THE BEE: OMAHA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 6,
1921.
s.
No. Roses Thrown
At Meetings of
State Farmers
Blame for Many of Their Dif
ficulties Laid at Their Own
Doors by Nebraska
Agriculturists.
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good. He praised the plan of the
committee of 17 for a co-operative
.crminal selling agency, and pointed
out that now the price of wheat was
frequently broken by the ojciVenre
of a surplus of as little as 5 per cent
, Any manufacturing industry would
. sell the surplus somewhere at a joss
and stabilize the price of the 're
mainder at a higher leve), he de
5 clared.
Farm life must be made more
; pleasant for the women, Dr. Waters
urged, saying that all modern con
S veniences could be Installed for the
, cost of a tractor. He criticised the
i city men, who considered that they
t; must make enough from fheir vork
-to support a family in idleness while
the farmer workcdhis own wife and
v children in order to make both ends
meet, and suggested that if city peo
i pie could not afford to pay the
4" farmer a living wage for his toil,.
"S; they should take their chiHrep out
of the picture shows and put them j
to work,
-', Oppose Bankers' Suit
"A popular chord was struck by
S Mr. Corey in his reference to the
S tying up of the federal land hank by
a suit of the Mortgage Bankers'
ssociati6n His declaration that he
I I' was not satisfied that the federal re
5 serve system could- not extend credit
more generously to agriculture, also
J, was applauded. "Suppose the war
was still going on, he said, would
,not the reserve system find it pos
sible to extend aid to the farmers
in order to enable them to produce
efficiently?"
jr; "The day has come for the farmer
I to take more interest in financial
f questions." he asserted. "The aver
gage corn-belt farm is worth more
-than the average 'country bank, or
the .average country store. The
Marmer with an investment of $50.--000
must take his place at the table
jand consider financial problems with
rthe city business men. He must Art
range a system of borrowing allow
v?ing him to make his payments over
t-a period of time and not all at one
I time. The farmer, must consider
' fusing warehouse receipts on his
ygoods just as the manufacturer or
'merchant does in order to finance
x himself."
N Nearly Loses Teeth.
- t Tom Snodgrass of Brock, an old
time farmer and former member of
the grange and farmers' alliance,
caused merriment when ie became
so enthused over farmers co-opera-tion
that his false teeth almost
h slipped from his mouth. He com
.V pared this week's farmer meetings to
sanitarium,' and said he hoped th'e
i sick farmers would find a cure.
"Perhaps," he said "we farmers
s Vv-ill have to be ground . down still
'more before we wake up and get
"v together for our own good. I hope
not, but if -thefe are any who still
are not ready to take charge of their
;;.own marketing and business, I hope
-ithey get soaked even worse, and
v then they will stop letting the specu
lators and middlemen milk them,"
No More Blue Sky. '
; 1 More than 300 farmers attending
i the crop growers' meeting today
u swore off on blue sky for a vear.
. during the speech of C. H, GustaM
son, president of the Nebraska
. Farmers"' union.
"Farmers in this state bought
' $90,000,000 worth of blue sky in the
last few years," Mr. Gustafsnn said.
, "Some farmers are so greedy t$ get
. something for nothing that thev lose
- their heads, and city: folks bought
. $10,000,000 themselves. Ym can't
is blame the trusts and combines for
. this. Suppose we farmers had this
. $90,000,000 to tide us over the pres
. ent situation. Wouldn't we he all ,
. right? You farmers rush to the
legislature and ask for medicine
when all the time you are eating
: more gtrms. I want every wan here
. to promise not to buy $1 worth of
stock from a salesman for one year
Then we wilt have some money to
x help ourselves." J
- A farmer in the audience shouted
r, out for everyone who would, save
his money to stand, and all efcept
va few who said; they had already
Jlost all their mor.ey in stock promoi
v. iion schemes and didn't have any
more to lose, arose. ,
Don't Use Brains.
' Mr. Gustafson, who is a member
of the committee of 17, which is
15. planning a farmer-owned and con
' trolled grain marketing system, was
;s unsnarin in his references to the ta
xability of the farmer to unite on any
' one ilan.
