OLLOWING the
lead of Speaker
Nicholas Longworth,
nearly all the Repub.
liecan members of the
house of representa-
tives deserted the ad
ministration and
voted with the Dem-
ocrats for the passage
of the bill increasing
maximum loans on
bonus certificates held
by World war veter-
ans from 22% per
cent to 30 per cent of their face value.
The repudiation of the strongly held
views of President Hoover. and Sec-
retary of the Treasury Mellon was
decisive, the vote being 363 to 39. The
opposition votes were all cast by Re-
publicans. Longworth's activity in be
half of the measure was exerted In
bringing about an agreement in the
rays and means committee.
As soon as the bill was handed up
to the senate its proponents in that
body took steps to hold up nearly all
other legislation in order to get It
through before Friday night. They
were determined that it should not he
killed by a pocket veto, which would
be possible if speedy action were not
obtained. Smoot, Reed and other ad-
ministration senators sought delay in
the hope of finding a compromise that
, Would make the measure acceptable
to the President, but in vain.
The bill was passed by the senate
by a vote of 72 to 12, all the nays be
ing Republicans,
Administration
houses admitted that
hope that a veto by President
could be sustained. Secretary Mel-
lon's arguments against the bill and
the figures he gave as to its cost to
the government were vigorously dis-
puted by many representatives and
senators. In the last year Andy has
lost much of his prestige as a financial
prophet,
The house followed up its passage
of the bonus loan bill by passing with-
out roll calls a bill authorizing the
expenditure of $12,500,000 for con-
struction of veterans’ hospitals and a
bill authorizing the expenditure of
$2,860,000 for additional facilities at
national soldiers’ homes. The hospi-
tal bill Is designed to furnish about
8.300 additional beds.
The house veterans’ committee re
ported favorably a bill for pensions
for widows and children of deceased
World war veterans. The bill is esti-
mated to cost $15,000,000 the first
year and $131,000,000 over a period
of five years. The administration has
sought to prevent action on this legis-
lation at the present session.
Speaker
Longworth
both
there was no
leaders in
the
NACTMENT by congress of the In-
terior department appropriation
bill carrying the $20,000,000 drought
relief loan and its official approval by
the President removed most of the
danger of a special session, despite
the controversy over the veterans’
bonus lean. The passage of the com
promise relief measure was scored as
a victory for Mr. Hoover and bis pol-
Icy of epposition to any federa} ap-
propriatiom that could be interpreted
8s a dole. In the senate the vote on
the bill was €7 to 15; and In the house
a formal vote was not even taken on
the conference report.
S ENATE and house conferees agreed
on a compromise resolution which
provides for government production,
transmission and sale of power at the
Muscle Shoals plant, as in the original
Norris resolution. That measure is
changed only in the part concerning
the nitrate plant By the com-
promise resolution the President is
given one year to amegotiate a lense
of the nitrate plant to a private cor
poration, failing whieh the government
is to begin operation of the plant,
Unless President Hoover abandons
his former stand he will veto the bill.
Soon after March
4 next, Alexander
Legge, chairman of
the federal farm
board, will retire from
that body and hand
over his multitudi-
nous troubles to an-
other. It Is believed
in Washington that
his successor will be
James C. Stone, now
vice chairman of the
board and formerly
an assistant secretary
of commerce. Mr. Stone represents espe-
cially the tobacco interests. Mr. Legge
will resume the presidency of the In-
ternational Harvester company. When
he resigned that office In July, 1029, to
head the farm board at the urgent re
quest of President Hoover, he sald he
could not absent himself from the
company for more than one year.
However, the exigencies of the farm
hoard work Lave prevented his leav-
ing it before this.
At least three other members of the
board may drop out before lung, It is
understood. They are: C, C. Teague,
fruit and vegetables representative,
Samuel R. McKelvie, whent member,
James C,
Stone
and William F,
member,
Almost from the day Mr. Legge took
up his duties as chairman of the farm
board, he has been the center of at-
tack from’ political and grain trading
quarters, While he met these on-
slaughts with a vigorous defense of
the board, it Is conceded that his de
cision to relinquish his dutles with
the government was influenced by the
violent controversy his policies
aroused,
For almost a year Mr. Legge's serv-
lee has been directed toward stabil
izing the wheat market. Opposition
arose In Washington and In parts of
the graln belt the purchasing by
the government of millions of bushels
of surplus wheat to steady the market
and maintain prices,
Schilling, the dairy
to
OSTMASTER
General Walter
irown was the center
of a series of some
what acrimonious dis-
cussions during the
week. In the first
place, he called alr
mail operators into
conference and told
them they would have
to Increase service
and readjudt rates to
meet a deficit esti
mated at £150.000.000
for the next fiscal year. He sald sched.
ules were not being met, connections
at junction points not being completed
and average speed not kept up to
standard. As for rates, the operators
were warned that unless they revised
them, congress would do it.
