The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, May 30, 1929, Page 2

PAGE TWO Agricul HOPEFUL FACTOR IN SURPLUS FOR FARMS Prices Two Points Lower on April 15, but Tendency to ! Rise Is Indicated FLAX FUTURE LOOKS Goo! With Cattle Selling Above Last Year's Quotations, Further Advances Not Expected The general business situation con- | tinues to be dominated by the un- | usual higher rate of activity in the | iron, steel and automobile industries and continued high rate of textile | production, says the North Dakota farm outlook issued by Mr. Fuller of the Agricultural College. Building construction in April was about equal to last year’s level. Distribution of goods by railroads expanded. The general level of prices received by farmers in the United States was about two points lower April 15 than @ year ago. In North Dakota prices received by producers for crops de- creased from 110, April 15, to 103. May 15, and livestock prices decreased from 168, Apri 15, to 165, May 15. Wheat There is now evidence of a ten- dency for wheat prices to rise but heavy marketings of new wheat and favorable crop reports may again temporarily depress prices. Reports of prospects for the Canadian crop will be an important factor in de- termining the course of prices through the next few wecks. The recent drop in price appears to have been due to concern over the Prospects of ending the season with an increased carry-over and harvest- ing another good crop of wheat in 1929. Present prospects are for a fairly good crop of winter wheat in the United States but the outturn of the world’s crop is still very uncer- tain. ‘The tendency for world consump- tion to increase should not be over- looked. With an increase in supply of 250,000,000 bushels at the begin- ning of the year, the disappearance of wheat to date appears to be some- thing over 100,000,000 bushels in ex- cess of the disappearance in the cor- Tesponding period of last season. ‘The acreage of winter wheat al doned to May 1 is estimated at 6.4 Per cent of the 43,225,000 acres sown last fall. This abandonment is less than half of the average abandon- ment to May 1 during the last five years. The acreage of winter wheat remaining for harvest is the largest since 1922. ‘ Flax In view of the present prospects, farmers who have lands suitable for Producing flax are justified in in- creasing their acreage of flax this year. The short crop of flax in the ‘United States in 1928 has resulted in Teduced stocks and increased imports. Stocks on hand are from 6,000,000 to 8,000,000 bushels less than last year ‘and shipments from Argentina to the United States have been considerably greater this year. More linseed oil moved into consuming channels dur- ing the quarter ended December, 1928, than for any preceding fall Quarter for which data are available. prices in North Dakota declined somewhat from the level Teached the first week in May, but since May 8 there has been a mater- jal increase in the price of flaxseed, mo doubt due to President Hoover's Proclamation increasing the tariff on flax from 40 cents to 56 cents a bushel. May 15 the estimated aver- age price received by producers in North Dakota for flax was approxi- mately $2.16 per bushel. Potatoes From present production prospects the carly potato crop in ten of the early producing states may be con- siderably light. A decline in price ‘of old crop potatoes set in during the latter part of March and first Part of April, but after the middle of the month prices advanced consid- erably, probably due to restricted market supplies. Beef Cattle With the present level of beef cat- tle prices considerably above last year it hardly seems probable that - @ny further large advance will take Place before July 1, nor is there rea- gon to expect any decline from pres- tnt levels. Cattle supplies during May and June are expected to be about as large as during these months last year. The + Bumber of cattle on feed in 11 corn she told me about Gert.” 1929, cold storage holdings, in the United States, of frozen beef amount- ed to 51,402,000 pounds compared with 28,253,000 pounds May 1, 1928 Hogs Hog prices are likely to show a con- tinued weakness during the next few weeks as receipts are increased by the marketing of hogs from the last fall pig crop. The decline, however, is expected to be moderate with the low point reached some time in June. This decline in hog prices is expected to be followed by the usual summer rise, and since hog prices are now on a higher level than a year ago, it is Probable that the summer peak may exceed that of last summer. footed supplies for the remainder of the crop year ending in October are ex. | pected to be less than last year and it is doubtful if so large a proportion of the summer and fall receipts will