Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1920-03-04

he did not want any man to change
his religion but he wanted every ma1
to think seriously CT the little teach
ings of his own religion and that 1t
would make for better and more
happy community. Northheld, Mr..
Schilling said, is a little community
of only 1000 people but it is home
loving, church-going, happy, content
ed community.
Lauds Sales Pavilion.
The purebred livestock sales pa
vilion which is to be built at James
town was heartily endorsed by Mr..
schilling, who told something Of the
community house at Northfisld anu
explained that it is used in common
by the farmers and business mel,
both realizing that they are depen l.
ent upon the same things for their
business prosperity and cooperating
to make their little city the bast COM
munity center in the world. He said
that they did not call Mortified a
city any more but spoke of it and
the surrounding territory as the
Community"
"A Poor Salesman"
Following his address in the after
noon, one of the farmers present
asked Mr.. Schilling what could be
done in regard to marketing dairy
produce in this community. He said
that he had forty pounds of what he
considered exceptionally fine dairy
butter, that he brot it into a James,
town grocery store and received thir-
ty-eight cents pound for it. AS he
was standing there a woman came III
and bought some OF the butter but
the clerk spoke in such a low tone
of voice that he could not hear what
was asked for the butter. Deter
mined to find out the price charged,
the man followed the woman for two
blocks before he was finally able 10
catch up with her and ask the price
of the butter.
why" the woman said, Il paid
sixty cents pound for it."
Mr.. Schilling paused moment
and then asked the man If he wished
to know what he thot of him. The
man said that he did, and Mr.. schil-
ling replied, IT think that you are
damned poor salesman. You should
have followed her. UP and sold the
butter to her, direct" Apologizing
for the coarse way of expressing it,
Mr.. Schilling explained how that he
and the other farmers of his COM
munity were damned poor sales
men" for a number Of years before
they organized the milk Producers
Association" and sold their own
milk, tested and weighed by the;1
own men. The working out OF this
cooperative organization was ex-
planned in detail, the speaker telling
how the organization was furnishing
cleaner, better milk to the consum-
ers of the Twin Cities cheaper than
it was being sold to any other city
of like size in the world.
The fact that two-thirds of the
population of the United States. Is
living in towns and cities and must
be fed by the farmers was held out
as a source of encouragement to the
farmers, Mr.. Schilling showing by
examples after example what could be
done by the agriculturists II they
would only get together and work
toward the same end in their CON-
munity.
Addresses of H. b. Fuller.
H. B. Fuller state leader Of coun-
ty agents, spoke at both the a1ter-
noon and evening meetings, explain
ing the necessity Of community or
ean.zations, such as the Farm ;'u-
reaus, and how they worked. North
Dakota now has twenty-five organi-
cations, which cooperate with the
agricultural college and the state IN
employing county agents.
Mr.. Fuller told how the county
az. nts ard the farm bureaus w',k-
ed together to solve the problems
confronting the farmer, speaking es-
pecially Of the combating OF the
threatened epidemic Of hog cholera
last year. He also gave other exam
pies, showing by a chart how the dit
ferent problems, such as rust In
wheat, was first studied and then
solved, in this case by using rust
resistant variety.
Talk on Boys and Girls Clubs.
Miss Louise Fitzgerald of the
a ooricultnra1 c0lleg - state leader of