The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1917-12-10
DELAY Of TRAINS
KEEP MANY FROM
GRAIN MEETING
Sessions Begun This Morning Will
See Bigger Attendance This
Afternoon
CHIEF OF BUREAU OF
MARKETS ATTENDING
Charles ]. Brand Principal Rep.
resentative of Federal Govern
ment at Conference

The lateness Of morning trains de.
layed through the severe cold, result
ed in a comparatively small attend
ance for the conference on the fed.
eral grain grades which commenced in
the house chamber at 10:30 this morn
ing, with Charles J. Brand, chief of
the United States bureau OF ma Iets,
here as a direct representative of the
government.
The state is represented by the
North Dakota railway commission, DR..
f. F. Laid, chief of the North Dakota
grading and inspection service; Dep
uty Chief Inspector J. A. McGo 'cr!l,
Commissioner of Agriculture and La
Dor John N. Hagan and other Off
GERS
Many elevator men and grain grow
ers from the Slope country came III
last night. Others arrived during the
day on No. from the west and on
No. from points to the east. 1t is
anticipated that 200 will be in attend
ance when the afternoon session is
called to order. $751;.
; Brand Defends Grades.
Mr.. Brand Is defending the federal
grades, which are generally obnoxious
to North Dakota grain growers and
grain ouyers. Mr.. Brand points to the
fact that of $4,000 cars of 1917 wheat
received at the Minneapolis terminals
during the last four months II, Asa
cars graded No. northern, while III
1916 only "a per cent of North Da
Lo&o'u yuhoot urodo1 Mo hard xuhicI
corresponds to the present No. 1 nor
thern.
DR.. f. f. Ladd, Railway Commits
sioner Bleick and others have callet
Mr.. brands attention to the fact tina
the 1917 wheat, what there. is OF 1t
is an exceptional crop, and that F.;
Emuch Higher percentage Of .iart
cwheat was harvested than in any 9th
er year in the states history. The
hlD16 wheat crop, as everyone. vii
readily recall, was exceptionally poor
The grain was light and shrunken dut
to rust, and very little of IL graded a:
No. 1 hard. Under tle new rule;
probably none of it would have sole
as No. I northern, it is claimed.
Mr. Brand still contends, however
that the 1917 grades arc more favor
able to the farmer than were the oil
grades of 1916. He holds that only Il
per cent of the 1917 crop would have
graded No. hard under the old res
ulations, while under the new fedora
grades 81 per cent of the wheat i:
going into a corresponding grade. :
- Basis Of Grades s.
! The basis of the new federal grades
States Mr.. Brand, is data covering
fCrOps from 1911 to 1916 inclusives4Es'
grades were adopted he stated, tt
give good farmers a premium on goOt
wheat.
Record Adopted. 20. -,
Prior to the Fargo hearing, thu
farmers on Saturday morning went in
to executive session with DR.. Ladt
and adopted series of questions ant
answers as expressing their views Oh
the situation. After some discussiO!
with the Chief of the bureau of mar
kets the questions and answers were
adopted as a portion Of the f0rma
action of the conference and were
embodied in the record which will Sc
! IN to washington.
They are as follows:
q. Shall the class designation com
mon and red uurum wheat '1e chang
ed. and if so, what should be substi
tuted? III.
A. The test weights of .durun
should be the same as the spring
grades. &
@. Shall the subclass red spring
humpback in class l., and red durun
in class 2, be eliminated?
A. The red spring humpback sub
class in class l should be eliminated
@. The official standards specii.
that ANY grain which when free from
dOckage contains more than 6 pei