The American Elevator and Grain Trade

7 E \ TH AMERICAN

Established 1882 Established 1B82. Entered, as second-class matter June 26, 1885, at the Post Office at Chicago, Illinois, under Act of March 3rd

One Dollar Per Annum PUBLISHED BY A MONTHLY JOURNAL DEVOTED TO THE ELEVATOR AND GRAIN INTERESTS. j. \ ^SINGLE COPIES. 15 CENTS Mitchell Brothers Publishing Co.

VOL. XXXVII 431 South Dearborn St., Chicago, 111., January 15, 1919 NO. 7

YOUR CONSIGNMENTS GRAIN, PROVISIONS, RECEIVE A WELCOME STOCKS, Buyers WHICH PROTECTS BONDS. OF YOUR VERY OBJECT We solicit consignments and offers of cash grain, also future delivery orders on all exchanges. Clover AND 322 Postal Telegraph Bldg. CHICAGO Direct Private Wires to New York and Illinois and Iowa Points IPKENNA & RODGERS Timothy GRAIN 60 BOARD OF TRADE Established 1877 Seed CHICAGO LANGENBERG BROS. GRAIN CO. Mail Samples for Top Market Bids GRAIN and HAY Milwaukee OUR EARNEST APPEAL Seed Company We Solicit Your Consignments A DEAL MILWAUKEE, WIS. ASSURES GOOD ST. LOUIS MISSOURI

THE ILLINOIS SEED CO. Carlisle Commission Co. (Established 1889) GRASS FIELD SEEDS Hay and Alfalfa Meal Products 736-738-746 Live Stock Exchange Building BUYERS CHICAGO SELLERS KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI TT (The ' rld's Greatest Hay Market) Ask for Samples Mail Samples for Bids t If you have Ha if. ; it— if you want Hay we have it. We have un- TIMOTHY, CLOVERS, ALSIKE, ALFALFA, MILLETS, RED- equalled facilities, ine largest established trade and outlet. Liberal advances on consignment. Kansas City handling TOP, BLUEGRASS, SEED GRAIN, GRAIN BAGS, Etc. charges the lowest, service the best. Write Us Your Needs in Alfalfa M ' C *W Delivered Price Courteen Seed Co

BSner] MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN Consignments, *'To j:illllllllltllllllllllllllll|IIIIIIIIIHIIIIIIIIIHIin Arrive" Offers and — Covers all markets. Ask for the weekly or — Shipping Orders — dally Issue. Has the largest circulation of any 5 Solicited — grain literature. S CLOVER and TIMOTHY Ship Your Grain and Seeds to 1 SSf E- W. Wagner & Co. SSSi 1 C. H. Thayer & Co., « Members New York Stock Exchange ~ Established 1892 ™ Members New York Cotton Exchange — ™ Members Chicago Board of Trade 2 Rookery Bldg., Chicago Z Continental 6c Commercial Bank Bldg. 2 Send us your hedging orders in {siiiiiiiiiiiiiitiMiiiiiiuiiiiiiiniumiiiiiimBin and future grai n, seeds and provisions. Orders executed in all markets. " Service SEEDS Satisfaction SPECIAL PRICES ON GRAIN BAGS tiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitiiBla Write Us When Interested Established 32 Years CHICAGO —

IHEy^MERiCAN ELEVATOR AND

Year January 15, 1919 GRAIN TRADE Thirty-Seventh

nets GreaterEfficiency Has Come to Stay

UT from the stress of war-time pro- Oduction emerges a Greater Diamond—

A Diamond super-efficient—with tremen- dously increased capacity — its quality standards yet higher than ever before.

Just as the aeroplane industry, under the whip and spur of stern necessity advanced twenty years in two, so has Diamond leaped ahead along the path of progress.

Production precedents in every industry have been shattered —new standards have been established.

The brilliant achievements of Diamond Experts are permanently incorporated with Diamond products.

Diamond Grain Belts, so good before that they ranked second to none, have been still further improved. Our belt for elevating the grain has been given greater strength. The life of our horizontal belt has been materially lengthened.

Don't be satisfied with pre-war standards investigate Diamond.

the .Diamond Rubber Co. (Incorporated)

Factories: AKRON, OHIO

BELTS —HOSE — PACKING THEAMERIC\N ELEVATOR AND January 15, 1919 GRAIN TRADE 475

THE OWNER OF A WESTERN "Western" Rolling- Com Screen Cleaner EQUIPPED ELEVATOR % WEARS A SMILE FROM EAR TO EAR A prosperous year is assured the plant that is built around Western Machinery. They are wonders for work and the Nation-wide urge for economy and service ||^ is nowhere answered more sincerely than in their efficiency of operation. By perfection i of design and careful construction all Western Machines have been given a low operating <^ cost; and constant reliability that brings an unusually high return on the owner's investment 'Western" Gyrating Cleaner

No Disappointments Are Built Into ilk WESTERN MACHINES % They Reflect; in full measure the supreme accomplishment in the development of modern elevator equipment, and offer a dependable long term of service that is the final element in determining true value and 'Western" Fitless Warehouse Sheller economy.

Up-to-date equipment is the entering wedge for larger business. We have built a great reputation upon the reliability of the Western

line and it will pay you to investigate before you build or remodel your plant.

We will be very glad to send you our illustrated catalog of complete elevator equipment. UNION IRON WORKS DECATUR, - - - ILLINOIS Complete Line of Shellers and Cleaners Kept at 1400-1402 West 12th Street

Kansas City, Mo. "Western" Warehouse Combined Sheller XHE^MERICAN ELEVATOR AND 476 GRAIN TRADE Thirty-Seventh Year

TheNew Earn Big Money Process Expand Your Business With a New Line Both Profitable and Patriotic

Here is a wonderful opportunity to engage in the nation's most needed business — an un- rivaled chance for great financial success.

Make flour of wheat and other grains grown at home, milled at home and sold at home to home people. Rich rewards await men with or without previous milling experience. Re- quires but small investment. Easy terms permit you to pay from profits.

Please read carefully, then send coupon.

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Be the Proprietor of the Best Paying Business la Town

Made of This Mill Will Wheat Get You the Grain Business Grown at of Your Home 9&? Community. Milled at Milled It Will Be Your Greatest Aid in Home Exclusively Solving the Sold at Home on the AMERICAN Problem of Competition. To Home People (Midget) MARVEL MILL

Over 1,300 in Successful America's Operation Throughout Community Flour the U. S.

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The American (Midget) Marvel Mill can be installed in small space, 1,ETUS requires but one man to operate and takes little power. It will produce iPLACF^ more pure white, nutritious flour per bushel of clean wheat than any lYOUi other milling process. .Here! To make success assured, we virtually enter into partnership with you and work with you in the operation of the mill and in building up a profitable business. Owners of this wonderful mill are entitled to market their flour under our nationally advertised brand — FLavo FLour. It gives them membership in the Community Marvel Millers Association.

Investigate this opportunity. Men of action are the winners in life. Send the coupon now. No three cent investment ever offered you more.

the anglo.american mill go., 445 Trust Bldg., Owensboro, Ky.

Send full details of your wonderful flour mill, free trial offer, easy terms and co-operative plan.

Name ....

The Anglo-American Mill Co. Business

445 Trust Building Owensboro, Kentucky Address

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I A Two-Way Profit for Grain Dealers |

Buy the Farmer's Grain—Sell Him Sucrene Feeds

Under the stress of high grain prices farmers generally have adopted the policy of selling their grain and buying Sucrene Feeds for their live stock.

Many grain dealers are taking advantage of this change in feeding method

to find it brings them profits they never had before. Of 1 , 1 00 grain dealers who built elevators last year, over 400 built large feed warehouses in connection with them, carrying large stocks of ready mixed feeds to supply the demand of farmers whose grain they bought.

Sucrene Feeds Offer Dealers Strongest Guarantee of Permanent Business

Because they are not merely fall and winter sellers, but all year 'round sellers —no left-over stocks. Because they are distinctive among mixed feeds in being a complete line of correctly balanced, highly palatable, guaranteed quality rations for all live stock and poultry. Because dairymen and stock feeders find these feeds more economical to buy and more profitable to feed than ordinary rations. Because the name "Sucrene" has been made familiar to dairy men and stock

raisers through continuous large space advertising and through 1 8 years' steadily growing popularity among leaders in the live stock business.

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478 GRAIN TRADE Thirty-Seventh Year

Complete Elevator Machinery Outfits

The Early Bird Catches the Worm ,

Shops and Tools expressly designed for the manufacture of Elevator Machinery and Supplies

For Quality, Modera te Prices and Prompt Service

always deal with a specialist

MILL BUILDERS AND • MILL FURNISHERS «, ESTABLISHED I860. MOUNE,HXINOISkUS.A ELEVATOR AND

January 15, 1919 GRAIN TRADE 479

HE dry dust which collects in the grain elevator is natu- rally more or less injurious to belting. Only the very highest grade

of belting can withstand it.

GOOD belting under these conditions will retain its pull and pliability.

RELIO is one of the brands of belting that we recommend highly for this service. THE^MERICAN ELEVATOR AND

480 GRAIN TRADE Thirty-Seventh Year

A Great Selling Record The wonderful sales success of Ankorite Posts shows conclusively the great demand for these Steel Fence Posts of Superior Merit Farmers everywhere are learning the unusual advantages of the Crimped Anchor and the other features of superiority in the Ankorite Patented Steel Post. Reorders from Dealers steady stream. Dealers' Opportunity Now Greater Than Ever Before The coming season offers a truly remarkable opportunity for big sales to every Ankorite Dealer because an enormous amount of delayed fencing will have to be done this Spring. Millions of farmers are reading our Ankorite ads in the Farm Magazines and the demand for Ankorite Posts will be greater than ever. Someone in your locality will make money by supplying farmers with Ankorite Posts. NOW is the time to get "lined-up" for Spring business. Dealers are daily taking exclusive territory. Write Today for oar Exclusive Sales Plan CALUMET STEEL CO. ESTABLISHED 1907 Dept. 20 208 S. La Salle Street, Chicago ——

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In the Period of Reconstruction

in the conservation of paint is going to play a most important part painfully out of tune labor and resources. It is extravagance that is structures. with the spirit of the times to postpone paint over-hauling of

Painting lessens deterioration, prolongs the life of buildings, reduces upkeep expenses and increases serviceability. But use Tropical conservation paints. They are standardized in quality by years of positive reliability. They are the best and cheapest because they save the need for frequent and expensive painting. For Outside Painting Use Tropical Elastikote

Elevator men the country over are most enthusiastic over the high quality and superiority of Tropical Elastikote. Not only do they find it economical in the long run, but they know from experience that ft is mixed the best paint on the market for its particular use. Especially and and prepared to withstand the weather; unusually long wearing in 16 superior as a fire retardent. Tropical Elastikote is supplied different shades. Toco Mill White For Elevator Interiors

Unsolicited testimony from Elevator users give positive proof that Tropical Toco Mill White stands up under severest tests. Minimizes fire danger; dries hard and is very non-absorbent. TROPICAL PAINT and OIL CO. Cleveland, Ohio.

Tropical Paint and Oil Co., Cleveland, Ohio.

Gentlemen : Kindly supply us with complete details about Toco Mill White Surface to be covered.... Sq. feet Mail This Tropical Elastikote Surface to be covered.... ." Sq. feet Coupon for Tropical Facts THE^MERICAN ELEVATOR AND

482 GRAIN TRADE Thirty-Seventh Year

Cairo is a GOOD Market

Consign to CAIRO

Watch OUR Bids

71sk for bids if you arc not getting CAIRO bids daily

H. S. Antrim & Co. Samuel Hastings Company

Cairo Elevator & Mill Company Hastings-Stout Company Chas. Cunningham & Son Magee-Lynch Grain Company W. G. Cunningham Pink & Co.

Halliday Elevator Company Roberts Cotton Oil Company

H. L. Halliday Milling Company Thistlewood & Co. T^A-MERICAN ELEVATOR AND January 15, 1919 GRAIN TRADE 483 CINCINNATI THE NATION'S HAY CENTER

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CINCINNATI is the ideal center for the hay trade. Railroad facilities could not be better. Trunk lines run from all the adjacent hay growing states to this city, thence lead to the consuming section of the South and East, assuring quick returns and conditions favorable to top prices at all times. Under the "square deal" plugging system the grade of hay can be established to an absolute certainty. There is no chance of change in the price originally quoted and all dissatisfaction, complaints and subsequent inspections are eliminated. Shippers are protected and get what the hay is honestly worth and all that it is worth.

Look at the map and market your hay through any of the following responsible members of the Cincinnati Grain & Hay Exchange

Brouse-Skidmore Grain Co., The Blumenthal, Max Cleveland Grain Co., The Mutual Commission Co., The Gowling, Alfred Granger, Dan B., & Co. Early & Daniel Co., The Bunting & Hill Co., The Costello Grain & Hay Co., The Joseph F. Fitzgerald Bros. Co., The Cross Co., The D. C. Gale, A. C, Grain Co., The De Mollet Grain Co. Gray & Co., Ralph Eikenberry-Fitzgerald Co., The Dorsel Grain Co., The Bender, A. '

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CONCRETE CENTRAL

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CONCRETE-CENTRAL ELEVATOR, CAPACITY 4,500,000 BUSHELS

THESE "MONARCH ELEVATORS" make it possible to handle expeditiously and economically Buffalo's 200,000,000-bushel Grain Business. Houses of "Monarch" construction are excelled by none in design, arrangement, and economy of operation.

Other "MONARCH" Elevators in Buffalo and Vicinity Wheeler Superior Monarch Kellogg Geo. J. Meyer Malting Co. Connecting Terminal Buffalo Cereal Co. Shredded Wheat Co. CONSULT US BEFORE BUILDING Monarch Engineering Company Engineers and Contractors Buffalo, N. Y.

Paint economy is not the price paid per gallon SEE THAT YOUR CONTRACT CALLS FOR but the number of years Transit Leaks ol service given. Consider pIXOKS are unknown to the grain shippers DIXON'S who use Dryer ''Our coioes'). , Meal j. The Cutler Silica -Graphite SOLD BY ALL PAINT KENNEDY MILL when buying a protective paint. . It has FURNISHERS unusual qualities for protecting all kinds of exposed metal or wood work against Car Liners Not An corrosion of all kinds. Write for Book- let No. 17-B and long service records. Enormous Increased Sales prove the Experiment

Made In Jersey City, N. J., by the Efficiency, Merit and Serviceability All Metal ateam Dryer of these liners. JOSEPH DIXON CRUCIBLE COMPANY IN SUCCESSFUL USE 40 YEARS DRYING The Kennedy Car Liner CORN MEAL, HOMINY, BREWERS' ORITS AND MEAL, AND ALL CEREAL =><3><; ESTABLISHED 1827 DUST, GRAPHITE, CLAY. ORES, ETC. °><3>Indiana, U.S.A. Mitchell Bros. Pub. Co. - Chicago

Make Feed Grinding More Profitable! CLEAR the DECKS—Now for 1919 Bowsher's "Combination' We have never entered into Mills do this any year better equipped to Because their large capacity, serve our patrons than 1919 grinders and posi- cone-shaped finds us. Our engineering and tive self ear feeders are properly designed to direct every ounce construction organization is at energy to the actual of power the top notch of efficiency: reduction of the grain. Crush and Grind ear corn, Consult us for large or small husked or unhusked, alone or mixed with any kind of small elevators, flour mills, ware- grain in any desired proportion. houses, etc., etc. Reduce the material to any fine- ness desired for feeding pur- Kansas City Southern Ry. Terminal build in concrete or wood. poses. Elevator We 11 Sizes, 2 to 25 H.P. Sold with or without Sacking Mill opens like this in six minutes. Elevator. Burrell Engineering&Construction Co. CHICAGO, ILL. The N. P. Bowsher Co., South Bend, Ind. WEBSTER BUILDING Ttf^AMERICAN ELEVATOR AND

January 15, 1919 GRAIN TRADE 485

Canadian Government Railway's Elevator and Gallery System, St. John, New Brunswick. Recently Completed Capacity 500,000 Bushels * Designing and Consulting Engineers for Entire Work JOHN S. METCALF CO., Limited GRAIN ELEVATOR ENGINEERS

54 St. Francois Xavier Street, Montreal, Canada 36 Southampton Street, Strand, London, W. C. England 395 Collins Street, Melbourne, Australia 108 S. LaSalle Street, Chicago, 111.

