The Western advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1872-1874, 1874-06-13
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WHEAT, FLOUR AND STOCK-St.
LOUIS SURRENDERs HER LEAD OF
TIE FLOUR MARKET-SToCk-RAIs-
ING CAPABILITIES OF THE STATE.
In speaking of our Worthington, or
Okabena Mills, which are among the
most complete in the West, we have
had frequent occasion to dwell upon
the new process flour of Minnesota, and
to state that the best Minnesota brands
commanded from two to four dollars
more than the best st. Louis brands.
The St. Louis Democrat, in a recent
number, yieldsthe palm to Minnesota,
and makes this confession
IF, a few years ago, any one had
predicted that flour manufactured from
Spring wheat would have brought
greater price than the best flour that
could possibly be manufactured from
winter wheat, that person would have
been laughed at. Yet this extraordi-
nary fact is true to-day. We have been
handed the New York Produce Ex-
change Reporter and Price Current of
May %, in which we notice st. Louis
Xxx Winter wheat flour quoted at $1O.25
per barrel, and Minnesota superlative
extra SIS per barrel. Minnesota super
lative extra is simply the best -four
that can be made from Spring wheat,
while the XXX st. Louis represents the
best flour that can lie made from Win
ter wheat, and it is the highest quota
ton for Winter wheat -four in the list.
The once famous brands from the Gen.
eSee Valley are now quoted at $S.4 !;
Richmond, Va, best is quoted at 50. 80,
and Baltimore and Delaware best at So.
Think Of it, growers of the splendid
Winter wheat of Illinois and Missouri :!
Flour made fro n the Spring wheat of
Minnesota is now outselling the best
st. Louis by $2.75 per barrel! DO you
wonder that our nlillers are 10th to buy
Winter wheat ut 81 ~ to 81 so per BUSH
el, when these Minnesota mi}lers are
purchasing Spring at 81 to $l.1O and
manufacturing it into flour which
brings $2.75 per barrel more than the
best st. Louis can turn out :"
The St. Paul Pioneer, in some COM
ments upon this confession, says:
The fact is fully established that only
from the spring wheat grown inf this
northerly climate and latitude can the
best results lie achieved. The hard,
dry berry Of Minnesota furnishes the
choicest wheat for this process in the
world. Not evenwith the new mi,l,l|ings
purifier can winter wheat be used to
advantage; and it is also true that
whe' transported as far south us st.
LOUIS for milling, the Minnesota berry
loses the virtue it possesses in the
home climate. The fact is conclusive,
therefore, that Minnesota is destined
to enjoy the monopoly of raising the
best wheat and manufacturing the best
flour in the world and the result will
he to materially enhance the price Of
both wheat and flour in this market,
and keep it in constant and unvarying
demand.
1t is only few years since the new
mlddlings separator processes came into
use, but under the impulse of this flour
ing mills have been springing up like
magic all over the st te. And they
will go on multiplying, we hope, until
the transportation problem, so far as
wheat is concerned, will be settled by
turning Minnesota wheat into flour at
our own mills. This is the tendency
at present. and the large profits and ad-
vantages of the milling business here,
will just as certainly turn capital into
that channel in vast quantities, us the
magnificent water power of Minnesota
will turn the mill wheels when the
mills are once built.
We gave, in former issue, the &C.
count of the sale of the Lyndale Herd
The Pioneer, commenting upon this
says:
The recent remarkable sale of the
l-yndale herd at Dexter Park will nc
doubt stimulate the agricultural con-
munity OF Minnesota to give more at
teNtion to this profitable branch of pro
duction than it has heretofore received
The fact has beeh fully demonstrated
that the soil. climate and general con-
ditiOns prevailing i'll this section are
peculiarly adapted to the development
of the highest physical possibilities OF
the genus bull. When, as was estab
lished by the recent sale at Dexter
Park, man can go to bed at night anC
find himself possessed in the morning
OF couple Of twin calves, the sale Of
which at a year old will bring hin
money enough to buy five Thousand
: acres Of good farm land, he will have ;
: slight inkling of the profit which at
tends the prosecution of this profitable
industry. If the very best and purest
high bred cattle will thrive here so wei
OF course the common mixture will de
even better. It was the strong, healthy
pure and spirited appearance of Col
Kings herd, as the papers all report
united to their superior strain Of blood
= that made the bidders crazy. Wha
: Col. King has done any farmer in tn,
State can do in proportion to his means
. From small beginnings come great end
ings: We hope to see new start take,
n IN this important direction by tn,
t showing afforded by this sale of TIN
!, capacities of Minnesota for producin,
. FLOODED stock. The State now enjoy
the rare honor Of having produced tn
= highest priced herd, in consideration O
!. it's pedigree, of any ever before bred
We trust this honor will not I've above,
. to he Immediately snatched away.
- - A writer in the Sioux Falls Independ
4 ent claims that oil has been struck i,
t Lake county, Dakota, near the propos
ed county-seat of the county. AS thi
J. lake region is tributary to Worthine
= ton, who knows but we may soon b
e doing good business here handling