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Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1948-04-02
Pack of Seed Nets
Million Dollar Crop
Plant Immigrant Has
Typical Success Story

One package of seed sent home by
missionary less than 80 years ago
has developed into crop now valued
at more than 200 million dollars a
year. That is the success story of
plant immigrant - Korean lespe-
deza.
Only three decades ago DR.. Ralph
Mills, a medical missionary, sent a
package of lespedeza seed from
Korea to the U. S. department Of
agriculture. Department specialists
planted the seed at the experimental
farm across the Potomac river from
Washington. In a few years there
was enough seed to plant lespedeza
at several state experiment stations.
The imported crop fitted well on
the poor, Slightly acid soils unfit for
such crops as alfalfa and soon was
being grown widely in the East Cen
trail states as a seed and pasture
crop. Now its use is becoming more
widespread, particularly in areas of
low fertility land.
The U. S. crop of Korean lespe-
deza, developed directly from the
single package, now is valued at
more than 200 million dollars year.
Value of the seed crop amounts to
20 million dollars. The hay crop
makes up another 100 million dollars
of value. Although value of the pas
ture crop is difficult to estimate, spe-
cialists contend that it amounts to
at least 100 million dollars. These
figures do not take into account the
profitable use of millions of acres of
low fertility land made possible by
introduc ton of the new legume crop.
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1948-04-02

per cent of the total grain and
cereal crop in the United States, fig
ures compiled by extension service
entomologists indicate AS if its de-
structive abilities were not enough,
the rat is host to carriers or is it.
self a carrier of bubonic plague,
typhus and other diseases which are
deadly to man.
Few farms are entirely free of
rats, although rat populations can
be reduced quickly. Cleaning up the
premises, rat proofing, cutting off
food supply, poisoning and trapping
are major points in an effective rat
control program. But, once the con-
troll measures begin to show results,
there can be no relaxing. Rat con-
troll is a permanent, year-around
program. A few days of poisoning
will have only temporary effect on
the rat population.
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1948-04-02

Miles of walking are saved an
nually when the milk house is
adjacent to the milking room or
barn, figures compiled by Cornell
university show.
quirements permit construction I'M
der the same roof.
Adjacent construction permits the
dairyman to coordinate feeding, car
ing for the cows, milking them and
handling the milk into an efficient
system.
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1948-04-02
Fruit Juice Improved

Fruit juice, having the character
istic color of the fruit from which
it is derived. but without being
cooked or treated with dyes, is pro-
duced by recently patented pro-
cess. Crux of the process is uni
form refrigeration of the fresh juice
to mass containing fine ice crys-
tails, subsequent addition of heat,
separation of liquid from the ice
mass which retains solid pulp par
ticles and running the latter
through colloid mill, adding the
colored product to the juice sep
arated from The ice.
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1948-04-02

1t all started when the wife of a
machinist in York, Pa, wrote me of her
difficulties in making ends meet on her
husbands net salary of s53.40. a week
incidentally, bureau of labor statistics
informs me that so per cent of the
workers employed in manufacturing in
dustry earn less than this York ma
chinist.)
Her family includes a boy of Is and
a girl of 6. She outlined her weekly
budget as follows:
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1948-04-02


1--WE don't very often buy any
food" says Mrs. Walter G. Briggs
of Fresno, Calf, as she gathers
vegetables in the farm garden
which produced fresh fruit and
vegetables for the family during
the growing season with enough
left over to can more than 300
quarts for winter use.
roughly $40. They also do not include
her husbands lunches downtown which
come to SLIGO per week.
She explains that her monthly
food costs are low because: Cd
They buy milk at stores instead of
having it delivered; (2) don't eat
much butter; 60 her husband
doesn't demand meat at every meal.
so they have dinner dishes like
sOuffles, baked beans, hearty soups.
baked eggs; (4) they shop once
week, going perhaps to five or six
different stores to take advantage
of special sales items (of course
persons without car couldn't do
this); 90 she uses canned milk for
coffee, and to make buildings and
cream sauces; and CO. she says she
never wastes ANYTHING. q can
believe thatD
With such variety of figures to
choose from, there isn't much basis for
getting into stew about budgets.
What it seems to boil down to is that
the bill-of-fare is a fair subject for
argument, but doesn't leave a man too
much to get his teeth into.
A good deal seems to depend on
where you are willing to draw the
waist-line.
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1948-04-02
Rabbit and Chicken
RAISING Is Profitable

