St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1896-01-25

without discrimination to the farm
ers or elevator companies. This was
exemplif1ed In the case of President
Hill, who crops 1000 or 5000 acres Of
his $4,000 arcre holdings in this county.
Last fall his manager was unable to
secure cars at NOrthcote, a few miles
north Of Hallock, and was compelled
to crib his grain on the right of way
until the cars arrived.
81 contend that railway companies
should perform the same functions as
COMMON carriers for the farmer as
for the manufacturer without discrim-
1nation or the Intervention of outside
corporations or individuals. I mean
that the railroad company should re-
ceive the farmers products and be re-
sponSible for their delivery at destina-
ton as they are now for the products
of manufactures. There is too much
politics in the state grain department
ton. / believe the only way we will
be able to get our wheat out of the state
without it's being mixed viii be to sack
it and place our private
SEALS ON THE SACKS"
From a farm adjoining Mr.. Kelso's
the wheat was marketed direct from
the machine and sold directly to the
elevators. There were 1000 bushels
marketed at this time and divided
among the three elevators here. The
wheat graded No. 1 northern, and
Melted the farmers AZ cents a bushel
with one pound dockage. This was
double the dockage charged off from
Mr.. KelSo'S grain, and besides the dou-
BILE dockage the farmers received 21@
cents a bushel less than Mr.. Kelso
obtained by shipping direct to the ter
minals This shows that Mr.. Kelso
received nearly three cents bushel
more by shipping direct than his neigh
Dor did by selling to the local eleva-
tors. This farmer is satisfied that he
can save a considerable amount OF
money by shipping direct and that is
the way he will dispose of the 1000 or
1900 bushels he still has on hand.
Ole Peterson, whose farm is seven
miles east of Hallock, sold a part of
his wheat to the local elevator for 80
cents Then he tried shipping direct
to Minneapolis, and received 40 cents
for the same grade of wheat, making
a profit over the local market of eight
cents a bushel. Later he wanted to
ship some more wheat direct but was
unable to secure a car, and the same
elevator that had paid him 80 cents
before, bought this lot of wheat for SO
cents, the price he received at the ter
minal at Minneapolis, less two cents,
handling charges. There had been no
change in the local price list and all
the wheat was of the same grade.
William Kiever had shipped both to
Minneapolis and to West Superior, but
his experience had been better at the
latter point. He found that the local
elevators held out for No. 2 and No. 3
wheat even if it was better in quality.
Some of his that he could only get an
offer of No. 8 for at Hallock had
Skinned tO MinnaanO1ic and Du1Ilth
where it was graded No. 2. He never
had his wheat locked over IL pound at
terminal points, while the local ware
houses always took off a pound. On
one car, which Mr.. Kiever had shipped
to Minneapolis, he thought the COM
mission house had given him the worst
of it as the expenses amounted to a
cent and half more than at West Su-
perior. He had been taxed So demur-
rage, $3.50 switching charges and 80
per cent greater commissions Mr..
Kiever thought anything over u pound
dockage was excessive, as wheat from
this part Of the state is unusually
clean. He cleaned $50 bushels for seed
lately and took out less than 100
pounds of dirt.
WALLACE H. DOUGLAS,
president of the village. and cashier of
the kittSon County bank, was formerly
deputy state treasurer Of North Da
kota. He owns a farm near Park Riv-
er, N. D., and wanted to ship some
1000 bushels of wheat, but could not
haul it in time to load within twenty
four hours, even If he could get a car.
He offered the line elevator people at
that place one, cent a bushel to take
in the wheat and load it into the cars,
but they refused to handle it for less
than their fixed charge of two cents
bushel. Mr.. Douglas simply wanted
to leave it in their charge until he had
it ready to ship and could get car,
not asking the elevator people to even
weigh it, but they would not be salts
fed with less than the pound Of
flesh
Mr.. Douglas said he had heard the
farmers complain during the thresh-
ing season when cars were so scarce,
and while the elevators claimed to be
full, that they were heavy losers be-
cause they were compelled to sell their
wheat to the elevators, especially the
line house. He was not radically OPP
posed to the elevators, and, unless the
railroad companies furnished the IA
cilities for handling wheat as they do
for other commodities, he did not see
how the country could get along with
out them. No one would object to
reasonable margin, not to exceed, how
ever, three cents buShel, including
handling charges. Farmers who had
shipped their wheat direct reported
that they had saved from three to
eight cents a bushel over the local
prices by doing so. Mr.. Douglas was
satisfied that these reports were true
and especially SO for the lower grades
There was not so much trouble about
the upper grades when the houses
were open and the market not crowded.
Wheat that had been claSsed as re-
jected here had been sold at the termi-
nails by sample for less than a cent
below the price of No. l northern The
dockage was also complained of by
the farmers, who were dissatisfied to
be compelled to stand double the
amount at Hallock that is charged
against the wheat at terminals Mr.
Douglas thought the new process for
cleaning smutty wheat, if the reports
he had heard of the low cost and the
great benefits are true, ought to result
beneficially to the farmers, provided
he ships his wheat direct and sells it
by sample. Very little is known about
this new process Of washing with hot
water and hot air drying, but he had
heard men who are we'll posted on
grain handling express themselves as
satisfied that it would be a success
AS to the amount Of wheat remaining
in the country, Mr.. Douglas did not
believe that over % per cent of the
crop was still in the hands of the pro-
ducers. The small farmers, who were
in debt and compelled to sell their grain
early, were pretty well cleaned out
and the bulk of the unshipped wheat
was in the hands of well-to-do farmers
who
CAN AFFORD TO HOLD 1T.
Thomas Henry is a farmer whose
land lies on the east bank of the Red
river, Kittson county. His wheat av-
eraged 431a bushels to the acre. and