Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1913-10-02
FARMERS PROFIT
A NARROW N. gin
y n. COMMISSIONERS REPORT
FINDING OF FARM CONDI-
y TIONS IN STATE.

Ut OONOAs
y TIONs IN STATE.
Fargo, Sept. 27.-Following is the
report OF the commissioners appoint
ed by Governor Hanna to recon-
mend measures to meet the needs of
farming conditions in North Dakota
to the permanent American commits
, sion at Washington, D. G.
Clarence j. Owen, Director Gener-
al, the Permanent American Com
mission, Agriculture, Finance, Pro-
duction, Distribution, Rural Life.
My Dear Sir: We the undersign-
ed commissioners, appointed by Gov
ernor Hanna of North Dakota to re-
port on the agricultural needs of
North Dakota, respectfully submit
ted the following statistics:
Statistics show that in 1911 farm
els received $4,000, 100000 for their
products. Consumers paid $13,000,-
100000 for the same products.
Cost of transportation for the pro-
ducts was only 495,OO0,O00. The
farmers for such products, including
the cost of transportation, got less
than one-half Of the total amount
paid by the consumers.
The agricultural needs Of North
Dakota at the present time can be
best served by all the we'll disposed
people who are advising the farmers
how to travel the road to success,
making good in that line themselves,
that is, If we know how to farm and
how farmers ought to farm, let US
demonstrate the methods by pract-
zeal experience. In other words, main
tain successful farms where weeds
are cut, profitable crops raised, mois-
ture conserved, and success perpetu-
ated. Then demonstrate that all
this can be done at profit, and con-
vince the farmer that he is not being
made part of an industrial system
that is aiming to force production
due measure Of: profit.
When the country home Is given
>the same conveniences that the city
home enjoys. the city must pay for
its food supplies of the farm suf1i-
cient to hire the help necessary to
take care of the time and cost of such
improved living. Competition, men
tally, advantageously and economi-
cally, has been SO keen in the city
that the quality and price of help in
the country has not kept pace with
the price the city wishes to pay for
farm products. The result is the
changing Of ownership from the far
mer who lives on his farm to the city
! ownership.
Farming to be success must be
a profitable and enjoyable industry.
The farmers are getting tired of be-
ing preached at, but never get tired
Of seeing things grow or being made
to grow bountifully. Present meth
: DDS in national government tend to
nut the farmers in competition with
Al, the world, to set an example in
the competitive system, making 1t
necessary to produce the greatest
amount for the least compensation.
Over against this condition stands
the powerful organizations that tend
to hold production to a safe and pro-
fitable balance with the demand In
nearly all industrial fields including
skilled labor.
So far as North Dakota is concern
ed, no state in the union 10 better
equipped to supply the necessary
credit to farmers for their needs.
The university. agricultural college
experiment stations, farmers fnsti-
tutes, country schools, are all ade-
quate and progressive and practical
ly in the hands Of the farmers; rep
resentattve. government to shape &C.
cording to their own best interests
and the interests Of the state.
y In this direction we recommend
further effort and extension OF asri-
cultural and manual training IN all
ton farms throughout the country.
also a better farming association.
We recommend untiring effort IN
maintaining . cordial fellowship be-
tween the farmers and their brethren
OF the banks, the railroads and the
commercial centers.
The uplift ii on in North Dakota
and the intelligence Of the farmers
3 Il equal to their task. and today We
believe that the farmers are operat-
4. ing on ! narrower margin Of pront,
4 considerinR the. property and labor