To offset high meat prices, home
can be carried on very economi-
cally, making. the family at least
partially independent of CONNER
cial sources.
Raising of rabbits and chickens
at home has a big advantage in the
economical use of feeds, because
such animals mature more quickly
and at a lower feed cost per pound
of gain in weight.
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1948-04-02
Modern Dairy Buildings
Will Boost Efficiency

Increased efficiency has entered
the dairy industry with more wide
spread use of milking rooms and
milk houses.
The ideal location for milk house
is attached to the milking room or
barn. In most areas, sanitary re-
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1948-04-02
Reseed Burned Forests

Cones of some species of pine
trees require the heat of a forest
fire to open them, releasing their
seeds. Therefore vast amounts of
good seed IRE accumulated through
the years which automatically re-
seed burned-over areas after for
est fire causes the cones to open
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1948-04-02
First SIeam Locomotiv,

First steam engine to run on rails
in America was built by John
Stevens in 1925 and was operated
on a circular experimental track on
his estate at Hoboken, N. J The
Stevens contraption did not have
practical application.
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1948-04-02

The favorite answer to what is the
electoral college is cts a school where
you learn how to vote" 1t really is an
institution where you don't learn that
you are not voting for the man you
think you are.
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1948-04-02

General Macarthur insists he will
not permit the presidential campaign
to interfere with his occupation duties
in Japan. Other candidates hope the
COP. convention will not interfere
with his duties in Japan.
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1948-04-02
Wife Achiepes
Near Miracle

Even more impressive is the food
budgeting record of homemaker here
in Washington, D. c., where, says BIS
it costs more to live than it does in
SO other major cities of the country.
This woman, wife of navy captain,
has family of seven to feed-herself,
her husband, her mother and father,
and three strapping boys aged Is, 16
and 10. Also two cats who are fed
frozen horsemeat. She spends between
$21.s0 and s3l week, and with prices
lower, expects her costs to go down.
My first thought was that probably
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1948-04-02
First Draft Law

First use of selective service de-
vices in America was in the county
of Bath, N. c., when Royal Cover
nor Hyde called all able-bodied
men to the militia around ITO.
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1948-04-02
THESE ARE THE PAINTS!

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finish, easy to keep bright and
cleaning.
WALLS & CEILINGS in kitchen,
bathroom, nursery: Acme Semi
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Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1948-04-02

Federal reserve board appointee Nc
Cabe was accused of cutting the tails
off bombers before selling them to the
Chinese. He said he didn't recall this
act of cruelty to airplanes.
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1948-04-02
When Pic Is Clean

Contrary to general opinion. the
pig is clean animal if given sani-
tary' Surroundings, and sanitation
is essential to good health, rapid
growth and development, and prof
liable pig production.
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1948-04-02
$41.57