arrive in the latter part of September or the month of October as was the case last year. Lambs Market supplies of sheep and lambs in May and June are expected to be larger than during these months in 1928 due to the larger lamb crop and favorable development and pros- Pective early movement in the south- eastern part o fthe United States. The general downward tendency in lamb prices since the middle of April may be explained by the big increase in supplies. Receipts at seven lead- ing markets during April were 23 per cent larger than in April, 1928. In- spected slaughter was 22 per cent larger and was the highest for April in 15 years and the second largest for the month on record. Fed lamb prices after reaching the highest level for the season about the middle of April started to decline rapidly and by the end of the month had reached the lowest level since the first of January. Average prices re- ceived by producers for lambs in North Dakota April 15 was $12.80 per hundredweight. This was estimated to have decreased to $10.20 by May 1. Butter Present ‘ndications are that prices for butter during May will fall below ACROSS |. Small e: “I don't like the way she's always talking about people; guess what Daily Cross-word Puzzle Solution of Yesterday's Puzzie 9. Unit tural Outlook for N. Dakota VANSHING WHEAT |(CSiDE cranes - ny George care —]|MOQQUITO RELIEF the average of 45 cents for 92-score butter at New York last year and that June prices will probably be below the average of 44.1 cents for June, 1928. Market receipts and cold stor- age holdings increased materially during April and were much higher than during April a year ago. Euro- Pean markets continued weak with Prices considerably below those of last year. Present indications are that New Zealand production will continue heavy and Australia pro- duction will reach the high level of last yea Eggs and Poultry Indications are that egg and poul- try prices during the latter part of May and probably for June will aver- age the same as for May and June last year. Although the situation at the present time is uncertain, the light storage conditions will tend to prevent any material price decline and present receipts will operate to Prevent anything more than a grad- ual increase. Mountrail 4-H Clubs Prepare Livestock For Fair Exhibition The 4-H Livestock club members. of Mountrail county are very busily engaged now preparing their stock for exhibition at the Mountrail coun- ty fair. Their spirit is shown by one boy who remarked, “We may not have as good stock as some of the Farmers in the county are coming out strong this year and the compeé- tition promises to be the keenest in years. Boys and girls just naturally like to compete against each other, and the sportsmanship displayed by them would be a good lesson to many adults. A barber in Havana shaves his cus- tomers in slightly more than one minute. He uses two razors—one in each hand—and finishes the job in four strokes. 1, Concern 1. Among 12, Heavy metal 1 Feminine 1 name 21, Slight, hasty re coll, 23. 36, heeft 29. Over: poet. 86. Blond: comb. tt Fm ‘34, Wander alm- 33. Permit 434, Household pest 3, Son of Abra. m 41. Narrow way 2. ed i HE oh ab Fa ABB PITT TO Capable of en- darance 31. Small medieval ae Pontus < Footiike 9. Rodent 0. Fi fe : HERE WILL REQUIRE | TWO SEASONS WORK Or. Komp Advises Study This Year and Real Clean-up Campaign Next Year ONE MALARIA TYPE FOUND Government Expert Finds Worst Breeding Waters to West of Fort Lincoln Tract Mosquito extermination along the Missouri and Heart cannot, if Bis- marck and Mandan wish to make a Perfect job of it, be undertaken this year, but a start can be made for a campaign next year, the conference held at the Association of Commerce rooms, Wednesday afternoon, learned from Dr. W. P. Komp, the public health expert sent here by the gov- ernment to assist the two cities in the plans. What can be done this year is to drain off bodies of stagnant water, especially west of Fort Lincoln and south of there, and either drain or oil swales in the Dogtown section of Mandan. These courses will not rid the towns of the pests, but would give some relief by reducing the volume of the hatchings. Incidentally, the doctor said it is only the female mosquito that bites, which corroborates the saying that the female of the species is the most deadly.’ Dr. Komp also suggested that an investigator be put on the task, pref- erably some student of biology from the university, to lay the basis for early steps next year by which the two cities could fairly rid themselves from the pests. A visit was paid to the Northern Great Plains Experi- ment station to learn whether such an investigator could be quartered there, and the matter will be taken up with J. E. Graf, assistant chief of the bureau, of entomology, U. 8. De- partment of Agriculture, ington, at the suggestion of J. M. Stephens, iministrator of the station. Locate Worst Breeding Spots Further investigations will be made here till Sunday by . Komp. In company with Joseph Spies, he vis- ited several mosquito-breeding areas around the city. They went as far north as Milan Ward's farm, where the doctor found one specimen of the malaria type of mosquito. The worst spots were west of the fort, in the ‘Wachter tract, where a large body of water left over from the ice flood of- fers opportunities to breed vigillions of the pests, and where the outflow from the Gussner slaughter. plant provides another infestation area. Some Fly 40 Miles ‘The reason Dr. Komp is investigat- ing is to learn the type of mosquito here. Mosquitoes differ just as dogs differ or as fowls may be chickens or ducks or sparrows or pelicans, he said. On the type—150 in the United States and 500 in the Americas—depends whether they bear malaria or yellow fever infection or whether they stay right on the breeding grounds or are able to fly several miles away from it. In New Jersey some have been known to fly 40 miles. He thinks those breeding here can easily fly in- to the two cities. Mosquitoes are not wind-born said Dr. Komp. Wind might dry them out. They are partly of an aquatic nature and their flight ts dependent on high temperature, high humidity and low velocity of wind. Ditching Chief Hope Now Answering questions as to the use of oll, Dr. Komp said it would be economically impossible to use that means of control on the Wachter tract, as it would require from 10 to 15 gallons to the acre. The tract should be ditched to drain off. The reason complete results are impossible this year, he said, is that THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE Reports ce) AA AAT Wiis SYNOPSIS: Moved by Lucy's eloquent plea and intrigued by the mystery surrounding Andrew Ogden’s murder, Luther MacNair, famous retired detective, agrees to investigate the case. Lucy in- sists that her fiance, Jerry Ogden, did not murder his father. Mac- Nair, cynical man-hunter of dia- bolical cleverness, scorns her theortes and considers the con- vincing circumstantial case against Jerry. Two words— “gold bullets”—shouted by An- drew Ogden, a few hours before his death, two queer, unexplained visitors in the Ogden home and the golden slugs in the famous ‘east new shadows over the grip- ping mystery. John Peebles, Lucy's uncle, who discovered Ogden's body, awakens to find a prowler in his den. CHAPTER 9 THE STRUGGLE IN THE DARK Tt was an awkward situation, you will admit. The rascal was after my pistols and the revolver I keep for Protective purposes was in my desk. My eyes flew around the shadowy hall in search of a weapon. Lucy had left her golf clubs by the dining-room door. I quietly extracted one of them. Creeping to the door of the den, I Peered inside. The man was softly opening and shutting the drawers of my desk and pouring the light beam down into each in turn. This puz- zled me for I had expected to see him rifling the cabinet. But when he came to the left-hand bottom drawer and straightened up with something in his hand, I almost shouted out the “The Peterson revolver!” The words “gold bullets” sounded in my brain. “ he—could he be Andrew's murderer?” A faint sound at my feet drew my eyes down, but I felt rather than the start is being made too late. | saw Mosquito eggs have a hard shell and | ;, can survive through the winter to hatch out early in the spring. All that is needed, he said, is water, mois- ture or dampness—a mud puddle or a nook of a stream ich is not agitated by the current, as an in- dentation in the bank. Neither the flowing Heart nor the Missouri breeds the pests, only the quiet, stagnant ws ters on the sides, and sewage where- 8 ever it exists openly, as at the dis- charge vents of the Mandan system into the Heart near the railroad bridge. From this place and the Dogtown swales, Mandan gets most of its hordes, it was suggested. Might Use Si joldiers Suggestions were made that the |. @uey, soldiers at Fort Lincoln might be as- loudly. ‘The light went out and the night huddled me into its velvet cloak. I was in the room. Silence still, Breathing deeply, I raised myself onto rouched against the wall, waited... The next situation for a man in his 69th year! My eyes by this were more accus- tomed to the darkness and I saw inst the ebony background which I knew to be By Williams Ni N as if it were splitting asunder. Just then Polyandria got between our feet. ‘We stumbled over her and crashed to the floor. The man grunted as if Polyandria’s claws had got home. He kept his grip on my throat, but I lost, mine on his. Moreover, he maneu- vered my body and his in