The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-02
WAR ON CRUMBINE
Kansas Farmers Shipping
Association Up in Arms.
He Held Up Car of Wheat From
Sterling.

War on DR.. S. J. Crumbine and the
state board of health was declared to-
day by Kansas Farmers Shipping as
sociation. when an Inspector under DR..
Crumbine attempted to enforce a recent
grain ruling by the board and held ur
a car of wheat consigned to a Wich-
ita commission firm. The trouble start
ed when DR.. Crumbine declared that
he would prosecute any person or firm
which sold or attempted to sell wheat
which contained iii excess of one-hali
pound of foreign matter to the bushe.
of grain.
The Farmers Cooperative Shipping
association, of Sterling was the first
hit today when A E. Ice, a deputy
ment under the provisions of the order
from the state board Now the farm
ers' association is up in arms and E. j.
Smiley, secretary treasurer of the Kan
sas Grain Dealers association has has
tened to Hutchinson, where he will con-
ter with the grain dealers and shippers
Suit will probably be brought under tins
Crlunbine ruling and Smiley declared
that any attempt to enforce the ordef
would be hotly contested
This is a matter that concerns the
farmers alone" declared Smiley before
leaving for Hutchinson, but it is in
unjust and oppressive order and will be
settled in the courts.
And enforcement of this order" con-
tinueG Smiley means that $4,000 coo
bushels of Kansas wheat will be made
unstable and must be fed by the
farmers, as it will have absolutely no
market value and cannot be marketed. =
1t is proposed by the farmers and
dealers to sell for export this wheat
which contains a small amount of for
eign substance. By making the ship
Inents to other states, the Ccnsignments
win come under the interstate COM
merce laws and this method, it is hoped
viii defeat the purpose of the Crumbine
order. Again, the dealers will attempt
to sell the grain to local conmissi on
men for export and by this method it
is claimed that the board of health can
not interfere.
And while the producers, the dealers.
the shippers and officers Of grain dealers
association are hunting a remedy, the
board of health declines to change its rul-
more than one-half pound of foreign sub
stance in a bushel of wheat is an adul-
teration and for the selling of such grain
the board will prosecute the offenders.
Now the farmers are rising IN their wrath
and demand relief The first declaration
of war came today from c. E. Forwalder
of Sterling. 1t was Forwalder who owned
the car of wheat which Ice has declared
shall not be sold and for the shipment of
which FOrwalder is now threatened with
prosecution.
According to Smiley, no threshing ma
chine or other machinery used by the
wheat producers will separate the foreign
substances from the wheat as closely
Crumbine's order requires. To enforce
the order, Smiley is certain that As 900, 600
bushels OF the 1912 wheat crop in Kansas
will be rendered unstable. And that is
not all. Smiley points out that Kansas
farmers must ship their grain to foreign
markets without Offering to sell in this
state, and the local dealers will be denied
the right to handle the business which
they enjoyed in former years.