The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-10-19

Percentages .59 so 31.25 Obs 100
In the foregoing statement all of the month
of September prior to the Doth is included
and from some stations, but not all of them
the entire month is included. AS SO 6O-100
stations graded No. 1 northern or No. 1
hard, the charges which have been made in
some Instances that all grain shipped to
the terminal points of the present crop grades
No northern or lower" do not appear
to be sustained. The entire receipts Of
wheat during September from the present
crop show slight falling off at Duluth in
the percentage Of contract wheat Chard and
No northern), as compared with the average
It ts in excess of that of two preceding years
1T is not up to the general average This
I is accounted for by the inspectors on account
OF smut and an excess of cookie in much
of the wheat from the north and more or less
stained and shrunken grain from the southern
sections, and that large percentage Of Sep
TEMPER receipts was grain threshed from the
shock, which had been damaged by the rainy
weather which followed the harvest From
samples which have been submitted to the
commission, we are of opinion that to those
| causes is due the lower than average percen-
| tage OF contract grades. The inspectors ad-
use US that during the last two weeks there
| mas been an Improvement in the general
| average Of the quality of the wheat received
by reason of the wheat having gone through
| from stacks, and it is believed that the re-
| turns for October will show an Improvement
OF over 10 to II per cent in quality for the
ON CONTRACT WHEAT
Under normal conditions the percentage of
high grade or contract" wheat, based upon
| the experience Of the past Thirteen wears
should run from 70 to 80 per cent at Du-
luth, and from 80 to 60 per cent at Mime
apolls. When the average goes above these
limits 1t indicates an exceptionally fine ,Jop
as to quality and when it GO S below thcse
limits it indicates roor crop in rIuaI:ty
1t will be observed from the foil 1wing ia
bles that the years when exceptionally flne
crops were raised were 1885, 1886 1897 1899
and 1896, and that during me years 1853 1890
1897 1895 and 1897, the crops ranged from
comparatively poor in quality to aV.rage
The inspection records show that the damage
IN these years was caused by rust an1 frost
In 1883; rust, frost and rain in 1890; rust and
rain in 1892 smut in 1885, and rust in 1897:
this was true more particularly as to the
crop OF 1897 In the central and southern SEQ
tons. 1t is believed that the quality of the
crop OF 1898 in the northern section is below
IN quanty what was reasonably expected. 1t
is understood that before the rains came ON
and damaged the wheat of Northern Minne-
sofa and North Dakota then standing in the
shock, the percentage of No. northern or
better was very large. Without such rains
difhculty with grades on account of smut
ana cookie. The advent of the rainy weather
ADDED to the existing difficulties in the situa-
tlon While these facts are not pleasant to
Ine commission, they are nevertheless be-
leVed TO be true. and to furnish abundant
reasons for the slightly reduced percentages
OF high grade wheat from the northern sec
tons as compared with more favorable sea-
sons.
The following table will give an intelligent
exhibit of the varying character of the wheat
crop of the Northwest from year to wear
| since the establishment of the grain inspec
| ton department. This table shows the num-
/ Der OF carloads and percentages Of high,