The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, March 15, 1917, Page 24

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TAKE advantage of this opportunity: 500 ma- chines of all makes such 28S Underwoods, Reming tons, Olivers, ete., from ears gV?V it teted rite or FREE trial offer. A. MFG. CO., 162 N. Dearborn St. .Dept. MPL, Chicago, lIl. Treat your seed oats f Imperial Smut Machine the only perfect Smut Ma- chine made. Guaranteed that you will have no smut in your grain next fall. If you have we will refund your money in full. Isn't that fair? We also have a machine that takes wild oats out of tame oats for seed and the best cleaner and grader !or 1 grades. All ma- chm trial ranteed. Write us. NNEAPOLIS SEPARATOR CO,, 314 Erie Street, Minneapolis, Minn. MAGNETOS AND BATTERIES Howard B. Tilden Magneto and Battery Expert Winter storage of all makes of Batteries. 71 Fifth St.N. FARGO, N.D:. REPLIES TO LUKOW Clyde, N. D., Feb. 9, 1917. Editor Nonpartisan Leader: In one of the issues of your paper for. January, 1917, there appeared a letter from George W. Lukow of Chebause, 111, roasting the land sharks of North Dakota. As I happen to be the land shark with whom Mr. Lukow did busi- ness, I would like to use the columns of your paper to show how infernally some people can stretch the truth. Mr. Lukow and a friend of his, Mr. Adolph Burmeister, ‘were brought to me in the fall of 1913 by a land agent from Illi- nois, Within an hour of their arrival this agent informed me that if I sold Mr. Lukow or Mr. Burmeister any land, he (the agent) would expect a commis- sion of $4 per acre. Any one who was living in Cavalier county in 1913 will-tell you what “big crops and mever a failure” I showed them. They were taken out to the threshing machines and saw the wheat vielding from 5 to 10 bushels per acre and oats yielding around 20 bushels per acre (including the wild oats) and were told plainly that we had had a much poorer crop in 1910. They talked with dozens of farmers among them being some of their old neighbors from Illinois. I showed them as good farms-as there are in Cavalier county at prices of from $30 to $40 per acre and on easy terms. Nothing that I had listed suited Mr. Lukow and I took him to my competitor in the land business here. He showed Mr. Lukow a fairly well improved farm 114 miles from town at $45 per acre and Mr. Lukow decided to buy it. Mr. Burmeister bought a quarter section on the half crop payment plan from me 4t $35 an acre. Both gentlemen with their families moved here in the spring‘ of 1914, The black rust struck our wheat that year and Mr. Lukow’s only yielded about 7 bushels per acre if I remember correctly. But in 1915 when every one else here had a splendid crop ahd made a good bunch of money Mr. Lukow had another failure and the neighbors. attributed it to the fact that he was too slow to get his crop in in proper sea- son. He became discouraged and mov- ed from here to Fairmount, Minn,, in the spring of 1916, ‘What has Mr. Burmeister done mean- while? The farm he purchased was not considered as good and was not nearly so well improved as Mr. Lukow’s and Mr. Burmeister was not so well fixed financially as Mr. Lukow. In 1914 the landlord’s share of the crop turned over by Mr. Burmeister paid the inter- est on his half-crop contract and reduc- ed the principal by $225.00. In 1915 he rented another quarter section and raised 4500 bushels of wheat and nearly 5000 bushels of oats. He made a big payment on his land and had money left. I have not the figures for his 1916 crop but he told me that he more than “broke even.” He brought four horses, (two of them being old and not worth much), and two cows to Dakota with him. The old mares have both died but to- day he has 8 horses and 20 head of cat- tle with all necessary farm machinery and has them “paid for.” His credit is gilt-edged at either the bank or the stores, because he does-not abuse it. In conclusion, if any one wants to know how the lank sharks “swindled” Mr. Lukow, I would ask them to write to Mr. Adolph Burmeister of Calvin, N. D., and ask him how he has been treated and I have not asked for his approval in making this statement. Both men were used exactly the same. One was a failure and a grouch, the other is a success and a booster. I am ADVERTISEMENTS Grain Growers Are Winning the Fight for a Square Dealin rain Grading That the Federal Government is reconsidering the grain grading matter, with probability of con- cessions in favor of the farmers, is due to the truthful publicity given to the grain grading hearings at Fargo and Minneapolis by heCouner-News The Nonpartisan Daily The Courier-News is the only daily newspaper that reported these hearings fully and truthful- ly. The Courier-News report was reprinted in the Congressional Record. If you want to know the plain facts about what is going on every day read the Courier-News, It gives all the news and all the markets. It is Your Newspaper Subscribe to it ~ R o - The Courier-News is now publish- ed on Monday morning. You can subscribe to it for six days a week '(the old way), or seven days a- week (the new way), whichever you please. Here are the rates both ways. Take your choice, ‘but subscribe one way now. to receive §1 per acre commission on the land purchased by these gentlemen, but as I do not get this until the con- tracts are paid out in full I have not as yet received anything. If you do not care to publish this letter in fairness, to both sides of this - “land shark” question, please return it in the inclosed stamped envelope. I am yours for a square -deal, ARTHUR FOSTER. - DIVET INSULTED 40,000 Milnor, N. D., Feb. 18, 1917. L IRt | Mr. Divet, EMERSON r00r PLOW | ear o © Fichiand County Six days a week Seven Days a Week he sh: s off or goes on in § I am a member of the Nonpartisan (Every day except (Every day including ;‘t:oidss areN%O?::ts to turng—no wrench League and will say in my opinion that Monday) V7] Monday) Mr. Townley has done more for the :zgde%;?ffie osuroga;ggsblos‘;;? lgnol; farmers of the state of North Dakota, i;mew Built tgr tyractor or team. One| than any state official who has ever of the many implements in the E-Bline, | held office in this state. 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