The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-08-31
$500 GRAIN
LICENSES ARE
OUT IN STATE
Applications Have Averag-
ed 100 to $50 a Day,
McGovern Says
YOUNG ANSWERS ON
STORAGE PROTEST
Says Measure is One Link
of Chain for Govern
ment Control

More than 1900 licenses have been
issued to deputy inspectors under
North Dakota's new grain grading
act since the supreme court handed
down its decision upholding the con-
stitutionality Of the law, according
to a statement by ]. A. McGovern,
Fargo, chief deputy grain inspector,
today.
Applications for licenses have
been coming in at the rate OF 100 TO
$50 a day, Mr.. McGovern says, and
while there are approximately 200
elevators in the state, he does not
think that an equal number of IL
censes will be issued as many of
these elevators are under general
management or ownership.
From % to 80 samples, put up in
ve-pound sacks, are coming in daily
to be graded. The wheat, states Mr..
McGovern, is grading very high, the
only drawback being the presence OF
such inseparable seed as wild pea,
or vetch, and kinghead. Vetch to the
extent of a fourth of one per cent
lowers the wheat grade from No. i
hard to No. northern. One-half Of
one per cent OF vetch reduces the
grade to No. 2. Two. per cent Of eth
er seed lowers the grade to No. 4.
Can Easily Be Removed.
This seed can easily be removed
by the miller, and really is not
greatly detrimental to the wheat,
except that II involves some addi-
tional expense in cleaning" said Mr..
McGoYern. THE cleaning system is
simple, a spiral arrangement being
used which thoroughly separates the
weed seed from the wheat. The
method is somewhat slower than the
tanning mill plan, but l anticipate
that in time most of our elevators
will be equipped to clean this In
separable' seed from the wheat. The
vetch is very valuable as stock food,
being of greater worth than the
shorts with which IL is mixed. King
head is useless, but neither seed is
harmful, and a very small percent
age does not color flour nor give It
any foreign flavor.
Draw Line Very Fine.
Because the present federal
grades for wheat, which have been
adopted in this state under the
grading act, draw the line so very
fine, / am advising that North Da-
kota grain growers sell their wheat
by sample instead of grade. Once
graded, this wheat must sell by
grade, even though but for the pres
ence of small amounts Of this In
separable weed seed. it would sell
for No. hard. The farmer who sells
by sample will get a better price,
for his wheat will be bought on its
merits. The miller would buy on the
-four making Qualities of the wheat,
whereas now he buys by grade and
naturally does not care to pay a
higher price than the grade calls for.
1--WE are now making -four at Far
go from 1917 wheat, and 1t is proving
Of an exceptionally high quality.
Young Answers Protest.
Congressman George M. Young
has wired an answer to the telegram
of state officials. sent following the
conference at Bismarck Wednesday
and asking him to use every means
within his power to have the order
placing a 30-day limit on storage OF
grain rescinded, as follows:
THE government license regula-
ton concerning which you speak re-
curing elevators to give storage ia
cilities to no one except the gov
eminent for more than thirty days
is only one Of the links of a gigantic
chain of powerful government con-
troll and grain dealers banded tight
for the purpose not only Of destroy
ing all competition in wheat but re-
curing the farmers to sell whether
they desire to do so or not at prices
arbitrarily fixed for them"