The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1899-03-29

The government alone could do this. In
| the history of thirty years an intelligent
| utterance by public men could not be
| found on this subject of opening new
| market. The national representatives
| spent too much time getting p. o. appro-
| priations. The recent congress appropri-
| ated $4,000 for improving navigation of
! the Red river. The G. N. owned all the
| boats on the river and would sell them
for half the appropriation.
| I am in favor of national inspection
said Mr.. Hill, ard believe that to be the
only way to have fair play. Mr.. Hill
owns a large farm in the valley, and
| speaks as a farmer.
A high tribute to the valley was paid
extra fine soil and good climate. Rail-
| road rates were from 10 to 40 per cent
lower than anywhere else; land was rails
| ing in price, and big chances for making
| money.
| Mr.. Hill made a good impression and
the stern, cold, selfish, millionaire, as pic
| tured to many changed to pleasant, So
ciable, accommodating fellow-farmer.
The applause was tremendous.
With notifications to include and rec
ognize iron and lumber interests, the fol-
lowing resolution was adopted, pursuant
to the recommendation in President Hills
address:
The Interstate Grain Growers Conven-
ton in meeting assembled at Fargo, wish
| ing to promote the interest of the grain
growers of the country and to secure the
opening of new markets for their pro-
ducts by and through which process con-
ditions now existing may be relieved and
better prices secured, do hereby call upon
/ the and N
gress to secure fair and equitable encour-
agement of American shipping interests,
| and Introduction of American food stuffs
into Asiatic markets, for by such means
we feel positive that permanent and SUBJ
| stantial financial good will result to our
entire agricultural interests.
Resolved, That copies, certified by the
1 president and secretary of this conven-
| ton, of this resolution be forwarded to
| our senators and representatives in con-
! gress and to the secretary of agriculture.
| The committee on wheat cleaning ma
chinery made a report, saying that their
/ test was not satisfactory, but reporting
! from the imperfect test made in favor Of
| the Cleveland machine.
| The preponderance of sentiment in the
| convention has been decidedly in favor of
! growing corn, millet, Hungarian clover,
| timothy, etc., with cattle, sheep and hogs,
| as expedients to keep land in the highest
condition of productiveness for wheat,
| rather than by losing idle capital by leav-
/ ing land in summer fallow. 1t has been
| taught that there is little if any advant-
| age in exchange of seed wheat from a
distance. The best seed obtainable, wher-
ever obtainable, is the lesson inculcated.
President Worst of the agricultural col
lege, together with Professors Shepperd.
| Bolley and Waldron kaufman, have af-
| forded the convention the facilities Of
| fered by that institution for the instruc-
ton of the convention. Superintendent
Gregg and Professor Hays, of Minnesota,
| and Director Braithwaite, of Manitoba,
have been in tireless service. Among the
| prominent workers were Colonel Powers,
G. S. Barnes, R. S. Lewis, Charles Nc
| Kissick. Thomas Harrison, Commissioner
Thomas and many others. Mayor John
! son and President Worst, the president
and secretary of the convention, respec-
| lively, have left nothing undone to pro-
| mote the work in hand, both in arranging
preliminaries and supervising details dur
| ing the sessions.
| Touching the present system of inspec-
ton, President Worst read the letter from
Inspector Clausen:
The reputation of our grades in Eastern
| markets has received strain this year
/ that has caused me a great deal of anxi-
| ETY.. If the inspection has erred in max
1 ing its standards, it has been on the side
of liberality to the farmer and country
| shipper. Our grades of this crop are not
! up to the standards of Manitoba and
/ Kansas, two of our competitors in the
! pro. action of hard wheat. This is re-
York for these different wheats; even the
| No. red winter, a soft grade of wheat,
/ is bringing premium of more than a
cent a bushel over our No. 1 Northern
| wheat There is much complaint from
the East this year concerning the per
centage of smut, cookie and bleached
| shall substantiate by documentary evil
dence. will be laid before our committee.
/ Another important point is the fact that
the requirements of our rules are so much
! less rigid than in other markets For in
stance our No. l hard, No. l northern
and No. northern rules provide min
| irnum test weight of So, 81 and So pounds.
respectively. Manitoba rules require so
pounds for No. hard, 60 pounds for No.
northern and IS pounds for No. north
ern. Kansas No. hard and No. hard,
which practically correspond to our No.
1 hard and No. 1 northern grades,
| required to weigh so pounds and So pounds
to the bushel, respectively. Owing to the
/ high character and quality of this wheat,
| between 5000, 900 and 6.00OOOo bushels were
brought to Minneapolis last year and
! ground at that point.
The St Louis market requires 81 and
| 59-pound wheat for their No. hard and
/ No. hard grades, respectively. 1 send
| you herewith the printed rules for these
markets, which you can use for compari-
| son.
The tendency in the Northwest for sew
| eral years has been toward deterioration
| in seed and consequently similar result
! in quality and crop. The past two crops
have shown an abnormal increase in
| weeds and impurities over former sea-
| sons. The production of No. l hard
| Scotch fife wheat has become practically
| a thing of the past. These are unpalata-
| BILE statements to many people, but fair
minded, observing men will nevertheless
| concede they are true.
For such ills, an ultra-liberal inspection
/ of the grain is not panacea. When our
! grain comes in competition with that of
i lc.Ar- liz,