The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-09-01
NORTH DAKOTA
MACARONI WHEAT"
Growers Of Ransom County Take a
Strong Stand for the New
Prairie Cereal.
Wheat Ring" Censured for Bear
ing the Price and Knocking
the Product.
Special to The Journal,


Lisbon, N. D., Sept. 1.-The growers Of maca-
roni wheat met in convention at the courthouse
Saturday afternoon, with l. ]. Oliver in the
chair. The meeting was we'll attended and a
great deal of interest was manifested.
II. Fricke, of the Farmers Mill and Grain
company at Minor, was present and gave q
great deal of valuable information about the
grinding Of macaroi wheot. He had for free
distribution loayes of bread made from this
wheat The bread was of excellent quality.
+. II. Strong read an interesting paper on
various firms, and the following resolutions were
adopted:
Whereas, the crop Of macaroni wheat raised
to three cents less than No / northern, and,
by reason of a fair price paid for it, that the
farmers Of our county. and In fact. the whole
and, whereas a large amount Of said grain has
been raised In this county this year, more
than in any other county in the state, and it is
an established fact that the flour manufactured
from the so7called macaront wheat is equal
to any other flour on the market, and whereas,
for some reason unknown to us, the price now
being paid for this kind of wheat is not as
much as Is paid for barley, when, one takes into
consideration the fact that sixty pounds is
barley.
Therefore, be it resolved, That we will not
sell at the present prices, but hold the same
| awaiting future developments. r. e..-
| Be it resolved by the macaroni wheat growers
OF Ransom county That whereas In the late
| to grow Scotch fife wheat, which Is now re-
nowned as No. l hard, the nlers refused to
grind it except for feed and the elevators bought
| it only at discount, and later, when the blue
stem wheat was introduced and grown, the mill.
ers contended. its -four would not make good
| bread, and for some years the elevators bought
1t only at discount, often as great as 10 cents
| a. bushel, and also the same course pur.
sued by the millers and elevator corporations
| In regard to Rio Grande Red Chaff, Defiance
and all other new varieties Of first class wheats
when they were first grown by the farmers; ant
| whereas, 1t has been thoroly tested
proven that macaroni wheat produces more foul
to the bushel and It's flour makes more nutri
| tious bread than that of other swheats and the
local mills Of North Dakota now and have
for several years been making a high:gradt
-four from it and the Milnor, n: d., mills are
dredweight higher than the flour of other o.
No: l hard wheat, and,
Whereas A large percent of the bread ant
food made from wheat products now used in thu
old world Is made from the flour of macaron
wheat, 1t being grown and used almost exclu
sively In eastern Russia and the whole Mediter
ranean sea region, and macaroni -four, is ex
clus1vely used In q large per cent of the fami
lies i'll North Dakota, and
| Whereas The Aronatka and Kubanka varie
ties of macaroni wheat being extensively grow
Ill Ransom county are much harder and yiel
Lisbon and already threshed yielding forty min
and half bushels per acre and weighing sixty
three pounds to the bushel and ,...c-. =
Whereas, If every of the 400, 900 popuIa
ton of North Dakota would demand and us
the -four and products Of macaroni wheat, a
each would consume at least one-half pound
day, it would create annual home consumr
ton of at least 1,216 COG bushels. :
Therefore, be it resolved, That we, the maca
roni wheat growers Of Ransom county respec
| fully request the residents Of North Dakota
demand the -four ground from macaroni whea
and use it exclusively in their families an
thus encourage an important and profitable in
dustry Of our state. 49,
Be it further resolved That we censure, an
condemn the owners of the terminal elevators
the, Minnesota sMillers' association and I tn
| wheat ring for the contemplate course the
are pursuing in trying to buy valuable an
excellent grade of wheat at price from
to 20 cents below that paid for No. 1 hare
when the latter is proven to be intrinsicall
not worth as much macaroni wheat.
And be 1t further resolved That our thank
be extended to the Hon. James Wilson, con
missioner OF agriculture at Washington for tn
valuable work he has done in introducing int
our state from Europe and elsewhere SO man
new varieties of excellent seed grasses an
| wheat. - =, -
1t was further resolved that a committee b
appointed by the chairman to collect funds. i
various localities to defray the expense c
agents and experts to investigate matters cor
t cern1ng macaroni wheat, and that the resol,
lions adopted be published in full in The Mime
, apoils journal, the Fargo Forum and the loo,
I | papers.