The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1923-12-20
GRAIN GRADES
CHANGE is UP
ASFARMER AID
New Measure Is Proposed for
Relief of Farmers BY the
Northwest
WALLACE is SEEN

Among the measures proposed fol
grain growers relief in the hard
wheat states. is "A modification of
the grades or grain. Members Of
the railroad commission OF Mime So
IA, North and South Dakota and Wis
consin. have recently interviewed
the president with the petition to
have these grain regulations chang
ed so that the farmers can get, it is
claimed. the full value Of the crop.
The statements presented to the
president were practically the some
that had been presented to Secretary
Wallace at previous meetings. 1t
was asserted that under the proDos-
ed regulations there was serious
loss incurred by the farmer because
of low grading at the country ele-
vators and also by the government
inspectors. The grades as fixed in
the regulations are too technical for
the wheat raiser and it was impera-
tive. the president was told. that
they should be modified so that the
wheat could be sold for its milling
value, rather than the technical
grades. .r.s
A congressional committee from
the senate and the house, which in
cluded North Dakota and Minnesota
senators and representatives, was ap-
pointed to interview the secretary of
agriculture on the same subject. 1t
is claimed that MIR. Wallace has not
seen the ACCESSIBILITY of granting the
changes desired. The committee
presented resolutions of the legis-
lature of Minnesota, North and
South Dakota and Wisconsin urging
the changes in the grain rates in the
interest of the grain raisers.
Rules Adverse to Growers
That the present technical method
OF grading has robbed the farmer of
the northwest of foreign market,
was asserted by o. 2. B. jacobson of
the Minnesota railroad and ware
house commission at the conference.
Officials are talking about selling
our wheat abroad" Mr.. Jacobson
said. There isn't any market there.
visited Norway last summer. II
inquired into the sales of our hard |
spring wheat in that country. l was
told the dealers were not buying
from US, that the importers couldn't |
Understand the regulations. There
are too many subclasses in the fed
eral grades ,.
Norway is paying cash. Last year
that country bought $4,000 tons
from Manitoba, 10000 from Argen-
ina, $4,000 from Australia and only
$1,000 from the United States. The
asst was Kansas winter wheat need
ID for mixture in milling. The peo-
lie understand the Canadian grades.
The result is we have only one Gus
American miller"
d. p. O'Neill member of the Min
'esota state board of grain appeals,
aid he told Mr.. Coolidge that the
ramers could not get full value for
heir wheat, because the regulations
ontained too degrading factors.
Il told the president the farmers
II the northwest lost 100000 be-
ause there was an excess of hulled
ats in their wheat" he said. "The
ats are removable, and the wheat
you'd have graded No. or No. 2
they had been screened out. The
nlllers remove the foreign material
ut the farmer is helpless"
Members Of the delegation told
nc congressman that if they cannot
ct any relief from the executive
ranch of the government, it will
e necessary to introduce bill re-
'oving the many subclasses and
ringing the grain grading back to
bout the old Minnesota radcs.