The courier-index., 1917-08-10

you could spend a day or two With us in this county in that campaign, it might work to our mutual advan- taee. If you would agree to come ! over here, our secretary and county agent could take charge Of you, ar range meetings over the county with the farmers and put you in direct touch with the condition.
 Will appreciate your further ad- I vice in the matter.
 ADAMS REPLY TO DAGGETT In a letter received Wednesday morning by c. E. Daggett, president of the Maiianna Commercial Club, from ". N. Adams, president of the Philadelphia Milling Company, the
 latter gentleman replies to a letter " .;ue. last week by MT. Oaggett on the wheat situation in Lee coun- ty. MT. Adams letter which will be read with much interest by Lee county farmers and others wio are working fer more prcgrcssiv. and poperous county. It follows:
 We keep our own buyers in every district where the amount of wheat iustifies our doing so but if the amount of marketing does not jus- tify our keeping a man on the ground we arrange to have one of our travelling buyers from our mill go to certain towns on certain days in the month. We will always keep man on the job in any county just as long as we think the amount of wheat will justify it. It is difficult proposition to answer just how much wheat would be necessary to justify this because it is just possible the farmer would nos want to market all his wheat at the mar ket. In other words, it is possible for a county to market a hundred thousand bushels of wheat and yet 1 only turn loose 20 per cent of it or 1 twenty thousand bushels. You can say to your farmers and planters that Philadelphia Milling Company will arrange to buy every bushel of wheat raised in Lee county the com ing year and that we guarantee to pay the highest market price for the wheat and if any considerable amount of wheat is raised we will 1 locate man during harvesting sea- son at Marianna who will be on the job every day and buy and pay for the wheat thru local banks and that there will be no question about mar keting it as we are settling for our wheat on the ground just as soon as every wagon load is weighed. You can further state to them that the government has fixed a minimum of l S2.0O cn whe..t and chances are we are going to have much higher prices than S2.00. In reference to seed wheat will state we are doing our best to accumulate nice lot of seed wheat which we expect to l furnish to our friends in Arkansas at cost. The first few days of the season we were able to pick up a 1 little seed wheat which we could sell for $2.50 but recently wheat has been advancing pretty rapidly and | IOudN we WVulQ letNC OO iidNC pcsOV bushel for Early May red seed wheat Fulcaster Bearded or Fultz smooth head and $295 for Arkansas raisei acclimated mixed two red seed wheat f. O. b. the mill at Arkadel- phia. All this wheat was raised in Arkansas and has made splendid yields this year and all the first class seed wheat we have has been carried over seeder and thoroughly redeemed and sacked in even weight sacks. We are bidding today $2.50 f. O. b. leading station for straight milling wheat and when we bay seed wheat we have to pay from five to ten cents premium per bushel to get selected seed wheat from the farmer and have to pay the freight to Philadelphia and then we have to stand the cost of handling and It costs about ten cents bushel to re- sack the wheat which IS going to make seed wheat a little bit ex- pensive this year and if the market continues to advance naturally seed wheat will advance and we are sell ing seed wheat almost as fast as we secure it.
 We are sorry we can't accept your invitation to spend the day with you; at this season or the year how ever we have just a little more to look after than we can well attend to. Don't hesitate to write us for any information you may desire. On the back of this sheet you will find circular we put out to the wheat customers last year in reference to wheat culture. You will note that our prophecy in reference to wheat has been more than fulfilled.
 We are just in receipt of letter or report from Clements Company of Chicago whom we consider the best posted grain people in the world and