The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1929-07-10

A nationwide program in which
wheat growers are being urged to
increase their facilities for storing
grain on farms in order to distribute
marketing throughout the season to
prevent gluts and to secure the pre-
miums for high protein content is be-
ing launched by the Bureau Of Agri-
cultural Economies, United States
Department of Agriculture.
Recent surveys by the bureau In
the hard-red-winter and hard-red-
spring wheat areas have shown that
a larger proportion of the crop each
year is being marketed during the
early months of the new crop. The
result is that the facilities of the
country elevators and the railroads
are taxed to the limit, and it becomes
physically impossible during this
rush period to handle the wheat &C
cording to its protein content.
Farm storage for grain, declare
bureau officials, will make possible
a system of more orderly marketing,
reduce car shortage and embargoes,
make it possible to handle the crop
with less hired help, make it possible
to clean grain on the farm and at
country elevators, prevent the need
of piling the newly threshed grain on
the ground, make it possible to con-
dition damp grain before selling 1T
on the market, and enable farmers
to sell wheat on protein basis.
Farm storage is especially advan-
tageous, it is pointed out, in years OF
large crops in which there is also a
large carry-over of grain from pre-
vious crops in store in elevators, in
preventing market gluts which may
cause price declines, giving farmers
an opportunity to study and demand
conditions, and enabling them to sell
their grain on what they consider to
be the most favorable market.
To prevent car shortages or en-
bargoes at terminal markets, farmers
are urged to place at least part of
each new crop in properly constructed
farm storage bins SO as to enable
the railroads and the country and
terminal elevator operators to better
handle and move the marketed grain.
1t is pointed out that on farms locat-
ed at some distance from local mark
cts, less help will be required to move
the grain from the combine or thresh-
ing machine to the farm bin than is
required to haul direct to market.
Grain placed in storage on farms at
threshing time can be hauled later
to local markets by farmers them
selves.
Farm storage in areas in which
grain contains high percentages of
permits the cleaning of grain on the
farm; the clean grain brings a better
price, and the dockage is used for
feed. Storing part of each new crop
on the farm lergthens the marketing
period and gives the country elevator
operator an opportunity to clean any
grain that is received from farmers in
an uncleaned condition. This saves
freight on the dockage.
The bureaus survey has shown that
when the country elevators and the
railroads, and sometimes the termin-
al elevators, can not handle and move
grain as fast as it is received from
farms, farmers who are not equipped
with farm storage facilities frequent
ly are compelled to pile their thresh-
ed grain on the groud. This grain
often becomes spoiled by rain and
trash is mixed with it, with the result
that the grain must be sold at a low
er grade and for lower price on &C
count of high moisture content or the
excess of foreign material.
Damp grain can usually be avoided
it is pointed out, by delaying to har-
vest with the combine or thresh until