MONDAY, MAECH 31, 1930.
PLATTSMOUTH 6EMI-WEEKLY JOUMTAL
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urdock
Dr. S. B. MacDiarmid called at the
Neitzel home last Sunday on his way
to Lincoln.
F. A. Melvin has been building
some coal sheds for the Farmers
Union elevator.
Mrs. Mary Rush and Miss Elsa
Bornemeier were visiting and look
ing after some business matters and
visiting with friends.
Uncle Henry Bergman, who has
been assisting at the filling station,
has been eick and compelled to re
main at home for several days.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Kupke have
been suffering from a cold for the
past week, but are reported as be
ing somewhat better at this time.
Paul Stock and Ed Backemeier
were looking after some business
matters and also calling on some
friends in Elmwood on last Satur
day. John Shoeman, who is selling the
Buick, was over from Lincoln and
was looking after some business
matters in Murdock on last "Wed
nesday. A. J. Tool and wife and son. Doug
las, were over to Omaha for the
week end, where they were visiting
with Mr. and Mrs. George Work and
the son.
Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Tool and Miss
Mary Tool were visiting for the day
last Tuesday with friends in Lincoln,
as well as looking after some busi
ness matters as well.
Emil Kuehn departed early last
week for McCook, where he is work
ing with an insurance company, and
will be there for the present month
looking after business.
Ray Boldin. of Weeping Water,
was a visitor in Murdock last Wed
nesday, calling on the folks here for
a short time and also looking after
some business matters.
C. W. Smith and wife, parents of
Mrs. Bridgemon, who make their
home in Elmwood, were visiting with
tl eir daughter and family in Mur
d( "k on Saturday of last week.
Mrs. Wm. Heier, Sr., has been
vey poorly at their home west of
town, and they are wanting house
hold help, but it seems very difficult
to obtain, as but few young women
care to assist in the home, preferring
a salesmanship position or a clerk
ship. The venture which made it pos
sible for Murdock to have a restau
rent. was a happy one, for the hust
ling town needs it. Mrs. Bridgemon,
who is an excellent cook, baked a
fine lofi of home made cookies, which,
when it was known, soon disappear
ed. "Going like hot cakes."
The Peter Pan bread company, of
Omaha, have established a station at
the Bridgemon cafe, and have in
stalled a bread case which will en
able them to keep the stock in ex-:
cellent shape. They are changing
the arrangement of the furniture and
tables to obtain more room, as they
are greatly crowded.
Mrs. Mary Rush, Misses Elsa and
Mary Bornemeier on last Monday,
the day being nice, harnessed up the
old limousine and took a ride, with
the roads very good, the weather
pleasant and the country scenery
very interesting, they drove on until
they had arrived at Louisville, when,
with the car working very nicely
they went on to Plattsmouth, visit
ing there for a while and took the
pavement to Murray, thence back
heme over the Red Ball highway,
having enjoyed a very pleasant af
ternoon. Hatching Eggs for Sale
Pv-d sir.gle comb White Leg
horn i-ai.Iiing eggs. ?2.50 per 100.
F. A. BRUNKOW,
m24-3t Alp Wabash, Nebr.
Lecture on India
A lecture on "India" will be given
at the Lutheran church two miles
north of Murdock on Friday evening,
April 4, at S o'clock. The speaker
for the occasion will be the Rev. P.
Kauffeld, a pioneer missionary in
that country, who at present is vaca
tioning with home folks in Nebras
ka. His lecture will deal mostly
with church work in India, which
ought to be very interesting. Every
body is cordially invited to attend
this lecture.
Burial Vaults.
We have the only self sealing
buriel vaults, automatically seals it
self, excluding water or any other
substance. We deliver thorn on call
to ar.y place in Cass cr Otoe coun
ties. MILLER & G RUBER.
Nehawka, Ne3i.
Pilgrims Abroad
The pilgrims were over at Crete
last Sunday, expecting to be in time
for Sunday school, but missing a
turn in the road, were heading for
Kansas, when at last inquiry was
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made, and they found themselves 25
miles south of Crete. However, they
arrived in time for preaching service,
having gone 90 miles, when they
should have made Crete in 58 miles.
