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ftt I! 6! I. PRICE READJUSTMENT AT STANDSTILL, FARM FEDERATION ASSERTS Average Commodity Cost Higher Than Intfuue, With Agricultural Pro ducts Still Falling Price readjustment is at a stand still, with the products of the farm left at a disastrous disadvantage in relative purchasing power, the Minne sota Farm Bureau federation said to day in a statement analyzing the trend of prices. The statement was based, on the wholesale price index prepared by the federal bureau Of labor statistics, and data gather* fey the research depart ment of the atioaal farm bureau or ganization. "Reconstruction is failing to recon struct the purchasing power of .the farmer's protects," the state farm bu reau declare*. "The record of com modity prices since April indicates that the decline in prices has almost spent itself, although a comparison of levels in September and October shows that the farm product and food groups including many commodities just as they come from the farm, are still falling. "The prices of the necessities of life appear to be marking time, with the great agricultural population still un der a handicap so serious that its buy ing power is not recovering. It must recover before the real reviva-1-of in dustry and business can take place." The. farm bureau statement quoted figures of the bureau of labor statis tics to show that since June, 1921, the average price-level of all com modities has risen, instead of declin ing. "Taking the 1913 price level as 100, the level in June, 1921, stood at 148, having declined from 177 since Janu ary. But in October, the level had risen again to 150. This development might be taken as. an indication that the price level can be expected to re main considerably above the 1913 level." "From the standpoint of the farm er, the fact remains that no definite improvement has been made during the last several months toward accom plishing a more equitable exchange re lation between his products and those which he must purchase. "The farm' products group, as list ed by the federal bureau of labor sta tistics, was three points lower in Oc tober than ft was in September, and the food group had declined four points/ In the same period, clothing had advanced three points, fuel and lighting had gone up four points, met als had advanced one point and chem icals had remained at their Septem ber price level, "To offset the continued deflation of farm products, there was only a one -percent decline in building materials, which stand next to the highest in Tthe list of commodity prices after anany months of 'deflation,' and a de cline of five percent in house furnish ings, whose price level is so high that this small drop is insignificant." "Farm products, food and metals were the only commodity groups whose price level was lower than the general price average for all commo dities in October, the statement con tinued, pointing out that farm pro ducts stood at the foot of the list, 31 points below the average price of all -commodities. '|There can be but one conclusion froin such data," the federation con cluded. "No substantial improvement can be effected in industrial conditions until the prices of the commodities which the farmer must purchase have been sufficiently deflated." GRAIN GROWERS GET 5,200_ACRE PLEDGE Minnesota Furnishes Biggest Contract Obtained By National Mar keting Agency RECORD PRICE IS PAID FOR W FARM BARROW RURAL ACTIVITIES AND NEWS OF INTEREST TO THE FARMER St. Paul, Dec. 14.The largest con-!as though the same thing would hap- tract so far obtained by the U. S.jpen again this winter creating an. Grain Growers, Inc., in any state, has even worse condition. The market is been signed in Minnesota. being flooded with poor butter. Any The contract calls for the market- co-operative'creamery that makes a ing of grain produced on the Tilney poor product has to compete with this farms, comprising 12 tracts and 5,200 flood of inferior butter." acres of land in Watonwan county, 1 Asserting that no other work onth through the farmers' national co-opera- farm pays as well as the work of tive marketing agency. The contract getting cream to the creamery while was, signed only after the attorney for' pure and sweet, to guarantee good but- Tilney farms had examined-the terms ter, the new state dairy service agen- and the marketing plan of the-Grain'cy issued a set of rules to be posted Growers, and-given a favorable' opin