The twice-a-week Twin Falls times. (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1916-1918, 1918-01-22

North Dakota through the raising Of
this wheat contributes as much or
more to the winning of the war than
any other state. We raise wheat.
Now we want you to emphasize this
because in North Dakota the farmers
raise the wheat and that is all they
have to do with it. After they raise
it they turn it over to the grain trust
to handle 1t for them. We haven't
been getting along well raising wheat
in North Dakota, though the average
farmer out there will raise enough
wheat in one year TO feed his family
so years There is a great difference
between raising wheat and handling
wheat. There is a great difference
between raising anything you farm
ers produce and handling it. Did you
ever hear of a farmer handling any
thing? All the farmer does is raise
it. To illustrate: / see lots of potato
warehouses and so / suppose you
raise potatoes"
Mr. Townley at this point elaborat-
ed on the similarity of the essentials
of raising" potatoes and raising"
wheat. declaring that the somebody
who handles" the potatoes after the
farmer has delivered them in the box
car, makes more money handling one
bushel than you do in raising ten"
He said speaking of raising a calf,
after you work three years to raise
it somebody will handle it in about
| twenty minutes and make more out
of it than you make after three years
of raising it," He declared that the
newly elected farm governor of North
| Dakota loaded his own potatoes on a
car last fall for SO cents a bushel and
a few weeks later while visiting in
New York found potatoes selling there
for $3.50 a bushel.
He said that while in North Dako-
ia they raised 1OO,O0O,O0O bushels of
wheat yearly, they increased their
mortgages every year. We are $780,
100000 in debt and going deeper every
year in spite of three eight hour
shifts. 1t used to be two, but we
changed it to three instead
Speaking of the cause of this he
stated that DR.. Wurst, the head OF
the farm school of North Dakota and
DR.. Ladd, his associate, after careful
study announced three years ago that
if the farmers of North Dakota would
establish their own flour mills and
elevators they could get $55,000,000, or
$1,000 for every farmer in the state.
annually, for their wheat crop, more
than they were receiving, and could
keep the bran, shorts and screenings
at home,
He said that year ago last summer
the winds shrivelled the wheat crop
and the millers declared that it was
inferior and classed it all as Feed D."
So that while No l, Northern, which
nobody raised, was classed at $175 a
bushel for sixty pounds, Feed D."
brought only seventy-five cents for
sixty pounds, and then the buyers
took all the way from five 70 fifteen
pounds for dockage. He said that the
professors after experiments found
out not only that sixty pounds OF
; Feed D." made practically as much
flour as the same weight of No. 1
Northern, but that the flour was just
: as good. He said this was confirm
ed by a bulletin issued by the flour
trust after it had bought all their
, wheat, which actually said that it was
better as food, as it had more gluten
in it. He said that this caused such
howl that the legislature last year, in
spite of the hold over senator's, en-
acted a law curing the evil and since
that time they could not raise Feed
. D." wheat there any more.
Returning to the matter of getting
together and speaking of previous di-
visions he said:
4 Nov here, we have been making a
mistake. Here is a Republican far
mer and he has been voting for Re-
publicans. Here is a Democratic far
mer and he has been voting for Demo-
Gratis. Here is a Socialist over here
and he votes for the Socialists. 1t
don't make much difference to us
whether the farmer is a Democrat, a
Republican or a Socialist. We have
tried electing Democrats and electing
Republicans and we find it amounts
/ to pretty much the same thing We
haven't tried Socialists, we don't know
what they would do, we don't think
they know themselves. But all of us
farmers whether Democrats, Republi-
cans or Socialists, knew what the Re
publicans and Democrats have been
doing"
I'VE said to the farmers, now we
are forming a political organization
of farmers, not a political party, but
. we are building an organization here
! it makes no difference whether they
! are Republicans or Democrats or even
! Socialists, we don't care Just so they
know what we want, and will stand
for what we want. AS a matter OF
. fact, in the state of North Dakota the
+ farmers endorsed both Democrats and
! Republicans in the same county and
: elected them to office We said to the
! farms what we want is to elect men
= to office so that we can build terminal
: elevators in the state, flour mills
ware houses and save this So million
: dollars, keep it at home"