They enjoyed a fine sermon, based
on John 10:11, "The Abundant Life."
The salient points of the discourse
were:
1 Christ came. This fact being
established, the purpose of his com
ing was
2 To bring life into a world dead
in trespass and sin. Not only bring
life, but it should be more
3 Abundant. God gives us full
measure, shaken down, heaped up
and running over.
A most profitable day.
L. NEITZEL.
Celebrating Birthday Tuesday
Miss Alice Sanford was born April
2nd, 1S49, at Broad Albin, X. Y.,
and was a tiny tot of a baby when
the gold fever was at its height and
the young men of that time were
flocking to the gold fields of Cali
fornia. This tiny tot grew to wom
anhood in the Empire state and was
united in marriage with Mr. George
Vanderberg in 1S66, just after the
close of the Civil war. Three years
later they came to Cass county, Ne
braska, where she has made her home
since. The husband passed away a
number of years ago.
During the past winter Mrs. Van
derberg has made her home with her
daughter, Mrs. L. B. Gorthey, but as
spring came, she wanted to go back
to the farm where she lived for so
many years, and arranged to do so
last week, so that she could cele
brate her 81st birthday amidst the
old familiar scenes. She is being as
sisted by Mrs. Otto Eichoff.
The day will be spent with the
mother by her two daughters, Mes
dames L. B. Gorthey and Arthur H.
Jones, of Weeping Water. Co-incident
with her birthday, but a few
days before was the birthday of her
grandson, Clifford Jones, who was 31
years of age last week, and who is
engaged in the barber business in
Lincoln.
Mrs. Vanderberg, while feeble on
account of advanced years, has been
married over sixty years and has
lived most of them in Cass county,
Nebraska.
The Journal joins with her many
friends in extending congratulations
and good wishes for many more
happy years.
Pioneer Passes 88th Birthday
Miss Malissa Sweet was born in
Peoria, Illinois, on March 25, 1842,
where she lived during her girlhood
and young womanhood and when a
young woman was united in marriage
with Robert Crawford, a young man
of that vicinity, just before the Civil
war. The husband answered the call
for volunteers and joined the army
of the Union, being killed in the
first battle in which he was engaged,
leaving Mrs. Crawford a widow with
two children, who are now Mrs. M.
E. Bushnell. of South Bend, and Mrs.
Copple of near Stevens Creek, be
tween Alvo and Lincoln.
A brother of her first husband was
living in California, being one of ,
those to rush to that land at the j
time of the gold rush and had been .
there ten years or more. When he i
returned it was via the Isthmus and j
on the boat he was told of the as-1
sassination of President Lincoln. I
Returning to Illinois, he was unit- I
ed in marriage with his brother's I
widow. This was just at the close j
of the war. In 1866, the year fol-
lowing the marriage of James Craw
ford and Mrs. Malissa Crawford,
they came to Nebraska, settling on
what i now known as the old Craw
ford homestead in June of that year.
Here they made their home and were
real pioneers for many years. They
quit the farm during the latter por
tion of the last century and moved
to Wabash, where they lived for a
couple of years, coming to Murdock
to reside in 1899. and have made
their home here since.
Robert Crawford was born in Oc
tober, 1866, making him a pioneer
by birth and one of the oldest resi
dents of this portion of the county.
Mrs. Crawford celebrated the pass
ing of her birthday on last Sunday.
March 23rd, two days before the real
anniversary. There were gathered
at the home to properly celebrate the
occasion her daughters. Mrs. M. E.
Bushnell and family, of South Bend,
and Mrs. Copple with her two sons
and families, W. L. Copple and fam
ily of Alvo and Glen Copple of Beth
any, with whom Viola Copple, the
daughter of Mrs. Crawford, resided;
Fred Sherman and family; Oscar
Laughlin and family and Otto Oleson
and wife, all of Ashland; Messrs.
Crawford and Clarke Bushnell, W.
L. Copple and family and Glen Cop
ple and family.
