Description: Yes we combine shipping for most multiple item purchases.Add multiple items to your cart and the combined shipping total will automatically be calculated. 1960 Thurston County WA Del Hastings Family Starvation Farm - 4 Page Article Original, vintage magazine article. Page Size: Approx. 8" x 11" (21 cm x 28 cm) each pageCondition: Good Nobody will runTHISfamily out!Del Hastings shows howa man of limited means canPhotos-. Marshall Lockmon, Block Starmake it, even on a place oncecalled Starvation Farm"FROM THE WAY THEY GO AT IT, you know they enjoy it,” Farm Journal’s Streeter and Lorang agreed afterwatching each boy do his part of the chores. Grant, 7, doles out grain; Mark, 13, captains the milking crew,with David, 8, going ahead and washing the udders. “They know they’re helping pay for our home,” Del says.BOTH SIDES WERE THE SAME when the Hastings took over 84 acres of Scotchbroom and gravel. "We didn’t haveenough feed for 19 cows in ’52,” Del says. “Now we can grow enough roughage and most of the grain for 50.”B V G L E N 1\ L 0 R A N G of Farm Journal's Western Field StaffDOES the moderate-size dairyman have a future? Well,some of ’em do, I’m convinced, after a visit to theDel Hastings farm in Thurston County, Wash.What’s Del got? Not much, you might say, if you justdrove by the place. He’s on just 84 acres of Class 4 land—so poor that the neighbors used to call it “StarvationFarm.” It wasn’t much but gravel and Scotchbroom to startwith, and a century of cropping had worn it out beforeDel got it.The buildings aren’t much—a 1913 model house, arough, unpainted loafing shed for the cows and a concreteblock milking barn made over from a turkey brooder house.But Del has a lot of assets you don't see untilyou look harder:1.A happy, hard-working family that’s getting a realkick out of farming and living together—six boys and threegirls, ages 10 months to 15 years. I’ve never seen a moreeffective chore crew, nor a livelier one, nor a happier one.2.Really good cows. The 27 polled Holsteins in themilking herd last year averaged 17.129 lbs. of milk and615.7 lbs. fat. In both 1957 and 1958, the Hastings herdlopped the Thurston-Mason DHIA. “We’ll produce half amillion pounds of milk in 1960,” Del predicts. I’m surethey will.3.High-producing hay and pasture land. One 15-acreladino-orchard grass pasture carried 35 cows from April 1to Nov. 1 last year. Del’s red clover and ryegrass hay landproduced 41/2 to 5% tons of 18.7% protein hay per acre.4.A willingness to learn and to accept good ideasfrom others. With a combination like that. I’m betting noone runs Del Hastings and family out of the dairy business.I doubt that they can beat his costs.He feeds well, but he’s got a cushion—his own and hisfamily’s labor, which he can almost donate temporarilythrough any period of tough times, as against the more in-flexible costs of the big operator who hires help.I don't believe they can beat his determination. AndI’m sure nobody will get any more real enjoyment out offarming. That kind of dairyman. I claim, has a future.The Hastings sold 485.000 lbs. of milk last year for agross of $16,780. Their feed costs and overhead, includingtaxes and the mortgage, added up to about $11,000 to leavea labor return of $6,000. I know plenty of farmers who'dgladly settle for that!But it didn’t come easy.“It’s been a starvation set-up for seven years.” saysDel. “But now we can really see our way clear, and wewouldn't do it any other way. We’re raising our family inthe country the way we want to.”For seven years, the Hastings have lived in a goldfishbowl with the whole county looking on. They agreed to lettheir place be used as a demonstration farm to show other... 15245-AL-6004-77
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