"You'll Have to Bake 

 Bread" 



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is 4 years old and as he says, "is in the 

 goat business." His uncle gave him two 

 goats and two black lambs. They get 

 more than their share of attention and 

 to the casual observer would seem to be 

 about as spoiled as critters like that can 

 get. But, Tom says he's in business and 

 it's hands off for the rest of the fam- 

 ily- 



■ The Dryden home is modern in every 

 respect. There is electric power and a 

 modern bathroom. Mrs. Dryden raises 

 Plymouth Rocks and at present has bet- 

 ter' than a hundred young pullets. There 

 are several good work horses and some 

 graded cows to furnish milk for fam- 

 ily use. 



But, all in all, the interesting thing 

 is that this Dryden fellow says he was 

 never happier in his life and is getting 

 ahead. What seemed to be a blow to him 

 when he was p!ain every day "fired" 

 for bumping another electric train has 

 turned out to be a blessing in disguise. 

 Who knows but if that fog hadn't set- 

 tled down over Halsted Street, J. M. 

 Dryden might yet be pushing trains and 

 wishing he was back on the farm? 



Mrs. Dryden has a slight gleam in her 

 eye when she talks about it. She says 

 she's happiest on the farm. And does 

 she bake wonderful bread! 



Find Packers "Trade" 

 ' Price Information 



Charges against the St. Louis In- 

 dep«»d«nt Packing Co., for price fixing, 

 «pj»«rtloning of territory, and related 

 practices in the merchandising of meats 

 were recently dismissed . by the Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture following an order 

 for 11 packing companies to desist from 

 euch operations. The practices involved 

 principally the exchange of information 

 which led to the establishment of prices 

 resulting in undue advantage to certain 

 persons and prejudicial to public inter- 

 ests. In the 176 page report. Secretary 

 Wallace indicated that the companies had 

 already ceased the practices which re- 

 gulted in the charges, but that the order 

 to desist was issued as insurance that 

 puch practices would not be renewed. 



Cooperative associations of farmers 



have clearly demonstrated the soundness 

 of the cooperative way of doing busi- 

 ness by coming through the depression 

 without a failure of major importance. 

 Dr. F. B. Bomberger, president of the 

 Baltimore Bank for Cooperatives, said 

 recently. 



Protest Scrapping of 

 M. & St. L. /branch 



Farmers Are Scarce 



in "Independence" 



Council 



The so-called Farmers' Independence 

 Council has been drastically deflated as 

 a farm organization by the Senate Lobby 

 Committee. On April 14, testimony given 

 by witnesses indicated that the organ- 

 ization has been financed almost entirely 

 by processors of farm products, and lead- 

 ing industrialists. 



This outfit has been masquerading as 

 a "farm" organization, with Dan Case- 

 ment of Kansas as the "front." Casement 

 is a well known stockman who is said 

 to have inherited a good deal of wealth 

 from his father, a prominent railroad 

 builder. Dan suddenly experienced a 

 grreat urge to "save" the liberties of the 

 farmers of this country from Henry Wal- 

 lace and the AAA. He has fought al- 

 most as hard against the Soil Conserva- 

 tion Act as against the AAA. 



Among those who made donations to 

 the Farmers' Independence Council were 

 the following: 



Lammot du Pont, $5,000. 



J. N. Pew, Jr., of the Sun Oil Company, 

 $2,000. 



Arthur Beeter, attorney for Swift & 

 Company, |3,500. 



Alfred P. Sloan, Jr., President of Gen- 

 eral Motors, $1,000. 



Winthrop W. Aldrich, chairman of the 

 board of the Chase National Bank of 

 New York, $500. 



G. E. Baldwin of the Libby, McNeill & 

 Libby Company, $1,500. 



J. D. Cooney, attorney for the Wilson 

 Packing Company, $1,500. 



A. C. Corbishley of Swift & Company, 

 $1,000. 



A. G. Leonard, Union Stockyards, Chi- 

 cago, $250. 



The organization has never commanded 

 a farm following of any size and the 

 new revelations have served to make it 

 completely ridiculous when it attempts' 

 to convince the public that it is the 

 mouthpiece of farm sentiment. 



A protest against dismefnberment of the 

 branch line of the Minneapolis and St. 

 Louis railroad from Oskaloosa, Iowa, to 

 Peoria at a hearing in Minneapolis April 

 14 was filed by G. W. Baxter, director 

 of transportation for the I. A. A. Mr. 

 Baxter also represented the Illinois Grain 

 Corporation, Illinois Farm Supply Co., 

 and various County Farm Bureaus. 



The I. A. A. pointed out that the dis- 

 memberment of the M. and St. Louis line, 

 which parallels the C. B. and Q. railroad 

 would deprive this line of its present 

 tonnage moving from the Twin Cities to 

 Peoria. 



It was also shown that any traffic the 

 C. B. and Q. railway might obtain from 

 the Twin Cities would move over their 

 present lines, and that the acquisiti«n 

 of the M. and St. Louis railroad would 

 not be to the best interests of the 'com- 

 munity. It was asserted that such a ^ove 

 would ultimately lead to the abandonment 

 of the line leaving many industries, in- 

 cluding farmers' elevators, service com- 

 pany bulk plants, etc., in which farmers 

 are vitally interested, without adequate 

 transportation. 



Danes Are Smart 



Cut Pork Surplus 



By reducing their hog numbers 47 

 per cent to January 1. 19.35. and by 

 maintaining production in line with ac- 

 tual market requirements since that time, 

 the Danish hog industry is on a sounder 

 economic basis than exists in any other 

 hog producing country in Europe. 



This is the result of measures adopted 

 by the Danish government early in 1933 

 to meet a situation which made a re- 

 duction in Danish hog numbers imper- 

 ative. The factors included a marked in- 

 crease in hog numbers — an all time 

 high of 5,500,000; low prices as a result 

 of increased Baltic and Dutch competi- 

 tion in the British market; and the im- 

 position of restrictions on the imports 

 of cured pork into Great Britain to 

 which about 80 percent of Danish bacon 

 and pork products were exported. 



The new plan adjusts hog production 

 to actual foreign and domestic market 

 requirements, liquidates the hog surplus, 

 and maintains home market prices at 

 British levels. Under it, the Government 

 and industry, acting jointly, fix one 

 price to be paid for a given number of 

 hogs and a much lower price for all 

 others (surplus hogs). The plan does 

 not directly restrict production, but it 

 influences it by fixing the number of 

 hogs which each producer may deliver 

 to bacon factories at the higher price. 



HAY> 1936 



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