The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-14
ARE USING KANSAS WHEAT
Minnesota Mills Consuming Large
Quantities.

Minneapolis mills are this year using
great amount of Kansas hard winter
wheat in making their mo. 1 Northern
-four according TO the reports brought
home by the Kansas and Oklahoma
grain dealers who have been attending
the national convention of grain deal
ers in Minneapolis the past week.
Il was told by a commission man at
Minneapolis that the receipts of KAN
sas wheat there sometimes runs as
high as 300 to 500 cars in a day" said
Grant Howell, of the Taylor Grain
company, here today Mr.. Howell has
just returned from Minneapolis
I don't suppose such an amount as
that is usual, because the total receipts
do not run more than a thousand cars
a day, and it would not seem that SUCH
a large per cent. would come from
Kansas. 1t is a fact. though. that the
northern mills are using tremendous
amount of Kansas wheat, and they
don't try to keep it secret any longer.
They used to use Kansas wheat and
then advertise that their flour was
made strictly from No. northern
wheat but they are open about using
Kansas wheat this year. 1t takes an
expert to tell the difference between
Kansas hard wheat and No. 1 northern.
The northern mills are not only buy
ing Kansas wheat in big quantities in
it direct from the Kansas dealers.
WAS there any discussion of maca-
roni wheat at the cOnVentiOn?' Mr..
Howell was asked.
Yes, there was some, and there seems
to be a great difference of opinion about
it. Most of the Minnesota millerS are
fighting the new wheat. but there IS
one mill in Minnea polls which has made
a speciality of experimenting with maca--
roni flour, and that mill is in favor of
it. Whether it will ever amount to any
thing not, 1 don't know. Prof Garlic
ton, of the United States department of
agriculture, was there and made an ad-
dress. He is very enthusiastic over
macaroni wheat and thinks it is the
coming variety for the semi-arid regi-
ons. He saws that if the northern mills
had as good macaroni wheat as was
raised in Kansas this year the expert
ments would have shown even much
better than they have. 1t is a fact that
the macaroni wheat grown in western
Kansas this year is fine. The most Of 1t
was grown in Logan county L have
looked al it myself and Prof Carleton
told me he has been out there, and he
says it is much better than the northern
grown macarOni.
THE Minneapolis mills,-the big ones
have a strike on hand at present and
are all shut down with one exception
The leaders want an eight hour day in
stead of nine hours, for the same pay
and they went on a strike, and the other
mill men went out with them on SYM
pathetic strike. The mill owners have
been pretty sore about it and would not
even talk arbitration. but the strike is
costing them great deal and now
there is a good prospect for arbitra %on.
At present though. everything is under
guard, and they would not even let us
grain men go through the big mills
The Kansas and Oklahoma grain men
went to Minnea polls in special car
over the Rock Island. Coming back they
were delayed twenty-four hours by a
wreck, and they wired Superintendent
Cable to lay them over at Cedar
Rapids, Iowa. instead of where the
wreck was. The Cedar Rapids CONNER
cial club learned that they would be
there, and preparations were made for
their entertainment. A carnival was IN
progress and Mr.. Howell says the grain
men We're given an excellent reception:
Those in the party were L. Cortelyou Oh
Muscotah, and E. ]. Smiley of Topeka,
the Kansas State Grain Dealers asSo-
citation; E. NJ Bailey of Baileyville,
brother of Governor Bailey; Grant How
ell of Topeka: Colonel c. t. Prouty OF
Kingfisher. secretary of the Oklahoma
Grain Dealers association; j G Robp
and his wife and daughter of k1nghsh-
er; A G. GroSeclose Of Waukomis, Okla,
and S r. Overton and wire and son
of Hennessey.
Mr. Smiley was taken very sick on
the way home, and is said TO be serl-
ously i'll now. It was necessary to have
an ambulance to meet the train when
he reached Topeka to take him TO MS
home.