H "Farmers have lots of brains, but
cWhpv don't nsr ttim.H h saitt ''R.
fore improving the markcing sys
tem, they have to organize. I bc
jTlieve that farm products can bet be
handled through farmer-owned and
. v. controlled marketing machinery
. if but I am not appealing ,to the preju
j dice of the farmer, or knocking aiy.
fv - one. We know we are not satisfied
y with the present methods, but we
- soend too much time telling how
.Sbad 'the other fellow is instead of
setting about actual reforms. ,
"The farmer is standing in his own
V IiEhfe and block'nar orogress. There
are too many ideas, and we cannot
put any plan over unless a majority
J center their effort on it We farm-gfers-are
sick and we know it The
Aionly questions now are' about the
doctor and the medicine. I know
S; of nothing better than co-operation.
We can't change the present , system
t. over night, and the farmer must
work out his own salvation by some
thing more than talk."
Farmers Cheer Criticism.
Although Mr. Gustafson was frank
in his criticisms of the farmers,, his
f speech , was cheered loudly by the
farmers themselves. His statements
ttha famitrs as a class are about as
greedy as any other, but have not
had a chance, was greeted with
laughter, as was his declaration that
he didn't believe that there was a
.man or woman in the aud'ence who
woura not have heeh a John D.
y Rockefeller if he had had the oppor-
tunity.
SS That there are too many co-opera-
ADVERTISEMENT.
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Tnk Orn-f I.AXATIVK BROMO QUI
KIKE tuMrla. Th imilN twin . Ihi
Touted for Harding's
Secretary of Treasury
Charles G. Dawes, president of the
Central Trust company of Chicago,
Qne of the largest - financial institu
tions in the west, will be the secre
tary of the treasury in President
Harding's cabinet, according to
Washington reports.
Mr. Dawes is a leading authority
on banking. He was comptroller of
the currency under President Mc-
Kinlev from 1897 to 1902 and tincc
that t;me has been head of the Cen-
tral Trust company.
tive organizations in Nebraska today
was given as his opinion. "There
are too many not properly financed,"
he explained. "When you start a
co-operative- business, you farmers
must finance it just as business men
would. This is the way the com
nvttee of 17 is planning a national
system of marketing- grain which
will be controlled bv the farmers and
on which the new committee of IS
will plan the handling of live stock."
Mr. Gustafson claimed that $53,
000 had been saved to farmers of
Nebraska by their own agency at
the Omaha stock yards in one year,
and claimed that it was demonstrated
that the cost of marketing farm
products was generally too high.
Over 50 country co-ooerative ele-
vattrs already have joined a ter
minal grain marketing plan for
Omaha, he stated.
Better Macketing Plans.
H. D.Lute, secretary, of the Ne
braska farm bureau, in discussing
plans for better marketing of farm
products, said he believed crop con
tracts would be found necessary. Mr.
Lute reported he had found that of
all the wreckage of do-operative mar
keting concerns in California, not a
one had' failed which included the
crop contract feature. The pooling
of crops also, he continued, he be
lieved would be found necessary. Co
cr eration in marketing of crops in
Nebraska as practiced at present is
really not co-operation, he said, as
growers outside the stockholders of
co-operatjve elevator, for instance,
are allowed to sell their grain to the
ariner-owried concern;
"Many co-operative elevators "are
in difficulty " now," Mr. Lute said,
"laotiany cases it will be found that
growers who did not beloijg to the
co-operative association got to mar
ket first with their grain and sold it
at the high price prevailing at the
opening of the season. Then came
the car shortage and the riron in
price. The co-operative elevator was '
forced to take a big loss on gram n
sold to.it by a man outside the or-;Jr
ganization. He was the one who K
got the benefit.
Must Have Storage.
A system of farm storage to do
away with sending products long dis
tances to market with ofttimes the
necessity of shipping them back for
local consumption was pointed out
by the soeaker. Some such storage
on the farm will be necessary, he
said, if productsjre to be marketed
in an orderly way and avoid glutting
the mahket at certain seasons. Meth
ods of financing the products thus
held must be worked out, he added.
