The Tomahawk., 1919-10-30
MILL
SETS NEW RECORD
New Enterprise at Drake, N. D.,
Pays Highest Prices for Wheat.
ALL DOCKAGE PAID FOR
Prices Of Flour and 8y-Products Held
Down In Vicinity Of Drake-Town
Experiences General BusI.
ness Boom.

Fargo, N. D.-Payment for all
dockage as we'll as prices for
wheat depending upon tested mill
ing value, marks the methods in
augurated at the new state owned
mill at Drake.
The state owned mill thus at
tempts to demonstrate the advan.
tage Of outright ownership Of the
marketing processes over mere
regulation.
North Dakota has been able to
raise the prices paid for grain over
those paid In neighboring states by
means Of state inspection and
grading Of grain, state licensing
Of elevators, and compelling pay.
ment for any dockage over a small
minimum.
The state mill, however, Is able
to offer better prices than private
owned elevators under regulation
are paying.
The following quotations for dark
northern spring will indicate the pace
which the state mill is setting for tho
territory:
81 pound test ...........$2.54h
81 pound test ............ 2.49h
55-56 pound test .......... 2.42H
~54 pound test ............ 2.37h
So pound test ............ 2.331k
Quick Results.
These prices are probably the high
est ever paid for wheat at country
point so far removed from the big
central market as Drake. They ex.
plain why farmers are hauling their
wheat as much as 40 miles to reach
the mill.
Another result to follow quickly tho
opening of the state owned mill at
Drake was the decline Of flour and mill
by-products in the Drake territory.
With no need to make profits, with
no advertising and selling expense.
and with no freight bill to and from
the drake mill is able to
make a big cut in the price to the
buyers while it pays larger prices to
the farmers.
Until the state has many mills work.
ing, the unsolicited demand for state
made flour from bakers and other con.
sumers will take far more than the
state can produce.
j. A. McGOvern, manager or the
State Mill and Elevator association
has just returned from Drake and
while there he posted the following
notice at the state mill:
Paw for All Dockaae.
"A1l dockage taken from wheat,
excepting sand, dirt, wheat stems.
chaff and straw, will be paid for at
the market value at the mill Of the
mill and elevator association Of North
Dakota, until further notice.
Dated September 26, 1919, Drake,
N. D."
Farmers are hauling wheat 40 miles
to the state mill and are enthusiastic
over the results obtained, Mr.. Nc
Govern said. The mill is crowded to
capacity all the time and still is un-
able to handle but fraction OF the
business available for it. Orders for
flour and mill products are being re-
ceived from all parts of the country,
these products are being sold at the
smallest possible margin of profit, &C.
cording to Mr.. McGovern.
Drake is on the map now and 10
being advertised all over the world"
said Mr.. McGovern. 'The little city
is feeling the effects of it, too. New
business enterprises are coming to
the city every week and the hotels
are crowded to overfowing with Wis.
itors every day.
"The farmers who sell their wheat
at the state mill are being paid the
same price as shippers are paid by the
bigger mills. The price paid is based
on the actual milling value of the
wheat, not upon it's color, weight or
The mill is inaugurating
a new era in grain testing"
TRACTOR SHOWS DECLINE