The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, August 16, 1929, Page 2

‘Slight Drop in Averag HEAVIEST PLACING OF EWES IN SHEEP BANDS THIS SUMMER Another Large Shipment Com-| ing From Montana for Breeders This Fall St. Paul, Aug. 16—The heaviest early summer placement of breeding ewes since the campaign was started . five years ago in Minnesota and North Dakota has just been completed. John W. Haw, director of the agri- ~ cultural development department of the Northern Pacific railway, said to- day that his railroad shipped 9.000 .. yearling ewes into Minnesota and North Dakota from Washington and “ Montana in June and July. These “were placed with farmers in small flocks of from five to 100 head each. The ewes, he said, will make ideal | foundations for farm flocks, because they were purebred from the best ; bands in the west. Northern Pacific sheep shipments = of a carload or more were made to! « Fryburg, Elgin, Bismarck, Berlin, %} Marion, Jamestown, Woodworth, Mc- Clusky, Hurdsfield, Bowdon, Binford, = Casselton, Lisbon, Gwinner and Wah- ™ peton in North Dakota, and to Breck- enridge, Fergus Falls, Hawley, Detroit Lakes, Staples, Big Lake, Brainerd, ™ Ironton, Aitkin, McGregor, Laporte, /and Bemidji in Minnesota. Shipments also were made to Wentworth, Poplar ‘and Maple in Wisconsin Another large consignment of | By George Clark con® 01929 WEA Seavice IN £26. 5.000.088. “Well, give him his bottle, and don’t be calling me up—he's as much your kid as mine.” breeding ewes will be received from | seer etree HAIL INSURANCE SHOWS DROP slong the Northern Pacific in North ! rf Dakota and Minnesota in September. | MH Orders from farmers indicate a grow- ; ing interest in sheep-raising. “The drouth and prospective short- said, “at first caused many farmers to canczl orders for breeding ewes IN STATE, DUE HIGHER RATES heavy losses sustained ne 1928, Hee) poor crop prospects during much of ks this year are blamed by department cau one Decrease of 757,868 acres from the! total of land insured in 1928 is report- previously made. But, with the co-/ed for this year by the state hail in- operation of local commtttces, the | surance department. heavy shipments have been made with fev: cancellations. The county agent, | banker, and Northern Pacific station agent usually made up the committee. “Breeding ewes previously shipped jn have proved their worth by re- turning two cash crops a year—wool and lambs. These results were ob- tained in lean as well as good crop fears. Waste feeds, weeds and screened and hailed-out crops were utilized through sheep. Our informa- | tion is that farmers more and more, are recognizing a flock of breeding ‘ewes as one of the best-paying in- aestments on the farm year in and Seer out. | age of hay and feed crops,” Mr. Haw | orsAs in the past, these shipments of |C ‘ewes were financed through the agri- cultural credit corporation of Minnc- apolis. Many farmers have obtained a start with a small flock of sheep) with no down payments. Some addi- | tional sccurity was given to safely were made to the farmers by the cor- poration, with payments spreading! over a three-year period. The interest | rate is 6': per cent. C. W. Wilkins. vie2 president of the credit corpora- sheep-raising isfactory that pay- ments loans the dates due, and many three-year) loans are being paid off the first year.” FARGO MAN DEAD s ~ Fargo, N. D., Aug. 16.—Patric ©, Gallagher, 211 1-2 Thirtee: S., employed at the Mood: tore in Fargo for 20 y resident here Moorkead hospital a! nesday after an extended illness. He was 54 years old. For many ycars he had been a buyer at the store. In 1928 the New York state Baumes| commission estimated that general; crime, as distinguished from financial crime, costs $13,000,000,000 a ye: EE oY | Weather Report i ee | ‘Temperature at 7 a. m. 58 Highest yesterday Lowest last night . Percipitation to 7 a. m. Highest wind velocity . 