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rations. It explains just why the stave silo is best, why
fir
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matter. No skilled labor or machinery necessary. After
the concrete foundation is laid, three or four farm hands
can build it in one or two days, according to size. Direc
tions for erecting come with each silo. Everything is
furnished complete in one shipment.
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When Purchasing Here,
Watches, 21 jewel and 25-yrs. gold case~$6
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Though winter is hanririr
March's apron strings he is .o«-
ing his grip and we will htn'*
spring in earnest The monil ai
that now is the time of all must it
have your order tsi.es xtr ?uir
new spring and summer sun Our
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and you may be
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All-powerful, Uncontrollable Tornado,
similar to the one which visited Omaha on the
23rd day of March and destroyed more than
$10,000,000 Worth of Property in less time
than you could think of it.
THE
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UNDERWRITERS
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ASSETS OVER 15,000,000.00
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Get a copy of the book which tells why
and how
Every fanner who has stock to feed should own the
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in one shipment Easj to
It contains profit-producing,
Weyerhaeuser Silo
fir silo. Tells about the improved hinged
doors with compound pressure latches, and the steel
hoops and anchors which make the silo storm-proof.
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recommend* Silage and Siloe. The best that these educators nave said on the
subject has been published in the WEYERHAUSER SILO BOOK. It contaibe
short chapter* on "The Theory of the Silo,'* "The Value of Silaae," Ensilage
Feeding.' "When to Cut Corn For Silage," "Silage Rations/* 'locating and
Erecting a Silo." and "Feeding Its Contents." This is a jvaluable^book ana sro«
ought to have a copy. There is a copy waiting for YOU. Will you call or
write for it?
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An editorial in a recent issue
of the Bismarck Times was cer
tainly written by a patriot, and
not by a politician- What the far
mers should consider when read
ing the editorial in question is:
who wrote the editorial, and what
personal interest the writer had
in the veto, if any? Was the
writer a member of the commis
sion and drawing a salary? If he
was, then certainly he was not an
unbiased writer, and this fact
should render his opinions worth
less. The editorial says: "This
i8 precisely the view taken by the
people of the state." How many
people of the state take this view?
Is there known to be as much as
one hundred?
The view of the Grand Forks
Herald, is the view and opinion
of the writer, and is the writer's
opinion alone, and as such is
worth as much as the opinion, as
that of any other person no more,
no less. As a farmer we look
upon all commissions with sus-
Hie following communication
frees President Fred A. Powers of
~je Golden Valley Co-operative
-o the Bismarck Tribune is
ncr-c^ced in the Chronicle for
of our farmer friends:
B-eack N. D., March 24.—
T.'iic.- ribane: While in your
urt itLC a£ the time the legisla
:u*» In session 1 subscribed
fiit paper, that I might be
ni'Titftd a to the work of the hon
vTiime ienen whom the peo
jii* nait wti-cted to enact laws
:\iv s*fv&->ce the best inter
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GOLDEN VALLKY CHRONICLE
An Open Letter to the Governor»
Marmarth, N. D.,
March 31. 1913
Dear Governor:
The Swede farmer will lay the
plow aside for a time to give you
some more political advice. We
note the howlers have commenc
ed to howl. As we understand
the matter the late legislature,
amongst which, while there were
no great statesmen there were
some who were filled with low
cunning. These who were filled
with cunning attempted to dig a
hole for you, into which they ex
pected you to fall and then pull
the hole in after you. This fool
ish body of men appropriated
money which would far exceed
the income of the state. Where
the money was to come from it
did not know, nor did it care
Had you, as governor approved
all the foolish appropriation bills,
the state, at the end of your term,
would have been bankrupt, and
this would have been charged to
you. We farmers think that you
showed a manly spirit in looking
after our interests when you ve
toed some of the useless appro
priations. It is true that some
members of the tax commission
may have to go to work, and try
and earn an honest living but
this is what us fanners have to do,
besides we have to pay our own
expenses.
picion, and consider them all
frauds. That the idea of these
commissions are conceived in the
minds of cunning politicians, who
are looking for soft snaps, for
themselves or their tools. How
many members of the late com
mission are students of history and
what knowledge have «ny of
them of the modes of raising tax
es in the past? How many of
them have read the 17th chapter
of Gibbon? We doubt if one of
them knows any thing more about
taxation than the writer, a Swede
farmer.
