The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1906-09-06
Government TO
INSPECT GRAIN
Will Be q Task Fully a. Large
as That Of Meat In
spection.
SCIENCE FOR
Grain Will Be Graded by Scientific
Methods, and the Wheat Rsissrs
Of the Great Northwest Will
Get an Honest Price.

Washington. Sept. 5.-Scientihs In
spection and grading OF grains. which
Will eliminate the elements OF guess-
work and speculation. and. IL In freely
charged. fraud that have entered into
his business. IL soon 90 be established
BY the department OF agriculture.
II will be another task fully as largo
~ tnat Of meat inspection lately i'm
posed. Congress ut Its recent session
Appropriated an Item OF $4,000 for
making Investigations TO determine n
scientific method OF grading and in
specting grain. 80 that uniformity shall
b. established. and so that American
Inspection shall mean the same as in
spection In other countries: also end
especially with reference TO assuring
that the grain raiser shall get an hon.
est grading and be paid what his grain
Is really worth.
The business OF grading grains is
practically "a monopoly. ut present. of
y state OF Minnesota. because tho
great primary wheat markets are I'm
that state. In n sensational speech last
winter Senator McCumber, OF North
Dakota. whose constituents are wheat
growers. shipping To the markets OF
Minneapolis and Duluth. declared that
The inspection OF the state OF Minnesota
was utterly worthless and dishonest.
and that by IL wheat raisers were
robbed of many millions annually.
mecumSer Caused Sensation.
The senator made some remarkable
statements. He CAV the record of GER
ain elevators. year by ear. showing
hat nan millions more OF low grade
grains went into them than came out
h explanation was that grain was
u~ndergraded In buying. and therefors
he raiser got less than IL was worth.
when sold. II was graded fully up Go
is real character and frequently above.
A a result. American grades are dis
sounted abroad. and honestly graded
American wheat brings less In Europe
han equally god whea from other
countries. because the presumption In
against AN honest grading Of the Amer
lean goods. and prices ON IL are made
with reference To this. 7
The McCumber speech caused n great
sensation. and largely as a result OF Il
The $4,000 appropriation was put into
the agricultural appropriation bill. Tn.
Ter this Secretary Wilson has named
swo experts 10 conduit experiments and
Investigations. They are Leslie r. Fitz,
who will DO his work M Baltimore. and
hyde l.. Lcighty. who will be sta.
toned at New Orleans.
Grain inspection and grading IL now
- sAsNNh'f - NNf'HAAAkH w lahsAl lltAk
ment. and personal opinion. one man
~ liable To rate a given cnr as on one
grade. and another ~ Of another. Ex-
peTience. however. has led To the de-
duction of the general rule tina the In
sp"ctor HIll never grade IL too high
when he Is buying. or too low when.
selling.
Science Instead Of Judgment.
Scientific apparatus Is now proposed
30 49, attIaFtFtt F..l ~ VteF HIs 80. ~
method. To determine. for instance.
the proportion ~ moisture a device has
been invented that wilt answer the
question accurately IN fifteen minutes
Any apparatus her"tofor" used re-
qulrri about a day and was not 50
accurate. u anyhow. IL Wasn't used
by the inspectors.
The movement for federal supcrvi-
sion ~ the whole business ~ inspect
Ing and grading grain H. gaining
strength a. q result n the develop
mvuts iu tn" inquiry into the grain
elevator business. and also because ~
these experiments In scientific grading.
There r. littl" doubt now tina lcgisla-
ton viii De- pressed iU the next con-
grcss. by the senator's and congress-
men from the grain states. TO have
this Who'll" business put under n bu-
rciu 81 the department ~ agriculture.
In his way alone. they Say. can honest
AANA - AN - " ''hHANAA'HAH s|'HNA
ator McIumbcr II prepared To press
the matter aud viii return Ia the attack
reXt session with new facts and figures
for the argument.
tn" department nf agriculture Is fast
getting u b. one pf the very biggest
ana most powerful NJ the government
rhy purr food n meat inspection
laws have mad" ~ the intermediary
between the fpod manufacturers and
the table. he guardian of the health 81
everybody who eats. the special police
to prevent crime. the detective depart
mcut Co prevent fraud IN food prepare.
tiuns Nov VI r. IN a fair way 10 taky
IN the additional duty ~ standing be-
tween an" raiser and the merchant IN
grain. tu rufrr," the suulr" deal be-
tween them Grain inspection would.
N one. established. as IL D. IlInust GER
tain 20 BE-. soon b'rnW" one ~ IA" most
IMPORTANT bureaus eli IN" entire gov
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