The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1922-08-17

ministration, it has the support of
the majority in the United States
senate and large majority in the
house and it is demanded by the ag-
ricultural interest of the country.
Congress dare not turn down that
proposition and both the senator and
representative who would cast his
vote against it would be up against
stone wall when coming up for re-
election. People will give little Gre
dence to this bugaboo raised by the
en-. to brighten voters into voting
for Lynn J. Frazier. They are too
wise to be caught with chaff any
more. Townley and his bunch put
over this rough stuff for five years
but they cannot repeat the perform
ance.
That the wool kings" should be be-
headed, is the theory of Senator Hef-
lin, of Alabama, one of the Democra-
tic leaders of the Senate. He had par
ticular reference to the large sheep
men of the west, but, since the large
and the small must live or die to-
gether, he meant practically the be-
heading of the entire sheep industry
of the country. He explained that he
did not mean beheading personally,
but politically. He would deprive the
sheep and wool industry Of its pro-
tective tariff-behead it. There are
100000 farmers in the United States
who keep sheep, in flocks large or
small, and there are far more who
would like to add a few sheep to their
farm stock, if they could depend upon
a permanent market at profitable
prices. 1t is generally agreed among
the best agricultural authorities that
there is no other method Of keeping
up the fertility of soil and keep it
| free from weeds that is so cheap and
effective as pasturing with sheep. Yet
Mr.. Hef1in, like a lot of other Demo-
Gratis, would like to "behead the wool
kings" And this remark was made
after Heflin had worked and voted
for a protective tariff on graphite-a
product of his state in which perhaps
900 people may be interested.
"The foster mother of the world
and the most economical farm pro-
Queer is the dairy cow" said Max
Morgan, state extension dairy special
list, in discussing the increase Of 49,
900 head or the increase of percent
in the number of dairy cows in North
Dakota during the past year. "The
reason for the milk cows popularity
during these stringent times are
known by all and those who have
been through such periods before are
not surprised at the rapid stride for
! ward which she has taken. It has al
ways been thus and will ever be, that
J when all other sources Of agriculture
products fail, the markets become de-
fated, financial conditions tighten; the
old milk cow will be fallen back on to
again set agriculture upon its feet
and relieve the stricken agriculture
condition. She produces an essential
food that is absolutely necessary in
human life. She produces this food
in the milk which can be served to
humanity in a multitude of ways. In
most cases, she brings in cash every
! week. If she wears out in her work
she replaces herself with her off,
spring. She furnishes 80 percent of
the veal on our markets and when she
is through her milking career, her
flesh makes meat and her hide makes
shoes. Is there any wonder but that
the farmers of North Dakota are in
creasing her number and are doing
so with the intent Of sticking with
old bossy during prosperous as well
as unprosperous times. A gain of
$4,000 head of dairy cows has been
made in this state at the same time
that all other breeds Of livestock were
decreasing excepting hogs which
made an increase of 1 percent"
The example set by a New York
patrolman, Lawrence Walsh, is one
which might we'll be copied by every