The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, August 24, 1916, Page 13

_Great Increase In Dairying Business men in touch with the pres- ent grain crop failure ‘are finding much cause for optimism in North Dakota, de- spite discouraging crop reports, because of the increase in the state during the last few years of the live stock, dairying and, other industries that make for genuine diversification. E. J. Weiser, banker of Fargo, believes the hope of North Dakota lies in the spread of the idea of diversi- fication, and he says this. doctrine has gained great headway and splendid re- sults during the last few years. He says this wise course by many farmers has re- sulted at this time in offsetting to a Targe extent the present grain crop fail- ure. \ To show how diversification has pro- * gressed since 1913 and how the increase inive stock and dairying in the state is aiding in the present crisis, Mr. Weiser has collected figures from five towns in Steele county on payments® to farmers for cream and live stock during the last four years. All banks in the five towns taken have reported total checks passing through their hands to pay farmers for cream and live stock. ; The figures on cream show that in four years returns to farmers at Hope in- creased 92.5 per cent; at Luverne 219.7 per cent; at Pillsbury 879.7 per cent; at Blabon 143 per cent; Colgate, 69.6 per cent. This makes ‘an average increase Sor the farmers banking through these five.towns of over 95 per cent in returns on_cream. The live stock shipments at these five towns for the year endingJune 30, 1915, amounted to $86,000, as shown by checks for live stock sold by the farmers pass- ing through the banks, For the year .ending June 30, 1916, the total for this business had increased, according to Mr. Weiser’s figures, to $126,348. Mr. Weiser’s table on cream payments made through all the hanks in the towns given for_the years 1913 to 1916, inclus- ive, is as follows: Cream Shipments. - Hope $2958.28$3795.15 $6629.00 $0706.22 Luverne 849.02 1396.93 2005.12 2715.41 Pillsbury 395.28 1282.31 1216.71 1895.76 Colgate 1058.31 1592.74 1330.42 1795.15 Blabon 2250.16 1889.456 2768.63 2574.73 $7511.05 9956.58 13950.23 14687.26 REASON WHY THEY STUCK Editor Nonpartisan Leader: My hushand joined the Farmers’ — = A RS AN = AR = | s R .. AT NI — S —— S S New Candidates in Ward County Members of the Nonpartisan League in the Twenty - ninth legislative district, part of Ward county including the city of Minot, ien in convention Augu 12 at the. Ward county court house and indorsed candidates for the two positions on the legislative ticket for which the League, in the primaries, failed to nom- inate its men. The convention indorsed ‘Thorwald Mostad for state senator. Mr. Mostad was nominated unopposed on the Democratic ticket for this position in the June 28 primaries. For member if the house, in addition to the League can- didates who were successful at the pri- maries, the ¢onvention indorsed George A. Reishus, nominated in the Republican primaries. * In this district the League originally indorsed J. W. Smith, Republican, for state senator, who lost out in the primaries to Walter R. Bond, member of former legislatures and a stalwart poli- tician. The League: therefore had no candidate for the senate in this district until the indorsement at the above con= vention of Mr. Mostad. The original indorsement of the League for the lower house went to Howard R. Wood, Anthony Walton, J. E. Erb and R. W. Beighle, all running on the Republican ticket. Wood, Walton and Erb won out at the primaries but Beighle was defeated by Reishus. The , Tecent convention decided to accept Reishus in place of Beighle and he now. has the League indorsement. In the case of the senatorship, however, the League -~ ‘members could not accept Bond, who is too reactionary and of too stalwart a variety of politician, and so the Demo- cratic candidate was indorsed. This district has a senator and four members of the house to elect and the contest will be an _intefesting one. Mostad, Democrat, indorsed by the League, will be opposed at the November election by Bond, Republican, in the senatorship race. Wood, Walton, Erb and Reishus, Republicans, indorsed by the League, will be opposed to Burns, Christenson _and cratic candidates, in the race for the four seats in the lower house. The Democrats