Daily globe., 1879-01-21

bushel above No. 1, a grade so far carefully
concealed from the farmers and wholly ig-
nored by the wheat buyers along the Main
Line OF the St. Paul & Pacific railroad.
Mr.. M. Flakker, of Herman, under date
of Oct Z, 1878, writes to me as follows:
HERMAN (st p & P. R. R.), Oct. 7, 1878.
l.. 3. Hodges, ESQ.,, st. Paul.
DEAR SIR: Having seen in the Pioneer Press
that you want the farmers to report to you
thelr experience in wheat this fall, hereby
take the liberty to do so. The following is a
true statements:
took load of wheat to the warehouse in
TINS place (thirty-six bushels) and received
no. $, hfty cents a bushel, and then took the
same ss amount, exactly, of the same wheat to
the Morris mill. and after paying the grinding
with wheat, received the following:
400 pounds of xxx -four at 1925
Per lUU pounds $3l Sc
4OO pounds Of bran at rs cents per 100
pounds. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. 3 90
1884 SO
Ihlrty-six bushels sold to warehouse at
s1e 50
can prove this by several witnesses to be a
true statement. Respectfully yours,
M. FLAKKER.
T. 5. There is general dissatisfaction and
hard feeling among the farmers toward the
warehouse here, and most of them are going to
ferham, on the Northern Pacific, eighty miles
from here. They get there No. l for the same
1Vheat they have to sell in Herman for No. 2,
and No for Herman No. and 4. Everybody
is curslng the Millers' association. They are
paying more for wheat 100 miles west of here
from ten to fifteen cents-than in Herman,
and they are certainly swindling the farmers
IN grading their wheat. If not, they would be
satlshed with the grade here, we'll as in Per-
nam and other places. Everybody believes that
the little brass measure is out of order, or used
wrong.
Mr.. Flakker seems also to have been
somewhat profted by reading the "incendi-
ary circular and has been nearly as sue
cessful as Mcpherson, of Morris, in getting
down to bottom facts. 1t is fact suscepti-
bic of any amount of proof, that the business
OF Herman hasssufered materially from the
arbitrary, oppressive and unjust grading of
wheat which has compelled the farmers to
haul their wheat eighty miles out of their
way to Perham on the Northern Pacific rail-
road. Campbell and Breckenridge have also
suffered from the same causes, the whea
naturally tributary to those points having
been driven away by the fraudulent brass
Kettle and its apologists to the Northern Pa
ciic buyers.
The following from Mr.. Beach, of Grove
Lake, Pope county, expresses the sentiment
OF nearly every farmer am acquainted with.
1t is an intelligent, honest statement, worthy
of attention;
GROVE LAKE. Pope County, Oct. 4, 1878.
MIR. Leonard B. Hodges, st. Paul, Mimi.
DEAR SIR: In response to your circular ask
ing Tor complaints of farmers, I would say that
we are at the mercy of the Minneapolis wheat
ring As sample of what that mercy is you
may judge for yourself from the following:
have thus far marketed two loads of wheat.
One load tested one bushel as. accurately as
could be done, being very careful not to Jar
down the wheat in the least and struck it off
with straight edge as close as I could, and it
weighed full ffty-eight pounds. Took it to
the Hoople elevator, Sauk Centre, and their
tester made it weigh ffty-seven pounds (mak-
ing wheat if fairly tested No. l, grade No. g.
another load tested in the same manner
weighing ffty-six pounds, was graded No. at
the same elevator, making difference between
the two grades of Is cents per bushel..
Now, what object to is this, the testing OF
wheat with testers that make wheat weigh a
pound less per bushel than it would weigh by
fair test, thus swindling us out of Is cents
per bushel on No. wheat. And again Is cents
on a bushel is more than double the actual diff
ference between the milling value of No. 2 and
No. wheat, of this seasons growth. Hoping
that something may be done to stop this sys.
tematical plundering of the farmers in this
part OF the State, l remain respectfully yours
W. l.. BEACH,
From a long letter from ]. S. Sutcliffe oil
October 18th. give the following extracts
Being interested in quantity of wheat
the product of summers hard toll, I offered
the same for sale to the agent of the Elevator
company at Hancock, aud was told that on ac
count OF the restrictions placed upon him by
the grading of the inspector Of the Minneapo
lis Millers' ASSOCIATION, that he could not Civ,
me higher grade than No. fer my wheat
| although he considered that if pound a bu
shel was cleaned out it would grade good No
2. l accordingly shipped my wheat to tn,
st. Paul Warehouse and Elevator com pany anc
the net result after paying all charges, was l;
| cents per bushel higher than the No. price a;
Hancock. +
The question presents itself, why does not tn,
Elevator company furnish proper facilities fo
| cleaning wheat, and thereby improve the grad,
at small cost per bushel? It is obvious tn,
company clean the wheat after buying it a
price, while the farmer is Is the loser
If any of the above facts will susta in yo,
| in your position in behalf of the farmers O.
this State. you are at liberty to use them.
| Yours respectfully, j. s. SUTCL1FFE."
MIR. Valentine instructs his agent to rol
the farmers. Said agent also instructed tx
run outside buyers out of the market.
WALDEN, Oct. 9TH, 1873
Mr.. L. B. Hodges.
DEAR SIR: In accordance to your published
request asking for statements of those wht
have been aggrieved by the wheat buyers at tn,
stations along the line of the st. Paul & Pacific
railroad, we, the undersigned, make the follow
ing statement:
On or about the 18th of September, 1878, G
w. Churchill and B. L. Shepherd, of the tow1
OF Walden, Pope county, each offered load o.
wheat for sale at Hancock. Mr.. A. @. Sherwood
| inspected and tested each load. Mr.. Churchill
tested 56tbs. strong Mr.. Shepherd s tested 561s
lbs. both loads dry and clean. Mr.. Sherwood
offered to take the loads at No. grade and M
| more. Sherwood also stated that he had re-
ceived instructions to raise the grade of No.
| to 59tbs. and No. 2 to 57fbs., and produc ;
| letter in proof of the same. Mr.. Sherwood
also stated that said wheat was good sample
| of No. wheat, but according to his instruc
| tions he could not receive it as such. On tht
following day Mr.. Shepherd drew his load tx
Morris. where there is competition Of buyers
| and there had no difficulty in selling the same
| load for No. wheat
Further, on the 9Th day of October, 1878, tht
price offered at Hancock for No. wheat was
63 cents per bushel, while at Morris, nine miles
further up the road, the same grade of wheat
was 66 cents.
Further, the inspector at Hancock stated tc
several parties whose names can be had tina,
should outside buyers come into Hancock he
had instructions to put up the price of wheat
Further, why is wheat worth at Fargo and
Glyndon S5 cents, while at Hancock, 100 miles
nearer market wheat is only worth 70 cents.
1t this state of things continues, the sooner we
leave this line of railroad and move to some
other railroad where there is competition, the
better it is for u.s. B. L. SHEPHERD,
CIV. CHURCHILL.
now submit letter from Mr.. James E,