The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, March 16, 1916, Page 21

. ators. i It Was More Potent Than THE NONPARTISAN LEADER W heat}Surplus Has Shaped History _Cotton in Civil War Time Says Professor Trimble---It Built Western Railroads Discussing the subject “A Half Cen- ry of Food Surplus” before the North Dakota Polytechnic society at Fargo March 1, Dr. W. J. Trimble of the faculty of the North Dakota - Agricultural college showed that dur- ing the 50 years ending in 1910 the . United States had produced a vast amount more grain and ‘other food stuffs than it could use, and pointed out how this had reacted on Europe, and the development of the western United "States. To this he ascribed -the upbuilding of the Northwest. . “The year 1862 was notable in our ~agrarian history for the appearance of ‘a comparatively new. force, which .then and in subsequent years has ex- erted an important influence upon the course of development within our country and ‘upon its relations with other nations”, said Dr. Trimble. " “This new factor was a recurring sur- plus of food products. FOOD SURPLUS DEVELOPS l “In the time of the Civil War, only one food product was especially. po- tent as a surplus, and this was wheat, and in this time of crisis it proved itself more pbwerful even than King Cotton, whose might Southern states- men had boasted. From the time of the repeal of the English corn laws (tariff on grain) in 1846, exports of wheat from the United States to Eng- land -had been increased; but a series .._.............b....‘.... . TRY OUR .CEMENT PAINT FOR WATER PROOFING $1.50 and $2 per gallon. : In barrels less. ° F. BARTON H H [ ] Box 1106 Fargo,.N. D. When In Fargo Go To DEWEY’S STUDIO Photographs and Portraits Wedding Groups a Specialty: . Over Alex Sterns Cor, Broadway and N. P. Ave. . & h PS . ° - ~ Chiropractic > (KI-RO-PRAK-TIK) The - Science that Makes People Well and Happy You Need Not Be Sick AT of Disess ™. INVESTIGATE See : TO : ctor O] ‘l.: HOILAND - WILD OAT SEPARATOR - %A Special Wild Oats Separator.”” - L5 “As!ye sow, S0 'shall ye reap.” - - “No farmers sow wild oats willingly, -but only because unablé to clean them .. out of the seed grain. = ; .-+ It is not difficult to take this robber “weed cut of Wheat, Rye, Flax or even Barley; but to separate wild from " tame oats of about the same: size, shgg‘?: and weight—“Aye, there’s the " The “Hoiland” is the only machine : rgha.t_;_successvfullcy) s&pa\;fi?x{Wild« Ola:tg rom common Oats, and from other™ ty organization. nltivated rain - 1 Sorks air e dife h i oo ‘erent principle from all other separ- S Write for literature and of bad years in England, 1860-64, to- gether with abundant harvests in the United States during these years, brought a startling upward leap. . “The volume on agriculture of the eighth census says that in 1862 wheat and flour were exported to the amount of 76,000,000 bushels, in 1863 77,~ 000,000 bushels, and of these amounts Great Britaini took respectively 34,- 000,000 and 47,000,000 bushels. Now, in history, human need is a mighty force, and, interpreted in terms of human need, ese figures plainly show this much at least: That Great Britain at a critical*time in our Civil War was under stress for bread and that this stress could be alleviated only from granaries whose keys were held by the government which sat on the north side of ‘the Potomac. Un- deniably, the surplus of what was produced by the North at this time was_an important factor in restrain- ing England from such steps as might have been very disastrous to the fed- eral government. “These great exportations of wheat to England during the Civil War, moreover, only marked the beginning of the competition of American agri- cultural products, which, extending to meat as well as wheat, finally great- ly affected the prosperity not only of English farmers, but of the farmers of western Europe in general. CREST IN IN 1901 OR 1902 “The crest of the surplus in wheat and wheat products was reached in 1901 or 1902, with an exportation 9f 234,000,000 bushels, beef products in 1906 at 732,000,000 pounds. Pork and its products averaged- annually over 1,000,000,000 pounds, until 1910, in