The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, December 18, 1922, Page 3

+ boda’) MONDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1922 29 FARMS OUT OF 126 SHOWED PROFIT, REPORT Survey Conducted by Rex; Willard of Agriculttral Col- lege Is Announced ' WHEAT HEADS __ LIST; = Eleven Year Records for Yield) Of Wheat Show Cass and | Pembina Counties Lead _ —r Fargo, N. D., Dec. 18—Figures! from 126.farms in North Dakota| showing what products and operat-| ing methods proved most profitable to these farmers in 1921 was sent out yesterday in Bulletin 165 by the North Dakota Agricultural College. It is for the most, part a result of the work of the 126 farmers in all sections of the state, county agents and the farm economics department of the college headed by Rex Willard. In some cases more than one year is covered in the records.' Facts brought out by the figures includ fe les county | shows the course she took after That only 29 of the farms made « profit while 97 of them lost moncy., Average net loss was $848 or 2.8 per} cent on the investment. | Wheat produced 25 percent of the) state farm income. Eleven year records for yield of | wheat showed Cass and Pembina! leading with Walsh, Grand Forks and Traill closely following. The greatest proportional invest- ment was in land of the Red River Valley ‘and Central North Dakota; a relatively higher investment was in stock in Northwest and’ Southwest | North Dakota. (The state was divid- ed into these four sections for the purpose of the survey). Wheat occupied 29 pércent of the crop area of the state with hay, oats, corn and barley next in importance. Operating Expenses j _ Operating expenses per farm were} $3,816, Threshing twine taxes, in- terest, etc., were 20 percent of the/ hired labor 12 percent and machin- ery depreciation approximately 10} percent. The distribution of costs from highest to lowest were as fol- lows: Miscellaneous, $788; manage- ment $516, the farmer's gwn labor. $494; hired labor, $450, machinery | depreciation $369; family labor $3: taxes $237; machinery repair $192; building depreciation $151; feed $108; interest personal property $91 dwelling depreciation $67. i While! wheat “which averaged 25} percent of the income of the state ‘ YY ce yn \ - ey ay si s 7 t -eBo- ) .@ dye , on the average, led as the income producer it was displaced in ithe} Southwest where it was only 4 per-/ cent while diary products ranked highest there. In general the cost: per..aere. of producing ¢rops was highest in’ tho Red River Valley and lowest in -the west the Northwest being highcr than the Southwest. The cost per! unit, however, highest in the south-| west because of lower yields. Average annual cost operating au- tomobile for farm uses.on 144 farms | was $281. The average cost of keeping work horses was $74 per head; sheep (on 31 farms) $6.50 per ewe, cattle $79 Per head (ranging from $115 in the, Valley to $62 on the Slope. For the | cattle fed was 40 percent of the cost. | Horse Used 78 Days i The average work horse was used 78 days at productive work in 1921, The tractors on 29 farms were used 29 days on the average. Tractor cost for plowing was $1.98 per acre and | horse plowing cost 92 cents an acre. | Farms using tractors lost $688 more | money than those not using them. | The value of food furnished by the farm to the household averaged $524 per farm. The average cost of food eaten by members of the farm-| ers families was $12.91 a month rang: | ing from $16.56 in small families to $10.61 in big ones. Food eaten re- | presented 15 percent of the gros farm income, in 1921. Where farmers sold enough da products to make 18 percent of this | gross income they averaged $384 / more profit than those who sold | onl yenough dairy stuff to make up! 4 percent of their net income. In| five years the average amount of | damage to wheat was 56 percent of a normal crop. Of this drouth caused | 29 percent of the loss and rust only | 10 percent, and hot winds seven per! cent. | Potato damage 28 percent; drouth | 26 percent; potato bugs five percent, | and hot winds only one percent. ’ NEWS BRIEFS |. o_O Minneapolis.