Show l. l ji Our Weekly l w h. h Washington hi Letter ri i r r r GERMAN AGRICULTURAL OON aortal CONDI I. I REPORTED BETTOR BETrE W WASHINGTON TO Jan jaA l 1 treat meat ia In agricultural market co lions In ia Germany German during durin the test first halt of ot December Is reported by br ce ea- ea tye be e dispatch to the United States State De of Agriculture b by tural Commissioner B. B C. C Squire at st Berlin erlln Lar Larger quantities a U or heat rye fl tIr ard d and baton r apparently ti being la Imparted short supply of lard and aDd ia th tbs Hamburg ambur mar market etc will wUl probably stimulate tSIa tt D. D I. I rU Ic increase u of I r Mr lr w salt g Depression and ud uncertainty re te- regarding garding food conditions prevailed la fa Germany in November according to the le dispatch Whet Wheat imports Import were decidedly decreased and It was wu Jf- Jf to tID Imports ot of any Had 4 Tho he m mark has now U r b been ei practically pr Abandoned as ae baste for foreign trade contracts contract being made on oa the butt bast of ot The large tare shipment at t gold old recently Rut from New York Tort and ul reported credit advance from fro other ther countries have probably contri C I buted to the December revival J V. V 8 B. B PLAYGROUND I T That Teat at national fo forests ta are tre bela being acs ed d 4 as u ds U ti shows shown b by the h ta fact that over oror people visit ed d national forests forest during the cal cilia i lear la In 1 lilT 17 i the b year rear the gust ant records record of ot the Dumber number Of ot people Halt ln lag fo forests forest were kept tep ap p Vb- Vb r U people I used Ute fife forest for recreational purposes n 4 e MAIL i R HOUSES BO AVD pl AIa I r VB I I D er r their bett not included 11 of h the la largest r U houses Bouse and ADd chain store tore u b Vw their best ll in is history for the th tint frat 11 It this year ear Compilation CompU lon Includes two tiro ot or the largest mall mail order house tad At nine alao of ot the larger chain store tore ye- ye temp temI and act show that daring the f first st 11 months ot of 1 SS their of buat business e f s over oyer the corresponding apr apr- lod lul year coat u averaged r aed UIS per percent f fC C coat cent la In compilation th th to tU th following comment I Sa la made i iThe 1 The better financial condition conditio of ot the agricultural t L e sections is nowhere more more illustrated than inthe ta in the sale lea reports of man mall order com com- panics panle Farmers armer are e ea easily Ui lly the zest Important consumers of ot the tb mail man order order order or or- or- or der houses and Dd the fact that sale alet of ot the these e organizations have hare shown a large Increase this yeas year clearly Ir cites that the far farmers farmer are much mash more favorably situated d than h t a a year ar q age agA i I FARMERS ARK ARE LARGEST OF MOTOR VEHICLES OUTPUT That the farming ct class I la 1 the lug est Set patron ot of f the automobile industry is le Yer very from a survey surrey Just fust completed b by the I 4 States State D De Department De of ot Agriculture re The surrey sur sr- rey v y was w. made in typical communities tn in n various t-H t country la 18 laB the tabs B Atlantic c ut section 88 68 percent p perc at JIt 1 V of hB b fa farmers Interviewed owned automobiles In the water walena section which the Mississippi valley nUe and ud the plains plIS west of ot Col CoUrado Colin CoUra- do 75 lS to 85 U per percent cent of ot the b interviewed owned machines machine la In Washington and Idaho 86 per cent ceat owned The only section ota where less lees than halt half of ot the farmer interviewed owned automobiles was waa In Jn the dry farming dry farming wheat area With r- r t the farm farmer r the automobile is Sa becom lug ing Ina a necessity and ot of those thoe Inter It was a as ascertained that they the viewed a motorcar in the same me light as aa they do any other farm equipment PAYROLLS 18 to FElt PER En CENT LARGER THAN TitAN NOVEMBER A A YEAR TEAR AGO Comparing November 1111 12 with November No mi 1923 la In IU establish m ments iU te reprinting 4 48 U States t Bureau of bf Labor Statistics shows aa an Ine increase of fK 06 1 per cent in the number of or employs as and aDd as an n Increase ot or 1 U pet per ceat cent la In tit to- to i tar tat tar a wages ee There t ba not net been a I month in the year rear 1028 un do during which wage wace increases harp laup not DOt been beeD reported report report- ed d far In of ot decreases II May held the record with 1271 W wage wag I In Increases increases in- in creases reported The decreases decrease hate hare ranged from one ODe one to sala nine a m month nth willa the x of Non Novem November ber when 82 II decreases