The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-05-21
GROUP BANKERS
Will FEATURE
LIBERTY LOAN
Third District Group Meet
sing to be Held at May
vile Tuesday
FLAX SOWING TO BE
GIVEN ATTENTION
Maynard, of A. G., to Dis
cuss Labor Situation
In State

Featuring the Liberty Loan, bank
eTs Of the third district group meet
ing Of the North Dakota Bankers as
sociation to be held at Mayville Tues
day will also have under discussion
the labor situation, emigration, thrift
guaranty OF deposit law, county
organization, cash item remittances
exchange, group life insurance and
banking education.
The program. as announced this aft
ernoon by III. p. Beckwith, secretary
treasurer Of the third district group is
Short snappy and interesting, will
open at 2 o'clock and last throughout
the afternoon. In the evening the
bankers and their friends will be
entertained with the usual dinner as
guests of the Mayville bankers.
Bankers from Fargo who will leave
Tuesday morning for Mayville are H.
Fl Beclxwith, Secretary Macfadden of
the state organization, Pierce w.
Clemens, T. III. Hansen, Frank Scott,
Fred Irish, B. ". Moore and FL. III.
Wooledge.
Maynard TO Talk.
Professor Maynard of the North Da-
kota Agricultural college. will handle
the subject of Labor and the Situation
in North Dakota;" Hon. b. j. Spald-
ing will discuss the features OF the
Liberty Loan bonds. Other general
discussions will be led by X. s. Groth,
president of the third district group:
Max Strehlow, vice president of the
organization, and 3. G. Olsegard Of
Neville. Committees will be named
on labor and agriculture.
Worth @. Couey of Grand Forks,
special agent for the department of
agriculture in the eradication of the
barberry bush, who makes a personal
canvass of the farm homes, and points
out the danger of this weed. will also
be one of the speakers.
Attention to Flax Crop.
Recognizing the Importance of
greater flax acreage in order to insure
an adequate supply of linseed oil for
the many manufacturing industries in
this country and for the use Of the
government in its increased activities
in, naval construction and the equip
ment of large armies, the bankers will
also give this phase of the agricultural
situation careful consideration.
AS flax can be grown on breaking
more successfully than any other crop,
the bankers will urge its use in bring
ing new land into cultivation. Further
more the bankers say FAX may be
soNI after - Is 70 late to ki9szs the
land for other crops. The noDblal con-
States is between 2s.00O.0 900 and 50.000.-
900 bushels annually. The production
In the United States in 1916 was esti-
mated at 15,459,OOO bushels.
Normally the difference between this
production and the consumption in
the United States would have been
made up by inportations from Canada
and Argentine but the Canadian acre
age has been curtailed to make more
land available for the growing of wheat
and other food stuffs. while the Argen-
tine crop Is almost total failure
The group meetings just opening are
dated as follows:
Third. district, Mayville May %;
district, Grand Forks,
May %: Second district Devils Lake.
May "a; Nrthwesternz 80 n41I1at,
May %; Missouri Slope district, Beach,
May 2s and 90; Fourth district, Lisbon,
May 81; Fifth district, Darlington,
Iune 1.