which- year it fell to 700,000,000 pounds. That is, high tide in exports came between 1900 and 1905. “Tn the aggregate what a marvel- ous production do these figures sug- gest. The mind staggers in trying to visualize it. “By 1910, however, a chgnge was aparent. Cattle dwindled in export and we were even beginning to ex- port-beef. Pork in only. one year reached the ‘old billion-pound mark. Wheat exports amounted in 1910 to only ‘87,000,000 bushels. I by no means wish to assert, however, that our agricultural exports since 1910 have iecome unimportant. Nor " do I wish to leave the ‘impression that such: exports were not -a large item prior to 1860. Furthermore, I rec- ognize the existence of agricultural exportations from other countries dur- ing the period of 1860-1910. I-do want to say, however, that the United States certainly during ‘the period 1860-1910 was supreme in the rise of . a great food surplus, that this was a - new economic phenomenon,: and that it produced very important economic and social effects.” FIND GOLD SURPLUS Among economic and social effects of this great food surplus in America, Professor Trimble said that it ac- cumulated a gold surplus in the Unit- ed States to help resume payments after the greenback era; resulted in the rapid spread to the western prai- - ries of wheat culture, stimulated ‘transcontinental railway building and the invention of harvesting machin- ery, and the spread of the cattle in- dustry from Texas up = through the Northwest. ke Siks "In Europe the great American sur- plus, taken together with a succes- _“sion of poor crop years, he said, re- sulted in pouring avalanches of Am- erican wheat into those countries, in- juring agricultural .pursuits and re- sulting in the appointment of com- missions and advocacy of high tar- iffs.” It -also resulted, he said, in stimulus to. scientific farming and in- troduced the era of efficiency in Ger- many, Denmark, Holland and’ other countries. LEAGUE HELPS EQUITY | Testimony to the big place the Non- affairs of North Dakota is borne by the Pierce County Tribune, which quotes a dispatch from'Minot, N. D., as follows: : e -Minot, N. D, Feb. 22.—Elimination in large measure of politics from the work of the American Society of Equi- dorsement ‘'of the North Dakota Farm- ers’ Nonpartisan League by the Equi- . This step taken at 'the:»fihal~sessioxflt'? of the state convention in this city, is _}p,&k:’ed upon by Equity leaders as: be- ing “in consonance with- a movement “_to separate the political and economic * . interests of soci 1embe re- ‘" _after, with all political matters turn~ ed. over to"the Nonpartisan Leagt;:, ‘ ety members, Hi the Equity society plans to g ttentio 'z»ecb tl’;np* bl partisan League' is' assuming in the ty has been brought about by the in- - = Our 1916 model will be sold direct to the farmers at prices ay TWENTY-ONE e L E T Y baaas L Ll I TT ST TR R E RN N WA EQUITABLE AUDIT CO., Inc, "o, 2uome § | l | Farmers Elevator Companies’ Home of Auditing and 'Systems for Accounting. Werite for References. ] PEBEEPDESPIIEPbI I Idd . { A.J. OSHEA ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER ‘FARGO, NORTH DAKOTA SEED CORN High test, high grade, northern gro wn 1914 seed corn. 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Lectures, Instruc- tion, and Disscussion, Rural Life; Rural Credits, Farm Neces- sities, Production, Buying, Marketing, Taxation, Land Titles, Ryl Credit, Auditing, Banking, Management, Transportation, Farm . Fi- - i Farmers’ Organizations, and Legislation. ;g P - Cooperation nance, Co-operation, FARMERS BANKS il Started under the Direction of this Association, Farmers must i control their own credit. 1 ¢ vt U Nine-tenths of all business done today is done on Credit. Who il now controls this vast amount of Credit? Ans.: The Interlock- i ed banking and business interests of the coumtry. is alf wrong. - , ; Farmers, Become Your Own Bankers [t Farmers, join with your own neighbors in starting a Farmers’ : Sk ! . Bank in your home town. Help remove the Boycott now against fied Co-Operation, Co-Operativé Elevators, and the Farmers’ Open { | Market at St. Paul. 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