"Farmers now are like a lot of
barrel staves without any hoops,"
asserted Mr. Lute. "Go-operation,
the hoops, are needed now."
He briefly outlined the main points
of the farm bureau organization,
mentioning the necessity of ehfor
cible crop contracts, pooling of crops
by grades for marketing tp best ad
vantage, crop storage on the farm
and regulation of the flow of farm
products'to j&arket,',keepirig ft uni
form in order to avoid glutting the
market at . times. Co-operative local
elevatdrs, pnd through them co
operative terminal elevators, co
operative warehouse companies, and
the keeping of farm crops under
control of the producers, he de
clared, to be the efffyive wav of
eliminating the speculative middle
man. Expert marketing and adver
tising agencies also will be necessary,
he said. (
Oppose Emergency Act
Without a word of debate the
crop growers by a large majority,
voted to table a motion ft endorse
the pronosal of Representative Fos
ter of Omaha for an emergency act
for farmer' relief. It developed aft
erwird that the farmers are tired of
paying interest on bonds, so they
quickly voted not to endorse a bill
authorizing counties to issue bonds
for raising money to be loaned farmt
erB from one to five years at rea
sonable interest, through banks.
President Gustafson of the Farm
ers' union gave his definition of
co-operation during a discussion that
closed the session. He said co-operation
is "two or . more persons do
ing the same thing in the same way
t the same time for the same pur
pose." Theories of the benefits of crop
rotation were brought into question
by L. L. Zook of North Platte, who
discussed results on the experiment
al farm in western Nebraska. He
found that corn and winter wheat
were the best joint crops for that
part of the state, because conditions
that kill one will allow the other
to survive. Oats wre found not
to be reliable and barley preferable
to spring wheat .
Favors Continuous Crop.
Although the highest yields fol
lowed summer fallow, he claimed
Oora delicious dessert, eat
LQKNA DOONEiSfrcw
v cwith Jruit
the best profits from continuous
cropping. Com grown for 10 years
on the same ground was found to
out-yield corn rotated with oats or
with wheat. Wheat, on the other
--Jhand, showed a better yield when
rotated with corn than when grown
continuously. Mr. Zook explained
that small grains exhausted the mois
ture more than corn, and concluded
that although there might be a small
margin in favor of rotation, It was
not as great as is populaily imagin
ed especially in regions having a
Hcht rainfall. He also stated that
use of fertilizer had not produced
any appreciable benefit in the west.
This opinion agreed with that of
Prof. W. W. Burr, head ot tfce
agronomy department of the State
agricultural college, in ati address
entitled "Shall We Use Commercial
, Fertilizers in Nebraska?" For five
i years the department, tinder the di
! rection of Professor Burr has been
' conducting experiments with com
mercial fertilizers at the station farm
and in several different counties.
Fails to Pay Cost
In the use of the commercial prod
uct, a gain of 11J4 bushels an acre
was made on oats. To make the ex
periments pay the oats should have
produced. 33 bushels to the acre. In
the case of wheat a half bushel more
was produced under the stimulus
of the fertilizer. In the case Of corn
no increase was shown, though to
have paid for the artificial' article the
production of cdrn should have in
dicated an increase of 28 bushels to
the .acre.
Professor Burr related what had
been done in other counties. Iq Hall
county on sandy soil an increase of
10 bushels of potatoes to 'the acre
was produced, but on corn on first
and second bottom la'nd in thai
county no results were obtained.
Professor Burr did not want the
impression to be gained that Ne
braska soil, as rich as much of it is,
does not need congideral le attention.
It does to retain its fertility. He
strongly advocated rotation 6t crops
as one of the very essential means
of preserving soil fertility and of re
taining its richness. The liberal use
of stable manure and.the turning un
der of green forage crops like sweet
clover were considered most satis
factory. Little Fertilizer Sold .
The speaker said that some com
mercial fertilizers had been . sold in
Nebraska, but that most of it was
purchased by market gardeners and
for experiments. He had learned
that only a few hundred tons had
been sold during a year.