very uttle Tor clOthlnS, dentist and
doctor bills, and nothing for the new
stove, washer, vacuum cleaner, refriger-
ator and furniture they would like to
have. And Don't forget" she ad-
monished, "There are lot of people
worse off than we are"
l used her story in a broadcast, and
this is the reaction I received from
other women correspondents:
An Oakland, Calf, housewife wrote:
when you mentioned that family who
spent almost quarters of his
salary for food, l just had to Sound
off" or bust. Either this is an exaggera-
alton by the wife or she is guilty of
woeful ignorance of proper dietary re-
quirements. In these days of shortages,
I'd like to ship folks like these over
to England where we have relatives,
who could (perhapsD rarn 'er' thing
or two about the wanton selfishness of
such extravaganza"
This woman goes on: "My hus-
band and | manage nicely on $40
week for two. | enclose details
to prove it. (She did," And she
adds: 81 can remember no evening
in years when my husband failed to
compliment me on his dinner"
She suggests that women who can't
.ook should attend classes to discover
hat the chemistry" of food prepara-
lion can be fascinating and, oh, so
rewarding." She herself gained knowl-
edge in public school night cooking
classes that enabled her to run a small
tearoom in the lean years from 1880
to 1885, and which from 1941 to 1915,
helped her to save 40 per cent of her
husbands salary.
Another woman writes concerning a
Dearborn, Mich, homemaker who fed
'and fed well" her family of six on
SIS month last September. Now,
since food prices went down, this wom-
an planned to revise her budget down
ward. She spent S71.S2 for food in
November, $685. in December and
S55.35 in January of this year.
AS sample of her meal planning:
On Saturday noon, (she writes) she
may feed her three girls, aged II, a
and years, egg sandwiches on bread
spread with oleo (mixed with canned
milky, whoppng big fruit salad made
from pears, plums and peaches she
canned last summer, and big glasses
of milk. A supper menu might be
macaroni and cheese, vegetable salad,
homemade chocolate cookies and fruit
for dessert.
woman from Detroit, Mich, whose
family is the same size as that of the
York woman's, writes that is costs her
only $50 a week to feed her family.
And that, she says: "Includes carton
of cigarets for my husband, all my
soap supplies, polishes, cleansers and
additions to my pantry shelf. We
average one pound of butter week,
two dozen eggs, 10 to IA quarts of
milk, steaks and chops once a week.
My husband takes his lunch-two or
three sandwiches, one or two pieces of
fruit, lettuce, sometimes another raw
vegetable, cakes and cookies. The chill
dren Jagged 2 and 81 have a hot break
fast and lunch each day. 81 think" she
says, that we get ell-balanced meals.
At least we're all in good health and
rarely have colds. 1t can be done easily
if you apply yourself and figure ahead"
And this is accomplished, mind
you. in Detroit, where according
to labor statistics. is cost upwards
of $3,293 a year for a family of
four to live mOdestly.
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1948-04-02

When it comes to checking imitation,
we have proved one thing-that the
checks and controls are excellent for
the other fellow. Any checks and con-
trolls applied to ME though are ruinous,
unholy, undemocratic. 1t all depends on
whose bull is gored.
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1948-04-02
He's q Rat

What is the most destructive ami
NAL in the world?
No-it's not puppy or small
boy!
The common Norway or brown rat
has absolutely no competition when
it comes to the ability to destroy.
Annually. rats alone destroy about
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1948-04-02
washington Digest
Economical Buying Cuts
Costs for Homemukers
By BAUKHACE
NeiUs Analyst and Commentator

Observation-Disclosures to recent poll, the
the people most interested today the high living This
despite competition with communism Taft Dewey weather. and
why who jumped out of hotel window clad only in fmy night
DRESS
managed to get myself into controversy on that
subject
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1948-04-02

New paint sprays handle any type of
paint, says Practical Builder. They'll
soon be made in compact size, we
suppose.
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1948-04-02
Many Indiana Trees

Six million trees were planted in
Indiana during the past year in the
war against waste.
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1948-04-02

Speed of Snakes
The fastest American snake can
raVel only three miles per hour.
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1948-04-02

Give your lingerie wardrobe a
touch of glamour with this eXquis-
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trouSSeau treasure.
Pattern No 1882 is for sizes IL,
IA, 16, 10, 20; 40 and AZ. Size IA,
gown, 35s yards of 39inch; jacket,
1B yards.
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1948-04-02

