Montana farmer-stockman., 1956-02-15
4 FAIR
EXCHANGE
by
Cedric Adams

MOST OF US SHUDDER at even
the thought of a heart attack. Let
me recite you the case of a woman
l heard about yesterday. She's only
As, but has had a serious heart con-
dition for the last four years. For
months she's been completely dis
abled. Her condition grew worse
during recent weeks. Her legs be-
came swollen, she wasn't respond
ing at all to treatment. On couple
of occasions she was unconscious for
three-hOur periods. Her case was
presented to a heart study clinic.
While proposals of surgery had been
rejected in the past as too risky.
the clinic now approved an opera
ton. After all, she would soon die
without it, so there was little if any
thing TO lose. Three days before the
scheduled operation, she lost con-
| seriousness once again for three
hours. Finally she was taken into
surgery and her chest was opened.
| 1t was a pretty diScouraging mo-
ment for the surgeon and for her
own family physician who was
standing by.
HER STILLED HEART was massaged
| and in roughly As seconds the organ was
functiOning again. The surgeon said later
/ it was the greatest thrill of his medical
career. Then he found what had been sus-
/ nected-a tiny valve had been causing all
the trouble. The surgeon opened II up and
completed the operation. The physicians
4 haA
went by and the woman remained I'M
conscious. Finally, "a hours after the oper-
i alton, her physician opened her eyes and
said, GOOD morning. To his gratified sur
| prise, she whispered, I'm thirsty" Since
then her progress toward recovery has been
swift and good. She had suffered some
paralysis, apparently when her heart stopped
but even that has now disappeared. The
physicians think now her chances of com.
pIete recovery are excellent and that soon
she'll be leading a normal life.
Folks always seem to get a big
kick out of answering quiZzes thai
appear from time to time. l was
especially interested in a test con
Quoted by one of the grain firms OF
grain marketing. Three out of every
four of us who participated, said thi:
statement was true. "Out of eacf
dollar the consumer spends fol-
bread, SC or more goes to handle
the grain from the farmer to tn,
first professor. Actually, accord
ing to the U.S.D.A., only lie of tn
dollar is spent to market the gran
at the country elevator, at the ter
minal elevator and to move it to tn
first professor from the farmer.
In that same quiz, almost half of u
didn't know that North Dakota market
more hard red spring wheat than any othe
state. Maybe we just checked the wron
column by mistake, but the statement a
to what state leads in the marketing o
hard red spring wheat was real stumblin
block for a lot of folks.
ALMOST EVERYBODY KNOW
the United States is the richest ne
ton in the world, but do you kno'
what nation is second? It's Switzel
land, where the annual income fo
each man, woman and child is SOS
compared to ST, SIS here. New Zef
land is third, Canada fourth an
Russia, with an an annual incom
of $181 is 18th. Better not conSlde
moving to Ecuador. Down there it
only $40 a year.
When grain arrives at the Minneapol
Grain Exchange, who do you think &C
as the judge and decides what Offici
grade it should carry? Well, the Offici
grades of grain are determined by sta
and federal testing laboratories, accOrdiI
mission men as lot of folks thought wi
answered the recent quiz on grain markt
| ing. The commission merchants have not
ing to do with determining official grad
Of grain that's all left up to an IL
partial third party-Uncle Sam.