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THE NORTHWEST

Published Bimonthly by the

NORTHERN PACIFIC RAILWAY COMPANYW. J. HUNT, Editor........ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....St. Paul, Minn.

IF YOU WISH INFORMATION regarding The Northern Pacic Railway, or about Industry,agriculture and other resources in the territory which it serves please address one of the followingofficers (depending on the information desired):

P. D. EDGELL, General Manager, Properties and Industrial Development.... .St. Paul, Minn.W. J. LUCHSINGER, Vice President—Traic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . St. Paul, Minn.

— \ GEORGE M. WASHINGTON, Vice President—Oil Development . . . . . . . . . . . . Jillings, Mont.F. C. SEMPF, Manager, Industrial Development . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .St. Paul, Minn.M. H. NIXON, Western Manager, Industrial Development . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Seattle, Wash.S. G. MERRYMAN, Manager, Timber and Western lands...... . . . . . . . . . .Seattle, Wash.GEORGE R. POWE, Asst. Gen. Mgr., Properties and Industrial Development . .St. Paul, Minn.ERNEST E. THURLOW, Chief Mining Geologist. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .St. Paul, Minn.l.. S. MACDONALD, Director, Agricultural Development Department. . . . . . . .St. Paul, Minn.

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The Cover PictureWe thought the picture of Beau and

Belle Herefords on the 1,000-acre Cur-tice Hereford ranch, owned by Curtice

H. Martin 8; Son.in the Bitter Rootvalley of Mon-

1 tana, on the eastI A I slope of the Bitter

Boot range of theRockies, shouldbe appropriateas a cover forthe November-December num-ber of The North-

west. The herd has a distinguished his-tory, having been established by thegrandfather of the present owners, Col.W. H. Curtice, at Eminence, Ky., in1883, the same year the Northern Paciccompleted its line between the GreatLakes and Puget Sound. The herd wasmoved to Stevensville, Mont., in 1927.

The picture, in four colors, on largeNorthern Pacic wall calendars for1961, hung in thousands of oflices ofthe railway’s patrons. For news aboutanother phase of the cattle industry inMontana, turn to page 6 of this issue.

"Soil Pharmacy” Supplies What the Doctor Orders for Farm FieldsOn September 17 the Farmers Union Alles stated further that this new in- are sent to Montana State eellege, at the

Central exchange opened a hulk fer- dustry offers a “soil pharmacy” which farmers’ expense, for analysis and fer-tilizer-blending plant known as the Soil provides a complete program to aid [ilizer reeemmendatier|5_ The Soil Serv-Service Center just west of Billings, farmers in treatin soil fertilit d, g Y 6 - ice Center follows the recommendationsMont., on Northern Pacic industrial ciencies. Each local cooperative, he of the eellege in blending fertilizer ac.property. A quonset-type building of said, has trained personnel to assist eerdirig to preeeriptieri, to t the -farm-laminated beam construction, 5Oxl00 farmers in taking soil samples, which erg’ individual needs,feet, divided into seven bins, each hold-ing 100 tons of bulk fertilizer, was putup. According to Jack Alles, plant man-ager, the facility is designed for whole-sale distribution of fertilizer to aiiiliatedcooperatives in Yellowstone, Stillwaterand Carbon counties.

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FRONT-END LOADER dumps fertilizer A FERTILIZER BLENDINC PLANT is operated at Billings, Mont., in this quonset-typeingredients into scale hopper before building put up recently on a Northern Pacic industrial site by the Farmers Unionthey are blended at new Billings plant. Central Exchange to serve members of ailiatcd cooperatives in three counties.

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NEW’ W'AREHOU§E AND OFFICE of the Reserve Supply eom- and lling customers’ orders. A concrete dock at ear-door heightpany, at Fridley. Minn., adjacent to St. Paul and Minneapolis. has room for ll railroad cars at one time. Covered storage spaceprovide the rm with modern faeili'ies for receiving shipments at the location totals 126,000 square feet. Material is stacked.

