The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, December 20, 1934, Page 3

THE STORY OF 1934 4.—Farmer Takes Drouth in Stride, With AAA Adding to Cash ‘This ts the fourth in a daily series of 12 articles. (By The Associated Press) ‘Washington, Dec. 20.—(AP)—The American farmer took the most de- vastating year since 1881 in his stride. One year ago farm prices had he- sitantly improved, credit was slightly looser, and cash a little freer, but back of such indications lay a fear that perhaps the bottom of the farm depression had not been reached. Then the spring of 1934 began the worst agricultural conditions the country ever had seen. Heat rose to record-breaking heights while rain- fall declined to nothing over rare areas. Twenty-seven states were af. fected seriously. Grasshoppers con- sumed thousands of acres of growing crops while chinch bugs sucked the moisture out of other thousands, Yields of food grains and cotton were reduced, production of feed, forage, and pasture declined to nothing over a wide area, and a heavy reduction in livestock numbers ‘was made necessary. Farmers’ Rose ‘The drouth, coupled with the farm administration’s acreage curtailment, brought production down to 497,000,- 000 bushels, the lowest since 1883, and the corn output to 1,372,000,000 bushels, smallest since 1881. Most other crops, except vegetables and fruits grown in restricted sections of the east and south, suffered in sim- ilar fashion. Despite this calamity cash income of farmers totaled about $6,000,000,- 000 for the calendar year, an increase of 19 per cent over the figure of $5,- 051,000,000 for 1933 and 39 per cent above the low level of $4,328,000,000 in 1932, About $550,000,000, or 10 per cent, of this increase came from cash bene- fit payments of the AAA in return for reductions in acreage; slightly more than ‘100,400,000 came from y sale of cattle and sheep [ sugar producers, insular territories, Jana Cuba. ‘The administration failed to secure enactment of a new pure food and drug act, failed to enact the Clarify- ing amendments to the agricultural adjustment act, and was unable to sell its plan for milk production con- trot’ to dairy farmers, However, a Hargett vietory was won in egg ned Speine Rextprd ‘Tugwell as lersecretary Teer GuETiie ie lei eee toward enacting new legislation regu- lating commodity exchanges, . Continue Search for Mrs. Eliot Schaffner Carmel, Cal., Dec. 20.—(#)—Search for Mrs.’ Eliot Boke Schaffner, 36- year-old Chicago society matron, who disappeared from”her home Tuesday, was resumed Thursday by land, air and water. Sheriff Carl H. Abbott of Monterey county, who used dogs in an unsuc- cessful search for the wife of Joseph ‘Schaffner of the firm of Hart, Schaff- ner and Marx, said he believed she had committed suicide by walking into the surf at Carmel ocean beach. He scouted suggestions she might have been kidnaped. Twice Wednesday the dogs followed a trail to the edge of the Pacific. There the imprint of a bare foot was found on the sands. Mrs. Schaffner was released only Monday from the Monterey hospital, where she had been taken for a rest. Local Man Granted Skate Shoe Patent Adolph Kuttchera, Bismarck, has been granted 8 patent for an inven- tion which he hopes will become po- pular during the current skating sea- son, according to Robert M. Dunning, St. Paul patent attorney who keeps 2|track of such things in this area. The farm administration, starting on its permanent program of adjust- ing production to the level of domes- tic demand plus whatever amounts: can be sold abroad, announced for 1935 a 10 per cent reduction in wheat acreage instead of the 15 per cent in force during 1934, curtailment of cot- ton by 25 per cent compared to 40 per cent, slicing of corn production by 10 to 30 per cent instead of 20 to 30, and curtailment of hog num- bers by 10 per cent instead of 25. In addition the administration adopted a comprehensive national mae Policy and began its program of buying The patent was issued on an “over- Yule Program Friday A one-act play, “The Christmas -THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1934 ; Janet, a friend of Camilla—Mil-| room of the Rose home, rather late| Albert Thysell, Vincent Wilson, Ar- area Boelter; Marie, formerly Maris,|in the evening on Christmas eve. 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