The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, August 9, 1917, Page 16

e R A T R s e S A e ADVERTISEMENTS QUICK ACTION Bismarck’s new automobile. fire n- surance company suffered a loss in the recent fire and George. Gussner re- ceived his check in full for the amount of his policy within 15 minutes after the company received notice of* his loss. s Could anythir.g speak hetter for this city’s automobile fire insurance com- pany than the above paragraph? It is seldom indeed that losses are ad- justed and checks written in such a short space of time as did the Mutual company in this instance, If you own a car and it is not fully covered by insurance have it done to- day, as you cannot tell what the next 24 hourssmay bring forth. Protection is your best purchase. GUSSNER What He Thinks of Our Automobhile Insurance Policies 2 His machine was a total loss in Sunday night’s fire. He received a check for the face value of his policy within 15 min- utes after our company re- | ceived notice of his loss. * That’s Our Way of Pleasing Let Us Write Your Next Policy AUTOMOBILE Mutual Insurance Company Room.l(), Tribune Buil\ding Bismarck, N. D. Mention Leader when writing advertisers T A P 57X e o s I A NS A RS 1 B R Why the Nonpartisan League? BY N. S. RANDALL N May, 1915, bacon hogs sold at South St. Paul for $7.22 per hundred. At the same time bacon sold for 25 to 27 cents to butchers and retailed by them for 30 and 35 cents. It takes ap- proximately 20 minutes per man per hog to slaughter, dress and prepare the hog for consumption. It takes the farmer 20 minutes per day per hog for about 250 days to raise, feed and market the hog. This is 250 times as much time as the packer puts in and the farmer has all of ten times as much capital per hog invested as the packer has. RE- SULTS: The packer gets three times as much for the hog as the farmer does. In March, 1917, Mr. Frank Pratt, .a farmer at Heron Lake, Minn., told the following story: “T'wo years ago when hogs were sell- ing for six cents per pound I took in to town, to ship, three hogs. My wife had asked me to bring home some lard so I stopped at the butcher shop and asked what lard was worth and I was told it was worth 15 cents. I said I'd be darned if I would raise hogs and sell them for six cents and pay 15 cents for lard. The butcher told me if I wanted lard I would have to pay 15 cents or no lard. “I told the butcher that if he’d give me 15 cents a pound for the lard that I could get out of the three hogs that I had in the wagon that I would give him the meat for nothing. He said that was-too much meat at one time so I offered to give him the meat from one hog if he would buy the lard at 15 cents per pound, and he took me up. “I butchered a 304-pound hog and rendered the lard and from the leaf lard and trimmings of hams and. shoulders, I got enough lard to pay me $19.25 and I gave the butcher the meat. If I had sold that hog in St. Paul I would have received six cents per pound for 304 pounds less the shrinkage, out of which I would have to pay freight, feeding charges and commission. In my opin- ion we farmers pay for a packing plant every year but never own one.” DRIED BEEF IS A “GOLD MINE” Dried beef is made from -cattle that will not class for any other purpose. It is so lean that it has no place even in the corn beef barrel. It usually sells at the stock yards for 2 to 4 cents. Dried beef in one ounce tins sells for 15 cents or $2.40 per pound. A 1000- pound cow that.brings the farmer 4 cents is $40. She will get 100 pounds of drief beef. That brings him $200 and he will have about 250 pounds of beef_left besides the hide and by-products. October 16, 1916, a carload of wheat graded as D Feed was sold at Fargo for $653.01. If the farmer who raised the wheat should want to buy back the flour, shorts and bran that his wheat made it would have cost him $2107.03. Just a matter of $1454.02 between the price the farmer received and what the consumer pays. On April 12, 1917, I was in Bertha, Minn., and was told by a farmer who was hauling a load of potatoes to a car that he was loading that he was get- ting $1.50 per bushel at the car. On the Saturday before that my wife paid our grocér 80 cents for one peck of potatoes or $3.20 per