Daily globe., 1879-06-24

yeSGeIQoy tr0aGluS Oh tuo merlCS OF the STACY
filler, we wish to say that we have seen the
Stacy filler now in use and owned by J. r.
| Longfellow, wheat dealer in this county,
and have proved it. Have seen it tried and
know it to be correct instrument for
testing wheat. That we have also tried the
open brass tester, without filler, and by ac-
tual experiment. it was made to vary over
four pounds to bushel. The Stacy filler
used with the tester is entirely satisfactory
to the farmers of this county who have tried
it, and we recommend the farmers of the
State to stand by the tester, which we believe
is accurate and gives an honest test, and not
| be duped by political tricksters and dishon-
est wheat dealers, who resort to filling the
old brass filler heavy to make wheat grade
higher than by the filler, in order to create
prejudice against it's use, as We believe
they are trying to do.
Having been engaged in wheat raising and
farming for twenty years we know whereof
we speak, and warn farmers against being
duped before trying and proving the filler
themselves. Please publish this and oblige
Yours truly, JOSEPH PERKINS,
G. r. WEDGwooD.
Wright Co., Mimi, April 7th, 1879.
.Jen,,tso,s Wants Some Information and
Gets 1t.
Red Wing Republican.
What is this about the Stacy filler? A
telegram from Litch6eld, June 12, to the ST..
PAUL GLOBE says that Joseph Weimar, of
Kingston, says s:the Stacy filler is bigger
swindle on farmers than the simple brass
kettle.". "It filled the tester lighter than it
could be done by hand" Mr.. Weimar did
not say whether the filler told different sto-
ries about the same wheat. He demanded
to have his wheat tested in half bushel, but
the mills Forest City, refused to use it, and
Mr.. Weimar took his wheat away. The
brass kettle ard the ha f bushel must by law
both. be filled by the Stacy filler, and in
scores of tests made it has been found that
the weight of wheat is the same by both pro-
cesses. If it is, how can the trouble with
Mr.. Weimar's wheat be laid to the filler?
The GLOBE contains what purports to be
the constitution, bylaws and platform of a
farmers club of Rice county. The date of
adoption of the platform does not appear,
but from the fact that the words 'sStacy
filler" do not appear and that it says "the
kind of tester now in use can be made to
vary the same grade of wheat from No. 2 to
rejected at the will of the fller,'' which is
not true of the method by the Stacy filler,
we conclude that it is about nine months
old. These documents appeared in the
GLOBE, the Democratic and Donnelly organ,
Immediately after the meeting of Donnelly's
sideshow to the Democratic circus; and
raise the suspicion that they are mere politi-
cal devices.
The documents were sent the GLOBE from
Rice county because, as the secretary said in
a private note, large number of subscrib-
ers to the GLOBE desired to have them in
print. They were published the very first
issue after their receipt, and had no CON
nection whatever with any political .'oircus''
Of any description whatever. Ed. GLOBE.
Is the Stacy filler uniform? That is the
whole question. Who knows anything
definite against it?
Since writing the above we have spoken
with Hon. Robert Deakin, who saems to be
the man asked for. He says the Stacy
filler can be made to vary as much as the
measure on which it is placed. He says Mr..
Stacy himself said in the committee room
that he could cause it to vary. Judge Dea
method of producing short weight by the
filler. It consists in showing the slide SO as
only partially to open the aperture through
which the wheat falls into the measure.
We cannot understand how it happened
that amoug the dozens of men by whom the
filler was tested last winter no one thought
of the possibility of doing that, and tried
what effect it would have on the result. We
prefer to doubt, for the present, the worth
lessness of the filler.