Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-09-09

rules and regulations; we must receive unfair {
inspection. II it is IN the power Of this
board to bring remedy We want it. We
speak of the shoe where it pinehss bat OF I
course
LEGISLATION MUST BE GENEEAL-
A. As stated before, We live among the
farmers and have other business with them.
It is necessary We should favor them.
A. Our wheat generally comes from tbs
thresher and an agreed deduction il made
for cleaning. We have tanning mills at the
elevator and the farmers test their wheat /
with these mills.
A. We clean the wheat before shipping |
It is all cleaned.
A. We occasionally ship TO other places, |
but our only permanent markets are at Min |
nsspolis and ST. Paul. Az to other points |
We have no complaint to make.
A. don't know of any difference be-
tween these places and Milwaukee. In
sone cases at Milwaukee we gst a
better grade and in others worse. The
Milwaukee grades, il independently and
impartisliy established, if we could have
them, would be good enough. The evil
would be corrected If the inspection was
uniform, as near as good judgment could
make it and independent of influence from
either side.
A. Wheat does not test at as high grades
and there Is no more difference IN inspec-
ton, at Minneapolis, since the Stacy filler
was abandoned.
A. In small towns it is generally the rule
that the inspector and buyer is one and the
same man.
A. The Stacy filler gave good satisfaction
with US.
A. OF course where the wheat is dirty It
is a matter of agreement with the farmer
and buyer as to the deduction 90 make the
grade.
A. The principal thing is in settling
with the association. They say ''You are
too good to the farmers" 1t is our int crest
to be. We want to get so that oar wheat
will not be inspected harder than that of
| others.
A. 1t is very different to suggest what
can be done. Under the Chicago law the
Inspector is paid large salary and is ap-
pointed outside of the buyers. The inspec-
tor should be independently supported.
| A. The weights are often short. The
grain is weighed at the mills and we have to
take their weights. In one instance there
was loss of fifty bushels to the car.
| A. The worst of the system is that it is
raising a race of rascals in the business.
Country buyers have got to steal OF go IN
der, if they comply with the regulations Of
that association.
A. The elevators along our road have
generally come out short on account of the
high inspection at Minneapolis,
Mr.. Locke followed MIR. Thornton, saying
I that legislation on the subjects presented
1t. 49,
one party against another it would be apt to
go too far. He advised caution. Else we
would have the same result as two years ago,
when the legislature did the farmers harm in
passing into law what had before been only
usage. Then, q great deal of poor wheat
had been taken in as No. 2, and on that came
THE BIGGEST STEAL
of the Millers' association. They locked
55115 pounds wheat twenty cents per bushel
under No. 2. eorresponded with the asso-
ciatisn, saying it was an extraordinary sea-
son. 1t was good milling wheat. We had
tried it in our mill and knew it made good
-four. True, it was light, and could not be
brought to full weight. I said it ought to be
Bought on its merits, for what it was worth.
Their answer was, it is yuor business to
[ replied, if Locke steals it will be for him
self and not for the Millers' association.
The next heard from them was that they
would buy no more wheat from me forever.
They fought me eighteen months, paying
over their list prices, never less than FIVE
cents above and sometimes fifteen cents
above. But bought, and paid their price,
and happened to make profit. They were
, buying elsewhere at low prices all the time.
In regard to the way of this business al
, Minneapolis. When wheat is handled il
, large quantities there is always considerable
off grade. Let an elevator man clean 1900
bushels and put it in bin, The clear
wheat will fall in the middle, piling up in
/ cone form with all the dirt falling down the
/ sides to edge. In drawing it out the lowel
part remains until the top is drawn
out. Suppose it was 57-pounds wheat al
5 through. The first 1000 bushels drawn ou
will be nearly No. L, close on to So pounds
] clean and nice. The next will be even grade
J. The last third, say three carloads, will ge
all the dirt and be below grade unless clean
( ed over. 1t goes to market and the frs
4. third passes all right, but with no credit fo
9 overweight; the next third just sqHeeze
t in, and the last third is graded back. Their
!, is no consideration for that which is aboy
: grade: but the elevator man must pay ten
cents on the bushel or more to make up TO
the last third. Every car stands upon it
own merits. Mr.. Charles S. Pillsbury &C
t knowledged to me that this was the fact. bu
said it could not be helped when, shippin,
] one car to one mill and another to another
. But it could be helped this way: Take on
t of the cars of So pounds and one of 55115
give one Of the good and one of the poor l,
the same buyer, and with the tw'
( mixed they would have good fair grade o
No. wheat.
I REGARDING LEGISLATION;
see that it is well considered and defined in
3 stead of as two years ago when the legisla
8 ture, intending to- do the farmers good, dix
> them harm. Our elevators were all full O
3 farm ers' wheat below the grade in weight
Before the law was passed fixing Sc and 81
pounds for the grades, we had the chance K
say this is No. 2 wheat; show US the Law
which makes it less. Now they show us tn
law and insist upon it.
A member of the board said he would lik,
to have the gentleman suggest some remedy
MIR. Thornton proposed State system O.
inspection. And then as to this point o
stopping a country elevators business. 1
is not right that because one runs
an independent elevator at Willmar OF
Benson, the Millers' association should refus,
! to do business with him and raise prices OF
him. 1t is practically conspiracy to driv
him out of business. I don't know how YOU
would go to work to prevent this but leave i
: for you to consider.