THE FARMERS IN CONTROL 



C. As to Dockage, he is Instructed to estab- 

 lish at once two kinds of dockage, that which 

 has value and that which has not, and to see 

 that the farmer is paid for that which has 

 value. 



D. Mixing-House Evils. Senate Bill No. 

 20, approved February 25, 1919, declares the 

 purpose of the state of North Dakota to en- 

 gage in the business of manufacturing and 

 marketing farm products and to establish a 

 warehouse, elevator, and flour-mill system, 

 under the name of the North Dakota Mill 

 and Elevator Association to be operated by 

 the state. The work of constructing and 

 operating these mills and elevators is put into 

 the hands of the Industrial Commission, and 

 by a delicious touch of irony the money raised 

 by the special assesrnent tax levied in 1913 

 to build terminal elevators and side-tracked 

 by the legislature of that day is appropriated 

 for this purpose. 



Senate Bill No. 75, approved February 25, 

 1919, completes this project by authorizing 

 the state to issue bonds, to be called the 

 "Mill and Elevator Series," bearing not more 

 than 6 per cent, interest, secured by first 

 mortgages upon the property used by the 

 North Dakota Mill and Elevator Association. 

 In this way the association is to be kept sup- 

 plied with the funds it needs, but the indebt- 

 edness of the state is not really increased, 



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