The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1899-08-17

! tent OF $50. or cents II busHti, .!
shipping two cars.
The two ears shipped by b. c. Tai
bot also netted $50 above elevator
prices. This amount would buy Il
great many Injuries for fam ~
Riah Jones cleared over | Il cents
above card pric- or $50 on ia hush
el car.
The profit on a car shipped by {. y.
Smith was $3.50. the gain per buShei
being over cents. Another car snip
ped by Mr.. Smith which graded re-
jccted. netted him S17T5 above what
II would have brought as NO. ut thr
elevators. Not a bad showing. 1T usu-
ally happens that shipper makes
larger profit on low than on high
grades
Henry Kromp is about SOB, or IL
cents per bushel Weather because ne
realized the wisdom Of climbing onto
| the band wagon. Mr.. KrOmp stated,
| In 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 3 frst-class farm ahead had he
"ca ught on" dozen years ago. Mr..
krOmp has been very good to the eie'
yAtof companies. He will be good to
himself after this.
julius Schnase, another farmer, who
shipped for the first time this year,
cleared $145O above card price on one
car, and $3.50 on another, or an aver
age Of nearly Is cents per bushel on
1,2G9 bushels. He is so well pleased
with the result that it is unnecessary
| to add that he will keep on shipping.
On three cars containing 2,OO4 BUSH
els, shipped by X. K & w. Il. Burton,
| they cleared $97.93, or pretty close to
5 cents per bushel. One of the cars
showed profit of S5O.47, or just about
IL cents per bushel. OF the $97.93,
S20.23 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 n number of cars shipped
from Bath Were locked only one-third
as much as would have been the case
had the wheat been hauled to the ele-
vatOrs.
+. ID. Brewster steps to the front
with profit of $167, on 3115 bushels
he shipped, or an average Of IA
cents per bushel 1t would be 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
ne 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 $143.6S
by the transaction. or an average Of
459 cents per bushel. The least sum
cleared on one car was SSH. and the
highest on enc car was $50 SO, the av-
erage being $2S.73 percar
Equivalents I'm Freight.
The freight to Minneapolis on n
bushel Of wheat being 1912 cents, a
gain Of 4.5S cents per bushel by ship
ping is equivalent to reduction Of As
per cent in freight rates. Did you ev-
er look at it in that light before?
Without locking 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 i'm
proved land in this township. looked
up ut the county treasurer'S office the
other day, and there would be bal
ance Of S61S to apply on the taxes OF
seventh quarter: or 1t would pay the
taxes for four years on the land that
raised the 3. 1876 bushels of wheat, and
leave nearly $50 to apply on the fifth
years taxes An extremely easy way
OF getting money to pay taxes, surely
There was gain Of S6.93 on the one
item of dockage on enc 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 i'm his
section who had sense enough to re-
fuse to be skinned by the elevator
companies. In former years he some
times paid neighbOrs good margin
above elevator prices for their wheat
or 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 $500 for
himself by shipping, after paying his
neighbors cents per bushel more for
flax than they could get for il at the
elevators, besides clearing 10 cents per
bushel on two car loads Of his own.
In 1894 he contracted to buy Riah
Jones fax crop at cents above what
he could get for il at the elevators.
There was one car load Of about 700
bushels which netted him Z cents per
buShel besides the cents for Mr..
Jones, total of II cents, or SS4 on
the car. In 1892, X. L. Brown ana Mr.