Southern Oregon News Review, Thursday, September 9, 1948
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Man Is Riding Life Cycle
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«»'T'HESE next Olympic games
* w ill be just about the same as
B y B A V K IIA G E
the others." Dean Cromwell was
A’ru'S Analyst and Commentator.
speaking at the University of Cali­
WASHINGTON.—Today we have two visitors whom I met fornia track last winter. “ They
recently at the Smithsonian institution, Mrs. Neanderthaler don't change too much."
"Why should it be that way?” I
(her husband wasn’t available) and Mr. Cro-Magnon.
They have come a long way. The Neanderthalers lived about 25,000 asked our Olympic coach.
years ago—but what's a few thousand years among friends—or relatives?
"Too many fine, natural athletes.”
Fertilizing wheat paid dividends
1 doubt that the Neanderthalers are relatives of ours—and I'm not sorry. he said. “ Too many able coaches
In crop Increases averaging seven
and tr a in e r s all
to nine and one-half bushels per
They lived early in the Old Stone^
over the map. Our
acre, Purdue university research
age. and died without leaving any age depth of the topsoil on the earth
track-and-field ath­
men revealed In announcing results
known heirs, assigns or descendents is about one foot. It is estimated that
letes get the best
of 1947 studies conducted In 15 In ­
—which may be just as well for the it takes nature, under favorable con­
training and coach­
diana counties.
rest of us who might have inherited ditions. from 300 to 1.000 years to
ing in the world—
Wheat yields increased s e v e n
some of their characteristics. They build one inch of that vital source
and I'm not talk­
were sub-humans—stocky folks— of our food, clothing and shelter
ing about myself. bushels per acre when fertilizer
applications aver­
but they cov’dn’ t take it. They died
We can’t miss."
"Y e t,’’ he says, "what may have
aged from 150 to
out.
The genial Dean
taken a thousand years to build can
200
pounds
per
Now Mr. Cro-Magnon was a d if­ be. and in some places has been,
Cromwell was right
acre, W h e n the
ferent proposition. He was a su­ removed by erosion in a year, or Grantlandltlce
But’ be,ore
plant food treat-
p e r io r hum an even in a single day."
ta k in g too m a n y
ment was boosted
and I wish he
bows,
don’t
forget
we
faced
a
war-
Erosion. That comes from over­
to 300 to 400 pounds
were a relative
wrecked
world
that
wasn't
very
use, wrong use or removal of pro­
per acre, average
because he was
tecting
grasses and trees. We over- well fed. Also, we had one of the
production gains of
really superior to
strongest
teams
that
ever
entered
grazed the plains to get quick money
nine and one • half
us—better body,
for beef, mutton and wool.
We an Olympic meet since Pindar sang
bushels were ob­
better brain. If
of
Grecian
glory
a
few
thousand
plowed fields of grass, left them ex­
tained.
he’d only lasted,
years ago.
posed, and you remember what hap­
Demonstrations
what a career he
This
was
a
star
United
States
pened—the dust bowl. We slaugh­
with wheat started
would have had
team
that
couldn't
be
approached.
tered the forests and reaped the
on
various
soil
in Hollywood—
yearly devastating floods. Today our But despite better food and better
ty p e s
last fall
a n d w h a t he
training,
it
was
none
too
keen
about
food and shelter runs down the mud­
showed somewhat
might have done
died rivers to be lost in the ocean any races beyond half a mile or
sim ilar results, ac­
for us! He might
800 meters. The U. S. had the call
cording to the Pur­
And animal life? We killed
have saved us.
in speed. Europe had the call in
due research men.
off millions of wild animals on
He may still.
stamina.
When 165 pounds
this continent. We replaced
I ’ve been read-
I asked Cromwell why it was that
Baukhage
of 0-12-12 was ap­
them, to some extent, by domes­
in g t w o n e w
U. S. athletes couldn’t handle dis
plied on six south­
tic animals. But we are break­
books—"Our Plundered Planet," by
tance races.
ern Indiana upland
ing the magic cycle of life there,
Fairfield Osborne and "Road to
“ We are a nation of quick re­
soils, increases of five bushels per
too, for the life-giving proper­
Survival," by W illiam Vogt.
actions,” he said. "We can't
acre resulted. When the applica­
ties
of
most
of
our
domestic
Our friend Neanderthaler proba­
wait. Our favorite race Is the
tion was doubled, yield increases
animals
do
not
return
to
the
soil
bly managed to stick around 200,000
100-yard dash—or the 100 me­
averaged seven bushels per acre.
as did the bones and bodies of
years or so before his environment
ters. Our next favorite race Is
"Applications of 300 to 350 pounds
wild life that lived their course,
or his neighbors finished him off.
the 200 meters. After the mile
of 3-12-12 are being recommended
died and were enveloped in their
we
have
little
interest.
