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VOLUME XXIII, NUMBER 14.
Farmers Should
Help Creameries
What the Big Interests Have Done
to Kansas Dairy Business in a
Short Time
If it be true that every plant has its
bug and every animal its parasite, it is
also true that every infant industry
htis its treacherous enemy, laying in
wait to exploit it and rob those engaged
in it of their just and reasonable pro
fits, says an exchange.
Reference is had particularly to the
promising young creamery industry of
North Dakota and the menance which
already overshadows it in the shape of
the so-called Centralizers, who are
seeking to rob it of its vitality and ap
propriate to their own nefarious orga
nizations the profits that should properly
accrue to the actual producer on the
farms of the butter fat which consti
tutes the unit of value in estimating
the profit or loss to an Individual or
concern.
These Centralizers are associations of
cream buyers that maintain large plants
In some central city so situated geogra
phically as to have rapid railway com
munication with all parts of a territory
often reaching out with a radius of 500
miles. They solicit cream shipments
from this immense territory, the pro
duct being handled by express, special
long distance rates being often secured
through the operation of the interstate
commerce law, thus overcoming to a
large extent the handicap of distance
which might otherwise protect the
local creamery. Shipments are often
made for 500 miles or more without
refrigeration, and the condition of
cream, after such a journey, in ten
gallon cans which have been sometimes
two weeks in filling, in some warm, fly
infested kitchen, can better be imagined
than described. Only treatment by
lime can make the resulting product
even presentable to the innocent con
sumef. These concerns are backed by
unlimited capital and the wide range of
their operations enables them to outbuy
their local competitors at one point
While reimbursing themselves at another
where they have already secured
monopoly, by lowering the price paid
for butter, fat. The quality of their
product is of but secondary importance
to these operators, just BO long as it is
flashily presentable to the eye and not
absolutely repulsive to the taste.
Monopoly and dividends are their sole
object, and the destruction of an in
dustry but an incident in procuring the
same. .i-:
Opposed to these Centralizers both
in prindple of organization, manner of
operation and ultimate aims, are the
local, co-operative creameries. Con'
cernirig these President W. F. Stege,
of the North Dakota Dairymen's Asso
ciation thus succinctly describes the
system:
"Under the co-operative system the
localcreamery deducts the actual cost
«f operation, and a small sinking fund,
returning the balance to the patrons
pro rata in proportion to the amount of
butter fat delivered.''
Organization is effected by the calling
of a mass meeting wherever four or
tP^five hundred milch cattle are available
|||^l|'§|f!!witliin a reasonable distance' from the
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t' proposed creamery. At this meeting a
temporary organization is formed for
the purpose of soliciting stock, securing
subscriptions and completing thp cow
canvas with a view of organizing and
'building the co-operative creamery.
Thus it will be Men that the matter of
jprofit for the creamery itself isreducec.
to just that point necessary to pay run
ning expenses and deterioration,all
'above thlt being represented in the
price paid the patrons for butter fat.
From 100 pounds of batter fat, when
"property handled, 125 pounds of butter
manufactured, the increase be
ing composed of water, salt and casein.
This overrun^ will more than paythe
-running expense- of the creamery ami
still return to the farmer higher price
"for his butter fat than he could expect
to receive ifhe shipped it to one of the
/•concerosalreadymentioned.
Wh^ihen, it .will be. asked,w:notfthe
^/pocal 'ww^ery ab)e to outbid the Cen
trali*er for the butter fat? The answer
Ms tfcft/'under fair, competitive cop*
^H|d{tioni.th» co-operative creamery' cap
::'|}||o /m but that the Centraiicers, by
|^BMi^ ^dieir largerfield of operatiori,
flow waieM ratal, indifference to
quality of ci^am ,hipped, better bus!
i, are enabled tb ^ter tiie
^ted'ioed fields aqy-tndNdM oor
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not realizing that he is killing the goose
that lays the golden egg, and that he
will later be made to reimburse the
outside buyer by accepting an almost
unremunerative price for his product.
The following quotation from the re
port of the Bureau of Animal Industry
for the year 1907 bears out the truth of
the statements just made, and shows
that wherever monopoly is established.
as little as possible is paid to the pro
ducer:
pound for butter fat, while in Northern
Iowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin and Illi
nois, where co-operative creameries
predominate, the price ranged from 25c
to 26c per pound."
