Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1878-12-26

detrimental 10 lue mining INTEREST tncTe
is no doubt. 1t should be no more
difficult for milling engineers to invent
the means for taking the small amount
of wire out OF wheat left in the process
of ordinary cleaning than for inventors
to perfect the means of automatic bind
ing by wire.
At the late session of the Illinois Mill
ers' association, the subject of wire-bind-
ers was brought up. The secretary stated
that he had been requested by !the MILL
ers' association of Minnesota 10 bring the
question of wire binders to the notice of
the association: that vast damage result
ed to mill machinery from grinding
wheat which had been bound with wire.
In response to this request be presented
the following resolution:
Rea,lved, That we consider the use of wire
binders as Injurious to our mill machinery,
and that we strongly reccoGmded discon-
tinnance of the wire. binders In favor Of cord
or other binders that will work no injury to
our machinery.
The discussion which followed did not
seem to show that any especial amount
of terror was exhibited by Illinois millers
over the wire question. The subject was
discussed in somewhat earnest manner
Several members showed pieces of wire
taken from different machines, and said
they had found pieces Of wire in the
wheat in the bins, in the chat, aid in the
-four and bread, but they didn't seem in
clined to say they would degrade wire
bound wheat 10 cents per bushel. In
conversation with gentleman largely in
terested in wheat raising near St. Louis,
he said that the millers about there made
no difference in the price of wheat on &C.
count Of its having been bound with wire.
The Wisconsin Millers' association,
which lately convened at Milwaukee,
seem not TO have been badly scared over
the wire question. They passed resolu.
ton il relation to Fyfe wheat which may
be of interest to the farmers of that state,
requesting all millers to furnish farmers
with Fyfe wheat for seed, that the guam
tity of hard wheat raised may be increased.
The gist of; the whole matter lies in a
nutshell. Where labor is as scarce dur
ing the harvest as it is in Minnesota and
other western states, the farmers will
bind with wire until some other economi.
cal means is given them. No one State
controls the price of wheat in the
markets of the country or of the world
If the great wheat fields of the West
should be obliged to GO back to the ole
system of binding by hand, the crop
would rot in the fields and the West
would lose her supremacy as the wheat
granary of the world. There are mum.
Der of feasible plans which might be sug.
gested for Kidding the wheat of wire
One is water and subsequent drying
This would seem, cosidering the rela
tive price of wheat and high grades o.
flour, as still possible to leave fair mar
gin of profit to the miller. Certain mills
have for many years not ground wheat
until washed. We advise the millers
rather than make the onerous dis
elimination of the Minnesota millers
in regard to wire.bound wheat, t
use their inventive faculties in discover
ing some means to free the wheat from
the wire, if it will be cheaper than wear
ing their stones and Dolting cloths. 1
will hardly do to start scare to the etfec
that wire-bound wheat is injurious tt
health of the individual using the flour
Particles Of iron small enough to pas
through the bolts will not injure til,
stomach. There could in no case b.
more than an infnitesimal quantity. II
fact, it might act as good tonic.
In the meantime we would earnestl,
advise every wheat-grower, as we hav'
heretofore done, NOT to allow the wire t.
pass through the thresher. It is no
difficult. The best cutters in use viii
hold and draw out the bands. All tina
is needed is care and attention to tn
hands employed, by whoever is superin
tending the threshing. 4