1 fmi- MMMtMtoMMMt ifc WTlTBh 1r I -vy many ranges where his cattle are pastured, or many fields where crops are grown.

He lives in the city and drives with his equipment whether it be a horse irt a ters of our destiny. growth during the winter it Regenerates While You 1 trailer or a tractor and farm tools. On the other hand there are city workers who live on farms. Many office workers in Santa Maria drive in from their home in the country away from the cares of city life. The nroblem then becomes one Why struggle with hard water when you can soften all the water you use for 64 a ton (Approximate softening: cost for water of 25 grains hardness).

It's smart to be thrifty. A Bruner 100 Automatic Water softener is an investment that pays off immediately in savings on soap bills, washable fab rics, water heating costs and plumbing repairs. Home economists estimate up to $200.00 savings per year for the average family. If you now own an old inefficient softener or rent a unit, by all means see the Bruner Fully Automatic- the softener that "Regenerates While You Sleep." of complete apathy. We often can't see the forest for the trees.

Wp ponld meet our "neiehbors" on the street everv dav without realizing that he really lives many Evelyn Abrams, one of the city farmers in the high school girl's Flora Fauna club displays one of the sheep which' will go to Los Angeles over the week end for judging at the California Western livestock show. City Farmer miles away from us in a dUierent type of life altogether. There are many part-time farmers here too, who work in town along with keeping farm in operation. Today the average farmer uses more more land and other resources than he did a de-parfe aso. The investment in ma WSJ EDW.

DAVIES Plumbing Cr Hearing Santa Maria 277 Goodwin Rd. WA. 5-1614 '4 If .11 i Farm-City Cooperation program. You might find out some startling facts about your own chinery and equipment on farmers 1940. Talk to him find out what some of his problems are explain how you feel about the in the United States exceeds $15, billion or five times more than in i a foi i a ft (T nj.ihi.itf iii.tn hotiMfilWaA I Grand Grand champion Hereford bulfat the Madera cattle show was brought home to Santa.

Maria by Henry Wineman to be used to increase his already prize winning herd. Bob Williams, Hank's nephew, was F.F.A. grand champion winner at the fair for the past two years with stock from the Wineman herd. Bred on the Lucky Hereford farm of Gilroy, the champion was one of a dozen bulls purchased by Wineman. The senior yearling is not yet two years old.

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