decrease were ware reported 13 IS of which the iron and ut steel industry There w were wag nags a. a Increases Iii n them of November SOIL SURVEY HAS lIAS BEEN MADE MADS Q OF ONE ONE- THIRD ONE OF LAND O OF O V. V I More than one of the nUN inure land laid ar area of r th the United B States ha Ii ban I been coyer coveted d by br soil surveys surreys under tinder the direction of ot the p ot o. Agriculture TJ ea surreys surreys are tr m made d dIn in order to to the particular crops for which h the soil loll U analysed U t suitable also for tor tb the purpose of pt ace ascer ascertaining tr taming wh what t. t kind of ot Ft f and other soil IOU are aro needed to tomake tomake make mate the land Iud fertile The Th third 01 ob-j ob 1 Je t in- in in-analysing in the Ino- Ino to se are i my be ob obtained trot from It IHn in tJi the n wa way of chemicals ls i V s F PENSION BUREAU NOT NOT B BEHIND I IN ITS WORK AS REPORTED i By Hy erroneously substituting the ume name of the Pension office for tb that I of ot the Patent office In quoting frogs fro froS from S Secretary of ot Interior Works Work's annual 1 report it haa has been beelS widely circulated by bJ the pre press a that hat the Pension office is SI cu lo arrears and ud that 10 I months month elapse before action is Ia In initiated Med ted to toward a ct t th e examination ln t R of f cl claims claim's tiled flied i in fD the Pension office Th from the truth The work wort of ot the Pension office office office of of- of- of fice Is II current applications are taken Ink tak en up tor examination as a. soon u as filed fil IU- fit fit- ed ef and claims claims' are allowed aa soon BOon as as I. I received I MORE HORE MONEY SENT ABROAD AD An increase of 68 per per cent in Ia the amount of money moner sent abroad by b hit in international International In- In t rl money moner orders orden during November No No-i vember as aa compared with November 1922 1822 la Is e shown by data Issued by the tt department nt The largest Increases were In money moner orders order sent nt to- to tot Canada a and d Great Britain The annual report of the the Geological cal cat Survey Surrey bureau shows show that more moreth th then than 40 per per cent of ot the territory of the States Is 11 now accurately mapped topographically and end its Y var various var- var r- r lou ious mineral mineraI and other other resources de- de WD NATIONAL FORESTS FURNISH GRAZING FOR v HERDS The extent te t to which national for for- eais i serve serre aa as feeding ground for II live lire stock Is in the annual report report re re- port of rUle the forestry service which Ih shows wa that during durin the past year year 6 6 sheep cattle cattle horses and goats gras gras- ed on OD the United States for forest st ranges This grazing was all aU under permit and the number Dumber of animals I std Is 18 exclusive of the number Dumber which h 1 I grazed on forest ore l land nl I lees 1 set II III i I months as aa permits are are not hot t required ed d to ta graze livestock on forest rang ranges rances es for a period of lose less than thaD six months I i PUBLIC ASKED TO KELP HELP PROTECT MAIL CARRIERS Citing the tact fact that 65 66 rural route rout e carriers have lost their lives Una in performance of ot duty during the past two and one half years yean the Postoffice Post Poet office department t tto has Issued a plea to patrons of rural free delivery deliver r routes te t c r t in In every respect to remove tM possibilities possibilities' of oC dang danger r to rural mall carriers This can bedone bedone be bedone done largely by keeping roads roads' in good 1 condition cleaning away h heavy avy snowfalls keeping bridges and culverts cul cui verts in repair and placing rura rural route mall boxes on the right hand bane side of the road In the direction of oC o travel taken by the carrier No branch of oC the government has developed more rapidly in fn popularity i and public service than the rural free delivery system It was Inaugurated only 27 21 years ago on three routes In West Virginia Today It embraces routes and serves serves server 6 families s or practically the the entire rural population of or the United States Im n lANTI 1 It THAN WE GROW IT Th The of forestry is becom- becom I Ira PC very pry acute arute according to the ant an anI an- an I mt t of tha the u forestry service of the United States State Department ot of Agriculture The report shows that I Ithe the tM annual drain on Oil the country's I forests amounts to feet while the growth replaces re re- places annually cubic cuble I feet teet Obviously there theres is necessity for tor systematic reforestation If It the country is le not to undergo a a famine In timber within a comparatively short u time I |