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iN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER F. B. BOYD. Owner and Publisher Subscription Rates. One copy, one year . $2-00 One copy, six months $1.00 One copy, three months H Athena, Oregon, January 4, 1929 SUPPLEMENTARY TO WHEAT A substantial contribution to the profitableness of farming in spring wheat states, particularly North Dakota and Minnesota, has been made by loans, aggregating nearly $1,000, 000, to farmers for the purchase of sheep, dairy cattle and purebred sires in iyU8, John W. Haw, director of the agricultural development department of the Northern Pacific, said recent ly. Figures show that this year $816, 589 was loaned to 1,711 farmers in 420 communities for the purchase of 74,895 yearling breeding ewes, and in addition 7,400 were shippel in and settled for in cash. All but 11,000 of the ewes, which came from western South Dakota, were obtained from Montana. Placement was largely in North Dakota, but Minnesota and Montana also received many. Figures also show that $331,000 in the same territory was loaned for the purchase of dairy cattle, of which $138,739 was loaned in North Dakota. The Agri cultural Credit Corporation, with headquarters at Minneapolis, which is the agency through which the money was loaned and which has had the co operation of the railroads, the county agents, and the business interests in the territory affected, reported that 62 per cent of its loans on Bheep and cattle were in North Dakota. The North Dakota figures disclose the 53,179 sheep this year were plac ed on 1,168 farms in 260 communities by the Agricultural Credit Corpor ation assisted by the various cooper ating agencies. Six thousand of the sheep were purchased for cash in that state, for the purchase of which the corporation loaned. . "There are four groups of people who are responsible for this tremend ous introduction of farm flocks into the so-called 'spring wheat area"', Mr. Haw said. "This program could not have been accomplished if it had not been for the provision of funds for original purchases of ewes and financing of farmers by the Agricul tural Credit Corporation. Neither cov.M It lave been acorn plished had it not b" Jor a group of live, ener r. Lie. county agents, who presented tha pri.p.JS,-:von to their client farm ms, Bumbled carload orders and hundU 1 distribution of the carloads liuon ari'ivftl in their counties. This program could not have been ac complished had it not been for the many public-Bpirited bankers and businessmen, who were willing to serve on local committees for investi gation of the character of the pros pective borrowers and assisted with clerical work and final completion of settlement papers. "This program's success was due to the cooperation of all of the var ious groups. All of us know that more than 5,000 farm flocks of sheep have been introduced into this ter ritory in the last few years and they now are making a substantial contri bution to the profitableness of farm ing and furthering the cause of mix ed farming which is the only basis for safe farming anywhere." o Representative Hawley, chairman of the . ways and means committee, will lend his efforts to tariff revision on a few products in which his home state is interested. Oregon, accord ing to Mr. Hawley, wants something done for the hen, the cow, nuts and some varieties of dried fruits. Poul trymen want to be protected against eggs from China and babe chicks from Canada. Cheese and butter pro ducers want to be remembered in an upward tariff scale, and Oregon growers of filberts and walnuts have let it be known that they are get ting the worst of it under present tariff rates. market for gasoline in Oregon for several years to come. A Northwestern medical student went bathing in the icy waters of Lake Michigan at Chicago, to make good a wager he .had made at a party. A half hour later one of the guests recovered the medical student's body from the water. . o. Clark county, Washington, is re ceiving unenviable advertising as the result of action taken by a disgruntl ed taxpayer who seeks to restrain the abolishment of tolls on the Portland Vancouver bridge. The death of two sailors aboard an oil tanker, indicates that varnish re mover is not of superior quality as a beverage, to embalming fluid; al though it may contain a greater "kick." Ain't It the Truth? Some people seem to feel bound to discover family resemblances between children and their parents. "How much like you your little girl Is, Mrs. Brown," remarked an ac quaintance who met them on the street one afternoon. "How odd that you should think so," replied Mrs. Brown. "She's my first husband's child by his first wife." 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