South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1920-06-04
WHEAT GRADING
EXPLAINED TO
LOCAL FARMERS
Tree Experts Address Grow
ers at Chamber of Com
merce Thursday.

Standard methods OF grading
wheat ACCEPTED all over the world
at the instance OF the u. S. Depart
ment OF Agriculture within the last
four years were explained to a
group OF grain dealers and wheat
growers at the Chamber OF Com
merce. Thursday night.
Three talks were made by three
experts in their particular phase OF
the wheat industry. They were "
A. Ostrander. CT the agriculture ex-
tension department OF Purdue uni
versity; T A. Summers, represent
ing the L. s. Bureau of Markets
and c. B. Riley. OF Indianapolis
secretary OF the Indiana Grain
Dealers association and Millers' as
ISOLATION.
No Standard.
Mr.. Ostrander. who made the
first talk, explained how five years
ago grain market centers OF the
United States did not have uniform
standards OF grading wheat, that
Kansas City might have one meth
cd, Minneapolis another and Chi
cago still another. when the I. )
bureau took the matter in hand and
made the regulations which the
farmers were now asked to become
acquainted with in order that they
might know just what kind Of wheat
they are growing when they bring II
to the market.
Mr.. Ostrander took a decided
al
that many farmers in northern In
diana are growing at the present
time He said it was a wheat that
looked pretty in the field and now
and then had a big yield, but on the
whole is a poor grade wheat and
does not grade up well when II
comes to being a good bread maker.
Urges Turkey Red.
The extension man declared him
self 10 be a firm believer in the Tur-
key Red variety for this part Of the
country. He said that the Red
Rock which some of the northern
Indiana farmers had obtained from
some of their Michigan neighbors
was not such a bad variety. He
warned the farmers against the
tendency OF certain seed dealers 10
advertise strongly some wheat
which they give a new name as a
world beater, but which as mat
ter OF fact they might POSSIBLY be
trying to get off their hands.
He said that wheat standards IN
Indiana had been behind other
states. but the Corn Growers asso-
citation was going to do TO wheat
the same they had done in making
Indiana the prize winning state IN
corn shows Demonstrations as 10
the actual methods OF testing the
wheat so as to determine its grade
we're given by Mr. Summers. The
manner of making the various tests
for weight. dockage. foreign matter
and other grade requisites Is very
exact but simple and all farmers
and dealers were urged TO become
acquainted with IT, II is possible TO
get information from the L. >
Market Bureau AZ Washington.
Use Standards.
Mr.. Riley in his talk told OF the
advantage OF every small deaIer
using the grain standards i'm buying
from the farmers. He said that II
would cause more satisfaction ana
less dispute In the long run. The
farmers want to know just what
kind of wheat they are raising, ne
declared. When the matter is lett
TO guess work the dealers are going
to give themselves a wider margin
IN order to be on the safe side ana
consequently the good farmers are
going TO have to carry the burden
OF the poor ones unless the stand
ard grade tests are adopted In buy
ing grain off the farms.