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1 MbKrib* for the Ward County la dependant—$1.80 pw ymx. YOUR OPPORTUNITY! IRON WANTED We are now paying from $15.00 to $16.00 per ton for country mixed scrap iron. We also buy coppcr, brass, rubbers, rags, and all other Junk at highest market prices. NORTHWESTERN HIDE & FUR COMPANY H. L. GLAZER & CO., Props. Just across street from the Dakotah Hotel Phone 1010 I 31 5 FOR SALE Some Snaps in Real Estate Five Room Bungalow and garage on South Hill, $2,500.00. Lot 50x165 in Warren's Subdivision ofJBlock 14 North Minot, $200.00. All Modern 8-room House with gar age in Eastwood Park, $5,500.00. Fine business location 100x140 with Store and Bungalow, $5,000.00. Good 8 room house, all modern, full basement, well located and close in, $4,000.00. Good residence in Eastwood Park, full basement, furnace heat and elec trict lights. Price $4,000.00. We also have some good building lots near Normal School to sell on easy terms. 160 acre farm south of Minot, $#, 00.00. 160 acres near Tioga, N. D., unim proved, $3,200.00. 320 acre farm 2 miles from Minot, fine buildings, 260 acres crop, 60 acrea pasture with pood spring. Price $66.00 per acre with of crop in cluded. 160 acre farm with 7 room house in South Dakota for sale or trade. Reasonable terms on all the above property. We write Fire, Hail, Tornado and Life Insurance. List your land with us. Thi Minot Underwrites Co. Phone 832 New Ehr Bldg., MINOT, N. D. Are You Prepared Have you made all the necessary arrangements for the harvest? Hou) about tight grain tanks How about grain bins AAiiiiA Is your granary in first-class shape aaaaaaa The conservation of but a small quantity of grain this year means dollar^in your pocket. Short crops make care in this respect all the more necessary ROGERS LUMBER COMPANY Max Johnson, Local Manager TRUTH ABOUT After Allowing 5 Per Cent on Invest ment the Average Income In cluding the Living is $318.12. The following excellent article con cerning the average profits for farm ers, is sent to us by Wesley White of Des Lacs. There is a lot of food for thought in this article as it furnishes plenty of reasons for farmers' organ izations and shows how under prop er management they may become a great factor in proving of untold benefit to the producers: Is farming a business, or is it merely a job? It is time for every farmer to ask himself this question. According to our agricultural colleges our United States department of ag riculture and our farm papers farm ing is not only a business, but it is a business second to none in the coun try and capable of the highest and most efficient organization, and to re turns on the outlay as big as any other business. But according to actual average farm conditions all over the United States and according to cold, unsym pathetic census figures, farming is merely a job where the farmer risks a considerable investment, employs labor and gets less than wages for himself out of it, to say nothing of utterly failing to get anything what ever on the investment. The census of 1910 shows that the 0,631,502 farmers in the United States received $5,487,000,000 for their pro duce on a farm investment amount ing to $40,991,499,090. This means that the average total gross income per farm was only $827.41 that year and t««tiaHoavera?re TO A XT MRO will only have one a TORIO eyes The first care of your eye* LENSES is judgment to take care of them. Our optometrist should be consulted regularly for your eye troubles. He will inform you whether you need Eye Glasses Our toric lenses are ground in our own shop. Any lenses replaced while you wait. H. L. Winters Co. Optometrist farm investment bigger crops. It we could make thei farmers believe that their economic salvation lay in raising more produce, and the majority would raise bigger crops the same year, farm produce would, under peace conditions, become: a drug on the market and would go begging for takers at almost any price. The average farmer would make less money than in years of normal crops. As long as we succeed in persuad-j ing only a few farmers to improve their methods of farming and raise he be it by this appeal and will realize bigger incomes than their neighbors. But this is a business method that can not be applied to all or a majority of the farmers. It defeats its own purposes by causing an overproduction of farm, products. About 7,000,00 farmers arc now supplying the people of the Unit ed States from year to year with all a an an a sorb. This makes an average of $863 worth of farm produce at pre sent prices to the farm. It is useless to -talk about increasing the farmers' income by raising bigger crops until1 we have expanded this market until! it will absorb bigger crops. The first problem of turning farm-j ing into a business is improving the market so it will absorb the maxi mum amount of farm produce. The Importance of the Home Market A great deal has been said about a of or a to a ers. Politicians have held this will o'-the-wisp before farmers' eyes for! more than a generation and have in-1 volved farmers so much in a fight among themselves over tariff and free trade issues, that they have lost the true perspective of markets. The, foreign market question is not im portant. Only 4 per cent of the Am erican farmers' produce is exported 96 per cent is consumed at home. The big question with the farmer is ex- pandTng^the home "market." was $6,1802. 