The editorial mentipns the suc
cessful commissions of West Vir
ginia, and Minnesota. The only
success he mentions is the large
salaries paid these commissions.
Of results for the benefit of the
people at large, the editorial is
silent.
What has been accomplished
by
our commission, and what does
it expect to accomplish except
ing the drawing of salaries, and
some fine meals at the hotels to
be paid for by the state, while
us poor farmers have to eat plain
bread and bacon and the bacon is
often sans.
No law ever made by man is
just to all. Taxation is never
just, it never will be commission
or no commission.
In place of our senile legisla
ture's trying to make some law
looking to a reduction of taxation,
and cutting down foolish expens
es the main part of the work ap
pears to be to find some foolish
thing for which to appropriate
money. Look over the amount
of money appropriated by the
last senile, and tell us in the name
of God of what benefit is it all
to the great mass of the farm
ers?
The editorial mentions that sup
posing the governor had cut out
the public examiner's office. Well
suppose he had no loss would
have fallen upon the people of
the state, for as run for the past
we are at all times prepared to
prove, in any court of law, that
this office is absolutely useless.
Had many more state officers
been abolished, no loss would
come to the people at large.
Now governor, we must finish
our spring plowing.
Yours truly
A COMMUNICATION:
,*ini ycur srtEDvrfsi comment in the uting profit. Never mind, it is a
long road that has no turn, and
the farmers are waking up to the
fact that 46 per cent of the re
tail price of our products is too
primrkiYi know how small, and some of those fellows
between us and the consumers
need to find some other occupa
tion than that which they are now
-JTmriii? .ttfuit* fir .March 9, 1913,
Backward,"
Tnulu* ".» -jL.cfLT. as rather a severe
-.»nitsant th«i«ut wfe» had not
n-.mrt r.i thrt htli« have keen hand
irtii :inrt ^335.0twA of hy those
wrivth.y This is a. dis-
fsmaja.?? statft and there' holding,
art reason cander the sun Well, we had another bill, For
why d'.». farrier* not elect an Act providing for the estab
fareiers tv look after the passing lishment of Co-operative Banks
o: some of the that would be For Personal Credits, but every
to the bu«r«t. Ve had a few last member on the banking corn
bills that vrert of great import- mittee was a banker, and it will
hardly be necessary to relate the
ance to the farmers of North Da
kota, and no earthly chance was
given them for passage. Let us
note two or three at least. We
had a general co-operative bill No.
165, introduced and pa'ssed in the
house by John G. Odland, but it
was smothesed in the senate until
the closing days of the legisla
ture, and of course was killed, as
it was intended it should be. An
old trick of that worthy body.
Did this bill have any merits or
anyone particularly interested in its
passage, more than the one who
was instrumental in getting it in
troduced in the house? This bill
was formulated from the Nebras
ka and Wisconsin Co-Operative
laws at the time the North Da
kota Farmers Grain Dealers asso
ciation officersanddirectorsmeet
ing was held in the city of Bis
marck, N. D. A resolution was
passed for such a bill and Mr. Od
land was there and at once took
up the work of drafting the bill.
