The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, February 9, 1920, Page 21

Can Landlord and Tenant Be Partners*’l ... (Continued from page 8) a0 ized, also furnishes all necessary ma- chinery, but in practice Doctor Wendt admits that he has often found it bet- ter to go “50-50” with his tenant in the purchase of tractors and other ma- chinery, to make the farm more effi-- cient, and machinery thus purchased, of course, belongs to the partners equally. Under the Wendt contract the party of the first part (tenant) also agrees to board at cost any labor that the party of the second part (landlord) may send to make nnprovements, and to do whatever hauling is necessary. To make up for this, the tenant is allowed a one-acre garden plot outside of the partnership agreement and the usual understanding is that he may -breed his own work stock, chickens, etc., as a private venture, but not to the extent of making the farm a horse farm or a chicken farm. £ Besides these provisions the contract provides that the party of the second part (landlord) is to have a first lien on ‘all partnership property of the party of the first part (tenant) for money loaned to the tenant, either by the landlord or the bank, in behalf of the partnership. In' explaining this clause Doctor Wendt says: “I consider this clause one of the most important in the contract. It brings the financial backing of the landowner to the land worker without danger of loss to the landowner. It might take years for the so-called ten- < ant to stock the farm properly if he depended upon his own credit, but the landowner always has credit and this credit is thus extended to the partner- ship. “This contract I have always re- corded the same as a mortgage. Three Better Business and Better Farming’ (Continued from:page 8) bers of the Nonpartisan league was ~called. It started in the morning and lasted all day.. It was, in the main,' like a church “experience meeting.” Leaguer after Leaguer told what was copies are made, one for each partner and the third to be recorded. It is superior to a mortgage for this reason: —it 'will not hinder operations ‘as will a mortgage, which describes specific property and thus must be released any time a cow or other animal is to be sold and replaced by others. Another item worth mentioning is that where the banker has the signature of the landowner money can usually be borrowed at a better rate of interest.” It “may be ‘explained that the standard Wendt form of contract pro- vides that both sales and purchases of partnership property are to be made only with the consent of both partners. In practice such questions as the kind of stock to be placed on the farm and the like are ordinarily left to the farm worker to settle. It is not claimed that the Wendt contract or any other similar partner- ship- agreement will solve the farm tenancy problem. Doetor Wendt ad- mits that the spirit of mutual helpful-. ness and- trust must prevail between the two “partners” i.t‘ the plan is to work successfully. . The United Stat;es .should work to- ward:the ideal theory of every farmer owning' the farm ‘he operates, and operating the farm he owns. But since we are up against condmons, and not theories, the’ Wendt plan offers much hope for bettering -coriditions, first, by changing the “terms” of the Iease, S0 that the tenant is less likely to be thrown out at the end of a-year; sec- ond, by making the two parties mu- tually dependent upon each other and mutually, interested in improving the farm instead of “skinning” each other, and third by offering the tenant .a means of sharing in the credit facili- ties of the landowmer. ADVERTISEMENTS SOW SALF. JORDAN, MINN., FEB. 18, 1920 The offering includes 6. tried sows, 2 fall gilts, 32 spring gilts. Twenty-five of these are bred to ~ Manipulator, by Liberator, dam Fashion Plate 2nd; 10 to Black Bob, by Young’s Big Bob; and 5 to Jones’ Big Bone. All are double ~ The sale will be held three blocks south of the Minne- apolis & St. Louis depot at Jordan, Minn., Feb. 18, 1920 TELLIER & RILEY, Auctioneers. Mail bids may be sent to Chas. Heikka in my care. E C BEUCH, Prior Lake, Minn. 7> NATION'S BREAD'BASKET More and Better Wheat IS Imman nalme 4 that whenever there is a poor crop of wheal, bt 5 The winter wheat which is now in the ground has an acreage many farmers become of 10,000,000 acres or so less than last year and the danger is that discouraged and say the Norlhwest will do likewise and not put in enough wheat. that they will not grow The winter wheat is not only lower in acreage but the quality is many points wheat again. If your below what it was this time last year. neighbors have a good While there will be no government guaranty for the 1920 crop, yet the world crop this year at a very shortage will insure a good price. The Northwest has not enough wheat on hand h price, what good to keep the mills busy until we can harvest another crop. will that do you if you happening in his own section of the state. Nearly all the stories were the same. As tax statements were being received, the farmers said, the argu- ment of the anti-League element that the state government was responsible. for increased taxes was falling flat, because it could be seen, in practically every instance, that county, township > The danger is that the shortage will be more acute and that bread prices will i and school taxes, over which the have no wheat? be much higher. gl Al League has no control, made up nine- _Nothing can take the place of hard Northern wheat. Other wheats as a rule tenths of the tax increase. The argu- are chaffy and soft and full of starch and need the bread gluten which is in - (-.-.‘ : ment that the League v;as ft’es};))onksxble,, the Northern wheat. it for the presence of “radical” books in R - It is not too late to improve conditions in Sprmg wbeat We must make A ihe state. library %}SO AR prowx;% ;‘ every Northwestern acre count. Our normal quota is about 22,000,000 acres and SR e e we should grow at least 350,000,000 of bushels. = ; £ books ng, this ‘class were The war has left. Europe in bad shape and they will probably not grow nearly . majority of book Lt 2 s O bought, not by the League administra- as much wheat as usual, and it will be the 'duty of the United States to grow not il tion, but by a former librarian who is only enough for our own people but to feed the world. Pren a sister of Judge N. C. Young, rail- road attorney and leader of the North ThiS IS Our Last Chance : Dakota opposition to the League. : : The Leaguers did more than talk The Northwest has always made-good aland ynltl;h‘emilbe found about what the opposition was doing. i P g mantiog. heat by the basis of all value in the Northwest. They made definite plans for their ! g b — 3 ‘ < ; o own campaign. It was the consensus " 5 3 of opinion that most of the increases in local taxes in North Dakota were . made by local politicians with the ex- press purpose of blaming the increase on the League and thus killing the farmers’ administration. ‘While North Dakotans know, now, where this re- sponsibility lies, the Leaguers are not : willing to see local taxes used as po- B litical foothalls in future. : .And so, in practically every section, ; : i e 3 ; : el PAGETWENTYONE Mention tbe Leader When Wrxtmg Adverhsem