The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, December 14, 1916, Page 6

Comblne . Paper, Calls »North Dakota I add a’_;“Pseudo ‘SCIélltlSt X ppses, ‘but ‘0 thi value of the i3 re, and by domg s0 fl: "Xet 'Ehe cat out of 'Ehe ; . cation . apparently “owned ‘sup-"-which owes ‘its ‘quality. to. wheat - grown bag;” it “spilled ‘the beans” for the grain: - . portéd and mspired by the grain - elsewhere.”_ (It will “be noted that -the - combine—it gave away theu- million dol- . st e .~ combine:‘of “Minneapolis, dropped ‘Statement ‘admits_the bxrmlller ‘are lar. secret to:the farmers. If the lowv il i - a tear for poor. old” North: Dakota in ‘its. “mixing” this hght; we.xght wheat ‘with grade North: Dakota ‘wheat can get-a = i 2 issue the day before Thanksgwmg. R other wheat.) - chance" 'to stand “-en ‘its own quality; “Poor ‘old: North Dakota!” it said, ° What the bulletin ndvodated was pay- instead of being. discredited as “chicken. “How. are the mighty fallen!: If it would: ing for this: wheat on_its: intrinsic merit. feed”. and - “feed wheat, the farmers- ~ i get:rid of its pseudo scientists, its cranks, - dirig to ‘the kind and W‘“ be: sahsfied AR R e ! H its -shortsighted ‘politicians, and. its- dis. ake alone—not DID NORTH D AKOT A A HE Northweste' Mxller, a'puhli- couragers “of “industry; if. it would drop Lhe 5 . its ‘narrow-minded an;i jealous attitude nightg shgv!ed oW, this “flour: DEIVEOUT THE MILLSZ wou toward those who are prosperous, and go “alone, and how ‘much fiour thi “whegt’z- Again_the Miller' declares this light to work ‘honestly, earnestly and " intelli~ ed:. weight wheat “can not be forced: artific<; th ¥ gently once more to. raise:the kind of e getting for ially to a. -paice helow its intrinsic value,” ; wheat it- formerly produced fit: ’would;~lthe Aour: - 1 derhanded in ustice ‘that & and ‘that 48 what the farmers are -object= R have no need to: complan_l of zettmg low ¢ farn > pad this: flour ‘basis; - “ing to.. It.is forced to a point below its L0 prices’ for its grain”: . on. that the intrinsic value as flour-making ‘wheat, B i . ‘This: lament" Tor North‘ akota was” W JeIng us ~cattle £ d “throngh illegel, secretly = established g | occasion®d “by -thé “publication:-of the - The ¢Northwesi:em “Miller. ‘say . “feed grades.” -The bulletin: the North- ‘ o i now famous wheat bulletin -No: 414 “of “ancther. ‘place: ‘that “The lower x'rade ‘western” Miller takes for its text showed’ 1o e * the’ North 'Dakota Agricultural college, ~wheat -of ! North ‘Dakota. can borrow no . that the.same wheat bought at “feed”. - R ) which showed that. the milling and middle- ‘value from ‘other: wheats; it must stand:: grades in North: Dakota, sells at:$400.a met’s combine at-Minneapolis takes‘more - alone ‘on its_quality.” 3 - . carlead advance under: the legal’ Minne- than: $1000 on_ a- carload ‘of ‘wheat-for - ' - That is-all it wants to stand on. That < .sota zrades at. ‘Minneapolis—to millers: ¢ which it pays’ the farmers: $650. . The . :s what :t stood on in Dr.: add’s tests, for makmg flour Yes, unfortnnately I;h.e"_~ Northwestern’ Miller was. “mad” "when 5 : | Dr. E. F.%Ladd published that bulletin. g1 " At thought:that it had ‘a million dollar: ‘* mystery” locked up in’ tl;f laboratories | that gmde the mighty mills by the Mis- - sissippi.-- And ‘when it -found that- this It says'of Norf.h . was-no_longer a secret, and-that Dr. Ladd: . : ,Wnegex and: 1 . was telling the farmers: just how- much .’ and how good was the flour: being. made_- SR in‘the M)nneapohs mills out ‘of wheat that B their buyers’ declared was: nothmg Dut “feed * wheat”—and ‘poor;-at’ that—the Northwestern Milter mleasea 8 waxl. ! | . PRIMARIES PROBABLY 8l CAUSED WHEAT RUST - 'busmesa {by' ) : hsane League "and all ‘i works) ™~ an “short-sighted pohtlcmns = and ‘a few ‘other things. B As to the short-sxghted pohtxcmns, the SRS -;Nonpartxsan . Leaguers ~will' doubtless ! e ~agreel “But they are no. longer grieving = ecr riculty ; : smeg fm- the- enforce- *about that gentry They were micely e feder: s on. hat are-to be fixed der the new:law of eongress, . trimmed in the primaries in June, and ! 3 ) ; ! ri 1 this carefully and: enthusxastmal]y put on the ‘shelf at the general election in November. Tefimoranly at Teast, the short-sighted: - politicians “are mot troubhng “poor old : North “Dakota,” although™ they -were largely to b'lame for the movement that' . wrung. the wail fromr the Northwestem Miller. ; 5 S © But ‘Noxth Dakotans willnot: agree a ;., . they are personally to blame for the ow ; production of 1516. The depth of ‘the Miller’s p}ulosophy 1s' shown in this’ statement:- “This: year North D » a_low. stage- of production - due m part’: to the policy its farmers have p Now: the poliey-its farmers have pur sued was adopted. shortly qfte he la.ture of 1915, and it is fair. to-: 3 s,g.nous-kfild ! >on’ productlon unhl tlus seas S . S i e TR