The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1917-08-31
NORTH DAKOTA
GRAIN TO MOVE
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the governor that price of 1925 was
to be expected.
at will mean 81 wheat at North
Dakota elevators" said the governor.
1T probably will net the farmer with
good crop fair return, but the
farmer in the western part of the
state, where the crop is poor, will not
break even.'
Representative farmers, even in the
Red river valley, where the crop is
proportionately heavy, declare wheat
cannot be marketed at a profit
around ST. If the valley cannot pay
expenses at 50, it means very real
loss to the farmer of the Slope, whose
yields are much smaller and whose
expense for labor has been greater.
The effect of the governments
price-fxing has been to beat down the
market, q result which the Nonparti
san league managers probably did not
anticipate when they asked the gov
eminent to take over the handling o.
the wheat crop. Even under depress.
ing conditions price of $685. to $40
prevailed for cash wheat in Minneap
oils yesterday.
The Th:rty-Day Clause.
According to message received by
Governor Frazier last night from Rep
John NJ. Bacr, julius G. Barnes OF
New York is the man with whom the
enforcement OF Hooyer's regulation
requiring the movement of wheat
from storage within thirty days rests.
He has arranged SO that the title
does not pass at the end of thirty
days if proven that the grain is not
held to enhance the price," Congress-
man Baer advises.
. Whether this improves the situation
much the railway commission, which
took the initiative in this matter, was
not today in a position to determine.
There is a question as to how the
government or any other agency is
to ascertain whether wheat is held
with view to enhancing the price or
because Hhe farmer desires to use it
next spring for seed. If the price es-
tablished by the government is Nlax
imunl, as the law would seem to in
dictate, it is difficult to understand
how the farmer can hope to enhance
the price to be received by holding
his grain. If the purpose Of this pro-
vision is to force grain to market in
such quantities that it will depress
the price below the maximum estab
lished by the government, the clause
will work to benefit the commission
men and possibly the consumer, but
very much to the detriment Of the
producer.
What Young Says.
"The provision is only one of the
links of gigantic chain of powerful
governments and grain-dealers baAled
together for the purpose of not only
destroying all competition in wheat,
but requiring the farmers to sell
whether they desire to do so or not
at prices arbitrarily fixed for Them"
Representative George NJ. Young
wired the governor last night -
DECISION LAST NIGHT. !.
Washington, D. G., lug 3l.-A price
of $3.50 bushel was fixed for the
1917 crop of wheat by President Will
son last night on the recommendation
Of the whea; price committee headed
by DR.. II. A. Garfield. The basis will
be No. northern spring wheat de-
livered at Chicago.
The cCnin,ittee finally agreed late
yesterday afternoon after several days
of voting. AT one time it looked as
if it would be unable to come to a
conclusion, but just before o'clock
compromise was reached and the
last vote was unanimous
Representatives OF t.le producers
began by voting for price of $3.50
and lakor's representatives for $1.S4
The two extremes eventually mar
rowed down until the votes were only
few cents apart and most of yester-
| days voting showed only slight diff
ference. Both factions appeared un-
compromising at the start.
On the basis Of 1920 at Chicago, the