Statistics show that the number of
creameries in Kansas declined from 133
in 1900 to 67 in 1905, while, in Minne
sota, during the same period, there was
an increase of from 582 to 905. In the
latter state farmers were clear-visioned
enough to preceive wherein their true
interests lay, and were not beguiled by
the treacherous methods of the Centra
lizers, who consequently failed to gain
a foothold.
Reports show that, during the month' *nal in the states of the Northwest,
of July, in Kansas and Nebraska, where the aggregate it was doubtless never
a monopoly appeared to be complete, equaled But the conclusion should not
the farmers received only 17c to 19c a be reached that this result is owing to
So far as number of creameries and
condition of the young industry are
concerned, North Dakota is now in
about the same place as was Kansas in
1900, before the Centralizers got in
their deadly work. Montana has al
ready been .captured by the large
interests and an organized attack is
now being made upon the industry in
this state. What are the farmers going
to do about it? Are they going to slay
the splendid and assured promise of the
future for all time for the sake of a
few cents profit which all experience
says can not be maintained? Or will
they rally in their own defense, reject
the insidious advances of scheming out
siders, stand loyally behind their own
co-operative organizations, and insist
upon managing their own affairs to
their own ultimate profit and the en
richment of their own neighborhood
and state?
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Donating Newspaper Space
The Milwaukee Free Press .publishes
the following editorial concerning the
giving away of newspaper space, and
it just about coincides with the situa
tion in a good many towns and cities
besides Milwaukee. The Free Press
says:
Advertising publicity is what a news
paper has to sell. It is as much a
commodity marked with a price as the
wares in a dry goods store. Yet thous
ands of citizens who would not think of
asking a merchant to give them
much as a necktie have no compunc
tion in asking that an advertisement be
given them by a newspaper. The
thought does not even enter theii heads
that every inch of space so given, in
addition to providing them with the
most valuable kind of service, actually
costs the newspaper in editorial labor,
in composition in metal, in ink in
stereotyping, in printing, etc., a very
definite sum of money.
The Free Press, like every other
Milwaukee paper, is liberal in giving of
its space to further the cause of phi
lanthropic, public and other institutions,
enterprises and causes where the object
is non-commercial and conductive to
the public welfare).
In return it expects only apprecia
tion—appreciation of the fact that the
press is giving its most costly commo
dity, a service so valuable that the
beneficiaries could not afford to buy it
and without which
rth?hr
institution,
enterprise or cause could not exist, a
Mrvice which is always made at a
sacrifice to the news columns and at an
actual expense.
It expects recognition of the fact
that while halls, theaters and other
I^^b^.^ri^and ,If
other service enlisted in these causes
demand compensation with but few ex
ceptions, it is the newspaper that gives
its wares free for the sake of public
good.
Yet in the vast majority of cases:
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for granted and the paper's liberality,
abused. That which is purely a fayor
is accepted as a matter of course, and
what would b$ requMts are couched as
demands.
.: When ,the courtesy has been per
form^' there is rarely appreciation,
and more often dissatisfaction—gen
MV S|M dqpbt »t XHnftt,
In thMe-ntiia, ^inticb of "their grain' they will not be
orsia the PW. bwtPW# able tobandle their land a* outlined for
WASHBURN, NORTH DAKOTA, SEPTEMBER 27, 1912.
Save All Surplus
Water This Fall
Nearly an Inch of Rain Fell in Two
Days Last Week—Rainfall
Heavy this Fall
By Prof. Thos. Shaw.
The crop of 1912 is simply phenom-
the high class character of the farm-
ing. With the same rainfall as in 1910
the results would be little if any im
provement on the crop of that year.
The bumper crop of the present is ow
ing almost entirely to the unusual rain
fall of the present season and to the
timeliness with which it fell. This rain
fall, unusual in the length of its contin
uance, has not only given the farmer
the bumper crop refered to, but it will
also give him at least a reasonable crop
in 1913 if it is properly conserved, even
though the season should be a dry. one.
How shall this moisture be conserved?
First by discing the stubbles second by
plowing later in the season third, by
stirring the soil in the early, spring
with disc or harrow or both, and fourth
by harrowing the grain once or after it
has begun to grow.
In an exceedingly dry year discing
the stubbles after harvest may not ac
complish much by way of conserving
moisture, but it will open up the dry
soil so that rain may penetrate it more
easily should it fall. But in a year like
the present there is much moisture
even in stubble land. It is greatly im
portant that it shall be conserved. As
soon, therefore, as the crop is removed
the stubble land should be well disced.
