Hidden Harvest (c 1944)

[Music] [Applause] don't St out too late son lots of work tomorrow that's why I'm starting early take me earlyy please pretty please not this evening Ria huh Mary Allen see you later don't drive too fast in that new car don't worry Mom hello hello h o it's lovely not half as lovely [Applause] is [Music] it's comfortable too could be more so if you moved over this way a little always please why not found someone else you like better don't like anybody else at [Music] T oh got the look Ollie it's turned over hurry Ollie please sry he's hurt see he's terribly injured there there oh thanks sir don't try to talk Ollie help me get him up oh don't please gosh we better get him to the hospital no that's too far well take him back to our house hurry get him in our car can get him to the hospital in half an hour that's too far I say back to our house hurry Ollie he's in pain is he going to live doctor why certainly no bones broken just a case of traumatic as fixture GE Relic what's that lungs congested you see he was pretty well squeezed when the car rolled over on it just keep him quiet keep him propped up in bed so he can breathe easily and feed him easily digested foods and all the milk he'll drink we should have taken him to the hospital no on the contrary that is if Mary and Mrs Allen don't mind taking care of him oh of course we don't well he's better off right here where he can get plenty of fresh clean air rest I'll be back in the morning well guess I better see about getting his car into town good night Mary good night OE see you in the morning say who who are you what what happened oh nothing much you'll be all right the doctor said where am I what's all the cows and chickens and the horses do what's your name Maryellen I have some breakfast for you marelen oh damn those animals what' you say I didn't say anything what's the milk for to drink oh yes of course I used to drink milk yeah let me help you than no I I like it this way you're a marvelous nurse oh but I'm not a nurse the hospital was so far that we well that's all right I I like am nurses much better they're much prettier don't you think well I don't know I'm sure but I do know Dr Butler said to keep you quiet Mary Dr Butler and orley are here good morning sir good morning are you Mrs Alan yes and this is Dr Butler Mr I don't believe you told us your name I'm wallet Conway good morning doctor morning sir I don't know how I thank you all in know I'm still a bit ha as to what it's all about where well young man we'll see no internal injuries just keep him comtable that's all I want to see him occasionally and check up on him you see he's had the flu lately and this accident won't do him any good well I'll drop in again tomorrow does that mean that you have to wait on that guy as busy as you are ohly all I've got to say is that it's an imposition well I've got to be going goodbye well goodbye Ollie yes will you finish your breakfast now no i' I'd rather clean up a bit first did they get my suitcase out of the car yes here it is oh what a break will you get me my toilet case and some water and a towel certainly but you shouldn't exert yourself I'll feel a lot better after a shave I'm sorry that's all right I'll stand it here on the presser while you can see it thanks well uh I'll get to some hot water the garage man says that F can have his car in through 3 days why Mr Conway won't be able to use it for several weeks so the doctor said is that so well maybe Mary will be too busy to handle those chicks now of course she won't by the way did you order them from the hatch ring yeah they'll have a new hatch coming off 3 weeks from Tomorrow fine bunch of white leggings Mary dear there's your chance I paid a premium to the Hatchery to get you those two 50 baby chick my 250 will be here at the same time your mama's right Mary you'll have just as many chicks this year as she'll have your job now is to take care of you bet I will I can hardly wait till I get here you better let me help you well all right guess I can't be in any worse condition than I am already look if you can get by without taking off both my ears would you mind sitting down and telling me about yourself sorry but I have too much else to do well well what for instance oh only me turn and gather the eggs and feed the Cales and sweep the floor wash the dishes and help Mama cook all right all right all right will you please phone for a hospital nurse oh I didn't mean that I well then tell me about yourself not until you told me about yourself oh well that won't take long I'm just the only son who's been kicked out of college got nothing else to do but go to work in my father's business well don't you want us to notify your family no no that won't be necessary I'll write father a letter oh but won't your mother be terribly worried I haven't any mother oh I'm sorry well that's all right I'll adopt your mother while I'm here what do you say well I'm sure mama won't mind o you know you haven't told me a thing about yourself well there isn't much to tell I was born and brought up on a farm oh a farmer's daughter huh oh a farmer's daughter has nice brown hair a farmer's daughter has nice brown hair I guess you're still a little out of your head oh please it was just an old ballad but you have got nice soft Brown down here Mr Conway oh please