The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, August 3, 1929, Page 2

{ = AIVESTOCK FACTOR _IN STABILIZING OF ~~ REVENUE FROM SOIL Nearly One-Third of Agricultural . Income Now Derived From Herds of the State G. N. D. A. HAS BEEN BIG AID Credit Corporation Financing Has Brought In 8,000 Dairy Cattle and 191,500 Sheep By MALCO! ce. cU The people of North Dak heen playing a winning their tremendously effective effort to gain recognition | for their state as it really is, No) great agricultural state, no up-to-| date community of \rogressive peo- ple, has ever suffered so bitterly from the well-meaning but harmful activities of misguided friends. Be- cause deflation 1920 struck the} wheat crop first, and because North Dakota is known as one of the lead- ing wheat states. was convenient to offer it as a “horrible example” | ef the depths to which American} egriculture was said to be falling. Through years of political con- troversy on farm relief, this eco- nomic misrepresentation of North} Dakota was maintained. Then. when the farmers and business men of the state began to put their house in order, with results that are now | the marvel of the Northwest, came the determination to. have North Da-| kota properly interpreted to the rest! of the nation. Now one constantly | hears the other side of the story and} accurate appraisal of North| Dakota's place among the agricul- tural sections of the United States is accepted. Back in 1925, farmers and busi- ness men all over the state resolved to work together to accomplish those definite ‘things which North Dakota could do for itself in the way of farm relief. Thus was the Greater North Dakota association born, with “a membership of 7,500 and every “county organized for the greatest ‘good of all. The association is set up as North Dakota's state chamber of commerce and its program of activities runs into many fields. While lending special effort toward advertising North Dakota, it majors these farm development campaigns, realizing that’ its greatest field of useful- ness is in making North Dakota more prosperous. In doing so it has encouraged greater efforts by the railroads, already well to the fore in the work of speeding up the state's development. The associa- tion's campaigns also include feed crop, silo and hog campaigns as well as a better seed campaign directed #gainst the state’s losses from dock- oge. A Drive for Quality Products One of its projects was a drive ‘for more purebred sires in the state. Beginning in an educational way, tit gradually developed into a central accncy for the distribution of pure- ‘bred sires. During the two years 1927-28 no less than 1,800 purebred bulls were sold through the agency of this association. The North Da- kota Agricultural College estimates; than 5,000 purebred sires were sold| in North Dakota from 1925 to 1928, _. Farmers of that state are fortu- “nate in having a scurce of credit for good Nvestock that is unequaled anywhere outside of the Northwest. Early in 1924 there was established in Minneapolis, at the instance of President Coolidge, an agricultural credit corporation for the purpose of promoting diversitied farming in —_———__—_—_—_—_—_. | Weather Report | Temperature at 7 a. m. Highest yesterday . Lowest last night . SIDE GLANCES - - lari @onrameaseecs wef SEG Ss PAT CFF “Pick out a real pretty one for Aunt Sophie. She never gets out to 8€€/i ota is the lowest in very much.” By George Clark | ——— |the Northwest. This institution will |is increasing all the time. if {supply high-grade dairy cattle and |no less than 23,600 carloads of live- sheep up to an aiiount of $1,000 to any responsible farmer, with payments ai six per cent interst on a three-year installment plan. To the end of 1928 it had financed the purchase of 8,000 dairy cattle and 191,500 sheep to 5,262 North than $2,650,000. Often the stock pays for itself before the three-year payment period expires. The a sociation is assisted in its work by a revolving fund furnished by F. E. Murphy, publisher of The Min- neapolis Tribune, a prominent ad- voeate of balanced farming for the spring wheat area. Where wheat is the major crop, an enormous increase in the number of tractors and