The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-03-12
PRICE ON
BRAN ANNOUNCED
TODAY BY LADD:
PROFIT LIMITED
State Food Administration
Places Price at $25.97
at the Mills
81 PROFIT TO
TWO HANDLERS
Revocation of License Pen
atty for Failure to Meet
Requirements

One Of the most important and far
reaching rulings yet issued by the
federal food administration for North
Dakota was made public this morn
ing by DT. f F. Ladd when he an
nounced that a definite and specific
price had been set on bran and other
mill-feed products in this state.
In the order made public today, Or.
Ladd sets a price OF $25.97 for a ton
of bran in bulk at the mill door on
q wheat price basis of $2.05 a bushel
at the mill.
The price Of bulk bran at the mill
door shall be $3.50 hundred. The
mill is allowed 10 charge actual cost
or sacks-not to exceed % cents each.
This would add s. per ton to the
price Of bran. therefore a ton OF bran
win be $S0.97 in sacks at the mill
door.
The miller is allowed to charge 50
additional for shorts or standard
middlings.
No other mixture Of wheat mill
feed is allowable in North Dakota
without a state license and an analy-
sis accompanying each parcel or lot
OF feed.
Only two other profits may be
added to the foregoing prices. The
per ton, in less than ton lots. The
retailer may charge 81 per ton or 30
cents per hundred additional. There
shall be but one wholesale and one
retail profit between the mill and the
consumer.
Following is the official order in
full:
Herbert Hoover, United states food
authority and under the food admin
istratton act and the order promui-
gated by President WILSON in regard
to the milling Of wheat and the util-
product, the following regulations
and prices for the various Bo-called
mill products are hereby promulgated
for North Dakota. All dealers; manu-
hereby made subject to these reEula-
tions until otherwise modified by the
federal food administrator:
l. The price OF bran at the mill
shall be. in bulk, car lots, for wheat
basis $2.05 per bushel, or proportion
ately at any other price, Rs follows:
2. The price per ton, bulk, for bran
at the mill, shall be $26.s7 for cash.
hundred. at mill door shall be $50
for cash. g
l. The price sacked for bran or
shorts or mixtures thereof, shall be
LH6 same aH lot LuC UuAh
plus actual cost of sackS< now not to
exceed 2b cents each.
5. The price of shorts or standard
ehall be So per ton above
that of bran, or &2Ts7 in bulk for
cash at mill.
s. Bran and shorts or standard
may be mixed and sold as
mixed bran and shorts at 81 per ton
above the foregoing quotation for
bran, or in bulk at S26.97 car lots at
mill door for cash.
Z. No other mixture OF wheat mill
feed, under whatever name, shall be
or sold in North Da-
kota by manufacturers, millers or
dealers without their first being
licensed In accordance with the state
law, and an analysis shall accompany
each parcel or lot OF feed, of what /
aver description, containing wheat
8. Until further notice, no so-caIled |
Red Dog -four shall be mixed with /
any other wheat product to be sold /
or offered for sale as feed in North /
Dakota,
Q. Jobbers and wholesalers OF mill /
feed bran and shorts may charge 81 /
per ton above wholesale price, in less i
han ton lots, but there shall be but /
1ne tobber's or wholesalers profit /
added between the mill and the con
sumner.
10. The retailer authorized to han
lie feed, bran and shorts, may charge |
B1 per ton or 20 cents per hundred,
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