Show r BAUKHAGE drop in in oprina pig crop predicted by government governments N 6 V I 1 1 01 47 rise in pork prices considered likely washington correspondents discua discuss ss ss jitters of war rumors catl farm and home released by western newspaper union I 1 hour commentator washington pigs is pigs that was the name of one of the funniest short stories ever written of 01 course pigs pigs they is shoats and hogs and a number of other things including sausage and pork chops not long ago the mail carrier probably stopped at your gate and asked a lot of impertinent questions about your plans for your porkers corkers and the other day the department of agriculture finished reporting what the mail carriers reported to them the result was the semian semi an nual pig crop report which said that there would be 10 per cent less little pigs going to market next spring than last officially the agricultural marketing service said this the downswing in hog production which began in the spring of 1940 continued through the fall and A family tree of value will continue at least through the spring season of 1941 the agricultural marketing service reported today the decline apparently has been at an increasing rate the percentage decrease in the 1940 fall pig crop was greater than that of last spring and the indicated percentage decrease for the spring of 1941 is a little greater than that for the fall of 1940 the tau fall pig crop of 1940 is esti mated at per cent smaller than that of 1939 the decrease in the 1940 spring pig crop was 9 per cent the combined pig crop of 1940 is down 10 per cent from last year but the crop is the second largest since 1933 the indicated number of sows bows to farrow in the spring season of 1941 is 14 per cent smaller than the number farrowed furrowed far rowed in the spring of 1940 this information from the december pig crop survey is based upon returns from farmers obtained in operation cooperation co with the post office department through the rural mail carriers EXPECT PRICE RISE now according to past experience these estimates have proved to be pretty accurate and so the city folks can expect to have to pay more for their pork chops and the demand will probably exceed the supply eventually that may apply to milk too but right now there are arc thousands of potential customers of dairy farmers who would buy if milk and milk products were cheaper efforts of the department to breed better cows is illustrated in the accompanying compa nying photograph I 1 want to go on record as saying that the fine old aberdeen angus that flourish in my home state of illinois would be flattered to learn that mixing promiscuously with the strange looking critter in the picture with the enlarged collar button on the back of its neck would improve their family tree but its a tact fact at least the brahman cow has certain points which help an aberdeen angus if it has to uve live down texas way its cool in scotland where the aberdeen angus came from its hot in tropical asia where humpbacked beauty originated the brahman have sweat glands in their skin which acts as a refrigerating system and a little of that goes pretty well in the gulf states of this country news correspondents discuss war jitters this is a story of chin beards and war we have been going through some jittery moments in washington lately with war and rumors of war all about us in the midst of the confusion little things unimportant things which we remember years afterward but which never get into the papers or the history books stand out clear and sharp in our memories like a lantern swinging on a dark night like the eerie nightmare night mare mar e sound of the first coyote call you ever heard on a lonely ride home with the moon halt half hidden under the moving clouds I 1 was sitting in the press club on a recent sunday evening there were a couple of correspondents there but the place was almost deserted A heavy set fellow carrying a walking stick came inot course we began heckling him a little but hes equal to it leon henderson is one of the new dealers who has managed to hold his ground winning hate from some respect from others who disagree with him all down the line ill never forget one occasion in which he figured I 1 cant mention the names of the men present but they were all legitimate contenders for nomination of the presidency of the united states and henderson offered a 10 to 1 bet that none of them would be candidates one only got furious and when it was his turn to speak launched into one of his famous in vec tives against henderson and all his works it was a good show but henderson proved right in the end he won the bet TALK ABOUT FRANKS CRANKS well what we said to henderson that sunday night and what he said s aid in reply particularly important until we got to talking about the cranks trying to see government officials with plans plan for saving the world then somebody said to henderson have you met the man who is communicating with mars before he could answer one ot of the cynical listeners who insisted that the administration was trying to get us into war piped up 1 I thought you folks were already in communication with mars no henderson answered quick as a whistle we arent trying to communicate with the god of war we are trying to keep away from him mr henderson left representative tinkham of massachusetts came in we greeted him he said hed been away naturally the talk turned to beards for representative tinkham has a famous beard A fine wavy hirsute decoration that makes him look as friendly as some of the kindly animals youve seen with similar appendages beards are no longer the style I 1 often regret it and I 1 have always believed that their absence was due to one of two things moral cowardice on the part of those who fear to be different or as in in my own case I 1 an inability to raise a crop of whiskers that would look like anything but a wheatfield in the dust bowl WELL KNOWN but representative tinkham is more than a beard he is a washington institution when the government purchased a well known apartment house in the capital in which he has had his bachelor quarters for years and turned the building into one of the alphabetical agencies mr tinkham stood on his legal rights and refused to move out there he remained among his trophies heads of wild water buffalo which he had outfaced out faced in the jungles lions that he had not only out bearded but beaded tigers elephants tusks and all and of course his own much photographed beard however it is not merely the fact that representative Tin tinkham kharn has faced beasts in the jungle that has made him famous he has faced opposition for his seat in congress since 1915 and has never been defeated and he does it without making a speech |