Devils Lake inter-ocean and Devils Lake free press. (Devils Lake, Ramsey County, N.D.) 1905-1909, 1909-04-16

farmer would sbe getting a little living q
and enough perhaps to lay aside g.
little something for bad years and old old
age. The struggle - with nature tol
raise the crop and with men to4 get
the price. . reasoned le price. based ~
on an honest cunt Of the cost Of 81
production, NJ price that should g, ''sl
every expense, not emitting wages:
We have heard the advice:
$ 5S don't you farm or4 Quar- Az
ter-sections Where, Il YOU please, iisss
the induceme when the demand $is
for cheaper wheat? We admit on q
large farm there Is proportii o.n,'atdely4
less money invested in sbuild ings, 5hous
5es and machinery. But would you ex s;
spect one mai tt DO the work Of Q Or
3 men? Should he slave away and:
every one of his family. besides? IT,
he hires a helper the helper will be
paid good wages; hut. the farmer, his
wife and children will only:5see what
lis left, If any, after paying eyeryb ody,,
elise. Either well nigh kill themselves
for wages or. else be satisfied with the:
lea, ings,is not that the proposition. Or
again Why cont YOU raise the Yes
|per acre? he III: ofessor who SAYS:
get more butter from tewer cows, ~
so says raise more 4 heat on fe~
acres that |. x,otl ADVICE as4iacsas
| it goes, as far as production goes. But
suppose we would raise more wheat
per acre and as much as we do now
on fewer acres, that would not give
Ius$ the ability to- get the night price
for it. What would the price be, what
should it be, how to get our, earnings,
would still be an open question Does
lhe mean that we raise too much
wheat? Y Then we should quit raising
SO much and what 20 To get a living,
we. should raise something else be
sides; diversified farming they call it.
We answer, we farm here. at a great
disadvantage; it is a new country; we
ARE trying: hard but we are not quite
ready for 1T. But when we do, we
A will adopt a system of citation; we
Twill add cattle, hogs or sheep; we will
! raise grasses, corn; and other feed
grain; or. any other crop as we may
| think Yet shall we not face the
same difficulty? The price of other
1 products is no better than the price
of wheat. They have adopted diversi:
fed farming in other parts of the
country, and although itsmay be called
and is better farming, it does not pay
The returns, do not compensate for
the trouble Talk about the money
made by farmers, or the increase oi
bank de posits Is The money made was
q not5 made farming but IN owning
farms; in selling farms, material
Egoods or machinery; in buying grain;
j in banking in threshing or In some
J other line Of business collecting full
i payment; but not in farming for mean
and insigni fcent wages or no wages
you have any. doubt about it, go and
Z ask the actual farmers, the. genuine
/ country laborers. They will give yos
i, an estimate Of the work performed
They will tell you the way they lived
i they had. to live; how sayingly ant
!, miserably, and for years by the yer.
]. force Of circumstance all subject t
a common Misfortune. as a doWntrod
Z den class, with no say about a price
3 that robbed them of their portion. 15Ss
Methinks, - hear their sights 70
], dollar-wheat from all the farms. Yea
I. more, some are now getting ready t,
4 I. press their claim. Shall the people
allow! viii the farmers get thei
!. dues THE members Of the America
society Of equity say they will, an,
3 they invite all farmers to stand witt
], them for the profitable price:
q G. Ri CHARLES,
i Bartlett, N. d. .Ss5
q @ ebruary y 1903