The nonpartisan leader. [volume], June 30, 1919, Image 12

About The nonpartisan leader. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1915-1921

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EAWEED FURNISHES POTASH
Since the war stopped the supply of
otash from Germany the bureau of
oils of the United States department
agriculture has been experimenting
ith various processes for recovering
otash from kelp, a seaweed. One of
he experimental plants has been in
Successful operation for several
ionths.
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One of the by-products is kelp ash,
hich contains a potash content of
if'iore than 33 per cent. Several car
Ifpads of this product have been placed
.|jpon the eastern markets for fertilizer
purposes. A carload was recently
Id to a farmers' co-operative asso
ciation in New York and was found so
Satisfactory that another carload of
!p ash was ordered. Any one inter
ested in buying kelp ash in carload lots
br fertilizer purposes may secure fur
er information from the bureau of
!ils, U. S. department of agriculture.
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NEW YORK
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ADVERTISEMENTS
Summer Advantages
of the
Quick handling of milk and cream in hot weather main
tains the highest quality of both, and often means the dif
ference between profit and loss.
Over 2,500,000 De Lavals are in daily use the world
over—more than all other makes combined. More than
50,000 local agencies look after the needs of De Laval users.
If you don't know the De Laval agent in your
community, write to the nearest De Laval office.
THE DE LAVAL SEPARATOR CO.
29 East Madison Street
CHICAGO
ALLW0RK KEROSENE FARM TRACTOR
tion the Leader Wlwn. Writing Advertiser*
FORAGE CROPS FOR HOGS
Alfalfa and sweet clover make the
best forage crops for hogs. They con
tain a large per cent of protein, which
is absolutely necessary for the growth
of the young pigs. Do not pasture
too short, especially alfalfa, which is
the one most relished by the pigs.
Rape makes good pasture, especial
ly in the late summer and fall. It
should be planted when there is plen
ty of moisture. It is second only to
alfalfa for summer feeding. Other
forage crops are winter rye, barley,
brome and Canadian field peas. The
first two start sooner than other crops,
and can be used to good advantage
till the alfalfa and sweet clover are
ready. Peas make good pasture.
Do not depend on forage crops
alone to grow and fatten hogs. They
should receive barley, oats or corn
along with the pasture. Remember to
have salt and fresh water available.
LAVAL
The superiority of the De Laval
Cream Separator is more apparent
and is more appreciated during the
summer months than at almost any
other time of the year.
Farmers appreciate
the De Laval during
the busy summer
season because of its
large capacity and
the fact that it is
easy to turn and easy
to clean.
With a De Laval,
the milk is taken care
of in the shortest
time and with the
least effort—both im
portant in hot weath
er when a number of
other things have to
be done.
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ELECTRIC WHEEL COMPANY
BosSSOA. QUINCY.ILLINOIS
ofteri that when the old man died and
left him the quarter section, with the
mortgage and other incumbrances, he
resolved to be businesslike.
He formed a stock company a few
days after the funeral, with a few
obliging relatives as dummy directors,
and sold the farm to the company for
twice what it was worth. He then
had the company issue gold bonds
equal to the amount of the mortgage,
which carried 6 per cent instead of
the old 10 his father had paid.
His next act was to buy another
quarter section and sell it also to the
company for twice what it was worth.
It was now time to sell the common
stock, for he was businesslike enough
to divide the stock equally between
preferred and common.
A magnificent booklet describing
the prospects of the Consolidated
Farm Enterprise
Our businesslike farmer then turn
ed to the masters of finance for great
er instruction and discovered that he
had so far been a mere piker.
THE FARMER LEARNS A
NEW KINK IN GAME
Equipped with new knowledge he
issued bonds to cover all the land
which the Cpnsolidated Farm Enter
prise company owned and placed all
the preferred stock on the market.
With the money and standing thus ob
tained he appealed successfully to the
railroad for rebates on his produce.
Because of the rebates he was-able to
form the Farmers' Shipping corpora
tion to handle all the farm produce
of his section.
His next discovery led him deeply
into politics. Local and state officials
had, of course, relieved him of a good
deal of his proper taxation in return
for generous contributions to party
funds, but this was small stuff. His
land was adapted to raising prunes,
and he found that much of our prune
supply was imported.