Apple Skin Daily
The skin of an apple is five times
as rich in vitamin C as its flesh.
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1948-04-02

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Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1948-04-02
Two Cents for a Hen

In 1886 a hen in Paris sold for an
amount equal to about two cents
in American money.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1948-06-10
Oakland and Crellin
Win League Contests

Oakland's Amvets defeated Elk
Garden at Oakland by the score of s.
2 and Crellin defeated Loeb Lynn to
the tune of 1877 in the Upper Po-
tomac Baseball League games played
last Sunday.
Bob Glaze famed eight while Jim
mic Lyons and Jake" Jones banged
out two hits each in Oaklands victo-
ry. Glaze and Kahl walloped three
baggers. 1t was Oakland's fifth win
against as many losses. Luffy raped
two doubles in five trips for Elk
Garden.
Harry Sanders and Nordeck Shat
fer collected four hits each as Crellin
registered its fifth triumph against
two defeats. Four of Crellin's 20 hits
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1948-06-10

Ann Beckman, Freda Swiger, Glcr-
dora Cooper, Pat Filsinger, Tommy
Lewis.
Seventh row: Vivian Paugh, Bobb!
Weeks, Karl Smith, Eugene Tasker,
Ben Knepp, Jr., Ken Hardesty,
Charles Spencer, Mahlon Yost, Dale
Nicholson, Dale Gnegy, Everett
Weimer, Elwood Wilt, Eugene Mat
thews, Marshall Meats, Ruby Martin.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1948-06-10

Lambert, Lester Root, Robert
Landon, Charles Martin, John Caster,
Carroll Johnson, Max Beckman, Glen
Whitmer, Richard Shaffer, Howard
Graham, Robert Porter, Ilene Gank.
Sixth row: Tommy Shaffer, Ruth
Friend, Molly Smart, Lois Bachte.,
Vida Schmidt, Dorothy Gilbert,
Mary Faye Harvey, Carolyn Ashby,
Manic Fitzwater. Ella Fazzalari. Jo-
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1948-06-10
na9 GlHa.H. d111o0Q

yard, Margaret Schoch, Geraldine
Wagner, Marie Hardesty, Hazel Mar
tin, Betty June Bowman, Wanda De
Witt, Gloria Johnson, Agnes Wright,
Dolores Turney, lnez Harvey, David
Whitaker.
Third row: Rebecca Ann Lohr, Paul
Friend, Abraham Knox, James Cal
lis, Richard Leighton. James Fitz-
water. Donald Johnson. Ronnald Bit.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1948-06-10

First row: left-right: Janey Adams,
Wilma Livengood, Edith Cosner, Mil
dred Bernard, Lorene Gnegy, Joan
Carskadon, Betty Jane Tasker, MARY
Virginia Cover, Phyllis Custer, Betty
Mae Flanagan, jeanne McRobie, Jean
Schlossnagle, Maxine Harris, Doro-
thy Hardesty, Joan Dewitt.
Second row: Junior Harvey, Mar
garet Shaffer, Louise Sisk, Gage Boil
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1948-06-10

ner, Wayne Hauser, Donald Skipper,
Paul Bernard, Paul Shaffer, Pauline
Friend.
Fourth row: Boyd Friend, Dolores
Whitacre, Lena Knox, Norma Bren-
neman, William Hesen, Warren Biser,
Dorothea Sears, Louise Gross, Har-
riett Pollock, Robert Dodge.
Fifth row: Patti Ross, Dennis Stot-
tlemeyer, Harry Johnson, William
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1948-06-10

were doubles, Dewitt getting a pair
while Sanders and j. Ashby had one
apiece Paugh obtained two Of the
seven credited to Loeb Lynn.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1948-06-10

