The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, May 20, 1918, Page 21

Millers Can Sell Tc;ns of Flour as Feed [} (Continued from page 4) bushel on No. 1 hard, nearly 7 cents more. a bushel on No. 1 Northern, over 10 cents more®a bushel for No. 2 Northern, nearly 14 cents a bushel more for No. 3 Northern, over 15 cents a bushel more for No. 4 North- ern, and over 17 cents a bushel more for rejected grades! Look up the figures on the 1915 spring wheat production ard you get some idea of the millions * upon millions of dollars the farm- ers would have saved that year if we had then the same kind of limiting of mill profits and other regulations that have been put in for the duration of the war! From these facts you get some idea of the reason there is an or- ganized and heavily financed propaganda in America today to make it plain that present gov- ernment. regulation eof industry is merely “for the war” and that we are going back to the good old system after peace comes! The bulletin gives the saving farm- ers would have made in other years also, had the same limitation of mill- ‘ers’ profits been effective, but the 1915 figures are the most striking. HOW TO SIMPLIFY THE GRAIN GRADES The other big thing reporsed in the bulletin is the fact that the govern- ment regulations have shown the pos- sibilities of a simple system of grain grading, minus all the penalties and intricate details in the systems which now and in the past have existed. The government in fixing rules for millers during the war, simply based its rules on the test weight per bushel. While the government rules need im- provement, as pointed out above, they ignore all the confusing requirements and penalties in the grading system and thereby are an improvement. The bulletin concludes that a very simple system of grain grading, based on test weight per bushel, could be work- ed out, considering the actual milling value of wheat for various weights per bushel. An outline of such a sys- tem is given in the bulletin. Follow- ing are some of the general comments. of the bulletin on the situation: ® «This plan (for a-simple system of grades) would have a stabilizing ef- fect on the milling industry as well as ° on wheat raising, neither of which are as attractive at the present time or as financially successful as they should be in this state. The manu- facturers of flour, together with the grain trade, are largely responsible for this congdition. They have worked together to centralize the milling in- dustry, the marketing of wheat, and the educating of the people to an as- sumed quality in certain brands of flour, discriminating against the wheat coming from the producer on every technicality until the ' business of growing wheat has had to go begging, while those in the grain business have ~ prospered and piled up colossal for- tunes. “The altogether too technical grad- ing system in use at present is a product of these- discriminating tac- tics and gave us a grading system impossible of application at the local markets without increasing the num- ber of bins in a large majority of the —elevators in order to keep the differ- ent subclasses and grades separate, whereas the plan of buying'according to actual value based on the test weight per bushel and the value of the mill products would permit the . mixing of lots of wheat of different -test weight, and the resulting mixture would have the average value at which it “was bought. ' This would be the case in the subclasses -if it can be:es- .tablished that they are necessary and e ‘keting conditions for years. would do away with the great number of grades now in use. “The value of a bushel of wheat would be determined to the average of a fraction of a pound per bushel test weight, reducing the grading on a very large part of the crop each year to two determinations, namely, the test weight per bushel and dock- age. The value of the remainder of the crop would be made by an actual milling and baking test, which is, after all, the best and surest one known for determining the value of any lot of wheat. This would mean protection for the producer of every bushel of wheat produced on a very narrow average of value, protection to the manufacturer in being assured of get- ting value in his raw material and protection to the consumer in getting a flour nutritious and wholesome reg- ulated in price according to demand.” Elsewhere the bulletin states:: “The producers of wheat have been offering complaints against the mar- Some adjustments have been granted only to be taken advantage of again in other ways. These conditions have prevailed because of the lack of def- inite knowledge on the part of the producers of the wheat, until the pro- duction of wheat has become a losing proposition with the farmer when compared with the production of other crops.- Through the efforts of the experiment stations and agricultural education these conditions are being changed and this information is being obtained and passed on to the farmer. For several years they have been ask- ing for an adjustment of marketing conditions that would enable them to continue producing wheat and receive their just share. A lack of knowledge of the milling industry and the sale and distribution of the mill products made it hard for the farmers to offer any definite change that would im- prove their condition without adding to the price the consumers would have to pay for the products of the wheat, "so the demands for a fair share of the production from this part of his crop was denied him.” BROKE AN EDITOR’S HEART “The League is not after the scalp of the merchants and editors, but would like you to give more light and less noise,” J. P. Ramsey of Binford, N. D., wrote to the editor of the Em- mons (Minn.) Leader. This editor has been making a practice of attack- ing the Nonparti- sans. Mr. Ramsey first wrote a letter of protest. To this the editor replied that he believed in the fullest discus- sion of publiec questions. 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League organizers are farmers and farmers’ boys who know that if we want this job done, we've got to do it ourselves. How about you? Can’t you give some time to this work? Can you go to work now? We have a training course for organizers which will fit you for the work. If you can’t arrange your affairs to do organizing now, can’t you take the training course now and be ready for work after seeding or this fall after harvest % Think what success in the fight for democracy at home means in the winning of the war— what it means to our boys at the front. Think what taking government out of the hands of Big Business and the profiteers means to yousand to your family and to every working man and woman in the United States. Let the boys at the front know we are backing them in the. fight for world democracy by cleaning up the profiteer at home. Will you help? Write us today about organization work and get on the firing line. 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