95/ Precipi- jtation \Emmo. 1 ‘ \Fester .. 4 margin the loan. Loans up to $1,000 Golden Va a tion, said that farmers are finding | | Walsh | Williams Figures from all counties show that the state has pro- tection on 5,931,397 acres as compared with 6.639.265 acres a year ago. officials for the decrease. The acreage insured in 1928 and 1929, together with the increase or decrease between the two years, shown by counties in the following Increased rates last year, due to the |table: County Adams Barnes Benson ind Forks M Moricn . Mountrail . Renville . Richland Rolette .. Sargent . Sheridan Sioux . Slope : Stark . Stecle . tutsman . Towner . Traill . Ward . Wells . Total. Total decrease, acres Insured acreage for 1928 148,896 119,157 146,370 49,381 246.515 158,347 128,212 144 164 64,594 191,539 (216,427 325,013 6,689.265 Tnsured acreage for 1929 181,668 96,381 118.261 58,780 200,620 174,848 117,007 154,395 49,669 42,962 72.172 275,606 252,733 90,487 78,619 124,850 105,098 Increase 32,772 9,399 16,501 10: 10,388 6,712 5,563 5,849 48,052 21,843 163 19,573 8,471 | OUTOUR WAY 25,900 15,967 30,056 11,361 53,890 58.346 40,999 16,228 8412 9,798 51,185, 7,108 5,516 24,057 17,523 5,003 7.368 25,061 11,939 46,013 11,987 is Cass and Traill Show High in the Equalization Board Fig- ures; Slope Area Lowest Although final valuations of vari- ous classes of propetry for taxing purposes will not be made known by the state board of equalization until it finishes its work late this month, indications are that Traill and Cass counties will tie for the lead in the average value of farm land. ation of farm property is forecast by the tentative schedule of valuations presented to the equalization board by Tax Commissioner Iver Acker. Al- though some minor changes may be made, the schedule is expected to stand without major alteration. ‘The purpose of the board in equal- izing real estate is not to fix the value of any particular piece of prop- erty but to adjust average values in its proportional share of the state tax and no more. Counties Forced to Increase The state tax rate applies in all counties alike. As a result, members of the board point out, a county would pay more than its share if its values were proportionately higher than the valuations in another A slight crop in the average valu- ; such a way ‘hat each county will pay | $4 THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, FRIDAY, AUGUST 16, 1929 ACROS 1, Poet 5. Preeipiter commissioners was increased this} jf Xi oA yer This is not due to any willing- n mn their part to bear a larger proportional burden of the state tax, but to the fact that the counties need more money and cannot get along on the revenue from a lower valuation {| because of limitation placed by law upon the number of mills which may be levied dn any taxing district. Slope Rates Lowest Land in the 14 counties comprising the Missouri Slope district take the lowest rates, according to the tenta- tive schedule issued by Acker. This is not due to the fact that it is un- productive, but to the fact that in most of these counties there is con- siderable land unfit for agriculture and some of it is even of little value for grazing. The tentative valuations place the ‘average value of land in Cass and Traill counties at $41.05 per acre. Last year Cass county land was valued slightly higher than that of Traill, the comparison being $42.57 to 1.89. McKenzie county, with a vast ex- tent of Bad Lands, is lowest in the list, with $7.10 an acre. The following table shows the aver- age value of land in cach county in 1925 and 1927, as fixed by the state board, the valuations proposed by the county boards for 1929 and the tax commissioner's recommendation. The county. In a few counties the valuation suggested by the board of county County 1925 1927 State State Board Board Eastern $33.97 21.88 42.57 ++ $34.86 22.87 43.19 27.04 29.50 25.03 27.41 37.21 29.65 15.03 13.35 14.88 15.21 12.97 16.57 14.41 18.40 15.27 11.98 15.16 16.18 17.23 14.12 16.26 and Northwestern Section 17.68 percentage changes listed mean in- creases or decreases from the recom- mendations of the county board. 