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"ift is a A- -L PRODUCERS O DISCUSS SALES AGENC AUG. 4 jSt. Paul Conference to Map Out Course In Case U. S. Grain Growers Is Unable to Act The farmers' elevators of Minnesota liave been asked to send representa tives to a co-operative marketing con ference in the Old Capitol, St. Paul, at 9:30 a. m. Friday, Aug. 4, to dis uss plans for handling the present gram crop co-operatively, in case the U. S. Grain Growers, Inc., is unable to function. The call for the conference was sent out by J. F. Reed, president of tine*.. Minnesota Farm Bureau Federa tion. In 700 letters to officers of co operative elevators, he urged that representatives of the elevators, and all "farmer friends of co-operative grain marketing" attend the.confer ence, "to determine whether arrange ments cannot be made to market the present crop co-operatively even if the U. S. Grain Growers is not able to establish a sales agency "in time to handle it." There is no intention of conflicting with the work of the U. S. Cfrain Growers in- any way, the call says. At the last meeting of the execu tive board of the Minnesota Farm Bureau Federation, a committee of three was appointed to investigate the possibilities of co-operative handlin of the present crop, in the event that the U. S: Grain Growers, Inc., doqs not furnish this service. This com mittee consists. of Mr. Reed, Thomas E. Cashman of Owatonna and J. D. Pyle of Madison. LABOR DEMAN NEAR NORMA Farm Bureau Survey Shows Farmers Are Paying From $2.40 to $2.75 a Day Farm labor demand in Minnesota is normal, according to F. L. French, secretary of the Minnesota Farm Bu reau federation, who has just com pleted an exhaustive survey. In sev enty-five per cent of the counties, Mr. French says, farmers are having no more trouble than usual in getting hands. In 25 per cent, mostly in the Red River Valley, there appears to be a shortage, due to the fact that har vest is under way. The survey shows the following av erage wage for various kinds of work: General, by the day $ 2.40 Haying, by the day 2.60 Shocking, by the day 1 2.70 Threshing, by the day 2.75 General, by the month ___- 46.50 General, 8 months basis 38.50 These wage scales, according to Mr. French, as a rule, include board, room and washing. Farmers now are paying approxi mately 8 per cent more for all kinds of labor than they were a year ago. WHY DON'T FARMERS STRIKE (Editorial by Tergiverous Tim in. the Northfield News.) When the farmer comes in from, his daily toil and sits himself down in his old arm chair and lights his corn cob pipe that is full of "Old Tom" or "Pride of the Cabbage Patch" and Tpicks up his daily paper and readb, "Miners out on Strike," "Printers on Strike," "Railway Workers Voting to Walk Out," he wonders what is ail ing the fellows who are working eight liours a day for twice as much pay as he is "receiving for fourteen hours. But he puts his paper away and goes to bed and gets up the next morning at five just as usual and while the -eight hour fellow is still slumbering, Jie wends his way out to the field to put in another long day. Has' he ever had it in his head to strike?no, never he plods on and on while others are speculating on what his crops will be and how much they will make out of.^he efforts of his toil. He works and works that "we who live in the ~city may have enough for the winter's supply. Prices may be low., yes, so low that he does not even receive one half the .compen sation of the artisan in town but does he stop and throw up the sponge? No, never. But why shouldn't he strike? Why should he be satisfied with a half loaf while others are getting a full one? Just what would happen should he and his fellow farmers get upy their hind.legs some morning until we say: "We'll stop producing until we get a living wage, or better yet, a saving wage." Would not the wheels of industry stop turning on their axles and would not the people of all cities begin to suffer untold misery and want? Why don't some Of the fellows who are clamoring for eight hours and more pay, consider the hours of the farmer and the part he is playing to Tight things up that have gone wrong and take their medicine from the same -jspoon that he is drinking from? "i What would the price of bread be if the farmer went on an eight hour shift tomorrow? What would the price of milk and butter be if the farmer went on an eight hour shift and had to keep two crews to, care for his cattle at regular hours? ~',hi And yet some folks would have" uV believe that a Farmer-Labor propo sition Is the one that farmers should tie -to. Wouldn't that make a beauti ful spectacle for a double team? Mr. i Farmer all harnessed up with Mr. ^iAborer.