have only three men nomin- ated for the four house seats. The district convention of the League was organized by the election of C. O. Carlson of Glenburn as chairman and John A. Borud as secretary. A motion was carried to appoint a committee of three on credentials and Anthony. Walton, E. J. Pepke and John Wallin were appointed. After considerable dis- cussion the motions to indorse Mostad and Reishus for the vacanciés on the O’Leary, the Demo- | League ticket were made and passed unanimously. The convention then took a recess of 15 minutes during which 30 cash subseriptions for the Dakota Daily Leader were taken. The convention adjourned after - passing @ resolution sucker club.last summer and we are all proud of it. He has worked and boosted for thé League since it started and that is what all the farmers will do unless E they are afraid of their own good. I hope the farmers will stick and show And here we have the goose that lays the golden egg. Every so vften she comes proudly to her master’s door and deposits: her shining wealth. Then she marches happily away, all swelled up with the thought of how she is piling up riches—for somebody else. - After a while she realizes that she is hungry and she starts to scratching away in ‘the dirt to get a few worms to live on until she can produce another golden egg. Once in a while her thaster throws out a few grains for her to cat—when he happens to have more than he wants for his own table. “See what a good feow I am,” he says. “I take care of my goose. She’d have a hard time in this world if it wasn’t for me.” . Doesn’t it maké you proud and happy to thirik about the great cities you have built over on the Mississippi, of the great fortunes you have credted, of the palaces you have erected, of the mansions, and clubs and fine streets and parks your work has made possible? “But,” you say, “They don’t belong to us. We're not living in those mansions mor enjoying those beautiful and luxurious things. ‘They don’t benefit US.” Tut! tut! Foolish geese! What ‘ Big Biz what they have had up their sleeves for such a long time. The reason that the farmers have not stuck before is because théy have had nothing worth sticking for. 1 have been a farmer's wifé for 25 years, but I have not been so proud of being ‘a farmer's wife as since the League started. We have been under the thuinb of Big Business for so long - that it would seem be great to be able to slip out from it and stand straight. Whoever works for the right will b sure to win. I hope the League will win. Some time ago there were some men riding around in the state of North Dakota in - Ford automobiles. These were out fishing, and all they caught was suckers. The bait was good and the suckers were plenty and I hope by fall at the election they will be so strong that they will knock out everybody else but Lynn J. Frazier for gavernor of North Dakota. With success to the League and its members, MRS. GERTIE C. WRAALSTAD. difference does that make? You’re producing them, aren’t you? May] self with. Let Big Business take care of the distribution. That’s HIS affair, is it not? L4 Farmers Tell of Ruined Crops F the thousand or so reports as to O crop conditions examined by the Fargo conference of farmers last week the Leader of course can only print a few. The following are reports given personally by farmers who attended the conference and are typical of those-re- ceived from all four states represented. Nels Magnuson, Souris, N. D.—“Early sown wheat in my county will give a fair crop in comparison with the Test of the state. I judge it will run 8 to 10 bushels to the acre. - Wheat. planted late, and a Iot was planted late in ouf district on.ac- count of spring weather conditions, will be mostly a totol 1oss. Durum will run 20 bushels to_ the acre, a good average cjop. For wheat of all kinds in -the cyunty I would say that a yield of six biishels to the acre would be big.. This is taking into- consideration all acreage seeded. Of the wheat fit to cut the yield will be 8 to 10 bushels to-the acre. The rye looks fine and the barley on my own farm is good.” ° . J. C. Berg, Hendrum, Minn. — “No’ bluestem in-my district will be harvested —it i’ practically a total loss. Some Durum will give half an average yield.” M. F. Sharp, South Dakota—“I have been through several counties in' South Dakota and would- estimate ‘the yield of ‘wheat at 2% to 5 bushels per acre. You hear of some lucky farmers who expect ~to harvest 10 bushels to tle acre, but T didn’t’ see a field that would run that high, Withal, the" yield is going to be of the poorest. quality, Corsvplanted early is doing well and if there are mo early frosts the crop will be good®” John Durkin, Alice, N. D, — I have been-in Fargo lately and was only out to + look over the crop on our own farm & few days ago and so can only report on that. We had 80 acres in wheat. We it and threshed a sample that looked Dretty bad. We tried blowing out the shriveled grains snd chaff but the whole \thing blew_away, it was so light, : So we concluded the whole field was worth- less. Before I left we put on a gang plow and plowed it all under.” W. H. Bell, Sheyenne, N. D.—“There will be no wheat harvested exept Durum: - In my neighborhood. I had all marquis mqufd;;mal:\g‘.llmhditmww coming down of it it to cut. The rye is looki flax. In fact, fiax will be the only hope of some of us up-our way.” - ! €. B. May; Argusville, N. D.—There ~will be not a bushel of bluestem harvest- ‘ed in my township, of the hundreds of ac- res seeded.”. : M. V. Boddy, Equity organizer in North Dakota—“T have been all over the State in the last few weeks. The best field of wheat I'saw will run 16 bushels {0 the acre, but I didn’t see any other field that would compare with that. Tt yuns: all-the way down from that o * nothing: per acre: I should sy that the average for Nortlr Dakota will be five or six bushels per acre, counting all the ac- reage seeded. - That is @ guess, of course, but I think it will hit the mark.” E. G."Quamme, banker, Finley—“My own observation -and“consultation with . grain men leads me to believe the sesd _problem is going to be a serious one next spring. A Chamber of Commerce man ke by loshad foc Meat bt 10 I | be you can grub. together enough so that occasionally you can go and look at what you have produced for others. Production is the thing for you to occupy your- $2 a bushel next spring, and mighty little of it at that. He said barley for seeding. next spring will be 90 cents or §1. That shows how the crop this year is shot to pieces” x Farmers Run This Town Out on the prairies: of Towa there is one of the most movel towns of the country. Thers s no bickering be- tween townspeople and the rural resi- dents as i often the case. 1 The farmers for miles arougd feel per- feotly free to go to town without wear- ing starched shirts and collars, There is an_air of mutual interest be- tween town and. country which would gladden the heart ‘of any rural life ex- pert. ~ 5L ‘The reason for this is that the. town is owned by the farmers themselves. When he goes to town to buy a bar of s0ap or a new plow the farmer buys of himself, or rather he is a partner in the store. - When he goes to the elevator he sells to his company the grain he has brought in. < The town is named Fernald. All “of its business enterprises are owned by farmers living within & radius of three or four miles. . . The town was founded by the farm- order to avoid making long hauls in_delivering crops to the railroads. A fine elevator was built ‘shortly after the town was-founded, but. it was not until, about two years ago that it was purch- chased by & group of farmers operating about ‘two years ago that it 'was pur- under the name of the Farmers Grain Company. Thif invéstment proved a Wise one, for thanking the Minot Messenger for its stand for the farmers during the primary campaign. dn the first year under the new manage- ent the elevator paid a profit of 95 Per cent. on the $5,000 capital. The Farmer’s Lumber Co. was organ- ized by fGur farmers with a capitalizas tion of $6,400.Another enterprise found- ed by the farmers was the Farmers’ Co- operative Mercantile Co. After a brief period of competition the rival merch- antile store was compelled to close its doors, leaving the management of the town and its business affairs entirely n the hands of the farmers themselves. The town’s founders then established the Farmers' Sayings bank, with a capi- tal of $10,000. The deposits have reach- ed the $40,000 mark in three years. Fernald is in Richland township in Story county. Extensive use of tile has ~converted the ordinary prairie land into some of the most valuable farms in the state. Prices range from $200 to $250 an acre.—Rural Weekly.