The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1933-09-15
Benefit
Payments


Benefit actual production on
PAYMENTS their individual
farms for the last
three, four and five years, If they are
able to supply records showing what
that production was. This can be
done even If the county committee
decides to use average county yields
and the average acreages of growers
as the basis upon which the 10 per
cent reduction is to be calculated.
This arrangement applies only to
the 1884 crop. There may be more or
less than the Is per cent reduction
ordered in the fall of 1884 which will
affect the 1885 crop.
On the basis of a theoretically COM
plete sign-up of the farmers and q
10 per cent reduction, there would be
approximately 100000 acres now In
wheat that would not be planted for
harvest next summer On the same
theoretical base of average produc-
ton, the reduction in wheat grown
would be about 124,OO0OO0 bushels.
With wheat prices about where
they are now, the income from the
current wheat crop is calculated at
about 1926, 100000. which is some
thing of a gain over the 1882 return
on wheat, which has been figured at
SIT 600 But if the wheat reduc-
ton program goes over, the farmers
this fall will receive something in ad-
dition to the prices for this years
crop. They are due to receive cash
from the processing tax. The Depart
ment of Agriculture has figured the
tax will yield something like $780,
100000, and so the total return this
year may be as large as $450,O00,0OO.
Some weeks ago, / reported in these
columns that the patronage dam had
broken and that plum picking for
office holders was going on full speed
ahead That was true. 1t has gone
out full speed ahead, but if one may
judge from the enormous amount of
grumbling, the patronage flood has
not gone in that direction that old line
Democrats, or many of them. would
like to have it go. Indeed, President
Roosevelt's appointments have not
been pleasing to the bulk of his loyal
supporters.
/ can report now that things have
come to such a pass that between 20
and 30-no one will say just how many
senators have signed a petition
asking Mr.. Roosevelt to be little
more regular about his appointments.
It is not certain that the petition, one
of these round robin affairs, ever was
sent to the White House, nor is it GER
tain it ever will go to the President
If it has not been given to him yet.
Nevertheless, it Is significant. It
shows the feeling.
The truth about the matter Is that
some old line Democrats, men whose
word has been Dem
Old Liners ocratic law for years,
W-:.J are growing nervous
over the potentiali-
ties in the Roosevelt course. Deep
down in their souls, they fear that Mr..
Roosevelt is engaged in building up
a Roosevelt party" as distinguished
from the Democratic party. They
point out that he has played ball with
the Norris-LaFo llette-J ohnson wing Of
the Republicans, that he has named
such men as Secretary Woodin, to the
treasury, after Mr.. Woodin has spent
years in the Republican fold, and
Secretary Ickes to the Department of
the Interior, after Mr.. Ickes had at
tanned absolutely no prominence at
all in any partisan way except as a
Progressive Republican, and that he
has disregarded party recommends
tons in dozens of cases only to pick
men and women who might just as
easily be called Republicans as Demo-
Gratis.
The depression conditions hit the
ice cream business last year, but the
consumption of butter and evaporated
milk moved higher according to final
figures for 1882 that have just been
compiled by the Department of Agri-
culture. 1t was quite natural. the ex-
perts told me, that there should have
been a falling off of ice cream, be-
cause good many thousands Of peo-
pie Just did not have the money to
buy it. If they had money, they
bought the usual amount of butter and
evaporated milk, along with the regu-
lar supply of milk, but ice cream was
in the luxury class. At least, that Is
the explanation given for the decline
in the manufacture of ice cream from
POS, $4,000 gallons in 1881 to 16O,-
$4,000 gallons in 1882.
The Tennessee Valley Authority,
which is the official name for the
agency that is planning the develop
ment of the Tennessee valley and the
Muscle Shoals power project in ac-
cordance with President Roosevelt's
dreams, has started doing things
without waste of time. Several hun
dred men are at work in the territory
that is planned to be made over into
garden spot. Preliminary work is
nearing completion for determination
of where power lines should be run
from the hydro-electric plants: appli-
cations are being received from towns
and cities Whereabouts that will buy
electric power; drilling operations are
being carried on to pave the way for
dam construction and numerous odds
and ends are being Strengthened out.
Meanwhile, manufacturers of fertil-
izers In commercial lines are wonder
ing what is going to happen to them.
They claim they have not sufficient
market now at profitable prices, but
Senator Norris, of Nebraska, who ia
thered the Muscle Shoals plan. says