^'When noontime came ,'the driver snapped the whip M^. Farmer v^ij would,jtill be. on the team and beside ^"|^Wm would be-a fresh horse in the *^\L*fc?#liape o* an eight hour man to trot Jfth-e next half ^^^f^^t^ Mr lllllimill!llllil!iiI!iill!llll!llllllll!IIIIIIIIII]I!lllllllil HllillHH RURAL ACTIVITIES A ND NEWS OF INTEREST TO THE FARMER on dayhitchew Ho $57,000 PROFIT IN SIX MONTH S J* Farmers' Co-operative Sales Agency Sets Aside Big Surplus For Livestock Shippers By Farm'Bureau News Service Profits amounting to more than $57,- 000 have been set aside by the Central Co-operative Commission. association in the first'six months of 1922, to be returned to patrons the form of patronage dividends. In the first five months of its op erations, ending Dec. 31, 1921, the farmers' terminal marketing agency accumulated profits amounting to more than $22,000. This surplus was re turned to the livestock producers early this year. The total, savings realized by farmers through dividends and sur plus laid aside by the Central amount to $79,000, although the organization has been in operation less than a year. Lower commission rates charged by the Central for handling livestock, it is estimated, saved farmers $19,000 in the last five months of 1921. In the first half of 1922, these savings have been increased by another $16,000. Profits and savings fn reduced com mission charges do not represent all the direct cash benefits of co-opera tive, action on the terminal livestock market, according to J. S. Montgom ery, general manager. Livestock val ued at several hundred thousand dol lars has been handled though the as sociation's stocker and, feeder service at actual cost, saving the producer thousands of dollars in commissions and other expenses, he said. RATES ON FUEL WOO LOWERED Temporary Order by State Commission Issued to Supply Farmers With Better Market By Farm Bureau News Service. Orders lowering the freight rate on fuel wood approximately 20 per cent were issued last week by the Minne sota Railroad and Warehouse commis sion. The order is temporary, effec tive August 1 to April 1. Its immedi ate purpose is to give farmers a bet ter market for cord wood and to serve the larger cities in the event the fuel shortage becomes more desperate. The Interstate Commerce Commis sion several weeks ago issued a gen eral order reducing cord wood rates 10 per cent. (This gave* farmers of western" Wisconsin an advantage in putting wood on the Twin Cities mar ket, due to the fact that sections of that state where wood is cut are closer to the market than those in Minne sota: The Minnesota reduction serves to equalize this situation. On shipments moving 250 miles, the rate has been reduced from 11 to 9 cents on 200-mile shipments, 9%. tor 8 cents on 50-inile* shipments, o1 Longer Life. Lower Price *&-: *r ^4*I!Bulck rHi 'J longthis? a would ftrmer^stand like "INDUSTRIAL TRAINING" %$& 3*'%-* NB W to 4y2 cents. The railroads, of course, have an opportunity to contest the order, but in view of coal shortage, such action is not expected, especially as the or der is temporary. BUTTER TESTS SHOW UNNECESSARY LOSSES Every one per cent of butterfat above the legal standard of 80 per cenf put into Minnesota creamery butter means an annual loss of nearly $500,- 000 to cream producers of the state, says Prof. J. R. Keithley, of the di vision of dairy husbandry at Universi ty Farm. Professor Keithley has un dertaken-a cooperative butter analysis project with the state dairy and food coinmission for determining the com position of butter from 800 Minnesota creameries. Some