, "Nebraska farmers will not begin
to use commercial fertiliser until pro
duction falls below a certain level,"
said Professor Burr. "It is more a
question or seasonable rain than one
of soil at the, present time. Ii there
is rain at the right time Nebraska
seems ; to keep on producing at a
maximum rate."
Potatoes , have dropped less In
pf ice than any other field crop, ac
cording to the view expressed at the
meeting of the Potato Growers' as
sociation, of which JL Pedrett of
Kimball is president -This year's
crop is the second largest known in
the state. Prof. H. O. Werner sec
retary of the organization, discussed
proposals to revise the grading laws
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Speakers at the meeting of the
Nebraska Horse Breeders' associa
tion (Wednesday morning painted an
optimstic picture of future condi
tions for horse breeders.
Ahttntiirh conditions in the horse
business at present were described
W- -1 &1 1 . n LnK.l.a ,1. 1 k
spring the horse business wi.'l be
back to normal. .
Several of the speakers expressed
the belief that the farmers are turn
ing from the motor-driven machin
ery back to horse power Frank
Howard of Pawnee City told of ex
press and transfer companies pur
chasing large numbers of horses to
replace trucks for short hauling.
The horse has been without a
defender while the tractor and truck
demonstrators" have been ot the sil
ver-tongued variety urging the
farmer to forsake the horse and use
motor-driven machinery," declared
Mr. Howard.
"The-state of Nebraska is situ
ated in the center of a great horse
raising country and. its location is
ideal tor marketing the animals." he
tontinlied.
Back to tbe Farm.
The back-to-the-farm movement
has started accordirig to the
speaker. "The auto manufacturers
have coaxed our sons away from
the farm with dollar-ah-hour iobs
With the closing down of industrial
concerns they are returning to find
the farm was not a bad phce after
all" according to Mr. Howard
The necessity of better and more
careful breeding of horses was em
phasized at the meeting. Horse
buyers told of the loss to the farmers
who did not exercise care in select
ing and handling their stork. It was
pointed out that United States farm
ers are compelled to import breeding
stock because of the action of many
farmers in not paying careful atten
tion to their annuals.
The 36th" annual meeting of the
Nebraska Dairymen's association
was scheduled to begin at 10 o'clock,
tit was postponed in order that the
members might attend "the meeting
of the crop growers association. The
dairymen will hold morning and
afternoon sessions tomorrow, closing
in' the evening with a banquet
Fruit Growers Meet.
The Wednesday morning session
of the Nebraska Horticultural so-
nVtv onpned with . technical dis
cussion of diseases of Nebraska .
fruits. Dr. George L. Peltier, plant ,
pathologist, gave an illustrated lec
ture' on this topic, which was fol
lowed by a general discussion. '
Prot E. H. Hoppert of the Uni
versity of Nebraska told of the,
methods of preventing fruit diseases.
R. S. 'Heriick .secretary of the
Iowa State Horticultural society, was
introduced to the members and told
of the scheme of co-operative buying
jn Iowa. The following were nom
inated for officers of the association
at the morning meeting: President,
E. H. Hoppert, experiment station,
Lincoln; first vice president. Everett
Smith, Salem'; second vice president.
A. M. Shubert. Shubert; secretary,
Val Keyser, Nebraska City: treasur
er, Peter Youngers, Geneva; direc
tors, Everett Smith. Salem; C. vj.
Marshal, Arlington; W. B. Banning,
tin ion.
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No Use
A Clearance
, of Glove
Silk Teddies
These dainty -silken
gar -
ments witn lace ana riD
bon trimmings are doubly
attractive for their new
low prices. .
$10 to $12 ones $8.98
$8.35 to $9.50 ones $6.98
$6.50 to $7.50 ones $5.98
Second Floor.
$2.50 Sheets $185
A fine quality, eighty
one by ninety inch, Thurs
day for $1.85.;
-, Second Floor.
$13 Blankets $13
All Wool 1
Plaid blankets in a num
ber of deferent color '
combinations, 70x80 inch,
for only $13 each.
