Claude News (Claude, Tex.), Vol. 58, No. 23, Ed. 1 Friday, February 11, 1949 Page: 4 of 22
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found a thing to fuss with Unote Davidson, accompanied by his tal-
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Seen In- the Claude News last
week; "Fred Maple was slightly in-
jured Monday when caught be-
tween a fence and a 15,000 lb. steer,
and couldn't work for a day or
two". Anyway, I guess if it had
been a full grown steer he could-
n't have worked for a week. Sounds
like a lot of "Boloney" to me. It
sounded bad enough without that
last zero, Son.
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THEY WOULD READ YOUR AD
TOO, IF rr APPEARED HERE
"An Ad is Your Si lent Salesman
READ
THE ADS
A Reader gave me the following
quotes from somewhere;
Make new friends, but keep the old,
One is silver the other gold.
♦ ♦ •
"When in doubt, tell the truth",
and "Never miss an opportunity to
make folks hpppy, even if you have
to let them alone to do it."
• ♦ *
Met Mr. Wolford, of Lelia Luke
at the Farm Bureau Meeting in
Amarillo; he seemed surprised that
I was still living in the nice warm
Panhandle. Snid that he thought
I had moved to some of those
northern cooler states. Anyway, I
didn't like that twinkle that he
had in his eye, and I don't want
to hear anymore about the subject.
# * *
Joe ain't coming to Harry's house'
and Harry ain't going to his. Miy-
way, it might be better if; each
tended to his own biz'.
Jay about since. Met Jay Tayler In
Amarillo the other day and he gave
me some low-down on him, but It
is un-printable.
• * •
A good cake needs a tot of,ihort
ening, and sa does a good sptMh.
• • •
Most of us believe in the old
saying, "Like Father, Like Son,"
untill we see our son acting Uke
we used to, or still do. . .
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It is not always the loudest ser-
mon that is heard the best.
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Although he should have been
a member of the Ain't Smoking
Ssciety all the time, I Just heard
about him. Anyway, Kenneth Math
ews is now officially a member in
good standing. Think maybe I
ought to get out some membership
cards yet
Enjoyed my little visit with Tom
Henry Miller, the other day, and is
he ever proud of that watch given
him by the Sunday School. Hope X
can have the privilege of visiting
him again; his cheerful, sunshiney
disposition Just naturally made me
feel better.
ented son, dene; the fine singing
ltd by Bro. McDanlel; the quartett,
A lot of othan thing* deserve men-
tioning and not the least to get
our praises Was the fine hostility
of our goad neighbors, friends and
'orcthtr- in Christ ct our hsits.
• * *
Send me tome advice a; to this
extra weight. There won't be en-
ough Santa Claus Jalw for ail of
us. No wonder I keep thinking a-
bout that 15,000 lb. steer?
County Agent's
Column . . .
By Charles. O. Reed
7"
Sometimes I wish that I
sold that Old Caterpiller; I
hadn't
15,000 lb. steer. Oh me!
# ♦ *
For the time being at least, For-
rest Doshier is a member of our
Ain't Smoking Right Now Society.
Anywav Forrest is having the same
trouble thai I am having, watch-
ing some excess weight put on, and
it is where we can watch it!
* # #
Congratulations to the Scouts on
tills, their Birthday. May their
fine organization continue to grow
and grow. We enjoyed the inspir-
ing program given in their honor
at the Methodist Church last Sun-
day evening. The beautiful thoughts
I rought to our minds by Bro. Ford
havn't Ellis; the inspirational solo by Bro.
Sold to Swift for $1,883,823,473.00
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PAY TO
TXRE.E THQUSM^P FOUR-
OHt HUtOH E\6HT HUNOB.ED ^SEVEN™ THREE DOLLARS
Quick Facts on Swift's Business
in 1948
Total Sales $2,361,114,041
Swift's average sales dollar was spent as
follows:
For Livestock & Other Agricultural
Products
79 8 ds.
For Employes' Wages & Salaries
9.6 cts.
For Supplies
4.0 cts.
For Transportation
2.0 cts.
For Taxes
1.5 cts.
For Other Business Expenses
1.9 cts.
Total spent out of each average
dollar
98.8 cts.
Remaining as Earnings for Swift
1.2 cts.
Total
100 cents
lecause your
business of farming and ranching is so
closely related to our business of meat
packing, we believe you are interested in
an accounting of Swift & Company's op-
erations in 1948. On this page we tell you
how much money we received, how we
spent this money, and how much we
earned for services performed.
