The Fargo forum and daily republican., 1907-03-05

sold for $4 per ton to the stock food
companies.
when / was down there to attend
the meeting of the inspection board
Mr.. Mccarthy went on the stand and
swore that they sold that to the stock
food men for $4 per ton You never
knew how they got that stock food
flavor You run your hand into one
of those sacks where they are sacking
ii UP in the cleaning house. and it
smells of stock food. You are feeding
this to your horses at that price which
don't cost them anything. The next
time the stock food man comes along
and you tell him this. he will go right
i UP into the air, but this is their
sworn statement and it shows where
this dust goes to that is stacked up
and sold for stock food. They take
and sell the screenings also, but sell
them as screenings This is the very
thing that ] have worked on for four
! or five years; and that is. that if this
dust is to be sold for stock food. let
US sell our own dust and let us have
the benefit of it. The farmers know
that this don't suit them, but still
the commission men and the line ele-
vator men are doing just the same as
they have done before. The commits
sion on the farmers elevator compa-
, MES amounted to about $250,000 last
season.
we have u little commission house
down in Minneapolis that is organized
purely from the farmers, but we do
not get the business that we should
get. Now, / think the Society of
Equity is going to become an educator
and educate the farmers. They will
read UP these propositions. We have
got to have our terminal houses, we
have got to have our granaries to
take care of this wheat and keep it
back off the market. God Almighty
seems, to have been with us this win
ter. and most of our wheat is still
back in the country not having been
moved yet, but as soon as the roads
are opened up wheat will go down
within the next forty days; it is bound
to go down. But il you will keep this
wheat off the market. and put it on
just as the people want it, it is bound
to come up. Take the figures on
these crops; the bigger the crops you
have received, the less these crops
have brought you You have had
larger returns from your light crops.
have not advocated raising more
stuff but getting a better price for
what we did raise. Mr. Hill wants
you to raise more stuff because he
gets more freight, and the more stuff
you raise the more freight he gets.
liz you raise thirty bushels of wheat
In North Dakota, what is going to be
the result? Overproduction. The
smaller crop is the crop that pays I
would be in favor Of not sowing so
much wheat, but SOW some oats and
barley. and not produce SO much
wheat, because If you produce so
much, we are bound to get less for 1T
liz you have got more than the market
will need. This is very plain to you,
and If you read the papers you will
catch onto this thing.
mo wonder Mr. Hill wants this land
ditched. He looks at this land that is
low lying here that he Is not getting
anything out of. II that land pro-
duced twenty bushels per acre, that
is s2 per acre for him, and il you
don't get in the land he don't get the
So, and that is why he wants it
ditched.
.'They have spent thousands OF dol
lars at the agricultural colleges to get
the farmers to produce more goods,
but they have never thought OF how
to market the same so as to get more
for lit. and the organizations get to-
gether and the elevator companies and
they set the price on what we raise
I'VE know these farmer elevator
companies have raised the grade and
the price, and we know that they have
made market for our wheat, and we