Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1920-12-20

sHoulO get a$I.lO per OuSnel.t with
this kind OF price reasonably assured,
land IN the Red River Valley will ina-
mediately ADVANCED think it would
go to $4,000 per acre very quickly. !
Then the frst item OF cost, capital
invested in land, would have to be
doubled, inc the price of wheat adj
vanced accordingly. Round and
round she goes; where she'll stop, no.
body knows" X
Second. this kind Of price would
stimulate production and we'd have
SO much wheat. we would not know
what to DO with in a few years. l.
wouldn't wonder that II those prices
were coming, "Ad" Hunter and Ed"
Lander would quit their desks and &c
to raising wheat; and maybe Mike,
= Murphy and tom Griffith would quit
farming the farmers and 90 farming
the land. Their hearts bleed every
day for the poor down-trodden tiller
OF the soil. But they grow fat. and
fattcr every year sympathizing with
the poor farmer. who gets the skim
med milk" while they are getting the
cream. Personally, I've no kick COM
ing. They never farmed ne any.
Other Crops,
The Townley press, financed by
! farmers. has been telling us Loor
farmers how the Chamber of Com
merce and grain gamblers helped by
the Huns" the bankers a been
pounding down the price of wheat
most: every day since future trading
in wheat started last July. But say.
Mr.. Editor, they forget to tell their
readers, that corn and cotton. barley
and oats and rye were all bought and
time during the war. and they all sold
for higher prices respectively thar
wheat did. and there was no option
selling on wheat during the war. This
cannot be disputed. The records are
there in every paper that published
daily markets.
There is no way that ! know to sell
wool and hides short, but both have
[ gone down more in price since the
t cabbage, onions, sheep. horses. cattle
5 and hogs have all out-distanced wheat
3 on the t%oboggan slidc.( No one has
| pounded them down by selling wind"
1T takes money and nerve to sell
wind" If you don't. believe it. try
trading in futures, gambling in
t wheat started, and went to Buffers
commission rooms to see what was
doing i'll wheat. The first order sent
from Grand Forks to Minneapolis was
sent by a League farmer and it was
- L e>1i wlCoI I WIN AhCA
ket' and every trade or order that l
learned about that day from Grand
Forks was a selling order and ! think
n all the selling was by farmers. hwant-
ed to sell a bunch. but being Short
on wheat when black clouds are
o threatening hail and black rust IS not
n in the air is not good medicine 70,
"neuresthenia." the doctors have told
: me many times, and | think more.o1
my health in recent years than | dc
of trying to get easy dollars. So,
~ know that the gambler" did, not dc
-. all the pounding.
What War Showed.
G And while 1 believe that future
at trading in grain, specializing, helps tn,
G. price. l am hoping Congress will pas
laws to stop it, if for no reason othe
. than to put the big manur spreader
N u of business. and let the farmer
= see what it will do. But. don't forge
4 that wheat was the only farm produc
usually traded in on the exchange
that was prohibited during the war
and that corn and cotton sold 70
higher prices than wheat did. AM
keep in mind the fact. that hides an
wool are cheaper than any farm pro
ducts traded in the Chamber Of Com
merce where the gamblers do bust
ness. Also, don't forget. that 95 pc
cert of this years wool clip is bein
held by growers in pools n unsolG
and still the price goes down. I thin,
wool will not advance in price unit;
Congress puts a tariff on imports. TIL
question arises, will they do this?"
New York, New England. and tn
solid south want free wool. w
want a tariff on wool, wheat, la an
other farm products. Will Congress
put it on if we form trusts or com
bines to demand top war prices? ]
they do, l think they go out of bus
ness at the ext election.
To conclude. while 1 do not thin
very much can be lone to fix prices {
farm products at wartime prices.
have great faith in the National Far,
Bureau organization. They have mar
capable men working on plans to BET
ter farm conditions.
1 rave been an active member, {
our county organization since it star,
ed, and now l shall help in every wa
that 1 can to push for a state organ
ization to join the National. Farm BIZ
reau. II hope that every farmer /
and around Grand Forks will join tn
County Farm Bureau. I believe "
would better forget about war tim
prices and by better farming, try I
reduce>cost of production on the farm
Farmers say they want the cost {
farm labor to come down. 1t will ne,
er come down while the cost Of whe:
remains at $3.50 or more per. bushe
Yours truly.