The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1905-10-04

GRAIN CenllssI0 SAYS FARM.
ERS MUST UNITE.
esiIIcrs saa Exporters Hsve Agree.
meat vhIch would Rob Them
u Unsesisied-Advises Offering
Grain In Cargo lots to outside
Consumers.

Consumers.
Tacoma, Oct. 8.-W. 81. Reed, .
member Of the state gram commission.
believes the Washington Millers' Asso-
citation and tho expertes Of the North.
west have combined against the wheat
growers. Mr.. Reed 10 the man who
introduced bluestem wheat into the
Northwest and has, for years, taken Z
lively interest in the development Of
the cereal industry. In an interview
upon the millers.exportsrs' combine,
and also upon the probability Of the
farmers combining for protection, be
said:
"When tho commission gave out to
the public the agreement of the mil
lers-exporters' combine. which bound
each member not to compete In buying
grain, to keep the buying price down,
they practically told the farmers that
there was conspiracy on hand which
the farmers had 10 fght-a conspiracy
to pay them less than their grain was
worth and to charge them more for
shutting than they were fairly entitled
10 receive.
Farmers Rust Fight.
"The farmers can and will fight that
conspiracy. and they are going TO de-
feat IL. How? Meet the buyers com.
bine With q sellers combine. The
farmers will make numerous com.
bines; bunch up all over Eastern
Washington and Oregon and Northern
Idaho and make their offers in cargo
lots. They will offer these cargo lots
to the combine and to buyers not in
the combine, and while they are out
cunning they should kill two birds
each shot by saying when Offering
their cargo lots: The smutty part not
to be discounted over cents bushel;
no part to be sold unless the smutty
grain goes at that discount That'll
do the job.
1.-THE commission proved the injus-
tice Of the combines Is to 20.cent' dis
count on smutty wheat by citing the
discount prevailing at Minneapolis Of
but cents bushel.
with such proof of the right of the
farmers' attitude in refusing to allow
the combine more than four cents dis
count-twice what Minneapolis would
make-they can push their cargo com.
bines to winning, sure. Do you know
what that would mean to the farmers
In dollars and cents?
Save Growers $4,000 This Year.
"The crop this year in Eastern Wash.
ington alone 10 estimated, at 80, 600, 900
bushels. The state inspection depart.
ment figures that 6.40O, 900 bushels Of
this 10 more or less affected with smut.
The combines discount 10, az said,
from 8 to 30 oents. Call it an average
Of cents. At cents there would be
q saving Of 5 cents q bushel, and $780,.
600 on this one crop.
1.-THE saving these decisions make
directly to the farmer. without neces-
stating any subsequent effort by him,
when the commission refused to class.
lily 50, bS1a and 5s24 test wheat 40
No. 2, l figure at 100000 for this
year alone. Figuring that one. quarter
Of the whole Drop would test from %
to 68ss, and the price difference is Q
cents bushel between No. / and No.
grades.
"Then there IL q profit poasible-in.
deed probable-to come on the heavier
testing wheat, the 60. 81, 50 and 6S
pound wheat, which 10 now oonfiscated
ct No. price. The commissions
decisions showed that 80 pound test
wheat was worth moro than . 50 or
SO pound test. II showed this by that
admission Of the Portland Chamber of
Commerce committee, and by the ex-
tract on prices from the millers' ssso-
citation secret compact.
"San Francisco 10 paying more for
go pound test wheat than for q SO
pound test. San Francisco needs from
Washington, Oregon and Idaho this
year 10, 600, 900 bushels Of heavy test.
ing wheat.
OTTER u to San francisco.
''Let the farmers' combine offer their
heavy test wheat to San Francisco
buyers. They won't have to make
many such offers. The milleEs. export
ere combine will promptly come to
time and pay the additional price that
heavy testing wheat 10 worth. The
farmer 10 entitled 10 it-let him have
his own. He can win just a. sure 20 I
did when l introduced bluestem wheat
In this state. The original seed came
from Australia. Dement, Brothers
brought IL to Wslla Wslla. I sowed
$50 acres in II and advertised the crop
for seed. Sold IL all for seed but one
oar load, which I refused to sell, be-
cause all the millers said 1t was worth
no moro than club.
II sent my reserve car TO Sperry
Bros. Milling Company at San Fran.
CISCO, and they wrote mo: Our price
now and hereafter, for suoh wheat 10
cents . hundred pounds over the
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