The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1928-12-10
PLACING FARM
WORKER ON JOB
BECOMING LAX
Annual Report Says State Is
Unable To Cooperate Prop
erly With u. S. Service
AGRICULTURE REVIEWED
North Dakota Tillers Paid Out
S21,632,S2O in Wages to
Hired Help in 1923

Appropriations to carry out Tho
laws providin for state employ
ment service, increased travel allow.
ance, and adequate office quarters
are recommended for the state
department of Agriculture and La
Dor by Commissioner Joseph A. Kit.
chen, in the bienial report of the dc.
partment
The report, the twentieth ISSUED
by the department. is largely made
up OF statistics on acreage and yields
of the different farm crops in the
state during the years Of 1926 and
1927.
The report points out that the law
provides for state employment bur-
caus and the general placement OF
farm labor. but for some time the
legislature has not made appropria-
tions to carry out this work. 1t is
said that when this department had
appropriations for this service it
was able to cooperate with the
United States Employment Bureau
with considerable advantage to the
farmers of the state.
Increased travel appropriations
for officials of the department are
asked in order that better represcn-
tation may be had by the state de-
partment at agricultural conventions
and conferences.
Adequate office space is requested
in order that valuable records and
equipment Of the department may be
properly housed and protected. 1t is
asserted in the report that such rec
Ords and equipment are now kept in
the basement with janitor supplies.
1t is also recommended that the
legislature authorize the payment of
an amount not to exceed ten dollars
each to assessors for the additional
work in taking state statistics for
the department.
During the year 1927 it is report
ed that North Dakota had G4,497
farms with an acreage of 29,131 800.
Acres under cultivation totalcd H.
543.O27.
For the year 1926 it is reported
there were 64,1S4 farms with an
acreage of 2S,lS3,O65 of which 1G,-
S37, 1853 were under cultivation,
Crop yields for the two years are
listed, as are livestock products and
other sources of revenue on North
Dakota farms.
Rural population in 1926 is placed
at l54,96S men and 1882 women.
During 1927 men on farms numbered
l65,575 and women l36,SO1.
During 1926 there were 24.S47
men and 5,344 women employed by
North Dakota farmers with aggrc-
gate wages totaling $1S,916,343.78.
For 1928 money paid out for hired
help on the farms reached $21. 632.-
$50 for 27,243, men and 6,O4S wom-
en-.
In 1926 fourty-four crcame cries
manufactured 3O.5S4,757 pounds Of
butter and S30,772 gallons of ice
cream. During 1927, fifty-two
creamcries produced 33,934 .625
pounds Of butter and 747,4 gallons
of ice cream.
In 1926 there were 80 coal mines
that produced 1,378,717 tons of coal.
employed 1888 men and paid out
wages totaling $1,28O,254. During
1927 there were 231 coal mines pro-
ducing total Of 1,327,368 tons Of
coal and wages paid to 9S7 miners
totaled 1857 ,O92.55.
There were 1478 elevators with
capacity listed as follows in 1927:
100 line elevators, bushels 19.454.-
$50: 1863 farmers elevators. bushels
11,512,5OO; and $40 independent cle-
vators. 9,248,900 bushels. During
1923 there are listed 1888 elevators
as follows: IT'S line elevators. TO-
675,6OO bushels; 3S5 farmers eleva-
tors. 1911 500 bushels; and 378
independent elevators, 9,S14,O0O
bushels.
Forty-siX flour mills millcd 1885,
444 barrels Of flour in 1926 and 40
mills manufactured 1,15O,911 bar
rcls in 1927.