Show cuta KOPEKS 13 BEVERLY EVERLY HILLS well an all I 1 kno know w to la just what I 1 read in the papers or what I 1 hear bear as I 1 keep the old long ears cars to the ground here the other week before I 1 started outon out on this chinese roundup why out to my house one night to pay us a visit and break corn broad with us was a mighty interesting couple mr tom campbell and wife now right offhand off hand band if it you are not a farmer or a buyer of farm products you might say what tom campbell 7 for its a rather common name but to anyone that Is up on his onions and wheat why he will know in a minute its ita the man we have in the past read so much about dont dent you remember a big wheat man up in montana Alon tana that was dratted drafted by the soviet government of russia to go over there and show them how to put their big wheat farms on a big mechanical mecha mechanical farming basis well he be Is tho the man he now lives over in pasadena ile he dont belong to a hoover commission but he bo advises them after they are appointed that Is it they have anything to do about farming he had in up there in montana 90 thousand acres of plowed ground he would rotate the crops ano and have about halt that in wheat each year I 1 remember seeing pictures of it where there would bo be eight and ten combines bines running one right behind the other you town waddles know what a combine Is well to tell the truth I 1 dont dent either when I 1 was the best farmer on the west bank ol of the verdigris river binders was just juat coming in and we was lucky to get to see one of them As a kidi kid I 1 used to ride the lead horse when we used five head three behind and two leaders then those combines come along and they lust just rounded u up a whole whole re muther full and hitched on all they had bar noss ness for I 1 think from some of those fictum pictures res I 1 have seen of em cm up in those northern states they had a whole calvy of horses thirty or forty head now they got these tractors great big ones that pull the thin thing but yet I 1 told you radiator falks iks what a combine Is i well here Is all it does just one ona machine and in one trip over the ground on the front end of it Is an arrangement arrango ment that makes a deal to take over the ground from the bank that Is holding the present cortage mor tage then right behind that gadget on this big machine Is a thing that tho rt root aud and herbs another thing right behind grinds up the roots and herbs into kagwa indian medicine which is sold by a white man who says he was adopted into the tha indian tribe then just a few feet behind that all connected with tho the same machine are the plows that plow the ground then right in the furrow is the seeder then another plow that plows the furrow back chero it was in the first place then cornea comes the fertilizer and then the sickle that cuts the grain then its carried along a little platform into the threshing machine where its threshed then out and into sacks and into a big grain elevator that is fastened onto the thing then on near the back end is a stock market board where a bunch of men that dont own the farm the wheat or the combine buy it back and forth from each other that Is it if you have threshed a thousand bushels why they seebach see each other a million bushels of this thousand bushels which was actually threshed then they announce to the farmer that on account of supply and demand the wheat la is only worth two bits what you call a combine well this campbell fellow Is mighty interesting he thinks that the parm farm board is a mighty good thing but he does also think that they have had bad a pretty raw deal from the whole grain trade and the banks you see it junt 10 looked 0 k d like the farm board with its operatives cooperatives co and a n d various other things to do away with the middleman just turned them against again st tb the whole scheme th the banks know knew that the farmer would start borrowing from the clove government rement at low interest instead of them at 10 a and da 12 ile he says that mr hoover hooter knows that its been a scheme on all ther their parts to discredit the farm board so we wondered la L and I 1 him fuini furnishing shing the idea and m me c doing the wondering why mr hoover lust just come right out and tell the people what had happened we figured that it if mr air hoover went direct to tho the people ar and d told them the real lowdown that hu would have them with him but of course ri neither cither on ii of us holds W tor ever was elected tf anything I 1 guess the tha truth can hurt you worse in an e eco 1 ec 5 tion than about anything that c could 0 uld harpain to you aw 41 sy dibahl inc nr y i 1 A h |