The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1917-09-20
AGENTS SAID TO
Be URGING THAT
WHEAT Be HELD
Reported That Agitators Arc
Securing North Dakota in
Automobiles +
GOVERNMENT MAY FIND A
NEED FOR INVESTIGATION
Deliveries. in Minneapolis Fifty
Per Cent Short Some In
fuence Seems a. Work 80

Minneapolis, Mimi, Sept. 2O.-Cen-
tering about Minneapolis, and with
the whole northwest as its field Of
origin, an adverse war time problem
that relates to the food supply Of the
United States and it's allies was be-
lieved today to have reached proper
tions where the government soon will
have to give it attention, according
to story printed here. .- a.
There is, and has been since Sept. 1,
q remarkably light movement of
wheat from the farms. Fall plowing,
the desire to sell other grain first.
labor scarcity and dissatisfaction with
the new federal grades are reasons.
Price dissatisfaction also is known to
have been and still to be factor.
Urged Not to Sell.
1t was reported today that in North
Dakota men in automobiles are travel
ing through the state telling the farm
ers not to- sell their wheat This re-
port says that farmers who are dis
sa.lsheu with the price and who lean
to the side of discomfort with govern
mental regulations fall in with the
suggestion at once Others are won
over, the report says, by calculations
made in pencil on the backs OF en-
velopes, while the farmer and the agi-
tator stand talking. The farmer is
shown figures thereby to fortify the
statement that the government even
tually will reopen the matter of price
and make 1t higher: f~.s&Ea va,
Hold for Gamble. =
70 hold the wheat on the farm, bor-
row money on It. and gamble the in
terest payment against the chance OF
prices reopening, is the advice that is
being given, these reports sayaas...
Today Minneapolis had 237 cars.
compared with 53G year ago, loss
of so per cent.
Elevator Man Talks.
Alex Stewart of the Monarch Ele-
vator company, Minneapolis, said:
Recently in Barnesville, Mimi,
was told that men travelling in auto
mboiles had been there and that they
were going west into North Dakota,
and that their purpose was to make
a trip over the state and to tell the
farmers not to sell, their wheat" Mr..
Stewart said.
Letters Go Out.
Tonight 5000 letters embodylns
drastic changes in the grain move.
ment will go out from the othce Oh
the commission firms to their coun'
try correspondents.
Those letters, in the form OF ap'
peals, to be followed. it was init
mated, by action more drastic II thcy
did not have effect, would result In:
Immediate shipments to Minneapo'
lis of all spring wheat in sight at
country stations.
30 further shipments Of barley,
oats, flax, or rye until further ad'
vised.
Immediate loading and billing OF
every available freight car.
Instant notification of the Mime
apolis Office Of the grain food admin
istration corporation ii railroads are
not furnishing cars.
Notice to all farmers that spring
wheat and not coarse grains should
be brought into town if they expect
acceptance.
Demands Immediate Action.
Mr. Carey said that the situation
demands immediate action and that
the farmers are to be appealed to-.
I'VE are making an appeal, ne
said. 1--WE expect prompt response.
We have no further. announcement to
make, but 1t may properly be said
that we have got to get the wheat
movement started, and if this means
fails we will have to find other
means"