To the Seed Trade! Over Fifty Emersons in use by After eight years of experience and close attention in our own seed cleaning house and other seed cleaning houses in sepa- The U. S. Grain Standardization Bureau rating Buckhorn and Rape from Clover Seed and Alfalfa we Over 50 Emerson Wheat Testers, or Emerson Kickers, as the Gov- have developed and are now manufacturing vernment officials call them, are found in the different laboratories and inspection departments of the U. S. Grain Standardization Depart- The Improved ment. They are being recommended to the milling and grain trade by the Government officials as the most satisfactory device or machine KING for determining the actual amount of dockage in each sample of wheat. Buckhorn Machine Guess Work a Thing of the Past in Grading Wheat The Emerson makes an absolute, perfect separation which we declare Per- of the oats from the wheat, not one kernel of oats left in the fectly Practical and Prac- wheat and not a kernel of the wheat lost with the oats. Eliminates all guess work. All ticallyPerfectin its work. disputes between buyer and seller are settled the The shortening of the on spot. Avoids any feeling about doubtful dockage. Farmers prefer selling reels to four feet has where the test is made with the Emerson Tester or Emerson Kicker. increased its cleaning efficiency 100 per cent Over 8,000 Emersons In Use and reduces the floor Any number of elevator com- space requirement so panies are using from 25 to SO Emerson essential in any work Kickers and from that on to 250, depending upon the number house. of elevators they operate. Hundreds of smaller elevator companies and The small horsepower mills are using from 1 to 5 machines. addition there necessary, due to the In are hundreds _ of center drive feature, the flour mills, state grain inspection departments, commission nouses, individual feed arrange- grain buyers, boards of trade and ment, the seed delivery U. S. Grain Standardization Bureau to one central spout, the all using Emerson Kickers for determining dockage in wheat. principle of cleaning, the simplicity in construc- The Emerson Guarantee tion, minimum wear and the capacity and quality The Emerson Kicker is sold with an absolute guarantee to do exactly of the work governed by as we claim or money will be re- the incline of the rails funded. It has proved itself to be makes the machine a a splendid investment for milling and elevator companies. Let us necessity in every plant prove it to you. Write today for where seed cleaning is pamphlet giving full description done. and unsolicited comments by prominent Emerson users. Write today for a "King" booklet describing fully the merits of this machine. Do it now. W. H. EMERSON & SONS

:: Windsor, Ont. KING MANUFACTURING CO. Detroit, Mich. :: PACIFIC COAST AGENTS: NORTH VERNON, IND., U. S. A. Portland, Oregon. J. J. Ross Mill Furnishing Co., J. J. Ross Mill Furnishing Co., Seattle, Wash. TI*EAME*aCAN ELEVATOR AND 486 GRAIN TRADE Thirty-Seventh Year

li It Will Last Biggest in Years! Reinforced concrete. Built for heavy floor loads. With a record wheat crop in prospect and with Uses the daylight. Tracks arranged right. three years' supply in Australia and South America "Macenco Results" now available for foreign markets, the storage demands in the United States for 1919 will be the greatest in history.

Plan now. See that you have sufficient storage facilities. Be sure that you are ready in time.

It will pay you big to find out at once about the POLK SYSTEM of monolithic concrete

1 500 barrel Mill, 300,000 bushel Elevator and 500 H. P. Diesel Power Plant of the Kansas Flour Mills Company, Great Bend, Kansas. Macdonald Engineering Company 53 West Jackson Boulevard CHICAGO FOLWELL-AHLSKOG CO. THE RECORDS Engineers and Contractors of the Designers and Builders OF Flour Mill and Grain Elevator Grain Elevators, Flour Mills, Industrial Plants, and other Engineering Works Mutual Insurance Companies

show that 80% of all fires in Mills or Ele- vators start in elevators. The installation of an automatic feeding device which will positively prevent an elevator choking from over-feeding and an automatic relief which will prevent an elevator choking from bin getting full or spout choking, will annually save millions of dollars in fire loss and add at least 50% to efficiency of any stand of grain elevators. These devices are perfected and are available for mill and elevator owners, are very inexpensive and absolutely practical. Full particulars will be furnished free of charge by this office, on request.

PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD COMPANY ELEVATOR, ERIE, PA. 1,250,000-bushel Concrete Workinghouse and 25,000-bushel Marine Tower. Reinforced Concrete. Latest improvements. Write us for Fire Prevention Bureau designs and estimates. Mutual

2051-6 McCORMICK BUILDING, CHICAGO OXFORD, MICHIGAN THE^MERICAN ELEVATOR AND

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TWO MILLION BUSHEL FIRE PROOF Chicago & Northwestern Railway Company's New RECEIVING ELEVATOR Reinforced Concrete Grain Elevator Being Built FOR at Council Bluffs, Iowa, for the Updike Washburn-Crosby Company Grain Company of .Omaha, Neb. Minneapolis, Minn.

Our experience covers every branch of grain elevator building work as well as any type or style of construction to meet requirements in any locality. Write us for designs and estimates Designs and estimates promptly furnished We Design and Build Elevators, any type of construction, in any part of the World. JAMES STEWART & CO., Inc. Witherspoon-Englar Company GRAIN ELEVATOR DEPARTMENT 1244-1250 Monadnock Bldg. CHICAGO, ILL. Fifteenth Floor of Westminster Building CHICAGO, ILL. W. R. SINKS, Manager

contractors GRAIN ELEVATORS L. A. STINSON COMPLETE WITH MACHINERY INSTALLATION CONSULTING ENGINEER DEVERELL, SPENCER & CO. H. E. GODFREY, Civil Engineer Garrett Building Baltimore, Maryland REFERENCES : Some of the biggest and best grain elevator plants in the country

National Life Building Chicago, 111. Reliance Construction Company Grain Driers, General Overhauling and Improvements

Furnish Plans, Estimates and Build COUNTRY GRAIN ELEVATORS BALLINGER & McAllister

- Our long experience as a builder of elevators insures you an CONTRACTORS DESIGNERS up-to-date house. Write today. Grain Elevators Ear-Corn Plants COMPLETE 625 Board of Trade Building, INDIANAPOLIS, IND. Unity Bldg. Bloomingtou, 111.

The Barnett & Record Company GENERAL CONTRACTORS

Designers and Builders of

Grain Elevators, Flour Mills and Heavy Structures

Reinforced Concrete and Steel Ore Dock constructed at Superior, Wisconsin, for the Allouez Bay Dock Company. Entirely Fireproof.

Write for Designs and Estimates OFFICES:

Minneapolis, Minn. Duluth, Minn. Fort William, Ontario T**EA.MERICAN ELEVATOR AND 488 GRAIN TRADE Thirty-Seventh Year

NORDYKE & MARMON COMPANY MEAL DRYER

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. 200-H.P. Drive Style "H" Meal Dryer. Invaluable for Corn Milling Ready for Competition Steady Maximum Power IF YOU have belting difficulties with a higher throughout the T TSED A cost and a lower output per unit power than ^ world because it has your competitors, COME TO US. larger heating surface, per- MORSE DRIVES will meet every demand of the World's Peace Markets as they met fect steam circulation, bet- every war emergency. greater ca- ter ventilation, Wages do not come from Capital, but Production pacity and does its work American labor can only meet foreign labor by greater production. more thoroughly and eco- MORSE DRIVES have always increased nomically. The intake, dis- production and met every demand for positive, tribution and discharge of uniform, non-slipping, high speed production.

Built for great power and 1 00% overloads. product are freely and uniformly accomplished. The Morse Drives

principle of construction is Give greater output in a given time. correct and for durability Give steadily, noiseless, clean, never failing. and reliability no other Cost less to operate, 99% efficient. Longer life, less to maintain, less depreciation. method of construction is Morse Engineering Service equal to it. These facts are Meets every call for suggestions or assistance, will provide proved conclusively by re- drawings and details for solving your problem for those drives that are giving you low production and high costs. Assistance sults obtained in the many free, without obligation. Always willing and ready. When in trouble call nearest office. mills in which the Style MORSE Drives insure profits against competition. "H" Meal Dryer is used. LARGEST MANUFACTURERS OF CHAIN DRIVES IN THE WORLD.

Morse Chain Co., Ithaca, N. Y. ENGINEERING SERVICE OFFICES Nordyke G8l> Marmon Company" BOSTON, Mass 141 Milk Street KANSAS CITY, Mo., 6 CHICAGO, 111.. Merchants L. & T. Bldg. A Lon^Min^"'"Long Buildln S- ESTABLISHED 1851 : INDIANA PO LIS, INDIANA CLEVELAND, O Engineers Bldg. " DETROIT, Mich... 1003 Woodward Ave. MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., GREENSBORO, N. C..805 Ashboro St. Strong-Scott Mfg. Co. America's Leading Mill Builders NEW YORK CITY... 50 Church Street 413 Third Street, S. Bldg. PITTSBURGH, Pa., Westinghouse ..... M „ . . ST ' LOUIS, Mo., Morse Engineering SANcam FRANCISCO,WT?AMrTToronto, Bank of Hamilton. 82 York Road, King's Cross, London, N. 1919 Diary and Memorandum Book in press. Secure copy. Give firm name, position, address. —

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The First National Bank of Chicago Charter No. 8 Statement of Condition, Close of Business December 31, 1918 ASSETS Loans and Discounts $ 121,282,524.15 United States Bonds and Certificates 24,855,104.33 Bonds to Secure U. S. Postal Savings Deposits 2,369,500.00 Other Bonds and Securities (market value) 5,204,943.36 National Safe Deposit Co. Stock (Bank Building) 1,250,000.00 Federal Reserve Bank Stock 660,000.00 FIBRECLAD Customers' Liability Under Letters of Credit 4,186,100.82 Customers' Liability Account of Acceptances 10,573,953.01 Cash Resources WIRE ROPE Due from United States Treasurer $ 296,000.00 Due from Federal Reserve Bank 20,111,375.08 Cash and Due from Banks 63,773,572.57 84,180,947.65 Other Assets 204,447,248.25 590,641.07 $255,153,714.19 Waterbury Fibreclad Wire Rope is a wire rope each LIABILITIES strand of which is served with the best grade of Capital in tarred Russian Hemp Marline. This fibre covering Stock paid $ 10,000,000.00 prevents the chafing and wear of the wire strands Surplus Fund 12,000,000.00 during flexing movements, maintains smooth cylin- Other Undivided Profits 2,081,003.34 drical rope surface and prevents rust and rot. Discount Collected but Not Earned 1,166,739.18

These features make it particularly valuable for Dividends Unpaid 548,944.00 transmission of power, for hoisting and towing and Reserved for Taxes 1,751,275.18 for numerous other uses. Foreign Bills Rediscounted 117,562.50 Cash Letters of Credit 397,219.28 Catalog Liability Under Letters of Credit 4,510,643.20 A 220-PAGE CLOTH BOUND ROPE MANUAL Acceptances Executed for Customers 10,779,570.64 COVERING ALL KINDS OF ROPE—FIBRE, Time Deposits $ 2,006,593.78 WIRE, FIBRECLAD WIRE AND ARMORED Demand Deposits 206,453,842.03 WIRE—WILL BE MAILED FREE UPON Liability to Customers, Payments 4th Liberty Loan 3,374,640.00 REQUEST. Liabilities other than those above stated 1,972,274.84 $255,153,714.19 WATERBURY COMPANY JAMES B. FORGAN, Chairman of the Board FRANK O. WETMORE, President Vice Presidents 63 PARK ROW, NEW YORK HOWARD H. HITCHCOCK JOHN P. OLESON JOHN T. ARNOLD MELVIN A. TRAYLOR M. D. WITKOWSKY JOHN F. HAGEY N. Chicago 1315-1321 W. Congress St. CHARLES' GILLETT ARTHUR W. NEWTON WILLIAM J. LAWLOR San Francisco 151-161 Main Street R. F. NEWHALL, Cashier Dallas, Texas A. T. Powell & Company Assistant Cashiers New Orleans 1018 Maison Blanche Building WILLIAM H. MONROE GEORGE H. DXTNSCOMB C. V. ESSROGER H. H. HEIXS JAMES' B. FORGAN JR. JAMES P. McMANUS 2285W A. C. C. TI MM RICHARD J. CODY A. N. CORDELL Auditing Department Foreign Exchange Department H. L. DROBGEMUELLER Auditor TOHN J. ARNOLD Vice President CHARLES P. CLIFFORD Manager Credit and Statistical Department HARRY -SALINGER Asst. Manager J. W. LYNCH Manager Law Department Discount and Collateral Department EDWARD E. BROWN Attorney A. V. DILLON Manager JOHN N. OTT Asst. Attorney WA1 ERBURY First Trust and ARMORED ROPE FIBRECLAD ROPE Savings Bank MUSIC WIRE Statement of Condition, Close of Business December 31, 1918 I ASSETS MANILA ROPE Bonds $ 26,555,046.13 Time Loans 28,413,741.40 SISAL ROPE Federal Reserve Bank Stock. 315,000.00 DRILLING CABLES Customers' Liability for Acceptances 606,727.65 Demand Loans $ 13,813,747.24 Due from Federal Reserve Bank 4,285,980.63 Cash and Due from Banks 10,156,938.80 28,256,666.67 $84,147,181.85 LIABILITIES

Capital. $i 5,000,000.00 Surplus and Undivided Profits 5,895,107.32 Reserved for Interest and Taxes 431,184.61 Acceptances Executed for Customers 606,727.65 Time Deposits $49,937,114.06 Time Deposits $52,764,246.13 Demand Deposits 15,281,866.15 68,046,112.28 $84,147,181.85

JAMES B. FORGAN, Chairman of the Board MBLVIN A. TRAYLOR President FRANK O'. WETMORE, Vice President LOUIS BOISOT Vice President ROY C. OSGOO'D Trust Officer Trust Department C. C. FLEAGER Asst. Treasurer B. C. HARDEN'BROOK. . .Vice President Banking Department A. W. CONVERSE Asst. Secretary FRANK M. GORDON Vice President OLIVER A. BBSTEL.Asst. Trust Officer Bond Department ROBT. L. DAWS. Mgr. Real Estate Dept. ROBERT D. FORGAN Treasurer EDWARD E. BROWN Attorney DAVID V. WEBSTER Secretary JOHN N. OTT Asst. Attorney DIRECTORS of the First National Bank and National Safe Deposit Company, also Directors and Members of the Advisory Committee of the First Trust and Savings Bank BENJAMIN ALLEN E. T. JEFPERY JOHN A. SPOOR ROBERT P. LAMONT SILAS H. STRAWN A. C. BABTLETT WILLIAM J. LOUDERBACK BERNARD E. SUNNY EMILE K. BOISOT HAROLD F. McCORMICK MELVIN A. TRAYLOR WILLIAM L. BROWN NELSON MORRIS WM. J. WATSON AUGUSTUS A. CARPENTER CHARLES H. MORSE FRANK O. WETMORE E. WILSON D MARK CUMMINGS JOSEPH D. OLIVER THOMAS FORGAN HENRY H. PORTER CLARENCE M. WOOLLET JAMES B. RUNNELS WILLIAM WRIGLEY JB. H. H. HITCHCOCK CLIVE Combined Deposit of Both Banks, $274,499,954.31 THE^MERICAN ELEVATOR AND 490 GRAIN TRADE Thirty-Seventh Year

Rope Drives I

We design and install complete rope drives. We are experienced in this line, and drives designed by us are successful. We supply the best grade of Manila rope. Our Machine-molded sheaves are perfect in balance, accurately finished and free from flaws injurious to the rope. We cast and finish sheaves of all sizes—English or American system—Pulleys, Band Wheels, Flywheels, Drums, Gears, Sprocket Wheels, etc. We manufacture Shafting, Pillow Blocks, Hangers, Floor Stands, Elevator Casings, Heads and Boots and all kinds of Elevating, Conveying and Power-Transmitting machinery. Headquarters for Sup- plies. H. W. Caldwell & Son Co., Chicago Western Ave., 17th- 18th Sts.

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BUY MORE .p| p|. A book needed by every miller and grain Elwood's Grain Tables, dealer. It shows the value of any num- LIBERTY BONDS* ber of bushels or pounds of wheat, rye, oats, corn or barley at any given price from 10 cents to $2.00 per bushel. Cloth bound, 200 pages. Mailed on receipt of price, $1.25, by GRAIN DRIERS MITCHELL BROTHERS PUBLISHING CO., 431 S. Dearborn St. CHICAGO are essential to conservation of corn. No modern grain handling plant should be without one. Allow us to NEW CORN place before you plain, honest facts driers concerning Prepare for and learn why the one pre-eminent is the new crop The Flint- Brown - Duvel MORRIS Moisture "The drier designed to ultimately cost less" Tester, our Dockage Scale and our Corn The Strong -Scott Manufacturing Co. Testing Sieves will enable "Everything for every mill and elevator" you to handle the new crop MINNEAPOLIS GREAT FALLS SPOKANE WINNIPEG, CAN. as it should be handled. Write for Booklet.

