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Luxemburger gazette. [volume] (Dubuque, Iowa) 1871-1918, 1912-12-24


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Luxemburger gazette. [volume] (Dubuque, Iowa) 1871-1918, 1912-12-24
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Luxemburger gazette. [volume] (Dubuque, Iowa) 1871-1918, 1912-12-24
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Luxemburger gazette. [volume] (Dubuque, Iowa) 1871-1918, 1912-12-24
sfas Cher ffeinen geamtenifuot.

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Luxemburger gazette. [volume] (Dubuque, Iowa) 1871-1918, 1912-12-24

felt eln Sonlm pflegem #itil0 1d,iiBen.
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Luxemburger gazette. [volume] (Dubuque, Iowa) 1871-1918, 1912-12-24

S8r merbcn einem jeocn nnierer abpnnenten, Der ieuc Ghdhdnbc
nnb elm Sabr i'm guraus be5ablt mno 12 Gents ertra binSuihst, einen
goienfran5 upm Sciisiten Atarsiaframent nit Wtebaiac ibcrienbcn.
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IL Gents hinSu; falls Sic an einen mn6rer SDfaiagentcu bcsablcu,
n1gen Sic tim erinden, Sbnen einen bieier Huicnfran5e 5u beiDrgeu,
mas CT gerne tbnn wiro, wenn Sic bic ubisen Yebinsnnsen crfiaen.
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Setragc Gin. .s
Luxemburger gazette. [volume] (Dubuque, Iowa) 1871-1918, 1912-12-24
0ssen GrebsTaaoeH.

80 eniptehls hermit Stroop's 6erabmt.
bentfds Inloet. Eteiel6en beilen eoen InoS
nid,t auieebrodbenen) stre6si ouo1l tnnerlh AID
6uBerlit. Dos anertannt etnbig bette 1iittsL, uni
Deagentrebs erfolgretd3 81 beilen. geegen 0ias.
gent Heugutts v. T. 10. , ffreibe man an:
Dire. y. 8osotna,
Seneca, Ran.ds-
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1912-05-16
ONE KIND OF BARLEY.
lRy Prof. r. a. Moore.

ny Prof. r. A. Moore.)
Yhe aim OF the grower OF select
bailey Is to get the entire community
in which he resides interested In
growing select barley instead Of
scrub varieties. Thus seedsmen and
farmers can secure this improved seed
bailey in limited or carload quantities
at reasonable increase over the reg.
ular general market price Of barley.
BY pursuing this method Of dissemina,
ton several select barley centers are
established in each township of the
barley growing counties where farmers
are able to secure the seed In large or
small quantities near at hand. Farm
ers throughout the state have quickly
availed themselves of the opportunity
OF securing select seed barley from
the growers or seedsmen. Through
this rapid method Of dissemination
the select barley is displacing the
common varieties until whole com
munities are now growing this one
breed of barley to the exclusion Of
nearly all other varieties
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1912-05-16
MORE 1RAIN-LEss SWEAT.

Abraham Lincoln said 60 years ago
that a man was foolish to walk all
over 40 acres when he could raise the
same crop in ten by intensive cult.
vat!on. It is not so necessary that the
farmer should plant more acres or
work harder, but it is only common
sense for him to use modern scien-
y itlc methods instead of his GRANDPA
theT's4 old rule Of thumb" and his
grandmother's old rule OF the dark
of the moon The modern idea is to
Save work and get larger results; to
better the quality and to make more
money If every farmer should grade
and select his seed; should grade and
clean the grain which he markets. and
should feed the screenings on the
farm, the price Of every grain would
go up and stay up, because the in,
creased quality would be worth the
money, and when the poor grades
were not marketed there could never
be glut of the market.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1912-05-16
TOOLS NEEDED FOR BARLEY.

