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4 TBURSDAŸ' APRIL 21, 1949 THE EAGLE, O ut o* the New Barn at Half Cost What one farmer can do an other can do. Charles A. Thomas of Missouri built a 50’x56’ barn at a cost of $1,380.20 when the estimated most of the building of the same barn by regular me- thsds was $3,500.00 and he also made a demonstration. The demonstration was so valu- THE DE LAVAL magnetic speedway MILKER is THE ONLY MILKER THAT CAN GIVE YOU ALL THESE ADVANTAGES I 4 Uniform magnetic milking 4 Highest yield per cow 4 Bigger milk checks /Easiest, quickest to wash 4 Greatest time and labor saving Now'i tbe fim« for YOU to chango to THE NEW DE LAV AU SHflLMON LIBEL Mist, Oregon VERNONIA, ORE. able that a national plan service that distributes farm and home building plans through the coun try’s retail lumber dealers pro- ceeded to put the Thomas barn plan and specifications into cir- culation. What is the secret of the cost cut? Simply that this plan is for a barn of POLE FRAME con struction. The words are particularly worth the capitals in this region. Our timber is the best going for pole type farm buildings, as very old structures reveal in all Western Washington and Oregon counties. On most farms the poles for the job are standing in trees right now. A modern barn on designs de veloped through engineering re search by the famous Doane Agricultural Service can be framed from your own home-grown poles. Unskilled hands can do the fram ing. The poles must be treated, of course, to resist decay in the ground. The Thomas barn holds 90 tons of hay and 100 calves. The Balance Wheel There is much more of interest to be told about this barn plan from the building standpoint. But its purpose here is to illustrate the practical point of view on study and planning of the farm wood land unit. The balance wheel of farm fores try has five points of weight in its circle. They are: marketing, uses on the farm, harvesting sale able and home-use material, grow ing a new tree crop in the Oregon- American LUMBER CORPORATION Vernonia. Oregon stublij", protecting and improving the tree» in growth. Can’t you see how it turns in balance ? « This column has al ready shown that the 2x4s, in the bins of the retail lumber dealer are trees worked up to suit market demand. When there are trees on a farm that will make 2x4s this means that they can be har vested for the sawlog market. If the trees are but pole size and are very thick in the stand some should be taken out in the way of “stand improvement by thinning”. But there may be no pole market available. What of uses at home for the poles? Can they be made into fence posts? Fuelwood? Or —in pole-frame construction? The point is that with markets or home uses in sight, then, and then only, harvesting logically begins. Few farmers can afford to start the practices of good farm forestry until they see what may pay for it. Markets and uses do and should come first in the study of farm forestry as in its practice. Forestry Clearinghouse A movement for county organ- ization of farm forestry interests has grown rapidly since the war in Washington and Oregon. In many counties the farm forestry committee is an organized force. A county 4-H leader can reply on such a committee, So can the high school teachers of vocational agri culture, the FFA leaders. Keep Washington and Keep Oregon Green county committees are to be counted on in tho county forestry picture. There are other local groups in the woods, especially in the soil conservation districts. All are deeply interested in the student who is eager for know ledge of forestry theory and to learn forestry “by doing”. A group that has been neglected by the foresters but which has a rightful claim to a top place in the county forestry clearinghouse is the retail lumber dealer. Thru- out the United States the retail lumberman is the No. 1 merchan diser of forest produces and also a No. 1 distributor to farmer con sumers. In farming areas he knows farm building needs. Be cause he is a marketin'? expert and an expert in farm bu'lding and the uses of wood, the local building products merchandiser should be consulted first to start the balance wheel of farm forestry turning on the woodland units of your county or neighborhood. If he does not have Plan FJ- 502 for a pole-type barn in stock, for example he can get it for you in jigtime. This plan represents farm forestry in action. FOR VETS Enjoy the whiskey SlfNt 3 04 ¿to Aiamt $2’0 p ‘- Kentucky Whiskey $360 -A Blend vs qt. NATIONAL DISTILIERS PROD. CORP., N.Y.