Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1891-10-08
THERE'S A GENERAL KICK.
North Dakota Exchanges EX.
press Similar Sentiments as
to Marketing Grain.
Nearly all Think the Elevators
Want a Sincll, and Advise
Shipments.
Other Matters of Interest Clean.
ed by Dakota Press Rep
resentativeS.
Press Pulpit-.-N1arketing Grain.

Press Pulpit-..Marketing Grain.
Churchs Ferry Sun: Lumber for
granaries is being hauled into the coun-
try every day. Never before were farm
ers so determined to hold their wheat.
Casselton Republican: It is an un-
usual sight to see farmers loading wheat
| directly into cars, as they are doing at
this and surrounding stations, but they
are doing it all the same, and apparently
the elevators are considerable losers by
the new order Of things.
New Rockford Transcript: The eleva-
tor companies do not seem to be very
busy this year. A few farmers shipped
when the crop first came into market
and received from fifteen to thirty cents
more per bushel clear of freight than
they would have received by selling to
the home elevators. This looks as though
the elevators expect to have the bulk of
the farmers crop on cinch game. Ship
your wheat.
Mayville Tribune: IF the mountain
won't come to Mohammed, Mohammed
must come to the mountain 1t the
farmers refuse to 60 the elevators, the
elevators must 60 the farmers. In other
words, had the farmers of North Dakota
been in shape to hold their wheat from
market they would have been able to
get what their product is worth. AS it is
the movement of grain has been as heavy
as usual at this season, the Duluth and
Minneapolis markets have been glutted
and an audible drop in price has been
the result.
, Grand Forks Herald; A we'll informed
, gentleman complains that the elevators
are making eight cents difference in price
between the grades of No. northern
and No. northern, which he says works
great injustice to farmers as much of
the wheat graded No. ?, is only slightly
r inferior to No. l, and in many cases
practically as good for milling purposes.
3 He insists that there should be grade
3 between what is now No. 1 northern and
No. or that IN some way the difference
f IN price should correspond with the diff.
ference in quality of the wheat.
Valley City Record: 1t seems poor
3 policy for those of our farmers who are ir
!. position to hold wheat of good quality
1 to place it on the market these times
The London Miller of 7th inst. quotes
No. hard as selling at S1.35 per bushel
The land and ocean carrying charges, s,etc.
on wheat from Valley City to London
and Liverpool are placed at thirty five
cents bushel, which makes our famed
cereal worth one dollar right here al
home on that date. The elevator CON-
panles paid seventy-five cents, or about
that price. Query. Who salted down the
other twenty-five cents? Who?
Dawson Standard: The cry of frosted
and inferior wheat, that is being made by
buyers all over the country, suggests the
experience of Kidder county farmer as
related to Standard representative a
few days since. The farmer in question
, was hauling his wheat to market, in 1855
and was receiving the price of No. | hard
AS he was leaving the elevator a neigh
boris team was driven up by couple of
hired men. Upon examination of this
wheat by the agent in charge of the ele-
vator it was graded rejected, and the
drivers were informed that he could pay
but 40 cents per bushel for 1t, and did
not want it at any price The farmer.
whose wheat was grading No. l hard and
bringing 81 per bushel, told the elevator
agent that he would take it at 40 cents,
and take it home, and the wheat was
sold to him, and was taken home and
cleaned with tanning mill. Ten BUSH
els were taken from the two loads, in the
way of foul seed and shrunken grain,
and the balance returned to the elevator,
where 1t graded No. hard and brought
81 per bushel. If there were eighty
bushels to the load Gan ordinary load
, they cost the farmer who bought them
S64. In the cleaning they were reduced
to $50 bushels, which at 81 would bring
$3.50, or $50 for the trouble of cleaning
16O bushels.
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