1929 Tax Commissioner's County Recommendations Board for 1929 Section Ine. 4% Inc. Inc. 4% Dec. Inc. Dec. Inc. Inc, Inc. Inc, Inc. Inc. No change Ine. 7% Inc. 5% No Inc. 12% 21.47 26.38 26.62 29.16 28.10 31.11 31.95 33.94 23.16 No change 25.10 Inc. 8% TAL 41.89 Dec. 2% 41.05 31.45 Inc. 8% 22.28 Inc. 8% 33.97 24.06 16.99 | | ie 17.62 No change 13.50 Inc. 11% s - 1247 Inc. 7% 13.34 ~~ 14.72 No change 13.56 Inc. 12% 15.19 2 12.31 No change of 10.85 Inc. 50% 16.28 14.03 Ine. 2% 1431 18.80 14.88 1411 14.82 . 8% a0 x 12.53 12.61 No change Slope Section (West of Missouri) atone 9.60 9.94 9.04 Inc. 10% cated 7.05 6.50 No change not a 8.69 x No change Her 10.79 9.26 11.23 11.83 753 E Solution of Yesterday's Puzzle nwo OOG mary “ARO OAD MOA BOO Oe Ooo IS IPIOlOlL IS MEL ILIAINIOIS] 2% Wooing 64, Leaned Gb. Servian coin Gs. Hea 8, Before: pre ry ‘ Ry ELEANOR EARLY” SOME COUNTIESFORCED TORAISE|____ Daily Crossword Puasle | hauah.ivieerttaa ASSESSMENTS DUE TO OWN NEEDS @ train at two o'clock,” he 12, Close tightly a 18, Former Eng- Heh political party 21. Glacial ridges 23. Hammingbirds [|| 27. necay to be called until 11. Will you come to my room then, and we'll have breakfast together: “I'll tell Mother,” he promised. ‘Now you go to bed, Molly.” wee aot eink FD the elevator to- and when they reached "s floor, her father kissed ber. Awke wardly. Tenderly. “Until morning, Dad,” she-said. But in the morning, when Molly woke, her father and mother were on their way home. They had left a note, saying that her mother was still unwell, and they thought it best to return to Snodgrass immediately. It was & polite, distant note, written in her mother’s firm hand. They hoped she would come to see them soon. She would always be welcome. Might suc- her efforts. sententiously, “is rather to be chosen than great riches.” And “he that maketh haste to be rich shall not be innocent.” Under her mother's upright signa- ture, there was a careless scrawl: “Lots of love—Dad.” “He knew last night that Mother was dragging him back today,” de- cided Molly, “and he didn’t want to upset me. Dear old dad!” se She wondered if he had always been so subservient to her mother's whims. She tried to imagine them when they were young, and madly in love. And she wondered if they had been deliriously worshipping, one of the other. It seemed to her that any girl could have loved her father when he was young. He must have been so big and strong. And handsome too, in a wholesome, country way. Then she visioned her mother, stiff in whalebone and steel. And she wondered that her father had not esha instead, some little, clinging girl. “And if he had,” she reflected, “I'd be nine-tenths another to one-tenth of me.’ Molly realized that it was from her mother she had inherited her ten- acity of purpose, and her determina. tion to succeed. From her darling, vacillating father she seemed to have inherited nothing at all. The telephone interrupted her med- itations. “It’s after 11 o'clock, Miss Burn- ham, and there are a number of re- Porters waiting to see you.” “Tl be ready in 15 minutes,” she said. “Tell them to come up then.’ She kicked the newspapers in the closet. She wouldn't have anyone say of her that she was gloating over the reviews. There was someone knock- 20. Short and to the point ish social it ~ Goodness, most mothers would lad if their daughters—” I know, Molly. I know. Mother's @ mite set in her ideas. She'll come around all right after a while.” “Well, I don’t care whether she does , or not. As long as you and Jack don't “Well, I'm not sure,” she parried, laughing at their amazement. “Who is it?” they demanded. “The chap who collaborated with you on the play What's his name?