In his speech to the operators,
Brown warned they could not look for
support from military branches of the
government since these “were not at
all enthusiastic about any part civil
aeronautics might play In any pre
paredness program,” but spoke of such
aid “with some contempt.”
This brought from Rear Admiral
Moffett, chief of the navy bureau of
aeronautics, the statement that he was
sure no one In naval aviation ever
had spoken with contempt about civil
or commercial pilots and alrmen or
what they have accomplished, “We
have the highest respect for them.”
he added, “and believe that they
would be of tremendous value to the
country In time of war.”
About the same time some senators
learned that Mr. Brown and the in
terstate commerce commission were
contemplating making Increases In the
parcel post rates. Declaring this would
cost the American people $£7.000.000,
Senator McKellar of Tennessée of-
fered a resolution asking Mr. Brown
not to make the changes until they
«have been approved by congress. Me-
Kellar and Senator Norris of Nebraska
contended the ralse would be In the
Interest of the express companies
which they sald would get much of
the business now handled by the par-
cel post, McKellar added the In.
creases would be a heavy burden on
the farmers. The resolution was
adopted.
Postmaster
Gen. Brown
RESIDENT HOOVER put his sig-
nature to the bill providing for a
44-hour week for postal employees,
which becomes effective July 1 and
will affect 150,000 letter carriers, of-
fice clerks and railway service men.
The President then announced that
he would ask congress to authorize
the appointment of a special commis.
sion to Investigate ways and means of
placing the Post Office department on
something like a paying basis. In dis
closing his intention Yo take steps to
cut down the annual postal losses the
President pointed out that the Post
Office department faces an estimated
deficit of $100,000,000 for the next
fiscal year,
ENATORS, mostly
Democratic, gave
considerable of their
time for several days
to debating the wet
and dry question. Mil-
lard Tydings of Mary-
land, wet, obtained
the adoption of a res
olution calling on the
Wickersham commis-
sion to forward to
the senate the testl-
mony om which the
commission based Its
recent report on prohibition. Tydings
and some of the dry senators from
the South engaged in acrimonious dis
cussion in the course of which Mor
rison of North Carolina sald some
most uncomplimentary things about
Chairman Rascob of the Democratic
national committee.
Next day Senator Wagner of New
York delivered a prepared speech call.
Ing on the Democratic party to lead
the way to prohibition reform and
attacking the President for “throw-
ing away” the opportunity offered by
the Wickersham report “to lead a
grateful people out of the morass of
criminality, corruption and hyprocrisy
In which we bave been bogged for
eleven years.”
The method of bringing about Im:
Senator
Tydings
proved conditions which the commis.
sion did not discuss was, he sald, that
of state option ander federal control,
He offered a plan under such a meth.
od. He would have repeal, but with a
Joint agreement between federal and
state governments, as part of the
state's repealing action, to gunrantee
state control without the saloon,
FE, THELBERT STEWART, commis.
sioner of labor statistics, pre
sented to the senate committee on
food costs & mass of government sta-
tistics showing a wide discrepancy be
tween the prices pald by consumers
for milk and dalry products and the
prices received by farmers. He sald
the figures showed a very apparent
failure of retali prices’ to follow the
decline of wholesale prices in milk.
The average price of milk In 51 cities
Is 13.8 cents a quart, Stewart sald,
and the farmer is recelving an aver
nge of a little less than 45
cents,
lepresentatives of the dalry indus.
try testified the consumer was receiv.
ing the full benefit of reductions in
the wholesale prices of thelr products,
But Chairmun Capper showed that one
of the companies had averaged profits
of about 20 per cent on its stock dur
ing the last five ye.rs, which, he said,
is about ten times the profit the farm
ers In Kansas get,
price
OUR days of politieal jockeying In
Spain ended with the formation of
a new monarchist cabinet headed by
Admiral Juan Bautista Aznar For
the time being both revolution and the
renewal of a military dictatorship
were avoided, though the fundamental
are not and
Alvarez, leaders of the opposition
had failed to form
Ring Alfonso could
cabinet Is
right monarchists
tives, liberals and
ents represented.