won't you be just a little friendly and call me by my first name they do that for anyone at The Rotary Club please Mary well Walter you mustn't talk so much geez I've been trying to get you to do the talking most girls do all of it you know I don't believe I've ever met anybody quite like you before well I must be going oh wait a minute tell your mother I want to see her all [Music] right Mama what wants to see you who I mean Mr Conway oh you wanted to see me Mr Conway yes Mrs Alan if I have to stay here for some time I don't want to be a burden for you so won't you let the hospital send over a nurse to kind of keep me propped up in bed and oh my no we couldn't think of doing that Mr Conway Mary and I please make me feel at home and call me water now I know that you and Mary are Splendid nurses but you're so busy won't you at least let me pay my board and keep I have to do that much in the hospital we cannot accept pay I'm sorry if you were please I I didn't mean to offend but I don't want to be a burden to you in any way couldn't have had a more fortunate accident than a fallen in a hands like yours the gods were with me God was with you water you might have been killed yes I know you're so kind you and marry don't talk about it you're getting tired take a little nap now and get your strength back he Scott what is it wat has had an accident anything serious I guess not where is he in The Farmhouse oh good Heavens says they're nice people I had a great uncle who was a farmer once I won't take any money must be funny people shall I cable Miss Shirley yes uh no wouldn't do any good no need spoiling her trip take a letter of water dear son here are the two uh front P of college was to be expected but to hear that uh you were in an automobile accident surprised me CU I thought you could at least drive a car I suggest that you stay there and think things over until you get completely over your traumatic s fix here how do you spell that oh as no uh as oh how should I know accident until you get completely over your accident and longer if the all will have you around they won't let you pay them work it out I've never known a farmer yet who couldn't use plenty of hand I'm too busy to come after you now the sister won't be back for some time yet in the meantime I am sure you're in the best of hands far better than you would be loing around my factory and making love to the girls in the office affectionately your father is that all that's enough isn't it gosh it seems good to get Outdoors once more hurry up w i want you to see my little rabbit they weren't even born when you came and now they're over 2 weeks old come on hey not so fast young fell not so fast don't say honey this one's name is Lucy she's a great great great grandmother why Lucy no wonder you have so many white hairs and this one is Pauline she's going to have some young ones this week my my how can you tell GE wiiz World haven't you ever been on a farm come on over and take a look at my pigeon aren't they Birds they look like birds to me all right Ted hello who's that coming in here oh that's Mr Patterson who's he he owns a feed store in town oh hello t where's your father in the Cow Bar come on let's go and listen to Pop turn him down how do you do Patterson's my name so Ted was telling me Conway's my name I'm glad to know you Mr P hey aren't you the young fell who was in the automobile accident that's me oh there's p h John how was tricked can't complain met my young friend Mr Conway yeah we just shook hands well how's the feed business oh about as usual come over to see if I couldn't sell you some Purina dry and fitting Chow for any cows you have coming in pretty soon not a chance I got plenty of corn and oats left they need more than that John if there's nothing better in my opinion Charlie for a dry cow than good old corn and oat they're good all right but just like a man can't live on bread and butter alone a cow can't uh I don't know been getting pretty good results with that ration for a long time and I give them plenty of it don't I Daniel boo that's the amount so much as the kind of feat you given the count John I said your Purina feeds and they're all right but they're too high you mean the price absolutely no feed ought to cost more than $40 there's a big difference between price and cost job Purina feeds may sell at a little higher price but they cost a lot less on account of the bigger results they produce whatever you call it price or cost it's all the same what I mean is Purina will produce more milk for you at less cost per dollar of feed than other feed you can use I tell you I'm not buying any cow feed right now Charlie you're just wasting your time well you're the doctor oh by the way John looks like Hogs are going to bring pretty good price next fall hope so yep and if a fell can get his Hogs to Market before the rush you ought to get a better price too you're a pig and hog CH will help you do it John I don't know I don't go in much for those fancy hog feeds I figure if you give your Hogs all the corn they want to eat and a little tankage and give them good pastur you get pretty good results yeah I know I've been selling a tankage for some time and I appreciate the business but tankage is only one kind of protein and what a hog needs is different kinds of proteins in just the right amount and