Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1870-08-24
Farmers, Clean and Sample Your Wheat.

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found in Virginia paper, and it is so sug-
gesstive, and so eminently practical that /
can't resist the inclination to send it to YOU
for publication. Give it place, by all
means, in your columns, that our farmers
may see what is lacking in preparing their
wheat for market East Tennessee, unfor-
tunately, is proverbial for having filthy
wheat. Her reputation has suffered pro-
dgiously. But here is the article:
Large amounts of wheat are now seek
ing Virginia markets from Southwest Nir-
ginia, Tennessee and North Georgia
Among the commission merchants and the
millers the complaint is general that the
grain is shipped without proper attention
TO sorting its various grades. This is par
ticularly the case with wheat from Tennes-
see, and, in less degree, with that from
Southwest Virginia.
1.-The trader, who, at Jonesboro' or Knox
vile, Abingdon or Bristol, buys small lots
in order to make up large shipment,
should sort his grain and separate the prime.
the good, the damp and the foul parcels.
A bushel of wheat is a bushel, they say
True. But for one bushel you will get
81 20, for another, 81 Is. And if all are
Unfortunately massed together, you must
lose on the best lots, or the miller, being
once deceived in a sample, will be by
no means eager to buy again from the same
region. The classiticatiOns of grains is
very delicate, and the classes range over a
wide scale.
1--WE have every reason to know that the
neglect to observe uniform quality in the
lots offered for sale has seriously embar-
raised the buyers and caused great loss to
sellers. Wheat coming to Richmond and
Petersburg from parts of Virginia near Us
is uniform in quality, and the sample, Sc
lected at random Is q true index of the
quality, each bag, each fifty, each hundred
bags, as the quantity may he, coming NJ
to the sample grade.
'This is far from being the case with tn,
grain from points west of il. \ car load
for example, shipped to a commission mer
chant and sampled by him. will contain al
the varieties, from very good to almos
worthless. The merchant must then sOr
il or pay the miller to do so. And wheT
damp grain is shipped with good it com
municates its dampness and materially in
jures the whole.
Shippers will find il to their advantag,
to sample accurately and to divide thei
shipments into sorted parcels, making IA
many divisions as the qualities call for
Otherwise, they must expect to lac disap
pointed in their returns
From letter received from r. H. Dib
rell, commission merchant in Richmond
we make the following extract which w,
think Will be quite interesting to farmers
Our wheat market was very flat to-day
the best white only bringing from SLIGO 4
Sl.oo, Dest req Sl.OO 10 Sl.Oo. lou must Tel
your people that the highest quotations ar
only gotten for small lots of prime wheat
Western wheat is not turning out WEI
here; it is always badly cleaned and YER
often damp. Please say to your friend
that if the wheat is damp ii is cheapest t
dry it at home, and if foul to have it cleane
in their barns. We cannot sell foul O
damp wheat to any advantage when on
millers have from $1,000 to %, 900 bushel
to select from daily. / saw five car load
of damp Tennessee wheat sold yesterday a
from 81 to S1.25. The wheat sent her
should be dry, well assorted and wei
cleaned G.. w. CHARLToN.