Selects Senior Class Play
The Senior class of the Murdock
High school at a meeting late last
week arranged to give their play and
pplected as the one which they will
give, "A Couple of Millions," which
is filled with fun and wit as well as
having a worth while plan in the
play.
Graduates from Business School
Miss Florence Thlmgan, who has
been attending business college at
Grand Island for the past six months,
completed her course with high
honors, graduating with nearly per
fect per cent. She returned home on
last Wednesday and was met at Lin
coln with a car by her father, who
brought her home. Miss Florence
has been tendered a position which
she will accept and will begin work
on the new position in a short time.
Seme fountains of the Bible
II Mount Geliad
Genesis 31:23. After twenty-two
centuries from Adam, we enter a
family where there are two sons,
quite different in character. The old
est son loves the outdoors, roaming
over the fields and through the for
est, hunting and fishing. The young
er son. is a lover of the quiet home
life, he helps mother and becomes
her pet. One day these boys traded
a birthright for a mess of potage.
It seemed to the older brother a good
bargain, but he found out the same
day that he had been tricked out of
his place as head of the clan. In
furiated against his brother, he
threatened his life. With the assist
ance of his mother, the younger
brother fled to his uncle Laban, at
Hanan, in Mesopotamia, where he
married two sisters, serving for them
14 years. He later became a weal
thy man through sharp practice. It
seemed as though he might get away
with it.
God had chosen this man as one
of three patriarchs, so He told him
in a dream to go back to his old
home. In a family council the mat
ter was discussed and the decision
reached to go back to Canaan. Ev
erything seemed to work out all right
but the nemesis was not asleep, al
though he had a three day start and
had crossed the Euphrates river when
news of his departure was given to
his father-in-law, who immediately
gathered a number of relatives and
friends and pursued the fugitives,
catching up with them after a seven
days chase, in Mount Geliad.
The meeting was not a very pleas
ant, one, but after many explanations
and much questioning, the difficul
ties were finally settled by a cere
monial. A heap of stones were gath
ered and called in Chaldee by Leban
"Jegarsalutha." but in the Hebrew
by Jacob, 'Geliad" and "Mispah" for
he said: "The Lord watcheth be
tween me and thee, when we are ab
sent, one from another."
Mount Geliad was a milestone in
Jacob's life that he could never for
get. Every man will sooner or later
be confronted with his record, like
Jacob. We must give an account of
our stewardship. If God had not
interfered, Jacob might not have
fared so well.
If Jesus Christ is for us, we will
be able to stand against our adver
sary in the last judgment.
L. Neitzel.
FOE SALE
Several good Jersey cows. Two
heifers, seven months old. W. T.
Weddell. Murdock, Nebraska.
m31-3t sw
Advises Pre
cautions Against
Spread of Smut
D. L. Gross Teils Elevator Managers
Disease to Increase in East
ern Nebraska.
"Unless precautions are taken to
prevent it, smut in small grains will
increase in eastern Nebraska within
the next few years. In the past smut
has affected wheat in the western
part of the state but they have been
quite successful in fighting the dis
ease thru treatment. It appears to
be moving eastward now," D. L.
Gross, specialist in plant diseases at
the college of agriculture, told Ne
braska elevator men gathered at the
Elevator Managers' conference at the
college of agriculture.
In speaking of smut treatment,
Gross told those at the conference
that 33 per cent of the grain cars
into Omaha in 1929 contained some
smut. He said the dicerence paid for
smutty and non-smutty wheat used
to be as high as 1 to 10 cents a
bushel. It varies but little today, he
said.
The college of agriculture man ad
vised elevator managers to co-operate
with farmers in helping to treat the
disease. He advised them to put in
smut treating machines to rent them
to the farmers. Copper carbonate
when properlf applied is very effec
tive against smut and costs but 3 to
4 cents an acre for treatment. He
said formaldehyde is also good for
treating but hurts the grain's germin
ation. In summing up his talk before the
conference, Gross said that there is
very little smut in the territories
where wheat trains have run during
the past three years. Other commun
ities where the trains did not pass
thru have been badly affected with
smut, he said.