We
have
Today we are rapidly chang­
mother earth.
for wheat on practically all upland
few athletes w illing to train that
ing our environment, and un­
silt or clay loam soils and for
Sheep
and
cattle
are
shipped
today
long
and
that
hard.
less we cease destroying our
sandy loams.” says a statement
to slaughter houses where what lit-
sources of food and shelter, we
"We can't get athletes who really by the Purdue agronomy depart­
shall soon destroy ourselves, as
w ill train for the 5,000 and 10,000- ment. “ If the 3-12-12 cannot be
our sub-human friend was de­
meter races. Maybe they wouldn’t obtained, then 2-12-6 is a good sub­
stroyed.
be so good if they did. It takes stitute for the wheat crop itself.
more than one generation to make The additional potash in the 3-12-12,
We know that there are two things
a 10,000-meter or a marathon w in­ however, is especially important
which chiefly distinguish man from
ner.”
for the clover and corn crops fol­
the animal: The way he has de­
lowing the small grain.”
veloped the use of his hands and the
Are Americans Soft?
way his brain works. But our hands,
“ You mean we can't take the
at the levers of machines, conceived
beating,” I said. “ We want the Machinery Is Revamping
by our brains, have so disturbed
softer road."
the cycle of nature, have done such
Farming in Cotton Belt
“ It isn’t quite that,” Cromwell
terrible things to all forms of life,
Nearly a m illion tractors today
said, as he squirmed and twisted a
that they may prove our undoing—
are in action on farms in the 18
trifle.
“
We
are
just
not
a
nation
of
if they don’t blow us into atomic
long - distance runners, from the cotton • producing states, saving
eternity, first!
time and labor in nearly every
m ile on up.”
Forgetting atomic destruction,
“ Yet the mile race is the great­ phase of cotton production. The
let’s look at some others.
invasion of machinery into the
est of them all,” I said.
South's
white cotton fields is elim ­
We are very good at repro­
“ Who said so?” Cromwell asked.
ducing. In three centuries the
“ What are you—a Swede or a inating the back-breaking task of
producing the cotton crop.
M R. CRO-M AGNON
Finn?”
population of the earth has in­
Man's mechanical helpers achieve
. . . spark of something else . . .
creased almost five times. In
“ We've had some great m ilers,”
the seventeenth century there
Cromwell said. "Glenn Cunning­ in a few hours what form erly took
tie is left disappears in disposal ham and B ill Bonthron.”
days of costly human labor. For
were 400 million people. There
plants or goes back to the ocean.
are 2,000 million today. Five
"What about Jack Lovelock?” I example, the flame cultivator, at­
We are killing the soil. Gradually suggested. “ Yards beyond them all tached to a tractor, removes grass
times as many mouths to feed.
removing it and the tiny animal and at the m ile or 1,500 meters. What and weeds from the field at one-
Osborne says: “ I f one takes four plant cells it contains, and thus de­
tenth the form er cost.
billion acres, representing an area stroying the potential for reprodu- about Gunder Haegg, the Swede,
An experiment in the coastal
yards
better
than
Lovelock?
What
of land estimated as now available ing the tiny living organisms in the
plains
area of N o r t h C a r o l i n a
for cultivation, it means that there top soil which are a part of the re­ about other Swedes, many yards showed that while 118 man hours
beyond
the
best
we’ve
ever
had?”
are less than two acres per capita
lationship of all living things.
“ Let’s get back to the field are required to produce an acre of
Contrasted with this is a generally
cotton by the old man-mule meth­
I haven't space to go on, but I events,” Cromwell said.
accepted computation that two and
don’t want to leave on a too-de­
The main weakness in U. S. en­ ods, use of two-row tractor equip­
one-half acres of land of average
pressing note. I t ’ s true that our tries is the m atter of stamina. ment, mechanical choppers, flame
productivity are required to provide
friends, Mr. and Mrs. Neanderthal­ Over here we want results and ap­ cultivators and machine pickers
even a minim um adequate diet for
er, the sub-human folk with the lit­ plause in a hurry. We can’t wait. cuts the man-hour requirements to
each person.’’
19.7 per acre.
tle brain, couldn’t take it. But we
Johnny Hayes won the marathon
Think of that: It takes two and
Machines capable of harvesting
can hope that his successor, Mr. in England exactly 40 years ago,
one-half acres to feed you properly.
Cro-Magnon, who had a better brain in 1908. Hayes beat Dorando, the a bale of cotton in slightly more
There are now only two acres avail-
than we have, passed some of it on Italian, who was carried across than an hour are now a reality
to us, w ith the spark of something the line. But Dorando came over i n s t ea d of a remote possibility.
While the a v e r a g e hand-picker
else that made him lift his chin a here and whipped Hayes.
gathers about 15 pounds of seed
little from the clod.
Let's be honest. We are not a
cotton an hour, a single mechanical
“ We have been taught to lift ours
marathon people. We are not
picker in the same field harvests
higher, to the heavens. There’s hope
even mile people. We never
about 1,500 pounds in 2 hours, 20
up there—and inspiration—and with­
have had anyone to compare
minutes.
Thus, the mechanical
in ourselves the power, too, if we
with Paavo Nurmi, Lovelock,
harvester accomplishes the work
know how to use it.
Haegg and others who could run
of 40 to 50 human pickers.
