The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-02-15
IMPLEMENT men
WILL CONCLUDE
SESSIONS TODAY
Has Been Remarkably Sue
cessful Convention With
Splendid Attendance
WILL ELECT OFFICERS AND
NAME next MEETING PLACE
Fargo and Valley City Are In the Race
speakers Point to New Ideas In
Field Of Machinery Dcvelopmeut-
Adoption of Modern Methods Urged

two-hour concert by the Grand
Forks Military band will be feature
OF the convention of the North Da.
kota and Northwestern Minnesota
Implement Dealers association con.
vention at the auditorium tonight.
The program will start at z o'clock
and will be concluded at 0 o'clock.
when the musicians will go to the
Hotel Dacotah TO play for their an
nual ball. A program Of special in.
terest mas been arranged for the inn
plement men and the visiting com.
mercial travellers
This band concert will mark the
close of what is said to have been the
most successful convention in the his
tory of the implement dealers or.
ga nization and to make the affair the
more popular the big auditorium will
be thrown open to the public tonight.
The exhibits of the wholesale machine
dealers will remain intact, SO that
visitors to the auditorium tonight will
not only hear some real jingling
tunes but will have the opportunity
OF seeing what is being accomplished
IN the implement dealers world.
Is Frcc-for.,.ll Day.
Travellers. jobbers and others are
telling what they think will help the
implement dealers at the convention
this aternoon. The discussion. free
for-all. opened shortly after 2 O'Clock
and proved to be lively feature Of
the closing days program.
Later today reports of special COM
nlittees will be read and the election
OF the board of directors will take
place.
Two Cities Want Meeting.
Inc selection OF the next meeting
place will also come up for consid-
TO, t1,f
ana Galley City are said to be making
the most aggressive fight for the
honor of entertaining the implement
men. Both these cities have live
oalesatlons of boosters at the conven-
ton and the praises of the two places
as convention cities are being sung
inns afternoon with a right good will
Fargo and Valley City are in the
race for the 1913 convention of the
North Dakota and Northwestern Min
nesota implement Dealers association
meeting, the present convention OF
winch Will be brought to close this
afternoon. An executive session IL
being held today at which the elec-
ton of officers and the selection Of
tic next meeting place are the prin-
clpal matters for consideration.
Change in Production Cost.
Reliable statistics inform us that.
IN the aggregate. over three hours
Ia Dor was required in 1880 to pro-
ducs one hushel of wheat. while in
1895 only ten minutes per bushel was
required. In other words 1t took eigh-
teen times as much labor to produce a
hushel of wheat in 1880 as it did in
1906. and. estimating la bor at 90 cents
an hour. the cost of labor per bushel
has heen reduced from so cents to u
cents. In 1850 the labor represented
by hushel Of corn in the crib was
four and one-half hours as against
forty minutes. or about one-seventh
as much in 1896. so that, estimating
the cost OF labor at the same rate per
hour as for wheat, the cost of labor
has been reduced from 80 cents to
lo y cents per bushel.
American genius and inventiveness
are responsible for the larger part Of
the farm machines that have proved
effective in recent years.
This is what Prof. r. NJ. Dolve Of
the North Dakota agricultural college
believes and this is what he EXPLAIN
ed to the implement dealers present at
tie thirteenth annual convention
Wednesday afternoon. Prof. Dolve
continued:
Americans are Responsible.
All modern farm machines that
have proved effective are Of compara-
lively recent origin and are largely
the product of American genius and
inventiveness. Although the prlrai.
tive conception OF these machines may
date back to the dim and distant past
Of prehistoric times. their present
state OF perfection has been attained
within the memory of men living to-
day. The steel plow is scarcely more
than SO years old; the modern drill
las been used less than so years, and
the tWine binder completed it's 3Sth
harvest last summer.
During this short half century farm
machinery has reyolutionfzed the eco.
homie production of food; it has
lightened the task of labor and eman.
cipated the farmer from that charac-
teristic appellation-"the man with
the hoe" which has clung to him
for centuries. 1t is evident that the
American farmer of today owes his
supremacy in the agricultural world
not so much because he has been en-.
dowed with some Of the worlds rich
est SOIL and enjoyed the benefits of a
good government as because of the
genius OF American inventors whose
la Dor saving machines have vastly in
creased his power OF production This
increase IN power Of production has
not only bettered the farmer but the
consumer as we'll. People do not gem
efal!y realize how much they are de.
pendent upon farm machinery for
their low priced -four and other food
products. There was a time when
hour was luxury that only the rich