Reserve Supply Company Plans Savings in WarehousingMove to One-Floor Building at Fridley, Minn., May Result in Lowering Handling Costs by$100,000 Annually; Deals in 4,000 Different Items for Builders Sold by 1,800 Retail Outlets

The Reserve Supply company is e.\;- Supply company has been doing liusiness tion hoard. presdwood and hardhoard.actly what its name implies. Wlrile this successfully every year since. lt has gypsum hoard and lath. hlanl<et-hat-llwholesaling rm does huy and ship full gradually increased its volume and has insulation. merchants’ steel products.carloads direct to many of its 1.800 shown a net prot every year. which plywood. paint products. marlite andcustomers, who are retail dealers selling largely has gone into dividends and accessory items. floor tile and acces-lumher and liuilders’ supplies. nearly patronage refunds that are paid in cash sories and Vi/epco.half of its $Z0.508.110 worth of sales annually. The wholesaling rm is owned by 3T6in 1961 resulted from the movement of While it sells no lumher. millwork. stockholders who in turn own and oper-a long and Yilricd list of items out Of lime. cement. lead or oil paints, glass ate 1.300 retail outlets which handleits warehouses. where materials are or many of the usual steel products, the lumher and ’or other huilding materials.kept. so to speak. in rcse1'\'c. ready to company today maintains an inventory Wliile it performs some of the functionsll orders. of more than 4.000 different items for of a collective lmyin" acncy. a ]]l1I'l]l)(‘I'DC‘

Launched in early 1026. now over 36 huilders which represent an enormous of the procedures common to consumeryears ago. to huy lmilding items which variation in brand names, colors, types. cooperatives are not followed.local dealers could not afford to carry sizes. weight. thickness and purposes. The general oflice and principal ware-in carload lots and to handle numerous Principal classications in the inven~ house of the Reserve Fupply companyspecialties which then were lveginning tory are the following: asphalt roong. are in the Twin Cities hut lrranches.to come onto the rnarket. the Reserve ashestos products, garage doors. insula- each with a warehouse. are located at

A SPECIAL FORK, with four prongs, on a lift truck to handle unitized material in long

/ Fargo, N. D.. La Crosse, Wis. and 0wa-tonna. Minn.

On August 20. 1062. a milestone torememlver was reached when a changein headquarters was made from a con-gested location and a three-story l1uild-ing in 3t. Paul to a new omce and one-lloor warehouse l>uilt on l0 acres ofindustrial land leased from the i\vorth<-rnPacific Railway at 5l10 Main street.northwest. in Fridley. 1Vlinn.. just southof the present helt-line trunk highway.No, 100.

Sayings in the cost of handlingmaterials as a result of the movehave been anticipated. Indeed, theymay amount to $100,000 a year.

Built on a five-inch concrete slal). thenew structure has no weight restrictions.which was not true on the second andthird floors of the old building. Whilethere are three acres of covered stor-age space—126.000 square feet—com-)ared with 160.000 at the old location.mcludin" outside warehouses, there nowlengths which otherwise would sag on both ends and split is observed by, left, John 1|. _ 5

Giles, president and 1.. M. Troek. warehouse superintendent, Reserve Supplv company. 15 more Culllc 3793 llecaus Slaflng 15

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of the building, an industrial track,located near the main line of the North-ern Pacic, ends along a wide, coveredunloading dock, which is at boxcar-doorheight. where 11 railroad cars can bespotted. This is of major importancein view of the fact that between 700and 800 carloads are handled into themain warehouse in a year.

The Reserve Fupply company con-sistently has used rail service for the

._,______; principal part of its iiihound business, and its management has tried to take

_______j\_jA advantage of any gains to be made inBUILDERS OBTAIN MANY special items from the stock stored several tiers high in the unlllzlllg Slllpplllg and han(lllllg_lllslwarehouse of the Reserve Supply company at Fridlcy, Minn., which represents an en0r- in gmidolas and HOW 0" 0P3" flat Carsmous variation in brand names, colors, types, sizes, weight, thickness and purposes. equipped with ])u]k}]ea(-]5 and in wide.

door boxcars.done l2 and 16 feet high, which wasnt a small portion of the daily volume is

. _ Other useful features in the build-possible before. Furthermore, posts are done on orders on which there has been ing at Fridlev include meetinglocated every 40 feet compared with prior notication for assembly and shi)- - ' ' - -