The past year was reasonably profitable
to both producers and Swift & Company. That's
the way it should be in America. A fair profit to
producers means better living and insures a sound
program on farms and ranches. A fair profit to
Wot. /J. Tray nor
business in cities and towns helps main-
tain purchasing power and markets for
the products which you and Swift have
to sell.
In 1948, Swift & Company paid nearly
two billion dollars for agricultural prod-
ucts. We processed and distributed na-
tionwide this output of your land and
labor ... cattle, calves, hogs, lambs, dairy
and poultry products, soybeans, cotton-
seed, peanuts and other products of agriculture.
For these we paid out 79.8 cents from each dollar
we received from the sale of our products.
Management's Role in
Modern Farming
HOW THE DOLLAR WAS DIVIDED
In America a business is operated to serve the received from the sale of our products. Who got
public, and to earn a profit for its owners. In the balance of 98.8 cents? It went to people who
1948, Swift earned $27,889,210 net profit. That work directly in the livestock-meat industry, to
v.as an average of 1.2 cents out of each dollar we additional thousands in other businesses.
by O. R. Johnson
University of Missouri, Columbia
Better farm management can
give startling results. If rnan-
o. R. Johnson aged as well as ihe best 20%
of the farms are managed, output of the average
acre could be doubled. In most areas the output
of pasture land could be increased three or four
times. Our cleverest feeders get 60% more out of
their feed than do average feeders. Production
per cow, sow or hen could be increased 50% to
100% if animals and methods as good as those
used by the top 20% of our farmers were em-
ployed by all farmers.
There are two ways of achieving higher pro-
duction par acne without increasing costs. The
moat practical method is to raise the level of
management efficiency witliout increasing pres-
ent working forces per farm. The other method
to for ttwTrarm family, with modern power and
machinery, to farm more acres. This second meth-
od has obvious limitation.;. For there would not
be enough acres to go around without eliminating
many farm families. Do we want larger farm
unita and reduced farm population? Many think
not. ...
However, many farmers are now faced with
adopting either one or the other of the above
metnods. Farmers must meet today's high op-
erating cost* and still maintain living standards
without forcing price beyond the reach of the aver-
aft consumer. Consumers cannot be expected to
t, indefinitely, inefficient farm output by
; the high prices such inefficiency demands.
Swift * Company
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1. The major cost of meat packing
is the purchase of livestock and
other agricultural products. Swift
paid $1,883,823,473 to farmers and
ranchers last year. You, the pro-
ducers, received 79.8 cents out of
each average dollar we took in
from sales.
2. Swift & Company employs 73,-
000 men and women to provide the
services producers, retailers and con-
sumers demand. The employes look
to their company for regular, gain-
ful employment. They earned $226,-
154,019 in wages and salaries in
1948 ... or 9.6 cents of each average
sales dollar.
3. Supplies of all kinds—sugar, salt,
spices, containers, fuel, electricity
cost us $94,809,928. These supplies
are furnished by other businesses.
Our purchases from them created
work and wages for many more
Americans. This took 4 cents of our
average sales dollar.
Swilt
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4. Transportation charges are a nec-
essary item of expense, and a large
one, too. Meats are moved an aver-
age of 1,000 miles from farm and
ranch to market. During 1948, in
distributing our products to cities,
towns and villages, Swift & Com-
pany spent $46,702,457 for trans-
portation by rail and motor. This
amounted to 2.0 cents of each aver-
age dollar of sales income.
5. Government expenses—fire and
police protection, national defense,
roads, social security, public edu-
cation, etc.—are all. paid out of
taxes Swift's tax bill for the year
was $35,220,291. The Federal Gov-
ernment and each of the 48 states
collected some of this amount. And
taxes were paid in hundreds of
municipalities where our plants and
properties are located. Federal,
state and local taxes took 1.5 cents
of our average sales dollar.
6. More than 200,000 retail store
operators look to Swift for a regu-
lar supply of meats and other Swift
products. We help build retailers'
trade by developing nationwide con-
sumer markets. Our research lab-
oratories and test kitchens also help
create consumer demand. Deprecia-
tion, interest and other expenses
common to every business, add to
this total. All these cost $46,514,663
or 1.9 cents of the average dollar
of sales.
That's (ti« story of the division of Swift's average dollar received from sales. Of that dollar, 98.8
cents went to other people or businesses. The 1.2 cents left is our return for processing, marketing
and distributing meate and other product* for millions of American families. Out of this return
—or net earnings—our 64,000 shareholders, men and women who a /~v
invented their savings in the Company, which SlAu
took 7/10«f a cent of the a
cant waa ratninad to
received dividends which
«k Uar. The balance of 1/2
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PLANTING NATIVE
GRASS FOR PASTURES
With good moisture prospects for
spring seeding of native pasture
grasses, several farmers and ran-
chers have requested information
from this office.
