The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1919-10-02

washington, ~. C.-1no new Stduu-
ard price scale for grades Of wheat
below M. ! northern, announced by
Federal Grain Administrator Julius H.
Barnes this week, completely bears
out the contention of underpayment
under the old standards made by the
Nonpartisan league for years past,
and was largely brought about by the
activity and progressiveness of the
Nonpartisan representatives in con-
gress.
The new price scale announced by
the grain corporation went into effect
September 2. Under it all dealers will
be required to pay producers standard
lied prices based on the milling value
of wheat. In cases where dealers at
tempt to beat down these price scales
notification to the regional directors
Of the United States Grain corpora
ton will result in the federal govern.
ment entering the buying field in com.
petition.
Prices which growers are en-.
titled to receive, formulated after a
conference between the grain admin.
istrator and a delegation of north
western farmers representatives held
in New York on August 26, are as
follows. The scale is for terminal
sales at Minneapolis, with country
point sales subject only to the appro-
pirate transportation discounts:
Important Grade Changes.
Number /, $2.21k per bushel; No.
2, $2.1Sh; No. 8, $2.15h; No. 4,
$2.11k; No. S, $2.O7k.
For all wheat conforming to the
general specifications of No. 5 OF bet
ter, but deficient in weight. the No. 5
price is to be discounted not more
than 3 cents per bushel for each pound
deficiency in test. This ruling applies
to grades running as low as As pounds.
Wheat grading below No. 5 for rea-
son other than deficiency in test
weight is to be bought on its relative
merits. -
The new scales for lower wheat
grades have been sent by Mr.. Barnes
to all zone offices of the United States
Grain corporation. They further spec
.ify that smutty wheat is to be dis
counted from a maximum Of 2 cents
a bushel for slightly smutty, to larger
discounts based scientifically on the
degree of smut. Garlicy wheat is to
be discounted 2 cents and mixed wheat
will be taken at discounts ranging
from 2 to 5 cents, according to quality
in the judgment of each vice presi-
dent. 7'
Since the guarantee price on No. l
wheat. is not affected by the new stand
ards, and as it is the almost univer-
sal practice of the millers to base
flour prices On this grade, no excuse is
afforded for passing ion the farmers
increased returns ip the form Of highs
er prices to the consumer.
Aside from the benefits to the wheat
grower of the new scale the most
striking thing about it's inception is
hat Mr.. Barnes himself has admitted
thereby that the grades fixed original
ly by the department of agriculture
were manifestly unfair. =
Organization Won. .
Representative Baer of North Da-
kota, who has been in public life quite
long enough to know the fundamental
and vital power of organization, com
mented on the order as follows:
1.-TWO or three able farmers might
we'll have gone to see Mr. Barnes in
his New York Offices with the Identical
data which W. took there without
achieving any practical results. In
Doctor Ladd, Railroad Commissioner
Aandahl of North Dakota, Represen-
tative Sinclair, Young, myself and the
other farmer-chosen delegates, how
ever, the grain administrator had be-
fore him practical evidence of the
power of the organized farmers of the
Northwest. 1t was simply because
the farmers were organized and there
fore able to send to New York a group
of men demanding immediate atten-
ton and intelligent cooperation that
they received prompt attention to
their manifestly just grievances. With
out organization these grievances
would have been exactly as just, but
less consideration" u
La Toilette Hits Leasing Graft.
Coming tt the front again as the
most effective enemy Of the big inter
ests in congress, Senator La Toilette,
speaking an average of four hours a
|, day for the last four days of this
week, has, single-handed, prevented
the notorious coal, oil and phosphate
lands leasing bill from passing the
senate in it's original infamous form.
The Wisconsin senator has out
manouvered and. outfought Senator
Smoot of Utah, chairman of the pub.
lie lands committee, who has tempo
rarily dropped his defense of the
packers to railroad through the leas,
ing bill. AS things stand now the bill
al not possibly pass before the end
of next week, and then only in modi.
fed FORM.
The crucial feature of the bill,
which provides that no 2O-year lease
granted under its terms shall be re
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