The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1917-09-28

1T has been brought TO the atten-
Ion Of the United States department
% agriculture from several sources
that. la certain parts Of the country
where this years crop OF wheat ~
aow being moved, the country grain
dealers are assessing the farmers u
discount against all wheat purchased.
conlending that such assessment Is
mandatory By reason Of the official
grain standards OF the United States
Tor wheat under the United States
grain standards act, Apparently the
contention on the part OF the country
grain dealers Is based upon the item
siockage" contained In the Official
standards, From Information received
by the department II appears, however,
that the discount ~ actually an nTbi
trnry assessment In the interest Of the
buyers, aud Is neither on the basis OF
the Official standards nor required or
contemplated by the act or the reRu
latlOna Hereunder.
Ffhe primary purpose Ia the estAb-
iishment Of the official grain stand
ards Of the United States was TO pro
vide a basis whereby parties 10 trans
actions involving the purchase and
sale OF grain shipped or delivered for
shipment IN Interstate or foreign com
merce might, through being able to
obtain n correct application OF such
standards, arrive az the actual value
aud make settlement accordingly. The
standards for wheat do not provide for
any arbitrary assessment for dock
age, They do provide for the detcrmi.
unti0n ~ the amount Of sand. dirt,
. weed see IL, weed stems and certain
other matter. called dockage, which ae-
ttmlly may be- present iu lot OF
whea the amount of which. II In ex.
cess Of One-h half u one per cent by
weight - 10 be- stated In terms of the
actual percentage as part OF the
grade designation OF the wheat This
u called the doekago system Of grad
iag and has been la use for many
years Ia the northwestern states prior
a. the adoption OF the Official stand.
ards
The transactions IN question ap
pear 90 he purely local. not involving
Interstate commerce. and are perhaps
conducted Ia way not within the
prnhihtiuas uf the act. Nevertheless.
tie Department OF Agriculture Il Iii,
vestigating the matter and will be
glad 10 have any facts which may be
0f value. II will do everything IN It's
power to bring about the dlseontlnu-
nnce 0f misrepresentation based on
che act "a the standards thereundeT
The following warning hns been
given TO wheat growers
Wheat IL attracting. at the present
time, greater attentlou than perhaps
ever before. owing to it's comparative
scarcity and high price aud the neces,
nity OF sowing large acreage this
fail" says the department statement
As might De expected, therefore,
enrinus persons are Offering 10 the
publie varieties that they describe ms
FAR superior TO the kinds now being
grown. These yarities are usually
given sonc catchy name aud extraya.
giant claims are made for theta
An example Of this kind Il tho
Alaska. or en-headed wheat, that
was exploited few years ago, The
hackers Of this wheat did not get very
Tar with II, however, as the postoiflce
department issued fraud order and
their business came to standstill.
This type ~ wheat having large.
hranched head, has been offered az
high pgievs TO the people Of this coun,
cry many times under one name o. an.
other. Records CONCERNING Il SO back
more than y hundred years. Just now
another exploitation Is threatening un
der tho name Titanic This typc ol
wheat with hranched heads should be
left strictly alone hy the farmers.
Radical claims OF high yields ars
made for some varieties Of wheat Il
a NOT Uncommon "a advertising a new
variety fog an INSCRIPTIONS or uuin
formed promoter 90 claim yields foul
or i've tlnaes that Of the average ylelt
af the country Claims as high as 4,
or mere times the average Yield hav,
been made tn special eases. Sucl
claims are absurd and to enc nerd b,
misicd BY them A we'll bred VARIETY
IN the section to which II h adapts,
may yield q few basbrls more than N,
varieties being commonly grown Yer
NviAon lndre,l can q doubling ~ tn
sield - Rxprcied
siiuyinE srvd grown a. a Hrvat dis
tance from home d smother thing tina
wheat growers should BE- on thct
guard against No whrat grown an
bred for California conditions, for Ia
stance. no matter how good for Call
foFuia. has bern found adapted a. th
caaulrf east 81 the Rockies CatiCof
uin adapted wheats do not su,~-c,
east % that state. Neither would N
Es.sain adapted Ia the Atlantic eoas
or The Mississippi valley sucyycd 4
California. In short homr- grown see
ea0uld be usrd uuless tbs state aErl
euitursl experiment station OF m
United States Department u aEricu
ture advises otherwise