The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, April 28, 1919, Page 10

if i i £ “Besides BeaEocs ana .harrowing an drilling, I do all sorts of belt work with my A2work.” WM. DONEWITZ, Lyons, Kan, ADVERTISEMENTS For All-Year ’Round Farm Work The “Allwork’’ Trac- tor is built for all around work in any season of the year. Powerful for heavy plowing— light-enough to - get out on wet land in early spring or on a soft seed bed for harrowing and seeding; plenty of power for belt work. Here is the practical light-weight, high-power farm tractor., Guaranteed to burn erosene success- fully., Free from freakish features; runs on four wheels; tractor. no bevel gears. This assures carries the largest 4-cylinder engine we know of on any 3-plow It sets crosswise on the frame, thus giving direct spur gear drive; 10 to 15 Per Cent More Power at Drawbar Will run an 18-inch silage cutter and 28-inch separator; does all kinds of belt work, and pulls an 8-foot road grader with ease. Write for 1919 Catalog ' G It shows the 4/fawork doing all kinds of field and belt work; Electric Wheel Company [ FRE >'EN'E Box 3304, Quincy, Ilinois ok, TRATCTFIOMRYS 2 YEARS OF TRACTOR EXPERIENCE GOOD HOLSTEINS FOR A BETTER TOMORROW Better Dairy Cattle—Better Farming—Better A Better Tomorrow - lseturns— We offer some very choice animals of both sexes, backed by large official records and our 2 reputation. 3 PAYNESVI%E STOCK FARM, Paynesville, Minn, T HOME OF GOOD HOLSTEINS Lightning Book FREE A Post Card Will Bring - It—Write Today / Tells fh g s 7 is, t:cthl{l Iit “Eik“' and how u‘:; /| rof 'e and propert; ngdna l% y l‘: Lightn% pdutroyl;d more % wort! than $3,000, h of farm Pproj last !yenr—kmed hundreds of people and val- uable animals! - Burnett Pure Copper Cable Lirhtnin Rods would have saved them. Sample of cable free. us tell you how we can cut your insurance rates 10 to 20 per cent! AGENTS WANTED. Remarkable offer for high grade men. Builld your own business through an old reliable concern. We won’t allow you to fail} JOS. H. BARNETT & CO., Cedar Rapids, lowa ety o e e na:alfiellincer m-r'l.y..' Harvesting hay theJayhawk means_time, men and hawk Stack- make it 7. WYATT MFG. CO. 522 . 56 5T., SALINA, KARS. BIG TYPE POLAND CHINAS FOR SALE NOW One herd boar, two years old; 10 extra good fall (1918) boars ready for service. Booking orders for spring pigs at weaning time. Best and biggest breeding; lots of quality, with heaviest bones. -The kind you are looking for. Write me. C. F. GUMMERT, Renville, Minn. Ploneer breeder in the'lfut_e, Mention the Leader “Would Sell Fuel Wood by Weight . Wood for fuel should be sold by weight instead of by cord measure, for the heating value depends not upon the bulk of the wood but upon its weight, say foresters of the United States department of agriculture in Bulletin 7563, recently published. A pound of dry wood of one species has about as much heating value as a pound of any other species, but two cords may vary 100 per cent in their value for heating. It is the custom to sell hard woods, and soft woods at slightly different prices because of differences in heat- ing values. This is only a superficial classification, however, as two species of hard woods may have heating val- ues widely different. Where hard woods and soft woods are mixed to- gether without regard to the propor- tion of each, the values may be so dif- ferent that one man may, for the same money, buy twice as much heat- ing value as another. The shape and size of the sticks may also cause great variation in the actual amount of wood substance, and therefore of fuel. If weight were the measure, the species, shape and size of sticks would make little difference, provided the wood were thoroughly seasoned. It would be necessary, however, to fix certain standards as to time of seasoning of wood, the specialists say.—UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRI- CULTURE. FARMER’'S WAR LESSONS Citrusgrove, Texas. Editor Nonpartisan Leader: Although I am not a member of the League I intend to be in the near fu- ture. I inclose a ¢lipping from. the Dallas News giving an article by its Washington correspondent. Please read and comment on it through the Leader. Yours for good government and the best interests of the farmers and city workers. . A. L. BROWN. The article Mr. Brown sends is on “Some Things the Farmer Has Learn- ed From the War.” Evidently what the farmer has learned is how he has been misrepresented by the old-line politicians. The vicious profiteering, unfair taxation, denial of personal liberty and freedom, and the failure to fix prices on what the farmer had to buy as well as on his wheat—all these things have opened the farmer’s eyes and shown him the importance of political organization. As the article points out, the Washington politicians are worried as to what the farmer jis going to do. Most of them have rec- ords which can not be explained. ANSWERS LEAGUE DEFAMERS ° Plentywood, Mont. Editor Nonpartisan Leader: I am inclosing a copy of a letter that I sent to the North Dakota State Journal. AsIam an American who has _done service in defense of his country in the war with Spain, and the son of a man who fought with the Union army from ’61 to ’65, I believe I can lay claim to being an American even if I do not belong to the Montana Loy- alty league. : JOHN R. SWIGER. In his letter to the North Dakota - State Journal Mr. Swiger requests that the editor of the paper transfer his subscription to the kaiser. POTATO CULTURE .~ Potato culture is the subject of cir- cular No. 22, just issued by the ex- tension division, North Dakota Agri- cultural college. ration of the soil, selection, treating and cutting the seed, planting, spray- ing for bugs and = b . PAGE TEN “advising other farmers to do? It takes up prepa-- blight, and har- ABOUT “I & R.” ; Any Nonpartisan Leader read- er interested in the initiative and referendum, which is one of the plans in the Nonpartisan league platform, may secure a free pamphlet dealing with the sub- ject and containing much valu- able information, by - writing Judson King, Executive Secre- tary, National Popular Govern- ment League, 637 Munsey Build- ing, Washington, D. C. The pamphlet is entitled “The State- Wide Initiative and Referendum; What They Are, Where They Are in Use and How They Work.” When You Buy a Tractor BY DATUS C. SMITH Some time ago I sought to show in the Nonpartisan Leader trails of the profiteer in tractor repairs. With the advance in the cost of pig iron (to possibly $30 a ton) alleged as one of the basic reasons, a well-known manu- facturer of farm tractors charged for repair parts last summer—and ~we paid it at Cloverlea Farm—at the rate of no less than $1,000 a ton for plain cast iron bull pinions, and $2,000 a ton for the same pinion of steel, and $10,- 000 for cast iron cylinder rings. At the same time I said there were exceptions—that some makers charged but half what others did for similar repair parts. * I now want to urge this upon every buyer of a farm tractor: - Before you buy, go fully into the prices of the repair parts or extras. Insist upon it and don’t be chicken- hearted about it. You have the right to know. If the agent will not go into it with you—and he generally will— don’t go on with him. Take the price list for repairs and see what the prices are for some of the common repairs. Get the weights "if you can. If not, get the sizes, ac- tual or approximate. A few things will do, though the more the better. : Then compare them withthe prices of similar parts on other makes of trac- “tors, Even your own judgment will serve you pretty well, as in the case of a small cast iron elbow weighing 12 ounces, for which we had last year to pay $1.15. : I may say in passing that I sub- mitted that part to the department of agriculture, then in supposed control -of farm machinery. I told them also the name of the maker. ‘I was advised that such a part ought not to cost the farmer more than 25 cents, but T am not aware that any persuasion was put upon the manufacturer to see it that way. ; No man can possibly make too much of this question of the prices for tractor repairs, as he may see when he reflects that during the life of the engine he is'likely to pay as much for the repair parts alone as the entire ..original cost of the tractor. ‘We of Dakota, many of us, can not do without tractors and get our work done right, and I would not discourage their use, but it may ‘well be borne in mind that plowing engines (at least as they have been made) eat up the repair parts. Why did not we, when buying the tractors, do the thing that I am here cause we were not then “on.” We knew from long expérience with other farm machines that the prices of re- pairs would be high enough, but sup- posed they would be within the range of reason and did not imagine that plowing' engines would lick up the re- pair parts so fast. To be briefer, we Wwere napping a bit that time, but trust We are awake now. | Mention the Leader When Writing Advertisers Be- - i‘ 3 S o e, Y g ey