The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1904-05-05

world Is queer but thee and me, and
even thou art queer at times" We
are very sorry for his poor opinion of
US and our farmers, and maybe the
time will come when they will not re-
gret it. But why? We understand
that the farmers elevator at Coopers-
town intend to buy at lie of Duluth,
and to charge lie for putting grain
through the house. We never saw
the time yet when we would not buy
a carload of grain on that basis, and
our customers are charged 1c for put
ting their grain through. Shortly af-
ter McCo lloueh's visitation one of our
prominent farmers and a personal
friend of Macs. said to us: GAS long
as get my grain handled as you have
handled it. I don't see any induce
ment to 60 into farmers elevator"
The venerable sage advises us to put
in our time calling the farmers at
tention to the extortionate margins
the Old Line Co.'S. used to charge.
Thanks for the advice, but we believe
we are putting it in to better advan-
tage. We have known Of third rate
politician who put In time waving the
bloody shirt, and harping on issues
dead and gone. We might return the
advise by recommending that the
keen eyed seer once more take up his
harp and song Of the dangers of pro-
lection and the gold standard. It
won him seat at Bismarck, but did it
ever put a dollar in any one else's
pocket? This spring we have put out
pedigreed seed enough to SOW 5000
acres. If the claims of the Minnesota
experiment. station can be relied on,
it means an increase in the yield over
common seed of at least COCO bu.
worth at the present market some
5000. We brought in the first strict
ly fodder corn, and are busy showing
the sale of that also and next fall
hundreds Of waving acres will testify
to the value Of it as a forage crop.
Philanthropy? Oh no! There is
is money in it for us right now and we
think we can see more in the future.
But for every 8 we make the farmer
will make go. AS long as the necessity
lasted we put in our time calling at
tention to the big bargains.
Now as to our farmer catching-death
dealing net, pray what do you know
about it? Has it ever entangled you?
Do you know that at the present time
we are paying a &c premium for such
wheat as we can use? That some of
our customers had wheat that we
wanted and were not ready to sell, and
to those we have Issued storage tickets
which read-payable at DC over hard
and no storage. That we have Just
cleaned q car load of fax for another
at a cost Oslo and returned to him
screenings worth to us $50 and that hi
got DC more for.his fax and saved u
freight on the dirt? That last sum.
mer when the combine were after oul
scalp, that our friends sold to us ovel
10, 600 bu. Of max at lc less per bu. thar
the Others were :offering. That Twill
the rest Of you pray pardon the al
lusion) on three different occasions ".
have taken up mortgages on our Gus
TONERS teams tosave foreclosure, with
out a cent of profit to us? Do 70,
realize that every we do make, ant
our farmers give us so much to handl,
that we make several of them, goe
right into taxable property. We ar,
undoubtedly foolish in many ways, bu
we hope are not quite so far gone a!
the advice of the honorable gentleman
would indicate.
You re mind us very much Of Bryal
when he held the interview with tn,
inmate of an insane asylum, who sal,
to him-well never mind, that vii
keep until next time.