—Stripped to his un der wear and socks by holdup m who robbed him of all his ou rl clothing and $144 in cash, Joseph | Kone, war veteran, Vancouver, B. C.,| was forced to wander about streets | for sometime in below zero weather before he obtained assistance. Ames, Iowa—Armory of reserve of- ficers training corps on Iowa State college campus, owned by war de- partment, destroyed by fire, damage estimated, $500,000. | | St. Paul—Louis Morin, _ night | watchman, seriously burned and dam- | age estimated $50,000 caused by fire | which destroyed two story building occupied by Lee and Hoff Elevator | Manufacturing Company. Dublin—The, last eighteen posts occupied by British troops transferred to the Irish national arm Melbourne, Australia—In con plete | returns from_a general election | showed Premiet Hughes, the nation- | leader, safe despite a large la- bor vote. New York.—One square mile in lower East Side district, New York, 500,,000 persons live, ‘ shows | were | | | jail, adjoining through a €opeland sa Detroit. of the I oldiers. dent of the Salt Lak lang, bro Geo> Suther nt Virginia, How Mrs. ed “hammer slayer dows, escaped from the Los Ange- Jerusalem.— Hebred author, died. Duluth—John Clara’ Phillips, con’ of Alberta M jail, ‘The photogranh crawled through the sawed bars of her cell. She sealed the roof of the slid dov climbed rect Idin, then roof door to the and the waiting auto of a confeder-| ate. Inset, Mrs. Phillips. the lowest. mortufity rate for in- fants in the world, Dr. Royal S. ‘id in an address. y Ben Yahuda, Frank W. Fletcher, ht- man and a former regent of the Uni- versity of Michigan, died. The automobile, lian chief of police in Tien ;Tsin was fired on by tlie Chinese Owens, first presi- Tower and Vieginia, died. City—-Henry Suther- of Associated Judge nd of the United States e supreme court, died, Bar Harbor, Maine.—The steamer }human habitation. If such wa’ s reported in need of as- sea. Minn.—Captain William White, associated in the develop-;Sault Ste. Ms companions THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE Mesaba Range died. SHIPS FIGHT | BATTLE FOR (Continued from P; carrying the captain his failed dm reach islands, yet survived the gale drifting ice it may have been blov ashore on/the mainland miles from the case it is improbable that the se: men, weakened by long exposure the intense cold could have survived, 50} the launch long unless, like those who reached ie, they found some by dynasti put aside his mors: Now despi \vife and returned to . ng with Prince Carol, is leaving Rumania for Paris. _ A Kingdom Lost for*Love i@ reasons to ma tic eaties of Qigen is beloved ite the en Jee Marie Carol he nne, Belgium's gratitude to Herbert Hoover, secretary of commerce, for his relief work there during the war is symbolized in this “statue presented to him recently at Stanford University, "Catt “fornia, Senator Lejune of Bel- gium, shown at right, was one of the committee making the presen- tation. Hoover ig shown at ieft. The statue, c; ed by Puttemans, famed Eelgian sculptor, repre- Belgium Honors Hoover sgpts the Egyptian goddess Isis enthroned. is typified in mythology the s of mother: hhood and of growing things. HOW CLARA PHILLIPS GOT AWAY 1 1 t | Ihere was vague b jen Rel i. ment of the mining industry on the]Indian cabin in which to reeuper- ate. 18.—The local United radio station at 1 a, m, picked up parts of a wireless Duluth, D. States na today WINTER PORT j message believed to have been broad~ cast from Cleveland,. Ohio, advising of the distress of a ship on Lake Superior. The message as received ause of the heavy weather, but the wireless operator interpreted it to mean that vessel captains should be on. the lookout for the distressed ship. Copenhagen, Dec. 18.