" "' 16 f it ' th ld b 'ld' \ t \] h b f ' k ll in the basement for dealers and exhibitueiy ee -II] e o ui ing. ‘z men . 1 s_o.t e iium er 0 truf s'to ie for manufacturers to display theirmore systematic plan of plElCll1"' the iii- served daily runs as high as 15 in the '. , ° _ )I‘0('lllClS. Oicers of the com any have\'eiitor\‘ in the warehouse is possible. peak season Furthermore there is such l h p '' , . , ‘ I ' , _ ‘ _ ‘ ‘ said t at a determined eort is niade~_.../. From the warehouse in Fridley. re- a wide diversication of materials to be - - -. . . . .. to acquaint its stockholders with newtailers in the metropolitan Twin Cities, loaded. An order, for example. assem- and additional noducts which the‘,in western and northern Wisconsin. bled and left in the loading area. to be gen l V 'northern Minnesota. northern Iowa and picked up by a dealer located in Wis- l l _eastern South Dakota are served. Most consin, one day recentlv as a visitor The llllll llas lzs elllllllllleeflill? Olof them send their own trucks or hired just happened ‘to go by consisted of Lllelll al llllllley llllle llllsllless ls glllllellones to pick up goods. There are 15 poultry netting. ornamental iron for Y ll lloalll Ol lllleclols Chosen lllllllloading docks (nine of them under co\'- porch railing. reinforcing steel. floor jlle Slllclllloldell a heavy fxecllllveerl for their use and for other truck tile, adhesives and glass blocks. The Olld falls 0ll.lllell .llllellllallll' ‘lollllloading. /\djustahle dock plates are in travel inside the warehouse has been Glles’ who ls pleslllelll and who’ mcliuse, too. cut and time formerly consumed waiting llelllal‘l‘y’ wllell alls.we,l,lllg llle leleplllllle’

The waiting time for loading trucks for elevators and riding them has been Sais. Jollllllle Glles and Wllo slgllshas been a major problem. This is due eliminated entirelv. Oliicers of the rm llllslllliss collespollllellce lllal way Cllesprimarily to the fact that the greater say they are condent that customers’ ls asslslell by llOllell.M' SpalllS' asslsllmajority of trucks arriving for ina- waiting time at the loading docks will alll Seclelaly allll llsslsllllll lleaslllel Olterials come in with the orders and only be reduced sizably when operations are llle Colllpally

fully synchronized in the new plant./\cross the way, on the opposite side

“EASY DOES IT,” warehouse helper, SHIPMENTS RECEIVED on atcars NAILS I)ON’T COME in kegs as they onceright, tells truck operator who is utilizing equipped with biilkliearls save time and did, James Sutton, order ller, said, re-every foot of cubic space that he can. unloading costs for Reserve Supply rm. calling handy uses for the empty kegs.

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A STORAGE HOUSE, shown in the foreground, to hold 10,000 Crand Forks, N. D., by Frozen Potato Products. lnc. It was lledhundredweight of potatoes in each of 10 bins, or 10,000,000 with Kennebec potatoes when this rm began making French-pounds of spuds (l66,666 bushels), was completed in late fall at fried potatoes in its new plant, which is in background of picture.

Third Building Going Up at Grand Forks Potato FactoryMid-Continent Storage Company at North Dakota Constructing Large Warehouse

Frozen Potato Products, lnc., Grand on one and fty-eight hundredths of an ucts. lnc. To be 100 x 200 feet. it “illForks, N. D., which recently began its acre of Northern Pacic land just north hold 5.()()0,00(l pounds of frozen pota-rst season, is running its new factory of the factory of Frozen Potato Pro(l- toes and will cost about $33l),U(Nt.three shifts six days a week under thesupervision of William E. Campbell,plant production manager, who former-ly was with Idaho Potato Processors,lnc., at Burley, lda., with which the CNorth Dakota rm has a marketing andadvisory agreement. Just west of itsplant, which was completed during thesummer, a storage house for 166,666 ibushels of Kennebec potatoes was built -by the company. Sales are being han-dled by Arthur Oppenheimer ]r., ofBoise, lda., who serves the concern at - I I I IBurley and one other Idaho rm.

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of North Dakota, a new rm and a sub- I I . I/._\sidiary of the Southeastern Public Serv- - - “takeice company’ of Kansas City’ has begun THIS IS THE END of the production line in the factory of Frozen Potato Products, lnc..

Grand Forks, where crinkle-cut French-fried spuds, from “Tater Valley,” are put intoCOHSIYUCUO11 of 3 frozen-Slmage house bags and boxes, weighed and conveyed to a room whose temperature is under zero.

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CONCENTRATION OF SUGAR solution IN A 65-FOOT tunnel freshly fried crin- EVERY BATCH GETS a frying test, asto help give potatoes a golden color is tcst- kle-cut Kennebecs are precooled at the demonstrated here in the company’s lab-ed by Mary Adams with a refractometer. plant of Frozen Potato Products. lnc. oratory by Ill I’. Matthies, a supervisor.

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Choice Beef Steaks Create $10,000,000 Worth of BusinessLargest Cattle Feeding Operations Between Minnesota and the North Pacific CoastAre Centeredat Billings; Replacement Animals, Barley, Beet Pulp, Alfalfa and Corn Silage Are AvailableLocally

The largest cattle-feeding operationsl)t3l\\'t’(‘tl Minnesota and the north l"a- 0 ‘cic coast are concentrated at Billings..\lont., or near there.

