The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1917-04-06

as possible for the benefit of the
farmers OF the state.
Hundreds of orders have come
in from outside the state, bet not a
pound has been sold except to far
mer's elevators or individual farm
els within the state
Warden Redheld says: Nor
mally the state uses sixteen mil
lion pounds of twine each year.
The plant at the state penitentiary
will manufacture this year up to
July list. 1917, three millions, one
hundred thousand pounds. (This
is in excess of any amount manu-
factured in any previous year. J
The price of twine as manufactur-
ed by the state is fixed by commits
sion. composed of the governor,
state auditor, state board of chari-
ties and corrections and the warden
of the penitentiary.
The raw material to he used
i'll the output this year was pur
chased several months ago at a
value then that would allow the
price of twine to be fixed at l2sc
i'll one thousand pound lots or less.
THIS is the actual cost of the ma
terial, plus maintenance of the
men who work i'll the Irvine plant
You no doubt will be interest
ed in the system used i'm selling the
output of twine in past years.
About the first of November, the
representative calls upon the far
mers elevator companies and Sc
cures their contract for their needs
for the coming season. During the
past two years the prison has de
pended almost entirely upon tine
farmers elevator companies to take
the entire output. Manyi of the
farmers elevator companies of this
state have been regular customers
for twine since the plant was start
ed in 1900. This same system oil
sales has been followed during the
present year. The entire output
of the plant was contracted for b,
farmers elevator companies before
the first day OF March 1917 with
the exception of $50, 900 pounds
which is held for filling individual
orders. The entire output of the
plant has been distributed to lO(
farmers elevators in thirtv-foll
counties in the state These ele.
vators are compelled by law and
under contract to sell this twine
on not to exceed one cent profit.
Most OF them are selling at actual
cost.
At the present time there is OF
hand l25 900 pounds OF twine
which will be sold in lots of not tc
exceed 500 pounds to actual users;
when the l25,OOO pounds of twine
is sold, ii will be necessary to raise
the price of prison made twine
The present market value of sisal,
(from which the twine is manu-
featured, } is l6-5-Sc t. o. b. fIeW
Orleans. To show you something
of the shortage of this product, il,
March 1915, there was received ii
American ports l13,5OO bales o
sisal. The estimated receipts TO
March 1917, is $4,000 bales.
| might further say that tn,
institution ordered the first weel
in February, 1000 bales of sisal a
l64c {. o. b. New Orleans and onl,
part of this number has been re
ceived. Since that date the instl
, tuition has been unable to buy an,
more material, owing to the scare
e itv. But for the impossibllitv o
securing raw material, we woul'
!. have put OH night shift and i'll
creased the output of the plant
THE conditions which exis
:. here are similar to those whic
. prevail in surrounding states.
81 trust that have made thi
sufficiently plain, so you wi
thoroughly understand the situa
ton.
Touch, technic, hand cultultur