combines indicates that wheat growing in North Dakota is being placed rapidly on a low- cost industrial-farming basis. Si 1925, when the modern medi tractor came into use, nearly 25, tracters were sold in the state to the end of 1928, and 1,209 combines were sold in the last two years ‘is period. Livestock Advance in Ten Years | e g h crop of North Dakota, commanding a premium price because of its high protein content, the glory of that state's recovery lies in the determination with which its farmers have pro- gressed from wheat as a single crop and have built up a system of per- manent agriculture on the basis of diversified livestock farming. spite the period of depression, North Dakota has increased its corn acre- age over 100 per cent, its tame hay acreage 100 per cent, in which the alfalfa increase is 270 per cent. These figures include the crop of 1928. Further increases of corn, alfalfa and sweet clover were re- ported from every part of the state in the spring of 1929. These are feed crops, grown to be fed on the farms. The livestock kas been coming in just as rapidly tc consume them. From January i, 1920, to the same date in 1929, dairy cattle have increased 100,000 head, or 21 per cent; swine, 130,000 head, or 28 per cent; and sheep, nearly 300,000 head, or 100 per cent, During tie past five years, by of- ficial statistics, an average of near- ly one-third of the farmer's income in North Dakota has been derived | Dakota farmers at_a value of more spring wheat is | 0: Since 1919 (census figures). de-|* In 1928 |stock were shipped to market from ‘that state, 32,000,006 pounds of lcreamery butter were manufactured, |4.000,000 pounds cf wool were ‘clipped, and poultry production ‘amounted to $12,706,000. | Grouped With Corn Belt ‘roduce higher quality into North /Dakota production was started in the winter of 192 9, In_ thi jas in all of the ass ion’s efforts, ithe agricultural college and its staff ‘of county agents worked hand in jhand. Seed houses were first ap- proached and they arreed to test and set aside an ample quantity of ub- North Dakota's Rank The better seed campaign to in-| Belt is included, Low Level of Land Values From the standpoint of the farm |purchaser, chief of Ncrth Dakota’s jmany advantages is the low level jat which its land values have been maintained. When the peak of |boom prices was reached in the spring of 1920, North Dakota land jhad been inflated by a lower per- |centage of its prewar value than any fother of the North Central States. lin North Dakota had returned clos- ier to the prewar normal value than any other of these states, | Based on present average valucs, |e. farmer in Iowa or Illinois can sell {his quarter or half section farm and purch:se from fcur to five times as much land, just as good for crop er livestock production, with the same money in North Dakota. In every one of the otker Corn Belt states, land values cre from two to |three times as high as in North Da- kota. Low Cost of Production Government figures on cost of | production show that costs per acre lin North Dakota are just about the lowest in the United States. There |are two reasons. Once is the low cost /of land rental to be included in the lacre cost. The other is a direct re- [sult of this. Because land is cheap, farmers can afford to cultivate an jarea that is large crough for eco- ‘nomical production, The average {size of farms in North Dalsta, ac- Neen to the 1925 census, was 452 | | acres, the large fields, iz machinery, and that means low vos of production. The only crops on which cost ¢7 iproduction by states is recorded are wheat, corn and oats, The latest jfigures are for 1927. On the basis {of these figures, the net cost per ‘acre of growing oats in North Da- the entire | United States; of corn, lowest in jthe twelve North Central States, second to lowest ir the United | States; of wheat, sccond to lowest in North Central States, fourth to ‘lowest in United States. High Rank in Crop Production | Most people do not realize the {commanding position which North i Dakota holds in the production of |many leading crops, despite _ its small farm population, According |to the census of 1925, this state stood 27th in total farm population, {a position which probably has not changed materially since. Yet, tak- ing the government production ures for 1927 and 1928, and the \ranking of all states, North Dakota's position in major crops is revealed [as follows: of Among All States in Total Production of Crops | States CROP | listed {| N.Dak. Rank in crop | reports ‘Spring Wheat . 