If the harrow can follow the operation
will be more complete, but this is not
absolutely essential. The discing will
exert a very potent influence on the re:
tention of moisture. It also allows
moisture that may fall subsequently to
the discing to penetrate more deeply
than it otherwise would.
The land that is thus disced should
be plowed later in the fall. Some
farmers argue that stubble land should
not be plowed or even disced in the fall,
since the undisturbed stubbles may
better hold the snow, but the prepond
erance of argument is easily in favor
of autumn plowing. The land that has
been disced is easily plowed and the
same power will plow it more deeply
than if- it had not been disced. It is
not so essential to plow disced land in
the fall if, stubble land thus disced cannot
be plowed in the fall, the plowing of
what is intended for corn can best be
deferred. Much haB been written
about packing fall plowed land, but it
is not very often that lands plowed in
the autumn require to be packed.
Stirring the soil in the early spring
with disc or harrow or both as occasion
may call for, is but little practised. It
is, nevertheless of great moment and
should be dotae as soon as the ground
can be stirred thus without injury to
its mechanical condition. It stays at
once the loss of moisture from the soil,
at least for a time. Even though the crops
are to be planted late as in the case of
alfalfa, this stirring of the soil is very
important. Of course it can only be
done on summer-fallowed land or corn
or potato land of the previous year, or
on land that had been autumn plowed.
When grain has been sown on land
thus prepared, the moisture may be
further held by harrowing the.grain.
The best stage for the first harrowing
iB when, the grain is just beginning to
appear. 'The best implement for har
rowing it, all things considered, is a
light adjustable Steele harrow. The
teeth should be slanted backward* with
some'few exceptions. But aweeder
a a
a8eCond
harrowing isgiven
the grain should be, say 4 or 5 inches
high at the time, so that none of
it will be buried.. Even flax and alfalfa
may be harrowed, but not when they
are coming up. If they are harrowed
.. lit should be when they are several in-
fi table when many sods or much trash
is on the land.
If the. farmen of the Northwest will
but handle their lands thus they will
be assured of at least fairly good crops
next season, but if they give no atten
tions to these methods of cultivation
much moisture will be lost If a very
'dry year follows the oop will then fail.
uhfbtu^te not
Three tin*** •#ejb season adefrrroina.
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tion of the moisture content of the soil
on every plot of each of the state dem
onstration farms is made to a depth of
three feet. The first determination of
season is made in May before the crop
has taken much of the soil moisture.
The second determination is made just
before the crop is harvested in late
July or early August. This year there
was a moisture content equal to 17.32
per cent of the soil weight. The larg
est of any season since this work was
begun in the season of 1966. The soil
at
The second determination in 1906 con
tained 12.25 per cent water.
The second determination in 1907 con
tained 14.14 per cent water.
The second determination in 1908 con
tained 13.98 per cent water.
The second determination in 1909 con
tained 15.51 per cent water.
The second determination in 1910 con
tained 12.57 per cent water.
The second determination in 1911 con
tained 16.08 per cent water.
This year there was over sixty tons
more water in the upper three feet of
soil at the harvest determination than
in any season since the demonstration
farms were started in 1906. The rains
of August have been above normal con
sequently the soil moisture has not
been depleted much. What is true of
the moisture content of the soil on the
demonstration farms is probably true
of most of the farms of the state. This
makes the plowing easy. Early plow
ing will conserve much of this water
for next years's crop. This extra wa
ter stored in the soil may take the
crop over a very hot period next sum
mer. By plowing early and well the
soil water, so. saved, may make the
difference between a profitable and an
unprofitable crop next year. The soil
has moisture now. Save it for the crit
cal period in 1913.
The Dear Women
The St. Louis Globe-Democrat said:
Idaho is one of the six states in which
women have the same privilege as men
at the polls. They vote for all elective
officers, from alderman to presidential
electors. The republican women of
that state, angered at the wrangles be
tween the male republicans, democrats
and progressives, are to nominate a
state ticket of their own, and promise
to give the male tickets of all the poli
tical sects the fight of their lives. They
expect to get practically the entire
woman vote of the state, irrespective
of its previous partisan divisions.
This development of the feminist
movement was not expected. One of
the arguments which used to be made
against woman suffrage was that the
women would be controlled by the male
members of their households, and that
the granting of the ballot to them
would leave the parties as they are
now, as regards relative strength.
Another argument was that the intro
duction of women into the political are
na-would-give politics an emotional and
violent phase such' as it has not had
ordinarilly during the male ascendency.
