Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-10-15
Make Handsome Profit Thru
Not Having to Pay
Rates Figured.
ADMINISTRATOR IS SATISFIED
Producer and Consumer Suf-
fer Only Where Near
Wheat Belt.
OMER X. BENEDIcT

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| Worlds Washington Correspondent
WASHINGTON. oct. li.--Fo0d Ad'
ministrator Hoover, 10 far, has sue
ceeded In lowering the price OF wheat
| the farmer receives, but has not yet
reached IA point where the consumer is
saving anything on his flour, or wher0
the family is saving anything on the
price OF II loaf OF bread.
Before the government took over
control OF wheat II was selling In okla
homa at $2.70 "A bushel. Today II is
selling at $3.50. ninety cents less. Re-
Gently Mr.. Barnes wired the Alva Mill
ing company that he was Informed that
that mill had paid n farmer 81 a
bushel for wheat and advised them X
that occurred again he would imme-
diately take away their license to do
business.
The manager OF the Alva mill is
quoted as saying that hs could mako
more profit at 81 n bushel now than
he could at any time he had been run
ming the mill. regardless OF the price
he paid for wheat.
Rcnps Rich Profit.
Here is the profits the mill man is
making In Oklahoma:
He buys his wheat from the Okla
homa farmer at $50 Il bushel. Four
ana u null DuSUelS Inuht u DuTTei VI
flour, which sells Wholesale at $1l.60
Oklahoma. The miller. paying $40
to the farmer for wheat enough to
mako u barrel, and sells IL at SLIGO,
makes a clean profit OF $3.50 on the
flour alone, and makes an additional
)2.25 on bran and chops. making a
total profit of $5.75 on four and a
half bushels Of wheat, made Into
barrel Of flour.
The retailer sells that barrel Of flour
at 1880. according to the present
market price In Oklahoma, making
another profit Of 81 a barrel. That
makes a profit from the miller to the
housewife OF $775. The bakers profit
is different throughout the country.
Administrator Satisfied.
Now the strange part Is that the
food administrator says this Is per-
fectly all right.
Now you wonder upon what basis
OF reasoning he states 1t Is all right.
Here In his answer:
He figures n terminal point price
a central market as defined In the
food control bill. Forty cents freight
from Oklahoma to the central point
and 40 cents back to the place
where the mill Is. But the flour does
not go to the central point at ALL II is
bought on the ground by the miller
from the farmer The miller saves
40 cents n hundred pounds to the
central point and saves 40 cents
hundred back from the central point
and deducts that from the farmer
when he buys his wheat.
Simple. isn't 1t?
SO far. the inner workings of the ex-
pert statisticians of the food admins
traitor are not contemplating that n
miller can buy wheat direct from the
farmer; but they do. and the miller Is
getting all the benefit of the deal In
addition to the profit he was able to
make before government control. he
now makes so cents a hundred
under protection Of the government
Farmer and Consumer suffers.
In short. government control OF
wheat has resulted in cutting the price
OF wheat of the farmer down from
$2.7O to $3.50, a difference of 80
cents 1t has taken 30 cents a
bushei off the farmers profit and