The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1920-09-09

to Minnesota for help to market their
potato crop, the state department of
agriculture announced today. Devel-
opment of an economic machine in
Minnesota, under Minnesota laws,
built and run by practical farmers,
has proved so successful that potato
growers in eastern North Dakota have
asked to use the machine until they
can build one of their own on the
Minnesota model. The machine is the
Minnesota Potato exchange, organized
with the assistance of the Minnesota
Farm Bureau federation under the
1919 cooperative law, passed by the
Minnesota legislature especially to
encourage and protect cooperation
among farmers. Farmers in North
Dakota, watching the successful mar
keting of hundreds of carloads of Min
nesota potatoes at the highest prices
obtainable anywhere in the country,
through the newly organized state
exchange, have formed 20 county po-
tato exchanges, and appealed for per-
mission to ship through the Minnesota
central exchange. This permission
has been granted. The Dakota ex-
changes have been organized exactly
on the principle of the Minnesota To-
Gals, with the Minnesota 1919 law as
their model. They hope to use the
Minnesota central marketing agency
until they can organize local ex-
changes throughout North Dakota and
create their own central exchange, &C.
cording to reports gathered by the
state department of agriculture in St.
Paul. The Minnesota Farm Bureau
federation played an important part
in the building of the machine which
now is attracting the attention of 9TH
er states less fortunate, J. NJ Hay,
deputy commissioner of agriculture,
said. "In many countess" he said,
1.-The county agents or other farm bur-
eau officers took hold of the movement
and practically completed the local
organization. The machinery of the
farm bureau offers the readiest means
for such enterprises, and the possibil-
tiles it opens to the farmers of the
state are practically limitless. The
principle of the potato exchange is
spreading. Many of the local ex-
changes which are members of the
state exchange already have included
dozens of other products in their ship
ments. They handle hay, fruit, let
tuce and vegetables of every sort, be-
sides acting as buying agencies which
give the farmers of whole neighbor-
hood the supplies they must have, and
obtain them at rockbottom cost. They
buy in quantity at wholesale prices,
and the price the farmer then pays
is virtually the wholesale cost, plus
a minimum fee to cover the actual ex-
pense OF purchasing and shipping"
Senator Harding has made the fol-
lowing reply to the questions pro-
pounded by The American Press, a
publishers paper, in regard to the
press of the country. He comes out
very fatty in favor of the country
press in the following answer:
From my own experience as a pub
Usher think the press should rejoice
to convey helpful information to the
people through free publicity. There
has been abuse of the generosity Of
the American press. Publishers are
called upon far too often to perform
q publicity service for which if per-
formed by men in any other pursuit
there would be ready and generous
compensation.
Newspaper advertising is q COM
modify, and where the government re-
quires it, as it often does, it should,
be paid for as other commodities are.
eve are growing daily into wider
uses of publicity, but we must not add
to the free service imposed upon the
press when that which is clearly ad-
vertising is covered by purely bust
ness methods.
ut is extremely important to en-
courage the weekly press. The great
publications Of general circulation and
the daily press in well populated CEN
tiers are firmly founded and CONNER
cially established. The weeklies are
no less important to the communities
they serve though their publication is
much more difficult"