But this Idaho new departure seems
to indicate that both those points are
wrong. Women not only have minds
of their own, but they give their atten
tion to serious things and are opposed
to all wrangles over the smaller issues.
The old cant of politics, "measures,
and not men," seems to be taken liter
ally by the women of Idaho. The next
movement, however, in which the wo
men of that state cut loose altogether
from men, is understood to be confined
to state politics. On the question of
the presidency they will divide accord
ing to previous partisan predilections.
TH.hn has had equal suffrage for six
in years, and therefore the women
there know a ballot box when they see
it As they have been voting ever
since the first Bryan campaign, they
may be presumed to know the game
from the inside. That little state will
hardly get much attention from the
national committees of any of the part
ies, but its experiment in the drawing
of a sex line by women in state politics
will be watched with some interest by
the country. V.
I Real Estate Transfers
Thos. Baird to John Fray, nw 14-144
82, 92600.
G. M. Kremer to E. O. Kittelson,
nw 14-150-78.
Jos. Hayes to Tom Rendahl, Be ne,
n| se, se se 14-149-82, 98000.
Geo. Prestmo to B. M. Sloan, se 6
149-86,91160.
F. L. Taylor to F. E. Larimer, si &
ne se 28-160-81, 91500.
G. A. Howser to M. D. Fuller, se 24
!*0-TO,|5000.
John Hanson to N. E. Hedahl»«J«J
&448-80. 92800.
Ella Turner to S. B. Reed, se e| se
25-145-79, 95000.
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LEADER
Much Grain Will
Be Shipped Soon
Rain Delayed Threshing Ten Days
But Work WW NOW be W
Until all is Done
Conkling Correspondence
Mrs. E. W. Slagg spent last
visiting relatives and friends at
ling.
Mrs. H. C. Jones and Miss Anna
Belsing drove to Emmet to visit at the
E. W. Slagg home Sunday and returned
Wednesday. They report the crops
looking fine and in one locality they
counted eight threshing machines at
work and not any of them looked to be
more than a mile apart.
Miss Anna Belsing was a Washburn
caller Saturdav.
Mrs. B. R. Jones arrived in Wash
burn Saturday from a visit with her
daughter at Dogden, she will spend a
week or more here visiting with her
sons and old friends before returning
to her home in Washington.
The bright sunshine was surely wel- ances daily will occur in the Exposition
come on Wednesday after so many days Theater. A wealth of street attrac
of cloudiness. Threshing was delayed tions and carnival stunts will amuse
for ten days and some damage was the crowds outside. Bands and or
done to grain not stacked, but the loss chestras in all parts of the Exposition
will be small compared to the good the building will furnish music at all hours
rain will do the crops next year.
Mrs. Dahl left Tuesday for her
daughter's home in Wayside, Nebr.
Her health has been very poorly while
here and it is hoped the change of
climate will do her good.
Frank Kortum was a pleasant caller
at the Chas. Thomsen home last Sun
day.
Guy Bixby returned from a two
weeks visit with relatives at Deapolis
Friday.
Mrs. B. R. Jones spent Thursday
with her niece Mrs. Nick Hosch.
Turtle Lake Wave
E. G. Ranum reports his government
rain guage registers an inch and a
quarter of rain fall here Sunday eve
ning and night.
Gottleib Orman was enjoying some
of his senseless cruelty in beating his
horses last Tuesday, and when old man
Weible interfered Orman rapped him
across the head with a club, splitting the
hide open pretty bad and laying the old
gent unconscious for some time.
There is on exhibition at one of the
stores a most remarkable looking cu
cumber. It is about the right age for
picking, measures almost three feet in
length and is crooked and twisted some
thing like a snake crawling. Mrs.
Jacob'Sackman brought in this speci
men and says she has a lot more in her
garden which she is putting up as
dill pickles.
Opening of Exposition
Next Tuesday morning, October 1,
North Dakota's second annual Indust
rial Exposition will be opened to the
public at Bismarck. It is by far the
most stupendous undertaking ever be
fore attempted in the state, and from
present indications all records for at
tendance will be shattered. Not only
will thousands of North Dakotans visit
the big land show but thousands of
visitors from eastern states have signi
fied their intention of visiting the Expo
sition this year, and satisfying them
selves as to what North Dakota soil
can actually produce.
Every day will be a special day, the
complete calendar of events being as
follows:
Tues., Oct. 1—Educational Day...
Wed., Oct 2—Minnesota and Wis
consin Day.
