The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1919-09-12

Prices on Low-Grade wheat
Relatl'e Nv Grain Administrator
S a,sid Obtained Through
COnanization-Public Domain Graft
ors - Nv La Follette-Soldier
helu Measure introduced By Con-
DOl,S sman Baer-secretary of Ag-
Eieulpture Kills Feed and Seed Seed loan pon
In IN Trade Commission Urges PUB
Di" ornersbip of Refrigerator Cars.
,;noton. D. C.-The new stand
" 200 scale for grades of wheat
sra No. l northern, announced by
Del Soral Grain Administrator julius
r Rarnes this week, completely bears
a. tho contention Of underpaymene
Ou sor the old standards made by the
. uu league for years past,
N W. was largely brought about by the
AM a+;,itv and progressiveness OF the
@onnartisan representatives in con-
gress. ,o .nno,nced hv
tbe grain corporation went into effect
centember 2. Under it all dealers
mil be required to pay producers
+ondardized prices based on the mill
- ualue of wheat. In cases where
daolers attempt to beat down these
~rirp scales notification to the region
Fl directors of the United States
Coin CORPORATION will result in the
federal government entering the buy
ing field in competition.
Prices which growers are now en-
titled to receive, formulated after q
conference between the grain admin
;s+rator and a delegation of north
upstern farmers representatives held
IN New York on August 26, are as
follows. The scale is for terminal
sales at Minneapolis, with country
noint sales subject only to the ap-
nropriate transportation discounts:
INpORTANT GRADE CHANGES
Number 1, s2.211s per bushel; No
2 s21811; No. 3, $2.15A; No. a
S2111a; No. 5, $2.O7h.
For all wheat conforming to the
general specifications of No. or bet
ter but deficient in weight, the No.
nr;ce is to be discounted not more
than 3 cents per bushel for each pouno
deficiency in test. This ruling ap
plies to grades running as low as 4;
hounds. Wheat grading below No.
FIR reasons other than deficiency II
test weight is to be bought on it
relative merits.
The new scales for lower whea
grades have been sent by Mr.. Barne
to all zone officers of the Unite
States Grain corporation. They furth
er specify that smutty wheat is {
he discounted from a maximum OF
cents a bushel for slightly smutty, t
, larger discounts based scientlflcali
on the degree of smut. GarlIck
wheat is to be discounted cents an
mixed wheat will be taken at dis
counts ranging from 2 to cents, a.
cording to quality in the Judgment
each vice president.
Since the guarantee price on NO.
wheat is not affected by the ne
standards, and as it is the almost un
versal practice of the millers to pa
-four prices on this grade, no excu
is afforded for passing on the far1
ers' increased returns in the form
higher prices to the consumer.
Aside from the benefits to t
wheat grower of the new scale
most striking thing about It's lnce
ton is that Mr.. Barnes himself n
admitted thereby that the grades hx
originally by the department OF ag
culture we're manifestly unfair.
ORGANIZATION WON
Representative Baer of North l
kota, who has been in public life gu
long enough to know the fundamen
and vital power of organization, CO
mented on the order as follows:
1.-TWO or three able farmers NIL
well have gone to see Mr.. Barnes
his New York offices with the ID
teal data which we took there WI
out achieving any practical resu
In Doctor Ladd, Railroad comm
sioner Aandahl of North Dakota, Il
resentative Sinclair, Young, my
and the other farmer-chosen q
gates, however, the grain admins
tor had before him practical evide
Of the power Of the organized La
ers of the Northwest. 1t was SIN
because the farmers were organ
and therefore able to send to
York a group of men demanding
mediate attention and intelhgent
operation that they received pro
attention to their manifestiy
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