The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1917-09-06
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PROTEST PRICE
!. FOR . II Y NE
Declare Anything Under So the
Bushel Represents Loss to
- the Farmer ~

Dunn Center, ~ D., Sept. Ode
claring that any price under SO repre-
SCENTS a loss 70 the farmer and an evil
dence of bad faith on the part of the
government and limiting that the fix
ing Ola price at 1920 will mean i'm
mense profits for grain gamblers who
can buy at this figure wheat which
they have contract to deliver for So,
farmers OF the vicinity of Dunn Cen
ter have gone on record in favor OF
the reopening Of the price,tiXing com
mittee's conference on the spring
wheat proposition.
DIR. Il. N. Hegge presided at the To-
cal meeting, and Thee. G. Nelson act
ed as secretary Messrs, Nelson and
Hegge and A.. J. BretZlOff were nam
ed delegates to the NOnpartisan
league meeting called in Fargo to con-
slider. the price for wheat, q fund was
every. farmer who markets grain at
Dunn Center dollar apiece, and
there was adopted the following reso'
lutions, which will be presented az the
Fargo meeting by the delegates
chosen:
se eve, farmers of Dunn county,. North
Dakota, tributary to the village OF
Dunn Center, ass nLled in mass meet
ing for the purpose Of considering the
wisdom and fairness of the United
States government in fixing a price
ut which 1t reserves the right to pur-
chase all Of the 1911 wheat crop Of
,fered. for sale, do hereby, after care
full and sincere elaboration, express
our conclusions and beliefs as fol-
lows: -~A, =, ....,...,,. .....
"That in response 10 an insistent
urging on the part Of the United
States government to Increase the
acreage Of spring wheat In the spring
Of 1917, and upon the promise of a
rcmunerative price for the crop when
produced, we have practically doubled
our spring wheat acreage even though
clean seed wheat cost us from $3.50
per bushel up: that owing. to the con-
stantly increasing cost OF all farm
implements lumber, labor, manufac-
tured necessities of life, and other
items constituting elements OF cost,
we now find that it will cost us from
$4,000 to s24.00 per acre for every
acre of wheat produced, harvested
and market ted, on our respective farms,
and that with an average yield Of
about eight (S) bushels to the acre
our cost per bushel will be from $3.50
to $500. With basic price OF 500
at the terminals we will I.t approx
mately s1.95 per bushel net for our
best wheat at our local market. We
will be compelled to suffer a loss OF
from .35c to 81 ,05. per. .bpshel for every
bushel of 1917 wheat crop required
off our hands by the United States
government. Having strained our
credit 10 produce this crop many OF
us now find ourselves confronted with
a serious financial embarrassment.
Many of us will be compelled to sell
off our farming equipment and seed
IN order to meet current bills, and let
our farms, go back to original owners
Of the raw land for. want OF being able
to meet interest payments or pay
meots on the purchase price.
Eve further beg permission to call
attention to the fact that the growers
Of winter wheat in states to the south
'of us marketed their 1917 crop on
basic price of $500 or more per bush
el. ""That winter wheat crop as a gen.
eral rule yields more bushels to the