Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1905-10-05
Combine v. Combine
GRAIN Commissioner SAYS FARM.
ERS MUST unite.
rIiIIers and Exporters Have Agree
ment Which Would Rob Them
IL Unre SiSfed-AdviSeS Offering
Grain in cargo lots to Outside
Consumers.

Tacoma, Oct. 3.-W. s.. Reed. 8
mem Der of the state grain commission.
believes the Washington Millers' Asso-
cistion and the exporters of the North
west have combined against the wheat
growers. Mr.. Reed is the man who
introduced bluestem wheat into the
Northwest and has, for years, taken 8
lively interest in the development Of
the cereal industry. In an interview
upon the millers- exporters com oine,
spd also upon the probability Of the
farmers Gem binins for protection, he
said:
when the commission gave out to
the public the agreement Of the mil
lers-exporters' combine. which bound
each membe not to compete in buying
grain, TO keep the buying price down,
they practically told the farmers that
there wss s conspiracy on hand which
the farmers had to fights conspiracy
TO pay them less than their grain WAS
worth and TO charge them more for
shutting than thsy were fairly entitled
to receive.
FARMERS rIuSI VtQnI.
The farmers can snd will fight that
conspiracy. and they are going TO de-
feat it. How. Meet the buyers COM
pine with sellers CONT ine. The
farmers will make numerous COM
bines; bunch up sll over Eastern
Washington and Oregon snd Northern
Idaho and make their offers in cargo
lots. They will offer these cargo lots
to the com bine and 10 buyers not in
the com bine, and while they are ont
Cunning they should kill two birds
each shot by saying when Offering
their cargo lots: The SIN utty part not
10 De discounted over cents a bushel;
no part TO be sold unless the smutty
grain goes st that discount Thst'n
do the job.
The commission proved the inJus-
tice Of the com bine 5 to 20-cent' dis
count on smutty wheat by citing the
discount prevailing st Minneapolis Of
but cents bushel.
With such proof Of the right Of the
farmers .sttitude in refusing to allow
the com bIne more than tour cents dis
count-twice what Minneapolis would
make-they csn push their Cargo com
bines TO s winning, sure. Do Won know
what that would mean 70 the farmers
in dollars and cents:
save Growers $4,000 This Year.
The crop this year in Eastern Wash
insron alone IL estim sted st 80. 900, 900
bushels. The state inspection depart
. | he AnA krsh,1s 90
this is more or less affected with smut.
The CONT ins's discount is, as said,
from to 90 cents. Call is an average
of cents. At cents there would be
saving Of cents s bushel. snd $l92,-
600 on this one crop.
The saving these decisions make
directly 70 the farmer, without neces-
stating any subsequent effort by him,
when the commission refused TO class
ify SIS, $50 and 5sS4 test wheat SIS
No. 2, figure st $3.50, 900 for this
year alone. Figuring that one-qusrter
Of the whole crop would test from SIS
to 5Sss, and the price difference is 2
cents a bushel between No. and No.
grades.
Then there is profit posi- bls-in-
deed probs ble-to come on the heavier
testing wheat, the so, 81, SO and IS
pound wheat, which is now confiscsted
at No. price. The commission :
decisions showed that so pound test
wheat was worth more than SIS or
So pound test. 1t showed this by tn at
Submission Of the Portland Chamber Of
Commerce committee. and by the e1-
tract on prices from the miIlers $3.50
citation secret compact.
San Francisco is paying more for
60 pound test wheat than for SIS
pound test. San Francisco needs from
Washington. Oregon and Idaho this
year 10, o0o, 900 bushels Of heavy test
ing wheat.
offer II to San francisco.
Let the farmers com bine offer I'd cir
heavy test wheat 10 San Francisco
buyers. They won't have TO make
many such offers. The millers-e1pors-
ers' com bine will promptly come to
time and pay the additional price that
heavy testing wheat is worth. The
farmer is entitled 60 it-let him have
his own. He can win Just as sure as
did when I introduced bluesten whest
in this state. The original seed came
from Australia. Dement, Brothers
brought il 60 Wallis Wslls. l sowed
$50 sores in it and advertised the crop
for seed Sold it all for seed but one
car load, which refused 70 sell, be-
cause sill the millers said It WAS worth
no more than club.
Il sent my reserve car 20 Sperry
Bros. Milling Company st San Fran
cisco. and they wrote me: oar price
now and hereafter, for such wheat is
cents q hundred pounds over the
price Of No. California shipping.
That was cents g bashel over the
club price. published that letter,
and from that date, eighteen years
ago, 60 this, bluestem wheat has
brought that premium over club every
where from every body. That one piece
Of work Of mine made the farmers Of
this state, II this year alone, $240, coo.
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