The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1917-09-13
TAT | SURE SEED
WHEAT WILL Be .
TAKEN CARE OF.
Believes Provision Can Be Made
to Prevent Removal From
Counties Where Needed
HOOVER REPRESENTATIVE
CoNsULTs ELEVATOR MEN
Gets Views Of Managers Who
Have Original Handling Of = !
Grain

A certainty that there will be made
by the food administration modifica
tions In the 80 day storage clause
whereby seed wheat may be kept in
the counties in which it is needed in.
stead of being shipped into terminal
markets, later to be returned to the
grower, plus commissions both ways
and with the almost absolute assur-
ance of it's having been fouled in tran
sit, was expressed by Attorney Robert
o. Taft, special representative of Food
Administrator Herbert C. Hoover, in
conference with Commissioner of Ag-
riculture and Labor John N. Hagan
this morning. s.r5, ...
"To me-" said Mr.. Hagan, this is
one of the most important problems
confronting the farmer. The good
wheat grown this year will make
splendid seed next spring In every
county enough of the best of this
wheat should be retained. to SOW the
increased acreage which we are asked
to plant next year. If the farmer
must surrender this seed wheat at
the end of 30 days, it will go into ter
minal markets with the remainder of
the crop, and even with the best of
care 1t is almost certain to be fouled
before It gets back to the farmer.
Furthermore, there will be some COM
missions and freight charges to pay,
unnecessarily increasing the cost to
the farmer; of hfs own seed. l am
certain from what Mr.. Taft says that
this matter will he taken care OF,
and regard It g very important vic
tory for the farmers OF the northwest
! which will do much to insure a big.
ger and better wheat crop, not only
for 1913, but for other years to come.
h 70 Go Into Other Points.
"This afternoon" said Mr.. Hagan,
II hope to obtain from Mr. Taft a
definite understanding of what it will
mean to the farmer to lose absolute
control of his wheat at the end of
80 davs' storage. It is hard for me
to believe, with the information
. have been able to get. that this will
not work to the disadvantage of the
farmer Mr.. Taft seems to feel that
It will not, and he may be able to
give us assurances which will set
doubts on this point at rest"
Nothing to Report.
Mr.. Taft had nothing to report at
noon. 1--WE have got nowhere as yet"
he said. 1--WE have talked things over
thoroughly this morning. and we may
have something to report before night.
Just now, though, we are not much
further along than we were yester-
day" ..
First-Hand Information.
Mr.. Taft returned Wednesday night
from days tour of the Slope coun.
try, in which he covered $50 miles in
company with Chief Grain Inspector
]. O. McGovern We visited Is ele.
vators and talked with any number
of farmers and elevator men," said
Mr.. Taft. 81 feel that l know much
more OF the situation now than | did
before started out"
Mr.. Taft had an excellent oppor-
tunity to see the wheat situation at
its average worst. He went through
a district where the crop is very
spotty, and where So per bushel will
not begin to pay the cost of seed,
planting and harvesting in many
cases. He probably knows now why
the bulk of North Dakota's wheat
growers resent the fact that the price
fixing committee should have beaten
the price of wheat down from around
50 to the neighborhood Of 81 after
the winter wheat had been marketed,
and just as the spring wheat was be.
ginning to come in.