The Bismarck meeting was to
arrange for a general meeting of
said organization, and Valley Gity
was chosen and at that meeting a
resolution was passed favoring
the enactment of said House bill
No. 165, being a co-operative
law, and a telegram was trans
mitted to the legislature relative to
the desiring the organization, and
the North Dakota Farmer* Grain
Dealers association stands for the
best interest* of the farmers of
ANDREW OLESON-
fate of this bill. We will say that
a hanker from the northern part
of Ine state desired to take the bill
under advisement and did so, and
on return of same he said it was
as a whole a very commendable
bill and you ought to have it, but
you will not get it. We thanked
him for the consideration he gave
the bill. Now anyone who desir
es the names of the committee
I will be glad to furnish you with
them, so you can get acquainted
with them at homie and see how
they love you and work for your
interest. Is the whole mission of
the farmer to be able to work in
the field from 14 to 16 hours per
day? We have delegated all of
the power that belongs to us to
the other fellow to such an ex
tent. There are two ways of
fanning, farming the land, farm
ing the farmers. But the cloud
is rising and it is being observed
a change is a-coming and the pro
ducers of wealth
will demand their
rights there is such a thing as rid
ing a free horse to death. There
is a call for a conference to the
people of the United States,
April 8th to 10th inst, at Chicago
111., to plan and devise some ac
ceptable plan of action. How
to organize the producing inter
ests for better niethod* of distri
buting and marketing farm pro
ducts, and how farmer* may
unite to secure credit and other
fi
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North Dakota- There was also
a request from the Golden Val
ley Farmers Co-Operative clubs
of Golden Valley county, asking
for the passage of the bill. The
clubs have a membership of 240,
but all were ignored. A co-opera
tive law would give the farmers
a chance to establish any kind of
business that the farmers would
desire, and receive benefit accord
ing to the amount of business each
member transacted with his coun
ty, where as now under the old
corporation law, it is not neces
sary to state the manner of distrib-
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Your well wisher and friends,
FRED A. POWERS,
President Golden Valley Farm
ers Co-operative Association,
Beach,
N.
Dak.
WHY WASTE HUMAN EFFORT?
At this point one Is apt to ask
"why," if such is the case, and there
seems to be no doubt but that it
Is the farm help problem growing
greater year after year. There are
many reasons for this—some are lured
away from the farm by the attrac
tions of the city, while others turn
their backs to the farm because of the
drudgery and long hours they are re
quired to work on the ordinary farm.
It is right aad proper thst the farmer
should work long hours during certain
seasons of the year in order to save
the crop, but we And the largest per
tentage do not stop at this point, but
pride themselves in early rising, say
ing nothing, however, of the work
actually accomplished. We do not
wish to discountenance early rising,
but that in itself will not be produc
tive of results. We often hear the old
adage, "the early bird catches the
worm"—this success was not neces
sarily due to early rising but to know
ing where to go in other words, the
farmer should combine with early
rising—early and careful planning.
Just recently the writer was on an
Iowa farm where a new silo had been
erected. It was discouraging to note
that the silo had been built eight or
ten feet from the side of the horse
barn, in fact, it was 200 or 300 feet
from the place where the silage was
to be fed, viz: the cattle barn in
other words, a large percentage of the
silage would have to be carried 200 or
300 feet during feeding time. The
energy and time expended as a result
of carelessly building the silo at this
point can be placed on the "loss" side
of the ledger. It is not Infrequently
the case that it takes fifteen or twenty
minutes to carry the corn for feeding
the horses, and even longer to feed
the hogs and other animals, but If the
corn crib were properly located it
would save two-thirds to three-fourths
of this work.
By the proper arrangement of farm
buildings hours of time and scores of
miles of travel can be saved. It is
much easier and usually takes no more
time to unload a load of corn or grain
in a crib or bin in the barn or hog
house than it would to unload it at
corn crib standing several hundred
feet from either.
If we were to visit a modern plant
that is manufacturing machines for
the farm or other machinery we would
find that every casting and every part
had a certain route through the works.
The holes are bored or punched with
one machine, it is then handed or
delivered to the next machine where
the milling or planing work is done
in other words, it passes from machine
to machine until the article is com
pleted. If the method practiced on
many farms were in vogue in factor
ies, either the price of machines
would be higher or the factories
would go out of business.
Conditions and methods have
changed. The farmer now has at his
disposal farm equipment which will
enable him to reap greater profits
from the area farmed if he spends
part of his time planning the various
operations than if the old methods
were followed. He should no longer
view his occupation in the light of a
day-laborer, but from the angle of a
business man. There is, perhaps, no
occupation that requires any keener
judgment and better management
than to operate a farm successfully.
The scarcity of farm labor can be
met, in a degree, by so planning oper
ations and growing diversified crops
as to distribute the work over a long
pr period. There is no question but that
the farmers in the northwest In the
wheat sections and the cotton farmers
of the south will soon realize the im
portance and necessity, not only from
the standpoint of its effect on the soil,
but from the viewpoint of the laborer,
to practice better and more complete
rotations.
Data collected by the government
shows that the yearly earnings per
farm hand is almost directly propor
tional to the farm equipment used.