1 We live under a system where the mi Decent Wage majority of the people are never able This $827.41 does not even cover j.0 j,Uy the question of wages for the aver- age farmer, the help he. gets from his family, and "outside" hired help. It £TT?T Ji/VD aj] POC ers- ITI? PITTIMP \TO department of agriculture sums up the general results of the farmer's "business" in a report issued in Au- increase gust, 1917: "The average income of the farm families of the United States, which represents what the farmer gets for his labor _and man- agerial ability, after allowing 5 per cent on the investment, was shown to be, by an intensive investigation by the department of agriculture, $318.12 they want of anything. Un- (|er 0f means system the market whatever the people are able to bu„ 0ur markets doesn touch the question of seeds pan(je^ jn almost any direction by and other raw materials he had to increasing use. It does irot provide for any pe0piet The majority of the people of the United States are wage earn- can be ex- the average income of the These wage earners live in the towns and the cities. They constitute MTO the overwhelming majority of the in habitants of these towns and cities. INVESTMENT. The wage earners are the farmers' This is the way the United States home market, more 20 and their condition is important to the farmers' pros- ity than all our foreign markets, wages in the United States per cent and you have expanded the market for farm products far more than all the foreign markets in the world will ever amount It js to. a g00d business for the farm- er to see a c]ear an(j tj,at for 12 months. This includes what workers that they are his market he received toward his living from the that one of the big farm problems farm and therefore represents the js getting farm products to these con total income of the family." sumers by as short a route and as This means that counting all the cheaply as possible, so that the pro farmer and his family use of their Jucer and the consumer will realize own farm produce, the average farm- the money thus saved. It is good er gets only $318.12 a year and 5 per politics for the farmer to co-operate cent on his investment. The average politically with the city wage earner farm investment is now estimated at to the end that both shall have their j$6,444. Five per cent of this is share in the control of government, $322.20._ This makes the average so that nonproducers may be elimin farm income, according to the ated and market conditions improved department of agriculture, $40.32 for both producers and consumers, per year. This isn't even de- But improving the home market by cent wages for one man, not to men- helping tne people to become better tion pay for help, and interest on in- consumers is only the first step vestment. toward real business farming. The From this we see that farming as main problem is securing equitable it is now conducted in the United prices for what the farmer raises. States is not a business it is not This involves the problem of con even a good job. trol over marketing and price-fixing. Production in War and Peace Must Control the Markets Much is now being said about how We do not realize what a big ques I to make farming a good businfess. tion this is and what enormous prom- Most that is being said is not com- ises it holds out until we begin to prehensive. It does not touch all the compare farming with some other factors involved. In most cases it industry that is actually on a busi does not touch the main ones. Thesei ness basis. According to the 1910 schemes usually concern themselves census, the same year that 6,631,502 wholly with telling the farmer how farmers and their help on a capital to double and treble his crops, or how ization of $40,991,449,090 were pro to properly diversify them. War during an output they sold for $5,487, needs, of course, demand production 000,000, 7,678,578 owners and work above all things, and the farmers are ers in the manufacturing industry em loyally rising to the occasion. But ploying $18,428,270,000 worth of cap after the war, there wall be an effort ital, turned out a product they sold to return to the old inefficient mar- for $20,672,052,000. keting methods. The farmers with their hired help It looks reasonable that if I double outnumbered the manufacturing peo my crops, I will double my income, pie. Farm investments totaled more Just like 2 and 2 are 4. Strange to than twice as much as manufacturing say 2 and 2 are not 4 when it comes investments. The products from the to getting bigger money out of big- farms were worth more to the nation ger crops, as many a farmer has found than the products from the factories, to his sorrow. Bigger crops, in the Yet the manufacturers managed to old days of peace, before price-fix- sell their output for more than four ing, generally meant lower prices and times as much as the farmers sold less money, as any experienced farm- theirs. er will testify. The crux of the farm1 There are three main reasons why problem is not bigger crops but bet- the manufacturers received so much ter control of the market arid better more for a product that was really prices. worth less to the nation: The manu- The only way the farmer co-Id bene-, facturers were organized they main fit by raising bigger crops is when tain a considerable control over the his Neighbors, that is when the ma-!marketing