HEW CABINET FOR GERMANY
Berlin Dr. Heinrich Bruening.
new chancellor of the reich, set about
Friday choosing ministers on a per
sonal basis and without dealing with
parties in his efforts to form a cab
inet scuceeding that of Hermann
Mueller. That was demonstrated
when Dr. Bruening offered the min
istry of agriculture to Martin Schiele,
a nationalist leader, who accepted
despite the fact that his party earlier
declined to participate in the new
government and demanded dissolu
tion of the reichstag and new elec
tions. The nationalists decided on their
course of opposition even after their
fiery leader. Dr. Hugenberg, had been
asked by President Von Hindenburg
to give up opposition at this point of
the country's welfare. The president
also instructed the new chancellor
to forget party pettifogging and con
struct a cabinet which above all
could put thru the budget and finan
cial reforms.
GER3HANY LOOKS
FOB, GOLDEN AGE
Berlin, March 26. Hope springs
eternal in some German breasts that
prewar Reichsbank notes some time
may be worth their face value again.
Hecklers arise at every Reichs
bank shareholders meeting, asking
if anybody can tell them when the
golden age is due to begin. Pub
licity has once more been given to
the final and definite pronounce
ment by the supreme court last
year.
Reds Training
Five Million
Girls for War
Drill Them in Using Rifles and
Machine Guns ; Thousands More
Are Ready to Fight
Moscow, March 27. Five million
women and girls trained to shoot
rifles and machine guns that is the
goal which Osoviachim, the society
for civilion defense of Soviet Russia,
has set out to accomplish in two
years.
Women's equal rights with men
are interpreted in Soviet Russia to
mean equal responsibilities in mili
tary preparedness.
Military leaders say they do not
intend to use more than a fraction
of the 5,000,000 women at the front
in case of war, but will use them as
home guards to maintain order, pro
tect munitions factories and supply
bases and guard industrial plants.
Thousands in Training
Women already are playing a big
role in military affairs.
About 200,000 women are receiv
ing systematic instruction in military
science and tactics. Another 54,000
are enrolled in special sharp.shoot
ing circles, 10,700 in chemical war
fare circles and 4,30 0 in cavalry
circles.
Thousands of women also are be
ing trained to supplant men in time
of war as field iooks, telephone, tele
graph and radio operators, headquar
ters and quartermasters clerks and
officers, automobile and tractor
drivers.
Girls in Regular Army
Millions of men factory workers
will le released for service on the
front by the plan to take more and
more women into industry.
Wives of officers are also being or
ganized. There are several thousand girls
serving in the regular army and 72
commissioned officers. Bee-News.
Farmers Object
to Immigration
Aid by Canada
Minister Denies Dominion Has All
the People That It
Reauircs
Ottawa, Ont. Giving financial r-F-sistance
to immigrants, except fe
male dome?ties. should cease, accord
ing to Thomas Donnelly, Liberal from
Willow Bunch. Sask, who proposed
a resolution in Parliament to this
effect.
He believed that only manufactur
ers and transportation companies
were in favor of an aggressive immi
gration policy, while farmers and
manual laborers were strongly op
posed to it.
D. F. K.elr.er, United Farmers of
Alberta, introduced an amendment
so as to make the resolution apply to
domestics also, and to make organiza
tions and companies deposit a $1000
bond for every immigrant brought in
by them.
Charles Stewart, who is acting
Minister of Immigration, said that
eight years ago the Government war
being urged to bring as large a num
ber of people to Canada as possible
to help pay the debt of this coun
try. Personally he had never sub
scribed to the contention that in
creased immigration would necessar
ily solve the debt problem.
However, he added, the Govern
ment had used its best endeavor by
everv means at its disposal to bring
people to Canada and the provinces,
for the most part, had co-operated in
this policy. He would not admit that
Canada had all the people it re
quired. After explaining the Government's
method of assisting domestics and
minors, he outlined a proposed agree
ment with the provinces. "We are
asking them." he said, "to assume
the responsibility for saying how
many and what kind of immigrants
they are desirious of having and can
absorb in any given year. We will
not pass into Canada, people destined
to any province unless it Is the de
sire of that province to receive them.
