The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, October 5, 1916, Page 5

‘Already a large number of samples of & - most. unpromising looking - wheat haye - . béen: milled “and results tabulated. The * HIGH GRADE FLOUR vy F . FARMERS knew the value of their 1916 wheat, ‘and if the mil- lers kmew that they “knew, quotations % would be dxfierent from those now given the pui;lm. G “As long. as,flthef’mflls can keep up che phantom show of bnymg their mxllable A wheat“in Canada,’ Montana, Kansas' or somewhere else, they can:“beat down ! the price: of the light' weight gram i which ‘most farmers of the northwest~-" ‘ern wheat belt -produced ~ this season. They-do beat down' the price, but they * do mot refuse the: wheat. - They buy xt eagerly The more-of it they: can gcare the farmers . into . selling, the better * they like it, but ‘part’ of their _program is"to play the loud - pedal’ on' ts “un- nnllable" quality, - - : e ‘North Dakota Agri legé 'is ‘preparing to “call their 'blufr ” mill is running steadily, and daily add- - mg to Ahi statxshcs of the 1916 crop. As soon as Dr..E. F. Ladd presndent ¥ of the college, ‘and. ‘head ‘of the wheat- : testmg work that ‘has ben famous. thete A = for 10 ; years, has secured ‘sufficient tests’ to. Justxfy broad - conclumons a bulletin - or. olrcular ‘will ‘be given the pubhc showmg ‘the" true situation. : This cir- cular will not be issuel for. 30 to 60 - days yet, as Dr. Ladd wishes to be an-.. cl;'oied ‘firmly in every fact before tak- ing" the - matter to . the public, but . - enough has - already. been : disclosed: by - the work up to this time to astonish= the farmers who are letting their pcor looking wheat shp through . their fingers. ‘FROM' LIGHTEST WHEAT s Aoeordmg to samples already mxlled wheat that grades from No. 2 down to rejected, and weighs as low as 40 and even 34 pounds _per bushel, is_capable “‘of being converted into lngh grade fiour ‘that produces bread above the standard »nsed by: all mlllers and bakers. n & ‘ There is no escaping the, facts that' o the mill reveals, and pot a fact known- to Dr. Ladd -in the college mill is un- known-to the millers’ in Minneapolis, who are making flour for half the Unit- ed States. The fact is they are buying up this wheat ~at ‘stock feed prices, cleaning it, and using it with _othér wheat or alone to turn out high grade flours. “The college has long' known Ladd Makes Tests to Show Thls Year S Shrlx?eled North Dakota Cirdin Makes Good Flour and Means ngh Profits s T Presldent Ladd of the North Dakota Agrlcultnral college at his desk in the chemistry bmldmg where all The data for his famous wheat bulletins is compiled this was the customary thing done at . Minneapolis: and . elsewhere, and last winter the whole country was electri- fied by publication of the facts thus dis- covered. But with the worst rusted crop ever' known' in this = country, with scarcely any wheat fit to grade No. 1 Northern, and most of it grading several removes Umgd States. Mr. Thomus. i Befor 4 efifio m _above it. But'the story of a sample of 2 can rbe bough from that, the college was not prepared - ' A SAMPLE OF RESULTS FROM “REJECTED” WHEAT 8 " in which had to grade as rejected. Its ' of rejected | wheat produced '66.4 per- -, .cent of flour. ‘Wheat is considered do-' Ling well if it produces 68 percent of : 61' low pnces———and the es HIGH GRADE FLOUR and »qgarly“ as to declare what propottion of the 1916 crop: was. lining the millers’ pockets as ‘“velvet.” Now it knows—or rather it will know .in a few weeks. But such facts as have been learned are worth much to the farmers of North Dakota, and show them a new “leak” in their profits for the year’s work. The Leader is giving them out now, and they will be followed by complete statistics covering - all the principal varieties of wheat, all grades, and prac- tically every wheat growing region _in this state and other parts of the north- . west. The publication 'of the bulletin only awaits enough data to give ground for broad averages. At present 25 county. agents are gathering five sam- ples. each, 26. agricultural college ex- perimental farms are sending in five samples each, ‘five sub-station men are gathering many samples, besides many: grown on the college grounds at Fargo, while private growers and a number of elevator companies and mills: are al- ready contributing to the work that Dr. Ladd has cut out for himself and staff, Everything is bemg halted until this timely information . can be - gathered and given out, and it is: his hope that it will reach the public in time to Bfiect the 1916 prices for: grain. .That it ought 0 become a factor in prices is shown by such facts as these, for instance: From Pembina county a sample of hard spring wheat was sent weight per bushel before cleaning was 46 pounds and ‘after cleaning 50 ounds. Figuring ‘out 5.45 percent 'in cleaning and 0.93 percent in milling this sample flour, although much wheat goes above this, and’ some of the poor: - looking hght-wexght 1916, samples ' went. high " wheat is not told untxl its b& pmducts‘ v 7