The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, January 20, 1916, Page 12

e * Ask for Little Sioux Biscuit _ Krisp Packed in an “Aertite” Moisture Proof Package odeofedoododedordecdosdoedocdonodood docdndodoodilodoodedobode bbb dooddodeodededool z | MANCHESTER BISCUIT CO. Fargo, North Dakota. Watch Us Grow % & obdoodedododo Bl @odo R oofedeodredoofodoode oo Fooforfodoofeoford When In Fargo Go To - DEWEY’S STUDIO Photographs and Portraits Wedding Groups a Specialty Over Alex Sterns Cor. Broadway and N. P. Ave. i e e . ’ ” Bixby’s Red Polls of A. R. Broeding My herd bull J. D. Merryweather No. 24396 is from 1400-pound cows and is getting the size in my herd. His dam is a full sister to the World's Champion. Two-Year-Old Heifer. His first three dams average close to 400 pounds butterfat in one year. J.S.BIXBY, ~:- : LISBON, N. DAK. G.G. Wood Lillian J. Wood - Wood & Wood Minot’s Pioneer Chiropractors - - ..Drugless Healers Braver Block- - o Minot, N. D, FRANCIS A. BRUGMAN, M. D, Eye, Ear, Nose and T, hroat Glasses Fitted 36 So. Main St. - - MINOT, N. D. HIDES -TANNED Send us your hides, we will tan/ and make them into nice, warm, soft robes. We guarantee the workmanship to be satisfactory. “Our process of tanning leaves the hide soft and pliable and. we guarantee it to remain so. We make the Oak Harness Leather and Lace Leather. Robes Lined. Hides bought at the highest market prices. Sengd, for price list and shipping tags. THE LISBON TANNERY, - om, =~ =- = North Dakota. JULIUS KLEMIN "TUTTLE, N. D. GARAGE - Al Kinds of Automobile Repairs, Vulcaniz- ing, Acetylene Welding, Will Appreciate the Farmers Patronage LT AR ETENEY KREMENETSKI BROTHERS Tuttle, N. D. '3 GENERAL MERCHANDISE Groceries, Full Line of Hard- ware, Shoes and Clothing, Enamelware, Tinware, Cutlery and Tools. Total ‘| end of the business? - THE NONPARTISAN LEADER Worst Says the Farmers Gouged (Continued from .paye 4) exporting flour instead of wheat. Dockage or screenings, -+ 119,700 tons at $20__ $2,394,000 Bran, 381,300 tons at @O HEOA N TR 7,626,000 Shorts, 454,500 tons-at. - - PR S L LA 9,999,000 Profits from feeding, 25 per cent ___________ 5,000,000 Y¥reight saved on 955,500 tons at $3.35 _______ Value of manure 764,400 5 cattle at $29.27 ____ 22,374,000 In addition to the foregoing, I yuote further from the findings of Professor Ladd: g Great Loss In Grading. “The present system of grading wheat was inaugurated at a time when screenings had no commercial value; when the price of wheat, bran and shorts was from $8 to $10 per| ton, and, therefore, there may have been some justice at the time the grades were established. But at the present time when bran is sold from $20 to $21 per ton and shorts from $21 to $28 per ton and mill screen- ings from $12 to $14 per ton, the condition is quite different. The larger proportion of screenings, bran and shorts produced in the rejected flour have a higher commercial val- ue than formerly and, therefore, the profits in converting a rejected wheat into mill products and selling the same, offer a larger profit . to the miller than that from higher grades. In other words, in grade No. 1 Northern, as reported, the cost for 100 pounds of wheat was $1.95. The net returns on the same were $2.28391. The 100 pounds -of re- Jected wheat cost $1.746, and the net receipts were $2.3148. or, it will be observed that for each 100 pounds of -wheat the returns above|! the original cost are as follows: © Net receipts No. 1 Northern 0.33391 Rejected 0.5688 “The returns, therefore, on the re- jected wheat were considerably better than the returns for grade No. 1 Northern. “fn -other words on a crop of . 100,000,000 bushels, had the grad- ing been in proportion to the net re- turns for the product sold from the mill, as: that the profits on grade No. 1 Northern were reason- able, the farmers of North Dakota should have received an additional |’ $5.271,398.” : This sum, added to the table prev- iously referred to, swells the total that farmers might save by exporting only flour instead of wuncleaned wheat, to the extraordinary sum of $55,865,000. } A Packing Plant. Directly correlated with the fore- going propaganda, a packing plant should be established within the state, also owned and controlled by farmers, where the livestock could be shipped out of the state, ready for consumption, after supplying our local needs. For what sense is there in paying freight on livestock to St. Paul or Chicago to have it butchered, then pay freight on it back again for home consumption, in the meantime’ divorcing our feeders from the profit Moreover, the labor .cost, expert and unskilled, necessary to operate elevators, mills or packing plants, returns a profit; for it is |into flour and all the jutilized for feeding 3,200,000 - $50,593,000 ] compels us beth | advantage. The crowd that rushes in to handle it from the farm to the consumer has nothing to complain of if notified