—Flynn? “Oh, goodness! Please don't drag frre oad fine boy, Molly. a mighty fine boy. There's nothing I'd| The afternoon papers like better than to see you married i vs a nice y Hoe, aie emia realy het orn man like him.” Molly laughed happily. State average .. Slope .... EMPLOYMENT IN N. D. STILL SEEKING MEN Rains in July Helped Demand for Hands on Farms, High- ways and Railroads Some trouble was experienced dur- ing July in obtaining competent help By Williams for work on North Dakota farms, ac- cording to the monthly report on labor conditions in the Northwest prepared by the federal department) Molly of labor. Commenting on the labor situa- tion in North Dakota, the report said jthat rains carly in July helped the situation and increased the demand for help. Building is active and no- where is there reported a surplus of competent craftsmen. Unskilled la- bor is finding ready employment on road construction and other public improvements. Many workers are being directed from Fargo to farms, railroad con- struction and public improvement | commenting jobs. Rains improved crop prospects and large numbers of unskilled labor- ers are finding employment in the harvest fields. ResccsdigucoindyF plants their ing forces during the month and fur- in the forces at work. There is a strong call for general farm labor. Says ‘North’ in Name of State Needs Dropping nb lees ty f cl ras i iu i F z i. 3 i 3 é i afte: f F : \ * et] a i : f i [ £ fi i : iu i 3 f i i ; He rf Hh; He a it Fl i Bees stil i met wit su} a HL RA’ ‘AY BILL WLW, Cincinnati, uses 12 to the Ay ol ya in New York had Local industries at Grand Forks re- ae ee ot usual summer activity Lea show substantial gains ‘Molly's picture was in =f : ! He | z OuL saveniatt To Mr. Burnham looked sadly up the pa ee rennsee Man elevator shaft, and his thoughts pre- sumably were with his slumbering wife. “I'd like to,” he sighed, “but I don't know as I'd better. You run along, and your mother and me, we'll see you by and by ... You're looking awtul pretty, Molly. He patted her hair with his big hand. “That little cap you had on to- night was real cute. And your dress is beautiful. I don't know what they'd they could get a (To Be Continued) TAX COLLECTIONS BEHIND 1928 MARK State Auditor's Figures Indicate Small Percentage in Fa- vor of Last Year “Now Molly,” he declared, want is that you should do just as you think best. Your mother and me, ‘we had you when you was little and It's right and proper, gory you should try State tax collections for 1928. due Hi 3 5 i ; i € t a i i i i rr ybste Et BSREREGR £ i ake i i HELE z . She J, &, Butte of Valley City fools| might read egeia and again the words that. new settlers would be less re-| that were more precious to her than lyctant to come to North Daketa if| rubles or diamonds. The special f Oe ie Cee. CoTinied ot, toe leu ise tee oe ae eee tee which opeoet af the Carital Tesstre of his idea on his trip to the| cided, “and trust that_she plthers” | yeotertay, 1s based poe the ectual middie west last fall as one of | dosen't see thooe ® spade] - “Now, Molly,” he protested, “I didn’t | i Ct 37Uth ec otriences which E 8 : i to: Laura LaPlante as the Written by Adela Rogers Johns for Cosmopolitan magazine, the action faithfully follows the vi- cissitudes of a prominent New York jociety leader who lived not only in joyous whirl of pleasure, but knew, too, all the of young business woman in +10 Throwghout this living ‘character’ 8 liv’ s adventures there was the Mins St. John to write the ns ite the story as fletion, o 5 Z i if is 08 | itt iv PEgee .§8 lil Be- picture ae Has eae . leclared. “Then I'll leave word that I'm not | “Molly Burnham Engaged,” they proclaimed. Y inspired ,