e. Z. Demaree, Aoronomlst. ]. !. Case
Piow Coz
me Preparation Of the land and
feeding Of barley varies widely with
the locality.
Barley is, Of course, best adapted
% the cool. moist conditions Of the
nortn, but may be successfully grown
anywhere . in the grain belt. Where it
is made main crop, it will pay to
ploW the land. preferably in the fall.
WORK up fine seed bed by double
alsking the land in the spring and
orll ID seed as early az possible.
the northern zone Of the corn
Delt barley can be sown after corn. In
TINS case the land may be double disk.
ca N the spring. narrowed down and
tne seed drilled in. Spring barley 10
also grown to some extent in the corn
D pei often displacing oats. In this
case the above preparation Of soil and
seeding will secure the best and most
economical results.
The machinery requirements for
the barley raiser will vary with the
locality log In general, however. any
man raising small grain should hava
2 GOOD disk. plow. a smoothing har.
row and a drill.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1912-05-16
Sixteenth Article - Why Taxes are
Necessary

Organized society, usually called
government, has many objects besides
securing to people the fright to life"
liberty and the pursuit Of happiness
To attain these ends it frames poll
|cies promotiye of the general vel
fare and it devises ways and means
to defray the cost of carrying out it's
policies. The latter is, the age-long
problem of taxation.
1t is a general policy of government
to do these things for all which no
one could do as we'll or at as low cost
for oneself. For instance it estab-
fishes public schools under that poll
cy. To secure to all the fright to
life, liberty and the pursuit of happi-
ness it must preserve order, insure
enjoyment of those rights, protect in
dividuals and property. To do this
lit has to establish and maintain
courts and their stats of officials. To
give effect to these and the many 9TH
er functions of government public
buildings must be erected and main
tanned, land and material bought and
a large number of persons employed,
all of which must be paid for.
Organized society has no other way
to obtain the money with which to
defray these costs than by COMPEL
ing those who get the benefits to con-
tribute the money. It cannot make
money. 1t can borrow it, but that
merely defers to future time the
call upon the citizen. Without mon
ey to carry on it's activities govern
ment could not exist and society
would relapse into the barbarism
from which it's organizing redeemed
it. This is the unacceptable condition
that makes taxation necessary.
Out of the experiments Of govern
ments in the past, modern govern
ments, have come to derive revenue
mainly by two methods, one the di-
rect, the other the indirect method
of taxing. The direct tax is based
upon Adam Smiths third principle
that everyone should contribute to
|the general expense in proportion to
his ability to pay" In theory, attic
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1912-05-16
FARMING A BUSINESS.

The successful farmer today is al.
ready business man and that some.
what mythical character known al
1.-THE farmer" cannot be segregated
because so many farmers are mer.
chants, professional men. judges,
bankers, legislators. and so blend In
with every walk of life that he can.
not be treated as a class apart. The
average farmer knows what he is
about and he Is working In earnest to
make a living for himself and family,
He cannot lake the advice of every
Tom. Dick and Harry and you cannot
blame him If he resents the whole
sale criticism which IS being piled
upon him He has been patronized.
preached to, threatened. coddled,
wheedled. bullied, coaxed and bribed
until his manhood and intelligence
naturally revolt
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1912-05-16

dam pictured above e vital Of the
erected
hak remarkable
when length
miles
~ a ao76o,0oo0oo gallons
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1912-05-16

Success Manure Spreaders in both
styles of return apron and endless
apron sold by w. F. Powell & Co.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1912-05-16

care of the whole difficulty. Fifty
important firms on the continent are
building tractors and extending their
facilities every year because Of the
wonderful growth of the Northwest
and Western Canada.
AS an indication of the interest
aroused by the passage of these trains
it is related that when the first trac-
tor train rachel Regina, Sask. in
March 1911, nearly 500 citizens walk
ed out in the yards, nearly a mile and
men in the West realize their depend
ence upon agriculture much more
keenly than those in manufacturing
towns, and both business men and
farmers have become thoroughly inn
bued with the idea of using the ma
chine for the heaviest work. A train
load, therefore, that promises to add
a MILAN and a quarter of dollars to
Canada's wealth this year is an event
which aroused the keenest interest
Many of the tractors are going for use
on lands that have already been put
into use but the majority will go to
break up new soil which is almost too
tough for subjugation by animal pow
er, and thus the sending of mechani-
cal power means an actual addition
to the resources Of the West.
In this big train are a number of
smaller tractors well adapted for the
general purpose work on land after
it has once been broken, but the ma
jority are of the bigger, slower, dur
able high-powered type that is in de-
maand no win Canada for making
farms out of the raw prairie.
The train was accompanied by y. j.
Rumely, vice president of NJ. Rnmely
Company, of La Porte, Indiana, max
ers of the Oil Pull Tractor; r. L.
Bretnor, Minneapolis, Manager of the
Rumely Products Co., r. B. Robit-
shek and L. w. Ellis of the Advertis-
ing Department of NJ Rumely Co.,
several officials of railroad company
and numerous dealers and statesmen
who are each riding a few miles with
the train as it passes through their
various localities.
Nels Johnson is the compaDy's To-
cal agent in Warren.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1912-05-16
OFFER BIG PRIZE FOR BEST
WHEAT

