Montana farmer-stockman. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1947-1993, 1956-05-15
a FAIR
EXCHANGE:
by
Cedric Adams

EVER GIVE YOUR naughty child
the silent treatment? The experts on
child care say now that it isn't good.
A great many parents make quite a
virtue out of the fact that they never
shout at their children or spank them
when they miSbehave. Instead they
dish out the silent stuff. That can be
much more harmful than sound
trouncing over the rear end of the
youngSter. The reasoning of the eX-
pertS is this: What many parents
seem to forget is that the object of
disciplinary action is not to punish
the child but to prepare him for
becoming and adult, to guide him so
in later years he'll avoid the mi
stakes that make an unhappy life.
When a parent refuses to talk to a
child for a while the youngSter is
inundated. A far better method CT
training is to take away some priv
lege televiSiOn watching, movies, a
night out. That, according to the eX-
pertS, teaches the yOungster that if
he's going to enjoy the good things,
he has to conform to certain rules
of behavior. One more thing par
entS should always render the diSci-
pline with sympathy and understand
ing, being exceedingly careful to
convey to the child that they are re-
jecting his behavior and not him.
found a very tricky little gadget
hiding underneath my napkin at the
Grain Exchange Luncheon last April
10. An Open-faced cardboard box
containing eight little clear plastic
boxes, showing the major grains
bought and sold in the Minneapolis
Grain Exchange. There were num-
berS on the front of the box and -
surprise - the grains were named
ON the back. It's called, ''Name the
Grains" kit. Boy, sure proved
was no grain expert. They all look
alike to me, but believe me, the
people who work with this stuff don't
miss trick. Both those who sell it
and those who are in the market to
buy, know what kind of grain they'll
be dealing with and the uses each
kind serves best. The state. inspector
grades the grain. All in all it's a
pretty professional sort of business.
The kits could be used effectively for
educational purpOses-a lot of fun,
and painless way to git some
grain larnin' -.
What do you like to do least
around the house? A QUESTIONABLE
distributed among homemakers
shows that the most disliked chores
are ironing, diShwaShing, washing
floors, busting, washing windows,
preparing meals and doing laundry,
in that order. There's a conSoling
note, though. It's estimated the av-
erage housewife today has 65 horse
power Of electrical appliances to
help her out. And that figures out to
equal the work of 1,430 men, but
don't ask me how Crack of the
week: Too many of us don't start
economizing until we've run out of
money.
Ever wonder who takes a slice out
OF your bread-dOllar every time you
lay it out for the family staff of life?
Here are some figures that show who
| gets what of the 17.2 cents you pay
for a pound loaf. 3.2c goes to the
farmer; O.Sc to the flour mills; lie
grain elevators, and professors; TO-
lie to the wholesale bakeries (5.5c for
production costs for labor and wrap
ping and Acc for selling and admin
stratiOn). The wholesale bakers the
guy who makes the grain into pro-
duct we CONSUMERS need. He does a
lot toward creating the demand for
grain. The retail grocer gets zoe as
his share; and that about wraps it
up except to note the small
share that goes to marketing agents
that's one of the reasons grain
is called the most cheaply marketed
farm product.
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