Kalona High School - Centerika Yearbook (Kalona, IA)

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ALUMNI NEWS CLASS OF ’33 Nadine Bontrager, now Mrs. Clarence Hershberger is a farmer’s wife and mcther of two husky boys, Loran and Bobby. Velma Swartzendruber, now Mrs. Ernest Yoder, is also a farmer’s wfie and has lots of help now as she has two girls, Betty and Dorothy Darlene, Darlene Fry, now Mrs. Victor Hess, is a farmer’s wife and has two daughters, Jeanene and Vicki Jolene. Eldon Kesselring is now Corporal Kesselring at Seattle, Washington. He is in the Military Police Force. He is at present on guard at the Columbia Steel Plant. In ’42 he married Margaret Burnett. Mena Gingerich is working in Marengo at the Watts hospital. She has been there the last three years as an assistant office nurse. Harold Reber is working in a defense plant at Davenport. He married Dorothy Meyers in California in 1939. They have a small daughter Margaret Joann. Delmar Ruegsegger is a farmer lad on his father’s farm. He married Illa Hin- dahl and they have two daughters, Patty and Lorna. Guess Delmar runs a combine for neighbors in spare time. CLASS OF ’38 Alva Grout is another of Certer’s alumni serving in the United States army. Lucille Swartzendruber is staying at home with her parents. She frequently at- tends Center’s activities. Lois Erb is taking nurse’s training at Mercy hospital in Iowa City. Dorothy Gingerich is an employee of one of the Kalona Department Stores. CLASS OF ’42 John Miller is a student at Hesston college. Bernard Hershberger is staying at home assisting his father on the farm.

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FARMING IN THE FUTURE ae ae aes 4 faas Probably about one of the first changes in the future for the American farmer will be the machinery. As for the tractor, you wouldn’t recognize it if you saw it. it will be a streamlined affair with the seat diiectly above the front wheels tor betcer vis.bility. For mcre power, the motor will be in the back of the tractor and it will drive a set of caterpillar tied wheels. ‘these wheels will be spaced evenly so they will be suitable for row crop farming. ‘lhe motor will have no pistons or crank sharts but will be of the new supercharged type which is smaller and lighter. It wiil burn airplane fuel, have much more power and will be capable of going fifty miles per hour. The treads for the back wheels will be made ot rubber, reinrorced with steel to prevent stretching. The cab will be enclcsed by plastic and equipped with a heater, windsh-eld wiper and radio of the type the army uses, commonly called the ‘walkie talkie.’’ Thus way the farmer can tell his wife, on the two way radio, when he is coming in from ees but he can see more and see better than if he were on the type of tractor we nuw ave. Future farm planners think they will put the cart before the horse, that is, putting all the machinery in front of the tractor. The special equipment for this tractor won’t have any wheels. These future planners says the tractor wastes too much fuel and power pulling the implements. Mowers, combines, corn pickers, corn planters, all wil be mounted in front of the tractor. All these tools will have a hydraulic control in the cab to operate the attachments. Other new machines may come into existence that we never heard of before. Some of these new machines h.ay chcp up corn stalks and sod so fine you can hardly see them. The farmers will probaly lime their fields with ai:planes. The farm museuin may get quite a collection when the forage harvester donates the pitchfork, hayfcrk, slings, and ensilage cutter. With corn cutting attachments, this harvester would soon pay for itself. A new all crop blower, has also been thought of. This blower would blow ensilage, corn, oats, or any crop for that matter, into a bin. A new attachment for the tractor will be made to pick up bales of hay or straw and load them into a truck or wagon. A one man pick-up baler that would roll up a bale like a carpet and tie it with twine is also on its way. The bales would be small enough to be handled with a pitchfork and would just need to be unrolled for feeding. The farmer, possibly may fly to the city in a special type cf plane built for that purpose. When the farmer wants to go to the city, he will drive his plane out of the hangar and take off for the city from his barnyard. He’ll land at the city airpcrt; press a button to fold the wings from view and drive down the street. He'll call the city when he wants to ship a carload of cattle to New York and tell them to send a cargo plane out right away because he wants to get his cattle to New York befo-e the prices go down. In ten minutes the cargo plane will land. Possibly fifty head of catue will be herded into it. He’ll do h’s chores and after supper go to the city to get his check. These cargo planes will carry everything that our semi-trucks carry ncw. When it comes to cleaning the barn that won’t be so hard because there will be @ push-button cleaner. This will be an endless track or belt in the barn gutter, which will drop the watses in the manure spreader immediately. When it comes to the other stables there will be a small portable machine to elimi- nate the heavy lifting for the farmer. ‘The farmer will operate it just like a crane. This portable machine can be used to clean other buildings too. The farmer’s buildings may be few and large. What we commonly call the barn will in the future hold all the machinery, livestock, poultry, hay and grain. In this new building, the grain will be stored in the “cellar” which is air conditioned. All the machinery and livestock will be located on the first floor. The poultry will be located on the second floor with an inclined plane leading to it from the outside. On the third floor, the baled hay and straw will be kept. There will be an electric elevator to reach from the cellar to the hay mow, so you won't have to be climbing ladders all the time. Possibly there will be a special building for the airplane. Then will come the house. The only thing that won’t change with the house is that it will still be a place to live. There will be a tunnel leading from the house to the barn, with a branch leading to the hangar. This will be made so that you don’t have to wade mud and snow. Don’t be surprised at anything, because the fields may become circular so you cen increase your speed. The barn will be equipped with a vacuum blower to draw the bales of hay and straw into the mow. The machines and buildings will be built of new metals and plastics which are lighter and stronger. After the war new things will be appearing one by one and within a few years we may have everything or mcre than what I’ve already mentioned. Such will be the future. —Samuel Spicher, °45

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