The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1891-05-14
THE PRICE OF WHEAT.
Action Taken by the Stark County Hor-
ticultural society--Muoh Talk lndulg'
ed In.

Action Taken by the Stark County Hor-
ticultural society--M Much Talk Indulg'
ed In.
The following extracts from the report
of the Horticultural society regarulng ,ne
and Massillon, are taken from the Mas
sillon Independent.
Mr,J. j. Snyder said there was com.
pact combination of millers in Canton as
well as in Massillon, for In the former
city they paid low prices while in New
Berlin, few miles distant, nigner Prices
such as prevailed at Akron, we're paid.
Mr.. Mcdowell brought up. a.personal
experience. Last spring he sold his wheat
| i'm Massillon for 80 cents, when the price
which was being paid that day was but 80
cents. He secured the extra hye cents
because he simply refused to sell 1t for
s5, as he could get more. else
where. and proposed to do ii. The
purchaser told Mr.. Mcdowell he
would pay him 80 cents If he would not
mention the circumstances to any one"
On the same date, when he sold out at 80
cents, wheat costing 81 cents, was being
hauled into Massillon from Navarro.
When he sold his wheat at the jackson
township station, three weeks ago he got
cents more than he would have gotten in
town.
Mrs. EaQert said that many farmers
near her home hauled their wheat to Ma
varre where they got 4 cents more than
they could in Massillon, although the same
wheat was eventually rehauled to Massil-
lon. Many other farmers took their
wheat to North Lawrence when the aver
age of prices was higher than at Massil-
Ion.
Mr.. Snyder said that If farmers would
cooperate, buy their own wheat ana sell
it, the local combination would soon dis
solve.
Mrs. Eggert suggested that quick and
easy way TO accomplish the same result
would be to club together and ship in car
lots.
President Roth spoke of recent incl
dent at Canton. Certain persons dlssatls,
fed with the offer at Canton weighed
their wheat and shipped II to Akron. They
there not only got better price, but on
seventeen bushels more than their own
figures gave them. Wheat merchants
al Canton, he said, established
outside warehouses and authorized
their agents to pay from one
to five cents more than they would pay IN
Canton. Something was radically wrong,
and the sooner farmers understood this,
the better it would be for those farmers.
In accordance with wish that the mat
ter might take some definite form, other
business was taken up and in the mean
time the following resolution was drafted: |:
WHEREAS, The Stark County Hortlcul-
tural Society is fully convinced that the
average prices paid for wheat in the
larger markets of our own county are not
the prices which do prevail in Akron, To-
ledo, and even the naturally inferior mar
kets of Stark county; and
WHEREAS, Because of the existence of
combination of buyers, who unJustly
discriminate, and offer more thorough
their accredited agents than they do them
selves, and who thereby perpetrate an in
justice TO the grain growers OF TINS county
and ipiure the trade of our two largest
cities. therefore be it
RESOLVED, That We condemn the ex-
listing condition and heartily endorse any
legitimate measures which may be taken
to bring ABOUT healthier state OF affairs.
The resolution was seconded by Mr.. j.
A. Borst, the great celery grower at Green
town, and was adopted without dissent