4 TBURSDAŸ' APRIL 21, 1949 THE
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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-
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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
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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.
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cost figures in pointing out that
nation-wid? the dental work back-
has been reduced about 60
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beginning of 1949, the VA
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with handling 84 per cent of
treatments and 47 per cent of
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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. They will probably
stretch an iron curtain across the
Interstate bridge and anyone with
callouses on his hands trying to
sneak through will be promptly
apprehended and taxed.
Anyhow it has been nice know
ing Mr. Blake through the columns
of The Eagle and I wish him well
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