Second Floor.
Sale of Shirts
and Neckwear v
Ties of all descriptions,
four-in-hands, bats, Wind
sors and silk krts all
for less.
$1.00
$1.50
$2.00
$2.50
$3.00
$100
$5.00
$6.00
$7.00
neckwear,
neckwear,
neckwear,
neckwear,
nedkwear,
neckwear,
neckwear,
neckwear,
neckwear,
55c.'
95c.
$1.35.
$1.65.
$1.95.
$2.75.
$3.50.
$4.25.
$4.95.
Our shirt sale offers these
reductions ail Man
hattans, Eagles and Ar
rows formerly $5 to $11
for
Just Half Price
All silks regardless of for
mer price are now $10.
Shirts formerly less than
$5 are also reduced.
The Men's Shop To the left
as yoti enter.
Just a Part of
. the January
Specials Can Be
Mentioned Here
Selling Lin ens forLessThan
Today's Wholesale Cost
When good linens were available we purchased
them. Now that they are scarce; we are selling
them at prices you'll find very advantageous. And
you can safely depend upon all of the prices which
we quote. .
Irish Lien Table
Cloths with Nap
kins to Match n
$10 Table Cloths, $7.38
$10 Napkins, $7.50 a doz.
All Fancy Linens
at New Low Prices
$15 Mosaic Napkins, $10 doz.
$20 Mosaic Napkins, $13.89
a dozen.
$15 Madeira Napkins, $10 doz.
$20 Madeira Napkins,', $13.89
a dozen.
Six-inch Madeira Doilies
50c quality, only 25c.
Longcloth
65c quality 45c a yard.
75c quality 55c a yard.
85c quality 65c a yard.
Both Quality and Price. - We Have
for Misrepresentations, nave You?
A January Sale
Gowns for Evening Wear
. $25 $38.75 $50 : '
A choice of demure dancing frocks, more matronly
evening dresses and very attractive dinner gowns
all posessing the rare touch of "distinction a Thomp-son-Belden
gown displays.
Reduced to These Three Prices
Heavy Irish Linen
Cloths and Napkins x
in Matched Patterns
Hound floral and scroll
designs.
$20 Cloths, 2x2 yds., $14.89
$23 Cloths, 2x2i yds., $17.50
$25 Cloths, 2x3 yds., $20.00
$20 Napkins, 22 in. $14.89 doz.
$22.50 Cloths, 2x2 yds., $17.50
$25 Cloths, 2x2Vo yds., $20.00
$30 Cloths, 2x3" yds., $25.00
$35 Cloths, 2x3i yds., $30.00
$22.50 Napkins," 22-inch, at
$18.75 a doz.
$27.50 Napkins, 24-inch, at
$20.00 a doz.
Heavy Linen Crash
'55c quality, 45c a yard.
75c quality, 50c a yard.
85c quality, 69c a yard.
95c quality, 75c a yard.
BELDEN & CO.
Dresses formerly
priced up to $59.50
Dresses formerly
$62.50 to $95.00
Dresses formerly
$98.50 to $150.00
$25
$38
$50
And a few very exclusive models,
formerly $155 to $250, are now $98.50
All Sales FinalA Charge for Alterations
of All
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Haskell's Famous
Black Silks
v..
Greatly Reduced
In more than thirty years of selling
Haskell's we have learned to ap
preciate their superior quality
above all others. v
No weaves are reserved. Taffetas,
satins, failles, Bengalines and Otto
mans are all included.
Such choice silks are v
particularly desirable
at January prices
Other Silk Savings
That You'll Enjoy
I Lingerie Silks $1.49, $1.98
Satins, crepe de chine,vwash taf
fetas and several qualities of
crepes. All are much under
priced at $1.49 and $1.98 a yard.
tl $3.50 Heavy Satin, $2.49
A heavy quality that promises the
best of wear (36-inch).
Bering's Satin de Chine
.Reduced to $2.95 a yard , -
A desirable silk for general wear.
All colors. (86-inch).
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Coatings and Dress Goods
at Splendid Reductions
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