The Bismarck tribune., 1922-10-16
|CHANGESM GRAIN GRADING
RULES ASKED BY COMMITTEE

tor the exact price that particular
wheat sells for in Minneapolis, or
wherever the terminal point may be
so that if No. or wheat shall sell
for higher prices by reason of it be-
ing sold by sample, this infor-
nation shall go back to the farmer
and elevator for adjustment.
We were also informed by the de-
partment of agriculture that they
were experimenting with new disc
cleaner which is to be attached to
threshing machines and which will
separate from the grain wild oats and
other foul seeds with the exception Of
so-called "inseparables." 1t is claim
ed that this new cleaner will clean
the grain nearly perfectly. 1t has not
quite passed the experimental stage
but, if it proves successful, as the
department hopes and believes that it
will, it will mean much in helping
the farmers to clean their grain at
the time that it is threshed. This will
keep the wild oats and stuff of that
kind on the farm where it can be
ground and used for feed, and will
help raise the grades, on grain at the
country elevators and at the termir-
ais. Further it will save immense
sums which the farmers now pay IN
shipping screenings in their wheat
and on which they pay freight and
get practically nothing for. ~;
Third, North Dakota especially has
gone into the raising of durunn wheat
because it rusts less than the hard
spring varieties of wheat, but as
previously stated, there is not the
wide market for durum wheat this
committee feels there should be.
Only a few years ago comparatively
little corn was used in Europe but an
active campaign was entered into to
teach the people Of Europe to use and
eat corn, and the result has been that
we are now exporting a Not Of corn
each year to European countries.
And further, a campaign was put on
in the United States by the Corn
Products Co. apd others, to teach the
people Of America how to use corn
in many ways in which it was not
previously used, and the consequence
has been that there has been an in
creased demand for corn, and corn
today is bringing fair price.
In connection with this, we asked
the agricultural department at Wash
ington to put on campaign in the
United States to teach our people to
use more spaghetti and macaroni
and if this is done it will without
f'doubt develop a larger demand for
durum wheat because from durum
wheat the best spaghetti and macar-
oni flour is manufactured.
Fourth, relative to the exporting
of wheat out of the United States,
very careful consideration was given
to this both in Washington in New
York. We found that European
countries are not buying in quaint.
ty but are buying only as their actual
needs require, the principal reason
for this being the financial situation
in Europe; and We also found that
the European countries are, using
many cheaper substitutes forf wheat.
In other words, that they are taking
more corn, more oats and more rye
than ever before and less wheat.
We also found that in France
where their requirements for grain
foods are large that the French gov
ernment has ordered the French
mills to 60 back to the grinding of
wheat upon the war basis which pro-
vided that SO or "a per cent Of a
bushel of wheat should 60 into flour
instead of about 70 per cent as has
! been done for the past couple OF
years. It is estimated that this diff
ference in grinding will mean that
the French will require 2O,OOO,OO0 OF
25,OO0,00O bushels less wheat than
they otherwise would be compelled tn
import. 49,. .,.. .a.
To give an idea as to one of the
European countries, it might be said
that it is estimated that Germany is
consuming about three and six-tentns
bushels of bread grain against a
pre-war average of six and five
tenths bushels and is making up the
difference by the use Of potatoes.
/ There seems to be plenty of money
to finance the exporting Of wheat and
it is not necessary for the American
exporter to call upon the War Fin
ance Corporation for funds because
they can get what funds they need
from commercial banks at a rate as
low, or lower, than they could from
the War Finance. Further, it is not
taking as much money to handle the
export of grain as usual for the rea-
| son that foreigners are not buying in
quantities, but are buying more from
hand to mouth.
The 1922 wheat crop, according to
government figures, is one of the
largest that the world has ever pro-
duced and on top Of it all has come
the enormous wheat crop which has
been produced in Canada and if the
estimated figures gotten out by the
| various governments and by the crop
experts are anywhere near right
| there has been more wheat produced
in the world this year than can be
consumed in the year, and all Of this
has tendencyato hold and to keep
prices low and makes condition
which is especially bad for us in the
northwest, for the price of our wheat
is based upon its value for export. In
| other words, the American customer
for wheat pays no more than the
European and this means that the
American wheat is in competition
with the wheat grown all over the
world. ~,
The World War and war prices
stimulated the production of wheat in
| the United States and our people
! have not gotten out Of the habit OF
raising wheat, and the committee feel
they should call the attention of oul
| farmers and businessmen to the fact
that if we continue to grow in the
United States and Canada the vast
| amount Of wheat that we are now do
ing with our high priced lands and
with the high cost of labor, hign
freight rates and higk cost for farm
machinery, disaster must result
because probably within the next
year or two Russia will again be N
the market with wheat and other
grain and we can not with our costs