Between 35.000 and 50,000 head arelattened annually. mostly in commercialfeed lots. /\ dozen companies and indi-\iduals who do the hulk of the businessinclude the following: the Pierce Pack-ing company. 15.000 head annually: the.\lid|and Packing company, 9.000 year-ly: the L. R. llector Cattle company,3.000: T-Bone Feeders, lnc., 3,500: theFox Land S Cattle company. 0,000:_]ohn Daugherty and $011, 4-.000: Halsey

'l”"“]f‘ Z000’ ll“? Y°sl Farm °°'l?"'a' THIS PICTURE GIVES =1 sample of the kind of cattle fattened by the Fox Land &“‘m+ Zroolli Wllllalll Weller 8‘ 5015- Cattle company in yards that handle 6,000 annually. In the background are a modernl.2U0: Marshall Young, 4.500; Dr. feed mill and storage facilities big enough for 40,000 bushels on Fox premises.Grant Raitt, 1,500; Frank Orchowski,1-000; Clllmingham 3; Johnson. 500: mission company and the other run by its feeding program, chooses well-llmliel Vogelr 1-ZUO: C‘""'ad “ml Henry the Pllblic LiV€5l°Ck Mark“ Celllll bodied cattle for the lots and he doesnltWes('licl1felde1", 2,000. While some nished animals go to order give 3 hang what C01." they ar@_])|aC]_;

The cattle when sold vary {mm Pullers and directly lo lmckers" maul or red. white or blue. (There are blueutility grade to choice‘ Nearly all of are sold at auction‘ roans now and then. you know.) Hethe feeds are raised locally but in almost Cattle feeding and the activities allied neferg (_h0i(_t_ dreggea wei0h_all cases not by the livestock feeders closely with it add $l0,000.000 to the P , V A P i. Dthemselves. Rolled barley from Mum total volume of business done mmuany mg from .300 to 600 pounds. chiefly fortana ranches predominates in the ra- at Billings. supermarketS' ammugh smile of instions. Very little corn is fed, except As far as anyone recalls. the industry buyer?‘ he says‘ “ant meal gmdmgas silage. Average gains per head per as it exists now in the area was initiated good mstead °f ('h°ice- Big gr""91"Y “"0day hetween two and three pounds are hy two local meat packing rms as a meat me" 1911 Curtis “WY 0""./t “'3'”reported on from seven to eight pounds means of guaranteeing themselves they any carcasses over 650 pounds. So. heof feed per pound of gain. Practically would have fed cattle for their ownall of the cattle are ohtained from Mon- hutchering floors to take care of theirtan;-1 and northern Wyoming sources winter beef trade. The Pierce Packingand, in fact. ‘)0 per cent of the replace- company led oil in 1024. Today Haroldment animals are hought at the two Curtis, a director of the Pierce Packingauctions operating in Billings—one company who buys all cattle and hogsowned hy the Billings Livestock Com- required by the rm and has charge of

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MORE THAN $1,000,000 worth of cattle is the annual total at the feeding yards of the A SACK OF PROTEIN was (lumped into atL. R. Rector Cattle company, located 15 miles east of Billings. Notice the mound mixer by Melvin L. Fox for animals fat-which all feeders in the area use to keep the animals out of mud in the wet season. toned by the Fox Land 8' Cattle company.

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age daily gain of 2.36 pounds per head.ln the past ve years, Curtis said re-cently. gains per day per head havebeen pushed up half a pound while feedhas been reduced. Four test lots, in fact,not long ago averaged a pound of gainon seven pounds of feed. Tests aremade, too, of rations designed to puton less fat and more lean but still pro-duce tender, tasty 1neat—which is. in-deed, a problem!

A crew of six, including a foreman.handles the feed-lot work. A six-dayweek, with time and a half for one day.is worked.

Incidentally. all feeders in the Bill-ings area, including the Pierce Packingcompany, pay special attention to drain-

1 age in lots. Mounds are built in pens- to provide high ground which almost

always is dry. Curtis learned by experi-FORTY-FIVE PENS, 32 wells, a trench silo for 6,000 tons of silage, a feed mill, elc- ellce ln the Pierce operations that deep’valor leg, warehouse and scales were installed by T-Bone Feeders, lnc., a custom wet manure in which cattle must wadefeeding rm that supplies room, board and medical care for several thousand cattle. 7

can cost three-quarters of a pound dailyhas heavy cattle to sell to others, maybe calves, some heifers and a few "warmed m reduced galls‘ He_ lmllds llle lots10 per cent of those fattened in the up” cattle are used. For the rst 31) large enough s0_lllere_ls room to pushPierce yards. Armour 8: company. days in the lots they receive 20 pounds wet manure aslde‘ blxleen lllousalldSwift S; company. the Hygrade Food of hay and silage and four pounds of lolls Ol the Slu are pmducefl Y°‘="l_Y_‘“Products company and others buy them. grain, and are fed once a day, with lhe Plerce pens’ enough lo lerllllZ_e

