The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, January 21, 1918, Page 14

G ik 7 -p— M N e P, SR 72 P b Don’t take any chances when you build--- Know how much lumber it is going to take before you begin to build. See how your building will look. Study the arrangement and find out whether it will fit your requirements. Changes can be made on paper without expense, but after your building is started it_costs money to change your plans. You can save money by using our Service Department. We furnish Extras Free of Charge--- , We work your building out on paper for you first, You change it as many times as you wish—until you get exactly what you require. Then we make you a guaran- teed price on enough material to complete your building. If it takes more than we say we furnish it free of charge. If you can build it with less we buy back what you had left over at what you paid for the material. No worry about the final cost—you know before you begin what the total cost will be. This Service FREE To Our Customers--- This plan service-is free to our customers in towns where we operate branch yards. 'We have no facilities for handling business in any town except where we carry a stock of lumber. We do not ship lumber to towns where we have no yard. We know that we can only render the proper kind of service to_builders by serving them from a local stock of lumber. We operate local yards in many North Dakota towns and believe that we can reach thous- ands of our prospective customers by telling our story in the columns of the “Leader” since in so many towns no local newspapers are published. We do not make plans excfigf where customer can haul from one of our branch yar: Compare Our Prices With Mail Order House Prices--- If you are laboring under the mistaken impression that it is necessary for you to “send away” for your lumber in order to save money, compare our regular price out of our local yard with any small order house quotations you may secure. Take any mail order house design, obtain the delivered price, then have us quote you on the same design. We will not ask you what price you have or where you have been figuring because we know that we can save you money and serve you right out of any of “our branch yards. Our pricé is the same in every town where freight rates are equal If there is no other yard in the town but our own our price is exactly the same as it is in towns where there are ten yards provided the freight rate is equal from the coast which is true in practically all . We do not compete with mail order houses—they try to compete with us. In every town where we are in business you find the same service—same prices—same grades. We are saving thousands of North Dakota towns. You get our LOWEST price farmers money by planning their buildings in ad- on the quantity purchased, whether you ask for it or not. 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The germination must be up to stand- : ard or we will not sell them. ‘every variety of seed is in the book. 2 PAGE FOURTEEN = O S ot P e A e o B AT S terest to every gardener and farmer Full directions for planting ‘ Feed Prices ULK bran at $26.50 a ton and sacked bran at $29 a ton, is the schedule of feed prices declar- ed correct by Food Adminis- trator E. F. Ladd of North Dakota who is also president of the North Dakots Agricultural college. This is a reduc tion from the recent high prices, bases upon the food administration rulin; that the price of bran shall not b more than 38 per cent of the price ¢ the wheat used. Dr. Ladd has- a- nounced the above figures as tle proper ones for feed at the mills n carload lots. If feed is shipped o interior towns the freight is to le added and a reasonable profit for e- tailing. On the day these prices were putin effect the Fargo Mill company was quoting bran sacked at $32.50 per tin and shorts at $34.50 per ton. f The program of “pitiless publicity” which Dr. Ladd inaugurated when he became food administrator, is largdly responsible for the attention given the matter. The national food adminis- tration has used publicity of profiteer- ing as one of its strongest weapons. When the 38 per cent-rule was an- nounced, and together with it the fact that the average price being paid for wheat was $2.05, farmers from all over the state began to send in complaints to food headquarters at Fargo that they were being charged $40 a ton for bran, when it should have been less than $30 according to the prices being paid for the wheat. Attempts of some of the big millers to lay the high prices of feed products to. the retail dealers, fell flat in the face of investigations by the North Dakota food administration. From food headquarters thig statement was given out: by “Investigation has shown us that the retail feed dealer is not to blame for | the high-prices charged. ‘Most of the retailers are selling bran on a $1.50 a ton margin. Many dealers today have stocks of bran on hand and just received on which the invoices are away above what the retail price should be. Dr. Ladd believes in gov- ernment control of the mills of the country and we shall recommend such action at the coming meeting. It will likely be found that government con- trol is the only solution to the enforce- ment of price regulations in this case.” ence of state food administrators and feed manufacturers at Washington the second week of January at which prices were to be discussed. The price of wheat feeds in Cali- fornia have been reduced $7 to $8 a ton within the past few weeks by the intervention of the federal food ad- ministrator-in that state. Cottonseed manufacturers recently agreed to a voluntary .reduction of their prices in order to escape government regula- tion that might have taken them lower, and cottonseed products were thereby reduced $5 to $7 a ton. These are in- dications that the farmers' complaints all over the country that feed prices were too high, were well founded, and that governmerit action was what was needed. : In the grasshopper sections, poultry in Kansas caught 350, pounds of grass- hoppers and found them to be one of the best feeds her poultry received, grain ration. = : Honey and syrups instead of si;gar z will- make victory just as sweet—and bring it much sooner, Sas Ml Dr. Ladd Cuts The meeting referred to is a confer- ° should prove the best crop. A woman *° when they were dried and fed with the