It is
consent
parilament which
reforms In the constitution,
the powers of the throne unimpaired,
Aznar Is the oldest ranking officer In
the Spanish pavy and has not been a
partisan In politics,
V ARIOUS problems
of naval warfare
especially that of the
relative of the
heavily armored hat.
tieship and the air
plane, may be solved
In the greal war game
of the navy which be
gan at the siart of
the week in Panama
waters, The forces
were divided Into the
fleet and the
“Black” fleet. The
former, under command of Vice Ad
miral Arthur L. Willard, fiying bis
flag on the Arkansas, was entrusted
with the defense of the Panama canal
and of a hypothetical Nicaragua canal.
It is the Atlantic or scouting fleet nnd
was reinforced by the alreraft car
riers Saratoga and Lexington and the
dirigible Los Angeles: by planes from
the naval air station nt Coco Solo and
by a big fleet of “V4” submarines
The attacking or “Black” fleet was
not nearly so strong In planes but
more powerful in other respects. It
was commanded by Admiral Frank H
Schofleld. The *“Dlacks™ had about
eighty planes, forty from the aircraft
carrier Langley and the rest from
battleships and a division of new 10.
000-ton “treaty™ cruisers, tried out
for the first time In war operations
with the fleet. This division. composed
of the Northampton, the Salt Lake
City and the Pensacola, was assigned
to Admiral Schofield’s command for
the war problem, though ordinarily
it operates in the Atlantic.
The umpire ship was the Texas,
flagship of Admiral Jehu V. Chase,
commander In chief of the United
States fleet and general director of
the war game.
issues settled. Guerra
both
that
new
governments
The
extreme
CONBerva-
accept
up of
with the
Catalan
made
independ.
Aznar will
of
certain
believed Admiral
to a special
will
session the
make
leaving
value
Vice Admiral
A. L. Willard
rt "”
Hue
N THE Sunday before the be
ginning of Lent the government
of Soviet Russia declared war against
religious influence In the schools, en.
listing all Soviet children In the eam.
paign. The commissariat of educa.
tion In a manifesto said:
“We cannpt allow the morality of
our children to be degraded by re
ligion. The churches recently had
the audacity to creep into our schools
In one school tiny crosses were dis
tributed among pupils”
The commissariat voted frrds for
an issue of circulars calling upon
school teachers to intensify their antl
religious instruction, and it appealed
to the movie trust to produce special
anti-Christian filme for juvenile con
sumption.
HILE the alleged inlquities of
postal leases are still under In.
vestigation, the house gave Its ap
proval to a program for wider federal
ownership of ppstal facilities which
has the backing of the administration.
The bill passed authorizes the ex.
penditure of $45,000,000 for the re
moval of postal activities from leased
quarters into government-owned sub.
stations and garages. It received g
unanimous vote,
EATHS of the week Included
those of Louis Mann, veteran
comedian; Gov. Frank C. Emerson of
Wyoming; W. R. Merriam, former gov.
ernor of Minnesota, and Louls Wol
heim, movie and stage actor. Ma).
Gen. Clarence R. Edwards, commander
of New England troops In the World
war, who died In Boston, was buried
In Arlington National cemetery,
(@ 1931, Western Newspaper Union.)
Beekeeping Best
as One-Man Task
Average Keeper Will Make
Most Profit With 400
Cglonies,
(Prepared by the United Ststes Department
of Agriculture i=—WNU Bervice,
The average beekeeper will make
the most profit if he limits his busi
ness to 400 colonies, the number he
can care for single-handed, the Unit-
ed States Department of Agriculture
says. He may be a first-rate bee han-
dler, but the temperament of a good
beeman generally Is not the tempera
ment for managing employees effi
clently.
What One Man Can Do.
One man can do practically all of
the work required for 850 or 400 col
onles, even during rush seasons, the
department learned by studying for
three years the records of beekeepers
in widely separated regions of the
country. With an aplary of this size,
however, he will need some additional
means of Income, Beekeeping is at
its best, as & supplement
to farming. man In New York
state, who farms 100 acres and cares
for 70 colonies of bees léarned from
experience that a 70-colony aplary is
equivalent to about 40 acres of land
in both income and labor.