Pierce cattle, in 28 pens covering 38 roughage on top of the grain concen- _l’6l)0 acres of land for Sugar heels’ llacres of an 80-acre tract just east of trate in fence-line bunks. The grain is ll were all “Sal lor lllal Purpose‘ ll goesthe city, get a ration that is 14-.8 per increased later and the roughage is de- out bolh to lamlers all(l_l° calelakersCllt pr0l6irI- Tile)’ eat ab0Ut $2,500 creased until only a pound of hay and (ll gOll_C0urSeS’ who gel ll for llle costworth of feed every day. There are three pounds of silage are used when a of llaulmg'from ZOO to 500 in a pen. Yearlings. full feed is being given. In addition to A lot of interesting things happen in

steam-rolled barley, the concentrates California. One of them, officers of theconsist of dry beet pulp, mill feed, soy- Midland Packing company. at Billings.bean

an meal and safflower meal, mineral, learned is that Californians like cowtibiotics and free-choice Morea. One meat—fron1 female critters four years

trench silo on the premises holds 6.200 old or more. The Midland company hastons of chopped corn. which was har- fed 1.500 or more aged cows (not can-vested last year on 250 acres. 25 acres ners) yearly, bringing them up to com-be ing the company’s own land. and the mercial and utility grades in from 60remainder being acres contracted by to 90 days, when they are dressed andlocal irrigation farmers. Cannery silage sold as carcasses in California.from a local corn canner was used. too. “l have seen the packing-house rail

Fourteen thousand head fed in cost on cows higher than on heifersthe Pierce lots last year made an aver- when cows have been scarce.” said Iames

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STEERS GETTING FAT are observed by CLOSE NEIGHBORS AT BILLINCS are the beef industry and the oil business, with :1Fred Pierce, _|r., left, and Harold Curtis, renery of the Continental Oil company and a large feed lot across a fence from onewho run feeding program of Pierce rm. another. Business buildings of the city are seen on the skyline in the background.

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All of the prepared feeds and grainsand forages are purchased, except a

part of the silage, which is raised ona farm owned by the company. Choppedsilage furnished by local farmers. de-livered to the rniis silo, costs $6 perton.

L. R. Rector. president of the L. R.Rector Cattle company, a corporation.and Kenneth C. Lucien, secretary-treasurer. like to point out that the areaaround Billings is ideal for cattle feed-ing because range sections from whichcattle for feeding are available are near.there is easy access to dry-land grain.adjacent irrigated land produces plentyAUTOMATlON HELPS O.W’NERS hold down operating costs at Billings. Above: a truck Hf I-nughage and local markets for n.equipped with power equipment to unload it at the Midland Packing company s yards, . .is being lled with a mixed ration that will be put iiito fence-line feeding bunks. ‘Shed Cattle are at hand or shlpmentscan be sent east, south or west to other

Schindele, a Midland ofcer who shares in 1960 by T-Bone Feeders, lnc., which outlets.with others the responsibility for the installed 45 pens, 32 wells, a trench ]n1941L_ R_ Rector hegan fatteningc°mPanYis cattle feeding “Yon have to snc for @000 rcns cf Silage a reed lnnl cattle for Armour S; company and some-keel) tab on lhelr teeth’ though: and with all elevalcr leg and a Warchcnsc» times had 2,500 on feed. He tried feed-Walch the ‘learn lnss carcfnlll’ if You scales, hvspilalpens,1>randi11gf==1¢i1ili@§ ing with farmers on a gain basis butfeed cows.” and a locker room for workmen on the plan was ahandt,ne(]_ Generally it

Midland lots’ also adjacent to the PrcPcrr)' Purchased cast cf Bi11iI1gS- was observed that farmers were inclinedcnY> contain bnlls= slccrs and hcircrs Tl1iFl)'~\'e ranchers located Within 150 not to feed enough over a period longin addition to cows. Good and choice miles are stockholders as also are six enough to make the catt1efat_grades are produced on the steers and business and professional men. Shares Th b -t f l_ll€if6TS- worth 3140.000 were sold. At the cal< - e col-“pally egan 1 S Own Ce-(' P in 0 erations in 1946 and moved itsMidland rations and feeding methods of its operations last year the corpora g pe > ' ' Sare about the same as those used by the tion had 3,400 head f l. O ' s lots to the present iocanon’ near. impP. P k. h _On _ee( “Her herd, Mont., 15 miles east of Billings.“liiéfe d if llng Cl(31ml)alr]1Y=l ;3Xci?Pi I at retain the title to their animals but pay in 1955_ More than $1,000,000 worth