The Soil Conservation Service has
a special built grass seeding drill
with separate boxes for small hard
seeds and the lteht fluffy needs.
We do not have sufficient applica-
tions on hand to be assured that
we can get this grass drill in
March to plant prass seeds.
On the tight lands, recommend-
ed are native grasses and tuffalo
or blue graniu. In the past a mix-
ture of one pound of Buffalo and
about 6 to 8 pounds of blue grama
were seeded In the spring and
iiood results are reported if mois-
ture is adequate.
Pioducers desiring cool seasons
glosses (fall and spring) can plant
Western Wheat (Lake Grass) or
Crested Wheat grass. These gr."'..,;3
seeds should be planted In Septem-
ber or early fall at raLe of G or 8
jwunds per acre.
Mr. Quentin Williams of the Roil
Conservation Service is available to
discuss your grass planting on the
farm or ranch. The Soil Conserva-
tion Service will make a complete
soil map of all of your lands,
showing acreages, soil types, slopes,
amount of erosion, etc. This is on
aerial photo film of convenient
size. Each owner or operator will
be given a copy of this map for
your personal use. There is no
charge for this service to cooperat-
ing demonstrators.
We have several of these maps
in the office that have been work-
ed up for Armstrong County co-
operators that you may look over
to see the type of work. The AAA
will pay about 50% of the cost of
grass seed under their farm pro-
gram.
If interested in planting grass
seed for native pastures or obtain-
ing free soils map of your place,
contact the county agent at Claude
for additional information.
TEXAS FARM & HOME RADIO
PROGRAMS TQN NETWORK
Monday, Feb. 4: G. G. Gibson,
Ralanced Dairy Farming; Tuesday,
Feb. 15: Hoy Donahue, Soil Build-
ing and Conservation; Wednesday,
Feb. 16: Prof. Rei'.l, Poultry Sugges-
tions; Thursday, Feb. 11: Dorothy
Brightwell, Recreation Suggestions;
Friday, Feb. 18: Collegiate Future
Farmers of America—FFA News;
Saturday, Feb. 19: W. J. Moore,
Texas Farm and Home Eyg Laying
Contest.
Veterans Question*:
Q, My ht'sband. a WorM War II
veteran, hoM| a bad conduct |dh-
char e. Ti ho" entitled to benefit.■
under til* OI TIM?
a. £',ns* your husband holds
ntlther an honorable nor u <|U-
hcnoratls discharge from the arm-
el service;, It will he necessary
for him to a3k his nearest VA of-
fice for a decision as to whether
he was discharged under conditions
other than dishonorable. He also
may apply t.i the Army or Navy
for revision of discharge..
Q. I? my aunt, the daughter of
a Civil War veteran, eligible for
pension? She and her mother Were
dependent on the veteran at the
time of his death. The widow re-
ceived a pension until her death,
leaving her daughter, aged 75.
A. Unless your aunt was perm-
anently helpless by reason of phys-
ical or mental disability prior to
having reached the age of 16, she
could not now qualify for pension
based on her father's service.
Q. Is there any time limit to the
duration of a business loan?
A. Yes. A non-real estate busi-
ness loan must be rej^aid in 10
years or less; real estate 13nn'j
may run up to 25 years/
Q. Am I eligible ior a OI loan to
buy a share in a going business in
another city?
A. You are eligble if you devote
your personal labor or supervise the
business either on a full-time or
part-time basis.
Most thing; a fellow waits for
are not worth the deloy.
SPARK
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THE BEST!
Electric fans have a wintertime
use, too. Place the fan near the
fireplace, stove or radiator, point
it at the nearest wall or at the
ceiling, and set. at slow speed. In [
this position, the fan will keep the
warm air moving slowly through
the room.
Thanks for the news items.
Mobil
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Your Friendly
JACK GENTLE—Consignee
Check Those Worn Parts
On Your Farm Machinery...
Now is the time to take inventory
of those worn parts on your farm
machinery for replacement. It pays
to have extra parts on hand to a-
void costly delays during the busy
seasons of the year.
Is your tractor in good running con-
dition? Let us check it over now so
you will be ready when you need it
the most.
Farmers Grain & Implement Co.
Phone 37
I H C Parts & Machinery
Claude
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