FARMERS: Shorts: Jan. 21, 1935

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...

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