Charles w. Nash, auto maker, died
of a heart ailment. He quit farming
in 1890 and became a millionaire.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1948-09-03
Imperial America

an? General Macarthur said a veal
ago that Japan could not re-arm for &
hundred years While some claim
that the U.S.A. holds part of Germany
because the U.S.S.R holds another
part, that explanation does not apply
to Japan. We hold it all. The oc
cupation costs American taxpayers al
least three hundred fifty million dol
lars the year. Of course our army
officers lead merry lives with good
house servants in Japan.
Why are we still in Germany at
all? 1t has been three years, four
months since We day In Germany
our army officers lead quite happy
lives = at the expense to American
taxpayers of about four hundred mil
lion dollars the year.
A test of Imperialism is, when if
the executive disobeys the legislative
branch. In Turkey General Mcbride
says we have spent one thousand
million dollars when the congress ap-
propriated only one hundred million
dollars.
In Greece we are supporting petty
King who has executed workers for
striking. Washington, Jefferson, Lin
coin did not favor royalty against
other forms of rule.
Our Turkish-Greek adventures are
to keep the oil coming from the Mid
die East. This oil goes mostly to the
British navy, not to useful purposes.
This reveals another spoke in our I'M
perialistic wheel England has got
ten by recently with four billion dol
lars from us. 1t is called loan. It
cannot be repaid unless the British
navy is strapped for merchant serv-
ice. We are really supporting the
British navy. England cannot do it.
This is of course imperial folly on
our part. England will be neutral if
our Deweys and Trumans get us into
war to protect our ultra rich, and find
Tor them an outlet for the surplus
product over the wages of the work
ers of America
We are spread out into as thin an
Empire as the former British Domi-
Mons. Adverse world opinion broke
Britain on the wheel. We are proba-
by hated by all the world, except the
English speaking people.
In our once democratic nation we
nave nov two political parties. The
Oemocratic-Republican Party for War
md Imperialism. The Progressive
party for peace, retrenchment, and
,lenty at home.
The present CONSUMPTION of our
'outh is not to defend America. 1t is
o keep other nations in subiugation
o our capitalists.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1948-09-03

as interiors" but do not hesitate to
exploit them for their own benefit and
profit One cannot blame these peo-
pie for fearing and hating us = we
would do the same in their circum-
stances-but we should educate the
hearts and minds of our youth if we
are to change this feeling before it
is too late, before the people of the
world turn completely against us. If
we begin in time we can still survive
with dignity for the human race, if
not, we may be destroyed as past
civilizations have been, at the height
of their material achievements.
Enclosing coin for s or 10 copies
of the August Goth issue of your ex-
celent paper for distribution. Should
you have one or two copies of the
August 18th issue, they would be ap-
preciated Thank you and best
wishes. Sincerely, MRS. ROSINA
WOODHOUSE.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1948-09-03

Washington-Sta that we can't
prevent communism by merely pass
ing laws, but only "by protecting and
strengthening that large group of citi-
zens in our country known of as small
businessmen" Senator James E. Muir
ray Cd, Mont.) this week told field
agents of the Department of Justices
antitrust division that their work was
essential to the defense of American
capitalism.
Addressing representatives of small
business organizations who were
meeting with the antitrust divisions
lawyers at a conference called by
Attorney General Clark, Senator Muir
ray said that business in this country
was threatened by the development
of gigantic corporations which COM
pletely dominate the market in their
fields and are destroying the principle
of free competition based on free mar
kets on which American business was
founded. "Colectivism in business
begets coIectivism in government,
the Montana Senator pointed out. "A
healthy competitive economy in the
preservation OF which tens of thous-
ands of business have an interest
means a healthy democracy well
worth fighting to preserve" he con-
tinued.
The Montana Senator deplored
the action of the Republican con-
trolled S0th Congress in wiping out
the small business unit in the De-
partment of Commerce, and in
passing the Bulwinkle bill freeing !
the railroads from antitrust con-
troll
Every politician who comes before
you gentlemen will swear to high
heaven that he is absolutely for free
enterprise and the preservation OF
small business" Senator Murray said
But look at his record and see II