Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1916-02-24
GRAIN GRADING
UNFAIR TO FARMER
Lower Grades Equally Profitable
for Milling Purposes.

In bulletin, No. ia, just issued
by Prof. E. F. Ladd of the chemical
department of the agricultural col
lege of this state regarding the ex-
tensive experiments and investiga-
tions that have been going on at the
experimental mill, it is emphatically
stated that the present system of
grading wheat is not equitable and
that there is too great margin be-
tween No. 1 and No. and rejected.
"The farmer whose wheat grades
low does not receive fair compen-
sation in proportion to it's value for
milling purposes says the bulletin
after many pages devoted to the re-
suits of the tests made with wheats
of various grades and covering a
period of eight years, from 1907 to
1914.
There are q number of tables used
throughout the bulletin in dealing
with this subject, one of the most i'm
portant being relating to milling av-
erages shown in the examination OF
$50 samples experimentally milled
during the period from 1907 to 1914
including both years.
These tests show that No. grade
averaged 2.13 per cent. screenings,
70.12 per cent. -four, 1868 per cent.
bran and 1915 per cent. shorts.
No. 2 grade yielded S.1s per cent.
screenings, 69.2o per cent. flour,
12.41 per cent. bran and 15.43 per
cent. shorts.
No. 8 grade yielded 4.49 per cent.
screenings, 69.2O per cent. -four,
1859 per cent. bran and 1928 per
cent. shorts.
No. 4 grade yielded GA per cent.
screenings, 66.34 per cent. -four,
1913 per cent. bran and 1904 per
cent shorts.
Rejected grade yielded 6.6S per
cent. screenings, o7.16 per cent.
-four, 1909 per cent. bran and 1915
per cent. shorts.
Reducing these percentage results
to pounds on the basis of one bushel
the result in flour, bran and shorts
are as follows, the remaining amount
being screenings:
Grade No. Flour, 42.O7 pounds;
bran, $40 pounds; shorts, 1O:O5
pounds.
Grade No. 2-Flour, 41.52 pounds /;
bran, 7.45 pounds; shorts, 9.26
pounds.
Grade No. 3-Flour, 41.65 pounds;
bran, 7.55 pounds; shorts, 9.14
pounds.
Grade No. 4-Flour 1880 pounds !;
bran, 7.91 pounds; shorts, 1922
pounds.
Rejected-Flour, 4O.3O pounds; !;
bran, 7.65 pounds; shorts, 900
pounds.
Taking the average prices of
wheat, flour, bran, shorts and screen
ings for the eight years that the tests
were in progress, the bulletin then
says: "Let us assume now that 1000
bushels of each grade of wheat have
been purchased at the prices named
for the several grades and marketed
at the average price. Then we
should have 10000 pounds of wheat,
each grade being represented in de-
tail in separate problem"
The average price for 100 pounds
for the various mill products during
the period of the tests for each year
covering the active marketing period
of grain of twenty-one days as quoted
by The Northwestern Miller shows
approximately that straight flour
brought $2.5391, bran $1.01S0.
shorts $1.2429 and screenings So
5154.
BY getting the average of 10000
pounds Of wheat of each grade and
multiplying this by the per cent. of
-four, bran, shorts and screenings
found to be the average, the num-
Der Of pounds of each mill product
was obtained and this multiplied by
the average price per pound of each
as shown by the above average prices
gave the following results:
Grade No. Northern-Flour, ST.
065.63; bran, $65.36; shorts. $324.-
62; screenings. $6.52; a total Of
$1,268.13.
Grade No. 2 Northern-Flour, ST.
054.61; bran, $685.; shorts, $114.-
13; screenings, 1916; total of ST.
254.45.
Grade No. 3 Northern-Flour, ST.
057.32; bran, $77.05; shorts, $113.-
81; screenings. $13.74; a total Of
$1,261.s1.
Grade No. 4 Northern-Flour, ST.
010.93; bran, SS0.65; shorts, $124.-
IS; screenings. $1S.79; a total of