The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1919-08-28


I, guarantee ts seen In q statement is
sued by the senate agriculture com.
mittee. The committee has emphatic
ally asserted the necessity Of chang
Ing the present wheat-grading rules to
prevent the millers continuing their
p~rofteering from both producer and
consumer on shriveled wheat.
For a long time Senator Gronna,
chairman Of the committee, as well az
other senators and representatives and
officers of the National Board Of Farm
ORGANIZATIONS and 1.-THE National
Grange In Washington, were insistent
that to remedy conditions 1t would be
necessary to remove the wheat guar.
antee. The idea of having the wheat.
grading rules changed never seemed
to occur to them.
Drouth Bill Delayed.
The department Of agriculture, I'M
der Secretary Houston's administra-
ton, has been frequently accused Of
neglecting the farmers interests,
honest effort In behalf Of which is the
sole excuse for its existence and the
millions of dollars it costs the govern
ment annually.
Secretary Houston has been too busy
to pay any noticeable attention to tho
drouth relief bill introduced in the
house more than a month ago by Rep
r~esentattve Sinclair of North Dakota.
No progress can be made on this vital
| 1o0fs1o tlon ,,n%Slt <ho .~An~o<o~wns >~-l
culture has reported OF 1t, which he
has 30 far failed to do.
Not all Of Mr.. Houston's subordi-
mates r so dilatory. From Leon M.
Estabrook, chief of the bureau of crop
estimates, Nh. Sinclair has received in
formation showing that passage of his
bill would be a very good investment
for the government, az we'll as q
source Of immediate relief for the
drouth-stricken farmers Of the North.
west. The two million odd dollars
loaned to- the farmers Of Texas, Kan
sas, Oklahoma and New Mexico by tho
department. of agriculture last year,
MI. Estabrook reports, resulted in
doubling the wheat acreage In these
states this year. Every cent loaned
viii be repaid. The Sinclair drouth
relief bill calls for a federal appro-
priation of 5000, 900 as an emergency
measure. Without some such federal
aid, 1t n realized, the northwestern
crop returns are going to prove q
grave disappointment at a critical
time.
Big irrigation Project.
British agricultural experts intend
to make the new colonies acquired BY
the war valuable sranaries for the
mother country, according to advices
reaching the department Of commerce
from its consular agents In England.
Sir ". Wilcocks, known as the British
irrigation wizard" who has made an
intensive study Of agricultural posi-
bilities in Mesopotamia, has Just an.
nounced in London that 1880, 900
acres Of arid land in that former
Turkish province can be placed under
cultivation by river irrigation.
Mesopotamia, which Is watered- by
the Tigris and nuphrates rivers, con-
tains the supposed site Of the Garden
Of Eden, although all modern geology
shows that the greater part Of this
territory has been desert land for CEN
turtles. From purely practical motives
British agriculturfsts are planning to
make the new colony blossom like
the rose once more.
Daylight saving.
For the second time in a few weeks
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passed by congress to repeal the day
light saving law. This time an effort
will be made to override the presiden.
tial viewpoint and secure the. two
thirds majority In both houses neces.
sarys to defeat the veto. That Mr.,
Wilson fears the likelihood OF such
m outcome IL shown by the fact that
he delayed his veto message on the
second passage Of the daylight say.
ings repeal until the last minute when
it would have been effective. 1t was
transmitted to the house on Friday
august 15) and II delayed q day long.
er the bill would automatically have
become law.
President Wilson'S reasoning IN hia
veto message 10 hard to follow. HG
says he fully realizes 'the very CON.
siderable and In some respects very
serious Inconvenience to which the
daylight saving law subjects the farm.
ers Of the country, to whom we owe
|, the greatest consideration. At thu
same time" the message continues
"the immediate and pressing need soi
the country is production" This. he
. feels, Is stimulated by having worl
. start an hour earlier and stop an hour
! earlier than by sun time.
The house has again passed the bill
J, over Wilson'S veto.
III Worries Larosst Crater.
d DR.. b. r. Griggs. who has been -
t ploring the volcano OF Mt. Katmai, 4
A1a nha u for sfha National GpnprArhiCA