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PRICE FIVE CENTS
SPONTANEOUS FARM
FIFES are cosnr
The Account for a Big Pro
portion of Annual Farm
Fire Loss in U. S.
ENGINEERS FIND NEW
FOOD SOURCE
MID HO
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THE CUFF DWELLERS; IRRIGATION SYSTEM THAT WAS
CONSTRUCTED FIFTEEN
HUNDRED OR MORE YEARS AGO
Loss of a hay barn through fire
caused by spontaneous combustion
at the very time the barn and the
hay in it were standing in three
feet of water was one of the spe
cific examples cited by David J.
Price of the United States depart
ment of agriculture, as indicating
the need for extensive research in
to the problem of what is common
ly known as "spontaneous combus
tion." particularly of agricultural
products such as hay, and other
cattle feeds. Mr. Price, who is the
engineer in charge of such studies
in the bureau of chemistry and
soils, included a discussion of this
problem in an address at Phila
delphia, April 25 before- the insur
ance department of the Wharton
school of finance and commerce at
the University of Pennsylvania.
The Vermont Case
In New England the dairy farm
ers require a considerable supply
of hay and other feeds for the win
ter feeding of their herds. Much
of this hay is stored in bays reach
ing from the floor to the roof of
the dairy barn. In. the striking and
unusual llustratlon he cited, the
barn was located in the region
flooded in Vermont last fall. Flood
waters entered many barns, and In
this one wet the hay to a depth of
17 feet. As the flood waters reced
ed intense beat production follow
ed in the mass of wet hay. "Spon
taneous heat production began In
lower layers," Mr. Pierce said,
"and the hot gases rising
.through the stacks caused strong
draughts or flues. The moisture '
thus carried upward condensed in
the cooler parts of the hay or In
the air above, wetting the hay in
the .immediate area. So many of
these draughts existed in some
piles that the hay was thoroughly
soaked. - Temperatures in typical
flues' ranged from 116 to more
than 165 degrees Fahrenheit. This
barn experienced the height of the
flood on Friday morning. Novem
ber 4, and burned late Monday af
ternoon, November 7. Much heat
ing was observed on Sunday and
Monday a distinct odor of char
ring was noticeable.
The Total Larrge
"This was only one of many
fires during last year caused by
spontaneous combustion. This com
bined with unknown causes results
in approximately $60,0Q0,000 loss
each year to the farmers of the
United States, and accounts for
more than one-third of all the an
nual farm fire loss of $150,000,-
00.
In the national fire bill of $570,
000,000 loss to the nation, spon-
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Modern improvements la the Irrigation system of the ancient cliff dwellers in the San Joan
Titer basia of the southwest, would open to agriculture 600,000 additional acres. The cliff dwellers,
who dwelt In habitations like those above, sought to control the scant water supply 1,500 years a 70
with such crude check' dms as the one at the right below. Irrigation today could make much of the
land like the section In the Han Juan valley near Farmlngton, N. SI., shown at the lower left.
NEW RICH RECORDS
OF OREGON JERSEYS
Gold Medal Bun of McKee of
Perry dale; a Great Cow at
Hoskins
By Frank I. Welder
(Associated Prc& Farm ttdttor)
m WASHINGTON, May i (AP).
Back in the San Juan river ba
sin, amid the ruins of an ancient
age and-race, hydraulic engineers
purpose to do by modern science
what a prehistoric' people sought
to fashion in their rude and un
trained way.
Today, as in the centuries long
bufied with their dead,-' the chief
problem is- water conservation.
The region hae a scant supply
of - rainfall, - stretching eastward
from the Colorado river through
Arizona, Utah and New Mexico.
There, archeologists - say. among
the. desert plains and-steep-walled
valleys, the basket-weavers lived
2,000 years before the Christian
era.1 Later came Hie cliff dwel
lers, to leave battered ruins of a
civilization un rat homed despite
the relics of its art.
