The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1929-05-01
SMALL TOWN TALK

Life again wakes sweet. The strawberry
sundae is abroad in the land
Those Minneapolis jurles are afflicted with
guilty complex. In fact it seems to have
become habit.
Since the Legislature has adjourned and the
as though Governor Christensen might have
little peace now and then.
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In these days really good provider is the
man who can supply a private motor car for
each member of the family. Times have changed
since it was just matter of paying the grocery
bill.
Nobody loves fat mana really fat man.
Consequently 495 pound butcher shot himself
the other day because his sweetheart wouldn't
stay sweet. And it took a truck to take him to
the hospital.
This is the time of year there arises howl
about taxes all over the length and breath of
the land. If you had it in your power to elimn-
ate certain public utilities which might mean
decrease in these assessments just what do you
think you would decide to do without? We
admit the question is somewhat staggering even
to casual onlooker
survey of thirty states shows that 100000
farms are now completely electrified and the
power companies are predicting that within five
years more than a million farms will have
"juice" with which to run the washer, pump
the water, grind the feed, light the house and
the barn and do hundreds of other things. Our
personal desire is that we may live to see the
day that homes will be heated with this clean,
ever-ready and convenient "fuel,' and that it
shall be used for cooking purposes much more
frequently than it now is.
We agree with Congressman Frank Clague
that the Minnesota delegation in Congress had
right to resent interference by the dairy CO.
operative with the farm relief legislation after
that legislation had passed the house. Just why
three able men like Brandt, Schilling and Mo-
strip should wait until the House had finished
with the bill before expressing their disagreement
with it is something hard to understand. And
maybe they had a good reason for such disagree
ment, but the one they gave-that of not liking
the responsibility it put upon the co-operatives,
looks like lame one. The procedure created
much surprise and some little disgust both at
home and in Washington
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Consumption of dairy products has increased
greatly in the United States the past ten years,
according to the bureau of agricultural econom-
les, department of agriculture. Each person,
statistics compiled by the bureau show, is con-
Stunning 13 gallons more milk year than in
1919, three pounds more butter, 1 pound more
cheese, pounds more condensed and evaporated
milk and half gallon more ice cream.
"The principal reasons for this increase in
the consumption of dairy products" the bureau
says, "are an increasing appreciation of the
value of dairy products in the human diet and
a steady improvement in the quality of these
products. Relative high wages have made it
possible all classes of people to use dairy pro-
ducts No small part of the increase is due to
the purchase of cream and ice cream by persons
who formerly regarded these products as lux
uries."
From various sections of the state and from
day to day there come repeated expression of
confidence in A. j. Olson of Renville County as
the head of the Minnesota Farm Bureau Fedora
ton. In the six months that Mr. Olson has held
that office there has been an increase in interest
in farm bureau work, largely because every
where there is recognition of his ability to make
practical success of "real dirt farming" Any
one who has ever seen Mr. Olson at work on
the large farm near Renville knows that that is
just the kind he does do. Actively operating
one of the largest farms in his county, Mr.. Olson
achieves outstanding success from time to time.
Recently his COW made the highest record of any
in the contrasting association of the community,
and again his forty-one steers topped the South
st. Paul market. A man who does things like
that, knows how he does them and is interested
in helping other men to the same knowledge, is
worthy of the highest office Minnesota farmers
have to offer.