Thurs., Oct. 3—Soo Line Day.u.':V,
Fri., Oct 4—Indiana and Illinois Day.
Sat., Oct. 5—Traveling Men's Day.
Sunday—Exposition Closed.
Mon., Oct 7—Automobile Day.
TueB., Oct 8—Iowa and South
kota Day.,
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Over 150 carloads of grain have lack of fun. Every little moment will,
been shipped from this point. Many have some feature all its own.
farmers will store their grain for a few A special rate of two cents per mile
months as the prices are a little too in each direction for round trip from all
low at the present time.
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Wed., Oct 9—Old Settlers Day.
Thurs., Oct 10—Northern Pacific
Day.
Fri., Oct 11—German Day.
Sat Oct 12—Grand Harvest Festi
val*
The new features this.year include
an jwtomobile show, kemiel show, dairy
show, poultry show, domestic science
school and machinery display. There
will be an educational value attached
to a visit to the Exposition that can got
be computed.
The Exposition proper will comprise
£/».*„..?**.
the most magnificent collection of
grains and grasses, seeds, vegetables
and other products of North Dakota's
wide spreading plains and undulating
prairies ever assembled under one roof.
The clays and coals and other illimitable
mineral resources will also be shown to
the day and night. There will be no
points in North Dakota to Bismarck
for the Industrial Exposition has been
granted by the railways. Many special
week
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trains will be run from various sections
Conk- of the state. Every day will be a
big day. The Industrial Exposition
this year, accompanying the largeBt
crop in the history of the state, offen
one of the best opportunities for North
Dakota to exploit its products and re
sources it has ever had, or even will
have. The big land show should be
visited by every man, woman and child
of this land of Opportunity.
Raised His Own Seed
Mr. Goven northwest of town has two
fields of corn near town side by side
both planted to Northwestern Dent and
planted at the same time. One field is
much the best and matured fully two
weeks earlier than the other. Why
should there be this difference? The
answer is this. The field which did the
best was planted with seed raised on
the same farm last year, the other
field wasn't. Mr. Arvidson near town
who has been a successful corn raiser
the past few years reports his field
from seed raised on his own farm the
best. Corn is a sensitive plant. Move
the seed a few miles any direction,
east, west, north, or south, the result
is the same, it matures later than if it
was planted in the same locality where
it was grown. Corn is necessary to
this country for it is the feed for fat
tening stock and absolutely necessary
for hog raising, and there is only one
way to make corn a sure crop. Plant
home grown seed and gather that seed
in the fall from the earliest ears that
come to maturity.—Wave.
Value of Training
What is the money value of an edu
cation? The average reduced to indi
vidual cases, would be something like
this: Two boys, age 14, are both in
terested in machanics. One goes into
the shops, the other into a technical
school. The boy in the shops starts at
$4 a week, and by the time he is 18 he
is getting $7. At that age the other
boy is leaving school and starting at
$10 a week. At 20 the shop trained
young fellow is getting 99.50 and tha
technical graduate $15 at 22 the for
mer's weekly wage is $11.50 and the
latter's $20 and by the time they are
both 25 the shopworker finds 912.75 in
his pay envelope while the technically
trained man draws a salary of 9&>
These figures are based on a study of
2,000 actual workers made by the Mas
sachusetts Commission for Industrial
and Technical Education.—.La Follette'a
Weekly.
The Right Doctrine
When you go to buy goods, trade witk
the merchant who advertises. He is
always the most reliable business man
and is invaribly the leader in every en
terprise for the public good. If an
fortunate person or family need assis
tance at the hands of the community,
watch the man who advertises and yea
will find him at the head of the list and
his liberality is very much in evidence.
Give him your business, he is
public benefactor and you can't get
along without him. Without the ad
vertiser our towns and communities
would amount to about as much as
deserted graveyard. Jt's your duty t*
patronize the advertisers, because tonl
him is due the honor of all materlat|
progress of your town and community^
—Mott Spotlight
Attended the Fair
Dh B. L. Noble spent Saturday nlglitt
in Washburn on his way home to Wiltm
from a trip overland to
where he attended the fair.
there were only a few white peopla:
attendance on account of, the rain
cold weather, but the Indians were
joying themselves. One woman,
Whiteman, dropped dead while
in the evening and that stopped
dancing. She was a Gros
45 years old. Her death
hewt failure.
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Job Printerjr
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SUBSCRIPTION, $1.50 PER YEAR
no ,.ck o, enurui.-
1 ment and amusement for Exposition
visitors. Three vaudeville perform-
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