Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1901-01-13

3 penalty Of ten per cent, and thereafter
such penalty and interest as is now pro
vided by law. The present law provides
personal property taxes shall be-
come delinquent on the LIST day Of Feb,
ruary, when a penalty Of five per cent
viii be added, and thereafter a penalty.
of one per cent a month shall be added
until paid. Real estate taxes become
on the LIST day of February,
when a penalty Of three per cent. shall
be added, another three per cent March
/, and another three per cent June 4,
and a final five per cent November / fol
lowing. The excuse for this postpone;
ment of tax settlement is failureo Of crops
and financial embarrassment of the peo-
pie. The wisdom of this legislation is.
seriously questioned. While it may EN-
barrass a large number Of individuals to;
pay their taxes when due. the extension.
of time affords only temporary relief,
and the penalty saved in each instance
will be but trifling compared to the gen-
eral injury the extension will work.
Corporations, bankers, merchants, cattle
owners. and others. most of whom are as.
able to pay their taxes when due IS any
time thereafter, will take advantage of
this extension law, and the result will be
that no taxes whatever will be paid, and
the town, city, county and state treasur-
les will be embarrassed for lack of funds
to discharge their obligations. A man
who pays, say $1,000 or $1,000 taxes, and
expects now to pay it before taxes be-
come delinquent, will hold fast to this
money and have the use of it during the
season. Few people pay taxes until they
have to. So long as there is no penalty
the individual will not pay his taxes. No
bill for the extension of the time for the
payment of taxes ought to pass. Our
revenue law may have some defects, but
the delinquency provisions are not
among them. Let the law stand, and if
a person doesn't want to pay his taxes
until another crop is harvested he sim
ply will have to pay-in penalties-what
will amount to a little more than the
interest on the money.
Pure Bred or Grades.
While there may be q difference OF
opinion as to whether the average
farmer should raise pure bred stock,
says r. p. Smith in The American
Cultivator, I don't believe any intelli,
gent wner OF stock has any doubt
about sticking at least to the good
graded animals. There are cases
where it would hardly pay a farmer
to stick exclusively to pure bred stock.
I doubt IL In the majority OF cases it
would prove profitable, but by con
stantiy grading up the herd or flock by
the use of pure sires we come as near
pure bred animals Is the conditions
In most cases warrant. This is a poll
cy. that no d can neglect or contra
dict. If a maj sticks to it, he is bound
to have stock that will In every re.
lspect meet the demands Of the day.
There are those who believe that the
average farmer should raise only pure
bred stock, and they fortify their posi-
ton with arguments that are pretty
strong. For instance, pure bred cattle
viii sell higher In nearly every market
and even the beef that comes from
pure bred cattle commands an extra
premium. This of itself is a strong
argument for the pure bIooded ami
mails. But there is 81 vast difference
between scrubs and pure bred stock
and usually the comparisons Of prices
are made between these two extremes
Ia well graded herd of cattle viii sell
nearly as well in any market as Thu
pure blood, and when the beef lis OF
fered for sale a good deal of 1t vii
pass as that from pure bred cattle
There is Of course all the difference ii
the world between different graded
herds. One nan win consider that biz
lis grading up his herd il he introduces
o full blooded sire nee in every tWt
or three years, while another VII
mean by graded stock only such al
has been raised directly from pure
bred sires. The breeding to such sires
must be constant and not occasiona
and spasmodic. lie this is done, there
is little IS for any to imagine tina
there Is anything of the scrub Id ths
cattle, sheep or swine. The tendency
OF course is to start in all right and
after few years Of successful grading
to fall back into old ways. When th,
animals have reached a point wher,
they seem as good IS any in the maj
ket, It is very natural to think tina
You can fall back upon some second
rate sire for q season and thus saw
little money. But this backward
step lis always fatal and may do NOR,
harm j ID d al than can be rectifet
infeur years Of careful grading again
When threatened by pneumonia
amy other lung trouble, prompt relief j
necessary, as il is dangerous to delay
We would suggest that One Minut4
Cough Cure be taken as soon i indica
tions Of having taken cold are. noticed
It cures quickly and It's early nse pre-
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