St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-05-20
weighing not less than fifty-four pounds

NO. spring wheat shall include spring
wheat musty, grown, badly bleached OF
that which for any other cause renders 1t
unfit for No. 3.
Condemned Spring Wheat-All wheat that
! is in a heating condition, or too damp to be
considered safe for warehousing, or that
has any considerable admixture of foreign
grain or seed, or is badly bin-burnt, what
ever grade it might otherwise be-is de-
clared to be condemned" and when in
spected the Inspectors notes shall state the
quality and condition.
Mr.. Spencer OF the committee then
claimed that Duluth was taking the place OF
Chicago in the buying as well as selling OF
grain Tor expectation abroad, and selling to
the millers outside of Minnesota. 1t had
built up a name and great trade on
the grade known as Northern grade
No. 1, and two-thirds of the exports were of
this grade. 1t has been years in building
UP its trade ON this grade and it's elevator
receipts for this grade were good all over
the United States and in foreign countries
The No. 2 grade was drag in the market
and they did no business in it. Mr.
Spencer then read kilograms from heavy
milling firms in Buffalo, Rochester and Mil
waukee, opposing any change in the grade
of No. Northern, and saying that if any
was made they should have to look else
where for supplies.
The Minneapolis committee at this point
sustained MI. Spencer that the grades of
the hard WheatS must be kept intact. Mr..
Pratt said that Minneapolis with it's ship
ment of 10000 bushels of wheat in the sea-
son of its moving, was the greatest grain
market in the world, and would use every
endeavor to encourage the raising of hard
wheat. All the soft wheats smut them
selves out in short time, but hard wheat
never. He did not believe in protecting
the farmer in raising rubbish, but in
paying the farmer a premium for
raising good grain. It was the
raisers of poor wheat who made the most
complaint end never those who raised good
crops. Into Minneapolis came wheat from
all parts of the West, of all sorts and kinds,
while Duluth had the advantage of better
quality of grain in the main.
A desuItory talk then followed, in which
Duluth objected to the disturbance of trade,
by regarding the wheat, in existing chan
nels and in which Minneapolis was ready to
compromise by dropping No. 2 hard and ig-
noring No. Northern, substituting Mime
sofa No. 1.
MR.. DONALDSON's PROPOSITION.
At this point letter was read from II.
w. Donaldson of Kennedy, Red river
valley. This letter claimed the valley raised
wheat more valuable than other parts of the
state, and that while the valleys interest
was all in wheat other parts of the state
were carrying on mixed farming. Raising
the choicest wheat in the world protection
was wanted by the valley from being
brought on a parallel with inferior wheat.
The valley wheat was thoroughbred and
it did not want to be brought in competition
with scrub productions. Six grades were
wanted, viz: No. hard, 2 hard, 1 regular,
2 regular, regular and rejected;
No. 1 hard to weigh So pounds, No. 2 hard
Sc, No. 1 regular So, No. 2 regular, all soft
varieties, not less than Sc, No. regular "a,
and rejecting all wheat not fit to be graded
as above.
He would not object to the weight of No.
hard at 60 pounds so that we might
really have a gilt-edge grade, one that will
not stand much mixing and its weight
would be a trade mark for our choicest
wheat.
HARD WHEAT ALL BOSH.
Mr.. Shields of Meeker county pronounced
the raising of hard wheat for profit to the
producer as all bosh. In the first place
Fife wheat was running out in Minnesota,
and the millers paid no more for it, as he
had demonstrated as farmer by raising
and selling it. 1t was a scheme of the
millers to get the farmers to raise it so that
they could put millions in their own
pockets.
Mr.. Gilbert explained that Minnesota No.
l soft wheat was graded in Chicago
as No. 2. He was followed by
q fbo n
of the state, who said that from
three grades easily handled when the coun-
try was new through custom and necessity,
we now had great number. The different
kinds of wheat had been multiplied from
the original grain which the pioneers knew
first by the deterioration after several crops
of hard wheat into soft wheat on the same
land, and seemed by the trying of different
kinds of seed to raise big crops. Duluth
had a claim to its type sample of what the
North could raise, and for which it gets a
higher price. The farmer from Meeker had
an equal right to name for his soft wheat.
He did not see how we were to eliminate
any OF the present grades, which had grown
up from necessity. The farmer who is
sharp enough for us all had been tripped by
dirt and foreign Seeds If he cleans up his
wheat and takes it to market he can get its
worth. Dealers prefer few grades, as they
are less confusing. There was diStinc-
ton between wheat grown North and South
the world over, and the North will have the
best grades, as its wheat is stronger. He
believed the grades should be left where
they are, as it was risky to cut them down.
DOCKAGE FOR DIRT.
Mr.. Bowen of Minneapolis then brought
up the subject of the adjustment of dock
age. 1t was difficult question to act upon,
he knew, but it was an encouragement for
the growth of dirt; rather than Clearly
cultivation Of the soil The day had passed
when money should be thrown away in
freighting the wheat dirt of the farmer to
market
Mr.. Spencer of Duluth said that Mr..
Bowen had struck the key note of this
whole grain trouble There was no reason
that any grain should be sent to the termi-
nal elevators uncleaned. The commission
ers should require this before the farmer
brought his grain to dealer or country ele-
vator. He would cooperate with the deal
ers of the state to buy no more dirt. This
dirty grain was what caused guessing for
dockage on the part of the inspectors and
elevators often fell short from 1000 to
5000 bushels on inspectors mistakes in this
particular
State Inspector Burdick here cited a case
at Wlllmar where a load of dirty grain was
offered to three elevators and was sold to
one which offered the lowest dockage for
dirt per bushel, or three pounds. Thirty
pounds of this wheat was cleaned and
tested and it yielded % pounds of wheat
and ~ pounds of dirt. That elevator was
IL, 900 bushels of wheat short from just
this kind of guessing at the end of the
year.
AT THE AFTERNOON SESSION
Mr.. Petit of Minneapolis said that the
farmers desired but four principal grades to
be handled at the country elevators by the
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