The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, July 5, 1917, Page 6

If the reptile press of North Dakota, which represents the big anti-farmer interests INSIDE and OUTSIDE the state, can defeat John M. Baer for congress, it will be a most serious blow to the farmers’ cause. Baer needs every vote. He needs YOUR vote. Millers Have a Wild Pea Trap New Machine Makes a Bonanza Out of “Inseparable Weed Seed”-— ACHINES that successfully separate all the “inseparable weed seed” from grain have been invented, tested, install- ed and are now sifting the dollars out of the farmersg’ ‘‘docked” grain for the millers. Notice—to “the trade” only—has been passed out through the columns of the Northwestern Miller, a Minne- apolis flour millers’ organ, of a wond- erful new invention that takes 100 per cent of the weed seed out of all grain. It even separates the wild peas from the wheat, so that the weediest grain, after passing through these machines, will go to the mill rolls as clean as the grain of 40 years ago. Dockage is to be bowed off the stage of grain handling—so far as its’"menace to flour making is concerned. The millers are no longer afraid of it. They know that grain with weed seeds in it will make just as goocd flour as any other, for they can take out the seeds, the wild peas with their yellow oil and musty odor, and conserve all the by-products for commercial uses. NEW MACHINE CATCHES WILD PEAS The trouble heretofore in separating wild peas from wheat has been that they were too nearly the same size and weight to be separated from wheat by the ordinary sieves. More than one and one-quarter pounds a bushel of wild peas in wheat going to the rolls would taint the flour, the millers said, and so wheat with more -than that amount must be graded down because it could not be used for flour, but had to go into inferior products. The new machine, however, catches these wild peas and delivers them in a stream by themselves. This wild pea trap is a metal cylinder with little indented pockets inside it. The cylinder is set with one end a little higher than the other, and is made to revolve. The pea-laden wheat is poured into the upper end of the revolving cylinder at not too fast a rate, and the wild peas being round roll into the pockets like ivory balls into the pockets of a pool table. These pockets are deep enough to hold the peas until they are - carried to the top, when they fall out. But they do not fall back to the bot- tom of the cylinder. They fall into a little trough that has been ingeniously placed inside the cylinder, near the top, roll down this inclined trough like balls in a bowling alley and are discharged outside the machine. Meantime the wheat, being unable lowered in .grade. on account .of its shape to fit itself into these indented pea-pockets, continues to work its way towards the lower end of the cylinder and is discharged out- side the machine in another spout. Thus the wild peas are saved for a highly profitable career of their own, and the pure wheat is ground into flour. WHEAT COMES OUT 100 PER CENT PURE Each one of these cylinders will handle 50 bushels of wheat per hour, so that in addition to making the wheat clean, they yield 50 to 100 pounds of peas per hour, which are more valuable than wheat, and go into the most costly livestock foods. Commenting upon this machine and what it will do, the Northwestern Miller says: “By using these machines, it is claimed, an accurate separation of wild peas and other seeds from wheat can be obtained. This will enable the miller to utilize his scourers and wheat wash- ers upon pure wheat instead of on a mixture of wheat and seed.” Operated in connection with these pea separators are spiral machines which separate the various kinds of seeds into different streams on the principle of a cream separator. The spiral machines will make three sepa- rations according to weight, shape and size of the seeds, so that the wild mustard, the buckwheat, the volunteer flax, and the other kinds can be run off into separate-bins where they can —Reproduced from the Northwestern Miller of Minneapolis. This is a wild pea trap capable of cleaning 300 bushels. of wheag an hour of all its wild peas. Each cylinder handles 50 bushels. If you raise wheat you know how the millers have had the grades fixed so that heavy penal- ties are enforced for wild peas found in the grain. They say the peas destroy the milling value of the wheat. But now they admit hav- ing a machine that takes out these peas at lit- tle or no cost. And the peas, so separated, bring a handsome price. still docked for the valuable peas and his grain Moral—Iet the state own the elevators and mills and give the producer the benefit of this modern machinery. _ to the poor. But the farmer is be sold on their merits in bulk for the manufacture of other food products. “OF INTEREST TO THE TRADE” “It may be of interest to the trade to know the real commercial value of the different kinds of seeds enumerated above, when properly classified and cleaned for the market,” says the Northwestern Miller. Then it proceeds to tell what a bonanza to the grain trade are these ‘“inseparable weed seeds”: Something Farmers Never Knew About “The value of pure mustard seed usuaily ranges