25 1 1 All Wheat . 42 1 | 2 |Rye . 35 1 i 1 | Flaxseed i 9 1 1 | Barley . 35 2 2 ats 48 10 | 8 Corn 48 4 22 Sweet | Eee 4 Sweet Cover Hay . eel Meee eae | 1 Wild Hay . | 48 | 4 | 3 All Hay ....... | 48 15 13 | Potatoes i | te ee Total value all crops | 48 { Mt | 13 | Jan. 1,'28 | Jan. 1,'29 48 by page aaa pure seed grain. Then meet- ings we-e held over the state at which farmers were urged to plant & pure seed plot in 1929. In all, 1219 farmers signed pledge cards to grow 10 to 15 acres of pure seed under proper conditions, or enough to seed their entire acreage the following year. As their total egreage of grain was 650,000 acres, that means an equal area of pure seed grain in 1930, And the cam- paign is a continuous one, to be re- peated annually. ince North Dakota now grows a million acres of corn annually, more than a million acres of tame hay, has livestock valued at $104,000,000 in 1929, and produced $77,600,000 of livestock products in 1928—aside from its outstanding position in small grains—it is determined that it shall be recognized as a leading member of that great group of states in which our agriculture cen- A striking proof of North Dako- ta’s progress since the war is shown by its astonishing advance in the ranking of all states on total value of crops produced. From 25th state in 1919, it advanced to 11th in 1927 and stood 13th in 1928. The aggre- gate value of crops in the latter two years was $279,000,000 and $243,- 000,000 respectively. Add to the last figure $104,000,000 as the value of livestock on January 1, 1929, and you have the resources with which the farmers of North Dakota en- tered the yt 129. EIGHTS INCREASING Eight -cylinder cars priced above $1,000 had a registration increase in 18 leading cities during the first four months of 1929 of 82 per cent over the same period of last year. The registration of six-cylinder cars Priced above $1,000 in the same pe- riod declined 8 per cent, according to In the spring of 1929 land values; THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, SATURDAY, AUGUST 3, 1929 ‘Real I North Dakota Revealed in Review of Its D PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH Second and Thayer. Paul 8. Wright. Sunday morning service at 10:30, broadcast by KFYR (Hoskins-Meyer). Organ prelude, “The Vesper Bell” (Smith)—Grace Duryee Morris, * | Solo, “There Is a Land” (Crownin- shield)—Miss Bessie Baldwin. Offertory, “Salut d'Amour” (Elgar). Solo, selected — Mrs. G. E. Win- greene. Sermon, “The Threefold Power of God"—Rev. C. J. Auerboch of Bel- field, N. D. Organ postlude, “Postlude” (Hop- kins). Church school, 9:30 a.m. and 12 noon, Evening worship at 8. Organ prelude, “Evening Prayer” (Reinecke )—Grace Duryee Morris, Offertory, “Evensong” (Read). Special music. Sermon, “The Four-Square Life"— Rey. C. J. Auerboch, Belfield, N. D. Organ postlude, “Break of Dawn” «Schnecker). During Rev. Wright's absence the following have been secured to fill the pulpit: Aug. 4—Rev. C. J. Auerboch, Bel- feild, N. D. Aug. 11—Rev. Floyd Logec, Bir- mingham, Mich. Aug. 18—Rev. D. Alan Martens, Apollo, Pa, Aug. 25—Rev. Ralph Babylon, Am- brose, N. D. | castes M’CABE METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH Walter E. Vater, Pastor. Morning worship at 10:30. Organ prelude, “Largo” (Dvorak) — gree ee Rowley. nthem., “Why Standest Thi ae (Ashford)—Choir. pute fertory, “Mount of tl Cross” (Sawyer), a vay Anthem, “The Lord My Shepherd Is” (Heyser). Sermon, “A Broader View of the Atonement”—O. W. Kolberg. Postlude, “March” (Mendelssohn), Sunday school at 12 noon, with classes for all ages. Evening worship at 8. Organ music: “Poeme” (Liszt); “Mclody"” (Mossdgt); — “Postlude” (Bocly). Anthem by the choir, “My God, Mj Father, While I Stray” (Morrison), Sermon, “Our Attitude Toward Evil” —O. W. Kolberg. FIRST BAPTIST Fourth Street and Avenue B. O. S. Jacobson, Pastor-at-large. 