I an Ce“ CO To e( mi 83' TBOM Feeclers’ Inc" the C0“ 9f feed of cattle is being handled through theA motel for cattle that supplies room and a service ()l]a]"(re amountm to. . , L ' g Hboard and medical care was established $750 a um Qf fed (5 cover the labor, Rector yards elery year usua y be

yardage and management. Gains havecost owners from 18 cents to 23 cents apound. depending on the type of cattleand the quality.

Nearly all of the finislicd cattle fromT-Bone lots are shipped to Omaha.South St. Paul. Denver or the west coast.

A PORTABLE MILL on a special carriage TRENCH SILOS EACH holding thousands IRRICATED FARMS ARE tlie source ofis used bYl\-C-Lll(‘ie"»0|' the L R Rector of tons store feed bought for $6 a ton lent» of alfalfa hm l‘ th ti h' h. . _ _ p _' - or era onsw l(‘Land & Cattle conipany. to grind Iced. from farniers mi local irrigated land. stockiiieii at Billings use successfully.

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owned b_y the rm, east of Billings.I I where 600 calves will be fed.;.r' J: in 2.5.. ‘ - n '0

A major achievement, WilliamFox and his sons. Melvin L.. vice presi-dent. and Richard \V.. secretary-treas-urcr of the company. believe. was theconstruction last year of a modern feedmill at the yards west of Billings. Fortythousand bushels of grain can be stored.A trench silo holds 7.000 tons of silagewhich is purchased locally from opera-tors of irrigated farms.

No attempt has been made here todescribe every feeding operation atBillings. as that would involve a lengthyamount of repetition. Enough has beensaid, we believe. to indicate in general

HARLEY, CORN SILAGE AND DRY sugar beet pulp are the basic feeds used by the beef how the i0]-J is manage(]_producers at Billings. The barley in almost all cases is rolled. Average gains perda_v between two and three pounds per head are reported in almost all feed lots.

tween 3.000 and 4.000 head annually.Barley and corn silage are the basic

feeds and the ration looks about likethis: barley. T2 per cent: beet pulp. llper cent: mill feed ve and a half percent: soybean oilmeal. four and a halfper cent: dehydrated alfalfa. six and a

half per cent: phosphorus and salt. eachone-half of one percent: and a half apound of iodine compound per ton.

Three men do the work at the Rectorpens. feeding the cattle twice daily.using machines for much of the work.Compana barley weighing not under -L8

pounds per bushel is hauled in fromsurrounding ranches and is put througha feed grinder before the mixed feed is

SPENT $18,838,192 FORbut some go to Spokane and to Omaha. CHEMICAL FERTILIZERThe Fox company fattens beween 600 ln 1961, farmers in North Dakotaand T00 hogs annually at Laurel. too. spent 518.838.1912 for chemical fer-Another yard is being built on a farm tilizer. results of a recent surve_v show.

Useful Product Comes from Gummy Stuff in StumpsThat pesky, gummy stuff in stumps soluble product that does a better job

and butt logs of western larch trees of than gum arabic. an imported material.northern Idaho, Vi/ashington and west- which traditionally is used as a gum-ern Montana which causes splitting. ming solution in developing. cleaningfouls up saws and makes the wood so and preserving printing plates. The newheavy it sinks in a mill pond is worth product. arabinogalactan. which hassomething. after all. been named Btractan. can be used. too.

Research personnel of the Neils as it binder. fillet‘. coater OI‘ emulsierLumber c0n1pany_ a division of the Sr_ in the textile. pharmaceutical, food.Regis Paper company. and scientists in paint and ink industries.the division of industrial research at ln making Stractan. larch in the form

prepared. Willi that kind of treatment. Washingtoii State university, at Pull- of chips is leached for 24 hours. Re-given plenty of good water, too. thecattle put on between two and threetenths pounds and two and six-tenthspounds of meat per day. Rector andLucien like to add 400 pounds or moreon each critter in their lots. althoughthey don’t always do that. ln fact. theyproduce several grades of nished cat-tle. including the better cattle that makegood and choice grades and plain oneswhich are sold as high standard andgood. Nearly all replacement cattle need-ed for the lots are purchased in Billings.

