The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, November 22, 1917, Page 12

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Hagen and Special Co_mmit- tee Finds Grave Shortage in Most Grains ORTH Dakota authorities are taking ecarly action to insure a supply of all kinds of seed grain for the 1918 planting, and a meeting is to be held at Bismarck November 24 to discuss ways and means of supplying the shortage. For several weeks a committee of five has been making a survey of the state, and has discovered the startling fact that there is a grave shortage in oats, barley, flax and corn due to drought. Only in wheat is there a surplus. As soon as it was apparent that this shortage existed, the committee got in touch with similar committees and the authorities in Minnesota, South Dakota and Canada (and in regard to corn even investigated resources of desir- able corn in Maine) with the result that it was announced last week by Secretary J. H. Sheppard of the com- mittee that enough available grain has been located to meet all needs. ' The problem that is now to be solved, is how to get this grain from those who own it to the North Dakota farmers, who had an almost complete crop fail= ure throughout the western part of the state, and must have seed. COMMITTEE TO MEET WITH STATE OFFICIALS The committee that has been in charge of the work, and which will meet at Bismarck in conjunction with state officials and an official delega- tion from the State Bankers' associa- tion, consists of Director Thomas P. Cooper of the North Dakota experi- ment station, as chairman; Dean Shep- pard of the Agricultural college, secre- tary; W. W, Reed of Amenia, A. J. Surratt of Grand Forks, United States government crop reporter, and Commis- sioner of Agriculture J. N. Hagan, The meeting will be held in Mr. Hagan’s office at the state capitol, and is called at that place in order that the members may be in touch with the attorney general's office, and the office of the state examiner. 2 The committee’s iInformation has come chiefly from farmers' and inde- pendent elevators. Very few line ele- vators have any seed grain in storage. Some seed grain is stored on farms and this is taken into consideration, so that the figures as to what is needed, represent what is needed in addition to that still held in farm granaries. - OATS AND BARLEY SHORTAGE SERIOUS Secretary Sheppard said the total amount of oats needed is 964,000 bushels, with only 60,000 bushels in storage. If funds can be provided,.this shortage can be replenished from South Dakota, which had had a fine oats crop. Of barley 298,000 bushels will be needed, with 41,000 bushels in storage. The committee believes this can be met from Minnesota's surplus. The flax required will amount to 82,000 bushels with 27,000 bushels in storage in the state, Correspondence shows this shortage can be met from surrounding flax growing regions. There is also a grave shortage in corn, but its full extent is not yet known by the committee. It has been CCORDING to announcement of Mrs. J. B. Stevens of Law- ton, N. D,, field worker of the j North Dakota Anti-Tubercu- losis association, the associa- tion is going to conduct its regular Red Cross Seal campaign this winter as usual, to aid the stamping out of the great white plague. The stamps will be on sale throughout the state, to at- tach to Christmas packages, and the money- will go to forward the anti- T T A e tuberculosis work in the state—mnone of it to go outside the state. Mrs. Steyens asks that persons who desire to help in the sale of these stamps write to Dr. Fannie Quain, Bismarck, N. D, who will instruct them and furnish them a supply. “Many counties,” says Mrs. Stevens, “are going to try and sell at least $150 worth of stamps. By selling this much the county gets the service for a month of a visiting nurse of the association, to, inspect schools and.. children and conditions among people = suffering from tuberculosis. - Any town that sells as much as $60 worth of stamps also gets the services of one of our nurses. .|:Cass county is already organized for the sale, with James Pollock of Cas- selton in charge of the campaign. tentatively suggested that this short- age may amount to 25,000 bushels, but the amount in storage has not been determined, although it is known to be small.” The efforts of the committee relative to corn have been to find a supply of early maturing northern grown corn suitable for the short North Dakota season. Northern Min- nesota had so nearly a crop failure in this that its supply is negligible. In wheat there is a surplus. Stored reserves of seed- wheat total 98,000 bushels, and only 54,000 will be needed in North Dakota. The question here will be one of securing funds to buy this and transport it from the Red River valley (where the bulk of it was grown) to the western part of the state where the yield ran from four or five bushels per acre down to nothing. The committee believes it will be able to solve the difficulties by setting before farmers the necessity of making their wants known eatly. COUNTY COMMISSIONERS MAY BUY SEED GRAIN Under laws enacted in 1909 and amended in 1911 county commissioners of North Dakota have authority to buy seed grain for farmers in need of it, issuing bonds or warrants in payment. It is believed this law may have to be relied upon as the machinery through which to do the buying, but as the law is somewhat clumsy in its working, and is totally unavailable if there is too long a delay, Commissioner Hagan and the committee have started “early. Last spring there were farmers who needed this help, but who were so late getting in their requests that their needs could not be met under the law. The State Bankers’ association has been asked to co-operate for the rea- son that it is feared the banks in the districts where seed is most needed, may have been hit almost as hard as the farmers and be unable to help. ‘With the prospect of a heavy issuance of county warrants or bonds to be taken up, the committee is seeking to learn the attitude of the bankers to- ward the proposition. The members also wish to be informed of all the legal aspects of the case, and to know from State Examiner J. R. Waters just what the banks will be allowed to do. Under the law all farmers wanting seed must have their applications be- fore the county commissioners by March 1. The commissioners act as a board to apportion the seed, and must see that the farmers who get it give proper notes to the county as security. Not more than 150 bushels of wheat, or its equivalent in other grain can be apportioned to any one farmer and there is a heavy penalty for anyone .securing such seed who makes any other disposition of it. .The applicant must furnish complete data as to his propetry, the land cropped the previous +year and to be cropped with the seed furnished; all his obligations; and he must sell enough grain to repay the county by October 1. If he fails to pay by Cctober 15 the value of the seed grain furnished him, is extended on his tax roll and is collected as other taxes. The advances draw 7 per cent interest from April 1 of the crop year. Red Cross Seals This Year War Is Another Reason for Helping Work of the Anti-Tuberculosis ‘Association of North Dakota Other counties are organized or or- ganizing. “We see in the war an additional reason for carrying on our work. The government is going to send all na- tional army men who have or contract tuberculosis back home, and they must be cared for. The war has increased tuberculesis in France, and France has had a big problem, which it is now meeting as well as it can. We were told by a worker from France that if the, disease is not stamped out there, or checked, after the war is over, it will take more life than the war has, “We need more beds and cots at the Dunseith (N. D.) sanitarium, and we need a moving picture outfit for enter- tainment of the sufferers there. expect the good people of North Da- kota to respond even better than in the .past. TLast year South Dakota got $7630 from its sale of Red Cross Seals while we got only $2000 in this state. That helped, but we want, in North Dakota this year, as much as South Dakota gave last year, at least, and I believe we will get it.” ‘. Anybody wanting to sell stamps in any. county should write Dr. Quain at Bismarck. PAGE TWELVE We . 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