Five thousand dollars for the best
five bushels of wheat grown in the
American Northwest is the prize an
nounced as the grand champion
sweepstakes to be awarded by the
Northwest Development League this
year.
This is the worlds greatest prize
for Wheat-twit e as large as any
prize ever offered in Canada, five
times as much as has ever been Of
fered in Canada, five times as much
as has ever been offered before for
any class of grain in United States
The wheat is to be displayed at the
Northwestern Products Exposition
which will be held IN Minneapolis or
Nov. IL TO %. No entry fees will be
charged. The samples must contain
five bushels and along with the
threshed grain ten bundles or sheaves
from six to ten inches in diameter
must be sent.
States which compete are Minneso-
ta, North Dakota, South Dakota, Ida.
no, Washington ard Oregon.
The prize consists of Big Four
$50" farm tractor manufactured by
the Gas Traction Company of Mime.
apolis and set of ploWs made by the
Observation-Disclosures Company Of
Rockford, Ill. The tractor and plows
will be delivered to the winner free
of cost by the Development League.
This machinery was selected by the
officers of the league after much con
sideration Of what the prize should be
and it was decided the most practica!
prize would be farm tractor and
plows. The tractor selected will do
most anything, blowing, harvesting,
drilling, narrowing, threshing or
freighting.
NJ Conditions under which this prize
will be given are being prepared by
Will A. Campbell, secretary Of the
League with Offices in Minneapolis,
MINI. and they will be sent out free
to any farmer or grain grower in the
northwest.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1912-05-16
MONEY IN BARLEY.
(ev r.. e. Kruger,

Barley as cash crop deserves care
full attention by progressive farmers.
If one variety of recognized value is
grown and care taken that varieties
be not mixed, the crop will be more
valuable on the market since the malt
sters desire barley which will germ
mate at the same time Investigations
show that the majority of maltsters
prefer the six-rowed bearded barley
Barley may be grown in rotation
profitably and is one of the best
nurse crops to use in seeding clovers
or grasses Statistics for the entire
country show that barley is exceeded
pnly by corn in average yield and
value per acre, and in digestible nu-
Erients, which represent its feeding
yalue. it is also second only to corn.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1912-05-16
TAXATION IN MINNESOTA
THE IS ONE OF SERIES OF ARTICLES PUBLISHED
BY REQUEST OF THE MINNESOTA TAX COMMISSION
CRITICISM OR SUGGESTION IS CORDIALLY INVITED

not always true in practice, ability to
pay is measured by the amount and
value of property owned by an indi-
vidual and is known with us as the
general property tax. The indirect
method levies tax on a commodity
or service. Except where limit is
put upon what price may be charged
for commodity or service, those own
ing the one or rendering the other
may add the tax to cost and, merged
in price, pass it on to be paid by the
consumer, or the served. OF this
form of taxation cur gross earnings
tax andthe license paid by liquor
dealers are illustrations.
The direct tax is intended to rest
where paid and not be shifted on to
others and, largely, this is true. 1t
cannot be shifted where the person
paying it cannot make the price Of
what he sells. 1t can be where that
power exists, as with landlords, for
instance, who may merge taxes in
rentals, or money lenders who may
make borrowers pay the tax levied on
credit instruments. But whichever
method is adopted payment of the tax
is essential to maintenance of govern
ment.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1912-05-16
Extends Its Lines from Neche on the
Canadian Border into the Heart Of
the Metropolis Of Canadian North
west
The Worlds Largest Shipment Of Az.
riculturaI Machinery Inaugurates
the Service