that's what you get in Pig and hog jow maybe so but I I'm just not interested I tell you Charlie not now nice looking white legghorns there many birds you got John oh couple of hundred I guess getting pretty good egg production not bad of course the H never lay enough eggs to suit the women folks how about letting me send you out some Pino that'll make him lay not me you got to see the MS about that she takes care of the the ticket wonder if I can here sure she's up in the house now okay I'll go on up where so long john goodbye Tomy how'd you make up Mr Patterson fine come in why Mr Fon good morning folks have a chair here you'll be next to school here's your lunch oh gee will do I have to go to school the first day walk up and around now run along my whatever you're baking sure smells good it's a cake for wet we all to celebra it gu you are pretty lucky young fell to have your accident near the Allen home you're telling me by the way have you ordered your baby cheeks Mrs alen yes and she's getting 250 extra for me well that's pretty nice going to make some money of your own a Mary going to try to and she can too if she really look after them looks like maybe I found two good customers for Purina stara not me Mr peon I've been mixing a starting mesh for years and I've done pretty well with it I don't see why I should change wouldn't be surprised but what the good care you've given your chickens Mrs Allan accounts for your success more than what you fed them Mama certainly does take good care of her chickens all right well I don't neglect them except maybe if you don't mind me saying so not feeding them stara I can't afford stara Mr Pon I got an idea Mary you feed your chicks tartina and your mother will feed her chicks in the regular way and you Pro to her that stara is the cheapest starting feed you can buy when you compare the results you get with it I don't know mother's had pretty good success Mr P well if you don't have chicks weighing on an average of a quarter of a pound more than your mother's weigh at the end of 6 weeks then I don't know what I'm talking about a quar of a pound more absolutely you know this tartina contains Purity A new ingredient that sure makes chicks grow but suppose I didn't beat her and she'd have a laugh on me no the laugh would be on me but I leave that Mr sta you really mean a quarter of a pound more how much Dina would I need well let's see a chick eats only a Thim full of day 250 chicks 6 weeks 2 for chick that's just five sacks A4 of a pound more five I sack I believe I'll try it Mr Patterson I'll be over day after tomorrow that's fine here here's a circular that gives you the whole F program thanks a lot Mary goodbye everybody goodbye goodbye well well well did that fell sell you something but your mother and father were too smart for him I don't know I guess I know what I'm doing I hope so dear but I'm afraid those five sacks of feed are going to cost ask you nearly all you saved up for that party dress oh no but of course anything worth having is worth sacrificing po but I want to go to that dance with OE I've got to have a new dress will you go to the dance with me if I buy you the stara no sir I'll pay for the stara myself somehow you mean that you go to the dance with me anyway I do not I'm going with o in the new dress yes I'll get it somehow I know you can make it out of stara sex don't be silly hey that gives me an idea hello Tom hi Arie howy charie hello Charlie you got some flower seed here for Mrs Manning yep come on in Tom got them inside don't go away Han I'm right back Char some gu well Tom you got a mighty pretty place up there your wife must spend a lot of time with those flowers she certainly does Charlie I hear you a second in the D heard Improvement Association Tom second who's first Chris Swanson by a pretty good margin what that sweet I'll be a son of a gun how does he get away with it that's easy Tom Chris feeds cow Chow same as I've been asking you to do for years not me those Purina feeds may be all you say but you can't sell Tom Manning I guess you're right Tom here are your [Laughter] seeds For Heaven's Sake what's that chicken feed what chicken feed yeah yeah I heard you the first time but sure enough what's it all about well Mr Noy if you must know I'm making some dolls from the stara SS Cable's Art Shop said they'd sell them for me oh I see the theyy a chicken feed with huh yes guys they are cute how'd you make the eyes Buton how long did it take you to make the ears oh about 10 minutes what' you stuff them with cof C oh well I'll tell you what I'll do I'll take six of these right now you will not and I won't let Mr C will s you any either I don't want any help from my friends or anybody else gosh you are different aren't you which little pig is this we've got to have this Bruder nice and clean for those baby chicks they'll be here in 3 days now be sure to brush down all the dirt from the ceiling and the walls and then clean the floor off good hey is there something I can do with those BS on I should say not oh it won't hurt a any well you'll ruin your shoes gee Mary you learn all the D these chicks are going to make you then Daniel scub the floor and the sill with boiling water and this Purina PR effect solution yes sir do I use that crease and F straight or mixed mixed of course use a half pint to two