« 86 PROOF. 65% GRAIN NEU ik AL SPIRITS QUALITY PLUS COURTESY Get VA Dental Aid Pacific Northwest veterans with service connected dental disabili ties received more than half a million dollars worth of dental care through the veterans adminis tration during the last three months of 1948, the VA reports-. The VA released the dental cost figures in pointing out that nation-wid? the dental work back- has been reduced about 60 cent from the 1947 peak. At beginning of 1949, the VA a backlog of only 192,000 cases, compared with 508,000 at the beginning of 1948. The re duction will continue for the rest of the fiscal year ending June 30, the VA said. Private dentists cooperating with the VA on a fee basis were credited with handling 84 per cent of treatments and 47 per cent of Clarence R. Wagner Columbia County SURVEYOR Registered Professorial Engineer Surveys. Maps and Estimates All Surveys Recorded Office in Court House Basement Phone 698 Letter on Taxes Admired... Some time ago Mr. H. Todd Blake wrote a letter to the Ver nonia Eagle taking me to task for some things I said about taxes and taxation. It was a beauti fully worded letter and won my admiration and envy. It put me in my place with neatness and dis patch; every point was explained at length, conclusions aptly drawn and there was not one mis spelled word as is so often the case with me. I was reluctant to answer it at first as I doubted I could cope with the problem, but a literary effort of that kind merits some kind of recognition especially as we seem to agree on everything but the sales tax. Mr. Blake seems peeved because the people of Oregon refuse to submit to a sales tax. Althou h they have turned it down many t mes by a big margin Mr. Blake still seems to think they don’t know what is good for them and it makes him unhappy and, some how, I seem to gather that he blames me for it all; while I admit I voted against the sales tax every time it came up I assure Mr. Blake that, being t good Democrat, I only voted once each time. I agree with Mr. Blake that tatfes are necessary. It is ar. institution as old as history and no government can function with out money. I do not object to pay ing taxes. What I do not like is the use, or rather misuse, to which so much of our tax money is put Government waste and ineffici ency is responsible for nearlj fifty per cent of our tax money, but nevertheless Mr. Blake seems to think we should be filled with gladness and thanksgiving for the priviledge of paying taxes. I have never yet heard a taxpayer chant ing paeans of joy as he stands at the tax collector’s window. Usu ally it is quite otherwise; it is the examinations during the three- month period cited. VA staff den tists handled the remainder. By cost breakdown, private den tists in the Northwest area re ceived $44,262 for examination fees and $536,854 for treatments. VA staff dentists performed examina tions valued at $28,486 and treat ments valued at $27,366. A total of 5,431 veterans received examina tions and 6,786 were given treat ments. These cost figures covered only World War II veterans living in Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Mon tana and Alaska. Nationwide, during the same period, VA dental program was valued at some $11,- 361,000. Question of the Week Q. At present I am receiving compensation for 30 per cent dis- ability, if I take a job carrying rural mail three hours a day, will the VA «top my compensation? A. Compensation is not reduced because of your employment. Re duction in compensation is made only if your disability has lessened in degree. w a painful process parting with oui sweat covered dollars when we don’t know who will spend them nor for what—probably for some- thing of which we do not approve. The only consolation is that some one else has to pay more than we do. Maybe Mr. Blake gets some solace from that also. However, some of my predic tions have come to pass; the state legislature, hard pressed to find something not already taxed, raised the taxes on everything they could without raising the dander of the people too much, then put a tax on taxes; we now pay a tax on the tax on taxes. But the city of Portland has gone them one better. I understand they are passing a law obliging everyone living outside the city limits to pay a tax if they have a job in town. Anyone trying to get in wearing overalls, a nurse’s uniform or a mechanics cap will pay a tax. 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