preliminary work with 26 creameries of the state indicates this loss runs from $200 to $7,000 a yonr per creamery. Tests taken on 350 samples to date indicate a fat com position, varying from 71.2 to 85 25 per cent. By special arrangement with the dairy and food commission, the" dairy division during this study, expects to obtain more than 2,000 three-ounce samples of butter from 800 creameries which send exhibits of their product to the educational butter contest con ducted by the state commission. Each sample is tested for moisture, fat. curd, salt and color. COURS E AT "I Gradual replacement of the present system of manual training in Minne sota high schools with a broader, more inclusive "industrial" training better suited to the needs of everyday life is predicted' by .A. Mr Field, assistant professor of agricultural' education, who with Dr. A. V. Storm, chief, of the division of agricultural education, Prof. William Boss, chief, of the divi sion of agricultural engineering, and Paul Calrow, state supervisor of agri cultural education, has started new course in farm shop work given for the first' time this summer to pros pective teachers enrolled in the sum mer session at' University Farm. An unusually large registration indicated the popularity of the new course. So great is vthe demand throughout the state for this -new type of instruction, says Professor Field, that less than 5 jPer cent of the requests for men train ed in this work can be filled. Rope work, soldering, sheet metal work, har ness repairing, electric wiring, tool sharpening and general repairing are subjects especially emphasized in the new course. RURAL CREDITS a DRIVE STAliTED Farm Organization's -Committee Urge Adoption of Amendment to State Constitution ered to First steps. in an intensified cam paign to obtain favorable action on the.' rural* credits amendment to the' constitution that is to be submitted to Minnesota voters this fall,, were taken last week. ^Representatives of all co-operative organizations in the state, meeting at the headquarters of the Minnesota Farm Bureau Federa tion, named a committee of three to take full charge. J.' F. Reed,*, president, of-the Farm Bureau federation, Harry Edmunds, general manager of the Farmers' Ter minal Packing company and C. P. Crandall, president of the Central Co operative Commission Association, con stitutetothe., committee. It empow- -rais needed fundis and to have direct charge of all educational work that will be required. A tremendous task "faces the com mittee,-as the law-.under' which the amendment is to be submitted requires that a majority of all votes cast be favorable. Thus, failure to vote will be the same as voting against it. The amendment is, merely an en abling act wTiich will empower the leg islature to pass a law stipulating the exact manner' in which -the state's credit shall be used to supply farm ers with long 'time loans, to .be repaid on an amortization plan. A REAL BARGAIN! We have a feW manure spreaders that is set up and used for Demon stration at the County Fair. Call in and pick out one of them oh your OYm terms.Lundgren, Wittensten & Co, "Why I Put Up With Ratsr Years," Writes N. Windsor, Farmer, "Years ago^X' bought somejrat poison, which nearly killed our fine watch dog. It so scared us that we suffered a long time with rats until my neigh bor told me about RAT-SNAP. That's the sure rat killer and a safe one." Three sizes, 3oc, 65c,'$1.25. Sold and guaranteed by Warren Pharmacy'and Peoples Trading Co. Subscribe for the Warren Sheaf. RATTONAIS ^ATTERIES 'The Battery!^ D-4 5 JWorldX^ostyDurable $17.75 ke'^Chevrolet -I- 17.75 & BW3W*fli 19.86 mm sfcTrad&in^Prices PEONY ROOTS Order at once for fall planting.. Strong healthy Plants, Red 75c: white 75c Pink 50c Mixed 60c each. Cultural directions FREE. Remit with order. Peter Voiss, Florist & Gardner' 1315 Walnut St. Grand Forks, N. D. For YOUR Health's Sake DRINK CHIPPEWA The ^purest and softest spring wa'ter in the world. Relief from chronic cases of con stipation, kidney trouble, neu ritis and other bodily ills. Dealers WantedWrite CHIPPEWA SPRING CORP., |177 N. Colfax Ave, Minneapolis sj The New Low Price for" Gen uine NATIONAL' BATTERIES Guarantees' .12 Months' .._ tudebaker ^c $19$6 Buicir 20-21 i 19.85 DoOge,^.....