The Lamar register., 1906-10-10
'OURUM WHEAT DANGER TO TRADE
SAT-. AND PERMANENT EXPORT
MARKET is ASSURED.
so SAYS PROFESSOR OLIN
Large Demand in France and Italy
Colorado Shipments Now Go By
Way of Gulf Ports-supPlanting
Kansas Flour in Colorado.

Kansas FLOUR IN colorado.
1By Professor W. A. Olin. Agronomist,
Colorado Experiment StationJ
Another season has brought al
abundant harvest and Colorado farm.
ers growing durum wheat on our semi
arid lands find that the Colorado
Millers' Association mills. with but
one exception, lend no word of en-
couragement to them for a market and
We learn that in man sections of the
state the farmers are being told thai
this wheat has no market and the
farmer is advised to stop raising q
wheat that has demonstrated itself &c
be a more certain crop on our semi
arid lands. having ten TO forty inche.
of rainfall than any other crop grown
We wish to declare to these farmer.
thai W. can assure for Colorado durun
wheat . steady. safe and permanent
export market. Russia, in the pas
has furnished the great mills o
Franco a large part OF her duruu
CmacaronD wheat. Here II is blended
with the French wheat to make fine
quality pastry and French bread. Its
greatest use, however. is for the su
perior quality of edible pastes, FOL
which France and Italy are noted.
Russia this year has little or Mt
wheat for export; in fact, in somt
parts of the empire wheat is beint
shippeu in from adjacent wheat coun
tries to supply the home demand
This is sending buyers Of this wheai
to other countries. Last year ten mil
lion bushels of durum were exported
from the United States and we are be
ing ca..ed upon by the importing Medl
terranean ports to supply this year,
deficit.
While last year only 100000 busheli
went via the Gulf ports. all kansai
CITY. Denver and Texas dGrum ship
ments this year are being routed bi
way of the Gulf ports. IL means u
Colorado a saving of nearly 800 milei
freight to the seaboard- By correspon
dence with the leading eNpoit ting gran
merchants we find while durum whea
for export is selling for less than DO
nestic wheat, there is more steau.
market AMI 1t can be counted on. NJ
Fort Collins Milling Elevator Compan!
are buying durum wheat In lots
from 100 pounds to a car lead. Al oul
request there are now Two export Duy
ers in our state buying in car lots foi
export. One of the buyesJ-Mr. Ro.
Campbell-represents the ]. Roser
baum Grain COMPANY OF Fort Worth
Kansas City, Chicago. 81. Louis ant
Galveston. The ]. Rosenbaum Grail
COMPANY have commissioned me t
toll Colorado farmers the following
I'VE will buy your durum wheat eaci
wear and care not whethc- II be ont
car or a million cars. We can hanth
all the durum wheat which you cal
grow. Grow a good qualify and theF
is no question about the market.
other grain firms OF the grain cen
ters of our nation are bidding for Colo
RADIO durum and any neighborhood nav
ing 900 or more bushels OF this whea
for market should let me set them IL
touch with this export market as sooi
as possible.
In northern Colorado the Moore 8
Jackson Grain Company of Fort Collin
and the Fort Collins Mil!'l6 and Ele
yator Company are buying ddrun
wheat in airy quantity from loo pound
to a carload. Mr.. a. ]. Hvnbest OF CaI
han, Colorado ION the Divide, is dc
ing the same.
Farmers must realize that durun
should not be irrigated to set the hes
quality of wheat free from starch!
kernels. Since II is therefore grown OF
the cheaper lands, without Irrigation
IL does not cost as much per acre
either in seed or cost of growing th'
crop. as the irrigated wheais, which
must be seeded heavier aad irrigated
Il IL
a measure. compensate for difference
in price. although later. when our mil
lers come to realize that durum is ant
should be rated as milling wheat, this
discrimination will be dropped.
The American miller in tie past ha
been slow to accept a new wheat unit
its milling quality has Deen full!
tested. His machinery Is expensive
hts flour trade extensive and its quail
ity must be maintained. He cannot af
ford to experiment
The hard spring wheat VI the North
west. now commanding premium II
the domestic market, was more than
decade knocking for admission as
milling wheat.
The turkey red wheat. which millers
of COLORADO are today paving cents
to 10 cents premium for aad claiming
they cannot get enough Of 1t. was con
sidered absolutely TOO poo- for millini
less than twenty-five years ago. II
has made Kansas hJur standard OF
excellence all over our nation. Fol
years the MINNEAPOLIS TIllers have
been blending TURKEY red Theat with
the Northern spring. producing a first
class patent flour Of supc'ior texture
and favor. Last year these millers
purchased one million bushels o.
durum wheat for this blend.
Durum -four has been used in more
than 100 homes in Fort Collins fol
more than q year and is he-e preferred
to the turkey red flour shipped in from
Kansas.
Ore Of the best chemists in the
Northwest writes me that Kubanka
5Gse durum wheat mas a higher pei
cent. of -four than NorthwesF grown fife
blue stem or TURKEY red-.he standard
milling wheats OF ,oday. lie also says
1t makes as good a loaf as any other
-four. and has a much more desirable
flavor.
Mr.. Livingston of Glenwood Springs
tells us that by blending drum flour
with his spring wheat Hour he pro