The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-04-19
LOWDEN DESPISES TERM GENTLEMAN
FARMER has BIG FARM OF HIS OWN

(DY ROY J. GIDBONS)

oregon, III, April ~ NEA Ill
former Governor Frank y. Lowden
gets into tho White House as Tho
country's next president there is one
, thing he won't stand for.
He won't permit anybody to call
him a gentleman farmer" and get
| away with it.
Lowdcn despiscs the term.
lie is dirt farmer, a plain one
| and he wants the whole wide world
to know it.
Here ut Oregon, 100 miles west of
Chicago, Lowdcn has one of the
most scientific agricultural plants
| in the country.
He calls it "Sinnissipp." It's a
model farm, $500 acres in extent
and one Of the show places Of the
middle west.
On it tho foremost leader Of the
present day agrarian movement puts
his theories Of Investigation and
| crop rotation into practice.
More Than = Hobby
"Sinnissippi" with its broad acres
and herds Of bloodcd stock is more
than hobby with "the governor"
as he is known hereabouts.
It's job and school for study
ana experiments.
A true son Of the soil, Lowdcn
did not choose farming as play
thing with which to while away idle
hours following lifetime filled
with distinction and success.
Instead he reverted to it by in
stinct
Lowden comes from tho farm.
He was born on one 66 years ago
near the hamlet of Sunrise, MINI.
In between times his father was a
blacksmith. But the farm and tho
soil composed the constant Lowden
background and continued to do SO
during the governors" youth.
At seven he can distinctly remem-
Der following in the wake Of a
prairie schooner which his father
used TO transport the family and its
fortunes from Sunrise to land Of
new hope in Iowa.
The trail ended at Pleasant Point,
Iowa, and here once more in rural
surroundings close to the same soil
he has always loved, Lowdcn grew
up.
Back to the Farm
All during later years when he
Jared far. rose to places of rcnown
cities, Lowden detcrm ined that the
day would come when he would 80
back once more to the soil
'Sinnissippi" is the realization Of
that resolution.
Here the Governor" gets first
handed the material on which he
bases his advocacy for coordination
between agriculture and business as
IA necessary advance to free agricul-
turc from its impediments.
agriculture is sadly out Of gear
with the other parts Of the struc-
ture," he says. 1.-THE main cause Of
this is generally conceded to be the
disparity between prices of the
things the farmer has to sell and the
prices of those things he must buy.
The farmer must organize for the
purpose of marketing his products.
Cooperative farm marketing associa-
tons are no longer an experiment.
Where coOperatives have been en-
ployed there you will find agricul-
turc in its best estate"
Own Farm rs Proof
Lowdcn points to his own farm as
proof Of his beliefs.
"Sinnissippi,' though operated by
the best and latest scientific meth
DDS. has not shown profit during
the last five years.
Lowdcn's farm is composed Of IL
units, each under tho management OF
a separate tenant. The tenants live
with their families on scgmcnts Of
the land and Lowden, believing in
cooperation, practices it as u land
lord, too.
He shares fifty with the ten
ants on what is known as a live
stock" basis.