De Roo Grain Laboratories RID- FLINT MICH. of- RATS

If we want to feed starving Europe it behooves us to kill MILLERS' MUTUAL FIRE off Rats and Mice that foodstuffs destroy to the value of about INSURANCE ASSOCIATION $500,000,000.00 per annum. Use Rid-of-Rats. It is non-poisonous and can be used everywhere. No stench creating dead OF ILLINOIS GIBBS' PATENT DUST PROTECTOR bodies. Rodents leave premises before dying. Only patented Established 1878 Alton, Illinois is invaluable to opera- Non-Poisonous Exterminator in the World. Made only by tives in every industry Insurance on Flour Mills and Elevator where the Patentees. dust is trouble- Properties. some, affording perfect protection with perfect Grain Insurance for short ventilation. Thoroughly Price— 75 cents per box, $1.80 per doc, $1.00 per lb. in bulk. terms a Specialty. tested for many years in every kind of dust. BERG & BEARD MFG. CO., Inc. Nickel-plated protector CASH ASSETS - $894,085.38 $1.25. Canada $1.50, post 100 Emerson Place paid. Circulars Brooklyn, N. Y. A. free. G. McKINNEY, Sec'y GIBBS RESPIRATOR CO. "B" 246 N. Forest Ave., River Forest, III. THEAMERICAN ELEVATOR AND January 15, 1919 GRAIN TRADE 491 OAT CLIPPERS= EUREKA =

A remarkably light running, power savins May we send you copy of our A very successful combination (3-in-l) OAT CLIPPER WITH DIVIDED SELF-BALANCING SHOE new book (No. 75) OAT CLIPPER—WHEAT SMUTTER-GRAIN SEPARATOR

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Order FAIRBANKS Automatic i/frmours SCALES / navejy?e Registering fertilizers Counter

Now! Authentic PmtedReeoris PEACE stops fighting, but not feed- -gfatl ing. Our armies, at home and abroad, our Allies and ourselves, must be fed. MORE food feiehts must be produced in 1919. Lack of fertilizer will cut down your production. Labor, cars, raw materials are all limited. Fertilizer factories a must begin shipping at once, to move even normal tonnage by planting time. This scale weighs same weight per dis- - with Protect Yourself — See Our Dealer charge on all grains — does away Haul It Home Now changing weights in weight box. Armour Fertilizer Works General Offices: CHICAGO FAIRBANKS, MORSE & CO Fla. Atlanta, Ga. Baltimore, Md. Jacksonville, La. S Manufacturers Nashville, Tenn. Greensboro, N. C. New Orleans, Chicago Louisville, Ky. 2888 —

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You Don't Know How Economically and Satisfactorily You Can Clean Grain Until You Have Seen the

THE rtARK OF QUALITY Warehouse and Elevator Separator

It is designed on a fundamentally correct plan and has a capacity for long, satisfactory service. It is sturdily built and economical in operation.

Of course there's a reason for the steady volume of orders for Beall Separators. The expense is practically nothing when you consider results.

Send for list of Beall operators who will give you facts regarding the efficiency of this Separator. Write today and BUILT IN TEN SIZES. we wu l sen^ you our descriptive catalog. It will pay you. THE BEALL IMPROVEMENTS CO., Inc. Decatur, Illinois

11116 A Standard Cleaner in Your Elevator Are you ready for the spring trade of the This Year Will Assure Standard Grades. poultryman? THIS No. 142 Standard Grain Cleaner is especially He will want three grades of cracked corn valuable as a small receiving separator, requires fine, medium, coarse. little power, is easy to install, is a moderate-priced machine, will make your wheat grade equal to any, and better than many, and is an example of peace-time economy. It contains valuable improvements, fully protected by patents, and should form part of the equipment of every grain elevator.

This machine will produce the grades, and at S the same time gives you the meal and hulls separate, jj All in one operation. :

3 It will interest you to know m Bulletin. §§j more about it. Write for g Standard Grain Cleaner No. 142

Write today for our illustrated booklets before deciding on your new equipment. It will mean money in your pocket next year. | Invincible Grain Cleaner Company INTERNATIONAL MFG. CO. SILVER CREEK, N. Y. CRESTLINE, - OHIO Si JHE^MERICAN ELEVATOR AND 494 GRAIN TRADE Thirty-Seventh Year

,p| BUY MORE LIBERTY BONDS The Corn Exchange Stern, Costly Facts

Are the little daily losses in time and lubricant; the repair stops and expenses; the trouble caused by uneven grinding and the main- National Bank tenance bills of a babbitt bearing, out-of-date feed grinder. We ask, as a plain business proposition, which would pay you OF CHICAGO better, to ignore these losses, which, in the aggregate, soon amount to a substantial sum of real money, or to protect yourself permanently from such loss by investing in Capital $3,000,000.00 The Monarch Surplus 7,000,000.00 Undivided Profits 1,593,016.93 Ball Bearing Attrition Mill Write for OFFICERS Catalog Belt Driven D-No. 115 If Preferred ERNEST A. HAMILL, President JAMES G. WAKEFIELD, Cashier CHAS. L. HUTCHINSON, Vice-Pres. LEWIS E. GARY, Asst. Cashier D. A. MOULTON, Vice-President EDWARD F. SCHOENECK, Asst. Cash. OWEN T. REEVES. JR., Vice-President JAMES A. WALKER, Asst. Cashier J. EDWARD MAASS, Vice-President CHARLES NOVAK. Asst. Cashier NORMAN J. FORD, Vice-President JOSEPH C. ROVENSKY, Asst. Cashier DIRECTORS CHARLES H. WACKER CLYDE M. CARR MARTIN A. RYERSON J. HARRY SELZ ROBERT J. THORNE EDWARD A. SHEDD EDWARD B. BUTLER WATSON F. BLAIR CHARLES H. HULBURD ERNEST A. HAMILL BENJAMIN CARPENTER CHARLES L. HUTCHINSON CHAUNCY B. BORLAND

The Monarch is never careless, heedless or inattentive to business. Ball bearings practically eliminate friction, institute perfect and UNITED STATES DEPOSITARY permanent tram, chase away power and lubricant losses, and inaugu- rate and continually safeguard uniform grinding.

The mission of this mill is to protect your profits ; not by the grace Foreign Exchange Letters of Credit of luck, but by inbuilt, original features which never cease to exist. Cable Transfers SPROUT, WALDR0N & CO. Accounts of grain elevator operators and commission men throughout the country respectfully solicited Main Office and Works, MUNCY, PA. P. O. Box 320 Chicago Office: No. 9 South Clinton Street

for the Government for Democracy SAVE for YOURSELF Needed By Elevator Operators by installing a CYCLONE DUST COLLECTOR Very many modern large and small grain elevators are equipped with our system. Cfl Elevator owners, large and small Write who desire to operate their houses to the best advantage need the CYCLONE BLOW PIPE CO. 2542-52 Twenty-first Street, Chicago, Illinois Complete new systems installed on modern plans BOOK of WRINKLES and guaranteed. Old systems remodeled on modern Let Us lines on most economical plans. Supplementary Tell You systems added where present systems are out- grown. Defective systems corrected and in put 'T^HIS is a collection, in book form, HOW proper working order. of a large number of handy and labor-saving devices contributed by readers of the "American Miller." A considerable proportion can be PRACTICAL HAND BOOK adopted to advantage in elevators and will save time and money. The FOR MILLWRIGHTS wrinkles include improvements in spouts, elevators, belts and cleaners. By CALVIN F. SWINGLE, M. E. Every idea is original and has been put into practical use. 417 pages with Illustrations and Tables.

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Every grain shipper must "maintain adequate weighing facilities," etc., according to Section 21 of the Pomerene Bill. Then why not install a SONANDER Automatic Grain Scale

You will have to comply with the term "adequate" and surely want to insure payment of your railroad claims.

Write to your nearest office for booklet of accurate weighing of grain and the accuracy of the Sonander.

409 Fourth St., St. Louis, Mo. F. L. Rogles. Mgr. Howe Scale Co. of Illinois 1510 Main St., Kansas City, Mo. W. C Peak, Mgr.

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Adapted for use on all new and old Elevators of this type. GREAT WESTERN MFG. CO. Particulars on application. Warehouse and Sales Room General Office and Factory 1400-1402 West 12 th St. rey Elevator Co., fA m!L^t"^n. LEAVENWORTH, KAN. KANSAS CITY, MO.

GRAIN DRIERS Wire cloth drying columns—prevents cracking, blistering and discoloring. Continuous operation—produces uniform work. Ball Bearing Fan—requires less power. MEAL DRIERS All steel construction—fireproof and rigid. Semi-steel castings—35% stronger than cast iron. Ball bearings throughout—requires less power.

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VOL. XXXVII CHICAGO, ILL., JANUARY 15, 1919 NO. 7

In ©f the Inland Empire Provided by the Splendid Facilities Now Being Constructed at Portland

pORTHWESTERN States are at last abandon- February. In connection with it the Dock Commis- fortunate one as it lies near the point of the penin- ing the sack shipment of grain and are pro- sion has worked out a plan of port improvements sula formed by the confluence of the Willamette and viding adequate facilities for handling their that will put the city of Portland at a tremendous Columbia Rivers, also in a strategic place for con- huge wheat crop in bulk. Grain elevators have been advantage in competition with her sister cities on nection with the Union Pacific, Northern Pacific, and erected at many points during the past year. The the coast, for expeditious handling of grain. The Great North trunk lines. River steamers coming most important of these is the one now nearing com- Witherspoon-Englar Company of Chicago is the de- down, and ocean vessels coming up the Columbia, pletion at Portland, Ore., the leading shipping port signer and engineer, and Grant Smith & Co., the can dock here without going through the bridges of the Northwest. contractors for the plant. and narrower portion of the harbor. This means a The normal annual shipment of wheat from Pacific The grain elevator has a storage capacity of considerable saving, in the case of ocean vessels, in Northwest ports each year is about 1,250,000 tons. 1,000,000 bushels and an annex is included in the time and insurance rates. There is a difference of In past years about 50 per cent of this has gone plans which will accommodate another million bush- one thousand feet in the river channel in favor through Portland. With the operation of the new els. The elevator is a fireproof, reinforced concrete of this point when compared with docks in the grain elevator, marine and railway terminals, Port- structure, consisting of a track shed, operating heart of the city. Congestion has thus been avoided land should secure an even larger percentage of house and storage annex of circular tanks and bins. in both the harbor and terminal yards. Grain han- the annual crop. The track shed will have six power shovels for un- dled here, will, for the most part, be brought to the The thoroughly modern facilities now being pro- loading bulk grain into six track hoppers, with an elevator by rail from the Inland Empire, and loaded vided at Portland are being constructed at public unloading capacity of about 120,000 bushels per day. on ships destined for overseas markets or for Atlan- expense. In 1917 a bond issue of $3,000,000 was The trackage arrangement includes sufficient tracks tic Coast ports by way of the Panama Canal. voted by the people and in the election of November, for the placement and handling of seventy 50-foot 'The terminal facilities in connection with the 1918, an additional bond issue of $5,000,000 was loaded grain cars at one time. Loading to ships elevator include a series of piers with intervening authorized. can be made at the rate of 20,000 bushels per hour slips, lying diagonally to the harbor channel. Pier

The municipal grain elevator, which was the im- to one or two ships. No. 1, which is a two-level covered structure, 180x mediate project undertaken on the issuance of the The site selected for the grain elevator and con- 1500 feet, is now ready for use, as is also Slip No. 1, first of these bonds, will be ready for use early in nected rail and marine terminals was a particularly 300x1500 feet, and dredged to a depth of 30 feet.

NEW CONCRETE MUNICIPAL GRAIN ELEVATOR AT PORTLAND, ORE. THE^MERICAN ELEVATOR AND

498 GRAIN TRADE Thirty-Seventh Year The area owned by the municipality and eon- trolled by the Dock Commission for this terminal comprises about 150 acres. In the rear of the elevator, slips and piers, an area of some 50 acres has been reserved for industrial sites and will be |N SECTION 14 of the Food Control Act, approved It is also stated that this is for the purpose of leased by the city at a small rental. It is expected 1 August 10, 1917, wheat prices are guaranteed for making any guaranteed price effective, and to pro- tnat these sites will find a ready demand, for they ^ the several standard grades of the crop of 1918, tect the Government of the United States against will furnish cheap locations for industries requiring based upon No. 1 northern spring or its equivalent, any material enhancement of its liability arising out combined rail and shipping facilities and will be at not less than $2 per bushel, at the principal in- of any guarantee under this Section. especially desirable for those allied to the grain terior primary markets. It would seem evident from this, however, that industry because of their accessibility also to the It then expressly states that this guarantee is not Congress had not in mind at the time the possi- elevator. dependent upon any action of the President under bility of any Proclamation by the President of any The equipment of the plant will be complete in the first part of the Section, but it is made absolute guarantee extending beyond the period of the war, every department. The grain cleaning machinery and binding until May 1, 1919. because of the language used in the Act relative to consists of two No. 9 Monitor Smutters; two No. 12 Six months later, on February 21, 1918, by Proc- selling to any Government engaged in war with Monitor 2-stream Warehouse & Elevator Separa- lamation of the President, the guaranteed price for any country with which the Government of the tors; and two No. 9 Monitor Warehouse & Eleva- the 1918 crop was established on the basis of $2.26- United States is at war. tor Separators with scalper screens, all made by Chicago. If the European countries are not at war and the Huntly Manufacturing Company of Silver Creek, Regardless of the fact that the absolute guaran- we are not at war, then this part of the Section N. Y. teed price of $2 incorporated in the Food Control authorizing the President to so act to protect the The conveying machinery consists of 13 leg belts Act was binding only until May 1, 1919, or prior to Government of the United States against any en- totalling 4800 linear feet, and 20 conveyor belts, the harvesting of any of the 1919 crop, the President hancement of liability, is inoperative. 11,300 feet in length. Most of this was furnished by did on September 2, 1918, declare the same guaran- The Act definitely established the President as the the Webster Manufacturing Company of Tiffin, Ohio. buying agency under the guarantee and empowers In detail the equipment supplied by this firm is as him in his discretion to enter into the business for follows: All steel grating frames with gratings and :he United States Government of buying and selling covers for first floor openings; 271 spout and man- this guaranteed wheat and to use the proceeds re- hole frames and covers, and peek hole frames; two ceived from the sale or disposal of any such wheat double drum car pullers; six pairs of Clarke-Beatty as a revolving fund with any balance not used in Shovel Machines, 12 sets of receiving track hop- that way to be covered into the treasury as miscel- pers with all fittings except supports; three 36-inch laneous receipts. receiving belt conveyors; three 36-inch transfer belt But, irrespective of the intent of the law-makers conveyors in basement of track shed; three 36-inch when this Food Control Act was enacted, the para- belt conveyors under storage; one 36-inch transfer mount question is, shall the Government through an belt "J" on bin floor; three 36-inch conveyors over act that nullifies the law of supply and demand com- storage; two 36-inch belt conveyors in gallery from pel the American consumers living in a land of operating house to tower; three 36-inch belt con- abundance and large surplusses to eat their bread veyors in shipping gallery; one 24-inch belt con- all through the year 1919 and up to the summer of veyor below floor of pier; one 24-inch belt conveyor 1920 on the war basis of $2.26 per bushel Chicago? in gallery from tower on pier to operating house; What is the Government going to do about this one bucket elevator in tower; driving machinery question of the staff of life? Is it going to try to for smutter; 177 rack and pinion valves in spouts hold the wheat, the flour and the loaf for more than under storage, for workhouse and shipping bins; 12 a year after peace has been declared up to the sky- bucket elevators with casings and driving machin- high war prices, or with the world's abundance, and in prodigious surplus, is it going ery; all spouting, including car loading spout, ship- all probability, a the of ping spouts, vent spouts, and Mayo Spouts; 10 sets to give fair play to law supply and demand? of garner valves; 10 rotary scale valves. With war conditions, it was the necessary thing to guarantee the American farmers for 1919 the The power is supplied from central station and the $2.26 Chicago basis price. It was the only certain elevator has 47 Allis-Chalmers Motors with a total way to insure bread for ourselves and our Allies. of 1516% horsepower. Morse Silent Chain Drive The Allies had a war shortage of 200,000,000 bushels made by the Morse Chain Company of Ithaca, N. Y., on top of a peace deficiency of 400,000,000 bushels, transmits the from the power motors to the ma- JOHN R. MAUFF and they must have the wheat and it was for us to chine. All the motors have local as well as switch- Secretary Chicago Board of Trade. act. The guaranteed price put our farmers to work board control. teed basis for all within the wheat produced United planting extra acres of winter wheat so that an The plant is equipped with 10 Fairbanks Hopper States in 1919, under the authority given him in abundance would be assured, and the Government Scales and provision is made for future installation the first part of the Section 14, as follows: same is bound by a solemn contract with the farmers to of the Zeleny Thermometer System, made by the Whenever the President shall find that an emer- see that he gets the guaranteed price. Under, that Western Fire Appliance Works of Chicago. The gency exists requiring stimulation of the production contract he hired his labor and bought his supplies; of wheat and that it. is essential that the producers elevator is protected with a complete pipe and hose of wheat, produced within the United States, shall he did his work at inordinate cost to make certain fire apparatus throughout the plant. have the benefits of the guaranty provided for in that we should have this wheat next year. He can- this Section, he is authorized, from time to time, not be left in the lurch. Nobody could have a seasonably and as far in advance of seeding time as thought of that alternative. WINTER QUARTERS OF BLACK RUST practicable, to determine and fix and to give public notice of what, under specified conditions, is a rea- With the Canadian crop between 150,000,000 and sonable guaranteed price for wheat, in order to as- The life history of the black rust that infests 300,000,000, Australia 100,000,000, Argentine from sure such producers a reasonable profit. The Presi- wheat in the Northwest is peculiar in that the rust 125,000,000 to 200,000,000 and their small population dent shall thereupon fix such guaranteed price, etc. consuming only a mere fraction of their wheat, and spores may pass part of their life on some other However, in order to benefit by this guaranteed as Australia has been piling up surplus wheat dur- plant, as the barberry bush. Professor V. W. Jack- price, the producers have to comply with the stipu- ing the war for lack of ships, it is not impossible son of the Manitoba Agricultural College has lo- lation in the Act, that has to do with the regulations that these countries may be able to provide what cated rust on the second growth of wild barley, or promulgated by the President from time to time. would equal the Allies normal peace supply. "skunk grass" or "squirrel tail" as it is sometimes It is evident that the guarantee only extends to so if in the world than called. This last fall he germinated rust spores the producer, and although the Grain Corporation And we have more wheat required in this country than can from wild barley every day after frost began. He handled the 1918 crop, as yet no agency has been and more we consume export, what is the Government going has demonstrated that the spores will germinate created to carry into effect the guarantee on the and to of bread for the American after freezing temperatures when placed in water, 1919 crop, and how can those agencies necessary to do about the price people. though it may take from 12 to 24 hours, whereas the distribution of this wheat participate without ordinarily 3 or 4 hours would suffice. He has in- the same guarantee? Without such agency the This likewise concerns the prices of beef, mutton, fected potted wheat plants with the frosted red Government itself is the only one that is authorized pork, poultry, eggs, milk, butter and cheese. If in rust of wild barley. by the Act to pay the farmers the guaranteed price. peace wheat must be bought by the mill, the baker It is the same disease on both the wheat plant The authority is Section 14 that gives the President and consumer on the war basis, then all foodstuffs and the wild barley grass. The infection may be power in his discretion to purchase any wheat for will still be too high. The law of supply and de- made on the wheat plant from wild barley of the which a guaranteed price has been fixed under this mand will not be working with wheat. It will, second growth even if the latter is under snow. It Section and to hold, transport or store it, or to sell, however, be operating with other foodstuffs and how seems, therefore, that wild barley will carry rust dispose of or deliver it to any citizen of the United can the relative ratios be maintained, except at the spores through the winter in Manitoba and com- States or to any Government engaged in war ivith expense of the higher cost of these other foodstuffs. municate the disease to the wheat plant of the fol- any country with which the Government of the If wheat price is allowed to be normal for the con- lowing spring. United States is or may be at war. sumer, the public will be consuming it in normal —