10 a.m.—Sunday school. Mrs. H. A. McNutt, superintendent. 11—Morning worship. Subject, “Ask and Receive.” Subject, 7:30 — Evening service. “Peace in Christ.” 7:30 Wednesday evening — Prayer service. GOSPEL TABERNACLE «Pentecostal-Evangelical) Marvin C. Miller, Pastor. Our services for the coming week will be held in the tabernacle on the corner of Eleventh strect and Rosser avenue, as follows: Sunday, Aug. 4—Sunday school at 1:45 p.m.; afternoon meeting at 3; evening meeting at 8. Wednesday evening at 8. Friday evening at 8. The orchestra will assist in all song services, ZION LUTHERAN CHURCH (Missouri Synod) Fourth Street and Avenue A. J. V. Richert, Pastor. Morning worship at 10 (German). There will be no evening service during the month of August. The morning services will be alternated in the German and English language, FIRST LUTHERAN CHURCH (Augustana Synod) Seventh Street and Avenue D. Rev. A. J. Mal it, Pastor. 9:30 a.m.—Sunday school. Bible class and classes for all grades. C. C. Larsen, superintendent. 10:30 a.m.— Divine THIS HAS HAPPENED MOLLY BURNHAM and RED FLYNN are spending an exciting evening. Molly is principal sob sis- ter on a big newspaper. And Red is police court reporter. Recently Molly covered the BARROWS trial. Bar- rows has been found innocent of the murder of BERNICE BRADFORD, a beautiful and unmoral girl. Following the trial, Red meets a boy named PERRY INGERSOLL, who tells, in drunken confidence, of his own romance with Bernice. Red comes immediately to Molly with the story, and suggests that they collab- orate on a play, using the Barrows- Bradford-Ingersoll triangle for plot. He tells the story as he has heard it from Ingersoll’s own lips. Bernice, it seems, had asked Ingersoll, who adored her, to marry her—in order that she might blackmail Barrows. Ingersoll, crazed with love, was ready to take her on any terms. So Bernice bought herself a wedding gown... . Excitedly. Red outlines the sordid story. “It's too good to write for the pa- per,” he declares. “There's material there for the best plot on Broadway.” NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY CHAPTER XII The plot thickened. Perry Inger- soll, according to Red, had gone to Bernice’s apartment on the day her body was found, with the marriage license and a wedding ring in his pocket. He had, in fact. shown them both to Red and Slim Boynton. He had another fellow with him that morning. A boy from the uni- versity who was going to be his best man. Bernice didn't want any bridesmaid, for all her gorgeous wed- ding gown. She said she couldn't trust women, and she hadn't a girl friend in the world. ‘They were going to drive to the house of some man Bernice knew, who was a justice of the peace, and the ceremony was to be performed there. Then they were all going back to the apartment for a wedding breakfast. “But I don't understand,” inter- rupted Molly. “You say Ingersoll and his best man went to the apartment that morning. But Bernice's body wasn't found until afternoon. She'd given her maid the day off, you re- member. The janitor found her that afternoon, when he went in on busi- ness. And the medical examiner said she'd been dead for some hours. Now if Ingersoll had been there in the morning, as he says, he'd have found her then.” “He did!” triumphed Red. “That's just it! Bernice was dead at nine o'clock. Cold as ice, the kid says. “But he didn’t give the alarm?” “You're darn right he didn't give the alarm. The boy's not so dumb told you that already, didn’t I? He was scared. Scared to death. And you can't blame him much at that, Molly. There wasn't anything he could do for her. And, naturally, there was going to be a row. Police and all that. “Nobody knew that Ingersoll had anything to do with Bernice. There wasn’t a chance of dragging him into an investigation. Not so long as he kept his mouth shut. Maybe his head of the two. I don’t know. Any how they made a safe get-away. And nobody saw them.” ane Red paused. And a dramatic silence fell between them. { Daily Cross-word Puzzle Solution of Yesterday's Puzzle ACROSS: 1 Linely 4 Onward 9 Dried grass * Palestine [SJE [NOTA TAL ELEANOR ‘as he acts. Anyhow he’s a welcher. I | row: friend, the