It is not the intention of this Gov
ernment to prevent any individual
in the British Isles or in northern
Europe who is in a position to fi
nance his passage and who has a
reasonable sum of money in his pos
session to maintain himself when he
arrives in this country, from enter
ing this country unless the provinces
should say that they are -not desir
ious of receiving such immigrants.
The House adjourned without com
ing to a vote.
SM00T TO DISCUSS
HIS TARIFF BILL
Washington. .March 27. Reed
Smoot, Republican, senator from
Utah, who helped shape the tariff
bill, will talg about the much dis
cussed measure tonight over the Col
umbia broadcasting system, begin
ning his address at 9:30 p. m.. Cen
tral standard time. Senator Smoot
is chairman of the senate finance
committee, which redrafted the bill
as it came from the house.
SEEKS TO RESTRAIN OFFICERS
Beatrice A petition was filed in
district court Thursday by Verne
Ayers asking that Attorney General
Sorensen, County Sheriff Dunn and
County Attorney Mattoon be restrain
ed from closing his cafe here on
grounds that he has girls waiting on
customers at night. Ayres holds that
the law prohibiting the employment
of girls at night is unconstitutional.
The case wlil be heard before Dis
trict Judge Messmore Friday.
AUTHOR AND HISTORIAN
DROPS DEAD ON STREET
New York The body of an elder
ly man who fell dead on the street
In Brooklyn Friday, has been iden
tified as that of Justin Harvey Smith,
author and historian, who won the
1919 Pulitzer prize for history and
formerly served on the faculties of
Harvard university and Dartmouth
college. The body was identified by
George A. Plimpton, head of Ginn &
Co., publishers, of which Professor
Smith was a partner. Physicians said
the professor had died of a heart
attack. He was seventy-three years
old.
$100,600,000
is Asked For to
Guard Forests
House to Consider Bill Providing
Twenty-One-Year Fire
Prevention Work
Washington A 21-year forest
protection program, involving $100.
000,000, sponsored by Harry L. En
gelbright (It.), Representative from
California, and approved by Presi
dent Hoover, has been definitely
salted for consideration at this ses
sion by House floor leaders.
The measure has been considered
by the House Agriculture Committee,
where it was favorably received. It
embodies the recommendations of
the President along this line in his
budget measure to Congress, and is
indorsed by the budget bureau and
the Secretary of Agriculture.
Mr. Engelbright's bill proposes a
new method of financing forest pro
tection. At present the Government
is spending $3,000,000 a year to put
out forest fires and approximately
$1,000,000 a year for fire prevention.
He pror's to reverse this ratio and
to increase the annual allowance to
$4,500,000 a year for the next three
years an;! $4,000,000 a year there
after for 21 j-ears.
In the course of the committee
hearings on the measure Mr. Engel
bright declared that if forest fires
continue at the present rate the en
tire timber supply of the country will
be exhausted in 3 0 years. In the 12
years ending with 1927, he stated,
there occurred 757,000 forest fires
in the United States which destroyed
175,79 l.OoO acres of timber lands.
In the national forests, it was tes
tified, fires have been averaging over
6000 a year for the last 19 years,
ravaging over 900,000 acres annual
ly. In that period, it was calculated,
17.115.000 board feet of timber val
ued at $522,479,000 have been de
stroyed in the national forests alone.
In addition, young trees values at
$14,000,000 have been consumed
while great damage has been done
to forage acreage and protective
timber on water sheds.
It was brought cut at the commit
tee hearings on the Engelbright bill
that 62 per cent of the national
forests do not have adequate fire
protection at the present time. It was
stated that unless fires starting in
the forests of Montana, Idaho and
Washington can be reached within
two hours, there is little chance of
holding them in check. In Califor
nia's yellow pine forests, it was de
clared, a fire must be reached within
a half hour if it is to be controlled.
