Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1906-01-25

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the year, as there is no reason why
two or three months should make any
such differences, as they do with us.
The prices Of the grain ought to
be the same in January as in October
and the worlds supply is not SO great
that the surplus can be worth SO little
in October and so much more in few
months afterward.
| II do not doubt but if farmers could
hold back the grain now in 1.-THE state
for go days the prices Of wheat would
be much more.
'The best sized elevator to build is
a 10000 bushel capacity house. The
cost being only about $500 more than
a 30, 900 bushel house. Or better still,
two 10000 bushel elevators instead of
one large one. A great deal of maca-
roni wheat is now raised and promises
to become a staple crop. To keep it
separate requires more bins and one
small house for macaroni and flax, and
the other for wheat, oats and barley,
can be operated cheaply. One man
can attend to both most of the time,
hiring some extra help in the fall.
When the one house is cleaned out it
can be closed down and no extra ex-
pense incurred in keeping it open. I
am advocating the building CT the two
elevators Of smaller size this year,
having changed the advice I found
best last season, owing to changing
conditions in the state.
'There are about so independent
elevators in the state and there should
be a terminal elevator at Minneapolis,
Superior and Duluth to handle our
own business. The commission paid
on our business this year will amount
to more than S125, 200, when I will
guarantee to say the terminal elvators
at Duluth, Superior and Minneapolis
will handle an equal amount Of lgrain
and fax land save at least halt the
commission.
"We need "a mixing house at the
terminals so damp grain which knocks
off the grade, can be dried and clean
ed.
''The Minnesota Farmers Exchange
is a company just getting started
which I hope will fill the bill If we
can't get enough capital from our own
farmers to start the necessary termin-
al houses.
s'SenatOrlM MoC Cumber has showed the
profits the terminal elevators make, in
his speeches on the Federal inspection
measure he. is championing before
congress. We all know that there is
very little No. hard OF No. Nor. re-
ceived in the Minnesota terminals,
while most Of it is No. 2, and lower
grades. The grain shipped out from
those places shows it to be mostly No.
l hard, No. Nor, and there isIno no.3
or rejected. What has become of it
all? Is the Minnesota inspection a
fraud in this respectg ~
II think Mr.. McCumber has showed
that there were in the last two or
three years, during the time for which
his figures were given, over 5000, 600
more bushels of wheat shipped out OF
the Minnesota terminals, than were
received. If that is true, how do you
account for that? 1t is estimated
that at least l, ZOO, 600 more bushels a
year are shipped out OF than received
at the big terminals, in the twin
; cities and at the head of the lakes.
s'Another thing-we have received
samples of grain from Liverpool, sent
there as samples of our best pure hard
wheat. The samples are about what
rejected would be here. The Liver
pool men say that if they could get the
pure wheat which we send them samp-
les of, it would bring from toe cents
more bushel On the foreign market
than it does.
'There is one thing certain, we
must have more storage room in some
shape or another, and it stands to
reason that the farmers should supply
| it. The elevators now built cannot
supply the storage. The railroads
will be hauling wheat out of the state
all summer, as the elevators every
where are full. II the railroads want
to get the grain marketed more slow
ly they should not be as stiff about
granting farmers elevator sites. We
have had trouble in getting good
locations for farmers houses. More
elevators will do away with loading
platforms. The roads can not be ex-
pected to handle all the crops in three
and months other business too, as the
branch lines are extending and. the
business is getting heavier each year.
New country is opening up and the
roads can'tafford to haul all our grain
out in three months and won't do it,
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