—The Danish steamship Lituanin, which left New York December 6 for Danzig and|ending on June 30, 1922, was $2,475.ltne scheme and if it proves feasible is}204, a decrease from the previous] it ig planned to build several of the Libau with cargo and passenge reported aground on Bornholm i in the Baltic sea. nd CARGO VALUED AT 29 MILLION Bay City, Mich, D fleet of nine steamships bound for Lake Erie ports which left Port William F ed through St. Mars and early today entered La on the way down. The their cargoes are worth § night pi river Sunday ke Huron 8,000,000. ARCH FOR 27 MISSING nd, Ohio, Dec. 18—The or, carly today for land to continue the search sing from the tug last Wednesday, ac- less advices reecived here today by H.\E, Gitpin, president of the Great Lakes Towing Company, owners of the Favorite. The tug was forced to seek shelter in Whitefish bay late yesterday. RECOVER FROM COLD Sault B Mich., Dee, 18. The tu ching for the nce the tug Reli- perso s ance crashed on the ro@ks off Liz island last. Wednesday, reached e of the wreck this morning and und two overturned and battered lifeboats but no sign of the missin: persons. Word of the Gra! at the mne of the wreck was received by wireless from the tug, which added only that the temperature was ten below zero. Seven survivors of the which occurred when the storm driv- liance, owned by the Superior Paper Company, stripped her wheel on the rocks, were recovering here today from expos after being iven in a small boat to the Can » mainland, Two others, Mr. . John Harten, cooks, were rted in & serious condition at a ation of the Algoma Cen- road. wreck, re- ‘ANI Anita ‘Stewart orem spr | :}on the Missouri Slope a few years ] ago, has risen go rapidly that in 1921 “The WOMAN HE MARRIED” CHRISTIE COMEDY “A RAMBLING ROMEO” | | PRODUCTS IN THE IN SHORT P Value of Butterfat and Cream | Sold. Rises to More Than $2,601,245 in 1921 in 19 Counties in Southwestey Part of the State —— : MORE MANUFACTURI { The dairy industry, in its ‘infancy a total of $2,601,245 was paid to producers in 19 southwestern coun-~ ties for butterfat. These records, from the office of the ‘state. dairy commissioner, are admittedly too low in that’ it is impossible to get also- the complete record of cream ship- ped by former creameries outsire the state. The average for these counties is proportionately higher than for the entire state. : The sales of 1921, of over two and a half million. dollars, are contrast- ed with sales of $789,869.05 reported for the year 1916 by the dairy com- missioner, representing an increase in the dairy output in the counties in five years of 220 pércent. The cold statistics of the state of- ficial sources are more convincing than any yet given about the dairy industry in the Missouri Slope coun- ties. The counties included are: Adams, Billings, Bowman, Burleigh, Dunn, Emmons, Golden Valley, Grant, Hettinger, Kidder, Logan, McIntosh, McLean, Mercer, Morton, Over, HUGE INCREASE ISSHOWN IN DAIRY ERIOD OF FIVE YEARS 4 PAGE THRE P OPEN EVENINGS UNTIL CHRISTMAS Suggestions PAJAMAS Serviceable soisette and okford cloths in blue, grey, stan, and pink $3.50 $4.00 BELT BUCKLES Initial and plain a man can use several belts $1.00 to $5.00 SILK HOSE He will appreciate these fine silk hose, all colors, some clocked 50c to $2.00 LOUNGING ROBES One of these luxurious robes will surely please him $10.00 to $30.00 S. E. Bergeson & Son Tailoring. SLOPE TERRITORY PLAN TO AID “BIG BOYS” IN HIGH SCHOOLS Plans to aid the “big boys” imthe open country high schools, so that they may attain “something definite in the work they take in the time they are able to spend in school has resulted in the instruction of the half unit‘examinations in the North Dakota high schools, The 1922-23 half unit examination will be held five days beginning January 22nd. Examinations will be offered at that time in all subjects except “foreign languages, correlated mathematics, woodwork and shop work.” Because some of the instructors in the schools of the state have fail- ed to understand the details of the half unti examination, the State Sup- erintendent has sent out to the heads of the different high schools in the