Under the Ehgelbright plan, tele
phones, observation towers and fire
breaks would be first undertaken and
pushed so that in five years all for
ests would be equipped with these
protective and detecting agencies.
C00LID&ES NOT WORRYING
Northampton The Hampshire
county trust company, suffering a
shortage of approximately $285,000,
closed its doors Friday, less than
two weeks after Harold R. Newcomb,
manager of its savings department,
was arrested charged with theft of
its funds.
Newcomb, who of nights was the
leader of a popular jazz orchestra
was arrested on March 17, specifical
ly charged with the theft of $15,000.
He was held in default of $30,000
bail. An excited group of more than
100 persons, moved by rumors of a
shortage, milled about the doors of
the bank and it was necessary to call
several policemen to maintain order.
Former President Coolidge and
Mrs. Coolidge have accounts at the
bank, but were not disturbed over
the conditions at the institution. A
statement from the office of the for
mer president said that Mr. and Mrs.
Coolidge bad not withdrawn their
money and felt that it was "perfect
ly safe."
SEES U. S. FARM PRODUCE BOOM
Alliance, March 28. Voicing him
self as being very optimistic over the
agricultural situation, D. L. James of
Washington, D. C, of the agriccltural
service of the United States chamber
of commerce, delivered an address be
fore the members of the Alliance Ro
tary and Lions clubs and the chamber
of Commrece.
Mr. James sees a very bright fu
ture just ahead for American agri
culture. There ae many, he said, who
have become discouraged and have
given up farming, to turn to other
pursuits. In most cases arese are the
poor farmers. With the best and
strongest farmers remaining on the
farms, the industry is pointing up
ward. SEED CORN
Yellow Dent, 97 germination;
90 guaranteed. $3.00 per bushel.
H. G. Penton, 1 miles south of
Cedar Creek, Nebr. ml7-Ssw
Have you anyiriYng to sell? Tell
the world about it through the Jew
nal's Want Ad department.
Three Acres is
Farm, Say U- S.
Census Officials
Farm Is All Land Farmed by One
Person, Whether It is 3
Acres or 3000
A farm, according to the Census
Bureau, is all the land farmed by
one person, whether it is three acres
or three thousand acres.
Sounds simple, doesn't it? Well,
it wasn't so simple for the Govern
ment officials to decide what should
be considered a farm by the enum
erators during the census to be tr.ken
in April. Much study and years of
practical experience were necessary
before the short, concise definition
was agreed upon.
Dr. L. C. Gray and Dr. O. E. Baker,
of the Department of Agriculture,
assisted Census officials in deciding
upon what should be called a farm.
The amount of farm land owned
by one person has nothing to do with
the definition of a farm so far as
the Census Bureau is concerned. The
question is not how much land does
he own but how much does he oper
ate or farm. A man who owns S00
acres might farm half of it himself
and rent the other half out to three
tenants. 50 acrs to each. This would
go down on the census records a?
four farms, because the land farmed
by each man is considered as a unit.
On the other hand, one man might
rent various tracts of land from 10
different owners. He might rent a
few acres on shares, a few more from
somebody else for money rent, and
the rest from other people on differ
ent terms. The different pieces of
land mieht be widely separated. If
they were all farmed and managed
by one man, however, they would all
be put down together as one farm.
If, however, a separate manager were
hired to supervise a rertain portion
of the land, that portion would go
down as a reparato farm.
N tract of land cf le?s than thre
acre? will be registered as a farm
unless it produced more than $250
worth of farm products last year. In
the Census of 1920 if a piece of land
of less than three acres was farmed
by a man who gave hi? entire time
to the task, it was listed as a farm
regardless of how little it produced,
but this year none of these small
tracts will be counted unless they
produced $250 worth of products, re
gardless of how many people spent
their full time cultivating the area.
(It is estimated thrt approximately
5,000 tracts of less than three acres
in the United Slates ere farmed by
individuals who give their full time
to the occupation.) This charge in
the classification of farms the only
difference between the Census Bu
reau's regulations for farm enumera
tion in 1930 from those of ten years
ago.