West of Billings. near Laurel. theFox Land 8; Cattle company fattens_vearlings. feeding them from 160 to l80days to make them grade choice. Thisrm. whose president is Willialii Fox.markets its fat steers on the west coast.principally with the lly Grade FoodProducts company. at Tacoma. “lash.Fat heifers are sold mostly in Billings atUauction at the Livestock Market Center.

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man. Wash.. in a cooperative project maining as a residue of the process. thelearned how to turn it into a highly chips are in demand for making pulp.

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IN A PILOT PLANT, above, larch chips are leached in 12 percolators made of stain-less steel, to make a new product which takes the place of gum arabic and does betterwork as a gumming solution in developing, cleaning and preserving printing plates-

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Recently Formed Asphalt Company Using Armour SiteConcern Is Owned by the Husky Oil Company and the Western Oil & Fuel Company

The new Transport Asphalt companyat West Fargo, N. D., has storage tanksthat hold 1,000,000 gallons, it has twomiles of piping, heavy pumps, a 60-tonscale, a laboratory, ofiice, tank-car un-loading facilities and truck loading fa-cilities and is operating on an 11-acresite purchased from Armour 8." com-pany, where the meat packing concernoperated a plant prior to 1959.

Strangely, the Transport Asphaltcompany never owns a gallon of as-phalt, but serves as a terminal for itsowners, the Husky Oil company atCody, Wyo., and the Western Oil 81

Fuel company, of Minneapolis. Westernhas sold I-lusky’s asphalts in the RedRiver valley for many years.

Operations of the Transport Asphalt

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Minneapolis. and G. L. Farnsworth, ofCgdy, and T, Wise: at Calgary, of TWO MILES OF PIPING are required on the ll-acre site of the Transport Asphalt com-the Husky Oil Com ' pan)", at West Fargo, N. D.., where large tanks hold 1,000,000 gallons of asphalt made at

I? y Cod}, W) 0. One-story building at rear houses a testing laboratory and the rm’s office.The new terminal handles as-phalts used on city streets, airports,highways, parking lots for schools andshopping centers, driveways, oors ingrain bins, garages and cattle feedinglots, and, yes, even irrigation ditches.Asphalt from the terminal at WestFargo serves an area which includesparts of North Dakota, South Dakota,and northern and western Minnesota.

Asphalt has been supplied from WestFargo for highway work in each of thestates mentioned above. A good exam-ple is a project of the Minnesota statehighway department on state highwayNo. 9 between Downer and Barnesville.Minn., recently completed by Asphalt,lnc., contractors at Moorhead, Minn.

Engineers have stated that tech-nological advances in work of this kindhave made terminals such as this atWest Fargo an essential link in con-veying raw material, MAKING A PENETRATION test on as- TRUCKS ARE LOADED here to transport

AS hahic concrete is roduced with phalt in the Transport company_"s labora- asphalt to job locations in North Dakota,P P tory IS Stan Warner, plant superintendent. South Dakota and parts of Minnesota.

the latest equipment at the rate of 2,000tons per day. Asphalt cement, used in are available at the Transport Asphalt temperatures. The asphalts are loadedthe asphaltic concrete, is required at the company, with quick service and a re- as liquid at from 300 to 350 degreesrate of from 100 to 150 tons per day, serve supply necessary to expedite the Fahrenheit into railroad tank cars atas well as quantities of rapid-curing paving projects. Asphalt cement is a Cody. These are shipped to Laurel,asphalt, medium-curing asphalt, and thermo-plastic, which is liquid at high Mont., and from there, 30 hours elapseslow-curing asphalts. All of these grades temperatures and semi-solid at room in moving to West Fargo, where steam

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is used to restore heat lost in transit:tlien, the material is pumped to storage l Improvements Mode in Warehouse and Dock at Duluthtanks through a terminal heater capableof adding 100 degrees Fahrenheit ofheat to 300 gallons in 60 seconds. Itmoves via truck to the job site.

Since precise control is required bystate highway departments. all ship-ments are tested in the laboratory at theTransport Asphalt company’s plant l.wliere testing equipment, including kine-matic viscosity apparatus, is available.This equipment is so new that only a

few states are using this test at present.Asphalt cements are tested for consist-ency by a penetration test where meas-urcnients are controlled to one tenthof a millimeter.

Eleven l11@I1- 3 $llP@TlI1lend@"l, 11 1811- ing company made improvements re- speaker system was installed so contact0l”l0f}' lecllniian and an Office $e¢T9- cently in its leased warehouse (pictured can be maintained with anyone on thetar)’ Wofk at lhe terminal in the bl15Y above’) at dock No. 2, on Northern dock or in the warehouse.season, which runs from April to No-\’6l11b6T- road street and 15th avenue west, in with our and dried milk for export.

