by Warren T. Ferrell
Humane Hog Killing
Oscar Mayer Co. in its Madison,
Wisconsin and other plants will
soon begin to slaughter hogs by
running them on a belt through a
chamber filled with carbon diox-
ide gas. They expect to handle 600
hogs per hour by this more hu-
mane and efficient method.
Baled Silage
Baled grass silage is a new ven-
ture being tested by agronomists
at Minnesota University. They cut
the hay, wilt it to 40 percent mois-
ture, and then bale it. The bales
are stacked on a sheet of plastic
which is pulled closely around
them and stapled tight. The re-
suiting silage is of low moisture
content and keeps well, while the
bales are easy to handle.
Research Aims To Keep
Moisture Where It Falls
"Stop the run-off! .... Keep our
precious moisture where it falls!"
Both could be slogans for a re-
:search project started in the Uni-
versity of Wyoming Agricultural
Experiment Station.
Western stockmen are faced
with two hard facts: (1) The a-
mount of moisture for plant
growth controls the amount of fo-
rage on the range and can make
or break a stockman; (2) The
West's moisture frequently runs
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Sundance, Wyo. Oct. 28, 1957
off the range because it often
comes as hard rains or as snow
that blows off the flats into drifts
on the lee side of hills.
Station researchers can't control
the climate or weather--but they
believe they can find a way to stop
more moisture where it falls and
to keep it there for growing more
grass and other range plants.
They have started tests using
level contour ridges--sometimes cal-
led dikes-on gently sloping range
land. The dikes are about 300 feet
long and 12 inches high. Each has
a sodded break opposite the cen-
ter of the dike just to make any
run-off spread and go around each
dike.
Plans call for planting a tall,
coarse, faily non-palatable grass
on each ridge. Researchers want
to see if the grass will help to keep
snow from blowing off the range,
They are favoring giant wildrye
for the job although they are con-
sidering other coarse grasses.
According to Governor Camp-
bell's letters in the Wyoming State
Archives in Cheyenne the Sioux
Indians on May 10, 1869 made a
raid into the Wind River Valley,
stole a number of horses and
mules, murdered four white men
and escaped.
In 1871 Cheyenne was the larg-
est town between Omaha and
Ogden and trains stopped here
for thirty minutes for meal stop,
according to records in the Wyo-
ming State Historical Department.
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