gallons of that hot water gee Mary I wish You' boss me no you weren't cut out for this s of work well you needn't get sore at me I'm serious about wanting to work oh no you're not if you'd ever lived on a farm like ly Manny you'd know what work really is oh is that so well I'll just show you here no if you really want to help go into the house and get one of those two buckets of hot water I left boiling on the stove okay bu there looks great now hey I've got an idea yes let's go to the movie tonight in my car Walter Conway I've got to get up early in the morning oh we'll go to the show early what you doing that Flo Mary I'm soaking this burlap bag in crease effect to make a doat out of it everybody who comes in has to step on this and that'll kill all the germs we pick up with our feet some sanitary chickens well we ought to catch the first show don't you wish you could get away from all this to a cute little place in the city somewhere with a handsome husband coming home to you every evening tell you how beautiful you are and how sweet your soft brown hair smell H don't you I do not and if that's the way you feel about Farm life we won't discuss the matter any further listen I was only kidding Mary but seriously you don't expect to live in the country or listen here Walter Conway you don't know what you're talking about if you've been brought up on the farm the way I have you couldn't even imagine getting any pleasure out of living in a number on a street with thousands of other people like peas in a pod living so close you can hear your neighbors qu and at night street light shut out the Stars overhead you don't know what it is the mother of brood or soft fluffy baby chick watch them grow into big fine pullets well no you don't know what it is to see the baby cows and pigs and coats come and grow into fine strong animals that give you your living of course they're work but when you love them that kind of work is fun hey drop another nickel you sound exactly like my father you would have read the letter he wrote To Me say look what time it is we'll have to hurry is going to like [Music] you no no wait a minute there's a short to be shown too animal Checkers or something like that I saw build out front do you want to see it sure might as well get our money with [Music] what a whale of a difference there is between these two dogs no beast in nature or in domestic life diff so widely from breed to breed in size appearance or usefulness as does man's best friend the dog there are however striking differences between between the breeds of other members of the animal kingdom too for example note the huge shoulders and plump hindquarters of this Aberdine Angus cow you just know she's the type that the best beef steaks are made of now note the lean head angular shoulders and enormous udder of this Holstein cow it's milk and a lot of it that you would expect and get from her take a look at this jungle fowl the ancestor of your modern hen she laid just enough eggs twice year to keep her kind alive but this modern Queen of the poultry house lays five times her own weight in eggs throughout every year and thinks nothing of it though her owner does scientists say that this prehistoric cow couldn't possibly have given more than 1,000 lb of milk a year whereas any cow on the farm today which can't yield at least six times that amount is that to go to the butcher while 12 15 and even 20,000 lb of milk milk are expected of every cow on many dairy farms the process of developing today's unnatural domestic hen from the original natural stocks has been going on in a planned directed way about 200 years today even the average American Barnyard is stocked with animals which have bred into them the capacity for astonishing yield in eggs in milk in beef for yields in pork in Wool with horses bred for work and for racing indeed this idea of breeding for a purpose has in a sense been carried so far that it has almost obscured an equally important phase of stock raising which is feeding for a purpose but when the value of every cow is measured by the amount of milk she gives for a dollar worth of feed when the value of each steer is determined by its weight of the hoop the quality of the beef and the cost of its production when every hen is rated in terms of the number and quality of eggs She lays and the cost of producing them then the practice of poor feeding will be recognized as the arch enemy of good breeding and of your profits alike but in one state alone there are sold some 2,000 poultry fieds where in this Maze of conflicting claims fancy advertising slogan imposing formulas and clever tags is the farmer to turn in his search for scientific feeds that give maximum production to Aid them in their quest for productive feeding practice all Farmers have at their disposal one of the biggest and most completely equipped experimental farms in the world where 600 dairy cows and heers 800 L of pigs 1,000 beef cows and calves 1,000 dogs foxes and rabbits 3,000 beef steers 8,000 shs and Hogs and 100,000 chickens turkeys and Ducks actually have checked and proved every feed and formula and every feeding practice known to students of nutrition the world over let's visit first the poultry unit at the EXP experimental farm and see what the Supreme Court of poultry says about what ingredients or combination