best man. had the cooler | crying. INING. ENT EARLY sf Sanco ns “Well,” he demanded, “what do you think of that?” Molly shook her heed. “I don't know. It rather does away with the suicide theory, doesn’t it?” “Absolutely,” agreed Red. “Didn't 1 tell you she'd ordered groceries and champagne for a wedding breakfast? Nobody does things like that and then takes a swig of cyanide.” “No,” she said. “No, I suppose not. What does Ingersoll think, Red?” “Hell, Ingersoll knows!” Red dropped his cigarct on the rug, and ground it fiercely into Molly’s precious Kashmir. His eyes were blazing. Like a good story teller, Red had saved his climax. And now, having reached it, the horror of the thing seemed to engulf him. “Bernice had a date the night be- fore,” he said. “And that date was with Barrows!” “You met whispered Molly, “Barrows killed her?” Red shrugged his shoulders. “Circumstantial evidence,” he ad- mitted. “He had an alibi, of course. Said he spent the evening at home with his wife. Lord, that’s no alibi! Mrs. Barrows was just naturally a go- through sort. She lied for him, that’s all.” | ‘But I should think Ingersoll would have been a state witness!” exclaimed Molly. “No, he had sense enough to keep out of it,” repeated Red. “You can’t blame him for that. Bernice was dead. It wasn’t as if he could do anything for her. Naturally, he thought of his folks. It would have been sweet for his mother, wouldn't it, having him mixed up with a girl like Bernice, and the papers full of it? Besides, if he'd talked, he'd have been suspected himself. Imagine if he'd kicked up a rumpus there, and any- body’d come in!” Molly laughed hysterically. “You know what would have hap- pened?” she cried. “We'd all have remembered that poem of Oscar Wilde's about the man who was hung for killing his sweetheart, and we'd have quoted these lines: “‘And blood and wine were on his hands When they found him with the ‘dead, ‘The poor woman whom he loved, And murdered in her bed?” Red slapped her on the shoulder. “Attagiri!” he approved. “That's the old punch, Molly. Sob stuff straight from the muses... . Well, what do you think, dear? Am I right? Or am I wrong? Is there a plot there for a play, or isn’t there?” “Of course there is,” she agreed. “It could open with the trial of Bar- IS. wae “And sum up all the evidence in the first act,” broke in Red. “Make @ regular mystery of it, you know. Might even make the testimony point toward some other guy. Then switch it around again, and when you got the audience thinking it was Barrows, suddenly acquit him. Make a great anti-climax of that.” “Then open the third act with that place on Beacon Hill,” interrupted Molly eagerly, “and the Ingersoll kid “How'd you end it?” demanded Red. “Make a mystery out of it?” “Oh, no,” demurred Molly. “We'd have to have a surprise climax. May- be we could convict Ingersoll. ... No, Precipitation to 7 a. m. 0|from livestock, and the proportion ters and in which the so-called Corn|the Studebaker Corporation, services in wind velocity. 15 | frtar, Rermen 08 te nape). ot ‘Temperature s Trinity.” ory + % m ones At 2:30 p.m. a program will be ren- & $s 23 OUT OUR WAY By Williams | dered in the church by the church 2 £3 ae choir and members of the Luther league of the Maria church, Braddock, and a short sermon will be given by the pastor. An offering will be lifted for the benefit of one of the members of that church who for years has been confined to one of the hospftals of the city. There will be no services in the church in the evening because of this program. TRINITY ENGLISH LUTHERAN OUT WHAT THEY H MEAN BY "THE, | BiG BRAINY Guys), BETTER MINDS. | —Hey HeNE THA THAT "JOHN" MAY | SECRETARIES AN’ NoT HAVE BRAINS |, UALETS AN! BooY GUARDS T' See THAT A HEY CONT GO Aveo at Seventh Street. a eral bona aotice an To A BALL WITH oun 42, Homan noase- i T KEEP /-—HER SHIRT TAIL Morning warship at 10. WHAT BRAINS HE { oor ER. WALW HAS GOT, OFF A PIER FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST, SCIENTIST ER SOMETHIN. Cor. Fourth St. and Ave. C, 11:00 a. m. % ceqBooeccesscscocces20900 * Ft § att services and to visit the reading room. — FIRST EVANGELICAL CHURCH ‘Seventh and AGAINST /OIL LEVY Be a Claiming