such a way that I fell on my face and he came down astride of me. I tried unavail- ingly to fling him off. Cries for help rose in my throat, but I could not voice them; his grip tightened be- yond endurance, a shadow crept over my brain. And then the pressure on my throat suddenly ceased and the man was no longer astride my body. The French windowW’¢rashed to and then, to my astonishment, I heard Luther MacNair's harsh voice: “Stop there! Hands up!” Some one laughed. And then: “Back, ye fool, or I'll drill yer! Git inside! The voice was deep, throaty, com- manding, and I did not recognize it. A shot ing out. Another. The reading lamp flashed on and I saw Lucy and Mrs. Moffit standing over me. At that moment MacNair burst through the French window. His hat was gone and his face was black with fury and bitter disappointment. Lucy beside me, a cry of grief on her lips. “Get something for his throat!” MacNair snapped. Mrs. Moffit fled and MacNair dropped at the other side of me. on conclusion that poured through my | Pered. mind. swimming eyes wet my cheeks. “What did he look like?” MacNair demanded impatiently. I shut my eyes and tried to as- semble my impressions of the man. They were pitifully few. “He fought like a tiger. I don’t think he was stout,” I mumbled. “He may have been fairly tall—but I'm not sure. When he shouted at you—he said nd ‘git.’ His voice struck me as isguised. Didn't you get any- ‘He col- lided with me before I saw him. His body was scarcely more than a Industry Dominating THOUSANDS 10 VT yA 4 dD. Winn e+ SRwLAMS + ©1000, GY NEA SeAMEE, INC. PEOPLE’S FORUM SCORES GARET GARRETT Editor The Tribune: oe T have read Garet Garrett's recent . . “ article, entitled, “The New Picture of Haan, Fee: sana gan |O€, Ameren ‘ngrioatbure, 1 tea "ines merican a; re, I feel that durance was leaving me, my head felt Mr. Garrett's presentation is mis- leading and should be combated. On Jan. 15, 1927, Mr. Garrett said in print that propaganda was the ef- fort to “make other people think what you wish them to think for ends example,” in which ment is misleading; the total im- Pression is.” Now if you will study his recent article, I think you will find that no single thing is misstated, but that the total impression is misleading. His title implies that there is a farming technique which can com- Pete with industry—for agriculture | terest is tnd for managerial braing and for jor capital. The fact is that industry has increased its efficiency some sixty Per cent since 1920; agriculture, not over twenty per oe works _ THURSDAY, MAY 30, 1929 ADAMS COURT HOUSE AT OPENING PROGRAM $150,000 Structure Erected Through Special Levy With- out Bond Issue (Special To The Tribune) Hettinger, N. Dak., May 30.—Plans have been made by the county offi- Hettinger Tuesday June 11 with the formal opening of the new $150,000 Adams county courthouse. Ata meeting of the Hettinger Commercial club and the county of- ficers Tuesday evening committees. were appointed to handle the details of the event and to provide enter- tainment and a program for the sev- eral thousand people who are expect- ed to attend. Will View Building During the course of the day visit- ors will be shown through the mag- nificent structure and the entire corps of county officers will act as a reception committee. Other commit- tees or heads of committees handling various features of the program were also appointed at the Commercial club meeting. The decoration com- mittee will be composed of Dave , A. J. Hancock, and Agnes Jones Thompson. Other members of the program committee will be chosen later. D. J. Shults will head the pub- Ueity committee. C. E. Thomas, Paul W. Boehm and Ira T. Hell will com- prise the invitation committee. Frank R. Weber will give the dedi- .| catory speech and also will probably speak in the evening in the Hettinger auditorium. Dr. Weber is at present speaking in North Dakota on phases of community advancement. Other lemme Probably will be placed upon program. Blanket invitations are being sent to the people in the surrounding country to attend the event and spe- cial invitations are being sent to Prominent men both in North and ludy | South Dakota. As county officials in surrounding counties have manifest- ed much interest in the progress of the Adams county courthouse they are being forwarded invitations to at- tend the program and take part in the ceremonies. Hettinger Plays ‘Unless the weather man conspires against those sponsoring the dedica- tion program tbis event will be one of the gala days of the year for the people of Hettinger and the sur- rounding county was saved much money through elimination of the custom- ea ~ Se ee I stumbled over a rug, betraying my | ™8y Inery | position. 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