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January 15, 1919 GRAIN TRADE quantities and the other grains will go more freely in the feeding of poultry and livestocks so as to Housing the Grain Crops of Australia make all food cheaper for the American consumer. If the Government has to assume through its After Years of Investigation and Millions Lost in Wasted Grain,, Australia Has guarantee a loss on the 1919 crop, it should not he Made a Fair Start in Modem Elevator Construction at the expense of the consumer through a war-time cost to him of flour and bread. CTUAL construction of grain elevators in only did this mean a serious loss in grain, but the The wants of our Allies should not in times of Australia and more particularly New South "reconditioning" process meant heavy expense in peace demand of our American consumer that he Wales has at last begun for the purpose of labor and materials. pay a price that will probably be out of all reason caring for the grain crops. This subject has been These conditions are now being remedied in a as compared with other countries not under a guar- agitated for a number of years and frequently taken number of ways. Chief of them is the adoption of antee, and especially Canada, where the 1919 crop up by the Government and by individual concerns. our American grain elevator system. The con- has no such protection. These have sent deputations to the United States struction of concrete grain tanks has been started Rather let the law of supply and demand prevail, as well as other countries to make investigations at various country stations and it is planned to through the operation of free and open markets give a capacity of 13,000,000 bushels. in competition with the world, and have flour and A few of these elevators are shown in the ac- bread regulated accordingly and let the President, companying illustrations. They are built by local in accordance with the Food Control Act, buy of contractors after plans by John S. Metcalf Com- the producers at the guaranteed price and sell at pany of Chicago. This company also drew the whatever price is warranted by the domestic and plans for the 750,000-bushel terminal elevator which foreign situation and in this way assume whatever has been in process of construction at Sidney since loss may occur rather than to maintain an artificial last fall, and which is the only terminal elevator level that will be far-reaching and demoralizing in in New South Wales. It will be used for storage its effect on all foodstuffs. and shipping to steamers. The Food Control Act expires when the existing The grain elevators of the country type are built state of war between the United States and Ger- in units of 50,000 bushels each. The first was com- many shall have terminated as determined by the pleted and received grain on July 30, 1918, and a Proclamation of the President, but such termination number of others were finished and in operation by does not affect any acts done or any rights or obli- the end of the year. In order to make the concrete gations accruing or accrued. bins available for immediate use, the working house

There is, however, another part of this Section will be completed later and at the opposite end a 14 that becomes inoperative with the signing of the WHEAT STACKS AT A COUNTRY RAIL STATION. RIVER1NA. temporary wooden tower is erected to support the N. S. W. definite peace terms, and it is highly important as elevator head. This tower is also used as a mix- it has to do with an action by the President to pre- of grain handling conditions and up-to-date housing tower during construction. In New South ing facilities. The Australian Government has also called to their country experts from other lands to suggest and advise as to the best system for the proper handling of their grain. For many years the only system of grain storage employed in Australia has been the stacking of sacked wheat in the open, covered by tarpaulins or at the larger points by timbered roofs of galvanized iron. In pre-war years this system, al- beit somewhat haphazard, did fairly well. But cumulative war conditions brought about a break down. The vessel tonnage loss due to Hunnish fright-

fulness made it impossible to ship the grain to Eu- rope and vast stocks of sacked wheat accumulated in all the grain growing sections. The Aus- tralian Wheat Board estimated in November that NEW CONCRETE TANKS AT LOCKHART, N. S. W. there would be an accumulated surplus of 165,- TANKS UNDER CONSTRUCTION AT TEMORA, N. S. W. 000,000 bushels on December 31st with the 1918-19 vent the enhancement of the liabilities of the United Wales alone the present visible supply of wheat crop out of the reckoning. States on the guarantee of prices is 32,000,000 bushels, an amount in the present This immense surplus was practically all stored When the President finds that the importation into world situation well worth caring for. New South in the open air stacks mentioned, some of the the United States of any wheat produced outside of Wales is the greatest grain producing state in Aus- the United States materially enhances or is likely representing years' accumulation of stacks three tralia. The acreage planted to wheat in 1916 was materially to enhance, the liabilities of the United grain. The ravages of insect pests became a seri- States under guaranties of prices therefor made pur- a little over 4,250,000 the amount raised being 69,- suant to this Section, and ascertains what rate of 000,000 bushels, since then, for various causes, the duty, added to the then existing rate of duty on crop for the state as well as the entire country wheat and to the value of wheat at the time of im- has fallen off. The crop for the whole of Australia portation, would be sufficient to bring the price thereof in the crop of at which imported up to the price fixed therefor pur- 1917 was 135,000,000 bushels and suant to the foregoing provisions of this Section, he last year now being harvested indicated a yield shall proclaim such facts, and thereafter there shall of about 65,000,000 bushels. be levied, collected, and paid upon wheat when im- It is safe to assert that once the wheat growers ported in addition to the then existing rate of duty, the rate of duty so ascertained. and shippers of Australia taste the advantages of This definitely conveys the idea that the mem- the grain elevator system as we know it they will bers of Congress when they approved of the Food never be willing to go back to their old costly Control Act had not in mind the necessity or possi- "sack and stack" methods. If they do so it will be bility of a guaranteed price for any wheat grown and contrary to the experience of every grain produc- harvested after the termination of the war. ing country where bulk handling has been tried on a extensive scale. SOO RECORDS FOR 1918 WHEAT FROM AUSTRALIA Figures compiled by the United States engineer's office for the 1918 navigation season give the The War Trade Board announce that General movement of freight of all kinds through the "Soo" License PBF No. 19, permitting importations of Canals as 85,680,327 short tons, the smallest since wheat and wheat flour consigned to the United 1914. Shipments of wheat were 122,718,146 bushels, States Food Administration Grain Corporation or and of other grain 30,800,621 bushels. The move- to the Wheat Export Company, Ltd., has been U RANQU INTY ment of flour was 8,228,844 barrels. Shipments of amended to read as follows: coal amounted to 17,981,510 tons, including 15,770,- ous problem, so serious that wholesale fumigation Covering the importation of all wheat and wheat 560 tons of bituminous. Shipments of ore were became necessary. Winter rains also resulted in flour when consigned to the United States Food 60,551,296 tons, and of copper 86,078 tons. Of the considerable loss. Worse than either of these was Administration Grain Corporation, 42 Broadway, wheat shipments, 63,000,000 bushels came from the mice pest which was universally prevalent. New York, or to the Wheat Export Company, Ltd., Canada, as did 3,000,000 bushels of barley and 10,- Hundreds of well built, symmetrical stacks col- 27 Beaver Street, New York; provided further, that 000,000 bushels of oats. Flax shipments of 2,000,- lapsed under their onslaughts, into shapeless piles shipments from Australia are made only on cer- 000 bushels also came from Canada. of wheat with a tangle of timbers and iron. Not tain stipulated vessels. ELEVATOR AND

500 GRAIN TRADE Thirty-Seventh Year luniml tion, and to give guarantees of price for the crops of ihe Grain Trade in War Thitc of 1922 and subsequent years, having already on 24 May, 1918, fixed prices sasures Adopted by All Countries to Insure a for the crops of 1919, 1920 Supply of Food During the and 1921. 1 ryarag United States.—By Act of Congress dated 10 August, 1917, extensive powers were conferred on RECENT bulletin of the International Insti- eight Southern provinces, as follows: 12.75 liras the Administration /ZV\ tute of Agriculture contained to be exercised in encourage- a brief review per quintal for hard wheat; 11.25 liras per quintal ment of production of food in every possible way. • of the measures taken by various countries for soft and half hard wheat; 9.30 liras per quintal The Government to increase production of grain, was authorized to supply seed at to control the grain for rye and barley; 8.40 liras per quintal for oats bare cost, to initiate measures for combating plant trade and to decrease consumption. and maize. diseases, for preventing waste of foodstuffs in LEGISLATIVE MEASURES TENDING TO INCREASE The sum of 20,000,000 liras allotted by decree of PRODUCTION threshing, in transit or in storage, to fix prices for 28 June, 1917, and increased to 40,000,000 by decrees France.— wheat in advance of sowing in order to assure to The law of 30 January, 1917, enacts of 11 November, 1917, and 14 April, 1918, is in- farmers that, beginning with reasonable profit, to purchase nitrate of the harvest of 1917 and until tended to facilitate allowances for encouragement soda to the extent of $10,000,000 (51,825,000 francs requisition of wheat is at an end, a premium of 3 of cultivation of cereals, legumes and root crops, at par) to be sold to farmers, at cost price, Every francs per quintal is to paid be to farmers for wheat and was further increased to 45,000,000 by the de- community was urged to grow its own foodstuffs grown in France. In addition to this, a premium of cree of 20 August, 1918. fodder as far practicable, to 20 francs is allowed for and as and increase every hectare (2.471 acres) By decree dated 14 February, 1918, the Minister the production under wheat in 1917 of non-perishable commodities be- beyond the area cultivated on of Agriculture may compel the cultivation of aban- yond local the farm in 1916. needs. Encouragement is provided for The law of 6 October, 1916, doned lands or may effect alterations in methods home gardens, the energies of children's empowers communal authorities and clubs to cultivate any of farming already adopted; he is also authorized with an aggregate membership of 2,000,000 are di- soil not brought into use as customarily. The law to take measures for increasing the manufacture of January, rected, under supervision, to food production. Lo- 2 1917, provides a credit of 30,000,000 of fertilizers and of agricultural machines, as well francs for the cal committees of the Grain Threshing Division direct organization of agricultural as to furnish aid in the selection of seed. In case labor. have organized instruction in threshing and a re- of refusal to submit to any orders enforcing culti- By decree pair service for threshing machines, together with of 14 January, 1918, a departmental vation the temporary occupation of the land may facilities for obtaining labor and engine fuel. Esti- committee for taking action in agricultural matters »%vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv mates show that a preventable waste of 3 per cent was constituted at the chief town of each depart- occurs during threshing operations. ment. This committee acts for the duration of the U. S. LICENSE REGULATIONS Brazil.—A decree of 9 March, 1918, offers pre- war and is composed of the prefect as president, NOW IN EFFECT miums to farmers, companies and co-operative so- of the director of agricultural service, and one agri- cieties cultivating wheat in 1918 and 1919. The culturist from each arrondissement. selected by the A. ELEVATORS AND DEALERS HAN- premiums will be in the form of agricultural im- prefect from two names submitted to him by the DLING WHEAT, RYE, CORN, OATS plements and machinery, and their value is at the farmers' associations of the department. AND BARLEY rate of 30 milreis (50.40 francs at par) per hectare, The duties of the committee include control of Rule 1. "Storage Space Subject to payable if the crop exceeds 15 hectolitres of wheat the actions of the communal agricultural commit- Government Command." per hectare, with natural weight of 78 kilogrammes tees, who have to see that all land is under cultiva- Rule 3. "Storage in Seaboard Ele- to the hectolitre. If the yield exceeds 20 hectolitres tion, and placing before the Minister of Agriculture vators Limited to 30 Days." per hectare and the prescribed natural weight is and food supply the requisite measures for encour- also exceeded, the premium will be increased by agement to farmers. The committee may request Rule 5. "Wheat Under Control Lim- 20 per cent. the attendance and support of the civil and military ited to 90 Days' Supply." Inspectors are appointed to aid farmers in prep- authorities of the district, especially of professors Rule 6. "Wheat Sold Shall Not Give aration of the soil, selection of seed, use of imple- of agriculture and those conversant with labor con- Buyer More Than 90 Days' Supply." methods of harvesting and storing. ditions. The is ments and committee to undertake a speedy Rule 7. "Contracts Must Provide for Egypt.—By decree dated 8 September, 1917, with inquiry into the number of improvements not car- Shipment Within 60 Days." the aim of increasing the production of foodstuffs ried out and of plots uncultivated; it is also to Rule 9. "Grain to Be Sold at Rea- required in country, the Government limits the settle at once on a plan as regards spring sowings. the sonable Advance Over Cost. Hedging Great Britain maximum area to be planted with cotton to one- and Ireland.—Occupiers are re- Considered." third of any given property and imposes the obliga- quired under penalties to cultivate their land to Rule 15. "Sales to Distillers Limited." tion to cultivate cereals instead. Building sites in the fullest extent possible and failing this Govern- certain areas may be compulsorily brought into ment will take measures for better cultivation. vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv*vv\vvvvvv cultivation for cereals or garden produce. In Ireland farmers were required in 1917 to cul- be decreed for a period not exceeding six years, A decree dated 31 December, 1914, tivate the same area as in 1916, plus 10 per cent of while land so requisitioned may be sublet to indi- Germany— placed at the disposal of agriculture all unculti- the whole extent of the holdings; in 1918, Govern- vidual tenants or to associations. vated State land in Prussia. Measures were taken ment has decided that another 200,000 hectares Netherlands.—The Government has taken pow- to ensure crops being available on these lands in (a hectare is 2.471 acres) shculd be cultivated. ers to compel farmers to plough up a portion of 1915. It also decided on 31 March, 1915, that A law of 22 August, 1917. authorizes the Govern- their grass lands, and has allotted a premium for was all in private possession remaining unculti- ment will take measures for better cultivation, voluntary ploughing of this sort. land vated at the end of 1915 might be requisitioned. by prescribing the description of crop to be grown, Switzerland.—Continuing the provisions of the cultivation of sugar beet on colonized lands and by requisitioning and itself cultivating spe- decree of 17 February, 1917, authorizing enforced The limitations in 1915, so that the cified areas. Under Government instructions the leasing by the Cantonal Governments for their own was subjected to under winter rye and spring wheat might be area under food crops in 1918 was increased by account of all arable land left uncultivated or im- area about 600,000 hectares. perfectly farmed, also their cultivating such land duly increased. Austria ministerial decree dated 3 March, By order dated 12 November, 1917, all grain in- and requisitioning the necessary labor and ma- —A that waste lands not dealt with before tended for seed purposes may be officially tested, chines, the Federal Council has approved a decree 1915, orders be requisitioned with the view of and farmers are requested to take every possible under date 15 January, 1918, intended to bring into 15 April shall production, that their preparation shall care in the selection and use of seed. use all the resources of the country, for the pro- cereal and immediately in accordance with the ar- Italy.—A decree of 19 August, 1916, allots a pre- duction of foodstuffs. be begun of the Commission on Crops. mium of 5 liras per quintal for wheat, and 3 liras The Cantonal Governments are authorized to rangements of April, 1916, orders the compulsory per quintal for all other grain under condition that stimulate production of vegetables and field crops by A decree of all lands capable of being utilized. the grain is grown upon soil brought into cultiva- vtilizing gardens, pleasure grounds, and private cultivation Hungary. A ministerial order dated 24 March, tion during the ensuing season. A decree of 15 meadow land, by acquiring the leases of areas fit — authorizes landowners to cancel farm leases January, 1917, devotes a further premium of 200,- for cultivation, and arranging that each family 1915, for any reason whatever has 000 liras for encouragement of cereal cultivation, to should grow the necessary household vegetables, when the occupier his field work at the proper be apportioned amongst farmers at the discretion also that associations and public establishments, failed to carry out of Minister of Agriculture (1 lira=l franc at par). including the communes themselves should pro- time. to the Oesterreichische Landwirtscaft- A decree of 4 October, 1917, fixes premiums pay- vide in like manner for the needs of their employes According of Vienna of 3 August, able by the Government on cereals harvested dur- and their cattle. Hche Genossenschaftspresse the Hungarian Government has authorized ing 1918 in eight provinces of southern Italy, pro- All inhabitants are called upon to render mutual 1916, bodies, with the view of agricultural op- vided that the crops are placed at the disposal of aid in land improvement and harvesting work, and municipal requisition all labor available in the the authorities or are requisitioned by them; the Government measures are taken to ensure supplies erations, to suitable terms of payment, inclusive of premiums are as follows: 9 liras per quintal for of seed and fertilizers. country, on boys. hard wheat; 7.50 liras per quintal for soft and half By decree of 24 May, 1918, farmers are required women, girls and be continued) hard wheat; 6 liras per quintal for rye and barley; to sow at least the same extent of land for the (to 5.50 liras per quintal for oats and maize. crops of 1919 as that ordered for 1918. The Fed- By decree of 18 August, 1918, increased pre- eral Council is empowered to issue special decrees FRANCE harvested 137,500 acres which was re- miums were granted for the crops of 1919 in the enjoining a still larger extension of cereal cultiva- covered from Hun armies in July and August. THEAMERICAN ELEVATOR AND January 15, 1919 GRAIN TRADE 501

