The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-11-14
THEY WILL CRIB IT
BUr A SMALL PORTION OF THE
CORN CROP WILL BE MOVED.
This r. the Opinion of j. L Nessiey, Who is
Engaged in the Business of Buying
Grain-He Says that at Every Station
Grain Buyers are Cribbing Their Pur-
chases and it will Not be Placed on the
Market at the Present Extreme Low
PrIces-He Declares that the Prices
are Lowered by Freight Rates.
are Lowered by Freight Rates.

il. Messy. of the Dale-Nessly Mill
ing company Of Udau and Mulvane,
was IN the city last night and in speak
ing Of THE grain and milling business
said:
There is a change from the usual Gus
tom in vogue in this country during
large corn crop years. Heretofore the
crop has been bought up by shippers
and moved out of the country, but this
fall there IS a great change, and
might say one which will rebound to the
benefit of this section of the country.
Instead of the corn being bought up
and shipped out, IT is being purchased
and cribbed and viii be held here for
an advance in price.
Our company has received large or
ders for chop feed for New Orleans and
Texas points and we find ourselves
forced to outbid cribbers before we
can secure corn for our mills. The
present market rate of chop feed in Tex
as Is 50 cents per hundred weight, and
with corn at fits present price milking
should be extremely profitable. And
with this rate we should be able to pay
an increased price for corn, but you will
corn at 10 and u cents a bushel in
Harper county, when ground, sacked
and delivered on the market there is
only an extremely small margin, and
were We not in possession of large or
derS there would not be any money TO
us.
'SThe reason for this rs the railroad
discrimination made against this Sec
ton of the country. Now the rate from
the mills of the company is 80 cents
per hundred pounds. while Kansas City
and Missouri rive points have a rate
TO the same market of 20 cents per
hundred. We can load a car at the
mills and ship it to Kansas City and
have it rebilled and returned by our
elevators and landed on the market at
a saving of several dollars on car
load of mill stuff.
This can be called calamity or what
not, but it is a fact that on account of
the discrimination in freight rates
that shippers of grain and millers could
make more clear money by shipping
their products to Kansas City and hav
ing 1T returned right by their own ele-
vators, than they can by making d.
rect shipments to the points of diStri-
button. 1t would be done too, if it was
not for extra time required. There is
no justice in this and the persons who
sell the grain are the loosers every time.
When this is remedied there will be a
great advance in the prices paid to far
mers for their grain. Think of fine corn
being sold at 10 and - cents bushel,
and farmers and feeders in Texas and
southern points are compelled to pay
ait a rate of 80 cents per bushel. In 9TH
er words. the man who owns the land,
teams, pay taxes, works for nothing
and boards himself receives 10 and II
cents a bushel for his corn, while the
railroads receive three times as much
per bushel for less than three days
work.
Again, you can ship your product
500 miles farther and save money in
stead of sending 1T direct. While we
are forced to compete with cribbers for
every bushel we secure, yet 1 am glad
ito see the system of cribbing adopted
by Kansas men. 1t will rebound to the
benefit of the country and instead Of
the money for the great corn crop of
1895 falling into the pockets of the Chi
cago gam blers ii will remain in Kansas.
There is not station on the Null
vane extension but what has one or
more persons engaged i'm buying grain
solely for cribbing purposes. Mr.. Cole
of Winfield has ordered three car loads
of cTibbing lumber and is buying at ev-
cry station in Cowley county south of
Winfield
''At UdaH there IS no corn, and in
fact we are buying corn from farmers
at Mulvane, only twelve miles distant,
and selling to the farmers in the vi
cinity of Udall. This was caused by
being in the dry streak which extended
almost through the state from north
to south. There are sections in Sedg
wick county where the crop was a fail
ure.
cat Belle Plafne and Mulvane we are
paying from Is TO II cents for corn, but
If we had direct railroad rates we could
pay from so to 50 cents and make more
clear money than we do at the pres
crit time There viii without doubt
be more corn cribbed in Southern Kan
sas this year than at any period in the
past"