Willmar tribune., 1900-10-20

Minnesota's Grades Command the Highest Prices
in the Worlds Markets--JustiCe to Farmers,
to Shippers and to Buyers--No Robbng
of the Producer or Consumer to :~.
Enrich the Mdd1etnan.

The grain inspection department of
the state government was reorganized
by Governor Lind at the opening of
the crop year l899-l90O by the ap-
pointment of Hon. E. S. Reishus, an
experienced farmer and wheat grower
of Lyon county, as chief inspector,
and by the appointment of new state
board of grain appeals, composed of
men likewise equipped by lifelong ex-
perience in the handling and growing
of grain.
Greater justice to the growers of
grain became Immediately pronounced
throughout the state, and the wave of
satisfaction was general in all agri-
cultural sections. For the first time
in many years Minnesota farmers at
the opening of the grain shipping sea-
son received the same just and liberal
grades that the big dealers received
later in the season when the grain was
inspected for export.
For the first time in years, according
to the general testimony, there was
the same. grade for the producer and
the shipper, the same standard in Sep
tember, January and May, the same
grade for inspection in as for inspec-
tion out, and at all times and to all
comers an inspection based strictly
upon the merits of the grain and upon
nothing else.
Republican political organs there
upon took up the cry that, because of
the better grades received by farmers,
the standard of Minnesota wheat had
suffered in the worlds markets. They
were careful, however, to submit no
facts to demonstrate the truth of the
charge. Below will be found evidence
from the best authorities, that Minne-
sofa wheat has never stood at a higher
comparative standard in the worlds S
markets than during the crop year
just closed. Obviously the grade of
Minnesota wheat as known in the mar
kets of the world is that established by
the inspection out of the elevators
from shippers hands, and not by the
inspect on into the elevators from
farmers hands. The greater justice
done the Minnesota farmer, therefore,
has nothing to do with Minnesota
grades abroad. The reform brought
about by Governor Lind's administra-
tion is to give the producer the same
grade received by the shipper. to treat
the farm and the elevator, tho grower
and the miller, the wheat field and the
wheat market on the same just and
even terms. That this has been ac-
complished and that the standard of
Minnesota wheat in the worlds mar
kets has not suffered, but to the con-
trary has risen to higher mark, is
shown by the following easily demon
strable facts: - ~: -..
1. Minnesots's leading contract
grade, No. ! Northern Duluth, in
the Liverpool cash market, has
stood on, the, average, as compared
with four leading competitive grades,
&c higher per 100 pounds for the crop
year isss-ls0o, under the new inspec-
tion regime Of Governor Lind's admin
istration, than for the crop year 1895
80, the last inspection year Of cIausen
under the republican regime. . / =
" 2. During the crop year just closed,
No. 1 Northern, Minnesota inspection,
has ranked in the Liverpool market lc
to Sc per 100 pounds higher than No. 1
Northern, Chicago inspection, the aver
age for the crop ear being Sc per ioo
pounds in favor Of Minnesota inspec.
tom *s Sst5 4
3. Throughout the crop year, No. ]
Northern. Duluth and No. ] Hard Du-
luth have unifo iformly been quoted
higher than the corresp bonding grades,
No. / Northern Manitoba and No. ]
Hard M Manito oba.
# q. MINES S contract grade, No.
I Northern Duluth, has averaged for
the crop year is Liverp spot
quotation, &c per 100 pounds higher
than the corresp ponding equivalent
ontract winter Vi wheat grade, n 8 I q
Red Winter, notWith standing that the
rules Of the boards Of trade ia the
speculative market al low contracts for
future delivery to be filed il either ii
these grades ats the option Of the
seller.
81 comp pared with the equivalent
contrast grade of the solthwest, n No.522
q Hard z ansa ii1 inns q contract