Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1905-02-09

live stock, apply the manure, plow
less, cultivate thoroughly, in this
way grow better and larger crops; in
this way you will grow moro wheat
on smaller acreage.
Farmers must face conditions that
they have not known before: these
conditions menace agriculture. 1t
will be sorry day for the country
when farming becomes Improbable,
when land ceases to be cultivated by
the owner and is in the hands OF
tenants; the beginning OF the end is
not far away.
Notwithstanding the apparent
prosperity of farmers during the past
decade they are today facing problems
that are not easy-the prices Of
farm products are not commensurate
with the present prices Of land and
labor. It is evident that there is
something, either the producer is
not receiving fair consideration for
his products or the consumer is pay
ing too much. When the producer is
selling his fat sock at four cents pei
pound on foot and in many instances
less and the consumer is paying for
the finished product IL to 18 cents a
pound, is it not time to call halt?
Farmers are you ready to stand for
this, do you feel it IS fair deal?
If you are the only producers of
wealth, is this the kind of treatment
you should receiver DO you longer
propose to submit the iron heel of
concentrated capital. Within twelve
months, we are told that when the
farmers of the middle west shipped
train loads of fat cattle, sheep and
swine TO the largest market in the
country ir response to advertised
prices for the same-when placed on
the market there was only one bid.
der and that at price forty per
cent below the advertised price.
After the sale was concluded the
stock was divided up and driven to
the various packing houses. The
far ners returned to their homes
poorer but let US hope wiser.
I would consider a man gentle
men that would hold me up at the
midnight hour and take my last
dollar as compared with this kind of
deal.
They tell US that farmers will not
stand shoulder to shoulder and pro.
tect their own interests, that their
mission in the "orld is to dig and
toll and let the other fellows grow
fat on the sweat Of the farmers brow.
Farmers, we are told that a man is
worse than an infidel who will not
provide for his own. The dairy farm
ers of Wisconsin, Iowa and Minnesota,
have organized built and equipped
more than two thousand manufactur-
ing plants viz: Cooperative creamer
les, they have likewise furnished the
raw material to be manufactured
into a finished product. They sold
their product not to local parties bl t
direct to the largest handlers of
creamery butter in the world, after
paying the actual expenses of manu-
facture, the farmers receive the bal
ance. No middle man comes in be-
tween the producer and consumer.
Farmers is not this the solution9 If
we can organize, build equip and
successfully manage this large num-
Der of cooperative creameries, and
market the product is not co-opera-
tion the remedy: if we can success
fully handle the most perishable pro-
ducts of our farms. why not all the
products, thus saving number of
profits that the producer looses and
the consumer pays; why not have
in your own beautiful little city a
farmers cooperative packing house,
a farmers cooperative produce,
poultry and egg house; last but not
least, a cooperative elevator where
your grain will be cleaned and sold
to buyers that will come to your place
of business. Farmers is it not time
for US to abandon this fleeing sys-
TEN? The world is moving rapid
ly, we must vake up or be lost in the
shuttle. #s