The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1908-01-02

system there should be no such thing
as grades because forty-eight pounds
completes a bushel of barley and
should all be graded No. 3. This also
explains why the different grades sell
up so close to one another. The malt
sters do not pay the least attention to
the state grades, as they all buy by
sample. Where the state inspection
comes good in the matter Of inspection,
is the condition of the grain on its ar
rival at the terminals.
OF course, barley that is damaged
in any way should be graded below
No. 3.
The above argument is also appli-
able to wheat or other grain which has
to be manufactured so as to get it's
value.
Let us look into wheat, sixty pounds
of No. 3 wheat will make just as much
flour as the very best No. l. Northern
because there is the same amount of
I weight in each bushel or each brass
kettle bushel and the miller takes the
same amount of flour from the No. 3
as he does from the very best No. l
hard or No. 1 Northern.
In picking up your daily papers you
notice the sales of lower grades vary
close to the higher ones The reason
of this is that the miller or the buyer
for the miller, would rather buy low
grades as he makes the same volume
of flour from the lower grades as from
the higher and besides gets an increase
for the miller. 1t can be readily seen
that our method of bushels is radically
wrong, in buying barley at %forty-eight
pounds, wheat at sixty pounds, etc.
To overcome this our nation should
use the metric or the hundred weight
standard and discard the bushel mea-
sure, which quickens figuring and
makes 1t easy, also avoids confusion
and annoyance. The hundred weight
system was favored by the North d.
kota shippers at Fargo, Valley City
and Minneapolis.
How out of place it looks to see such
a progressive and intelligent nation
as ours use the brass kettle or such an
Anticipated system of weights instead
of the above metric system, which
would enable US to do our buying and
selling by weight instead of the bush
Ell. If 1 remember correctly the states
of Washington. Oregon and California
have the hundred weight standard.
We all know it is used in the foreign
countries. l see no reason why the
exporter has not an additional profit
namely the Difference between the tes'
ter and the hundred pound standard,
I see that the North Dakota Grair
commission has declared and it's theil
belief that the North Dakota farmers
are losing $4,000, 900 a year. Tht
above might assist them in finding the
oss.
The system of docking Is wrong.
have seer sceenings sell on chang,
| from 81 to $22 per ton. Let us average
it up at SIP per ton which equals 81
I cents per hundred. If you are ship
ping wheat you r. locked at the rate
! of sixty pounds to the bushel which
, makes dirt found in wheat valued a
thirty-six cents a bushel.
This is the value of grass seeds
Il
while barley and wild oats bring
much higher price.
Sol claim this, that under our pres
ent system of weights all clean whea
5 should be granted No. l Northern AM
wheat not clean No. 2 Northern, NJ
t dockage in either case. The produce
r should be paid for his dockage as i
has a market value in Chicago and al
/ other great terminals who never docl
r wheat, at least most of them don't.
. Our system of grading and valua
Q ton is wrong. Where the state doe