that the proposed levy on| ff ae petroleum and petroleum products ed would increase the retail price of asoline two cents a gallon and cause feconeiienel Necies fo. Sot eves }of about $240,000,000 annually, the ‘ asscciation has am P| Pet io Ps that would be too obvious. We might 1. Nets a profits Hie 10, Biaek birds iT IATL TY] DOWN 1, Southern cons stellation 2. Sever isleal come & Mar on .theee voices & Relingeish sore ere! power tee | ON HIGHWAYS URGED CONCRETE CULVERT State Commission Has Not Des : cided Whether or Not It Will Abandon Steel Type ‘Whether concrete culverts used on the state's secondary "highs ways in place of steel is a question which the state highway commission. may be called upon to decide in the ler Present rul culverts are used on primary y high: ways and steel culverts, which are rol somewhat cheaper, are used on sec- ondary roads. Recently, however, the Morton county commissioners asked that concrete culverts be used on the Proposed highway between St. An- thony and Flasher, a secondary route. No action was taken by the com- mission pending adoption of a per- manent policy. In the past makers of concrete culverts have received con- siderable business from the high- way department. With construction of main routes nearing completion, however, purchases of concrete cul- verts will be reduced. Only in Cass county, where one of the state's two concrete culvevt man- ufacturing plants is located, lsve con- crete culverts been used on secondary highways, that exception to the gen- cral rule having been made because of the fact that the culvert plant is located there. With a concrete plant located in Morton county, the Mor- ton county commissioners are asking the same consideration for their in- dustry. Indications are that a per- manent policy may be adopted by the Hol commission within a short ime, : drag the best man in.” eee She was very excited now. Her cheeks were flushed, and her eyes were blazing with an uncanny light. “Oh, Red,” she cried, “do you think we could do it?” Red blushed furiously. “Gosh!” he muttered. “I can’t write. I'm only @ police court reporter. But ee your plot, Molly. Go to it, old girl!” ‘ He tpok her hand awkwardly. “I'm awful keen on you, you know, Molly.” “Red!” she exclaimed, and thought, guiltily, of Jack. “You're not making love to me, my friend?” “Love!” he repeated. “Now, Molly, be your size.” “Well, I didn't really think you were,” she protested. “But I thought I'd better be sure, Red, because you see I have a boy. And I'm pretty crazy nbout him myself. I wouldn't want you to get me wrong.” “Yeah?” Red shrugged non-com- mittally. “Well, remember whet I told you about getting married, dear. ‘On to Geherina,’ like the poet say: ‘or up to the throne, he travels fast. est who travels alone.’ You don't ‘want to forget that, Molly.” “I won't,” she promised. “You haven't any idea, Red, how anxious I am to have a career. Why, the very thought of writing a play—feel my heart, Red!” It was beating beneath her ruffled blouse, like @ fluttering bird. “I'm so excited,” she confessed, “and 80 absolutely crazy, that I think I could write your play, Red.” “My play?” he scoffed. It's your play, dear. Will you get to work on it, Molly?” “Oh, I will!” she promised. “I will!” ¢ And — happily — thoughtlessly—she threw her arms about his neck. “You dear old Red!” she cried. Red kept his arms stiffly ‘at his sides, and the color drained from his thin, flushed cheeks, so that the freckles stood out, big and bold, like a small 's. “I'll write nights,” she declared. “Every night. I'll begin tomorrow.” se 8 r .e But the next day Molly was unex- They called the defendant an an- archist and @ bolshevist. But that was wrong, for he was just a gun- man, and it was a mistake to call him * long, brave names. Because many people came to believe him unjustly he stood accused. It was the murder of an old man who was night watchman at a fac- tory where the defendant was said to have entered, Hae the puree at robbery, Chicago knew fendan for a gunman, and his record was bad. There was, however, a good deal ‘The judge, who was said to preji the accused man, ,/ as Siaeel oe eee ee Witnesses were also protected. And Baap eed Se i