The Great Northern Railway sig
nalized it's entrance into the city of
Winnipeg over it's own rails by hauling
the largest trainload of agricultural
machinery ever handled over any
railroad in the world. One hundred
cars of Oil Pull Traction Engines
manufactured by the NJ Rumely Com
pany of La Porte, Indiana, left ST..
Paul on Thursday, May 9, 1912, in
two sections for Winnipeg.
The first section of this wonderful
train arrived in Warren at about
seven o'clock on Friday evening, the
second section about half an hour
later. A large number of people from
the city and from the country for
miles around focked to the depot to
see the novel sight. A U. S. Infantry
band accompanied the train and dur
ing the short stay here played sever
al selections. Souvenirs and other
advertising matter were freely dis
trlbuted to the people, A Rumely
engine and a grain separator, also an
oil tank and other accessories con-
stituted the load of nearly every fiat
car. The bright colors, mostly red,
with which the machinery was paint
ed, made a very striking picture
By acquiring trackage rights into
the city Of Winnipeg, the Great Nor
thern adds about seventy miles to it's
Canadian mileage. Already it has
more than six hundred miles of line
in Manitoba and British Columbia.
The Great Northern Railway was a
considerable factor during the winter
of 1911 and 1912 in relieving grain
congestion in Manitoba and eastern
Saskatchewan; it handled about three
thousand cars of grain through Port
age La Prairie and about half of that
amount through Emerson to the head
of the lakes, hits exclusive of what
was handled over it's own Manitoba
lines.
The Great Northern has more than
once helped out the people of West
ern Canada in connection with coal
shortage. Last year it handled thou
sands of tons of coal through Alberta
The movement of the LOO car train
Of Rumely Company Oil Pull Traction
Engines from ST. Paul to Winnipeg
-. :. o.
tors which have contributed to the ag-
ricnltural development of Northwest
ern Canada, the railroad and the
engine. Prior to the movement Of
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Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1912-05-16

the worlds largest trainlOad of trac-
ton engines, the M Rumely Company
shipped to Winnipeg over $50 cars of
traction engines destined to the grain
fields of Manitoba, Alberta and Sas-
katchewan.
This great trainload of 100 Oil Pull
Tractors was valued at approximately
quarter of a. million dollars when it
left the factory, while freight and du-
ty will materially increase this by
the time it reaches Winnipeg. While
the engines on the cars We're of three
different sizes the average weight was
close to $4,000 pounds each or 1900
tons as total. 100 brand new fiat
cars, each weighing 100000 pounds,
added 1000 tones more to the burden
behind the great Mallet locomotive.
These 100 engines would have suf-
ficient power to equal the work of
5000 horses in stationary work such
as running the threshing separator
and wood saw: For blowing and 9th
er work involving straightforward
motion the work of the engine would
be cut in half, but still would equal
the power of $500 horses. IN some
cases they could be used to equal the
work of much greater number, since
it is the practice to work the tractor
day and night in rush seasons. For
each horsepower, however, minimum
of 25 acres of wheat land in cultiva.
ton can be estimated and from the
$500 acres which could be plowed,
seeded, harvested, threshed and haul
ed by these tractors in 100 ten-horu
days, we can safely estimate 1885,
COO bushels of grain added to Cana
da's wheat crop this year.
This one shipment is only Incl
dent as compared with the stream of
agricultural machinery pouring into
Western Canada. A recent report of
the Minister of Agriculture at Ottawa
shows that in the three prairie pro.
vinces nearly 2O0,00O,OOO acres of till
able land lie in virgin state waiting
for p}ows and mechanical power
From every factory in the States and
from several eastern Canada factor
les, great shipments are going for
ward to answer the call for more
wheat and more power to raise it
Western Canada last year bought 81
worth Of tractors for every man, wo
man and child. One factory in Indi
ana last year shipped solid train
loads into Western Canada before the
list of July and this year is shipping
100 per cent more power machinery
than it did year ago.
The high cost of living is creating
an unusual demand for bread, and in
both our own Northwest and in Can
ada mechanical power has been the
only solution. Horses are too high
priced and too expensive to maintain
since they are idle about s hours Out
Of every 9 in the wheat country They
cannot be produced quickly enough
to take care of the increased demand
for wheat, and the oil tractor appear.
ed on the scene just in time to take