The nonpartisan leader. [volume], October 07, 1918, Image 12

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THE SPECIAL LOANS
Kenmare, N. D.
AM writing you for information re
garding that money the govern
ment has set aside for creditless farm
ers, as our circumstances require help.
"We. have had no crop worth speak
ing of for the last two years and the
bank! from which we had borrowed
failed this fall, which means for us
that' we must either pay up or lose
what" liorses, machinery- and other
property pledged as security we have.
Then we will have to quit farming.
"We could easily rent a whole sec
tion of land here but if we don't get
help,we can not farm at all. Please
let roe know where to apply for the
government aid."
To get the special government aid,
farmers should apply to the local
county agent,- or if there is no county
agent, to the county auditor. The ap
plications should be made at once. In
the above case, the farmer should
makg an effort to get some other bank
to take over his notes because the gov
ernment agent might assume that he
still had a basis for bank loans. Fail
ing in that he can probably get the
$3 an acre from the government fund.
A big reason for applying at once is
that there are so many creditless
farmers that a fund 10 times the size
of what the government has set aside,
would not meet the demand. Farm
ers in the winter wheat belt should
remember that they can not get this
government aid after the period of,fall
wheat planting is over.
WILL COTTON PRICES BE
ESTABLISHED?
Mart, Texas.
WOULD like very much to know
whether you think the government
will succeed in making a fixed price
on cotton this ye^r, as I and several
other League farmers have our
cotton on hand yet. I certainly
would like to hear from you
through the Leader, which I en
joy reading. I have been the
means of getting several to
join the League.
P. S. SHOOK.
The Nonpartisan Leader can
not take responsibility for ad
vising on future prices but it
can state some of- the facts in
this casie which readers may
not have. Congress has not
given the administration power
to fix the price of cotton. Con
gress might do so hurriedly, of
course,, in,the near future, but
if it had been going to do so^at
all it "tf/puld have doubtless
taken the-step before the farm
ers began to market their crop.
The Southland -Farmer, a
large progressive farm paper
of Texas, made the point last
summer that the southern
farmers were not opposed to. a
fixed. price for cotton if the
government handled the cotton
buyers and manufacturers in
the same way and that the
real" opponents of price-fixing
were these interests".* If they
Were "fighting to put off price
fixhig last summer, they will
fight all the harder now, when
a largepfcrt of the present crop
is already 3n their hands.
Incase a severe cotton short
age should develop, congress
might be forced to give the adminis
tration power to fix prices and order
the farmers to bring in what they
have, as it did with wheat last spring.
On the other hand, there is a big
move in Washington just now to fix"
the price of cotton, and men close to
the situation feel that the southern
representatives will not be able to
head it off. We may get a price that
will prevent cotton from going higher
and establishing a limit for next
year's crop.,
ARMY NEEDS FRUIT PITS AND
NUT SHELLS
THE
government is anxious to have
every one save fruit pits and nut
shells because from these the best
charcoal for use in gas masks can be
made. No one should neglect this
matter because it is one of the very
important little things the people at
home can do. Here is the list of what
is wanted:
Peach stones Date seeds
Prune pits Hickory nut shells
Apricot pits Butternut shells
Olive pits Walnut shells ___
Cherry pits Brazil nut shells
Plum pits
The pits and shells saved should be
dried in the" sunjr in an oven and then
delivered, to the local chapter of the
Red Cross or to local grocers. It
would be advisable to cut out the
above list for reference so as to avoid
the waste of time for every one con
cerned in including material not
wanted.
INFORMATION ON NEW BANK
METHODS
Flaxton, N. D.
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THE MOST IMPORTANT PLACE IN AMERICA
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do to get assistance from the govern
ment W&r Finance corporation Also
any literature available explaining
the method of rediscounting farmers''
notes
RALPH INGERSON.
