The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1930-07-31
European Demand for Grain
Grows Less

UTOWS Less
Among the reasons why Ameri.
can wheat is drug on the mar.
ket" says the educational service
of the Minnesota Wheat Growers
is to be numbered the fact thai
there is under way, all over CONT
mental Europe, a shift in the bread
demands and supplies of the peo-
pie.
This is well illustrated, the Wheat
Growers goes on to say, by the pres
ent situation in Germany. One of
the unforeseen reactions of the
World War was a demand on the
part of the bread-eating public for
white bread in place of the black
bread that had been so long a sta
pie of the German diet. The farm
ers on the sandy plains to the north
of Berlin have continued to plant
their usual rye acreage, with the re-
suit that Germany had and has a
rye problem not unlike that of the
American wheat farmer. In order
to meet this situation, which had in
Germany, as our American farm
problem has, it's political reaction,
the German tariff on grain enter
ing the Reich was sharply advanc-
ed until the German import duty
amounts to more per bushel than
the American farmer receives for
the grain so shipped and imported.
Finding that this was not enough
to shut off the demand for white
bread, and being under the neces-
sity of giving the rye growers of
northern Germany market for
their grain, the German govern
ment put into effect milling regula-
tions that compel the German Mill
err to mix in with his wheat lib
eral percentage Of rye. The COM
bined effect of the German tariff on
import wheat and the plus rye"
milling regulations is to narrow
down very appreciably the volume
of foreign grain required by the
German miller.
A similar development has taken
place in Italy, where, in addition to
a tariff substantially the same as
that in Germany. the government
is putting on a drive to increase
the italian wheat acreage. So eff
fective has this drive been that the
production has increased by some
thing like seventy-five million BUSH
els over what it was in 1925. This
has principally affected the Ameri-
can durum market.
France has arrived at what is
practically a self-supporting grain
basis. Her millers import wheat
for mixing purposes, and export to
other countries substantially like
amount of grain.
Thus, within half a decade, three
of the chief buyers of American
grain have narrowed down their
buying requirements to what APP
proaches the vanishing point.
The conclusion reached by the
Minnesota Wheat Growers is that
the American farmer must organ
ize his own cooperative grain mar
keting system, and place himself in
position where he can cope with
a worldwide grain production and
marketing problem in. an intelli-
gent and effective way.
Farmers Have Chance To Win
Dairy Trip
Three farmers from some county
in Minnesota will have large share
Of their expenses paid on a trip to
the National Dairy Show at st.
Louis this fall. These farmers will
comprise the winning team in the
farmers Dairy Cattle Judging Con-
test at the Minnesota State Fair
and they will receive a prize of one
hundred dollars from the Minnesota
Livestock Breeders association, the
money to be used for expenses to
ST. Louis.
H.. r. Searles, dairy specialist,
University Farm, st. Paul, who has
charge Of the state contest. also an
no1nces that gold silver and hronzo