on the door of every co-operative ion, according to the -northwest office creamery in its membership. of tne co-operative xoorporation. These rules, drawn up to help pre- Minnesota ndw has 376 of the 28,-. vent losses through the shipment of 000 members of the U. S. Grain Grow-, low-grade buter, suggests, 1. Frequent ers, Inc., and 16 Minnesota elevators delivery of cream by co-operation in also have signed contracts with the hauling 2. Care in milk to prevent farmers' agency, it was announced this week. The highest price ever paid for a hog'at the International Livestock,., show in Ohloago was received Dy the*1? University of Minnesota for its grand champion fcanttfevat the 1921 exhibi Hon. Selling for 33% cents a pound, ^N the pig, which-weighed 500 pounds, y*" brought $1#T.60. The champion bar- jj*" row was dr one of many wins Vl? scored by the university at the big fe show in'fwhie and cattle classes. In the har and grain show the sweet clover exhibited by Charles Franks, Warren, kk the famous Red River Vallec won trot. Sweepstakes In the It-year yellow corn class In zone 1, which Includes the northern part of the *afce went to John Hen derson of 9*ato. In durum wheat W. ,Q. WflMftMMi, BaS*r was. fifth. sr.Js-V'iSf FARMERS' DARKEST HOUR CALLED TIME FOR UNITED LABOR "It's Time For Good Americans To Get Up/' Says Howard, in Chal lenge To Cities Officers of the county farm bureau have just received the following pub lic message prepared by James R. Howard, president""of the American Farm Bureau federation. Jt was writ ten last month, when MrPHoward, in vited to address a gathering of bus iness men, wanted to impress upon city folks the absolute necessity of understanding the farmer's problems and, working with him toward more prosperous times. "Through my long years of experi ence on the farm I have come to con sider this season the most charming of the year. It's the time of the shortening day and the lengthening night. I know fun well what it Is to be awakened in the Iowa night by the flapping of the blind, the crow of the rooster, or the soughing of. the wind in the trees outside the window, and to note that it is darker than it was an hour or two -before, or when I went to bed. I cannot see my hand before me. It is the darkest hour of the night. Instantly I know that that darkest hour is the time when! should rise and go to work. "It is the night's darkest hour when the farmer gets up. He takes his lan tern and goes to the barn. He feeds his stock. He niilkg his cows. He curries and harnesses his team He goes to the house* and eats breakfast, all. before there is yet the- first rosy tint of dawn in the east. "Breakfast over, the farmer hitches the team to his wagon and rattles off down hill, across the bridge and up the road into the cornfield. He pauses for it to get a little lighter he can not yet see his row. And-while he is putting his sideboard oyer and getting his coat off he listens: From every di rection there comes the sound of other corn wagons going to other corn fields.^ Soon there^ reaches, him the rhythmic beat of the ears against "the sideboards the cadence of the cornthat corn which is converted into the gold and silver of commerce and manufacturing and industry. Where in all the world is there another song to equal it? Be fore noon the farmer brings in his load, and another at night. "We are in the dark just now. But it is time for us to get up and get our lanterns, whether we be farmers or manufacturers or businessmen. We want to get those chores done and our breakfast over, for morning is close at hand. Let's put on an extra side board and grease up the old wagon this morning, for we have got the biggest job we ever had ahead of us in America. It is going to take the energy and the faith of the American farmer combined with the energy and faith of the American businessman to put it over. But we have just one common interestservice to the whole people.". Creameries which have joined the state association in Polk, Norman,. Clearwater, Clay, Mahnomen, Red Lake, Pennington, Marshall, Kittson and Roseau counties will meet this month to organize District No. 14. SLUMP PREDICTED FOR POOR BUTTER State Association Would Abolish Mao ufacture of Inferior Product To Prevent Losses By Farm Bureau News Service St.