The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-05-08

creating suspicion and discomfort?
And, sir. do you know that this organ
ization which you are abetting,
owes its very existence to the poison
administered?
l came to Dakota territory in 1888.
believe in farm organizations, / be-
lieve in cooperation. believe IL the
people of North Dakota want state
owned institutions for business. they
should have them. OF course, I would
be on the conservative side. However,
my idea is, there is only one system
wherein the producer will directly
benefit and that is through local CO.
operation in the way of improvement
and increased production, eventually
leading to a Standardization. For in
stance, eggs have been very high,
will no doubt continue to bring good
prices, yet the eggs come in in vary
ing degrees of size, color and fresh
ness. Some have to go back to the
farm on account of dirt or staleness.
And then the producer is so surprised
there should be objection to fertile
eggs for edible purposes.
You tell the consumer in New York,
the spirit surrounding and dominating
the Nonpartisan league is to get close
to them, in order that you may divide
with them the huge profits Of the mid
dleman who you claim Is robbing
them as well as the producer. Then,
| you turn squarely around and tell
your farmers, they should, through a
| plan of unlimited indebtedness in our
state, build immense elevators and
provide credit. so that the grain could
| be held for such prices as the pro-
Queer might demand.
Is this not. evident, that If your or
ganization will attempt to misinform
and mislead the consumer, is it not
fair to presume that you would and
are now misleading the producer? :
ID" feed wheat is now a nation
wide topic. Your speakers have talk
our farmers have sold not such thing
as ID" feed wheat. You well know
the feed grades are "a. "B", &C" and
3D.. "a" grade is wheat weighing AZ
to 4S pounds per bushel. 'B" 45 to 46
pounds, &c" 43 to Al pounds, ID" 80
to AZ pounds, the present price Of
which is $2.O2, $1.9O, $1.76 and $1.59,
respectively, per bushel f. G.. B. here.
Your speakers tell the people these
grades will make flour that will make
just as good bread at No. Northern
wheat will make. Yet. you know that
any miller in our state, or anywhere
| else would lose his reputation forever
I if he attempted to foist -four upon his
customers made wholly from these
grades. Our millers are now using a
mixture containing 20 per cent from
those grades; however, they fear the
results that may come from any ma
terial increase over this percentage.
Our livestock is a mixed breed, poor.
medium and fair grade. Very few OF
our farmers have any idea of what in
tensive or diversified farming is. Did
you ever hear the league speakers
talk Of these things?
/ Do you know that out of some two
hundred creameries in North Dakota
some 116 were closed in 1916? Do you
know that cream buyers in the cities
bid above market in the early spring
i to get cream coming their way, after
which they settle back to the mar
ket, feeling assured the cream will
keep coming, and did you ever hear
the leakue speakers tell our people of
this outrage, or make any attempt to
restore confidence in their own CO.
operative creamery?
Has 1t occurred to you that the
present price of flour is due to our
own peoples demand for boarding
purposes? Putting cash wheat at a
premium OF about s10O per bushel
do you know that If the boarded flour
now in farmers hands were put on the
market the price would drop out OF
cash wheat? This same thing applies
to sugar; everybody wants sugar
they seem to feel there win be no
sugar or flour to buy. One of my GUS
toners sent in for 500 pounds of flour
and afterward l found he had 1000
pounds in his attic. is this supply
and demand? Your speakers say il is
the stock gamblers and millers. Why,
my dear governor, don't you know
that IL you take the farmer speculat-
ors, millers and cooperative elevators
away frnm this Minneapolis chamier