of their own products jority of the farmers, did not raise they devote practically as much at- broad light },js interests are bound up econ- omically with the interests of the town tention to selling their products as they do to manufacturing them. Most of the manufacturers in the United States are organized in the Manufacturers' association. Its mem bers pay duos, send delegates to an nual conventions, determine conditions in their great industry, and take a prominent part in politics and gov ernment. Most of tne manufacturing enterprises of importance are in cluded in some monopoly. Big Business is Organized As a result of this organization, monopoly and attention to marketing the manufacturer realizes a gross re turn of 41 per cent on his investment. The farmer, who is not organizedd, who is a victim of monopoly, and who lias surrendered the marketing of farm products to middlemen monopo lists, after forego ng all wages for himself and family, realizes only 14 per cent interest on his investment. If he received prices corresponding to the manufacturers the average farm income would be $2,(42 a year. It is up to the farmer to take the control of the market out of the hands of the middlemen if he wants to put farming on a business basis. He can do this by using his political pow er to establish the public ownership of the big marketing and finishing facilities such as railroads, elevators, (lour mills, stockyards, packing plants, warehouses, cold storage plants, etc. With the market and the big mar keting facilities under the control of the public, and the farmers and city workers—in other words, the great producing and consuming classes— constituting an overwhelming major ity of the public, market prices and conditions will be determined in the interest of the producers and consum ers. When the great body of pro ducers and consumers through state and the national governments control market conditions, the needless waste of the present system of marketing, entailing the passing of products through so many hands, will be elim inated. The values thus saved will go to the producers and consumers. "More Miles per Gallon "More Miles on Tires" Maxwell Motor Cars 5-Passenger Car I 825 ad 8 2 5 5-Passenger, with All-Weather Top 035 5-Pass. Sedan 1275 6Pass. Town Car 1275 All priecsf.o. b. DetroJt. Dakota Motor Sales Co. DISTRIBUTORS Special N. D. Dealer* Lesmelster Automobile Garage, Harvey. p. A. Wehr, Anamoose. W. A. Sauere'sslg, Drake Dogden Motor Company, Dogden. H. JS. Llndeman. Balfour Velva Supply & Machine Co., Velva. Herman Vonderhaar, Karlsruhe. J. J. Hostetler, Granville S. J. Taylor, Bantry. Walstad & Company, Kenmar*. Tante Brothers, Tolley. R. A. Rasmussen, Palermo. Taute Brothers, Palermo Hartland Hardware Co., Hartland. •Coorenny & Kavelenko Max. JiTi Do This—Why Don't They? ly.'H'-wy* wjniwyw1!1! mmt' 1 5""'Pi TO^»ywsa2«'....' .® I The Permanent Hog No Oiher Building on the Farm Pa ys For Itself So Quickly A CuvcnimciU expert says tliat "Good lit 54 men average about seven pigs raised to the litter. Many do better. But the general average raised 011 the farm docs not exceed four pigs to the litter." This big difference is largely in the housing. The question is not so much a matter of cost as the proper design of a hog house. Many hog houses cost enough to be good, but are entirely unfit because the sun cannot shine into the pens. Sunshine and ventila tion are absolutely necessary. On the other hand, inexpensive houses often give better results than more costly ones becau-e of the better design. 'J'ne desiirn is what counts. Here's Avhere we can help you. COX-EMMERSON LUMBER CO. PHONE 915 otor Cars Can When you set out to select the motor car that will best suit your own particular needs and your purse, you demand as primary requisites, the highest degree of reliability with economy of operation. And every salesman you meet insists his car is that car. If you are informed, as you should be, you are liable to quote some of those Maxwell records—to see what he will say, mostly. He must say something and usually he affects to disbelieve those records. You remind him that they are official —made under the sanction and supervision of A. A. A. officials. Then he insists that his car will do as well or better. Your cue, at this point, is to ask that per fectly fair and most pertinent question, "Then why doesn't your car go out and do it?" We'll tell you why—it can't. Any Maxwell salesman can take you through this car, from motor to rear axle, taking up in turn every unit and comparing design and construction and strengths with any and all other cars of similar size and capacity. And he will show you right there why this Maxwell can, and that rival can't. For it is all there—in the design in the dimensions of parts in the quality of ma terials and in the making. Let him show you. He will take all the time you will give him—and you owe it to yourself to know before you decide. Then when any salesman tries to convince you that you ought to pay $100 or $150 or $200 more for a motor car—ask him to show you one as good as this Maxwell. Insist on proofs—not mere statements. For if a car will do it, surely that fact is susceptible of proof. "Claims are all right, but only proofs count." That is the Maxwell slogan. If you would have the claims and promises of salesmen backed by proofs, and in official form—that car must be a Maxwell.