The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-03-25
URGES GREAT
CAMPAIGN FOR
H0MESEEKERS
Tells Grain Men 10 Advertise
North DakOta's Advantages
Throughout Country
SELL STATE TO NATION
Advises Growers of State
To Continue to Raise
Hard Wheat
THURSDAYS PROGRAM
Morning Session

THURSDAYS PROGRAM
Morning Session
10 a. m.-Music, Grainmen's Band.
Address, "Past Performances and
Future Expectations" w. c. Kendall.
manager Of public relations section.
American Railway Association. Wash
ington, D. c.
Address. J. w. Shorthill. secretary,
Farmers National Grain Dealers As
sociation. Omaha, Neb.
Afternoon Session
2 p. m.-Music, Grainmen's Band.
Report Of committees.
Election of directors.
Address, John N. Hagan, supervi-
sor. grades, weights and measures.
Bismarck.
Address, Frank Milh hollan, chair
man Board Of railroad commission
ers, Bismarck.
Continue to raise hard wheat and
let North Dakota be known as a hard
wheat state" Governor A. G.. Sorlie
said in an address before the con-
vention of the Farmers Grain Deal
ers Association Of North Dakota last
night in the Bismarck Auditorium.
Let the state be known as a hard
wheat state and with the right CO.
operation of the elevator men we can
make the world come to US for our
wheat.
You men sell this idea to your
neighbors. Advertise the products
of North Dakota and we will get peo-
pie to come here. We who live here
know of the many advantages in our
state, but tell others so they may
come and share our luxuries with US.
''YOu men represent the biggest
thing in North Dakota. Twenty-Five
years ago there were few independ-
ent elevator men and this great
crowd of independent grain dealers
in this building tonight illustrates
the progress that can be made in the
cooperative handling Of grain.
~When you went into business
predictions were made by the line
elevator men that you would fail.
ed ahead and you have come to the
place now where you have formed an
association; not to fix prices but
to cooperate in the handling of
grain.
"Our state elevator is at the place
you were rs years ago, and as pre-
dictions were made that you would
fail, SO predictions are made that
the state elevator will not succeed.
/ want to ask you to work with us
and what you have done we will do
at the state elevator and mill at
Grand Forks. ! want you to feel that
you are all stockholders in that in
stitution.
1--WE have lots of room here in
North Dakota and we have the best
soil of any state in the Union, but
we must advertise that fact over the
world. Our land is worth more and
will raise more acre for acre than
the high priced land in Illinois and
Iowa and the other middle western
states, but we must make this known
throughout the country to bring peo-
pie here to enjoy these advantages
with US.
"We in North Dakota have passed
through q period Of great prosperity
and a period Of depression and in
these times we have learned the les
son that We must attend to our own
business in our own way-not tear
build up our own."
Governor Sorlie was given a great
ovation by the grain men when he
arose to speak and was given another
ovation when he finished his address.
Robert Black, in charge of grain
cleaning Investigations for the
United States Department of Agri-
culture at Minneapolis, delivered an
address at the session this morning
on Saving the Dollars in Dockage"
"In 1924 North Dakota produced
in the wheat and flax crops approxi-
mately 19,6O0,0O0 measured bushels
of dockage, Mr.. Black said. about
100000 bushels of this dockage
was mill oats and the balance seed
screenings.
"There are about 1900 elevators
in North Dakota. If the 1924 crops
of wheat and flax were evenly divid-
ed between these 100 elevators,
each elevator would handle over H.
500 measured bushels of dockage.
Successful machine shops recover
the oil from steel shavings, meat
packers utilize every part Of the ami
mails slaughtered, country elevators
should also take advantage of every
possible profit which can be made
by selling each part of the grain Sc
parately.
"The cost of installing efficient
machinery for profitable handling Of
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of operation in many elevators.
"Why should the country elevator
operator clean wheat and flax be-
fore shipping? TIE country elevator
operator may clean grain for amy
one or all of several reasons. Re-
moval Of dockage before shipment
saves freight, clean grain brings
higher price because Of it's better
appearance and oftentimes because
Of it's better grade, and the dockage
after being removed can either be
sold locally or oftentimes shipped at
q profit.
"Probably one Of the biggest rsa-
sons for cleaning grain before ship
ment il to remove the screenings 80
that they can be sold locally for
feed or shipped as mill oats and
screenings. Farmers generally are
beginning to realize the feeding valne
contained in screenings and to uti-
lie them for feeding their livestock.
"If you are intending 70 ship ycar
screenings, II 10 advisable "a kssp
the mill oats and th1 fine S6ed
(C0ntlnned on - lAQ1e1 Is IS