bushel. Just a matter of $1.70 between the man who takes a year to plow the ground, cut the seed, plant it, bug the vines, cultivate and dig the potatoes, pick them up and-haul them, and the fellows who handle them after the farmer has grown them.. POLITICIANS CRY “SOCIALISM” TO FRIGHTEN On April 14 I inquired the price of fresh eggs at Parkers Prairie, Minn., and was told that the merchants were paying 22 cents. That same day my wife paid 35 cefits to a Minneapolis grocer for eggs of the vintage of 1916. Of course, according to some people, the League is a bad thing because it tells the farmer of some of the robbery that is being perpetrated both on him and the consumer alike. Certain people who have assumed the prerogative of being the -sole advisors of their com- munities object to the League because they dare not come out into the open and tell the farmer that the present method of marketing is all right, and neither do: they dare object to the farmer attempting to remedy the pres- ent. method by the use of the ballot. They attempt to stampede the farmer away from the League by crymg “that' Socialism.” ‘Well, let me say in closmg t]us arti- PAGE I‘IFTEE“I T T TSP emrumacs a2 dress 500 ! pounds, out of which the packer will ! ADVERTISEMENTS olorize Y rEa ‘‘One or more tractors on every farm will help toward in- tensive farming, and will help to solve the labor problem.’’ —J. Ogden Armour in the Saturday Evening Post. The country demands that your farm—every farm in the land —vproduce a maximum yield. B ! This is possible, even in the face of the labor shortage that confronts you. The genius of Rollin H. White has made 1t so— made it practical for you to motorize your farm. For he has built the one ‘tractor that can be operated profitably on almost every farm. That tractor is the Cleveland. It is the first practical small unit machine. It is the machine for which you have been waiting. The Cleveland crawls on its own tracks, so it will not stick, mire or pack the soil. Possessing 600 square inches of traction “surface. it will go anywhere—over rough and smooth, around hil and over dale, through sand and over wet land. And work—one Cleveland does more actual work in a day than three three-horse teams and three men. . In proof: a Cleveland will pull: two fouxteen-mch plows and with them tum up eight to ten acres a day of the finest, straightest urrow you ever saw. And with minimum fuel expense. The Cleveland is built to stand work—hard work. It is built of best mate- rials, under the supervision of Rollin H. White, one of the country’s foremost truck designers. The gears are identical with those used in finest trucks. They are enclosed in dirtproof, dustproof cases. The Cleveland steers by the power of its engine. A light touch on its steering wheel sends it in the desired direction. Developing 12 H. P. at its drawbar and 20 H. P. at its pulley, the + Cleveland has ample capaclty for every power requirement of the farm. Cleveland Tractors are in actual use the country over. They are increasing farm production and lowering its cost. They are offsetting the existing lack of labor. They are returning their owners a profit. You need a Cleveland. And you need it now. Write for full details of construction and performance. Let us show you what a Cleveland can do for you—the range of its usefulness is amazing. 31185 F.O.B. FACTORY THE CLEVELAND TRACTOR COMPANY, Cleveland, Ohio IBEEESRRERNEEEE NSRS R RN EE RSN R AN NN NS EENENERERRRNNNBNERBNENNERERRNERRRNEENRREND ,The Cleveland Tractor Company Dept. AU Cleveland, Ohio . Nam Please send me full information about your Cleveland Tractor, City. B Sate el e MR. LI VESTOCK - GROWER! You Are Surely Entitled to the Full Market Value for the Livestock You Raise IF YOU DO NOT GET lT somebody else gets the bene- fit you should have. The day is passed when business is done on sentiment, and only results in dollars and cents count. ‘We want you to compare the results in dollars and cents we get for you thh those received elsewhere. A~ comparison will convince you that “KIRK SERVICE” gets you the most money for your livestock. J. R. Kirk Commission Co., Inc. South St. Paul, Minn. Aulhonzed Sales Agency of the American Society of Equity Mention Leader when writing advertisers