As to the first question, it would be
best to write directly to the War
Finance- corporation, Washington,
D. C. The government .departments
have special staffs to send out detailed
information. The general rule on
which the finance corporation works,
of course, is that when a bank needs
more money to .lend to industries es
sential to the war it will advance
money up to 75 per cent of the face
of the notes. The government has
decided that farming is an essential
industry.
The federal reserve board of Wash
ington, D. C., will be glad to forward
information on the second question.
Banks that are members of the federal
reserve system can rediscount farm
ers' notes with the head reserve bank
of the district! In the Northwest, this
bank would be the Federal Reserve'
bank of St. Paul. To this bank the
member banks would forward the
notes they wish to discount so as to
be able to make more loans.
The one big excuse country Jsanks
may have for" not using the redis
count privilege more, is that farmers
are likely to be careless about re
newing notes on the dates due. The
farmers who have
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Here is one of America's six million food factories that are making America the best fed na
tion. They are working overtime to produce this result but they could produce more and
the food would'go more directly to those who need it if the farmer had not been forced
out of politics and if regulating bodies today paid more attention to the farmer's advice and
less-to the special interests. "The special interests support clever lobbyists and invent very
ingenious reasons as to why peace-time waste and- graft should be continued in ^ar jfcne,
^but the farmer, although he lacks these meang of making special.-appeaU^^^ L"
can tell the truth and his heart is in the right place.
PAGE TWELVE"
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HELP IN FARM EFFICIENCY
WHY
not use the department of
agriculture more? It has a
large staff of experts studying fyrm
problems of all kinds! It may be
weak on marketing questions because
of political influences, but, for that
very reason it tries the harder to"
make good on matters of farm effi
ciency. If you are confronted by a
new pest, by a crop disease, by a soil
problem, or if you want to build arf
farmhouse, a barn, a hoghouse, or
granary—in fact anything—write to
the department of agriculture at
Washington, D. C. In nine cases out
of 10 it will be able to give you some
information you will be very glad to
have.
PAID FOR GOING TO COLLEGE
UNCLE
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somewhat in
the habit of letting their notes run
over because there is no question
about their security should make a
point of depriving the bankers of this
argument. When a rediscounted nota.
becomes due it must .be replaced by
another note or paid in cash by the
local bank.
SAM wants tf&ined men.
The war department has arrange.)
ed with the North Dakota Agricul
tural college to pay boys over 18 who
attend the college, regular soldiers'
wages. The courses will be arranged
to prepare the boys for attending of
ficers' training camps.—^-NORTH DA
KOTA AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE.
"RUTHLESS METHODS AND UN
FAIR COMPETITION"
is the way the food adminis
tration recently characterized our
marketing system, which to the anti
farmer gang is a perfect system. In
commenting on the results arising
from the licensing of food dealers and
"the expulsion of maily for the dura
tion of the war, the food administra-.
tion states that a new type of dealer
is coming in and that "The new deal
ers are the class formerly unwilling
to enter the business because of ruth-,
less methods and unfair competition."
And yet the kept press has buttered
these rascals to the ears with praise
for efficiency and^ service to the
farmer and consumer. Evi
dently the farmers have been
on the right track since they
started organizing to have a
little to say about the market.
themselves.
COMMUNITY BREEDING
OF LIVESTOCK
SEVERAL
communities in
the United States," de
clares the North Dakota Agri
cultural! college, "h&ve gone
into the raising of one breed
and the communities have be
come known all over the coun
try for thestock they raise, as
Nbrthfield, Minn., for its Hoi-'
steins Waukesha county, Wis.,
for its Guernseys Geauga
county, Ohio, for its Holsteins
New Salem, N. D., for its. Hol
steins, and so on. Not only
has a. great deal of improve
ment been accomplished al
ready in these communities But
the: improvement will keep
going on.
"The cost of improving the
stock is reduced to a minimum.
When a community enters on
raising one^breed, everybody,
men, women aid children," be
come interested in and take
pride in the stock, which, is a
big factor in the improve
ment."*