much higher than the average millfeed. Wild buck- wheat seed is much sought after by manufacturers of poultry and chick feed. This seed has a com- mercial value in the production of poultry. Wild oats have approxi« mately the same value cleaned and clipped for market, as No. 3 white oats. “Almost all the other wild seeds mentioned are available feeds for livestock. The agricultural colleges throughout the country claim that they are very rich in protein; some wild seeds are rated as equal, from a feeding standpoint, to the aver- age millfeed on the market. The wild pea itself has a feeding value as a stock food; in fact, some claim it is even superior to the field pea.” The way these new money-makers have taken with the grain and milling trade is shown by the Northwestern Miller itself, which says: “This special indent pocket cylinder and spiral machine has been put- to practical test in a number of merchant mills in the Northwest.' The system has recently been installed in the mills of the Chamber Mill Co., at Montgom- ery, Empire Milling Co., Janesville, and the Big Diamond Mills Co., Morristown, Minn.,, with very satisfactory results. The principals of these concerns say that the machines have borne out every claim made for them by their manu- facturers.” How Senate Helps the Rich Cuts in Half Plans of House to Make Swollen For- tunes Pay Fairer Share of War Costs ECRETARY of the Treasury McAdoo, presumably acting for President Wilson, pre- pared a war revenue bill pro- viding for the raising of $2,245,000,000 by direct taxation, prin- cipally upon the rich or well-to-do, by taxes upon war profits, incomes, auto- mobiles, inheritances, etc. After this bill had passed the house substantially as it was introduced, the senate committee on finance took a hand. The senate is reducing the amount that will be raised by taxation by more than one-half. Senator Sim- mons of the finance committee says that when the bill has been passed by the senate it will provide for raising only $1,150,000,000 by direct taxation, the balance to be ‘provided for by loans on which the men called to fight in the war will have to pay interest after they return. : The administration plan proposed to raise 50 per cent by loan and 50 per cent by taxes. The senate plan is to raise about 80 per cent by loans, and only about 20 per cent by taxes. This is letting off the rich and putting the burden on the poor who pay interest and principal on bonds chiefly through the high cost of living caused by the inflation which follows big bond issue in times of war. 7 The worst changes that the senate committee has made have all gone to shift the burden of taxes from the rich These are a few of the changes they have made for the benefit of the rich: HOW COMMITTEE CHANGED THE BILL Knocked out 25 per cent increase in rates on incomes over $40,000 adopt- ed by the house. This increase made the rate on incomes over a million dollars 45 per. cent. Killed increase in inheritance tax which had passed the house without protest. Struck out retroactive income tax which would have collected additional taxes on basis of this year’s returns. Killed tax on automobile. manufac- turers and transferred it to automo- bile owners. Rescinded tax on munitions manu- facturers which has been in effect more than'a year and produced $25;- 000,000 revenue. . PAGE SIX Now see what has been done to the mild and inoffensive consumer: His sugar is to pay a tax of half a cent a pound when it leaves the manu- facturer. Experience shows by the time the tax is transferred to you the price will be raised at least a cent a pound. This will yield the govern- ment $45,000,000 and will cost the consumer $90;000,000. Coffee is to pay one cent a pound tax which will be doubled or trebled by the time the consumer pays it. Tea is to pay 2 cents a pound .tax, 1x.which will likewise increase in trans- er. Cocoa, food for the sick and for children, is to pay three cents a pound, and the price increase will be not less than six. Candy is to pay a heavy tax. All soft drinks and soda fountaim syrups are to be taxed. Every substitute for John Barley=~ corn except water is to be taxed, and it is suspected that was merely over< looked. THESE ARISTOCRATES DID THEIR DUTY ¢ Surprising, is 1t? . Not when you consider two thin One is the membership of the com= mittee. These nine, tried-and-true, dyed-in-the-wool standpatters have & majority: Penrose, Simmons, Smoot, Townsend, Lodge, Williams, Gallinger, Hoke Smith, Stone. 3 The other thing is this fact: The people, as a whole, are long-suffering and patriotic. They are used to getting the short end of the bargain, especially in war times. But Big Business shows most of its patriotism by flag waving. Suggest that Big Business pay its share of war cg:t, and Big Business hollers its head off, g Maybe if the people would try holler= ing a little they would get somewhere., "ABOUT FOOD GAMBLERS Hoover called them skunks. He could find no more fitting epithet. The opportunity is ripe, however, to get rid of these odorous animals for all time, but not through partisanship, for parties are controlled by the men higher up. Economic reforms, such as these, must be made by the people themiselves —_NEW ROCKFORD (N. D.) STATE CENTER. 3