^^.: 2**0, Profit By Buying Now. -For Sale By FARMERS PLAN i HALLY AT FAIR 3*. 'K* 9* Thursday, Sept. 7, Official Farm Bu- T, reau DayCovertKle and Peeki3f. Speakers. -T ^Thursday, September 7, has "been officially designated as Farm Bureau day at the Minnesota State Fair. A special Farm Bureau program will be held in the Livestock Pavillion from 11 A. M. until 2 P.- M. Arrangements have been made to avoid conflict with any important events in which,pro ducers will be interested. J. W. Coverdale, secretary of the American Farm Bureau federation ana F. W. Peck, chief of the Extension division of the Minnesota College of Agriculture, will speak. After the program in ttie pavillion, directors from all counties represented will meet, in a business session. This, is the third annual rally the Farm Bureau has held as a part of the State Fair program. ^r i|JFARM SCHOOL INVITES YOIJ Now is theVtime to visit the" school and to see the many agricultural pro jects and experiments carried on there. A--personal invitation is extended to visit the Northwest experiment sta tion and school of agriculture at 0ooks.tori^|bis summer during- the growing stS&On. A number of farm cfli?bs have accepted the invitation, and have found the trip well worth while. The month of July is best suited for such a visit and any., date will be acceptable to the station staff, accord ing to an announcement by Supt. G. G. Selvig. Those intending to come should select a date and notify: him as early as possible. There are so many projects and ex periments'being carried on there ttmt there is almostf^no limit to the time each club could spend at the station. This will have to be decided, by -each organization and. plans be made for as :much_ time as "possible. The club should bring picnic lunch for either dinner or supper or both. The clubs that have come, so far have reached the station abou two o'clock. One club brought a baseball team -with-:them and a team was organized to play against them. If the club members wish -to spend a brief per iod for recreation after the tour of the station, the station staff wiH .be pleased to assist in getting up a sports program. The experiments being carried on Valley National Farm Loan Association Farm Loans madg through The Federal Land Bank ^of St. Paul, Minn. AUG. A. JOHNSON Warren National Bank Secretary-Treasurer Warren, Minnesota l i i &! 35 sac$ nFFPn'Tiv/c DAriF Can Buy TheUSCO W&fkmm You Buylb-day is aNew-aBetter-aHeavier USCO at the$l09 Thice with NoTax added AST Fall at the $10.90 price it seemed to motorists as if the 30 3J/2 Ifr^: are showing1 up very well. They pre-1 sent valuable truth. 'The best way to study the results is actually to see them and make the comparisons as the crops are growing. The grounds are beautiful and are ideal for a pic nic. A trip such as is suggested will be very interesting to any club, town ship or -farm bureau unit. All that is, nee'ded is to set a date anC accept the invitation for. this vfeit. We can fill order promptly just now on fch Ford one-ton truck. Price f. o. b. Warren $513.00.W. F. Powell & Co. Cause of Appendicitis. When the bowels the lower bowels or-largerconstipated,intestineear ^become packed with refuse matter, that is made up largely of germs. These germs enter the vermiform ap pendix and set up inflammation, which is commonly known as appendicitis. Take Chamberlain's Tablets when needed and keep your bowels regular and you haVe little,to fear from ap pendicitis. For sale at Warren Phar macy. Cold in the Head" It an acute attack of Nasal. Catarrh. Those subject to frequent "colds in the head" will find that the use of HALI/S CATARRH MEDICINE will build up the System, cleanse the Blood and reader them less liable to colds. Repeated at tacks of Acute Catarrh may lead to Chronic Catarrh. HALL'S CATARRH MEDICINE is taken internally and acts through the Blood on the Mucous Surfaces of the Sys tem, thus reducing the inflammation nd restoring normal conditions. 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