The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1928-05-19
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ter wheat and soft spring wheat saw
how they could merchandise their
wheat. They commenced blending
it with our hard spring wheat. Now
the point has been reached where
our hard spring wheat is used only
for blending. OEly about 25 per
cent of our hard spring wheat is
blended with these inferior wheats
and used to manufacture patent
flour. The first patent flour manu-
featured, some 35 years ago, gained
a reputation as being excellent flour
when it was made from our hard
spring wheat exclusively. Consum-
ers of patent flour are Of tn, opin-
ion that they are still getting flour
made from hard spring wheat, but
such is not the case.
Market Machinery Need
ut is plainly evident that what
we need in North Dakota, is proper
machinery to put our wheat back on
the market and give consumers the
flour they supposed they had been
getting. This is something that
cannot be accomplished over night.
It has taken millers 35 years to per-
feet their blends and mixtures to
get their consumers accustomed to
that kind of patent flour. Produc-
ing only hard spring wheat, most
exclusive product, we have suf-
fered The consequences Of our neg
lect, and our wheat has become Of
no more value on the mark t than
the hard winter or soft spring
wheat. Our neglect to create a
market for our exclusive product has
raised the price of inferior grades to
the price of our superior hard spring
wheat.
''In the past wheat was marketed
on a grade basis. A bushe.- of wheat
grading No. Northern wa. worth
a given price on the market whether
it contained 10 per cent protein, or
Is per cent protein. So the first
move was to get our wheat sold on
a protein basis. We have succeeded
in accomplishing this to a remark
able degree in the last four years.
Protein Wheat Basis
"Using the state mill and elevator
at Grand Forks as g laboratory and
storage warehouse, Ne started out
to buy wheat on q protein basis.
The elevator issued storage receipts
which showed the protein percentage
Of the wheat that was shipped to the
elevator. Elevator companies, or
individual farmers, shipping wheat
to the state elevator were given
storage receipts showing the protein
percentage Of their whea. when it
was received. When they got ready
to market their wheat the state ele-
vator shipped it to the markets in
the east, and the wheat sold would
have to show the same protein per-
centage as that shown by storage
receipts.
I'm many cass.i this has saved
the farmers and elevators as much
a. so cents q bushel on the wheat
sold.
During the 1926 session Of the
legislature. = law was passe>- desig-
mating Grand Forks as q terminal
grain market. Following that q
grain exchange was organized at
Grand Forks in a small way. This
exchange now has Is .llmbers. It
has become an active exchange, and
last year handled about 5000, 900
bushels Of wheat. Il is the onlu ex-
elusive hard spring wheat exchange
in the United States.
TN February, 1927, the Great
Northern Railway company granted
= second milling in transit privilege
to our terminal elevator. This gives
tho mills in the territory between
Grand Forks and Duluth or Mime
apolis opportunity to get our hard
spring wheat unadulterated, and
with no extra charge for milling in
transit. The charge at our terminal
in Grand Forks is now III cents per
hundred, and we have the privilege
Of shipping wheat to any mill be-
tween Grand Forks and Duluth or
Minneapolis without paying an ex-
ira charge for stopping in transit.
We can prepare the wheat for mill
ing ct our terminal in Grand Forks,
and the transit privilege will still
apply on shipments made to mills
farther east.
Terminal Freight Rates
Gin = case brought before the in
tCrstate commerce commission the