The using of a larger number of farm
machines and more power, and follow
ing better plans, including a proper
rotation of crops, will help to Bolve
the labor problem.
Fodder left In the shock will lose
from 25 to 40 per cent of Its feeding
value, besides it Is a bad practice to
say the least to haul it In as needed
during the cold winter days. Better
plan to stack it If possible. To shred
the fodder, you will find more ecw
nomlcal than stacking.
It 1* usually a good practice to turn
the cattle and other stock into the
corn stalks for only a short time each
day until they get accustomed to the
change In the nature of the feed. See
that they are provided with plenty of
good water.
Better begin to look up the alfalfa
crop. Every corn belt farmer should
have at least ten acre* of this valuable
crap next year. You cant raise your
protein as? cheaper In any other way.
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tits
matters of direct relation to the
producing and distributing inter
ests of the -nation. I hope our
great farming state of North Da
kota will be well represented at
this conference and take an ac
tive part in bringing out a plan
.hat is for the best interests of
our farmers.
Bureau
By J. E. Waflgonsr, Ssrvles
Msnsger.
The harvest which has ]ust passed
witnessed a greater lack of farm help
than perhaps any harvest that ws
have known. The cry for farm labor
ers from ths Northwest, megaphoned
over the entire country, lost none of
Its intensity when heard at short
range. Farmers boarded trains at the
station offering $3.00. |3.50 per day
and In some cases more for farm help.
Their solicitations were met by the
stars and dumb silence of the passen
gers.
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Bank of Beach
0. C. Attletwead, prat. E. J. Cirtii,Vici|ra. L. E. Autia, cuh.
Capital $25,000 Surplus $4,000
BLUMSUN'S PLACE
WHITAKER & G1LMAN
Pioneer DRAY Line
FRIDAY. APRIL 4,1913
to Take a Cer
tificate
The checking account ia undoubtedly the moot con
venient manner of handling money received and paid
out in varied sums and amount*.
Quite'often person* have a lump sum of money
which they desire to keep intact and have available later
when wanted.
In such instance* we advise the use of our Certi
ficates of Deposit. These are issued for any amount you
have to deposit. They are transferable by endorse
ment.
When the deposit is allowed to remain for 12
months or longer, we allow 6 per cent interest from
date of the Certificate.
As an absolutely safe investment with a fair rate
of interest and for money which may be temporarily
idle, no other manner of deposit offers greater conven
ience than our CERTIFICATES OF DEPOSIT.
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1 have started an absolutely free employment agency in connec
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GET INTO THE GAME
NOTICE.
Having purchased the blacksmith shop formerly oc
cupied by S. A. Smith. I am installing a trip hammer
and gas engine, etc., making an equipment complete to
do your work up in short notice, and in a scientific man
ner. I have a first class mechanic in our line, and will
make a specialty of horseshoeing, plow work and auto
mobile spring welding.
Give us a trial, we guarantee to please you.
Our prices are right.
R. WHITAKER, Prop.
We Move or Haul Anything from an Express Pack
age to a House, and if you have
Beach, N. Dak.
E. D. LOGAN
Dealer In
Hard, Soft and Blacksmith
O A
Cord Wood and Slabs
Business and Residence Lots for Sale.
Rooms for Rent
Office Opposite Bartley's
Store.
M. H. JEFFERSON
ATTORNEY AT LAW
Over First National Bank
Beach, N. Dak.
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anything
line, large or small, don't fail to see us.
Our Prices Are Right—
Our Men Experienced and Careful
All work promptly done and damages or breakage always made good
CONTRACT WORK A SPECIALTY-Pho"«552M Beach
Hougen Tailor Shop
9.
C. HOUGAN, Propr.
First class tailoring in all its
branches—cleaning, press
ing and repairing done on
short notice. All work
guaranteed satisfactory in
every particular. Reason
able charges.
in this
A. MORRIS
Auctioneer
An old-timer at the busi
ness and the man who gets
results.
Address Or 'phone
Carlyle, Mont.
The Chronicle Has
more readers in
Billings County than
all other papers
combined.
DR. C. E. FULLER
Veterinarian
small advertisement in the
Chronicle will convert those
odds and ends into cash try itl
Office «t Graduate of
Ed. Harvey's Fkw Chtotgo
Feed Barn
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