Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1904-01-26
the GRADING or WHEAT

Interesting Discussion At Fargo When
the. Matter Of the Mccumber Grain
Grading Bill is Taken Up. S:S
There was an interesting discussion
before the grain growers meeting at
Fargo when the question of the in,
dorsement of the McCumber national
grain grading bill was taken up. An
attempt was made to secure a, report
against the bill but it was defeated.
Among the addresses made on the
matter was that of Col. John D. Ben
ton of Fargo who said: ~. a
II have watched with some interest
the grading of grain for the last TWEEN
ty-six years in the state Of North d.
kota. The reason that have watched
this grading is because have more or
less grain to sell every year. The first
few years that we grew grain in North
Dakota We could get the grades that
were offered according to the rules
that were to govern that grade They
finally adopted rule that where grain
weighed fifty-eight pounds to the BUSH
ell, and had rs per cent of No. hard
wheat that it was No. hard wheat. s.
1.-TWO years ago the inspectors from
Minnesota sent word to the elevators
at Wheatland, the place where I mar
ket my wheat, that they would give
the No. / hard grade for no wheat
They told me that they could not give
No. 1 hard for any wheat. +. 4.
81 have seen wheat this year weigh
sixty one pounds, pure Scotch Fife
wheat, graded as No. 2, and sold fof
the No. price. ~. 50
. Fl have seen but one car of wheat
this year sold in Wheatland as No. !
hard wheat, and it was from the same
field and threshed the same way, that
another car was, that went No. 2. For
the last ten years the grading of the
wheat that we have raised in North
Dakota has been governed by Minneso-
Ia inspection. Last year an attempt
was made to pass 1 grain inspection
law in Wisconsin, We got no relief
from it. We have trusted to the Min
nesota legislature for the last ten
years; and as the gentleman who
makes this report here today says, Go
to the Minnesota legislature and get
your cures remedied.' If you go to
Minnesota from North Dakota youswill
not get drop of medicine to inter
fere with our complaint. NJ. rs
IF you go to the North Dakota leg
islature and pass any law that you
want to, you cant enforce it, for when
it goes to Duluth 1t is out Of the juris-
diction Of North Dakota and her laws.
You cannot establish state laws for the
inspection OF grain that will apply to
all of the states. You can make q
move like this, which is in the right
direction, and have a universal author
ity for the grading of grain, and then
In Minneapolis they will only have to
pay what the grain is worth. They
need not be afraid of paying too much
for the wheat. so long as the govern
ment says that the wheat is worth SO
much, and I want to say here that the
raising Of grain, and the growing 81
wheat that is No. 1 hard, and having
| to sell it for No. and 3 and rejected
is getting played out. That is plair
talk, but We are right at a crisis here
I don't think we should discard tina
bill introduced by Senator McCumber
It will come to him that the farmerl
/ of North Dakota have taken actor
against the efforts that he has pu
forth at Washington, and believe tina
this bill, as stepping stone, is Of NOR,
value to North Dakota than any bill
that has been introduced in this stat.
by the legislature. If the bill Is no
right in all Of Its details. it can b
amended-n some part of it does no
work right, it can be amended. II
$1,000 man don't do this work RICH
they can get a better man il he can b.
found. would trust that $4,000 ma
| at least as far as would trust an So
900 man hired by wheat firm
4 Granting that the man has earne
that $1,000. What Is the modus oper
4 andi Of grading that wheat and giyin
us our prices? You will find one ma.
running four elevators, and to him WI
be assigned the duty Of fixing the pric
for grades for the elevators. and b
tells the other three elevators the pric
of wheat is so much, and they can't &
4 any further. How is that price estat
4 nshed? BY one man In Fargo, or b
one man that represents the elevator
in Minnesota at Duluth. He gets hi
orders from Minneapolis and sDulut
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