The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-11-07
How to Handle and Market Grain.

} aOW 70 61dnCle ana market GTa1n.
Paper read by Orson Smith of Logan
vi the State Farmers institute:
The farmer of our country has Ger
United an inroad of wild oats and
weeds of various kinds until our wheat
is considered Of a very inferior quality
when IL gets to market. IL is not the
wheat Itself, but its foulness that works
the detriment TO it.
The next difficulty we have is getting
the seed of d kind and keeping our
crops separate. To illustrate: This
year We have shipped for seed Of one
particular kind of wheat that has been
grown very successfully III cur valley,
over 30 cars, to supply the demands OF
other localities. namely, the New Zea-
land wheat. 1t has been a surprise that
such a demand has been made for II.
Every day we have inquiries regarding
this class of wheat. The Odessa is also
considered very valuable wheat, but
our mixture of it works a detriment TO
us. Prices range from l to cents
bushel more for straight grades than
fer mixed So you see it would be 10
the advantage Of the farmer to keep
the different kinds of grain separate.
The Odessa is considered a very good
wheat with us. but it is not called the
hrSt grade wheat in the western mar
ket Local millers claim ii as one of
the highest grades of wheat What Is
called the Blue Stem is in demand, bur
we have never yet been able to raise
enough OF it to be able to find any
number of straight cars of that kind.
The Winter Fife. Silver Chaff and other
grades are also inquired after. but the
one in particular demand the past sea-
Sol has been the New Zealand.
AS to methods Of handling grain, you
have to fall back on the farmer. 1t has
been demonstrated in the past three
years that the man who can sack mis-
wheat in the field and put it on the
cars is the best off. However, this can
only be said of the past two or three
years. Prior to that our highest price
was in May, and the wheat was carried
over. The success of the wheat grow
Fers of Cache Valley, 1 believe, lies
2largely in the grading of their wheat
1t has become known that the Titan
wheat is of a very good quality when
clean: but some Of our wheat is not
considered first-class. No doubt if the
wheat was graded, the highest market
prices could be obtained for it. But as
long as we mix all kinds Of wheat to-
gether and fail to keep the wild oats
out, we Will never get the highest price.
The only way that / see for the farmer
TO obviate this difficulty is the cultiva-
ton of his land. the rotation of his
the weeds that now bother him. Our
experience in the cleaning of grain,
taking the rubbish from it. goes to
prove that the farmer himself has no
idea Of the amount OF dirt he is rails
ing. The seeds Of the various kinds, /
notice, are carried by the winds. Two
years ago a gentlemen in the north
field" had piece Of ground from which
he took out all the weeds, and raised
a little corn on it and kent it clean.
Next year he planted it in wheat, but
in the early season we had a very
heavy wind from the east took no
thought of this at the time; but 1 no
ticed that when his crop came up the
next year he could not see the wheat
for wild oats. His land was just as bad
as any around. This proved that wind
carries the seeds, and that the dry
farms Were in the same danger us IT.
rigated farms. You cannot market
grain with any kind of weed seeds in
it. without the buyer objecting to it
and desiring to discount weights.
Farmers, in order to market their
grain to the best advantage. must of
necessity do all they can TO preserve
its cleanliness. Increased demand for
our grain is our need. Cleanliness alone
Will insure this