The Mankato free press., 1923-10-12

Meeker county have formally
approved plans for the estab-
lishment OF state sales agency,
now being perfected by the Min
nesota Co operative Creameries'
association, under the direction
of H. f. Meyer, manager of the
sales department. At meeting
held recently at Litchfield. re-
presentatives of "a creameries
were present to hear the plan
explained. Officers Of eight
Creameries signed the agree
ment at that time and Mr.. Meyer -
was given assurance that all
others would join the movement
as quickly as board meetings
could be called ' =
BETTER MOVIES FOR FARM
Plans or more adequately present
! ing the farm view point in motion
pictures were formulated at a ma
tional conference of Farm Bureau
publicity men, held recently at Chi
cago. The conference recognized
that the farm life, as presented in
the average motion picture. is far
from true representation.
The American Farm Bureau Fed
GRAFTON has bade a cooperative ar
rangement with Homestead Films.
Inc, firm at Chicago, formed a
| year ago by Farm Bureau leaders,
for the adequate distributation OF
better farm films. 1t also has been
designated as distributor, on a non.
profit basis, for one of the best port
able moving picture projectors.
Holmstead Films, Inc, is the firm
that produced "The Brown Mouse.
a feature film based on the book of
the same name, written by Herbert
| Quick. 1t is rated as the best pic
ture of rural activities now show
| ing. .......-
Arrangements completed at Chi
cago provide for a nation wide nov
theatrical film distributing agency,
through which pictures for use in
Farm Bureau meetings and other
rural. gatherings will be supplied at
the lowest possible price. The plan.
calls for the formation of a circuit
in each state, SO as to cut down the
cost to each unit as much as pos
sible.
The conference also took steps to
put the farmers voice on the air
every week day night. The Chicago
Office already is broadcasting from
KYW, a Chicago station operated by
the Radio Corporation of America,
every Tuesday night at 8 o'clock.
| Shortly, a discussion of farm prob
lens will be in the air every night
at the same hour, but from different
stations at widely separated parts
OF the country
Experimental work to. test the
practicability Of supplying farm
r.-sfh oil Il
undertaken by the, Minnesota
Farm Bureau Federation. COOP.
Grating with the Northern States
Power Co. President ]. F. Reed
is TO appoint committee of
farm {haders which will assist
the power company Is laying ont
two circuits into rural sections.
ThroTgh operation cs these lines
1t viii be possible to determine
/ whether rural power and light
lines will render satisfactory
service at a reasonable cost.
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NOT HAVING LESS SNOWFALL
NO, We are not having lighter
snowfalls than when grandfather
was a boy" says the Weather Bu-
reau of the United States depart
mont of agriculture" NOR are we
having appreciably greater ones"
When some reminiscent relative re-
/ marks, Eve do not have the big
SHOWS nowadays that we did when
was boy, and | don't think we
, will~eyer have them gain" one may
answer with conviction that the re-
cords of the weather bureau tell
another story. As a matter of fact,
the deep snow remembered by the
man who vas a boy in the seventies
Or eighties probably reached that
boys, shoulders, but would be less
than knee high with his present
stature. Again. many men who now
live in cities were brought up in the
country, where large drifts are piled
up when The wind has full sweep
over the prairies. ''
Records at Springfield, ILL.,, dating
! from 1884, show the greatest fall on
record, fourty three inches. to have
occurred in the winter of 1913 1914
January of 1918 was the most severe
month of chronological history of
Illinois, both for low temperature
land heavy snowfall. combined with
heavy winds. At Albany and New
York, the snowiest winter occurred
more than thirty years ago, but there
| have been only winters with more
snow than fell in 19221923 Records
at New Haven, Conn. seem to indi-
cate a gradual falling off in snow
| fall. yet the heaviest record occurred
| in the winter of 1915-1916. Last
winter the total was 10 inches above
normal. Those believe the climate
is changing will take, comfort in
learning that the greatest seasonal
snowfall on record at Boston, Mass.
1854 inches) was in 18731S74, but
the winter with the least snow, (5.3
inches was only two years later. At
Portland, Me. the greatest snowfall
for winter. (125.5 inches) occurred
| in 1886 1887, but last winter, with
but one half Inch less, was next in
amount. In the west we find that
Cheyenne's winter Of least snow was
in 1885 1886, and the greatest some
nineteen years later. The greatest
snowfall at Salt Lake City occurred
in 1916 1917. and the second, third
and fourth, since then. Viewing the
subject in broad way, one is led to
conclude that there will undoubtedly
be heavy SHOWS in the years to come
lust as there have been in the past
and it is probable that present re-
cords will be- exceeded in many
places.
The wool market is showing
renewed activity, with slightly
higher prices, according to r. E.
Jones, sales manager and ware
houseman for the Minnesota Co.
operative Wool Marketing AS
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