Daily globe., 1879-01-21

| NAAs w oAO ndnc place, ana IL was graded
| NO. 4, and he received 81 cents per bushel. He
/ took a load of the same wheat to mill at Rock
| FORD, told the miller he wanted the best of
flour, and got twenty-eigh pounds of -four per
bushel. OF the very best quality, besides shorts
| and bran.
Herman Erath took 100 bushels to waverlv
which graded No. 2. The next day another 100
bushels graded No. 8, and he brought it back.
Another took a load weighing ffty-nine pounds
per standard bushel, but no price better.
Game next day with another load which graded
No. 2. and wheat had fallen two cents, SO that
ne received only 5S cents per hushel. Now,
sir, comment is needless, and am very much
mistaken in the signs of the times if some
remedy is not soon forthcoming to wake up
| some morning to hear there are no more eleva-
tors along the line of the st. Paul & Pacific
railroad. 1t is not easy for the farmers to COM
debts, but such wholesale robbery of the TIL
lers of the soil cannot last much longer.
| There are limits to human endurance. and
those limits are about reached. Anything l
can do in the good cause you have undertaken
shall be cheerfully and promptly done at your
call. Respectfully, your obedient servant,
JAMES E. COCHRAN,
Buffalo, Wright county, Mimi.
Ihe foregoing evidence is ample in COM
pletely sustaining me in all the charges 1
made of the nefarious practices of wheat
buyers along the Main Line of the St. Paul
q Pacific railroad. Enough more of the
same kind of evidence can be procured If
necessary.
Perhaps few remarks in conclusion would
be all that my duty as member of the COM
mittee would require, but inasmuch as the
paid organs of the wheat rings have seemed
to think it very strange that no complaints
OF injustice or fraud are heard from any 9TH
or part of the State, I hereby, in behalf of
other portions of Minnesota. present
Similar statements from farmers who
know there are wrongs to be
redressed and rights to be vindicated.
KAsoTA, LIE Sueur Co.. Mimi, Oct. 81, 1878.
Leonard B. Hodges.
DEAR SIR: Agreeable to your published re-
| quest now send you the result of one load of
! wheat that the elevator at st. Peter graded No.
4, weighing 5311 pounds to the bushel, and for
which | was offered on the same day by the St.
Peter Mill company owned by Sackett & Fay,
53 cents per bushel, being the highest price Of
fered me that day, Sept. 27.
took the same load of wheat to the Kasota
| Touring mill, owned by Church, Sails 4 Davis
| and had it foured, with the following result:
Amount OF wheat, pounds. ............. l,4SO
IN Dushels "a 4O-6O
Am ount Of toll and wastage, pounds. 353
| LII pusnels. :.......... ............... B 1850
Amount of flour received, pounds. s....... $40
Amount OF bran received, pounds. $50. 2l2
| Amount of middlings. ....... 95
Total after grinding, pounds ... 1,l47
| Value after grinding as. sold by the mills in
| this vicinity:
Flour, $40 pounds at 215 cents per lb. $2l 90
Bran, PIP pounds, at $7 per ton. ....... 4S
Mlddllugs, 95 pounds, cent per lb..... 95
Total value after grinding. g.... 1928 53
Value..per bushel O.94.35
The difference between price offered and
| amount received, or net value of No. 4 wheat Us
above to me, 4lS, or in other words the
amount Of stealage is Al cents per bushel.
The above is a correct statement Of the load
| OF wheat taken by me to st. Peter. I took the
| same there for sale before seeing your pub
llshed statement, and would not consent to be-
| ing thus swindled. Hoping your labors and
| those of your associates will tend to break the
| rings of wheat thieves that now seem fastened
| like leeches on the farmers Of Minnesota.
| remain, farmer, 4. L. Mason.
Here is another from Northfeld, showing
how the 'honest Miller goes for the farmer.
AS this is a fair sample of similar COM
plants of long standing from all portions of
the State, would it not be we'll for the Leois-
lature to pass an act making it crime for
miller to take more than half the grist for
grinding, said crime to be punishable by i'm
prisonment in the State prison:
NoRTHF1ELD, Oct. 4, 1878.
L. Hodges. st. Paul.
| DEAR SIR: You request farmers to report to
you some of their dealings with the wheat
rings In Minnesota. will state my knowledge
OF some OF the millers dealings with farmers,
| hoping that you will have something done to
compel those millers to give a fair shake. I
| carried eight bushels and nineteen pounds of
wheat g 1850 bushelsl to the Grange mill, in
Waterford, Dakota county. 1 wanted the wheat
Houred. The wheat graded So pounds per
bushel by their tester. They told me they
would not grind my wheat, but they would
give me flour in exchange. 1 exchanged with
them. They gave 2O1 pounds of four-no
bran, or shorts-for 499 pounds of wheat OF
8 1850 bushels.
You can plainly see by the above figures that
this mill company took sc pounds out Of every
bushel and gave me "a pounds in return. Now,
suppose wheat that grades So pounds to the
| bushel is worth 50 cents per bushel or one
cent per pound. The mill company would
charge me 36 cents per bushel for exchanging
wheat Tor Hour. The flour given made out
| of the same grade of wheat received by them
that is, they charged 36 cents per bushel fol
grinding. But wheat that graded So pounds is
! worth 70 cents per bushel, which raised theil
charge to AZ cents per bushel for grinding. ]
also sent the same grade of wheat to Ames
mill, in Northfeld, and got shaved exactly the
same way. You can publish this statement. ]
can prove it. Yours truly, PAT BUTLER.
| i1oAII OIL OAu CIlu0 lI10uu. OI OlmSC0C
county, I get the following:
ROCHESTER. Nov. 12, 1878.
L. B. Hodges ESQ.,,
DEAR SIR: Seeing that you are chairman Of
the investigating committee on the wheat ques.
tion, thought that a few brief remarks to you
concerning the Olmsted county crops would not
be entirely inappropriate. We have no No. l
wheat, but very little if any No. 2, the general
crops ranging from No. 8 to rejected, the
latter embracing the greater portion. But even
at this, the cause for no better price than from
70 to 45 cents per bushel, is to many farmers
very obscure, since to convert it into flour il
| would bring far more.
l, for one, have noted the yield of -four from
this wheat, and the following is the result OF
my observations:
Twelve and one-half bushels of No. wheat
was ground, yielding after toll was deducted.
457 lbs. of -four 154 lbs. of bran, and 46 lbs OF
shorts. Now, the 1211a bushels of wheat were
worth, at street price, 45 cents, $5.62, while
the yield in -four is worth $l0.42, bran 3e
CENTS shorts cents, making the wheat worth
| in flour, $5.27 more than before. How, then.
can it be accounted for that the price of wheat
is SO much less than that of flour? What shall
we do to remedy it? Yours, &C., D. NooNEN.
Col. l. A. F. Studdart, a well-known and
responsible citizen of St. Paul, over his own
signature, in an article published in the
Pioneer Press last October, says that having
had an opportunity of examining the books
of very extensive wheat buying firm, he
ascertained from their books that while no
No. wheat was received by them, they
shipped from their warehouses large amounts
of No. wheat, or words to that effect
regret have mislaid the paper containing
his statement. It can be produced, how
ever, in time to lay before the legislative in
vestigating committee. Let that committee
subpoena Mr.. Studdart to come before them
and give full particulars as to the
sudden and miraculous conversion
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