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; - FARGO, NORTH DAKOTA, OCTOBER 14, 1915 © Number 4 - fil; Farmer Fifty Ye ears Ago and Today Volume I T — = = L = Y = = = THE OLD MILL./ : HAULED HOME FATHER GOT MORE FLOUR THAN ME? WW/ = 67 : 7 g | e ) N\, ANy g i > \ ] THE MODERN MILL, il = . " price would. fall. 8 : 1t did. He made $200,000. That $200,000 represents your Joss. ' You lost $200,000 on your wheat crop. You didn’t lose the wheat. You lost the price. ; Patten didn’t get the wheat. He got the price. The transaction took place on paper. - That’s all. 3 - : Now look at the ahove cartoon once more. 1865. That was fifty ‘years ago. Farming was dif- ' {ferent then. It was more simple. It was done with simple. machinery,” Now the machinery is more complex. it is much more groductive. - Mr. 1915 Farmer can pro- duce many times as much as his grandfather could in <1863 . : A ‘ e . ‘And what happens?:- © . S ‘ Lotiusisse. 2 i ominni i : 5 : S u-.-uc’s Farmer drove 1o town, to. the old mm_?"ytfi. v ' “(Continued on Page 4) + % 1t shows fifty years of agricultural and indusirial _wrogress. < i 1t shows what fifty years have done for the man who tills the soil. Look at this cartoon again. Hang it on the wall. . e : ' e .7 Look at it every-morning. Look at it every night. - ‘Bet it pictured in your mind. x It will de you good. ST 1. It is_the kind of picture you should think about. It * will show you some reasons why things are as they are. _It. will show you why you work and why the other fellow profi om your work. v SRR ey : u wonder :“I'l(, Patten gets rich—and you 'stay ¢ o =i 2R v .- : YNIFTY YEARS, o ARy : 35 He doesn’t raise wheat, . P i Fifty years of progress. . Rl e He gambles in ii.. A "The above cartoon shows that, . : He hets on the price of wheat. This time he bet the