The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, March 26, 1929, Page 10

ae By RODNEY DUTCHER (NEA Service Writer) Washington, March 26.—You can't beat the Department of Agriculture when it comes to finding out things. Its only rival is the Department of Commerce and almost anyone would agree that what the Department of Agriculture finds out is more inter- esting than what the Department of Commerce finds out. Every day the Department of Agri- culture announces something or other and sometimes several things at once. It has just recently estimated that the farm population of the country dropped from 32,000,000 men, women and children in 1909 to 27,511,000 in 1929, despite an excess of farm births over farm deaths. A month ago it announced that we produced nearly 17,000,000,000 pounds of meat during 1928 and that only an abundance of pork production of which increased 854,000,000 pounds over 1928, prevented a possible meat shortage last year, although per cap- ita meat consumption dropped 1.7 pounds. ** * ‘The department has also recently discovered and announced that: Cat- tle-breeding operations in Taylor county, Kentucky, are now on a strictly purebred bull basis, following an organized drive against scrub and grade bulls. The Interstate Early Potato Com- mittee has appointed A. E. Meeker as its executive secretary Approximately 239,000,000 pounds of whole milk, in the form of milk powder, milk condensed and evapor- ated milk, was used last year in the manufacture of milk chocolate. Also 452,556 pounds of butter. Grasshoppers will make trouble for farmers in some sections of the mid- dle west this season, the extent of trouble depending on the weather. Farmers should go out and look for grasshopper eggs and prepare to kill the young grasshoppers with poisoned bran if they find very many eggs. Farmers are warned against a feeling of false security. xe * Agriculture is at the dawning of a TRIBUNE’S P tentment, following the maladjust- ment of the agricultural mechanism caused by the great war. Education is the key. It has brought about better agricultural conditions and must play an important part if such conditions are to be perpetuated and further improved. Farmers in doubt about the “dawning of a new day” may consult Dr. A. F. Woods, the Agriculture Department's director of scientific work. | A local creamery should have trib- utary to it a supply of 160,000 pounds of butterfat a year, which would re- quire nearl; 900 average cows. The chief cause of creamery failures is an inadequate supply of milk. Shell eggs imported into the United Kingdom after April 21 must be stamped with an indication of origin, under an order in council issued at Buckingham Palace. This applies to both hen and duck eggs in the shell. Some dealers in berry boxes are | trying to make sales by telling pros- pective customers that the boxes they are selling hold less than other berry boxes. Growers are warned to pay no attention to such claims. There is very little difference in the capacity of berry boxes turned out by different factories. x ek OX The prickly pear as grown in the four states bordering on Mexico is a silage crop that keeps without need of a silo and has proved a valuable stock feed, especially at time of drought on the range. The reindeer herds of Alaska now number more than 500,000 animals. Reindeer are not included in the Federal Meat Inspection Act, though reindeer meat and by-products are being shipped to the United States each year in increasing quantities. Recent developments in the butter and egg business include dressing of poultry at packing establishments, use of paper containers in retailing milk and cream, the increasing use of canned chicken products and the rapidly expanding biisiness in frozen eggs. Tank trucks hauling milk in bulk are steadily replacing the once sew day, a day of hope and con- familiar milk can. Crystal an- “Of course, Tony!” awered, rather faintly. “That's a promise, and I'm going to make you keep it, Crys, though I admit I'm a brute to ask it. Listen! I want you to vamp Dick Talbot this week-end till he’s ga-ga about you.” Sudden color flamed ‘n Crystal's almost transparent cheeks. “I can’t do that, Tony. Oh, I don't mean I won't, but I can’t. I'm no good at vamping; you know that. You—” the painful flush deepened—‘You've seen me try, before—before I ran away.’ “Oh, I don't mean the obvious stuff, like being coy, and cutting your eyes and fluttering your lashes,” ‘Tony corrected her with almost brutal frankness. “I know as well as you do, that you'll never be able to pull that line again. But—something far more subtle. Look! This is the way Dick is. He's so conceited that he simply can’t bear to be ignored by a girl. I've seen him go to the most ridiculous lengths to prove to himself that he's irresistible... . Don't I love him though?” she thrust in paren- thetically, her usually gay young i edged with bitter sarcasm. Of course it worked— every darned time. The only trouble was, the silly things couldn't hold out long enough.” “That being the case,” Crystal “all @ really clever girl who wants to marry the lordly Dick has do is to hold out so long, do such IN NEW YORK | York, March 26.—Those more- celebrated first night audi- of Broadway are divided into groups: those who are work, and those who are on number of persons who Teasons solely astonishes the average play- ‘sees the theater as a med- eff 2 es ii [ .; blase first night brigade in Man- .| date at double the value. a convincing job of not ‘seeing’ him, that he'll be forced to propose, in sheer desperation.” “A hole in one!” Tony agreed, her lovely mouth twisted in such a bitter smile that Crystal's heart contracted painfully. “Just ignore him emphati- cally. Remember to look annoyed when he tries to horn in on Harry Blaine or George Pruitt—” “Can we be sure of their coopera- tion?” Crystal asked seriously. The bitter smile gave place to a whoop of genuine merriment. “Can we? Darling Crystal! Even if you have been born again, you have had @ previous incarnation! You can't be So innocent as not to know—” “I know that George Pruitt is in love with Faith, and has been since long before she married Bob Hatha- way, and that Harry Blaine is in love at you,” Crystal interrupted spirit- edly. “Well,” Tony grinned, “it’s going to make it nice for you then—being able to say, and mean it: ‘This is so sudden!’ ... All right, Crys! Your modesty is very becoming—all the more so because it is genuine. But just in case George and Harry do show a strange preference for your society this week-end, may I count on you to repulse Dicky-boy in no un- certain manner? The ruder you are, the more determined he'll be, and the less time he'll have for me. For my part, I'll try to bore him to death, talking about flying and the Cali- fornia climate, and Sandy Ross—” NEXT: time. (Copyright, 1929, NEA Service. Inc.) George Pruitt wastes no @ags or personalities, or both. Fi- nally, there's’ the “second string” man who must write special depart- ment matter for the Sunday drama Pages. There are the magazine People, writers of syndicated columns and an odd lot of writers in general. Second—the “spotters” for the theater ticket agencies, who watch the audience to see how the play is likely to “click.” If it lobks like a hit the spotter advises his office to make a big “buy up” of seats, which will be resold to the public at a later Many of the agencies send their spies out on the road to “spot” the reaction of small town audiences, before the show gets into New York. A small town audience js looked upon as a “typi- cal” audience, and is more likely to fit into the spirit of a play than a hattan. ‘Third—the “spies” from the casting departments of other theaters. These come to study the individual actors in relation to certain roles. New- THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE ~~ AGE OF COMIC STRIPS AND FEATURES = HENRY AUSRTINN- ARE THE THIER 1 AM. 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