The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, January 13, 1919, Page 10

i <MORE HOG EXPERIENCE 0 Milnor, N. D. & Editor Nonpartisan Leader: : g I read with much interest Mr. g Creighton’s conundrum: “If you can sell a 140-pound hog for $23.80 what 5 is a 189-pound hog worth?” But I # raised my hogs too large and got fined 2 for that.. j On October 20 I sold 17 hogs that 9%’ - CREAMZE: ‘SEPARATORE® ASOI;'IB]PROPOSITION tosend [ w made, i { perfect skimming sovrioe 2% f | $19.95.Closely skims warm orcold il milk. Makes heavy or light cream. Riscrates ‘Targer’ somroey bich caj ma- chines. See our easy l|’zlam of Monthly Payments Bow! ita 1, cleaned. “Whather aairy (s Taces or small, write for free catalog and monthly payment plan. Western orders filled from estern points., - AMERICAN SEPARATOR CO. gz Box 306¢ Bainbridge, N. Y. § 1 A : ADVERTISEMENTS 42 e weighed about 350 pounds each. Top hogs at that time were around $17 per hundredwgight. Mine, being~ too heavy, were classed as packing stock and sold for $14.50. If that dodsn’t - American Millionaires ‘A statistician has recently worked out the following up-to-date figares gli our millionaires from the 1916-1917 income tax report: 5 A get us going and coming, what does? P 5 oitines ob tomefietg And this after the government asked No. ossessed of fortunes o 2.500.000.600 us to grow our hogs and cut the price 10 $125,000,000 Or MOre..,.ccsveecssnsicocsanssncessss $2,5600,000, on light hogs to encourage the filling 100,000,000 to 125,000,000..cc0eeses 1,012,500,000 out, L. A. STANLEY. 14 - 75,000,000 to 100,000,000.....ccccvuecccccsccs 1,325,000,000 g g 34 50,000,000 to 75,000,000, .c0cc00cessasciasaccencas 2,125,000,000 37,500,000 to 50,000,000.....0c000000000asvssessss 1,837,600,000 ; 97 25,000,000 to 37,500,000...c000c0000cssccascsceses 3,081,250,000 i S m | 22,490 1,000,000 to 25,000,000, cccc00ceccacccccccans 56,225,000,0‘00 FOSTER” TANNING lirme $65,056,850,000 SINCE. 1880 Have us Tan " Your Hide And you will be delighted with the fine robe or coat you can have at < &mall cost. We specilalize In | Robes. Ourtenningls wind, wa- ter and moth-proof—leaves hide strong, soft and beautiful, In making robes and coats only best materials and expert work- manship gre used. Sartsfaction guaraniced. We are Oldest and Largest Custom Tanners for Northwestern Farmers. Send By comparing ‘the total wealth of the millionaires with the total for the . country, we see that 22,696 persons, or less than one-fiftieth of one per cent, possessed in the year mentioned more than one-fourth of our total wealth. Surprising as these figures may seem, however, the real facts are %‘Xi‘gfi:’:{'{,’,‘.‘.&‘w FuRs much 'stronger. These figures are =’ ol et onramh athiepest | taken from the income tax reports, and | represent consequently only income- producing property. The millionaires FOSTER ROBE & TANNING CO., 1607 Sth 8t. 8. £., Minneapolls, Minn, HE GRAY TRACTOR has, from the start, been built upon the assumption that farmers were demanding tractors that could be depended upon month after month, year after year, and that they were willing to pay the price necessary to build such tractors. A serviceeble tractor of four plow capacity cannot be built cheaply. than inferior grades, stock, good machinery all cost more Many tractor manufacturers have tried it and failed. seed, good but in the e;d they produce bigger profits. Every Gray owner testifies to the better and more economical work he is now able to do and to the satisfactory dividends his investment in this tractor has produced. " Wide Drive Drum Puts the Gray in a Class by Itself plicity, and wider usefulness. ’ i ilt like th . Th tructi ecessary to accommodate the Wide Drive Drum serves two pumuu—grd&g sim- e el R Teheg;a :re noes;%’l:see t%-‘l))?'e:k, or ficome clogged in wet soil. No differential is required, and the transmission uses but six gears—all spur type. No bevel gears are used. GRAY TRACTOR CO., Inc., 289 0th Awe. S. E, Misneapols, Minnisota ‘The Drum tracks just inside the front wheels, so a strip of soil seventy inches wide is rolled at_every trip of the Gray across the field and it leaves 'no ruts or wheel tracks even in soft soil. At plowing it crushes vegetation, so that it is turned under and covered by the furrows. The seat and steering wheel, with all control.mechanism, is located at the right rear corner of the tractor. A wide running board across the rear, above the_drawbnr, is a great convenience. A self steering device which steers perfectly at plowing is part of the regular equipment. Gray side arms are an exclusive feature. Greatly increase the day’s work. These arms are i bed aration and at seeding, they quickly removed when not required. At seed e::‘l!:ll)e f\fldl A hol! hg:fi‘ tfic?}"; e ith spec es, whic 18 ey e e Lot Dalt L are close to and easily controlled by Weight 6200 the operator, No special imple- Write for complete details, ments' are required. Four operation in one—Disking, Rolling, - Plowing, Harrowing. Total wealth of America .....cecoeeveccenscascansenseessssss$250,000,000,000 Population of the United States .. veeereviececenetesenenanens Proportion of millionaires ....cceeveeeeeccscnoesacacensnnns Average wealth of millionaires «..cvecsevesesiecercecssncnee 106,000,000 1 in 4,626 $3,000,000 own vast amounts of monproductive property, such as land, forests and mines held for speculation. . Again these figures are nearly two years old. If we can judge by continued profiteer- ing of the past year, for instance, we could hardly place the number of mil- lionaires now as less than 80,000, and their share of the wealth as-about a third rather than a fourth of the total. The one crop that never fails and can not fail so long as the common people do not assert their political power, is this millionaire crop. They are a crop of weeds -that we can not raise and have much for ourselves at the same time. FARMERS MUST STAY HOME A subcommittee appointed by the National Board of Farm Organizations to study farmer reconstruction has been denied passports to Europe. Fortunately, however, the state de- partment does not leave us in the dark as to reasons. The Council of Nation- al Defense and the department of agriculture are-looking after all re- construction matters so that all the farmers need to do is to stay at home and slop hogs or carry on the other duties incidental to farm operation. Here is the significant paragraph from the letter received on October 10: “This department is informed by the secretary of agriculture that the Coun- cil of National Defense is the only body which has been charged by the struction and of discovering what di- rection efforts should take to this end. Furthermore, the department of agri- culture has recently sent abroad a competent commission for the purpose of investigating ‘the agricultural prob- lems connected with reconstruction. This commission is now abroad, and is in touch with the various goverhments and agricultural interests of the coun- tries of Europe. - It would not appear;, therefore, that your proposed trip is of such urgent necessity as to warrant the issuance of passports at this time, and I am obliged to inform you that this department does not deem it s;?'?er to issue passports as request- The national board made a strong reply to this letter, reminding the state department, among other things, that passports had- been issued to enable commercial and other organiza- tions to secure unofficial information of value to them. Up to November 18 no further reply from the state de- department evidently considered the incident as closed. The farmers should note, too, whose fine Italian hand was working against the organized farm- ers in this case—none other than “their” secretary of agriculture, - triotism, and all the other isms by enough to be Lumanely: disposed are strucnée ~of all the destroyers.— : E BERNARD SHAW. president with the problems of recon- - partment had been received, and the - * Man, inventor—of. justice, duty, pa- . which even those who are clever ' persuaded to become the most ‘de-'