of ingredients agrees with their constitution and with your bank account on the Purina experimental Farm feeds are checked by poultry and the opinions of the chickens themselves are what count there to answer the one question of amount and kind of proteins necessary for chick starting feeds a six-year test was conducted involving 81 separate experiments on 50,4 129 chicks with 38,5 separate Wings here is a brooder house that has a capacity of 4,000 baby chicks 85,000 bird have passed through these pens this last year the mortality on all chicks was less than 4% here is a chick weighing 11 oz which is the weight of the average white lean at 6 weeks but here here is a chick weighing 16 oz which is the average weight attained on the experimental Farm in 6 weeks time just look at the difference which scientific research and practical experiments on this Farm offer to every poultry razor who feeds from the checkerboard bag these chicks are bred alike feeding alone has made this difference but the growing pullets on the Purina Farm sound a warning to the poultry razor that though the proper feed for chicken for the first 6 weeks is important care and feeding them must not end there the period after that is equally critical yet it is after that first 6 weeks that so many poultry razors waste a good start see these two pullets both were started alike on stara but at 6 weeks the small one was fed a cheap growing Mash while the big pullet was fed groa they will both be fed the same laying masch past experimental work has shown that in 6 months after starting to lay the little pullet will still not have paid her feed Bill while the big pullet will have paid all expenses and turned in a profit of 73 in other words neglect during the growing period alone very often makes the difference between profit and loss in these laying houses the hands tell their secrets of what feed makes more eggs what feed makes better her eggs what feed keeps Birds healthy and most of all what feed is most economical here were tried tested and double checked such ingredients as alala Leaf meal soybean meal growth tested meat scrap and fish meal biologically tested cod liver oil and finally the newest and probably one of the greatest contributions purtin purtin is a new vital ingredient Green Feed in concentrated form this small glass of liquid is equal to a whole load of green stuff in vitamin A value vitamin A prevents disease lack of vitamin A is what so often causes coal roof and heavy hand mortality together with loss of eggs and profits enough purtin is added to each bag a poultry Chow to step up its vitamin A activity to two and 1 half times more pure vitamin A than any other poultry mesh has ever contained every poultryman is seeking not only more eggs but better quality eggs in the poultry unit was developed Leena the perfectly balanced all Mash ration with which it is possible to produce yolks absolutely uniform in color greater shell strength better flavor higher vitamin content firmer thicker white it is no wonder Le eggs are always in demand and bring higher prices there are more of them in the top grades even more significant is the record of these breeding pans in their first year these Purina fed breeders laid an average of 203 eggs each in their second year 180 4 in the third 195 and in the fourth year 166 eggs this was a total of 748 eggs in 4 years of production or an average of 187 eggs a year compare the record of these Purina fed birds with so many birds that last only one or two laying years [Music] over in this brooda unit of the experimental Farm equally important discoveries have been made in what the proper feeding can do for the hog risers for instance the average Grain Belt farmer weans an average of six pigs per liter it costs him five pigs to pay expens is up to weaning so when he weans six he has one Pig that is clear profit in one season the Purina Farm averaged 7 and 3/4 pigs wean per liter or two and 3/4 pigs over and above expenses you will readily see that there is a lot more profit for the pig and hog Riser who weans two or more extra pigs per lit these two pens of hogs show what is happening on thousands of corn Bel Farms every year the hogs in both pens came from the same lipid both received corn and alala pasture but the hogs on the right received in addition Purina Pig and hog Chow with the result that they weigh twice as much as the hogs on the left the hogs on this farm raised according to the Purina program consistently go to the market at 5 1/2 to 6 months of age weighing 210 to 230 PS thus they reach the desirable Market weight ahead of the rush and so bring a premium price contrast this result with that of many a Grain Belt farmer his Hogs aren't ready for Market until 2 months later they eat two more months feed they cost two more months labor and they make a slower rate of gain then because they reach a glutted market they bring 50 cents 100 or a dollar per hog less market price this extra value often spells the difference between profit and lost these results have been obtained over a period of some years in which some 364 experimental rations have been tried out on some 8,000 Hogs a stack of Purina Pig and hog Chow saves 12 bushels of corn and in this checkerboard bag is the final answer to what supplement grows 100 lb of pork cheaper than any other known