The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1914-02-05
Postal Department Will Work
With Producers and
:
Consumers.
SHORTAGE OF MEAT ANIMALS
eurieson Submits Scheme for Federal
Purchase and Control Of All Gen.
eral Telephone and Tele'
graph Lines.

mentor to farmer and housewife, COM
municating between them to the
profit of both-that is the job Uncle
Sam is setting out to accomplish
through the medium OF the parcel
post s...
The plan as announced from Wash
ington this morning, is to have farm.
ers list their products and prices at
the nearest local postottce. These
will be assembled by the postal au-
thori les of the. distributing center OF
the district, printed in circular form
and distributed free by mail carriers
to the housewives
Hereafter, with the development OF
the idea of Postmaster General Burle'
son and Secretary Houston OF the De-
partment Of Agriculture, the house
wife viii! get list of farmers within
$50 miles OF Kansas City and other
cities who are ready to ship butter,
eggs. dressed fowls and vegetables.
= and their plices-very much lower
than she mus pay on the markets.
The zone OF supply will probably be
of that radius which permits the ship
ment of" 2O,pound packages from the
farthrst points and 50-pound parcels
from points within 100 miles
The farmer will be advised of best
ways for packing his produce for ship
ment. Economy and durability must
enter in 20 the construction of cartons
and boxes Little difficulty will be
encountered there, however For in
stance almost fifty designs for egg
containers-each one practicable and
almost all cheap to construct---have
been submitted TO postmasters by in
ventors in the last few months.
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Pindeii Refuses Post
Washington, Feb. 3.-Henry NJ. Pin.
dell of Peoria, ILL.,, who recently was
nominated and confirmed as ambassa'
dor to Russia, has declined the ap'
-pointment, according to a~letter to
the President. made public at the
White House. 1t is understood the
President will appoint Pindell to an
IMPORTANT post under the administra.
ton, the nature of which has not yet
been learned.
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Meat Supply Short.
Shortage of meat animals in the
United States was strikingly demon
strated by comparative figures made
public today by the department OF az.
riculture showing that there are nine
less beef cattle, seven less sheep and
three less hogs now for each 100
persons in the country than there
were in 1910. This means that it
would take 1S,259,000 more meat cat.
tie, sheep and swine to give the pres
ent population the same supply that
the census of 1910 showed to exist.
While the population OF the country
is estimated to have increased from
91,972, 900 to 9S,646,OOO in the past
three years, the number of beef cattle
has decreased 1873 per cent and OF
sheep So per cent. The number OF
swine increased slightly-1.3 per cent
but 1t did not keep up with the pro-
portional growth of population.
In spite of the reduced number il
is estimated the value OF the cattle
in the country Increased from 1854,
100000 in 1910 to $l,930,O87 900 on
January ], 1914.
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To Buy All Wires.
Washington, Feb. z.-Postmaster
General Burleson has submitted to the
senate the recommendations OF the
dana ri mental committee aupointed by