Kankakee Valley Post, Volume 9, Number 42, DeMotte, Jasper County, 7 September 1939 — Farming Briefs [ARTICLE]

Farming Briefs

After only 100 years of extensive cultivation, this country has destroyed. seriously damaged or threatened with destruction an area equal to all land from which crops are normally harvested. * * * Added steps in processing food to prepare it for the consumers’ tables reduce the farmer’s share of the food dollar. Wage scales paid b> food processors were twice as high in 1933 as in 1910-13. Slicing bread before it is sold and putting farm produce in small packages are two of the later developments in processing food. * • • F or more than a year farm products exports from the United States have been rising and imports falling. • • • The gopd poultryman is never too busy to keep after the lice and mites that increase so rapidly in the warm days. • • • Since the relationship betw’een the price of milk and the cost of grain is favorable, dairymen should feed all the grain their cows will use efficiently.