The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-12-04
THE SWINDLES ON FARMERS

HARD WHEAT" AND soft WHEAT
NOW YOU SEE THE LITTLE JOK-
Err" AND NOW YOU DON'T-A HIsTO-
RY OF ROBBERIES AND EXTOR-
TIONS PRACTICED ON FREE AMER
ICAN CITIZENS THAT WOULD DIS
GRACE RUSSIA-A "RESILIENT''
WHEAT MARKET PREPARING TO
"FETTLE."
Editor Representative:
When l came to Renville county, in 1873
the great boast of Minnesota was her 49,
900, 900 bushels Of hard fife wheat a va
riety it was claimed that made the finest
flour in the world After few years
farmers began to raise a softer variety
called "blue stem; all elevators would al
low only No. for that variety of wheat,
claiming it made poor -four This excuse
for lower grades for "blue stem wheat
continued for few years, then the ele-
vators Disseminated against "fife,' claim
ing that the fife got soft and the
blue stem" got hard in this latitude; and
that there was no difference in the flour
quality of the two varieties.
Seven years ago l bought Of Mr.. Well
man, of Frazer City, four bushels of his
prize life" wheat, at the state fair; four
years ago sample of my wheat was
shown Chief Inspector Clausen and he pro,
nounced it No. 1 hard gilt edge" told
him elevator men said no wheat would be
graded No. / that was shipped to Minne>
apolis via the H. & D.. railroad. He said
that was false; he would guarantee that
fife" wheat that stood the test of weight,
ETC., would be graded "No. hard" by the
State Inspector no matter from what sec
ton of the state it was shipped. My
wheat this season will weigh so pounds to
the measured bushel, is as pure fife" as
l have ever raised, or seen raised, the
yield was little over % bushels per acre
T MI of< 10
wheat to commission firm in Mineapo-
lis, paying more than the price Of one
half buShel of wheat to the express com.
pany to ship the small sample 80 miles,
The commission firm wrote back the sam
pie was very fine, but it would not grade
''No. l hard" but gave no reasons why it
would not. No doubt Clasen tells the
truth, but the farmers can get but prec>
ious little benefit from state inspection If
commission men stand between them and
declare there is no mo 1 hard" wheat
raised on this line of road, no matter what
the variety is. For the life of me l never
have nor do I now see any good the ex-
pensive state inspection is doing or has
done, for the farmers, unless providing
places for political heelers can be called a
good thing for the farmers.
Millers at Redwood Falls have paid two
and three cents more for fife" wheat for
milling purposes than they would pay for
blue STEM" which would indicate that
elevator men are taking some advantage
of the farmers who raise "fife" wheat
I have been watching the wheat market
this fall with great interest and at times
thinking [ might have chance to sell on
rise of half cent or so. kind friend
saw fit to punish me by subscribing for
the Farmers Tribune of Minneapolis for
three MONTHS he thought l would make
the most of it by closely reading the edi-
torials in that great paper on wheat
Being Popuist he thought l would be
gui led in selling my wheat by information
gained from those matterly editorials.
When / read in the issue of Nov 18th UNI
der editorial heading "Wheat''
All things considered the market show
ed considera bic resiliency, and ended on
Saturday with better 'fettle' than has been
maintained for many weeks" Of course l
Immediately went to "Webster I'm
abridged and got the meaning of the
above significant words and found wheat
was about to 'spring back or rebound"
and that wheat was getting ready ito re-
pair; to put In order; to make prepare;
tons; to do trif1ing business. 1 told my
boys when the wheat market was getting
ready to cut such capers as that we would
sell and let the market caper as
much as it pleased; so I Jumped the whole
crop off to the miller at As cents per bushel
and now we are thankful that there was
two purchasing clauses in the Sherman
law to be repealed, these are such 'goody-
had much more of it.
The same papers and boards Of trade
manufacturers, who howled for repeal in
1893 are now commencing to howl for
destruction of the greenbacks, pitching the
same tune that the greenbacks are the
cause of present depressed business con-
ditions, and prices, as the purchasing
clause was in '93.
I read on the face of the greenback,
the United States will pay bearer so many
dollars; while on the face of the treasury
note 1t says will pay bearer so many dol
lars ''in COIN" still these traitors are harp
ing that the greenbacks are being re-
deemed in gold and reissued while in
1893 they claimed it was the treasury notes
Carlisle was redeeming in gold instead of
silver under the plea if he redeemed in
silver gold would go to a premium.
l predict if these traitors succeed in hav-
ing greenbacks destroyed or have Trai-
tor Shermans plan adopted, wheat will
'fettle' to 25 cents per bushel; and other
farm products will sell proportionaly as
low then the old parties will have pro-
lection, and the fool people will vote pro-
lection, while the wise ones will vote for
"MOllie and the babies
W