There is necessarily a borderland
between what is a farm and what is
not. Small places on the edge of
towns cr villages are often the homes
of city workers who undertake to
keep a cow, some chickens, and prob
ably cut a little hay or raise a large
garden or small crop. If the agricul
tural products from such a place
amounted to more than $250 in 1929,
it will be returned as a farm, re
gardless of how much or how little
time the city worker gave to his
farming pursuits, and regardless of
how small the tract of land tended.
Indeed, if a mm living on Fifth Ave
nue of New York City raised more
than $250 worth of strawberries or
asparagus on a lot 50 by 100 feet,
his place would be returned as n
farm. The value of the agricultural
products is the criterion.
On the other hand, a large coun
try of 10, 15, or 20 acres may rot
necessarily qualify as a farm. Act
ual farming or agricultural opera
tions must be carried out before any
tract of land will be classed in this
category. A large country estate of
a retired capitalist is not a farm if
all the work done around the place
consists in mowing the lawns and
clipping the hedges. If the estate
is of more than three acres, however,
a very small amount of agricultural
products could give it the rang of a
farm, regardless of whether the
products amounted to $250 or not. In
such a case as this1, it would be up
to the judgment of the cencus enum
erator to decide whether p.gricul
tural operations were being carried
out. Farm land is considered "oper
ated" not only when cultivated crcps
are raised on it, but also when it is
used to any significant extent for
pasture or for cutting hay.
A number of agricultural pur
suits not usually considered by the
average person as farming comes
within the Census Bureau's defini
tion. All market pnd truck gardens,
fruit orchards, nurseries, green
houses, poultry yards, places for
keeping bees, and all dairies in or
near cities, even though little land
is employed, are. for census pur
poses, farms, provided they produced
in 1929 agricultural products of the
value of at least $250. If such places
are o fmore than three acres, they
are farms regardless of the value of
their produce.
In 1925, the last year in which a
farm census was taken in the United
States, there were 15,151 farms or
less than three acres. The total
number of farms in the nation was
6,371,640.
The general definition of a farm
"All the land which is directly
farmed by one person, either by hia
own labor alone or with the assist
ance of members of his household or
hired employees" has remained
practically the same since 1870, the
first year in which it was used by
the Census Bureau. If the figures
for different censuses are to be val
uable for purposes of comparisions,
they must be based on the same defi
nitions. When the census records
show that there were six million
farms in the country at one time and
five million at another, the meaning
of the word "farm" must be the
same for the two periods if useful
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HELP WASTED TO
TEACH FAEXEJG
Chicago, March 2". Vnlvs.- some
thing is done about it, there will b?
a shortage soon cf agriculTuraily
trained pedagogues to teach th
farmer lads the art of making plants
grow and animals fat. Dean H. Y.
Nisonger of the agricultural edit go
of Ohio State university, reported
Wednesday before the NoTth Central
Regional conference of rural and vo
cational high echoed teachers.
Dean J. F. Cox. Michigan Agri
cultural college. East Landing. MWli..
declared that not -nc-ugl: f i ri; r
youtas are attending college in on? r
to ir-crer.re their own agricultural
knowledge rr with a view to becom
ing teachers.
C. 0. P. SEEKS TO
REPLACE EUST0N
Washington. March 27. While
active pressure upon-Prtcadent iioo
er to replace Claudius ii. Husto:;
as chairman of the Republican na
tional committee 1-as lulled sf-nif
what in the rasi few dn", r.ej'u1. -lican
leaders are engaged in a quiet
hunt for a new chairman.
Party leaders consider that th"
revelations of I-Iu-rton's lobbying
activities in behalf of private inter
ests getting control of Muscle Shrals.
together with disclosures of his mar
ginal speculation through a N'tw
York brokerage house, have made
':im "unavailable" to conduct the
forthcoming acmpaign.
C03IMT7NI3T3 AEE TREE
Chicago Eighty cf commun
ists arrested at an unemployment
protest meeting in a west t.k:e hall
Feb. 2C, were freed in police c.urt
Thursday. Officers agreed they hd
nothing against them. The trial of
fifty-eight others was postponed.
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