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THE PERKINS JOURNAL, Thursday, April 5, 2012 - A5
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THE H00rORY
• On April 13, 1742, George
Friedrich Handel's "Mes-
sial]" premieres in Dublin.
Although singing the ora-
torio has become a Christ-
mas tradition the Messiah
received its world premiere
during the Christian season
of Lent. Handel composed
the score for Messiah in
just 24 days.
• On April 14, 1818, Noah
Webster, a Yale-educated
lawyer with an avid interest
in language and education,
publishes his American
Dictionary of the English
Language. The dictionary,
which took him more than
two decades to complete,
introduced more than
10,000 "Americanisms."
Block and Tackle
Perkins settlers built their homesteads through the
application of human and animal muscle. Block and
tackle systems greatly increased the #---.,
power these muscles could bring to bear
in moving and lifting heavy objects.
A block is a case into which one or
more pulley wheels or sheaves are
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fastened.
Blocks
are designated as
single, double or triple depending upon
the number of sheaves in each block.
Essentially, block and tackle systems
allow a large force to be applied over a
short distance by applying a smaller
force over a longer distance. A system / II
with a mechanical advantage of four
would lift one hundred pounds with only
twenty-five pounds of tension on the
hauling line, but the line would have to
be pulled four feet to lift the load one
foot. Blocks having more sheaves
produced greater mechanical advantage,
but required the hauling line to be pulled
further to achieve it.
Single and
If a load needed to be pulled Double Blocks
horizontally, the mechanical advantage
could-be increased if the tackle was "rove to
Rope-locking
Block
advantage." This meant arranging
the blocks so that the hauling line
was pulled in the same direction that
the load was to be moved. There
were situations where "roving to
disadvantage" might be desirable.
One of these was in lifting from a
fLxed point overhead where the
weight of the individual doing the
pulling partially offset the weight of
the load.
The Farm Tool and Equipment
Collection at the Oklahoma
Territorial Plaza is in need of
matched sets of wooden blocks of
any sheave count. The original rope
does not have to be present, ff you
can help in this matter or if you need
further information, please call
Bob or Norma Constien at 405
547-5057.
• On April 12, 1861, the
Civil War begins when
Confederate shore batter-
ies under General P.G.T.
Beauregard open fire on
Union-held Fort Sumter in
South Carolina's Charles-
ton Bay. During the next
34 hours, 50 Confederate
guns and mortars launched
more than 4.000 rounds at
the poorly supplied fort.
• On April 10, !906, O.
Henry's second short-
story collection, "The
Four Million," is pub-
lished. O. Henry was the
pen name adopted by
William Sydney Porter.
Porter began writing in
the late 1880s but didn't
apply himself seriously
until 1898, when he was
jailed for embezzling from
a bank in Austin, Texas.
• On April 15, 1924, Rand
McNally releases its first
comprehensive road atlas.
The first version was
called the Rand McNally
Auto Chum. Today Rand
McNally is the world's
largest maker of atlases
in print and electronic
media.
• On April 11, 1945, the
American Third Army
liberates the Buchenwald
concentration camp near
Weimar. Germany. Buch-
enwald will be judged
second" only to Auschwitz
in the horrors it imposed
on its prisoners. Among
those saved by the Amer-
icans was Elie Wiesel,
who would go on to win
the Nobel Peace Prize in
1986.
• On April 9. 1969, the
Chicago Eight, indicted
on federal charges of con-
spiracy to cross state lines
with intent to incite a riot
at the 1968 Democratic
convention in Chicago,
plead not guilty. The trial
turned into a circus as
the defendants and their
attorneys used the court
as a platform to attack
President Richard Nixon,
the Vietnam War, racism
and oppression.
(c) 2012 King Features Synd., Inc.
4 ¸ / • #
By Charles Wall
I will share some items
of information about feed
grinders and hammer
mills.
One hundred years ago
most farmers didn't own an
engine of tractor to provide
power for a feed grinder,
but apparently they used
grinders that were oper-
ated by hand.
I located sale bills for two
auctions that took place on
the farm by the river the
Wall family has now.
Bill McKinley's sale was
November 25, 1912. Listed
with his equipment was a
Marseilles feed grinder.
H. Bohn sold out Janu-
ary 27, 1920. He also had
a feed grinder (This was at
the time the Wall family
bought the farm and moved
there).
Neither Mr. McKinley
nor Mr. Bohn listed an
engine on their sale bill so
I am going to assume their
feed grinders were horse
powered.
During the 1930's, farm-
ers increasingly began to
own tractors. The tractors
had belt pulleys that could
transmit power with a long
flat endless belt. This
made it easier to run feed
grinders as well as thresh-
ing machines, hay presses,
ensilage choppers, water
well pumps, and other
machines.
Last week I wrote about
the hammer mill we had.
This mill was typical of the
feed grinders of the 1940's
and 1950's. Tractors with
belt pulleys were used to
power these machines.
In the late 1950's. some
other improvements began
to be made. The hammer
mill was put on a two-wheel
trailer which was hitched to
a tractor and run with the
tractor power-take-off. The
machine also had a built in
feed mixer. There was
another conveyor where
a person could put in pro-
tein supplements, salt, and
mineral. This would then
be mixed with the ground
grain. This machine was
called a grinder-mixer. We
have and use one of these
machines.
Now I will tell you about
another grinder-mixer.
Parker Norton was an ag
teacher at Stillwater High
School. From that position
he took on the Ford tractor
dealership at Stillwater.
To diversify his business,
he bought a grinder-mixer
that was mounted on a
truck. It even had a tank
of heated molasses that
could be mixed into the
feed. Molasses is used in
livestock feed to make it
more palatable.
The machine had a con-
veyor into which the opera-
tor could scoop the grain.
There was another place to
pour in the protein supple-
ment and the mineral. It
had an unloading auger to
discharge the finished feed
into a bin.
Parker had his shop fore-
man, Jay Vaughn, to run the
mill. Jay had a scheduled
route and would go from
farm to farm to grind
and mix feed for people.
Several dairies in our area
were on the route. Other
livestock operations were
also on the route.
For our dairy we sched-
uled the grinding for every
two weeks. Our day was
on Friday. We wOuld have
the ear corn ready, either
in a trailer or in a bin. Jay
would scoop in into the
conveyor and grind it up.
He had a scoop shovel
with a long handle. We
would have him grind two
batches. We would have
him put in two 50-pound
bags of cottonseed meal
and one bag of mineral-
ized salt in each batch.
We had molasses added tO
each batch.
When Parker Norton
retired from the Ford Trac="
tor dealership, he sold the
grinder mixer unit to Jay
Vaughn. Then after a while
Jay sold it to his son-in-law
Jerry Baker who ran it quite
a while.
When other methods
of feed preparation came
into use, this business was
discontinued, but it was
a good beneficial service
while itoperated.
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LEGAL NOTICE
Legal notice published in The Perkins
JournalApr. 5 and Apr. 12, 2012
NOTICE OF SALE
Post Oak Investments, LLC, DBA
First Class Self Storage, will sell at .
pubic auction the contents of unit #
430 at its Perkins, Oklahoma loca-
tion to satisfy its lien against the
property stored by Sean Adkins,
2420 E 12th Ave., Stillwater, Ok.
The auction will be held at 3:00
p.m. on Saturday Apd121, 2012 at
the following location:
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417 W. Freeman
Perkins, Oklahoma
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