--Paul, Dec. 0 14.The bottom threatens to drop, out of the market for butter of inferior quality, the Min nesota Co-operative Creameries asso ciation, Inc., said today in a message to its 250 member creameries." "The bottom dropped out of. the "price of poor butter last winter,^ the warning says. "At one time there was a difference of 15 cents a pound be tween good and poor butter. It looks dirt from dropping into the milk- and leaving a flavor in the butter f^S. Thorough washing and scalding of pails, cans, stpajyoers and separators 4. Cooling cream in cold water Im mediately after separating, and never mixing warm and cold cream, or lea cream where air is impure 5. Talking with the butter-maker and be coming an expert judge of cream^_| THE HORSE IS THE STAND-BY, It is highly probable that Roseau County will abandon^the use of ma chinery driven by gasoline 'and' go back to horse power driven, by oats in its road work theCcommg year. Horse ptower and oats have gotten cheaper, while gasoline is still higher than before the war. And besides that it is desirable to keep the money spent on road Improvements within ~the county-^Warrqad Pioneer. Special prices on Christmas Capdy The eigth annual Farmers' and Homemakers' week at University Farm, St. Paul, Jan. 2 to 7, 1922, will have the strongest program in the his tory of the short course, according to Dr. A. V. Storm, director. The leading speakers include Frank O. Lqwden, former governor of Illi nois and a,breeder of pure bred cat tle Duncan Marshall, minister of agriculture for Alberta, "Canada Dr. Caroline Hedger, nutrition specialist with the Elizabeth rMcCormick Mem orial Fund, Chicagoj J. R. Howard, president of-the American Farm Bu reau Federation Senator L. B. Pot ter, president of the Minnesota Farm Bureau Federation L. D,. Coffman, president of the University of Minne sota Governor J. A. O. Preus WrC. Coffey, dean of the University depart ment of agriculture Sidney Anderson, Minnesota Congressman from the first district and Mrs. Ellsworth Richard son, a farmer's wife from Iowa. In addition'to conventions of a score of~ organizations, 7 different pro grams for men and 6 for women are continued throughout the week. The 1922 program will contain something new even for those who hare been attendants at previous "weeks" at Uni versity Farm,. DrT^Storm says. Harding Tells Congress Co-operative Marketing Is Entitled To Support The persistent demand of organized farmers for recognition of their right to market their products on a basis of absolute equality with- other pro ductive industries, andy-for reduction of transportation charge?, appears Jto be. getting results in Washington. That the executive branch of th? federal government recognizes the farmers' de mands as just and imperative was demonstrated in ^President Hard ing's message to congress, delivered in person on Dec. 6. The farm bureau federation has fought hard for the passage of a fed eral law that will guarantee, beyond any question, the legal right of the farmers to consolidate their interests in co-operative marketing on a nation wide scale. Such a measure is now before congress, where opponents of the farmers' interests have stubbornly opposed it. Following- is an extract from the president's message, ^referr irig to the agricultural situation: "Something more than tariff protec tion is required by American agricul ture to the farm has come the earlier and -the heavier burdens of readjust ment. There is actual depression in our agricultural industry, wjrife .agri cultural prosperity is absolutely es sential to the general prosperity of, the country. "Congress has sought very earnestly to provide relief. It has promptly "given such temporary relief as has been possible, but the call Js insistent for the permanent solution. It vis in evitable that large crops lower the prices and short crops advance them. "No legislation can cure that funda mental law.flfrBut there must be some economic solution for the excessive variation in returns for agricultural production. It is rather shocking to be told, and to have the statement strongly supported, that 9,000,000 bales of cotton, raised on American planta tions in a given year, actually will be worth more to the products than 13,- 000*000- bales would have been. Equal ly shocking is the statement that 70(V 000,000 bushels of wheat raised by American farmers would bring them more money than a billion bushels. Yet these are not exaggerated state ments. In a world where there ar tens of millions who need food am clothing which they cannot get, sue! a condition is sure to indict the so cial system which makes it