• • •
rings around the best we ever
had at a mile. Cunningham,
M o re Tree»
Internal Parasites Loot
Bonthron and others, plus Gil
O n th e W a y
Dodds, made gallant gestures
Farmers of Huge Toll
American farmers w ill have more
In the right direction.
But
trees to plant next year than ever
Few crim inals ever dream of
they were not 4.01 or 4.02 m il­
before in our history.
com
m itting a 125 m illion dollar rob­
ers on an outdoor track.
bery. But that’s the "am ount in­
State nurseries plan to grow 368,-
ternal parasites steal from the U. S.
976,551 in 1947-48, according to a Lovelock Eases Alon%
livestock industry every year. Be­
national survey just completed by
I feel confident that Lovelock
the American Forest Products In­ could have taken at least two sec­ cause the parasites are hidden, the
dustries, Inc., of Washington, D. C. onds from the 1,500 race in Berlin. farm er never w ill see the thieves at
Most of these trees w ill be sold He was merely galloping when he work. However, they keep right
to farmers and other landowners at finished in 3 minutes, 47 and 8/10 on causing losses day and night.
Parasites cause diseased animals
cost, while many w ill be given to seconds.
and
poultry to eat more grain and
farmers free of charge by forest
“ I wasn’t interested in tim e,” other feeds than healthy stock eat.
industries who purchase them from
Lovelock said later. “ I merely They stunt the growth of young
M RS. N E A N D E R T H A L E R
state nurseries.
wanted
to win comfortably.” Even animals and sometimes k ill them
. . . they couldn’t take i t . . .
This forest seedling production, then he had only broken the Olym­ Affected animals generally bring
however, w ill be increased substan­
able. So you can see why there are tia lly by federal and private indus­ pic record by 4 seconds. I feel sure l o w e r p r i c e s when shipped to
Lovelock could have run the 1,500 market.
such food shortages around the
try nurseries over the United States, meters in 3 minutes and 45 seconds
Internal parasites can be con­
world.
pushing the total to approximately —or the mile in 4.01.
trolled. Phenothiazine, carbon tet­
Osborne goes on: “ The relation 400 m illion seedlings.
rachloride, hexachlorethane, sodium
between land-health and health of
In any Olympic game, or any
Yet these figures, representing the
fluoride and carbon disulfide are
human beings is actually no more
set
of
track-and-field
games,
planting of three trees for every
used to fight certain types of parn
than a delicate aspect of the delicate
the dullest sports are the
man, woman and child in the coun­
sites. The advice of a local veteri­
complex aspect of all life.”
jumps,
the
shot
put,
the
ham­
try, indicate statistically that seed­
narian
should be secured to de­
mer throw, the long, drawn-out
The cycle of life—the life in
ling production still is not enough
termine the proper method of
pole
vault.
For
some
reason
we
the soil that feeds and clothes
to fill the demand by woodland own­
treatment.
have picked the dullest sports in
our own life—is a part of the
ers and other citizens interested in
which to excel. No one cares
growing trees.
single whole which contributes
very much whether you finish
Spoilage of Stored Grain
to the fruitfulness of the earth.
And while they still do not meet
first or last. The weight events
the
tremendous
demand,
if
all
these
I haven’t space here to go through
Hinges on Bin's Condition
arc the dullest of them all.
the whole list of crimes that man seedlings were planted 1,000 to an
Grain can be stored almost in­
I don’t believe all Olympic events
has committed in the race to break acre they would form a verdant,
definitely with little deterioration in
should
be
judged
on
the
same
ba­
mile-wide
belt
stretching
from
New
that cycle—to destroy the fru itfu l­
sis. The marathon should be worth farm-type bins — those that hold
ness of the earth—that fruitfulness York to Chicago.
30
points, compared to 5 points for 1,000 to 3,000 bushels—if the bins
The record in tree planting is
upon which his own existence de­
are kept dry, cool, clean and free
pends. Take the most striking ex­ matched only by the volume of new the 100 meters. The 10,000-meter of insects, according to the USDA
race
should
be
worth
20
points,
with
wood now growing on America’s
ample—the topsoil.
For control of insect Infestation,
forest lands. Total growth now ex­ 10 points for the 200-meter race. I
chief reliance must be placed on
Topsoil. When that goes, we
still
believe
that
stamina
is
more
ceeds 13.3 billion cubic feet of wood
fumigation.
Shelled corn has been
go with it.
every year—greatest volume ever Important than speed—that hardi­
stored for several years with a loss
hood
is
more
important
than
flash
Osborne, as I mentioned in this recorded in surveys made by the
of less than 1 per cent, according
courage.
apace last week, estimates the aver- federal government.
to official reports
Wheat Yield Boosted
Through Fertilization
Gains in Indiana Tests
Exceed Seven Bushels
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1. What la New York state’s
most fam iliar nickname?
2. How often w ill a roynl flush
occur In poker?
3. Does England have more
hours of daylight duping the sum­
mer months than the United
States?
4. What country produces the
most gold?
8. Does the United States own
the land surrounding the Panama
Canal ?
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2. On the average, once In C19.-
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than the United States and conse­
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during the summer months.
4. The Union of South Africa
produces more gold than any other
country In the world about 400
m illion dollars worth a year.
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