The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, October 7, 1918, Page 12

- farmers were not opposed to a . buyers and manufacturers in . i-a hrge‘;mrt of the present- crop ~age should develop, eongress’ FATNEDJAND: CO A m G”LBE" R ¢ THE SPECIAL LOANS Kenmare, N. D. I AM writing you for information re- garding that money the govern- ment has set aside for creditless farm- ers, as our circumstances require help. “We have had no crop worth speak- ing of: for the last two years and the bank: from which we had borrowed failed this fall, which means for us that' we -must either pay up or lose what " horses, machinery- and other prop_erty pledged as security we have. Then'we. will have to quit farming. “We could easily rent a whole sec- tion ‘of land here but if we don’t get help,~we can not farm at all. Please let me know where to apply for the government aid.” To get the special government aid, farmers should apply to the local county agent, or if there is no county agent, to the county auditor. The ap- plications should be made at once. In the above case, the farmer should make an effort to get some other bank to take over his notes because the gov- . ernment agent might assume that he still had a basis for bank loans. . Fail- ing in that he can probably get the $3 an acre from the government fund. A big reason for applying at once is that there are so many -creditless farmers that a fund 10 times the size of what the government has set aside, would not meet the demand. Farm- ers in the winter wheat belt should remember ‘that they can not get this government aid after the period of fall wheat planting is over. WILL COTTON PRICES BE " ESTABLISHED? Mart, Texas. WOULD like very much to know whether you think the government will succeed in making a fixed price on cotton this yegr, as I and several other League farmers have our cotton on hand yet. . I certainly would' like to hear from you through the Leader, which I en- joy reading. I have been the means of ‘getting several to join the League : P. S. SHOOK The Nonpartisan Leader can not take responsibility for ad- vising on future prices but it can state some of the facts in this -case ‘which readers may not have. Congress has not given the administration power to fix the price of cotton. Con- gress might do so hurriedly, of course,-in-the near-future, but if it had been going to do so-at all .it: would have doubtless taken the step before the farm- ers began to market their crop. The Southland Farmer, a - large progressive farm paper of Texas, made the point last summer . that the southern fixed price for cotton if the government handled the cotton the same.way and that the real opponents of price-fixing were these interests.” If they were ‘fighting to put off price-" fixmg last summer,: they will fight all the harder now, when tion. is already in their hands. In'case a severe cotton short- might be forced to give the adminis- tration power to fix prices and order the farmers to bring in what they have, as it did with wheat last spring. On the other hand, there is a big move in Washington just now to fix’ the price of cotton, and men close to the situation feel that the southern representatives will not be able to head it off. We may get a prlce that “will prevent cotton from going higher and establishing a limit for next year’s crop. ARMY NEEDS FRUIT PITS AND NUT SHELLS HE government is anxious to have every one save fruit pits and nut shells because from these the best charcoal for use in gas masks can be made. No one should neglect this matter because it is one of the very important -little things the people at home can do. Here is the list of what is wanted: Peach stones Date seeds Prune pits Hickory nut shells Apricot pits Butternut shells Olive pits Walnut shells Cherry pits Brazil nut shells Plum pits The pits and shells saved should be dried in the sun or in'an oven and then delivered to the local chapter of the Red Cross or to local grocers. It would be advisable to cut out the above list for reference so as to avoid the waste of time for every one con- cerned in ' including material not wanted. INFORMATION ON NEW BANK METHODS Flaxton, N. D. ILL you please send me informa- tion as to what a banker must 7 do to get assistance from the govern- ment War Finance corporation? = Also any literature available explaining the method of rediscounting farmers’* netes ? RALPH INGERSON. *As to the first question, it would be ll)jst to write directly to the War inance- corporation, Washington, D. C. The government .departments have special staffs to send out detailed information. The general rule on which the finance corporation works, of course, is that when a bank needs more money to lend to industries es- sential to the war it will advance money up to 75 per cent of the face of the notes. The government has decided that farming is an essential industry. The federal reserve board of Wash- ington, D. C., will be glad to forward information on the ‘second question. Banks that are members of the federal reserve system can rediscount farm- ers’ notes with the head reserve bank of the district. In the Northwest, this bank would be the Federal Reserve bank of St. Paul. To this bank the member banks would forward the notes they wish to discount so as to be able -to make more loans. The one big excuse country banks may have for not using the redis- count privilege more, is that farmers are likely to be careless about re- newing notes on the dates due. The farmers who have.been somewhat in the habit of letting their notes run over because there is no question about their security. should make a point of depriving the bankers of this argument.” 'When a rediscounted note. " becomes due it must. be replaced by another note or paid in cash by the local bank. I THE MOST IMPORTANT PLACE IN AMERICA I Here is one of America’s six million fobd factories that :are mak'mxiAmenca the best fed na- They are working overtime to produce this result but they could produce more and the food would go more directly to:those who need it if the farmer had not been forced out of politics and if regulating bodies today paid more. attention to the farmer’s advice and less to the special interests. “The special interests support clever lobbyists and invent very. lngemous reasons as to why peace-time waste and graft should be continued in war time, : lmt the farmer, although he lacks these means of m king 1pec.lal appeal.s, HELP IN FARM EFFICIENCY WHY not use the department of agriculture more? It has a large staff of experts studying farm problems ‘of all kinds. -It may be weak on marketing questions because of political influences, but for that very reason it tries the harder to make good on matters of farm effi- ciency. If you are confronted by a new pest, by a crop disease, by a soil problem, or if you want to build a. farmhouse,- a barn, a hoghouse, or granary—in fact anything—write to the department of agriculture at Washington, D. C. In nine cases out of 10 it will be able to- give you some information you will be very glad to have. PAID FOR GOING TO COLLEGE NCLE SAM wants trained men. The war department has arrang-. ed with the North Dakota Agricul- tural college to pay boys over 18 who attend the college, regular soldiers’ wages. The courses will be arranged to prepare the boys for attending of- ficers’ training camps.—NORTH DA- KOTA AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE. “RUTHLESS METHODS AND UN- FAIR COMPETITION” SUCH is the way the food adminis- tration recently characterized our - marketing system, which to the anti- —farmer gang is a perfect systém. In commenting ‘on the results arising from the licensing of food dealers and -‘the expulsion of many for the dura- tion of the war, the food administra-. tion states that a new type of dealer is coming in and that “The new deal- ers are the class formerly unwilling to enter the business because of ruth-. less methods and unfair competition.” And yet the kept press has buttered _-these rascals to the ears with praise for efficiency and.service to the farmer and consumer. Evi- on the right track since they started organizing to have a little to say about the market themselves. COMMUNITY BREEDING OF LIVESTOCK EVERAL communities ' in the United States,” de- clares the North Dakota Agri- cultural c?llege,' “have gone into the raising of one breed and the communities have be- come known all over the coun- try for the-stock they 1 ralse, as Northfield, Minn., for. ‘its Hol- steins; Waukesha county, Wis., for its Guernseys; ' _county, Ohio, for its Holsteins; New Salem, N. D., for its Hol- steins, and so on, Not only has a.great deal of ‘improve- ready in these communities but the - 1mprovement will keep “ going on. " stock is reduced to a minimum. When a community enters on come mtetested “in and take dently the farmers have been . ment been accomplished al-- “The cost of 1mprovmg the 3 ¥ 4 “Geauga ' raising one:breed, everybody, o men, women afi& children, be-- [ A - N