Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1894-02-15

had been cleaning out 13 lbs. to the
hundred. That would leave me SIC.
would be holding that wheat today
if / could not have got more than
that out of it. But short time after
that you stopped at my place and we
got talking about wheat. l told you
| had $50 bushels that l had kept for
nearly two years and that 1 could not
realize but 9Oc. for it. You said, why
this very day the miller offered you
S1.25 for wheat. Just because he
knew you did not have any to sell. 1
offered you my $50 bushels for 1c.,
and was willing you should make Csc.
per hundred off of it. You would not
take it, but you said you would see
what you could do with the miller
yourself, and we would get it ground
into flour if it was good wheat. l
told you what kind OF luck had and
that was discouraged. And l will
state right here the kind of luck my
neighbor, Mr.. Lindsey, had.
He had raised lot OF winter wheat
which was nice and clean. The first
grist he took was a large one and he
waited over night for it (though Mr..
Stiles contradicted the statement when
spoken to about it) and got splendid
flour, and he laughed at me all sum-
mer. But in the fall he took another
grist of the same wheat, and that
time he got his grist the same after
noon; the worse for him, for it was
even poorer than any l had received.
On that account Mr.. Lindsey has quit
raising wheat.
Now we will see what kind of luck
you had with the miller. The first
offer you got was quite a bit better
than 1 could do. You wrote to me
and wanted to know if you should ac-
cept it. asked you to try and do
better still. The next offer you got
was 2Oc. better than the first, making
altogether 3Oc. and believe it is safe
to say SOC. better than i could do.
And why was that? Just because it
was Mr.. Fergus, and he wanted Mr..
Fergus to think that he was doing
somewhere near right. The next
trouble was to get good flour out oi
all this wheat. You got written
statement from him that every sack
should be alike and each sack good
-four.
When 1 was ready to haul Istopped
at the mill and inquired If they were
ready to handle Mr.. Fergus wheat
Il will have to apologize here, for de
ception is sometimes necessary and
thought it was in this CASEY Mr.
Waldorf was there and he said b,
wouldn't handle it until Mr.. Stiles
came back from the estates" unles.
Mr. Fergus said SO. He knew that j
every sack was not just SO he would
catch it. That is the difference be
tween Mr.. Fergus wheat and my own
When Mr.. Stiles came home the whea
was all ground, and will say that 1
better flour could not be asked for
Not one poor sack in the outfit.
will also say that if 1 had 200 sack
more 1 could dispose OF it and keel
that much Dakota flour out OF Mon
tana. A great many used it that hat
quit using Fergus county flour for tn
reason that some sacks OF this mill
flour would be good and some woul'
not with the same brand, while thi
flour of mine was all good and the.
knew it.
/ want to say q few words NOR
about this wheat. believe Mr.. Stile
thought that this flour was for MI
Fergus but also feel satisfied tina
he thopsnt the brsc and shorts wer
for me. We were to get all OF the bra
and shorts but somehow or other tn
bran is very short of shorts. When
tried to sell it for what l got it ever
one told me not to do it as there wer
no shorts in it. That was my opinio
also, but not being a miller l was nc
certain. know that it is hard wor
to get go pounds in a two and a ha
bushel sack. believe it would b
safe to call it all bran. But this
not all. When 1 took this same whea
to the mill for myself they cleaned ou
13 lbs. to the hundred, and Mr.. Wal