ing made in the price which was paid for the 70- Ii No up;.r. pound bushels. The long incline up which the loaded wagons pass N El is about 10 feet wide, a stout railing being erected IT on either side. The going-up portion of the trestle is made of cross-planking, 5 inches wide by iy2 »ELL, we did it after all and got to that ele- who, after telling me some things about the plant inches thick, set up edgewise upon six stringers dis- vator in spite of Illinois' muddy clay and their methods of operating, very kindly turned tributed along the 10 j foot length of the cross-plank- and Willie's very notionable automobile. But, me loose in the elevator with the words: "Just help ing. The two middle joists, those under the horses, although Willie did his best, I had to leave him be- yourself," which I surely did—to data and dust par- were 2x12 inches, and the joists under the wheels hind and enlist the services of both the Pennsyl- ticularly. are 3x12 inches. vania and the Baltimore Railroads, before meeting The elevator receives its corn entirely from teams, The floor planks, set edgewise as stated, are sepa- up with that grain elevator which we were chasing the neighboring farmers bringing it in from miles rated above each joist by a bit of 1-inch board and all around Xenia, Flora and Clay City. We found that around. To take care of the team loads, a wagon at each joist the floor planks are spiked to the

none of those places had grain elevators of notice- scale is located close to the shipping office, the board and to the plank preceding it, and well tarred. able size and then, after following directions to weighing being done from inside of the elevator This form of trestle floor affords excellent foot hold reach a fair sized "elevator" we found upon arrival building. The wagons ascend a long trestle, built to the horses, and the 5-inch planks will stand a through and over the mud—through mostly— that up an incline and dump their loads through the good deal of wear before they need replacing. the alleged elevator would be a flour mill. level top of the trestle, which is 100 feet long and The "going down" portion of the trestle is One day, Willie's cousin took me in his little Ford floored with ordinary 2-inch planks of random f <£V>W. 6L(/'r for a ride from Sailor Springs to Clay City where, widths laid flatwise, and pieces of board, 2 or 3 he said, there was a fine elevator. We found the /J ma inches wide are nailed on about every 18 inches place all right, after some very heavy "mudding," to give holding power to the horses' feet. As hut found another flour mill instead of a grain ele- only the empty wagon is to be held back, the vator. During this ride we passed through the planking is sufficient and the incline does not path of the cyclone which last April (1918) did have to be as long as on the driving up end of many thousands of dollars worth of damage to the the trestle. Underneath the trestle six hopper crops and stocks of the farmers thereabouts. bins permit as many kinds of corn to be seg- We passed a load of wheat which was being taken to the so-called "elevator," and Willie's cousin told a good story about the man who was driving the load. It was a true story, I find, of what actually happened during the night of the cyclone. Willie even called to the driver of the team, whose name was Sam, and got him to relate the story. Sam, in telling the story, said: "That night I slept up stairs with two of my children, while my wife, who was in bed with a very young baby, occupied a room down stairs. When the 'twister' hit our house it lifted the roof off slick and clean and some of the concrete blocks from the chimney fell right on the bed between myself and the two small children, but luckily injured none of us. It rained eight or nine days last week—that of December 15, so I left Willie's friend digging away REPARTEE IN CLAY COUNTY. ILLINOIS at a big ball of mud, to see if there was an auto- contains six dumps. A wagon is driven upon one mobile inside of it, while I jumped a train for of these "dumps," and upon the moving of a lever Lawrenceville, 111., and hunted up the grain elevator the back wheels of the wagon sink through the of The Horner Elevator & Mill Company, which was trestle until the rear axle rests upon the floor of the trestle. Each dump consists of two planks which are set in holes cut in the floor of the trestle. Each plank is about a foot wide and a little longer than the wheel base of a farm wagon. The planks are pivoted, not in the middle, but at a point a little

behind where the forward wagon wheel would rest THE PLACE LIVES UP TO ITS NAME on the plank when the hind wheel is fairly on the rear end of the plank. Thus, with the wagon regated and sent to the corn sheller as required. so located a movement of the lever frees the planks The corn shellers noted by the writer in upon which the wagon rests, the rear wheels go Memphis and other southern cities, seemed in- down, the front wheels of the wagon up a bit and variably to be having a hard time and soon shook the corn can be easily slid out of the rear end of the themselves to pieces. This was attributed by the wagon and through a trap in the trestle floor which writer to the excessively high speed at which each is located just behind or in the rear of the tilting sheller seemed to be operated, the shellers soon shak- planks. ing themselves to pieces and needing constant re- It is necessary to unhitch the horses before dump- pairs. This trouble was not noted in the corn sheller ing the load because the sinking of the rear wagon at the Lawrenceville elevator and it was stated that wheels throws the wagon tongue up about 10 feet they never had any trouble with the shellers. which would make it rather uncomfortable for any But, I noted this difference in the operation of the horse which might be hitched thereto. After the sheller here and in the South. The ones in Dixie corn has been removed, the wagon is moved ahead by shucked corn as well as shelled it, while the one in man power a few feet, until the tilting planks swing Illinois merely removed the corn from the cob. Per- back into place again and are locked by the lever haps the shucking was the extra work which caused mechanism. so much trouble in the shelling machines. To remove corn from a tilted wagon, a man got After the corn has been shelled it passes into a FROM THE FORD TO THE TWISTERS' CONVENTION ill on top of the corn and, taking hold of the side- large elevator which carries it to the top of the boards, began a treadmill act, holding himself fast house. There it passes through a "Western" Corn found to be doing business at the old stand beside by his hands to the sideboards. When the rear end of Cleaner. The house is fitted also with a wheat clean- the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, right in the heart the wagon had been well emptied of corn, another ing machine but this was not in operation at the of the little city. man would get into the wagon, behind the first man, time of my visit. As I mentioned, the elevator was This elevator has a capacity of about 50,000 bush- and both doing the tread mill act, the last ear of operating at this time entirely on corn, which, by els, and at the time of my visit was operating al- corn was soon kicked out of the wagon body. the way, is very poor this year, the elevator man most entirely on corn. The elevator is quite an old All corn brought to this elevator is weighed be- telling me that hardly any of the corn received would one, with massive wooden construction, timbers fore being unloaded, and settlement is made on the grade above No. 3. 12 by 12 inches square being found in great sticks, basis of 70 pounds to the bushel, cobs and moisture Hundreds of acres of corn lands, with the grain some of them extending from bottom to top of the amounts to come out of that weight. No matter how still on the stalk, is under water in the southern and tall house. wet or dry the corn might be 70 pounds was always eastern portions of Illinois. The recent heavy rains In the elevator, I met genial Mr. F. J. Horner a "bushel," allowance for wet corn or dry corn be- had flooded thousands of acres along the Wabash ELEVATOR AND 502 GRAIN TRADE Thirty-Seventh Year River and much of the corn was known to be down, resting on the ground. "Such corn," the elevator .uracil mxh as a Hay Leimteir man said, "will be a total loss. The ears will get into the mud, be buried, and will be soured and Am Exchange 'chat was Formerly a Storm Center in the spoiled long before the water dries out enough to ire Dead it permit the corn to be shucked." Here's a right strong argument for the early lOR many years dealers of hay in the Cincin- would like to emphasize that the shipper who loads shucking of corn, but the farmers bring up the ex- nati market endeavored to establish some sys- his car uniformly will invariably receive higher cuse that they cannot get the necessary help. This tem of handling this forage whereby disputes returns for the hay. During the past month a few excuse should at once be taken care of by the manu- between receiver and shipper could be eliminated. cars have come into Cincinnati loaded with sev- facturers of farm machinery, and a machine de- Many meetings of the trade were held at which eral grades of hay. It stands to reason that buy- signed and built which will gather and shuck corn both sides of the question were discussed and ers will not bid as liberally on a car of this char- when it is hauled along the rows in the field by after each meeting it was determined to make some acter as they will on one which has been loaded horses or, better yet, a tractor. The design of such change in the grades, it being thought that at the uniformly. But let us get back to the market. a machine is not a great undertaking. They have time the grades under which we were working Something had to be done, and a special com- machines for gathering cotton, and one could be were too rigid, and as a result the market worked mittee was appointed which worked vigorously to readily worked out which would gather many acres under its own grades, disregarding those fixed by devise a plan to eliminate all objectionable fea- of corn in a day's time, with the labor of but one the National Hay Association. tures of the old system and to institute a fair and or two men to handle the machine. It would save Each of these experiments resulted in some good, square method for all. many thousands of bushels • of corn which is now but notwithstanding all of this, complaints were After many months of study and hard work it lost through delay in harvesting, by lack of help, etc. not eliminated. The old come-back attached to each was determined to install what is known as the In the Lawrenceville elevator "Hay Plugging System," this the writer noted a novel ar- being copied after the success- rangement in connection with ful system in operation at Kan- the corn cleaning machine up in sas City, Mo. the top of the house. The clean- The photograph submitted ing machine, which was made herewith shows far better than by the Union Iron Works of De- words can describe how the hay catur, 111., had three fans or is removed from the cars and blowers instead of one blower. the opportunity which is afford- Either one or all of these fans ed buyers to thoroughly exam- could be used at any time as re- ine every bale in the car before quired and by their use the making a bid. grain cleaning power of the ma- It pictures a "Square Deal" chine was greatly increased. system which cannot work any When the corn was very heavy possible hardship on the ship- and quite dirty, two of the fans per. He is protected and gets would be used, furnishing a the full price for his hay, in strong blast of air for removing competition with other hay. trash and other undesirable sub- The danger of having to ac- stance from the corn. cept less money for his con- When matters were very bad, HHShSSIsI signment has been removed. indeed, all three of the blowers There is no refund of money al- TRADERS ON HAY TRACKS AT CINCINNATI would be started to work. But, ready paid because of subse- when the corn was very clean to begin with, then and every car of hay is still fresh in the minds of quent claims on the ground that the hay proved in- only one of the blowers would be operated to clean many shippers and bears repeating here, although ferior to sample when actually unloaded. The ihe corn exceedingly well. This elevator was oper- fortunately those days of trouble are past. problem has been solved. All the old causes of ated by steam power, a boiler fired with corn cobs Formerly when a car of hay arrived in the mar- friction have been wiped out and Cincinnati has furnishing the little engine with plenty of steam. ket, several handfuls of hay were taken from the been made the ideal hay trading center, one price In the top of the mill the writer noticed consider- bales nearest the door and this was graded by the tor the entire carload. able old-time millwrighting, the shafting being official inspector. The sample was tagged and If the buyer pays more for the hay than he should jcurnalled in little "flat" boxes, with the necessary brought on 'Change where it was sold as rep- have, that is his loss, while if it proves a bargain adjustments made by the bridgetrees being placed resenting the contents of the entire car. The car that is his gain. Competition is so keen that the on wedges above and below in order that their posi- was then forwarded either to a point beyond Cin- market is kept at its proper level. When a carload tions might be shifted readily to make the belts cinnati or to a local warehouse, where it was un- of hay is offered for sale, the buyer walks into the "track" closely. There was also a whole lot of old- loaded and reinspected bale for bale. These in- car, examines its contents, and bids a flat price for time framing in the trestle, noted elsewhere, for re- spections always disclosed a lot of hay of a differ- the hay as he sees it. If he feels that not suffi- ceiving and unloading corn. The floor stringers ent character than that represented by the sample cient bales have been removed to enable him to a were all carried on caps, the tops of which had been and then the receiver called for discount which thorough and complete view of all the hay he de- beveled or ehampfered to the angle of the incline, resulted in a series of disputes between the man in mands the removal of more bales, and the Cincin- then the caps were carried on 8x8 posts. the country and his agent. And right here we nati Grain and Hay Exchange has sufficient labor

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present at all times to make one of these deeper scribed above and be the inspection so submitting the samples that they should be sub- point for both shipments, there must be an inspec- mitted to some licensed inspector for that purpose, plugs. As a result of the Hay Plugging System, which tion point for each shipment, evidenced, respectively, explaining at the same time the respective functions has been in operation since November, 1917, re- by an "in" and "out" certificate. This does not mean of the supervisors and licensed inspectors under the ceipts of hay at Cincinnati have been increased necessarily in such a case that the inspector shall re- law. Very truly yours, Charles J. Brand. about 50 per cent, 10,000 cars having been received sample the car for the purpose of issuing the "out" Chief of Bureau. certificate. at the track during the year 1918, amply testifying If the consignee of the first shipment knew at the general satisfaction ON THE GERMAN'S RETREAT to the that plan has given both time of its arrival that the corn was expected to move to shippers and to receivers. out on the afternoon of the same day in the second shipment, it would seem, as a matter of convenience Right up to the last the German armies continued to himself and the inspector, that he should ask for their acts of barbarous destruction which have NEW BLOOD AT OMAHA inspections at the same time. In such a case, if both given them for all time the ignoble title of Huns. the Act and the Rules and Regulations thereunder be So it was that Attila "Scourge of God" and king of Frank Foltz, manager of the Maney Grain Com- otherwise complied with, the inspector could make one pany of Omaha, Neb., assumed his new position on sampling of the car suffice for both inspections and certificates. October 1, with a long and successful experience For various reasons, however, it might not be prac- in the grain and milling business behind him. ticable to ask for the "out" inspection certificate until The grain experience of Mr. Foltz dates from after the "in" inspection certificate had been issued. 1893, when he started as bookkeeper for the Newton Even then it does not follow that it would be necessary to resample the car. Some time must have elapsed between the sampling of the car and the issuance of the "in" inspection certificate. When it is proposed to move the grain out the same day, but little additional time will elapse before the "out" inspection certificate is desired. Ordinarily the inspector's responsibility would not be increased. It would seem, then, under most conditions in the case you present that he should be satisfied with the sampling already done and should issue the "out" inspection certificate on the basis of the results already obtained without resampling. It is thought that for such cases the inspector might materially reduce the fee charged for the "out" certificate to an amount almost nominal, but sufficient to cover the time and material required. It may be that there would be times—for example, HUN FIRE NEAR GRANARY AT VALENCENNES during the spring of the year or when there is other- Canadian Official Photograph from Underwood & wise likelihood of rapid deterioration—that the in- Underwood. spector would feel there was an added risk that he the Huns went through Europe in the sixth century, would not care to assume. In that case he should burning, destroying and pillaging. But he was a resample the car. It is necessary that he exercise reasonable discretion in the light of the existing con- child in destruction compared to his modern emu- ditions. Very truly yours, Charles J. Brand, lant, the German soldier. Chief Bureau. of The accompanying illustration shows a fire that FRANK FOLTZ was started by the Huns near a large granary at SAMPLES SUBMITTED FOR THE PURPOSE OF Valencennes, just before they were driven out of (Kan.) Milling & Elevator Company He served ASSIGNING A GRADE THERETO SHOULD BE SUB- with that company in various capacities until late MITTED TO A LICENSED INSPECTOR that city by the Canadians during the closing days of in the fall of 1899, when the Warkentin interests Dear Sir: Reference is made to copies of your let- the war. The reign of terror the Germans es- ters of to the organized the Blackwell Mill & Elevator Company tablished in 1914 brought to them the detestation Company, , and of built plant at Blackwell, Foltz and enmity of the entire world. It led to their and the Okla. Mr. to the Company, was in charge of the building operations at final overthrow, and yet with the certainty of final Black- , advising them re- well during the winter of 1899 and 1900. The mill spectively of the grade of certain samples of wheat defeat staring them in the face, they continued to submitted by them to you for that purpose. carry out the practice that had been instilled into started operation on August 1, 1900, and he was Your attention is called to the fact that, under the them by the military leaders. We can only be manager and secretary until December, 1913. L'nited States grain standards Act, the function of thankful for the just retribution that is coming to On January 1, 1914, Mr. Foltz moved to Oklahoma grading grain and informing interested parties of the in the internal dissensions City to take the position of secretary of the Okla- results thereof is committed in the first instance to them that are now rock- the inspectors holding licenses issued for that pur- ing their native land. homa Millers Association, in which capacity he pose to them by the Secretary of Agriculture, and served until taking his present position. that it is only in respect to the grade of grain in- Mr. Foltz has a great many friends in the South- volved in an appeal or dispute properly referred to WORLD GRAIN SUPPLY AND west and West, and he will carry to his new work the Department's officers for determination that offi- DEMAND cers of the Department are expected to advise inter- a great amount of good will from shippers and ested parties. This does not mean that supervisors buyers in that territory. It is highly important just now to have as def- are required to refrain from giving all possible in- inite knowledge as possible of the grain supplies, formation in respect to the application of standards RULINGS OF BUREAU OF MARKETS for grain and kindred subjects within the knowledge prospects and probable demands of the world. Cer- WORLD GRAIN SUPPLY AND DEMAND SERVICE AND REGULATORY ANNOUNCEMENTS No. 40 DOES NOT SUPERSEDE SERVICE AND Table compiled from Report of International Institute of Agriculture (Rome): (000 omitted)