One beekeeper, spends little
time in his aplary and is an inefficient
employer of labor, had a labor cost
of more than $6 per colony. He
063 cents a colony one year, and $1.75
the next year. But not all
beemen are po One
1.800)
generally,
One
who
lost
a colony
Ir MADAZErs,
who owns reported a
yield of about 250 pounds of extract
ed honey from and a to
tal income of 823.387 in 1028, or a
net of £11.78 each hour
he worked with the He hires
labor and knows how to use jt. Other
beemen have reported returns of $2.40
to 85.50 an hour for their time In the
aplary.
good
colonies
each colony
income for
bees,
Studied.
has studied bee
in Colorado, Wyo
Practices
epartment
ractices
. Idaho, Montana, lows, New
vignn and Minnesota,
he next few years the depart-
Ohlo
complete its nation-wide
dvi beekeeping on the
ying
in the Dakota plaine, In
in Plowing for Crops
yi ne or Associate
r of Boils, State
Agricuitoral Ceo
The largest item of expense in pro-
ducing cereal and annual forage crops
is tillage.
The most tillage
tions are plowing and cultivating.
Reduction in depth or frequency of
plowing, or number of cultivations
necessary for economic mate
rinlly reduces the cost of raising the
crop.
Plowing deeper
cereals or
crops—is never warranted,
Timeliness plowing is
important factor In
July-plowed ground
bushels the acre more
tember-plowed ground.
Nitrogen conservation is the thing
for which the farmer plows, not mols
ture conservation,
The dust mulch Is no longer consid-
ered a useful practice,
Caltivation sufficient to keep down
weeds is all that is ne wssary-—addi-
tional plowing Is wasted.
Efficient tools, especially power
equipment, is of utmost value in till
age In the light of discoveries as to
the value of timeliness in plowing.
SEWELL,
Kansas
lege.)
important opera
yields,
inches for
root
than six
row crops—excepting
the
tillage
eight
Sep
“early
wheat
produced
than
to
Soy Bean Hay Equal in
Feed Value to Alfalfa
At the Indiana station soy bean hay
proved to be about 8 per cent infe-
rior to alfalfa. At the South Dakota
station results from a similar test in-
dicated soy bean hay to be 8 per cent
better than alfalfa for dairy cows, At
the West Virginia station soy bean
hay proved to be slightly superior to
alfalfa for milk production, and at
the Tennessee station it was quile a
bit superior. At the Wisconsin sta-
tion, In one case, milk production was
slightly larger when alfalfa was fad
as compared with soy bean hay, The
weights of the cows were also slightly
better maintained on the former than
on the latter. In another test at the
game station the two hays were prac
tically equal in feeding value, but
more of the soy bean hay was wasted
by the cows than of the alfalfa.
Thus we see that on the whole soy
bean hay, when well cured and cut at
the right time, is practically equal In
feeding value to good alfalfa.
Intensive Campaign to
Control Oriental Moth
Growers In the section in which the
orienta] fruit moth is already present
fare preparing to wage an Intensive
campaign to control this pest during
the coming season,
As ‘the opening gun In battle the
growers will give their orchards a
deep thorough cultivation. This kills
those that pass the winter in the soll.
This is quite a per cent of the total
number that live over.
The other methods of control which
are suggested by those who have
worked on this insect will be used lat.
or in the season. It will be a hard
battle but unless the grower wins, this
year's crop In these sections seriously
tufected will be worth almost nothing.
"e
’
Loss of Potatoes
Careful Regulation of Tem-
perature Is Important.
(Prepared by the United States Department
of Agriculture. )~-WNU Bervice,
Wastes and losses of potatoes in
storage can be prevented in great part
if growers and dealers adopt the stor.
age methods which the United States
Department of Agriculture recom
mends. These Include careful regula-
tion of the temperature of the storage
room, controlled ventilation, and ex-
clusion of light, Dr. William Stuart,
potato specialist of the Wureau of plant
industry, has just revised Farmers’
Julletin B47-F to Include Information
developed since the bulletin was first
issued In 1017.