So he took a great delegation, in
cluding the governor, to Washington
to visit our national hippodrome, and
after some dickering the actors there,
sometimes" known as congressmen, not
only passed a high tariff on prunes
but offered a bonus to build up the
infant industry. On the basis of-this
splendid legislation he was able to
double the stock of the Consolidated
Farm Enterprise corporation, and:the
..public snatclied .it op eagerly.
The Story of a Business Farmer
An Up-to-Date Parable, in Which the Tiller of the Soil
Learns the Value of a Wall Street Mind
OHN W. JASPER JR.
had heard the town busi
ness men explain low
farm returns with the
phrase, "If they used
business methods," so
Company, Ltd., and
a list of suckers
bought from an
agency in that busi
ness turned the
trick. The common
stock, more com
monly known as
water, poured out
of his office and
the golden stream poured in from
hopeful investors. He even sold some
of his preferred stock.
As soon as he had the slickers bit
ing he bought other farms and was
thus able to keep up his flow of wa
ter without parting with enough of it
to lose control of his company.
His reputation grew by lieaps and
bounds. Traveling men discussed his
phenomenal success in the hotel lob
bies and expressed a heart-throbbing
longing to return to the land. The
family spoke his name only with rev
erence and the town business men not
only solicited his membership for the
commercial club but made him presi
dent.
sanil8**i
But alas! the man who had applied
business methods to farming so suc
cessfully so far
still had one piece
of business farm
ing to learn. A
Wall street lawyer
whom he met while
on a vacation at
Palm Beach was
horrified to find
that he had not
learned how to "milk" in businesslike
fashion and gave him the directions
in return for a promise of eastern
business.
He now sold practically all of h%
common stock and prefCTred^^t^K^.'
His agents and the newspapers then
began to hint of financial difficulties
in the Consolidated Farm Enterprise
company. He even sold several blocks
short to help the movement along.
After the bankruptcy was announced,
he was appointed trustee because he
owned the bonds which constituted a
prior lien on the' property.
Due to his genius, as the newspa
pers said, the company was soon on
its feet agaiiu In the meantime he
had bought in all the stock and he
now put on a new selling campaign to
reach a new bunch of suckers.
The business education of our farm
er was at last complete. He realized
that he knew all there was to know
so he retired to a handsome estate pur
chased out of the profits of his prune
trust and took up cow pasture pool
and politics for hobbies.
Warning.—While the big financiers
welcomed Jasper to their number after
his business education was complete,
they realized that for others to climlT
by the same ladder would spoil their
own game. So they had laws passed
whereby any little fellows starting
out on this course could be arrested.
for using the mails to "defraud
LEAGUERS COME BACK
Centralia, Wash.
Editor Nonpartisan Leader:
Inclosed find a copy of the Winlock
News, carrying an article about the
return of a League organizer^ to that
district. A year ago he and~another
organizer were arrested and ordered
out of the district. After their arrest,
the farmers of this section rushed to
the rescue and pledged $25,000' for
bonds for the men, although the
r.
Court
set bail at only $6,000. When the
men were arrested, the newspapers
condemned them unheard, but made
no mention when the organizers were
shown to be innocent.
J. H. WEST.
TO PUBLISH LEAGUE VERSE
Those who are familiar with the
poetry which Mrs, Florence Borner of
Bismarck, N. D., has been writing for
the Fargo Courier-News and other
independent papers, will be interested
to know that she plans to publish a
.small volume of her best verse soon.
A new and fundamental movement
like that of the organized farmers of
North Dakota demands new literary
expression, and Mrs. Borner is. one of
the able writers beginning to supply
this need.
MAKING HAY
In making hay the aim should be to
get the hay dry enough for stacking
with the least exposure to the sun.
The moisture in the stem passes out
through the leaves when they are
moist. When the leaves dry they
break off easily and considerable of
them are lost. The leaves contain
most of the food value, so they should
by all means be saved. The sun
bleaches the hay, reducing its food
value and-flavor.—NORTH DAKOTA
AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE. -1
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