St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-06-05
that are damp, unsound, dirty, or for any
other cause unfit for No. 2.

reasonably clean and reasonably free from
other grain.
No. 3 Rye-No. rye, damp, musty, dirty
or from any cause unfit for No. 2, shall be
graded as No. 3.
BARLEY.
No. 1 Barley-No. 1 barley shall be
plump, bright, clean, and free from other
grain.
No. Barley-No. Q barley shall be
sound, of healthy color, not plump enough
for No. L, reasonably clean and reasonably
free from other grain.
No. 3 Barley-No. barley shall include
slightly shrunken and otherwise slightly
damaged barley not good enough for No. 2.
No. 4 Barley-No. barley shall include
all barley fit for mailing purposes, not good
enough for No. 8.
No. Barley-No. 5 barley shall include
all barley which is badly damaged or from
any cause unfit for mailing purposes, ex-
cept that barley which has been chemically
treated, shall not be graded at all.
Scotch Barley-Scotch barley, the grades
Of Nos. 1, 2 and Scotch barley shall cor
respond in all respects with the grades of
Nos. 1, 2 and barley, except that they
shall be Of the Scotch variety.
THE COMMISSIONERS STATEMENT.
In establishing Minnesota grades,'
making rules for the inspection of grain,
and organizing the force of state inspectors
and weigh-maSters in connection Herewith,
under the provisions of the first statute Of
this state, attempting to regulate and con-
troll the handling of grain. the commission
ers are deeply impressed with the magnitude
OF the interests which have been confided to
their care, as well as the responsibilities
resting upon them. The difficulties which
present themselves are so numerous and in
tricate that only those who investigate the
subject with just appreciation of RESPONSE
bility to serve all interests impartially can
possibly comprehend them.
The interests involved, although embraced
in state law, are by no means confined to
state lines, but are as broad as commerce,
being nothing less than the formation Of a
system to control and regulate the move
ment OF the great grain crops Of Minnesota
and incidentally of the Northwest, and to
deliver them in a suitable condition to the
markets of the world
This system must be based upon no other
foundation than that of sound public hon
esty, and bear the impress of good faith
and fairness to all men. Were it anything
less it.would not fairly voice the sentiments
OF the great constituency which it repre-
sents.
For many years the producers of this
state have alleged that they have been the
victims of great injustice by the system of
handling the grain crops instituted and
controlled by the buyer only.
With this feeling of injustice in the past,
and determination that it should continue
no longer, the people of the state made
this an issue at the last state election, and
indeed the paramount issue, in the election
of members to the legislature, and that
body was overwhelmingly in favor of fixing
definitely the inspection and weighing of
grain. and provided that the business should
be taken out of the hands of the buyer, and
placed under the supervision of state au-
thority and that all parties, producer,
buyer, miller and consumer, should rest
their interests so far as the grading and
weighing OF grain was concerned, in the
hands of the state itself.
THE SYSTEM WAS COMPLEX.
SIT was the little buyer with his fat
warehouse and the merchant, who were
formerly buyers who, like the regulator in
a watch, adjusted the markets and the
grades.
G ssUnder that free and flexible system
grades adjusted themselves and there
were no complaints. The Mississippi river
towns, from Hastings to Brownsville, are
open and free markets, everyone buying
who chooses and everyone shipping that
desires, and not a complaint has ever come
from single one of these places.
s'Fhe record shows that they have paid
the highest average price for grain and with
no complaints as to grades. This is proof
Of the benefits of commercial freedom
While in the western and northern part
of the state and in Dakota a syndicate of
men have practically been present at every
station controlling prices and grades, all
other competitors have long since disap-
peared, and wheat has been marketed upon
the most subtle and complex system ever
before devised, with lines between grades
so close that only the most expert inspector
could distinguish between them. Itsis here
that the loudest complaints are heard.
The commission have endeavored to SIM
pity the handling of grain as far as pos
sible, and to establish no more grades than
absolutely necessary to move the crops with
their changed condition in the different sea-
sons.
The commission find now in use in the
three cities of Minneapolis, Duluth and st.
Paul total of seven grades of spring wheat,
above No. 3, as follows:
Extra No. 1, No. hard. No. Northern,
No. 1 regular, No. hard, No. Northern,
No. 9 regular.
THE GRADES CUT DOWN.
Under the new system there are but three
grades above No. 8, as follows:
No 1 hard, No. Northern, No. North
ern.
1t is believed that the grade of No. hard
as established will be found to provide for
the ''gilt edge" wheat to the general salts
faction of the friends of that grade-it GER
tainly represents the expressed views of d
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grade, as well as the millerS who desire to
give special value to No. 1 hard. Scotch
Fife wheat
In establishing the grades of Nos. and 3
Northern the commission have adopted the
word Northern to give character to and
designate as trade mark our Northwest
ern wheat in the markets of the world, and
thus draw line between Northern and
Southern spring wheat, as all know the SUI
periority of Northern grown wheat.
1t being true that minnesota State''
grades are to apply to the crop grown in the
most Northern portion of the United STATES
the designation of Northern should be so
impressed upon our wheat as to carry with
it into the markets Of the East and to Eu-
rope all the advantage to which it is Justly
entitled.
The commission have provided that No. 1
Northern shall be comprised of the hard
and soft varieties of spring wheat (not less
than so per cent. hard), with the view that
this grade shall be the great representative
milling grade, and with the hope that when
this grade is well understood, both in the
country and in the markets, we shall be
able to marketthe great bulk of our good
milling wheat through this grade.
The test weight of fifty-seven pounds is
fixed with this view and for thespurpose