The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1922-03-23
Townley, Ladd and Screenings

To Mr.. Guy M. Putney:-
Your communication in first issue
Of the Independent in February was
observed, as well as your defenders,
the editor Of the Press. have de-
layed answering in order to see q
neighbor who has all records of and
on Townleyism. The severe weather
prevented my going to see that
neighbor until last week. 49,
If you had taken the trouble to go
to some elevator man, instead OF go
ing to a radical editor, you most GER
tainly would NEVER have written
such a "kick." I knew all the while
that the N. P. L. claims about Saving
the farmers on dockage" was purely
imaginary. But l least suspected
that an investigation would prove
that those "dockage laws" were not
only NOT benefit but actually de-
trimental to the farmers. This fact
l will prove to you. . "a
There has been so much false
claims by league papers that it will
require considerable space, hence
shall be compelled to give it in two
or three installments. ..,s.-.
Evidently your friend, the editor
of the Press, is of the opinion that
whenever he points his "ridicule gun"
at a farmer, that it will scare the
| farmer so badly that he will be afraid
to come back in reply. But ridicule
cannot stand up against facts nor
does it have any "scare" effect on
me.
In this article l shall deal with the
Townley, Ladd and your editor
friends part.
Your friend of the Press said:
"Dr. Ladd is not the person who
compiled the statistics that showed
the $55,OOO,0OO annual loss
The figures were compiled by Dr.
John H. Worst and caused his re-
moval as president of the N. D. Agri-
cultural College"
AS to DR.. Ladd's part. DR.. Worst
having asserted that farmers are
losing millions of dollars annually
Fertility loss, because the farmers
could not keep cattle to produce
MANURE; and the screenings loss
prevented farmers from keeping
cattle. DR.. Ladd took the matter to
his labratory to prove the assertion
by chemical analysis.
The following excerpts are taken
from editor Townley's quotations
from Prof. Ladd's "Ole and John"
story, wherein DR.. Ladd by using
false premises undertook to prove that
millers made more profits out Of
rejected wheat than out of No.
grade. Editor Townley said about
Prof. Ladd and had the Prof. saying
viz:
"The result is a mess Of facts,
scientifically accurate, that condemn
the present grading rules and show
that under them the farmers Of N. D.
are losing MILLIONS OF DOLLARS
"The farmers of N. D. are locked.
Not only that. They pay the freight
on them to the terminal markets..
Commissioner Ladd asserted that on
the average 500 per cent Of the wheat
as it comes to the local elevators is
screenings. + Screenings are
shrunken and broken kernels Of wheat,
dirt, weed seed, wild oats etc. The
wheat crop Of N. D.. averages lOO,-
100000 bushels and from this COM
missioner Laid finds the farmers are
locked 239,4O0,0O0 pounds x x
And they pay the freight on these
screenings to the terminal markets
each year."
I"SCREENlNGS A GOLD MIMI
"Prof. Ladd's analysis of screenings
show them to be valuable stock
food, sold back to the farmers at $50
per ton, after he has given them away
thru dockage.",
In an editorial editor Townley
III (Ladd's article) will open your
eyes to one Of the greatest steals
ever perpetrated upon the farmers OF
N. D."-National Leader, March z,
1916.
DR.. Worst had discovered some
powder for revolutionist' yet edl-
tor Townley's editorial evidently
shows that from a "revolutionists"
4 stand point Prof. Ladd had complete
" eclipsed Dr.. Worst. DR.. Worst
said the farmers had lost millions of
something that would make rich soil,
while Tovnley and Iadd discovered
it to be "Gold Nine"
There are four elevators in Berthold
| viz: Andrews, w. E. Tucker, indie
! pendent: Farmers and Victoria. All
of the managers of these elevators
call .'dockage and screenings" the
same thing. DIR. Ladd does NOT
make any discrimination.
AS to Worsf's part. In the same
issue of the Leader just quoted we
find a complete statement about
HOW, WHY, etc. Dr.. Worst was dis
missed from the Agricultural. Col
lege. Editor Tovnley made NO m
timation of DR.. Worst being dismissed
on account of his stand on dockage.
Here is the substance as given by the
Leader viz:
president Worst charged that the
Better Farming association had been
an organization Of business men
formed for the purpose of getting
control of the college and that is
had succeeded. Thomas Cooper
was made director Of Better Farming
association. This branch Of the
work was taken out from under the
management Of DR.. Worst. x Pres.
Worst declared this situation was un-
dermining the efficiency Of the school
dividing IL against itself under the