state, a letter explaining the meth- ods of taking the examination and the object. ; The object is thus explained in the letter: * “The plan of having the examina- tions in the unit subjects presented in two parts came about chiefly from a desire to assist older pupils in open country high schools/(espe- cially the big boys) who must drop out before the nine months work is covered. This plan of having smaller units of achievement makes it pos- sible for these belated pupils to be! gin somewhere and really finish something in the time they are in school. They can complete the first half of the course in one year and the second half the next year but they cannot get their completion cer- Dry Cleaning. Sioux, Stark, Slope. The value of butterfat marketed through cream stations for the years 1916 and 1921, as given in of- ficial figures, follows: County Year Year 1916 1921 Adams .......$ 17,769 $107,799 Billings 3,293 11,615, Bowman ...... 30,842 * 82,547 Burleigh y.... 96,274 123,284 Dunn 952 100,270 Emmons 134,342 260,874 Grant 207,012 Hettinger 22,630 Kidder’ 16,249 Logan 82,559 McIntosh 161,807 McLean Mercer 49,064 150, Morton + 127,761 esis Oliver 21,318 Sioux .....c0e cece eee Slopes scott weet 17,615 Stark 21,318 Tendency in Manufacture The production for the year 1922, year which was chiefly due té de- cline in price of butterfat. A study of records discloses” that during the last several years there 18.—The | has, however, been a decrease in the} tation ig needed to make one foot grain laden} number of creamieries. The tendency } o¢ goal, apparently has been toward a small- er number of creameries with a lar- ‘ger output, this being the most eco- nomichl method of production, There # ships andlis no place in which butter can be gon, N. so well manufactured as close to the source of production. Theoretically the farmer should make better butter than anyone. The facture by the creameries, There were 80 creameries in the state in 1915 and only 50 in 1922, While a great deal of the butter- fat produced in the Slope countie? was wanufactured into butter on the Slope the greater part of it went to creameries outside. The rec- ords of the dairy commissioner, how- ever, show that the value of butte: manufactured in the Slope counties fox last year was $1,280,629.06. The manufacture of butter by creamerfes for the years 1916 and 1921, as far as is available, is shown as follows: 1916 1921 Adams ....8 924.28 : Burleigh .. 104,858.66 Bowman .. 4 Emmons Yes : Kiddet « 19,626.63 20,298.76 McLean 25,261.46 22,041.00 Morton 215,247.21 Logan 2,797.92 Mercer 13,476.71 Oliver 13,476.71... Stark 35,108.28 3,903: Dunn ‘ 5,400.00 Minot, N. D., Dec. 16.—Minot High School basketball team defeated Berthold. High 28 to 12 here last night. Spring Valley Lignite Lump |, Coal. Phone 164 or 474. * TONIGHT MONDAY TA STEWART —in— PATHE NEWS Tuesday—Wednesday—-Thursday NORMA TALMADGE In “THE ETERNAL FLAME” 190,710] ness the winds and make them pro- 135,3/5} duce electricity for rural distric’ 53,670} has been presented to the ministry 344,783] of agriculture. The scheme involves 203,716] the erection on hill tops 514] buildings, from the sides of which 927} will project huge wings. These wings 16;610] will be spun by the wind horizontal- 14,926] ly just above the ground. 181,998 | unlimited amounts of electricity éan tificates in a full unit subject until they have completed the second se- mester of work.” YRTLE REED’S | great story “LAVENDER and OLD LACE” Plan to Harness Winds for Use Of Rural Sections (By the Associated Press) London, Dec. 18.—A plan to har- MONDAY-TUESDAY —at/ the— CAP IT —also— of low Proponents of the plan assert that International News be obtained in this way at a mini- mum of cost. Government and comedy “A BED OF ROSES” officials are testing generating stations in out of the way districts. ’ A thickness of nine feet of vege- Coming Wednesday Tom CHANEY in....................“THE TRAP” For Sale — Choice Canary Singers. 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