Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1916-02-24
$2o.14; a total of ST.

screenings, $20.l4; a total Of ST.
255.14.
III for the several grades We first
deduct the amount of screenings
from the total weight and convert
into bushels, we shall have for the
several grades the number Of BUSH
els of each grade of wheat to be
milled," says the bulletin. THE
number of bushels of clean wheat for
these grades as figured out are as
follows: No. 1, 978.7 bushels; No. 2,
1851 bushels; No. 3, 1851 bushels;
No. 4, 1856 bushels; rejected, 933.2
bushels. .-.-.
"Now we may compare the cost
for the wheat at the average price
for which the grades are purchased,
with the receipts and our results may
be easily compared" continued DR..
Ladd in the publication.
These costs and receipts for each
grade are as follows:
Grade No. Cost $1,016.7O, to-
tai receipts $1,26S.13, gain $251.43.
Grade No. Cost $9S4.7O, total
receipts $1,255.12, gain $270.40.
Grade No. 3-Cost s966.30, total
receipts s1,261.91, gain $295.61.
Grade No. 4-Cost s909.20, total
receipts s1,235.15, gain $325.95.
Rejected-Cost $853.1O, total re-
ceipts $1,255.14, gain $4,000.
1T will be readily observed" con-
tinued the bulletin, that for each
expenditure of $1,0t6.7O for grade
No. l there is a grain of $251.43;
or, the gain for the transforming of
wheat into -four has been $251.43;
and for the lowest expenditure Of
$853.10, a grain Of $4,000. In
other words, then, assuming that the
profits are reasonably fair for the
best grade of wheat, there is much
larger profit for milling and selling
the rejected and lower grades Of
wheat. In other words, again, as we
have pointed out in a previous bulle-
tin (Volume 8, No. IA, Food Depart
ment) it would seem that the present
system of grading wheat can hardly
be classed as equitable under market
conditions for mill products as they
now prevail"
Going into the matter further DR..
Ladd has figured out the per cent. of
gain in the Transforming of the sew
eral grades of wheat into the COM
mercial products and marketing
them. This shows that the per cent.
of grain for No. ] '> 24.94; for No.
2 it is 27:39; for No. it is 3O.59;
for No. 4 it is 1886 and for rejected
it is ALB per cent. In other words
the tests show that the percentage
gained on the rejected wheat was
nearly twice that for grade No.
northern.
Further the bulletin says: If we
assume that there was reasonable
profit in milling No. 1 northern
wheat, then the profit is out of pro-
portion for No. and rejected grades
and therefore the grading is not
equitable for all classes of wheat" :"
The bulletin goes on to show that
had a mill purchased 1000 bushels
of each of the several grades or a
total of 5000 bushels and trans
formed them into mill products at
the prices found to prevail during
the period of the tests there would
have been total cost of $4,730.
The receipts would have been &c.
275.45 and the grain $1,545.45.
"This would give us as the aver
age cost of each 1000 bushels of
wheat in the mixture $946, an aver
age receipt of $1,255.09 and an av-
erage gain of $309.09 or an average
profit of 32.67 per cent" in the bull
letin's statement.
"If we assume that the profits for
milling the $1,000 bushels of mixed
wheat were just, then we must ad-
NIT that the system of grading is not
equitable and that there should be
readjustment so that the produc-
ers of all grades may receive fair
compensation. But this assumption
is hardly probable for the bulk Of the
wheat grades, in most years, No. !
and No. 2 northern, and the millers
handling these grades are, apparent
ly, doing a profitable business.
ut would seem, therefore, that we
would be justified in concluding that
the present system of grading wheat
is not equitable, and that the differ
ence between No. 1 and No. and
rejected is too large a margin"
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