Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1895-08-15

st. Paul. Aug. IA meeting of the
railroad and warehouse commission
was held to-day to consider the ques-
ton of establishing Minnesota grades
on grain for the ensuing crop year.
all the members Of the board were
present, also G. A. Magnussen, OF the
Northwestern Elevator company of
Minneapolis; 4. G. Clausen, chief dep
uty inspector of grain, and i. ID.
Strait, chief chief deputy inspector at
Minneapolis. No communications adj
vocating changes in the existing
grades were reported to have been
received by the commission, thus in
dicating a general sentiment in favor
Of leaving the present rules as they
are. Those present acquiesced in
the belief hat the rules and grades
now in force were adequate II suf-
hciently comprehensive TO enable the
inspection department TO properly
classify the new crop.
AT the close of the meeting, on
recommendation of the chief inspect
or, a resolution was adopted 10y the
commission re-establishing the grades
| which have been in force during the
past crop year. 1t was also conclud-
ed TO make no change in the exist
ing fees for inspection and weighing
Of grain. The fees now in force are
as follows: Fol- inspection on arrival,
25 cents per car load on all receipts
excepting fax seed, the fee for the
latter being 10 cents per car load; for
Inspection out of store, - cents per
car load and 80 cents per LOCO bush
els TO vessels, on all grain excepting
fax seed, the fees for the latter be
ing 10 cents per car load and 81 per
| 1000 TO vessels. The fceS for weigh
ing are % cents per car load and 80
| cents per 1000 to vessels on all grain.
including fax seed. either on arrival
or out of store.
Minnesota "a Corn State.
Many expert agr~iculturalists and
railroad officials say that inside Of
two years Minnesota will raise as
| much corn as wheat. and that later on
corn will be the states most i'm
| portant crop. Up to the present time
| few people have realized Minnesota's
capacity for supremacy among the
corn states. Prof. Thomas Shaw, of
| the university experimental station,
I and General Freight Agent Moore, of
the Northern Pacific, are the first men
| to compile detailed facts and figures
to prove the growing Importance Of
| Minnesota as a corn state and TO es-
| tablish the prediction that she is
| about to take one of the most prOmi-
nent places in the front rank of that
| department Of farming. Speaking of
| this matter to a reporter, Mr.. Moore,
who last Saturday accompanied Prof.
Shaw on a trip to the bennett farm
at WestpOrt, said:
Minnesota raised more corn in
| 1894 than Wisconsin, half as much as
the State of Kansas, and 50 per cent
more than either Nebraska or New
York State. more than South Carolina
or Louisiana, and nearly as much as
Michigan. There are about thirty
states in the Union producing less
corn than Minnesota produces. In
round figures, the farmers of Mime
sofa raised y 100000 bushels Of corn
last year. The report of the depart
| ment of agriculture at Washington
| shows hat we never vet produced
sufficient corn for home consumption.
| Why? Because the mistaken idea
has largely prevailed that Minnesota
cannot probably produce corn. How
ever, our corn crop this year is vari-
Ously estimated at between 25.O00,O00
and 100000 bushels. There will
be a great increase over last year if
the present favorable weather pre-
walls a few weeks longer,