The all-year demand
has always necessitated storage of
considerable of the crop,
many and dealers have
that considerable waste in
storage was Inevitable. Sclentifie in-
vestigation has demonstrated that
much of the loss Is preventable, Stor-
age under favorable conditions offers
several advantages; it assures a more
uniform market supply, preserves
table quality, and protects the vitality
of seed,
Doctor Stuart emphasizes the value
of temperature to suit
the storage stages of the potato. “If
he says,
se somewhat Immature,
temperature of
first ten days
rel
tissues will
brief
for potatoes
quantities
and
believed
ErOowers
changing the
newly harvested potatoes”
Hy the
are sub to
about 60 d
of
rees for the
the st (¢ period in a
sy hut y, the injured
heal over."
After the
of storage at OO
iid
quickly
period degrees
temperature shot be reduced
about 40 d
two or three d then held at
about 38 deg
B4T-F,
rage Houses”
talls r srature reg-
ulation, light ex , and other fac-
Storage and Sto gives de-
desir potato stor
tors
gives practical su sstions for con-
struction of storage houses,
obtained free by applying to the office
of information,
ment of
D. C.
Early Plowing Favored
for Best Soy Bean Crop
AS a general rule, the ground should
be plowed for soy beans,
results of tests by the Ohio agricul
silat
tural
farm
experimen
of
“There are a
rule,”
tins issued by the ex-
periment 8 “as the soil
is naturs loose and when a good
seed bed can be prepared by disking.”
Experiments at Wooster have yield-
10.58 bushels of
to the acre on disked
corn land, while plowed corn
stubble land yi 15.79 bushels of
grain and 2,002 pounds of straw,
Early plowing is
the better practice, since it gives time
for the seed bed to settle and oppor
tunity to kill one crop of weeds be.
fore the soy beans are planted. Late
plowing in a dry season may leave the
soll so loose and dry that germination
will be poor and the early growth of
Many growers
soy beans be-
not plant
corn is in the
Crops ment the
few
Bays
State }
exceptions
one
of the
when
ed
pounds of straw
stubble
ided
the soy beans stunted.
prepare the seed bed for
fore that for corn, but
the soy beans until the
ground.
do
Check Machinery Before
Opening of Season’s Work
With the severe conditions under
which chains operate on most farm
machinery they should be carefully
checked before the opening of a new
season's work. Proper alignment of
sprockets should always be main-
tained In order to prevent side-pull
causing excessive wear on the sides
of sprocket teeth, Worn sprockets
should be replaced when new chains
are placed on drivers to prevent a
difference in pitch giving improper
chain action and causing excessive
strains on chains,
Proper adjustment and oiling are
also essential. Too much tension
places unnecessary loads on the bear
ings and chain. Rusty chains should
be cleaned with kerosene or light oil
When running they should be bri
cated occasionally with a good grade
of oll
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Agricultural Hints
Fe lmbdeiedededelededeeedeiede idee
Kale can be picked in the garden
all winter. You might try a few plants
another year.
*. 9 »
Forest trees have just as many In-
sect and fungus enemies as orchard
trees and field plants.
Le -
Red raspberries are the hardlest of
the brambles, blackberries being most
susceptible to adverse climate,
. » »
Look over thh garden tools and give
them a coating of ofl so they won't be
dull and rusty when you want them.
. 8s »
To get better pollination in a single
variety pear orchard, top-work some
trees to Bose, Kieffer, Anjou, or Clapp
Favoi ite.
" . ® »
In planning next year's work, try a
system which will include several of
the crops most profitable In the region
over a period of years
SICKENS—GET
RID OF ITI
Bour stomach, Indigestion, gas, nse
ually mean excess acid, The stome
ach nerves have been over-stimulate
ed. Food sours in the
Cogrect excess i i
The best form of alkall is Phill
Milk of Magnesia, It works instantly,
Your
OUEDess
stomach,
acid wit
The stomach becomes sweot,
heartburn, he, bi
or Indigestion hag van
Phillips’ Milk of Mam
pleasant way-—the eflicient
relieve the effects
Ph Hips’ Milk of Magnes;
standard with
years, 20c¢ and H0¢ be
gists,
gas, he
of ovoer.a
been
over 5D
at drug-
doctors for
tities
Now the Fox Rustler
The cattle rustier m
but another form
Ve loped i
Idatio fox grow
by thieves
pens nad steal
Bands
largest
ver
worth £2
of do
theft
foxes and
JEM
ng injur
ARANTEED,
Boschee’s
Syrup
His Task
At all
druggists
Marine Marvel
ng enough
body.
He Is a ger
ure Is kine
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