- No. 26. - • - REGULATORY ANNOUNCEMENTS Wheat Rye -Barley Oats Corn v Dear Sir: Reference is made to your letter of No- Average Average Average Average Average 191 S requirement 1918 requiremen t 191S requirement 191S requirement 1918 requirement vember 18, 1918, addressed to Mr. Philip Rothrock, yield 1914-1918 Yield 1914-191S Yield 1914-1918 Yield 1914-1918 Yield 1914-1918 of this Bureau, in which you request the "opinion of Spain 133,074 145,665 30,316 25,698 NS.9S0 78,734 30,269 32,247 26,539 33,947 the Department of Agriculture as to whether or not Grt. Brit. & Irel'd. 91,120 *272,000 271 63.97S 33,380 Circular No. 40 supersedes Circular No. 26 and France •220,000 *360,000 Italy 176,160 24,908 4.716 5,769 9,160 10,611 41,220 54,032 104,160 inspectors continue to use out-certifi- whether may Belgium *64,000 cates on the basis of sampling for the in-inspection Norway 6,051 7,054 5,271 13,657 1,536 if the inspector desires to" do so." Holland 4,818 24,299 10,190 14,375 2,166 6,251 24,683 21,261 22,723 3,309 Service and Regulatory Announcements No. 40 Sweden 6.59S 14,716 25,603 12,911 13,240 64,502 76,085 Switzerland 7,086 18.166 1,847 2,055 664 1,461 5,173 10,854 3i57 3.S35 (Markets), to which you refer, does not supersede or Canada 210,070 103,864 10,359 2,035 83,026 38,348 483,909 391,473 6,905 19 390 in any way modify Service and Regulatory Announce- United States 917,841 595,387 76,552 37,771 235,833 179,091 1,530,965 1 274,467 2,667,182 2,797!4S4 British India 379,378 ments No. 26 (Markets). Japan 31,088 25,484 75,840 95,886 5,750 3,918 No. 40 was issued for. the purpose of calling to the Algeria 24,236 29,275 7,660 attention of grain dealers certain classes of viola- Egypt 32,516 35,210 9,842 13,016 74,5 6 7 " ". . 9,160 4,227 3,847 226 tions of the United States grain standards Act which Tunis . 8,441 6,033 Argentine 21S.365 63,406 1,807 3,457 17,051 170,365 87,356 have come to the attention of the Bureau of Markets. 34,226 28,873 South Africa 9,523 11,659 . It defines in a general way the requirements imposed Australia tll5,230 *40,000 Zealand t6,26S 6,679 828 920 ll,i514 424 357 upon shippers by Section 4 of the United States grain New standards Act, particularly with reference to the •Broomhall's estimate. tCrop of 1917-1918. "out" inspection of grain following the "in" inspection of the same grain in the same market. An example of the supervisor, but the giving of such information tain countries are isolated and exact information a correspond- should stop short of providing information as to the is given of an interstate shipment and concerning them is impossible to obtain. Russia, ing transaction for which an "out" inspection would actual grade of any lot or parcel of grain not the sub- tor instance, normally a large grain exporter, this be required and with respect to which a prior "in" ject of an appeal or dispute, so that the function of inspection would not suffice. grain supervisors may be kept separate and distinct year will probably produce no more than is re- Service and Regulatory Announcements No. 26, from that of inspection and grading of grain. Any quired for its own people. The production figures policy might lead to friction or misunderstand- Item 25, among other things, discusses the question of other in Germany and Austria are not obtainable and whether or not an inspector must obtain a new sam- ing in case the grain from which the sample sub- probably would not be reliable if they were. France, ple for the purpose of an "out" inspection when he mitted for grading to the supervisor was taken should already has a sample obtained for the purpose of a become thereafter the subject of an appeal or dispute, Belgium and Great Britain have also not reported prior "in" inspection. The paragraphs of that opin- resulting in the assignment of a different grade. fully. But with these exceptions a pretty close es- that in the future when ion which are most important in this connection read It is suggested, therefore, timate can be made from the figures compiled by as follows: samples are submitted to you for the purpose of as- the International Institute of Agriculture. If the particular case in question be of the kind designing a grade thereto you will advise the persons ELEVATOR AND 504 GRAIN TRADE Thirty-Seventh Year

come if we assume the normal abandonment for win- irrotecfnng m® Wlheat rncc Gnu ter wheat and the five-year average yield and a planting in the spring of 1919 equal to last year with Food Adnraimsfaratiora airad Department of Agriculture legira F lans ag the average yield for the last five years: Bushels :fa® Promise t© Wheat Farmers— Prs Winter wheat 697,900,000 iHE manner in which the guaranteed wheat it may be assumed that the domestic consumption Spring wheat 303,000,000 price for 1919 is to be met is giving much out of the 1919 crop including seed wheat reserved, concern to Food Administration and other cannot exceed 640,000,000 bushels as a maximum. Total 1,000,900,000 Government officials. On December 27 Secretary 4. Reports indicate that the wheat planted in the Deduct seed and domestic consumption 640,000,000 D. F. Houston presented' to A. F. Lever, chairman fall of 1918, enters the winter in better condition of the House Committee on Agriculture, a memo- and with the appearance of producing a larger per Net total 360,900,000 randum, signed by himself and Edgar Rickard and acre yield than the winter wheat planted in the It would be unwise not to make provision for the William A. Glasgow, Jr., of the Food Administra- fall of 1917. possible maximum quantity to be handled. tion, in which suggestions are made for making the 5. In order to meet the competition from Argen- 7. The total estimated elevator capacity for carry- guarantee possible. tina and other countries, it seems apparent that ing wheat is probably at a maximum as follows: After reviewing the Act enabling the President our wheat of the 1919 crop, for export, must be Bushels to fix the price, and summing up the 1918 crop situ- paid for here at the guaranteed price and perhaps Public terminals 150,000,000 ation, the memorandum suggests that if the demand sold in competition at a price considerably below Country elevators 100,000,000 from abroad continues until June of this year the the guaranteed price. If we sell export wheat at a Mill elevators 100,000,000 Grain Corporation will be able to carry out the price below the guaranteed price there would be obligations of the United States as to the crop of difficulty in holding our own people to a price for Total 350,000,000 1918 without impairing its capital of $150,000,000. flour based on the guaranteed price of wheat, even If the crop' of 1919 should be to any considerable If the foreign demand should decrease, amount in excess of the 1918 crop, as however, further appropriations by now seems probable, it will be neces- Congress might be necessary. sary to provide additional wheat- In regard to the 1919 crop the memo- storage capacity to carry out the guar- randum says: NECESSARY MEASURES TO CARRY OUT anteed price of wheat for the 1919 The carrying out of the guaranteed GUARANTEE crop. Storage capacity is essential, for price of wheat "harvested in the the guaranteed price is limited to the United States during the year 1919 and Suggestions in Secretary Houston's first of June, 1920, and producers will offered for sale before the 1st day of Report to Congress certainly rush their wheat to market, June, 1920," fixed by the President's in order not to be caught on June 1, proclamation of 1918, in 1920, with wheat on hand, the September 2, Congress will have to extend time for purchase of and pursuance of the direction of the Act United States must take the wheat 1919 crop beyond June 1, 1920, with such provisions and of Congress of August 10, 1917, pre- when offered. safeguards as be necessary to protect the sents a much more difficult situation, may Govern- 8. In conclusion we submit the fol- of which Congress should be advised, ment from wheat harvested in 1920 being mixed with lowing: and such agencies should be created wheat of the 1919 crop. (a) The guaranteed price of "every and appropriations made, by Congress, producer" is only effective provided the will insure the carrying of the wheat is "offered for sale before the as out Present agency will have to be continued or a new guaranteed price "to every producer of 1st day of June, 1920." It will be im- one created to buy and sell the wheat, and ample funds wheat," in its integrity. We, there- possible to carry out this guaranty as be provided to purchase such wheat as fore, deem it desirable to call the at- must may be of- it is intended by June 1, 1920, and if tention of Congress to the situation, as fered to it and also to provide storage facilities to take producers cannot sell their wheat to it appears at present. care of same by lease or purchase or both. the United States before that date and 1. The number of acres of wheat are left with wheat on hand, it will be planted for the 1918 crop was as fol- felt that the obligation of the United Government will have to be protected against wheat lows: States has not been carried out in or flour brought in from other countries during the Winter wheat 42,301,000 acres good faith. Therefore, Congress will Spring wheat 22,406,000 acres period when guaranteed price is effective, and also to pro- have to extend this date with such protect purchasers of such wheat so long as the same is in visions and safeguards as may be Total 64,707,000 acres the country and not consumed. necessary to protect the Government However, of the winter wheat planted from wheat harvested in 1920 being about 5,000,000 acres were abandoned. mixed with wheat of the 1919 crop. From this planting there was (esti- (b) The present agency will have to- mated) harvested 917,100,000 bushels. For the har- if this were desirable which, of course, it is not. be continued or a new one created with power to vest of 1919 it is estimated that there have been 6. The planting of winter wheat for the crop of buy, store, and sell such wheat of the 1919 crop planted 49,261,000 acres of winter wheat, an increase 1919 is now estimated at 49,261,000 acres. If a like as may be offered to it, and sufficient appropriation of 16.5 per cent over the winter wheat planted in increase occurs in spring planting in 1919 over the will have to be made to furnish such agency with the fall of 1917, for the crop of 1918. The spring planting in the spring of 1918, there would be a total ample funds to at all times purchase throughout wheat has not yet been planted, but if there is the acreage planted for 1919 wheat of 75,261,000 acres, the United States, at the guaranteed price, such same increase in planting of spring wheat in 1919 and a yield on the basis of present indications for wheat of the 1919 crop as may be offered to it and as there is (estimated) as to winter wheat, the winter wheat and of the five-year yield for spring also to provide storage facilities to take care of total acreage of spring wheat may be about 26,000,- wheat of approximately 1,114,500,000 bushels, or an the same by lease or purchase of facilities or both. 000 acres or a total estimated acreage of about 75,- increase of about 197,000,000 bushels. If we deduct The appropriation will have to be on a basis to 000,000 acres. The above would indicate that the the quantity needed for seed for the 1920 crop, enable the guaranteed price to be maintained at all harvest of 1919 would be in excess of the number of namely, 90,000,000 bushels, and that needed for times by purchase of wheat with funds provided by bushels harvested in 1918. maximum home consumption, 55,000,000, we would the Government and without relying on outside 2. The normal pre-war annual export of wheat have remaining for export and carry-over 474,500,000. credit. from the United States was, about, on the average Bushels (c) Provision may have to be made by Congress of 10 years, 110,000,000 bushels. It is estimated Possible 1919 crop 1,114,500,000 for the protection of the Government against wheat

that the total export of wheat and flour (in terms Deduct probable seed requirements... . 90,000,000 or flour brought in from other Countries during the of wheat) of the 1918 crop will be about 310,000,000 period when the guaranteed price is effective, and bushels. The export of wheat of the 1919 crop can 1,024,500,000 also to protect purchasers of such wheat so long

not be expected to reach the volume of the 1918 Deduct maximum home consumption. . 550,000,000 as the same is in the country and not consumed. crop in view of the fact that Argentina, Australia, Such provision was made by Section 14 of the Act

Canada, India, and other wheat-producing countries Remaining for export and carry-over. .. .474,500,000 of August 10, 1917, but the same expires with the will be in the market with their current crops and In addition to the above it seems probable that proclamation of peace. the reserves which they have been unable to ship, there will be a considerable carry-over from the which was not true crop of at least for a considerable part 1918. The quantity of wheat to be handled WHEAT is the dominant crop of Italy although of the time that the 1918 crop was being marketed, may, of course, be greater than this; it may be considerable corn is grown and consumed there. and the countries of Europe will be in somewhat smaller. The planting in the spring of 1919 may There are 32,855,000 tillable acres in the country better situation for home production of foodstuffs. not be as great as that assumed. Weather condi- and of these about 11,800,000 are put into wheat and 3. The pre-war domestic average consumption of tions, while more favorable than usual to date, may normally yield in the neighborhood of 15 bushels to wheat in the United States did not exceed 600,000,- not continue favorable. the acre. The meat consumption is only 13 pounds 000 bushels, including seed reserved, and we think The following table will indicate the possible out- per person a year. — . —

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census. The heavy increases, of course, were in the newer states, and in some of these the Bureau ran rapidly ahead of the census, notably in Kansas, ticism ©f the Existing Machinery Oklahoma, Texas, the Mountain and Pacific states, and in these same states we find the in- Showing Possibility of 4(80-000-01 unusual crease over the last census. Ten years ago the in Tota Bureau failed to record the development of North Dakota. The present acreage in the Northwest, Oklahoma, Texas, the other Southern, the Moun- ECENT revision of the estimated acreage of A comparison of the reports of the Agricultural tain and Pacific Coast states show the heavy in- important crops by the Agricultural Depart- Bureau with census decennial report will illumi- crease, and they may be visualized in the follow- ment evoked some unfavorable criticism nate the situation, and remove a great deal of un- ing table: from the grain trade, which has accustomed itself just criticism. Crop reporting began to assume Per cent to reliance upon the initial acreage, and which something of a scientific character during the nine- Bureau Census Increase Increase 1918 1909 ties, but the correspondents were far out of line was thrown into confusion by the drastic reduction Ohio 11,284 11,155 129 1.1 Ind in the estimated corn crop. It is a usual thing for as shown by the census report of the crops of 12,340 10,882 1.45S 13.5 111 20,999 19,665 1,334 6.S the Department to revise its acreage, and in the 1899. The Bureau was 20,000,000 acres less than Iowa 20,892 19,218 1,674 8.S the actual. During the next 10 years improvement Mo 14,675 13,648 1,027 7.5 past three or four years a sincere effort has been Neb 15,897 14,750 1,147 7.9 made to check over the preliminary and final esti- in the methods failed to register accurately, and Kan 20,687 17,412 3,275 13.1 Mich 8,545 7,829 716 9.2 mates in order to approximate the facts. This the sum of the annual guess showed 10,500,000 Wis 8,295 7,897 398 5.0 more acres than the census. The acreage after Minn 15,174 12,516 2.65S 21.3 constant revision is imperative in view of the N. Dak 15,997 13,321 2,676 20.1 divergence every 10 years between the Agricultural the report of the census for 1899 was not read- S. Dak 12,091 9,039 3,052 33.9 Ky 6,675 5,798 877 15.1 Bureau's acreage and crop results and those as- justed properly, due to an unfortunate conflict on Okla 12,564 10,443 2,119 20.2 the part of the Agricultural Department and an Texas 23,821 17,081 6,780 39.6 certained by the census enumerators, which latter Southern 69,603 55,921 13,682 24.4 are more likely to be close to, if not, the actual effort to rectify alleged inaccuracies of the cen- Eastern 26,278 25,170 1,108 4.4 Mountain 12,556 6,476 6,080 94.3 acreage at that time. sus, had the acreage been adjusted to the census, Facific ' 11,659 7,545 4,114 54.8

The methods employed by the Bureau and by the the Bureau in 1909 would have been 25,000,000 The velocity of increasing acreage in . the past private crop reporters are identical, and their re- acres higher. two years is interesting. The revision of 1911 ports are largely the average guess of their cor- Bureau's Census Bureau over showed an advance of 20,000,000 acres in two years. Estimate 1909 Returns 1909 Census respondents. 1 have found in my experience, Ohio 10,346 11,153 *807 At the outbreak of the great war, the advance was Indiana .... 11,320 10,882 438 27,000,000 acres, showing a natural increment. and Government agents inform me of a similar Illinois 19,626 19,665 *39 condition, that the average crop reporter thinks Iowa 18,360> 19,218 *85S Since then there has been an increase of 33,000,000 Missouri . . . 13,745 13,648 97 in multiples of five; in fact, the human mind when Nebraska 14,841 14,750 191 acres, or a total of 60,000,000 in the nine years. The Kansas .... 19,675 17,412 2,263 making a comparative estimate of indefinite quan- increase last year over 1917 was 12,00,000 acres, Michigan . . . 8,856 7,829 1,027 tities falls into a habit of using the changes in Wisconsin . . 7,929 7,897 32 indicating an unusual effort on the part of the Minnesota 13,040 12,516 524 comparison on a 5 per cent basis. In checking North Dakota 11,144 13,321 2,177 farmers of the country to meet the unprecedented South Dakota 9,125 9,039 86 over my reports on the corn crop last June I found demand for food and feedstuffs. It seems incred- Kentucky . . 5,484 5,798 •314

