The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, October 25, 1917, Page 21

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They put their grain in early—and faster than with horse-power. The, way to maie money farming ls to -do good farming. Our tractors are real farmers’ tractors.. They pull a 3-bottom plow ea.sfly. Fully :ua.ranteed or no erte for literature. C. 0. D. Tractor: Sa,les Co. H. H. Berg, Distributor ~ FARGO, N. D. —-—-——_-'—\ CYLINDERS REBORED Ana fitted with larger pistons and rings. We weld and machine every- thing. Satisfaction guaranteed, Phone or write us when in a hurry for your work. Dakota Weld’g & Mfg. Co. 203-4 Fifth St. Fargo, N. D. HANKSGIVING TURKEYS and all kinds POULTRY WANTED— Alive or dressed at top market prices. erte for price list, tags, and shipping instructions. Want HIDES BEANS, CREAM VEAL, FURS, ! THE R. E. COBB CO,, 13 E 3d_St., St. Paul, Minn, Licensed by U. 8. Government, Mention Leader when writing advertisers’ ARM, Stock & Home, an agri- cultural paper, printed at Minneapolis, has . requested the Nonpartisan Leader to re- print one of f{ts editorials. This editorial points out the unfairness of the new federal grain grades. Nonpartisan league has always led in the fight against the federal grain grades. Last winter, when hearings were held in the Northwest, Dr. E. F. Ladd, president of the North Dakota agricultural college and the League were the only ones who pointed out their unfairness. News articles, edi- torials and cartoons were published in the Leader, week after week, to show what the new grain grades would mean. At this time the League and Dr. Ladd were alone in the fight. With a little more help, the adoption of the grades might have been prevented. Now everyone is awake to the un- fairness of the new grades. This has been admitted by the government it- self, in suspending in part the opera- tion of the grades, so that sales under No. 3 can be made by sample instead of by’ grade ' This explanatmn is g:ven ‘because Farm, Stock & Home, in its editorial, Burnquist: of - Minnesota for pointing out the unfairness of ‘the grades.” But ‘When ' the farmer officials’ of North league, and Dr, Ladd were pomtmg out the’ unfairness ' of * the “grades,” the Minnesota officials were sllent The their help last wintér when it might have done some good. ‘With thw e:\plananon the following editorial ~ is reprmted from" Farm, Stock' & Home: “Twenty Million Dollar Robbery ° “The new federal wheat grades are giving the Northwestern farmers the worst of it, just as . S. & H. feared " would be the case when it opposed the law before passage. “In the first place the grades are so numerous—one hundred against forty recommended by the Minnesota com- mission when the bill was being framed —and the 'methods of determining these grades so complicated that it re- quires:a scientist to apply them, to say ‘nothing of the time required. To give some idea of what must be done, the -following is quoted from the Price Current: “!Close study of the rules and |ex- treme care -in taking samples of wagonload lots and analyzing them in the elevator laboratory will be essen- tial to the profit-making this year and hereafter. The weighing of the proper number of grams to get a typical sam- ple of the sample and its analysis, sort- ing from the principal variety kernel by kernel with tweezers the different mixed varieties of wheat and other grains and foreign bodies to ascertain their percentages and if the foreign grains in dockage free wheat exceed 6 per cent of the sample, in which case the sample is not: wheat at all but some other grain; and finally getting the moisture ~content, saying nothing of smutting the sample, as must be done in the Pacific Northwest. 'The inspec- tion of the farmers grain by the coun- try dealer is some job certainly.’ “How is a buyer at a country station going to-do all this when he has a string of fifteen or twenty. teams lineds up waiting 4o unload?- 7 “He is not going to do it! He is go- ing to guess, and you know that his guess is going to be’low: enough to make the seller hold -the bag! And Just how he is now holding it is illus- trated by two cars recently consigned to Getchell and Tanton Company, Minneapolis. These graded No. 4 be- cause the wheat contained some rye and took the fixed price of ten cents a bushel less than No. 1 northern. Mr. P. B. Getchell states that this wheat wasg strictly No. 1 northern. If these were thousand bushel cars, the farmer was robbed of $200 cold cash that the miller got. This is only one case.” The wheat has just- commenced to move. Figure it out yourself on.the basis of 200,000,000 bushels of wheat for the four states that will come to market from Minnesota, the Dakotas and