The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-07-12

n'S 80 he no surplus" At least
II.t u ! ;s the way it looks now ac-
.ordng ,,,r to the mOurnful wheat
tU, SaT hIues that are coming from
tSa tI',U southwest, the northwest and
Tonada. 1i,I 1t rarely fails that when
wan OaI proposes, Providence dispOs-
es
Naturally if there is a short
,,oD and the crop reporters are
uot F initiating the football coaches
and sending out "bear stories" the
nrice I of grain will rise. 1t has al
ready mounted to $1.17 for July
wheat in Minneapolis, which is
considerably better than the SO
cents of a few weeks ago. Not
|t6at $1.17 is anywhere near the
cOst of production. 1t merely cuts
tbp margin of loss. 1t seems to be
q fixed that a farmer gets about
IA much and no more. If he has
1 GOOD crop, say IL bushels to the
acre he receives 81 a bushel or
Sll an acre. If he has "a poor
rOD of Z bushels an acre, the
2Drice slides UP to $1.SO and he
gets 50. In either case he has
had the same labor of planting,
harvesting and threshing, the
same cost Of seed, the same taxes,
he same interest and a trifle
higher cost Of living every year.
4 He has to play the other fellows
game and like all such players
Oses either way. Some day he
bill make it his own game and
I hen he will become a public utili-
h and charge accordingly. But
! bot yet awhile. Not at least un-
ii a few more million farmers
have been chased off the land and
heir numbers so reduced that
hg can get together.
Quite howl is going up be-
ksze more than 40 per cent of all
he farm land on both sides of the
Red River valley is in the hands
i ban companies who have had
I sudden fever of fOreclOsing their
] hOrtgages and driving the farm
b off the land. Yet this is the
\ bgical outcome of the present
movement which seeks to reduce
Production. An occasional poor
Prop helps but for real action,
fhaSiRg the man off the farm is
Il nOre permanent.
Nebraska elevator men and
nlll-Owners think they are doom
also, The Hoover Farm Re.
1ef bill, they say, will mean that
rm organizations will take Ov.
y their elevators and rob them
Y their jobs. They are the timiG
puls! A glance at the list Sc
Rcted so far by the President
sOuld show them how void theil
farS are. Do they think Alexan
4 Legge of the InternatiOna
harvester company would suffe
nalr of their heads to be touch
They expect more from tha
rm Dill than the President doe
nSet. All he can hope from
ga Inc triumph of his party i
O'her members of the board re
tstnt tobacco, livestock, cOttOI
II! products and fruit. Th
preventative of wheat will com
ner from the winter wheat al
Aansas or the spring whes
"a Of North Dakota. WatC
now the game is played s
VIII know why you should n,
disappointed.
John Lee Coulter. endorsed I
raul officials of the Farme,
lOn Terminal association an
ee subsidiary Delaware cOrpo
G.s has been given instead
s''lOn u as chief statistician Fl
larlft commission. SOn
IN Iers e will haave a sigh Of 4
70 Know that he is taken o
eT necks and still is not put
rarm Board where he cOu
ule them some more. The j
juggling figures for the It;
WvO@lmlsiOn at $4,000 a We
around. S Sa'iSlaC'"
But there is a fIv in the oi,
49," When North Dakota /;
claims to a place on |
I'm Board for a spring VIII,
"'esentative, the men who y
n out the pie look aebast !
~, Why, geenltmen. how
u M M! Dakota be so greedy? Fl;
In CI Just handed you a lal
mn - III giving this tariff figur
% your Mr.. Coulter? #
a'F ia and very bad manners
- Siiyer y T1 Twist and ask
e. That was the game. T,
Is Sta take a a trick with the !
~, .Hen killed our ace with
- North Dakota has h
g@g sna Congressman Jim ISi Siuclo J
~e ~aST Tor a place on the board
I'D n" Uuio have been of some v,
kOwss rs WI wheat grower. But
bta%nS IN a. and vP 50 did every North
hOs" :" IN IN Washington earlv
10 mat i there was not a cha
n !, IL Is what Coulter cost 8 e',S =
ilu OF him. u
rune Of the members of
emo Y board are making VI q
IN 6',Ices ice. il in order to serve 9
~ mat ,s.i Mr.. LeggeGSSee' Se'sD; sDe,,,
W w.s snat way not because ST. !,
yess ess p ipulled-gives rS5S IN sIaI Y
eesIIneo,o cam TO t take a measIy ?rU, sIS
'l1lHg 1S the methods sa, sa[
"0nt'nued on Last Psea ea