possible "In the main the remedy lies hi dis tribution and marketing. Every pro per encouragement^should be given to the co-operative marketing programs. These have proven very helpful to the co-operative communities in Europe. In Russia the co-operative community has become a recognized bulwark of law and order and save individualism from engulfment in.social paralysis. Ultimately they will be accredited, with the salvation of the Russian state.. _, "There is the appeal for this ex periment. Why not try it? No one challenges the right of the farmer to a large share of the consumers', pay for his product, no one can dispute that wo cannot live without the farm er. He is justified in rebelling against the transportation cost. Given a fair return for his labor he will have less occasion to appeal for financial aid and given assurance that his labor KILL THAT COLD take a hot capful of. BULGARIAN BLOOD TEA iMTMfa &- Mood eUTDUVttoa, flu* the Tdiatn, Homlate M Over, ward off U, ripp* ptMoaonl*.', Sold by dncgM* d. groom ovoOTdutto. Cut Flowers- ""a Kr ttv, ^r OLSON & GOLDEN Electric Wiring^- Phone No. 328, Plants and Seeds., ft WITH A REPUTATION gj^ Supplied $o the Great Northwest DULUTHFLORALCO..DplnIir.lIia. Extra, value in funeral sprays and emblems 1, ^^f-S-w shall .not be in vain, we reassure all the people of a production sufficient to meet our national requirements and guard against disaster. The base of the pyramid of civilization which rests upon the soil is shrinking through the drift of population fronKfarm to city. For,a generation we have' been ex pressing more or less concern' about this tendency. Economists have warned aridv statesmen have, .deplored. We thought for a time that modern con veniences and the more intimate con tact would halt the movement, but it has gone steadily on." Mrs. Laura M. Hoyt Recommends Chamberlain's Tablets. .""'I have frequently used Chamber lam's Tablets, during the past three years, and have found them splendid for headache and bilious attacks. I am only too pleased, at any time, to speaks a word of praise of them," writes Mrs. Laura M. Hoyt, Rockport, N. Y. Dray and Transfer line. Daslam in HARD ANDSOWS COAL. Omoe Phono, No, 188 Bealdenoe Phone*. 81 and 88-J. **& MORE MONEY If You Ship Us Your HIDES-FURS' Write U PHUT For Special Information POl BKCT^HpjLUOESrart QUEST "^weo^jiWKWiitiiW Wrlte for prlct list, tap aod roll laformattoa O.BERGMAN & Go. ST. PAUL -JAIHK. Strom & Johnson M^^^^^ G. W. SMITH, DRAY LINK. Dealer in Coal. Wood and let. I Phone 332 Warren, Mian.! tm 4 Improve your Herd with a L%___ &*&.' SIEF E I.-amjshort of room and wilF sell a number of well bred Hereford bulls at ex- tremely low prices. Call and see them. CHAS. FRANKS Breederof Polled Herefordi andDurocB Jt,^T- "HIS MASTER'S VOICE" REG. U.S. PAT. OFF_ We can furnish you with any Victfolas or records that can be procured from the Victor factory. We also cany the R. Wallace 18& 5 Silverware, guar- anteed -without time limit. We carry a well assorted line of useful Christmas gifts, including watches, clocks, rings, pins, chains, fountain pens, cut glass and silverware. Pre-war prices on most gifts. Holm' Jewelry Store THE VICTOR SHOP Warren, Minn. JOHN ERICKSON CITY DRAY LINE Dealer in WOOD& COAL Phone No. 318 TOBY SCHEIE 56*Warren Auctioneer (Successor to W. H. Dixon) Warren, Minn. 1 At this time we wish to thank all our customers for the liberal patronage accorded us during the past year. ^Y^-^ ^hr-^- BOARDSON'S MEAT MARKET 'A. Boardson, Prop. Fanners are eliminating the risk and specu- lation in their business by marketing theirs product in orderly manner through their own. marketing organizations, viz. Creamery or-r, ganization, Livestock Commission Co!, Pota-jf to exchange, U.& Grain Growers, inc Let'^5 birild up ouro\m^ommuiiity bymaking War-^ rerfa good market, tit is^tii* aimtoMake this| corner the market place for all of the pro-j ducts of theiam.||^^ Co-operation is thefjkeynote tor ittM^s agriculture. farmers Mill & Elevator CQ. v%\ ^Valley National Farm Loan"1 Association i Farm Loans made through The Federal Land-Bank of St. Paul, Minn. AUG. A. JOHNSON Warren National Bank Secretary-Treasurer Warren, Minnesota Greeting of the The, Holiday Season affords us the welcome op- portunity of extending to you our: warmest regards and cordial wishes for a Joyous Christmas and a New Year that shall unfold Happiness and Prosperity in abundant measure. i 55* JKWn-n sdr1 '^'i sr I I