that much of its services are no longer needed. When farmers learn to cooperate in a’large way,then,but not till then, will they become substantially inde- pendent. As.long, however, as their |attitude toward each other compeis them to-acknowledge a master, their business will be exploited. i The manufacture of our wheat byprodacts o livestock may seem visionary, as well as the estab- lishment of a packing plant to send our meat products to market ready for consumption, but are not private corporations doing that very thing with our wheat,cattle,hogs and sheep ; " THIRTEEN is partly wasted or given away and partly squeezed out of our farmers once a year. The farmers’ attitude toward each other makes this squeez- ing process a mest profitable and de- lightful oeccupation for speculators. In this address I hLave not dealt with impossibilities. What others have done, we can do. If one Scotchman, without friends or backing qQr money—with only nerve, ambition and vision—could build and equip and operate the greatest railway system on earth, it would seem to me that 90,000 farm- ers living in the state thru which this road is operated, could easily manage to export flour, .meat and dairy products, instead of livestock on the hoof and wheat as it comes dirty from the machine. and making good money at it? Is iit not g good business proposition, in addition to the foregoing, to have the livestock provide $22,000,000 worth of fertility for our farms every year? Yes, it should be done. Good business sense demands that it shall: be done, and that within a reasonable period of time, This is what is being done in European countries and why? Be- cause they are compelled by necessity to do so. Shall we wait until neces- sity, resulting from exhausted farms, to likewise husband our remaining resources in order that farmers may eke out a mere ex- istence? ‘They cooperate. cooperate? Sufficient capital necessary for.co~ operation along lines here indicated B Why cannot we The rneed of better transportation facilities is shown by the fact that a farmer living in the Hettinger re- gion is obliged to haul his wheat 60 miles. He has 3000 bushels of wheat to haul and uses a four horse team, hauling 100 bushels at a load. At that rate it will take him 120 days to market his wheat. A man and a. four horse team is worth, at least, $5 a day. It will therefore cost him $600 to market his wheat. If your wife complains don’t cuss until you see if she hasn’t cause for complaint. Working = year in and year out to suport grain gamblers js mighty hard work. - ; Farmers Ellevator Companies’ Home of Auditing and Systems for Accounting. A J. OSHEA THE UNION ‘of;lhz:.\;l;er'NAL BANK CAPITAL AND SURPLUS $90,000.00 FARM LOANS negotiated at lowest rates. Prompt service. No bonus.. - MINOT, NORTH DAKOTA T e FERRBRBDR I b PR PRI SRS T bR b bl & EQUITABLE AUDIT GO, Inc. "$he s § L3 Write for References. ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER FARGO, NORTH DAKOTA Consign Your Live Stock to L] ¥ = Ll J. R. Kirk Commission Ceo. Inc. South St. Paul, Minn, Sales Agency and Authorized Representative of the American Society of Equity Us and Get a Square Deal. High test, high grade, northern grown 1914 seed corn. Minnesota N. 183, Minnesota No.23 and White Dent @ $5 per bushel. Only a limited amount of this good seed on hand, so o'}'dettoday. We want clover and timothy seed Jchants for groceries, clothing, rents, {ete. |says the doubter. |Ipate that it will be % laway. i ably. |boundless. ‘' North Dakota . has the |natural resources to become a wveri- {|table fountain of wealth, ever in the |ascendency, i|losing out on account of depleting Jlour soil ‘by forever taking from: it ‘|and making no returns. » ‘:business instead of an adjunct tol |money sharks, chambers of ‘| merce, Boards of trade or packing ly. 4| his investment, risk and labor that |; ‘% |oils the wheels of progress. After yiproducing it he has an inallenable’ e right to 'dispose of it to his hest See@be Personal and expert aid to ‘those who use the LEAD- ER. Criticism, revision and suggestion. Individual DS G I d oo focd oo Let Me W 1 : help in any case of advertis- ' r lte ing. FREE. Your Ad s iges v o immediately spent among our mer- “But this thing can’t -be done,” I do not antici- done—right At some future time, prob- | But the possibilities are instead of ultimately |s i. | P And by making farming a real| oo coms- . . Fargo's Only Modern Fire Proof Hotel : : Hot and Cold Running Water and Telephone in Every Room FIRST CLASS CAFETERIA IN CONNECTION. On Broadway, One Block South of Great Northern Depot. . FARGO, N.DAK. - combines, our farmers should make two dollars where they are new maks ing one—and make them legitimate- Remedy is Cooperation. 3 I repeat again, the remedy is co- operation and organization_ for dis- tributien as :well as prodyetion. 1 The farmer has a natural right to| produce all he possibly can. It is : g