The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, January 11, 1917, Page 8

3 'P‘..; % ‘ | A New Threshing Machine At Work o : || THEY'VE GOT SOME WEIGHT! 1§ ‘SHoCK R BlG BIZ! IT'S GooD IS 2 e i e -t i e Al N o st e, (55 lousewives Laugh at Millers Evidence Continues to Pile Up in Regard to the High Milling Value of Rusted Wheat Spurned by the Big Mills and Elevators VIDENCE continués to pile up in I i; regard to the milling value of the 1916 light-weight rusted” wheat of the hard ' spring wheat districts, which the mills and elevators have spurned even at poverty prices for the farmers. This is the wheat the mills have been pay- ing on the average around $1 for, some of the lighter of it going at as low as 60 cents. This is the . wheat they are denying is used for flour and which they label “feed,” but which the Agril- cultural college at Fargo found made excellent bread, better in many respects than last year's crop and in other re- spects’ up to the best standards for bread. Dr. Ladd of the Agricultural college had been declared a theorist and has even been accused of manufacturing evidence to show the high milling value of light wheat. The Leader has told the story of a mumber of country grist mills in Minnesota that have mill- ed this wheat for the farmers and has » reported how much flom"it makes to " also that of one of the bushel and what kind of bread it has made. These facts have complete- ly confirmed Dr. Ladd and the results of the tests at the college. More evi- dence of a practical nature is coming in every day and the case that has been made out against the big mills and ele- vators is complete. The Leader herewith publishes anoth- er letter from a farmer telling the ex- perience of himself and his wife with flour from rusted wheat: FARMER AND FRIEND VISIT PHELPS MILL Dalton, Minn.,, Dea. 25, 1916, Fditor Nonparfisan Leader: I have just finished reading your editorfal on the letter written by Mn Enright, and it shook me wp so I had to write and tell you my experience} the American housewives—one of those who for cer- tain reasons of her own married the writer. Two weeks ago myself and one of my neighbors, Mr. Tosten Hagen, decided to go to the Maine roller mills at Phelps and see what we could get out of our rusted wheat. My wheat tested 49 pounds to the bushel ‘Well, we got there all right and had I had 25 bushels of this 49-pound wheat and received an even 900 pounds £ 3 ] : The Matter of a Constitutional Convention Has Reach- ed 2 Crisis at Bismarck. Write Your Senators and Representatives What You Want. pancake-flour and the rest of the grist in bran. Everything is weighed into the mill and out again and you gét, back 58 pounds for every 60 you bring. . FLOUR IS EQUAL OF BEST MADE : My wife has baked three bak- ings of this flour and pronounces . It the equal of the best flour which we have_ ever been able to buy at any price and says the same unt of this flour will make a rger number of lbaves than any other she has ever used. Mr. Hagen's wife has had the same experience, 80 anyone can sce why the millers are trying to taake out that light wheat is no good for milling. There are a lot more farmers around.;: going up to the mill as soon as the the flour, as a number are doing who live close to the mill for the Phelps miller: Mr. En- a good jury. ¥ the verdict, i