To the cliff dwellers, whose fa-i
bled wealth Spanish explorers
tried to find in 1541, is given
credit for the staunch ronetrnc-
lion of numerous check dams.stUl l
functioning as planned by primi
tive engineers. Built of rock and
reaching from bank to bank
across the narrow rivulets and
streams, they retard the flow of
water and build up tiny reser
voirs, as a guard against months
of drought.
- Whatever the prosperity of the
past or the importance of the re
gion as the seat of a forgotten in
habitation, its present utilization
for mining or agricultural pur
poses is not extensive, owing part
ly to its remotenefa from the main
transcontinental routes. It is re
plete with natural wonders, and
the magnitude of its ruins indi
cates that as one of the oldest set
tled regions in the United State
it had a picturesque part in hu
man affairs.
Fifteen hundred years after
construction of the singular "ir
rigation system," the federal geo
logical survey has made an inves
tigation of the water resources of
the area and their present and
potential utilization.
" C E. IKue, hydraulic engi
neer, found the San Juan river
the second largest tributary of the
Colorado river and, like that
stream, to have unused water re
sources sufficient to sustain large
developments in agriculture and
water power.
The,present power demands are
email and are supplied by less
than 7.500 horsepower generated
in four plants. The undeveloped
power resources consist of 10
power sites capable of yielding.
with storage. about 280.000
horsepower.
Undeveloped agricultural re
sources al30 are of large magni
tude. More than 600,000 acres are
capable of irrigation, but at pres
ent less than 160,000 acres of the
region are irrigated. Authorities
say the lands can produce a wide
diversity of agricultural products
and ultimately may ; become a
large contributor to the national
food supply.
A curling Iron makee a good
stretcher for the fingers of gloves
after they have been washed.
(The following two news items
concerning great Oregon Jerseys
are sent out by the American Jer
sey Cattle club, 324 West 23rd
street. New York:)
New Gold Medal Ball
The purebred Jersey bull. Pop
py's George is now listed in the
roster of gold and silver medal
bulls. He was recently awarded
his gold medal by the American
Jersey Cattle club for the produc
tion records made by three of his
daughters. He has IS daughters
which have been officially tested
and three of these daughters have
won gold medals and three have
won silver medals. This makes
Pcppy's George a gold and silver
medal ball. He is owned by W.
H. McKee of Perrydale, Ore., and
his medal daughters were tested
by Mr. McKee.
The three daughters of Poppy's
George that qualified for gold
medals on official production tests
are: George's Phoebe Lamb won
her gold medal with her official
record of 610.05 pounds of butter
fat and 11, 58 pounds of milk.
This production test was started
when she was five years and three
months of age and she was with
calf for 189 days of the 10
months. Phoebe Lamb won a sil
ver medal as a Junior four year
old when she produced 570.61
pounds of butterfat and 11,596
pounds of milk.
Dreamer Wonder is the highest
record daughter of this gold med-
al sfrp. In a 365-day official pro
i duction test made in mature form
i she produced 819.07 pounds of
butterfat and 14,155 pounds of
mikk. She was with calf for 2 IS
days while making this excellent
record. As a senior four year old
she produced 626 17 pounds of
butterfat and 10,619 pounds of
milk, with calf.;
The third medal daughter. Pol
ly Cod's Grapefruit, is both a gold
and silver medal cow. In her test
started in senior four year old
form she produced 717.36 pounds
of butterfat and 13.927 pounds of
milk in 365 days. She carried calf
while making this record and thus
won both her gold and silver med
als. In addition to having 18 tested
daughters Poppy's George has one
proven son, Cobben's Queen's Lad,
which has eight daughters with
official production records, in
cluding one silver medal cow.
Poppy's George is by tb silver
medal bull, St. Mawea Golden
Poppy, a son of the great gold and
silver medal bull, Rosaire's Olga
Lad. out of St. Mawes Poppy, the
gold medal cow which has three
(Centiaued ou pace 8.)
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