Word: bran
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Luke is seen beside the body of a dead game warden, flees, and wanders all night in a driving snowstorm. When he is taken in by a farm woman who catches him stealing the bran mash she has set out for her chickens he falls into a sickness, later works for a harsh Methodist parson whose daughter he marries, and from then on concerns himself with the gradual accumulation of wealth as a small farmer...
Useful to farmers as a cheap feed for livestock are shorts, a mixture of bran and other coarse material left when flour is milled from wheat. When corn is dear, many a Southerner ferments shorts with sugar to make "corn liquor." Last week Senator Arthur Capper complained that one of his constituents in Kansas went to a local AAA office, asked for shorts for his hogs. Instead of giving help and sympathy, the young college woman whom AAA had put in charge replied to him: "Oh yeah? What about some step-ins for your cows while...
Scribners for June is a good collection: mostly the roughage or bran of the intellectual diet. There is a series of strong arguments supporting the American Congress by F. H. LaGuardia. That self-conscious body is now getting on without his official help. There is an excellent article by A. A. Berle, Jr., member of the "brain-trust," titled, "The High Road for Business," which asks of American business leaders something obviously beyond their power, social responsibility, and this for the purpose of business salvation...
...northwestern Nebraska these worms wheat annually destroy a negligible amount of wheat- perhaps destroy a 50 acres. But already this year 1,000 acres have been leveled in that area. Therefore last week Nebraska farmers were to be seen at a strange occupation. They were spreading bran mash, poisoned with Paris green or white arsenic, throughout their wheat fields. It is a well-known cutworm remedy...
...this gentleman to "gentlemen's another, President Hoover and Prime Minister Bennett may well mention liquor, must discuss the possibility of a U. S. embargo on Canadian wheat, will probably announce that they are talking about "the St. Lawrence waterway project." Indeed that stale red herring was vigorously bran dished in Government House at Ottawa to account for the Bennett visit. In Ottawa's Liberal Evening Citizen last week appeared this reference to Conservative Bennett : "A fine fleet of government motor cars - all luxurious limousines of high power and speed - are going on the market for what they...