Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1899-08-17

reailzed the wisdom of climbing onto
the pand wagon. Mr.. Kromp stated
III u conversation, that had he shinnad
nls wheat himself since he COMMENCED
farming in Brown county. he wonId
nave received $4,000 more for II Than
he did. In other words. he might ha ya
oeeh d nrst-class farm ahead had he
caught on a dozen years ago. Mr..
hromp has been very good TO the ele.
saoor companies. He will be good to
himself after this.
JULIUS SchnaSe, another farmer. who
snlpped for the first time this wear
cleared $14.50 above card price on one
car, n $3.50 on another, or an aver
age or nearly 3 Is cents per bushel ON
I,2O9 bushels. He Is so well nleasad
with the result that it is unnecessary
10 q that he will keep on shipping.
on three cars, containing 1904 BUSH
els, shipped by r. X. & w. e. Burton.
they cleared $97.93, or pretty close to
D cents per bushel. One of the cars
showed a profit of $5047, or just about
I-2 cents per bushel. OF the S97. 93.
S1o.Z3 was gained on dockage.
Local Dockage.
Very few farmers recognize how out
rageously they have been robbed in
the matter Of dockage. 1t has been no
uncommon occurrence, during recent
years for wheat to be locked only one
fourth as much in Minneapolis as the
elevator companies locked. This
year, quite a number of cars shipped
from Bath We're locked only one-third
as much as would have been the case
had he wheat been hauled to the ele-
vators.
E. ID. Brewster steps to the front
with a profit of $167, on 3.175 bushels
he shipped, or al average of 3 IA
cents per bushel. 1t would be a USE
less task to try TO convince him that he
can't make just as good use of this
money as some elevator company
could. He commenced shipping his
crops about four years ago. and now
he never thinks, not even in his Wild
est dreams, of disposing of them in
any other way.
Wenz Bros. shipped five cars, con-
tanning 3,126 bushels, and made S143.6S
by the transaction, or an Average of
400 cents per bushel. The least sum
cleared on n car was SSH, and the
highest on n car was SS2.63, the av-
erage being S2S.73 percar.
Equivalents I'm Freight.
The freight to Minneapolis on a
bushel Of wheat being 10.2 cents, a
gain of 400 cents per bushel by ship
ping is equivalent to a reduction of 40
per cent in freight rates. Did you ev-
er look at il in that light before?
Without looking to the legislature for
relief, which has nothing to DO with
interstate freight rates, the farmer has
within his grasp the immediate. easy
and sure means of accomplishing the
desired results. The S143.6S cleared
on these five cars would pay the 1898
taxes on six quarter sections of inn
proved land in this township, looked
up at the county ~treasurel's office the
other day. and there would be a bal
ance of $6.1S to apply On the taxes of
n seventh quarter; or 1t would pay the
taxes for four years on the land that
raised the 3,126 bushels Of wheat, and
leave nearly $40 to apply on the fifth
years taxes. An extremely easy way
of getting money to pay taxes, surely.
There was a gain of $6.93 on the n
item of dockage ON one of these cars.
Giddings' Experience.
G. NJ. Giddings was the first farmer
in the vicinity of Bath to get his eye
teeth cut on this question of shipping.
He has shipped more or less regularly
for the past fourteen years, and for
some time was the only farmer in his
section who had sense enough to re-
fuse to be skinned by the elevator
companies. In former years he some
times paid neighbOrs a good margin
above elevator prices for their wheat
or fax, and then realized a healthy
margin for himself by shipping. Per-
haps the most conspicuous example or
this occurred about eight years ago.
In one week he cleared about $500 0
himself by shipping, after paying his
neighbors 5 cents per buShel more for
flax than they could get for it at the
elevators, besides clearing 10 cents per
bushel on two car loads Of his own.
In 1894 he contracted to buy Riah
Jones flax crop at 5 cents above what
he could get for it at the elevators.
There was one car load of about 7OO
bushels which netted him z cents per
husheI besides the 5 cents for Mr..
Zones a total of II cents, or SS4, on
the car. In 1892, II. l.. Brown and Mr..
Giddings were Jointly interested In the
CROP on the southeast quarter or Sec
ton Is. 1913, CO. and at threshing time
Mr.. Brown suggested hauling the grain
70 the elevator If they would grade 1t
No. 2, but No. 3 was the best oner
made from that quarter.
Mr.. Giddings bought Mr.. ROY
share on an offer of l cent 0 ele,
yator price for No. 2, and cleared ~
cents per bushel above that by SHIP
ming. That same year he Melted on an
average of 10 cents PEI bushel on MS
whole crop. Two years ago ne oiIered
a neighbor. who had SHIPPED any
grain. 3 cents above elevator price Tor
q part Of his crop, and finally persuau-
cd the neighbor to ship a car or wheat,
the result being that the beginner
cleared s cents per bushel, and was SO
we'll satisfied that he has continued
shipping. In 1890, having the crop
from half a section east OF the river 70
dispose of. he made a deal at an eie-
vator In a n~eighboring town, whereby
no received 6 cents per bushei above
elevator price, his known tendency 10
do his own shipping making IL possible
for him to make such favorable terins.
Had he shipped his crop himseir, ne
would have received 2 cent more per
hrsbaI than this. or 8 cents above ele-