Oklahoma . . 12,628 10,445 2.1S3 ible that during the two years we have been in the that 2,136 correspondents gave the . changes in Texas 20,479 17,081 3,398 that acreage should have been so largely multiples of five, 496 showed a greater accuracy in Southern . . 59,400 55,821 3.579 war the Eastern .... 26,111 25,170 941 giving figures in other than fives, and 12 gave increased, considering the number of men who Mountain . . 8,321 6,476 1,845 split or fractional differences, while 186 would not Pacific 8,936 7,545 1,391 have been drafted into the service, and the move- venture a guess in figures, but used such terms *Less. ment of farm laborers to the munition factories The 1909 census report made public in the lat- as "larger," "much larger." and higher city wages. ter part of 1911 was accepted by the Agricultural As a large number of my correspondents are The back-to-the-farm movement in the nineties, Department and its acreage revised to the census also representing the Government, the same varia- due to the business depression of the first half returns. It is significant that in the reports, the tion in estimates prevails in the Government com- of that period, was a natural movement, and it es- widest variation was in the corn acreage. In 1909 pilation. The Government and other crop report- caped the crop reporters, who probably formed a the Bureau was 7,500,000 higher than the census ers use their heads in weighing the acreage by very thin line on the outskirts of production, this had been further increased to 116,000.000 acres sections, and also in changing estimates in locali- where the increase was enormous. There has not in 1911, and in the revision was cut back 10,000,000 ties where it is evident the local reporters are been any movement to the farms, and when one more, thus giving an increase in two years of this out of line with known physical condition. goes over the returns and finds an average gain one crop of 8 per cent, compared with an increase The state and county agents of the Government of acreage in the states of large acreage, and larg- of only 4 per cent in the previous 10 years. are constantly checking up on their reports, even est available farm labor in averages less than 9 The annual guessing method with its rectifica- after compilations, and frequently after crops are per cent gain, he would be justified in assuming tions had resulted last in a total increase gathered, they are enabled from the receipts and year on that the country wide gain does not exceed 12 per the reported crops of 66,000,000 acres, which, under local consumption to rectify mistakes, and this has cent, and that present reported acreage is too the recent revision, has been cut down to 60,000,000 given rise to the revision of the previous year's large by 20,000,000, which, if distributed among acres. The revised acreage is now 21.1 per cent acreage, which confuses and irritates trade inter- the grains where the variation has usually oc- in excess of that of the census of 1909. The details ests. This rectification of acreage, both in the curred, would reduce our total crop by 460,000,000 of the acreage of 1918 compared with the census decrease and in the increase of initial reports, from a reported total of 5,384,000,000 bushels. of 1909, the bureau of 1909, and the census of 1899, must continue in order to bring the conditions of is here presented comprising those crops on which the country's production to something approximat- the Government regularly reports: CHICAGO'S FIRST WHEAT SHIPMENT ing the actual. Bureau Census Bureau Census The solidarity of the . Southern congressmen, 1 91S 1909 1909 1899 Corn which has proven so effectual in political patron- 107,494 98,383 108,771 94,014 Last year Chicago received nearly 70,000,000 Wheat 59,110 44,261 46,723 52,589 age and in benefits to that section, furnishes to Oats 44.400 35,159 33,204 29,540 bushels of wheat and shipped over 50,000,000 bushels. Barley 9,679 7,698 7,011 4,470 Over in the Chicago Historical Society's Building is the farmers generally a suggestion for accuracy in Rye 6,185 2,196 2,006 2,054 trade reporting. The variation in the cotton trade Buckwheat . . . 1,040 878 834 870 a water color painting showing the first wheat ship- Flax 1,93s 2.083 2.742 2,111 was an irritation to the southern planter and to the Rice 1,113 610 720 342 ment from this city. The painting used to belong Tobacco 1,549 1,293 1,180 1,101 to Julian S. Rumsey and was presented to the Chi- cotton consumer, and some years ago, through Potatoes 4,210 3,669 3.525 2,939 that solidarity of action, the South succeeded in Sweet Potatoes 922 641 *641 537 cago Historical Society by his sisters. Hay (Tame).. 55,971 46,715 45,744 39,246 having the production of cotton turned over to the Cotton 35,890 32,444 32,370 24,275 This first shipment was made October 9, 1839, and Beans 2,100 803 *803 454 consisted of 1,678 bushels. It was loaded on the Census Bureau, thus supplementing the Agricul- Kaffir Corn... 5,619 1,635 1.635 267 tural Department, and each year the agents of the Peanuts 2,292 870 870 517 brig Osceola of Buffalo, at the warehouse of New- Sugar Beets. . 592 364 364 110 Bureau make an accurate survey of the cotton Cane Sugar... 300 477 477 387 berry & Dole. This establishment stood on North Sorghum 373 444 444 293 situation. The gins report the amount of cotton Water Street east of the present Rush Street Bridge. Total 291,064 256,953 The painting shows the grain spouted from the turned out, the oil mills, the amount of linters, and 340,777 280,625 Increase 59,152 23,672 34,111 47,048 third story into a box with barrow handles which . 22.4 oil, and the acreage statements of the planters are Per cent Inc . 21.1 9.2 13.3 Agricultural Department not reporting on these two men then carried onto the tiny brig and dumped secured. In June a complete and accurate state- crops in 1909, census report used. into the hold. That was probably done for the ment of the production of cotton is made, and the The location of this large increase in acreage in purpose of tallying, as the painting shows the grain Agricultural Department must, by law, readjust nine years is possible by arranging the acreage of could have been spouted direct from the third story its acreage figures to that ascertained by the Cen- the important grain states and the rest of the coun- of the warehouse into the hold of the brig. sus Bureau. A solidarity of action on the part of try by natural sections, the reported acreage of the congressmen of the Western States could secure each state being consolidated. the same system for the three important crops The sections which may be out of line are as- A PLANTER of North Carolina plowed up his wheat, corn and oats, and the guessing period sumed from the reports of 1919, compared with millet patch when he learned that the seed came would be removed. Until then the Department the census of that period. The older agricultural from Germany. When our troops captured a ma- must do the best possible in approximating the states showed a remarkable alignment with the chine gun they turned the gun on other Huns. THE^MERICAN ELEVATOR AND 506 GRAIN TRADE Thirty-Seventh Year

Corporation ; or, finally, returning the busi- dependence sometime in the future, with THE^MERICAN ness to the grain trade, clearing all remit- many months of hard work and slim returns tances, with the necessary papers, through as the immediate prospect. an appointed bank or the Federal Reserve By the time the new land is broken and a Bank, where the check for shippers deficit crop grown, the present attractive returns would be made out and sent along with the from grain farming will have dwindled to a remittance from the receiver, the whole trans- normal basis, and the young soldier will be too action being cleared within 24 hours and impatient to wait for the certain prosperity Published on the Fifteenth of Each Month without straining the credit of the shipper. that mixed farming and animal husbandry BY will eventually bring. TIME FOR CLEAR THINKING A If the new land is opened up we imagine it Mitchell Brothers Publishing Co. will be occupied by present renters and new the over far as this coun- WITH war so immigrants, rather than by soldiers. If this try is concerned, although internal OFFICE: is true, then industry will have the task of ab- strife still has several of the Euro- Manhattan Building, 431 South Dearborn St. sorbing the army as it is discharged. The pean countries by the ears, it is quite neces- CHICAGO, ILL. grain business must prepare to do its full sary that the grain trade get down to some share in providing positions for the men who

hard, straightforward thinking. do this - A. J. MITCHELL Business Manager To made good. with any measure of success, it is essential Subscription Price _ _ _ _ $1.00 per Year to have the facts. The newspapers and mag- DEMURRAGE TANGLE IN " English and Foreign Subscription 1 .75 " azines are full of crop statements, prophecies NORTHWEST and vaporings by men only partially in- ADVERTISING. formed, and as a result there is a distinct feel- HIPPERS of the Northwest have re- This paper has a large circulation among the elevator men and grain dealers of the country, and is the best medium in ing of uneasiness in the trade because of ceived a sorry deal at the hands of the the United States for reaching persons connected with this trade. Advertising rates made known upon application. these widely varying opinions. There is, as Railroad ' Administration through the we see it, no cause for uneasiness or alarm. demurrage charges that have been assessed CORRESPONDENCE. We are fortunate in being able to present against them on cars held at Minneapolis We solicit correspondence upon all topics of interest connected with the handling of grain or cognate subjects. in this issue a statement of conditions in this when that market was too congested to begin

country and the world at large, by John R. to take care of its receipts. At one time Official Paper of the Grain Dealers' National Asso- Mauff, secretary of the Chicago Board of thousands of cars were waiting to unload and ciation and of the Illinois Grain Dealers' Association. Trade, and by Peter Goodman, statistician shippers have been charged as much as $200 for Clement, Curtis & Co. Mr. Mauff sums demurrage on a single car. And this, under- CHICAGO, ILL, JANUARY 15, 1919 up the wheat situation, and although no one stand, was under the permit system when the can tell by what agency the 1919 wheat crop Administration presumably only issued per-

will be handled, he points out the simple mits for cars that it could handle. FINANCING THE 1919 CROP facts by which the Government will have to In refusing to be a party to the controversy

be guided. Mr. Goodman is too well known the Grain Corporation is well within its O KEEP its pledge to the farmers and as a reviewer of world crop situations to rights. It buys grain represented by ware- at the same time to compete in world need comment. He points out the possibil- house receipts. Until the grain is housed

markets with our possible 474,500,000- ity of there being some 400,000,000 bushels of and the receipt is issued, the expense belongs bushel wheat surplus, the Government will cereals less than predicted, through errors in to the shipper. He has to pay the demur- have to face a considerable loss, running pos- estimation. The grave shortage of fats and rage. But the trade should stand solidly back sibly to $400,000,000. The farmer will get meat animals insures a continued demand for of his effort to get a refund from the Rail- his full price—the Government will get Avhat coarse grains and the price that hogs and cat- road Administration as the issuance of the it can, possibly a dollar less. tle command allows but small chance for a vi- permit obviously carried with it some meas- The machinery for handling the 1919 crop olent downward movement for some time to ure of responsibility in handling the grain on will probably be either a continuation of the come. World supplies and world requirements its arrival. Food Administration Grain Corporation, are facts. Keep those in mind and forget the with an appropriation to cover its losses, or facts. Keep those in mind and forget the THE CUMMINS BILL putting the administration of the law into the rumors that too often are circulated only to hands of the Bureau of Markets. Whichever shake our faith in the realities. fTTlHE Cummins Bill, S. 5020, was intro- way the cat jumps the country shipper would duced on November 11, and provides have to hold the bag. He would have to NOT FARMS, BUT INDUSTRY for the return of all rate-making power keep the grain books for the Government and to the Interstate Commerce Commission, then wait upon the convenience of Uncle if^l ECRETARY LANE has formulated an taking it out of the hands of the Railroad Sam for the payment of balances due. This ^| admirable program for putting returned Administration. The Overman Bill, which is the way England handled flour milling last soldiers on farms. The plan provides gave the Administration a free hand in all year. The mills bought their- grain at the an excellent opportunity for the soldiers to transportation affairs, was passed as an emer- market and sold the flour at a fixed price. But make a good living and be comparatively in- gency measure pure and simple. The grain the Government was so slow in making up dependent, and also a means of developing trade, with all other branches of business, has the deficit, as agreed, that some of the mills the waste spaces of the country in an eco- given the Railroad Administrator loyal sup- had to shut down for lack of capital to carry nomic healthful manner, adding to our na- port, and has accepted without protest many them the necessary months. Judging by the tional wealth and relieving any tendency hardships at his hands. Only the most ob- war record of home allotments and soldiers' toward labor congestion. Many men who re- vious injustices have given rise to complaint. pay the shippers who pay the full price to the member the hegira to the Western homestead But now the emergency is passed. Busi- farmer would be up against the same thing. grants after the Civil War, have been enthu- ness of all kinds expects reasonable treatment They have to have enough capital to carry siastic in praise of Secretary Lane's scheme. such as is due from a public service body to at least one dollar on the books for every They forget the present gravitation of youth its patrons. No man expects a railroad cor- bushel of wheat handled, possibly for months. toward the cities, which, if we are not mis- poration to lose money, on the other hand he It couldn't be done. taken, will be more pronounced than before. does not propose to hold the bag while the There are two other suggestions that have Immediate high wages in industry will look Government tries out its theories at the ex- been made : Eliminate the terminal market better to the young ex-soldier, many of them pense of the public without regard to the operators, consigning all wheat to the Grain with definite matrimonial ambitions, than in- value of the service rendered. His protec- : —

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tion lies solely in a rate-making body before A LEADER GONE gain control of a large part of the crop, which which he is entitled to present his case be- they will sell back to the Government at a nice passing of fore he is saddled with unjust charges. This W N THE Theodore Roosevelt, the profit when it comes time to make deliveries. protection the Cummins Bill affords and i country has lost the most forceful figure in should have the endorsement of the trade. public life. His virulent and courageous The winter wheat has provided an unprece- Furthermore, your senators and representa- personality epitomized what we like to believe dented amount of forage and farmers have are the best traits in tive should know your position in the matter. Americanism. A natural taken full advantage of it, pasturing all kinds fighter, born when a young boy he pitted his of stock and still finding it difficult to retard THE INCREASE IN CROP VALUES will against the frailties of constitution that the growth to a safe level. nature had endowed him with, and won. -He carried into public life present the same characteristics, One of the items which may have bearing | OMPARISON of farm commodi- and won. This very quality drew to him a ties with the values they held in former on the $2.20 price for wheat which a special larger personal following than any man in pub- years shows an increase of over 100 per commission will consider next spring, is the lic life in America ever carried. cent of the pre-war average. In his yearly re- recent announcement by the Department of There was nothing of the in port for the Department of Agriculture, Secre- mugwump Agriculture, that in 1914 it cost 2.21 bushels Roosevelt. He made his platform and stood by tary Houston says that on the basis of prices of rye or 1.7 bushels of wheat for enough acid it. No one had to question his meaning or his that have recently prevailed, present crop values phosphate to cover an acre; now it costs 1.7 intention. One stood with him or against him and livestock on farms January 1, is estimated bushels rye or 1.2 bushels wheat. there was no half-way allegiance given nor at $24,700,000,000 compared with $21,325,000,- asked. Perhaps his greatest tribute is in the 000 for 1917, and $11,700,000,000, the annual Grain men, growers and handlers, made personal admiration that his bitterest opponents average in the five-year period, 1910 to 1914.. serious proposals to the Government to im- felt toward him. He was a man and in his This, he explains, does not mean that the wealth — port 1,000,000 Chinese laborers to help har- death the nation and the world has lost an in- of the nation has increased by the difference, vest the crops. They did not suggest how spirational force. but that it only shows that monetary returns to they would get them here. Our military the farmers have increased proportionately with leaders know how many ships it takes to those of other groups of producers, and that EDITORIAL transport a million men. Evidently the their purchasing power kept pace in the rising Westerners do not. icale of prices. MENTION What it actually shows is the depreciation in Secretary Houston, on another page, esti- the exchange value of gold, the medium by mates the total elevator capacity of the country Nearly every elevator in the country is short- which prices are measured. This country has for wheat at 350,000,000 bushels. Last year the handed. There will be positions open for many about $2,500,000,000 in gold which is with- elevator of the country was estimated at 1,100,- of the returned soldiers in the grain trade. drawn from circulation. Federal reserve bank 000,000 bushels. Quite a discrepancy, but oats, Thank God most of the boys will be able to notes, based on business paper, have increased barley and corn need some room, so it is per- resume their old jobs if they want to.' enormously during the past year, so that a na- haps fair to allot only one-third of the total tural depreciation of gold has resulted from capacity to wheat. The army consumes 125,000 pounds of beans the inflation of credit. So far as commodity per day. The Food Administration continues to exchange is concerned the crop values this year Not since 1914 has there been such a stir in favor pintos and pinks, but good old Michigan are only slightly greater than normal. the trade over reported shipments to this coun- and New York navies will never lose their try of Argentine corn. Four years ago the premier position in the taste of the people. INDIANA GETTING AFTER ABUSES actual corn imported was ridiculously small compared with its effect on our market, and The Allies have promised to supply the Cen- that seems to be the experience this year. There Ur\r*4 WO bills have been prepared for the gen- tral Powers with enough food to prevent starva- have been more hedges taken on Argentine corn ii eral assembly of Indiana which, if passed, tion riots and uprisings. This materially in- than could be delivered by our entire merchant will be of the greatest benefit to grain creases our food obligation and does not indicate marine. dealers in the state. One provides for the ap- a material lowering of coarse grain prices in the pointment of official weighmasters in all com- near future. munities where petitions signed by 10 citizens Based on the assumption that only market- shall be filed. They will be under the state iNow that peace is assured we may expect a able feed is used in fattening hogs and that at commissioner of weights and measures who recrudescence of politics. Watch for the flood a price of 2y2 cents per pound, the Agricul- will see that scales are in proper condition. of bills in Congress to limit or suppress specula- tural Extension Division of the University of

