The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1899-08-19

grades.
Henry Kromp is about $23, or 41-2
cents per bushel, weather. because he
realized the wisdom of climbing onto
the band wagon. Mr.. Kromp stated,
in a conversation. that had he shipped
his. wheat himself since he commenced
farming in Brown county, he would
have received $1,000 more for it than
he did. In other words, he might have
been a first-class farm ahead had he
"caught on" a dozen years ago. MI.
kromp has been very good to the ele-
vator companies. He will be good to
himself after this.
Julius Schnase, another farmer, who
shipped for the first time this year,
cleared $14.5O above card price on n
car, and $3.50 on another, or an aver
age Of nearly 8 1-S cents per bushel on
l,2G9 bushels. He is so we'll pleased
with the result that it is unnecessary
to add 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
5 cents per bushel. One of the cars
showed a profit Of $5O.47, or just about
1-2 cents per bushel. OF the $97.93,
S2O.23 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 the wheat been hauled to the ele-
vators.
q. d. Brewster steps to the front
with a profit of $167, on 3,175 bushels
he shipped. or an average Of 5 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 thinks, not yer in his wild
est dreams, of disposfng Of them in
any other way.
Wenz Bros. shipped five cars, con
tanning 1926 bushels, and made $143.68
by the transaction, or an average of
4.50 cents per bushel. The least sum
cleared on one car was SSH. and the
highest on car was $82.63, the av-
erage being .S2s.73 percar.
Equivalents In Freight.
The freight to Minneapolis on a
bushel Of wheat being 1O.2 cents, a
gain Of 4.59 cents per bushel by ship
ping is equivalent to a reduction o f,45
per cent in freight rates. Did you ev-
er look at it 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 $143.68 cleared
on these five ears would pay the 1898
taxes on six quarter sections Of i'm
proved land in this township. looked
up Mt the county treasurer's office the
other day, and there would be q bal
ance of $6.1S to apply on the taxes of
Il seventh quarter; or it would pay the
taxes for four years on the land that
raised the 1926 bushels Of wheat, and
leave nearly 500 to apply on the fifth
years taxes. An extremely easy way
There was a gain of. 5000 on the one
lICAn VI uOSNaSC OAk JIG vi lAACSO S0AS
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
CT flax, and then realized a healthy
margin for himself by shipping. Per
haps the most conspicuous example of
this occurred about eight years ago.
In one week he cleared about 5000 for
himself by shipping, after. paying his
neighhors s cents per bushel more for
fax than they could get for it at the
elevators, besides clearing 10 cents per
|bushel on two car loads of his own.
In 1904: The contracted to-; buy Riah
Jones' fax crop Mt. 8 cents above what
|he could get for 1t at 'tGe elevators.
There was one car load Of about 100
bushels which nettcd him Z cents per
Ibusliel besides the 5 cents for Mr..
Jones, a total Of IL cents, or $84, on
1.-THE car. In 1892. r. T.. Brown and Mr..
IGiddlngs were Jointly interested in the
crop on the southeast quarter of Sec
ton Is. 123, GO, and ut threshing time
Mr.. Brown suggested hauling the grain
Ito the elevator il they would grade it
No. 2, but No. 3 was the best offer
made from that quarter.
Mr.. Giddings bought Mr.. Browns
share on an offer OF 1 cent above efe-
|vator price for No. 2, and cleared 10
cents per bushel above that by ship
ping. That am year he netted on an
|avernge of 10 cents per bushel on his
whole crop. Two years ago he offered
Ia neighbor, who had never SHIPPED any
grain, 3 cents above elevator price for
IL part Of his crop, and finally persuad-
led:the neighbor to ship AGAR of wheat,
1.-THE result being that the beginner
cleared s cents pei. bushel, and wassso
well satisfied that he has..:contiITned
shipping. In 1890, having the. crop
from half a section east of the river to
dispose of, lie made q deal at an ele-
vator In 4. neighboring town, whereby
lhe received 6 cents per bushel above
Elevator price. his knewny tendency to
10. his own shipping making 1t possible
for him to make: such favorables terms.
Had he shipped his crop himself. he
would have. received 2 cents more per
|bushel| Than this, or 8 cents above ele-
|yator price. -Four years oraso ago he
shipped a car OF fax belonging to him-
self and q neighbori and three cars Of
his own, and cleared ~ cents per bush
Ell on ! the. four cars. The first car
named, being a large one, netted the
~relo ,sn hlv~ nnnv 0101 f01 shin.