The Great Lakes Storage 8; Contract- doors. Dock lights were put in and a

Pacic waterfront property, near Rail- The company loads salt-water ships

Duluth. The apron along the building, Sulphite screenings from Europe for the ~

N. P. MOIE which was 10 feet wide. was increased Wood Conversion company, at Cloquet,Freighf cars in to 16 feet to give more room to put Minn., are unloaded and the Marathon

Ex nditure b the Northern Pacic down cargo slings from ships and to Paper company, of Nenah, Wis., receivesRa.l pe f is Zovemems and ui furnish space to operate lift trucks. The wood pulp from Canada at this dock fornle:1r”;))iangedI?:r 1963 total $24_%5,%)_ apron was concreted; the shipside wall it own use and for other paper coni-065’ increase of $3,702,270 the of the warehouse was rebuilt, with wider panies.

present year. officers announced re-cently.

Major items for 1963 include $10,- Expenditures for bridges, trestles and the Northern Pacic lines to 389 miles.597.350 worth of freight cars, 600 of C111‘/6Tl5 Will bi? $1-053,545 Improvements of signal and inter-them to be built at the company’s shops Crushed rock ballast is scheduled for locking plants call for the expenditurein Brainerd, Minn., at a cost of approxi- 101 miles of track in 1963 at a cost of of $1,407,565 during the coming year.iiiately $7,415,000. About $1,000,000 $991,895. Rail and other track ma- A continuing program of improvementmore will be spent for 10 lightweight terial will account for $6,212,940 of the in the company’s communication systembaggage cars. total expenditures. Included in the track will provide greater use of dispatcher-

Maintenance and improvements of program are 74 miles of welded rail, to-train crew radiofacilities and expan-existing equipment will cost $970,641. bringing the total of welded track on sion of its microwave-message-circuits

program. Communications expendituresfor 1963 will total 3366.300.

Making Linseed Vehicle forQ Water-Thinned Inside Paint

The Archer Daniels Midland coin-pany now has a linseed oil vehicle, de-veloped in its own laboratories, forwater-thinned exterior and interiorhouse paints.

The new product from Archer DanielsMidland, is called X-1652. Off1C€I'S ofthe company in a recent description saidthat it combines the advantages of easyhandling, brushing quality. fast drying.adhesion to the surface. durability andASPHALT AT 300 OR MORE degrees Fahrenheit is hauled in tank cars from a renerv - t 1 - U f - - -

at Cody, Wv0., via Laurel, Mont., to West Fargo, where it is stored for use on highwavs-, Convemen C eamnb 0 pamtmg equipparking lots, streets and oors in garages, grain bins and feeding lots in that area. "lent wlth Water-

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Commission Firms Participate in Auction of Cattle at West FargoWhen the Union Stockyards company

of West Fargo, N. D., opened an auction “’for replacement cattle early in Novem-ber something different in selling live-stock was inaugurated.

As Kiefler Lehman, president of thestockyards company said, “We used totake the buyers to the cattle in ouralleys. Now we take the livestock to thebuyers, who are seated comfortably inour new pavilion, a concrete-block build-ing 60x1OO feet in size, which waserected immediately adjoining the yards,on the west side. This and the fact wehave put in an auctioneer to receive AS_ AN TNTEGRAL of its plant, the stockyards company at west Fargo, N. D.,

. 1 built this concrete building (shown with workers still busy completing its roof) for ablds are the Only; changi? Cande fprg new auction market at which replacement cattle are being sold according to a new plan.(lucers consign t eir stoc ers an ee -

ers as before to one of the six commis ' with private treaty. All ‘no sales’ are tion in comfort away from the crowd.ale" rms “Presented °" the market at announced in the ring. The stockyards The auctions are held every Friday.We5tFa1”g°- company provides the auction facilities Selling and buying of other types of

“We feel in the auction as well as in and other related services, just as it does livestock at the yards are handled theprivate treaty that it is important that for cattle sold at private treaty.” same as heretofore.livestock producers be represented by Charges for the auction are the reg- The following commission rms area trained commission man whose prime ular yardage and commission, with a in business at West Fargo: Sig Ellingsoninterest is the selling of this livestock nominal ring charge. 81 company, the Central Livestock asso-for the most dollars for his customers. Seating capacity of the new pavilion ciation, the Farmers’ Union MarketingThe commission man starts the cattle is approximately 550 people, half of association, the McDonald Livestockand decides whether they have brought whom are furnished theater-type seats. Commission company, Montgomery &their full market value. In addition, he One of the features is a special lounge Sons and the Dakota Livestock Commis-performs the same services he provides which enables women to watch the auc- sion company.

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