Mon- tana. : “It runs into the enormous sum of $20,000,000 that you farmers need, haye earned and should have, and your not having it will not benefit the consumer of flour one iota, for flour prices are ‘based on the price of No. 1 northern. In all probabmty thé average loss Readers of the Leader know that the: undertakes: to" give ‘credit to Govemor K Governor Burnquist is a late. ‘convert. ° Dakota, elected * by’ the Nonparhsa.n ? Dpoatato bugs farmers of the" Northwest are glad the . Minnesota officials ‘have been’ convert- ed, but they would rather have had " through’ the Federal grain act will run more than ten cents a bushel, “Governor Burnquist, alive to the in- justice, and what is in effect robbery that is being inflicted on the North- western farmers, has asked Mr. Hoover for a suspension of the United States grades. “Backing up the governor, Chairman Elmaquist of the railroad and warehouse commission says: = “The government standard grain rules, effective Aug. 1, were based on the percentage plan, were extremely technical and impossible of application by the buyers or sellers at the local stations. The net result is that a large quantity of wheat which would have graded No. 1 under the old Minnesota system has received lower grades and has sold at lower prices. There is gen- eral dissatisfaction among mspectors and producers. ‘The change to the old Minnesota rules, which will be restored in sub- stantially the old form by the commis- sion in the event of suspension of the new federal rules, will be a benefit to the Northwest’.” NOT JUST BUG CATCHING Big Timber, Mont. - Editor Nonpartlsan Leader: Let me congra.tula.te you.on the su- ‘:penor excellence of the paper you are 'tuming out. It is'the most hopeful in- dicahon of today that at last we have _one ‘farm paper that: rea]:zes the fact that farming consxsts ‘in somethmg moré’'than plantmg ’beans and ca.tchmg THe farm editors and the farm protessors are b]md to the fact that the problem ‘of production is al- ready, solved. SIt s the problem of making a’ Just and ra.tlonal dxvxsxon— ‘rewarding the producer and crushmg the parasxte—that now ° await§ solu- tion.” If we are to go on forever shovel- ing the products of the farms into-the ponderous paunches of the industrial pirates, then farming has become a farce and civilization a colossal crime. If the farm papers and the farm col- leges are incapable of grasping this simple fact, then they are wholly in- . ~capable of benefiting the farmer. W. J. HANNAH. NO BLOOD IN A TURNIP Gladstone, N. D. Bditor Nonpartisan Leader: ‘With great sorrow, I am bhound to report that as I joined the League last year, I wag in a very bad financial con- dition, on account of short crop. I had to borrow money to run my farm then, although conditions were hard, but this year matters are much worse than last. My farm is fairly large and there are many animals to care for, and I have no feed. Must again manage to get outside help in order to feed the younger animals at least. My crop resulted as follows: A Acres Bushels Wheat ..... ...........,..115 296 Oats e 40 102 Macaroni ..... e oiesie e 1D 10 LA oy B3 ale oto o s mareye e s s 40, 8 Brome grass .....r....... 20little hay Other Crops ..:.i.evvee., 8 mnothing -Total, all crops ........238 416 The prairie hay I have is two and three. years old and worse feed than _straw, of which our whole neighbor- hood has none. We were therefore forced to cut the Russian thistle as a poor substitute for straw. Just think how the poor animals will be able to work next spring! How will the cows " give milk, the pigs make lard, and the hens lay eggs? Even if eggs were worth 10 cents each -we can only af- ford to keep a few young fowls to raise from later. When hogs and horses get no grain, there is none for the chickens. Very few farmers here have half enough feedstuff. Yet there are peo- ple ‘'who seem to be possessed of the very imp, who are continually ham- mering at us to contribute to every- thing except to the Nonpartisan league. They are complaining that we do not assist the Red Cross. Yes—but where we are to get the means? They don’t advise us. My children and I worked with 12 horses all the year and did-not get 25 cents a day altogether after caring for the household. and the most necessary clothes. Where there is nothing, noth- ing can be had. So I am sorry to re- port that I am utterly unable to con- tribute to the great work of the League in the way of cash at the pres- ent, As soon as I am able, I shall come again but in the meantime I will continue to fight for it. against those who still refuse to spend a dollar or gay a good word for the League. With heartfelt regards, I am, GEORGE SIGL, SR. 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