The Devils Lake world and inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1915-1920, 1918-08-14
! !: /
HOLD. MEETING
HERE: FL [: LAST ! ] SAT.

Last Saturday afternoon there was
q meeting Of the threshermen Of the
county held in the court house in this
city. The court house was well filled,
there being about 200 people present,
about Is Of these being man who own
ed or were interested in threshing ma
chimes in this county, and the balance
of the crowd were farmers and busi-
ness men who were simply spectators.
There was q representative of the
government present to tell the thresh-
-ers how they might save grain in var
fous ways and he talked for over an
hour, and his talk was very interest
ing. At the close Of his talk he stated
that he was ready to entertain any
smotions that the threshers might de-
sire to make, and after some short
talks q thresher made a motion to fix
the price Of threshing as follows:
Oats 10 cents per bushel; barely II
cents per bushel, wheat - cents per
Ebushel, rye 10 cents per bushel and
flax 80 cents per bushel. After some
discussion Art Smith Of Noonan two,
amended the motion by making the
price IL, IA, 20 and 80 cents per bushel
for the above kinds Of grain respec-
lively. There were talks amde by diff
.ferent ones, several expressing the
opinion the price was too high, but
most Of the talking was done by a few
who have threshing rigs, and seem to
be out to bleed the farmers for very
cent they can get, and when the
amendment was put and carried by q
good majority, but 16 threshermen
present voted against it, believing that
such prices were unjust and unfair.
After the meeting was over several
'threshermen who attended the meeting
stated that they would not abide by
any such price, as it was entirely too
much to charge for threshing such 9
crop as We have at present.
Some days ago the farmers Of the
county held meeting in this city and
fixed the prices Of wages. They fixed
$3.50 per day shocking, but i notwith-
standing this fact these IS thresher-
men proceeded to tell the farmers Of
the county what they should pay fo1
shocking, and County COMMISSIONS,
Thos. Maloney amde motion to pay
40 cents per hour for shocking, and Al
cents per hour for threshing. Not
satisfied with fixing an unjust and ar.
sbitrary price for threshing, they were
evidently bound to saddle little more
off onto the farmer, by raising the
price Of shocking, but not raising the
price Of labor for threshing.
After the price was fixed for thresh.
ing in order to cinch things, a man
who owns a threshing rig in this coun.
1ty, but who lives in New York, and has
come all the way here for the purpose
of making a killing" threshing this
fall, made a motion that the farmer
should furnish hay, oats, vegetables
and fuel, and this went right through
without a hitch.
df the threshers in that meeting had
showed any disposition to be fair ani
reasonable with the farmer of the
county, the meeting might have had
"a good result, but as it is we believe
that the meeting did more harm thar
good, and that the prices are so out
rageously unfair that possibly half o1
the .threshermen Of the county vii pay
mo attention to the prices fixed, but
will go on threshing and make a fai,
land honest charge to their neighbo1
farmers.
We noticed among the boosters fo1
high prices for threshing, was ou1