And now comes the important part of the bill tion in grain. Farmers have been so prosperous Minnesota estimates that it costs $16.44 per "A certificate of weight issued by any such of- under non-speculative wheat trading that they hundredweight to raise pork. Two cents per ficial weighmaster * * * shall be recog- will easily be persuaded that their troubles all pound for feed is more nearly a fair price. And nized as and prima facie evidence of the facts come from a futures market. how would the farmer figure his winter wheat therein certified in all the courts of the pasturage that is now putting thousands of

.". Complaints are frequent that it is state . . growing pounds of pork in condition to go to market? The second bill provides that railroad or in- more difficult to secure damages for claims terurban leases must be reviewed and have the against the railroads, particularly where car In spite of the increase in cars furnished written approval of the terms and conditions shows no sign of leakage at destination. Un- for grain movement, about 70 per cent more by the Public Service Commission. der the very prevalent system of repairing cars than last year, many stations in the North-

These bills, if passed, will only effect- deal- en route, no leakage at destination is not prima west are surrounded by great piles of wheat, facie ers in Indiana, but they are so obviously needed evidence that it hasn't leaked on the way. dumped on the ground. Which all goes to in other states for the proper protection of grain show how far reaching in its effect is any dealers, that we freely predict that similar If anyone is of the opinion that German trade upset of the natural law of supply and de- measures will soon be introduced into the legis- is going to surrender its place in the sun, as the mand, such as a fixed price throughout the latures of most of the grain states. Just what political leaders have done, need only look to crop year. In England the fixed price in- effect these laws would have if the railroads Argentina to be undeceived. When the Allies creases through the season, enough to take are permanently federalized, it is difficult to were negotiating to buy tip Argentina's surplus care of carrying charges, but here with our say, as state commissions have been practically wheat some months ago, German agents in that great distances and uncertain weather it is ignored during the past year. But the possi- country quietly but effectively bought up the imperative that the Grain Corporation have bility of Government ownership is too remote entire supply of sacks, and as all grain in that the wheat where it is immediately available to consider seriously. country is handled in sacks, they were able to at all times. Blame the Kaiser. THEA.MERICAN elev*tor and 508 GRAIN TRADE Thirty-Seventh Year

ai NEWS OF THE TERMINAL MARKETS H. H. SAVAGE A. R. TAYLOR St. Joseph. Milwaukee. m

OLD TIME TRADING ALLOWED he has been associated with H. W. Roger & Bro., ors chosen were John O. Ballard, A. C. Robinson, Through an agreement with the Canada Food conducting a general receiving business in grain Harry Watson, Mason H. Hawpe, W. J. Edwards. Board and the War Trade Board, the Board of in central territory, and his friends are legion. The Merchants' Exchange gave a banquet to the Grain Supervisors for Canada has approved of retiring president, John O. Ballard, January 8, the importation and exportation of barley, rye, buck- OFFICERS OF CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE date of the election, in acknowledgment of his wheat, flaxseed, peas and beans. The order prac- efficient services in office during the trying war con- Leslie F. Gates, of Lamson Bros. & Co., was tically opens to market the old-time individual trad- ditions of the past year. elected president of the Chicago Board of Trade ing, barring the securing of licenses to make ship- at the annual election held January 6, with Hiram ments. NEW BUILDING FOR CHICAGO BOARD OF N. Sager of J. H. Dole & Co. chosen as first vice- TRADE president and Charles H. Sullivan, second vice- It is predicted that the Chicago Board of Trade PRODUCE EXCHANGE ENTERTAINS president. will have a new building within two years. As The New York Produce Exchange entertained a Directors are: Winfield S. Day, Jas. J. Fones, rapidly as possible the Board is liquidating its of about poor children, many of them crowd 2,000 Wm. E. Hudson, H. J. Blum, Wm. H. Colvin, E. F. bonded indebtedness which will leave it in condi- cripples, of lower New York, on the last day of the tion to secure better terms in financing the new old year. Trading on the Exchange floor stopped

. structure. . at 1 o'clock and the children thronged the big floor, which was gaily decked in holiday attire. A complete vaudeville show was given and each child PEORIA BOARD OF TRADE ELECTION presented with a valuable present. The annual election of officers on the Peoria Board of Trade was held January 13. A. W. Har- wood was chosen president; Wm. S. Miles and F. Z. INSPECTION AT RAILROAD YARDS Wood, first and second vice-presidents, respectively; to A trial is being given on the Chicago market Wm. C. White, treasurer; John R. Lofgren, secre- the inspection of grain at the Chicago, Burlington tary. & Quincy Railroad yards. The necessary moisture Directors: H. H. Dewey, A. G. Tyng, W. T. Cor- installed testing machines and apparatus has been nelison, G. C. McFadden, E. R. Murphy, L. H. Mur- the state grain inspection department with a by ray, Louis Mueller, T. A. Grier, Gus Peterson, J. M. grain inspector in charge. The plan facilitates Vannuys. grading of grain with reference to its arrival on Committe of Arbitration: J. C. Luke, J. A. War- the market and will be watched with interest. ing, A. H. Kanne. ARGENTINE CORN NEWS REDUCTION IN FEES The news from Argentine is playing an important The Grain and Hay Inspection Department and LESLIE F. GATES part in the corn trade at the present time. The the Weighing Department of the of Newly Elected President Chicago Board of Trade. state Kansas has opinion prevails that either Argentine prices are announced the following charges for inspection and too low or American too high, while the recent re- Rosenbaum, John A. Bunnell, Edw. Andrew, Geo. weighing, effective January 1: All inspections, 45 of restrictions of Argentine by H. Hales, moval on imports Adolph Kempner, John J. Bagley, Jas. cents per car; re-inspections, 45 cents per car, ex- for prices. McCulloch, Jos. F. L. the War Trade Board makes lower W. Lamy, C. Brosseau, W. H. cept where the grade is changed in which case there first The time in our history that corn imports Lake. is no charge. exceeded exports was in the year ending June 30, Mr. Gates was born at East Canton, Pa., in 1874 On direct transfer "in" and "out" inspection will into the States aggre- 1914, when imports United and was graduated from LaFayette College in be made with but one charge of 45 cents per car, gated 12,290,000 bushels, while the total exports 1897. On leaving college he went with D. Apple- with an additional charge of 15 cents for moisture this during period 10,- from country the same were ton & Co. for a short time as manager of their test; inspection of sacked grains, 45 cents per car, pro- 720,000 bushels. The Food Administration's educational department. In 1896 he joined the with an additional charge of 40 cents per hour for gram does not include any exports of corn this Chicago Board of Trade and has been a member time actually consumed in the performance of such year. of Lamson Bros. & Co. since that time. From 1911 service; tests, 15 cents each; extra samples, 25 cents to 1916 he served as a director of the Board. each; weighing grain out of public elevators, 25

AN INTERESTING GRAIN FAMILY Besides being a grain dealer, Mr. Gates is a prac- cents per car; weighing grain out of private indus- The wish for a Merry Christmas from H. M. tical farmer, owning a large farm in Indiana. He tries, 40 cents per car; weighing grain in elevators Paynter and family should count for something, as is a member of the Union League Club and the and mills, 40 cents per car; weighing direct transfers, it is supported, as the illustration shows, by eight Wilmette Country Club. He has always been a 40 cents per car. NEW YORK CONDITIONS L. W. Forbell & Co., of New York, report that cash business, both for domestic and export, is at a standstill for the reason that shipping permits from Western points are denied on account of the great harbor strike. It is impossible to load .ttfttfM out grain for harbor delivery and steamers awaiting cargoes cannot be moved to their receiving berths. The speculative market became unsettled when the Food Administration announced that permis- winning personalities. Four boys and two girls close student of grain markets and conditions and sion would be granted for the importation oi Ar- comprise the family, with the father and mother, will give a conscientious, efficient administration gentine corn. The revision of values for the present who appear at the extreme right of the picture. of his office. is downward, which has the effect of keeping out The family home is at 449 Hazel Avenue, Glencoe. of the market those who, ordinarily, would replenish Lieutenant Paynter, the oldest boy, is still in MERCHANTS EXCHANGE OFFICERS their supplies at moderate recessions. Until some France. The youngest of the children is a boy The annual election on the St. Louis Merchants' stabilizing factor appears irregular markets will of three months, showing last on the left. in E. Exchange resulted the selection of C. An- doubtless prevail. Mr Paynter has been a member of the Chicago drews of the Kehlor Flour Mills Company as presi- It is impossible to base an opinion as to what Board of Trade for 30 years. was for over dent for 1919; Charles L. Niemeier, of Schultz-Nie- He constitutes a proper level of values for either corn eighteen years with the old firm of Milmine, meier Commission Company, first vice-president; or oats. The outlook for any immediate improve- Bodman & Co., of Chicago. For a number of years F. B. Chamberlain, second vice-president. Direct- ment in the conditions above described is not an —

THEAMERICAN ELEVATOR AND January 15, 1919 GRAIN TRADE 509 encouraging one, and a return to normal in the Corn receipts are liberal but it takes awhile to with the hope that when the next one takes place near future cannot be expected. With, the settle- build up stocks in terminal markets. Colonel Stream they will all have the privilege of attending. There ment of the labor dispute, the matter of sufficient favors lower cost of living to prevent unrest spread- is no doubt that these "Get Together" meetings ocean tonnage to transport the grain from our ing in this country as it has done abroad." C. A. create a feeling of good-fellowship among the em- shores will again be a commanding factor that will King & Co., Toledo, Ohio, Special Market Report ployes and. serve to bring them in still closer govern the movement to this market. of January 13. touch with their employers.

FRED MAYER CHANGES IN MEMBERSHIP ELECTION AT TOLEDO An article was published in the Toledo Times Chicago.—New members on the Board of Trade Election of officers at the Toledo Produce Ex- in December under the caption "See the Resem- are: John H. Block, Philip L. Poe, Geo. G. Cripps, change was held January 7. The following were blance?" It referred to the picture shown in our John W. Reddick, Thos. J. Hair, W. C. Estes, Jas. chosen for the year 1919. For president, Fred illustration, that of Fred Mayer of J. F. Zahm & E. Cagney and John T. Agar. The memberships of Mayer, of J. F. Zahm & Co.; first vice-president, the following have been transferred: J. R. Pickell, Harry I. De Vore, of H. W. De Vore & Co.; second M. H. Cooley, P. H. Monks, Gus Johnson, L. P. vice-president, Richard S. Sheldon, of S. W. Flower Nellis, Jas. S. Eales, W. W. Hampe and John H. & Co.; treasurer, Kenton D. Keilholtz, of South- Norriss. Reported by Secretary John R. Mauff. worth & Co.; secretary, Archibald Gassaway. Cincinnati.—The Schmidt^Walker Company has Directors, Frank I. King, David Anderson, Fred retired from business here. Reported by Executive O. Paddock, Jesse W. Young, Frank R. Moorman, Secretary D. J. Schuh. George D. Woodman, Jesse D. Hurlburt, Frank Duluth.—W. H. Dunwoody has withdrawn his W. Annin, Charles W. Mollett, Raymond P. Lipe. membership in the Chamber of Commerce. Re- Committee of Arbitration, C. S. Coup, J. A. Smith, ported by Secretary Chas. F. MacDonald. George R. Forrester, L. A. Mennel, J. W. Luscombe, Indianapolis.—J. T. Hamill has been elected to Jr., E. A. Nettleton, Fred W. Jaeger. membership on the Board of Trade. Reported by Committee of Appeals: John Wickenhiser, R. L. Secretary Wm. H. Howard. Burge, F. C. King, S. J. Rudd, W. A. Boardman, Milwaukee.—Memberships in the Chamber of Com- O. H. Paddock, A. Mennel, W. J. Perry, L. J. Ulrich, merce have been granted the following: J. W. J. C. Husted, W. E. Stone. Reddick, Herman F. Weber, Hubert Karl, Jr., and J. P. Kettenhofen. R. E. Knowlton, Franklin TO BUY ON WESTERN TERMS Kelchner, Jr., H. McCardel and W. B. Morse have Resolutions were adopted by the Portland (Ore.) had their memberships transferred. Reported by Merchants' Exchange, December 16, declaring that Secretary H. A. Plumb. after January 1, 1919, all purchases of Eastern Peoria.—J. E. McWilliams of the Smith Hamilton grain by members for shipment to Pacific Coast Company of Peoria, is a new member on the Board terminals and to all interior points where state of Trade. Reported by Secretary John R. Lofgren. grain inspection systems are effective, shall be made only on Oregon and Washington officially certified NEW ORLEANS' INSPECTION AND WEIGH- weights and grades, the terms of purchase to be the ING DEPARTMENT BANQUETS ITS regular Western terms as embodied in the rules of EMPLOYES the association. It was further resolved that the FRED MAYER practice of paying drafts at the full value of such On Saturday evening, December 28, 1918, the New President of the Toledo Produce Exchange. shipments shall be discontinued, such drafts here- New Orleans Board of Trade, Ltd., tendered to the after not to exceed 90 per cent of the invoice Company, Toledo, the new president of the Toledo employes of the Grain Inspection and Weighing value of the grain at shipping point. This action is a re- Produce Exchange. Mr. Mayer has every right, Departments their first annual banquet. The ban- sult of dissatisfaction over the so-called Minneap- judging from appearances, to sit at the peace table. quet took place at Galatoire's, New Orleans' famous olis terms involving of If he could substitute for our chief executive some Cafe and Restaurant. shipment grain to the Pacific Coast for purposes of milling with Oregon January morning his claim to the place would prob- Everyone connected with the Grain Inspection and Wash- ington wheat. That this action would be taken ably go unchallenged. and Weighing Departments was present and had was forecast some weeks ago. It is said to have the "Fred" Mayer was born in Toledo in 1868 on as their invited guests: W. L. Richeson, local man- approval of other associations in that district. Summit Street, which may have something to do ager of the Wheat Export Company, Inc., and for- with the fact that he has never lived a groveling merly chief grain inspector and weighmaster; Jo- existence but always on the heights. At the age seph Prudot, foreman of the Central Elevator and TERMINAL NOTES of 14 he entered the grain business with only a lot Warehouse Company's Elevator "E,"; Al. Prudot, The Scoular-Bishop Grain Company of Kansas of ambition as his capital, and has largely de- foreman of the Central Elevator and Warehouse City, Mo., has opened an office at Omaha with Fred veloped both. He has been associated with the Company's Elevator "D"; Henry Beelman, foreman C. Swett in charge. firm of Zahm since then and a partner since 1893. of the Board of Port Commissioners Public Grain The Moore-Seaver Grain Company of Kansas City, Mr. Mayer has a keen sense of humor as shown Elevator, and John Neeb, foreman of the Trans Mo., mailed their friends a very beautiful calendar by the following anecdote. Letters have been received by the firm addressed to Mr. Meyer, Mayor, Maier, Meier, etc. There was no objection raised to this variety of spelling until one day he reported the limit had been reached when a communication arrived to Mr. Mire. Mr. Mayer served as president of the Toledo Produce Exchange in 1907, the Ohio Grain Dealers Association in 1906 and has held the office of second vice-president of the Grain Dealers National Association. He has given to association work the same attention and energy he has devoted to his business with the result that these various organi- zations enjoyed unusual prosperity during his term of office. He loves to work hard at business, play golf as a recreation, and enjoy the companionship of friends.

FIXED HOG PRICE VERSUS ARGENTINE CORN "Corn bulls are looking at the fixed price of hogs. February hog price will be decided January 23 at Chicago. Will it be the same as the January price or lower? Argentine corn can be imported without restriction. Their pfices are much lower than THE BANQUET TO NEW ORLEANS I NSPECTION AND WEIGHING DEPARTMENT ours. They have a large surplus of good quality. Railroad Company's West- for 1919, the distinctive feature of which was a They expect to harvest another large crop in March. Mississippi Terminal reproduction of the painting, "Oaks at Sunset," by Will drouth and hot winds spoil their prospect? wego Elevators "A" and "B." of Gordon Coutts. Can they secure ships to export freely to this coun- Vice-President T. F. Cunningham the New Orleans the principal speaker try? That is the main question. They always ship Board of Trade was Major Carl Langenberg of the Langenberg Bros. very interesting freely to England. Our crop is short. Greatest of the evening and gave the boys a Grain Company of St. Louis, Mo., who was director left shortage is in the Southwest. Hog crop is large. talk. Everyone there had a good time and of the affairs of the Remount Division of the Council

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THEA.MERICAN ELEVATOR AND 510 GRAIN TRADE Thirty-Seventh Year National of Defense at Washington, is again on try. The move to Chicago will be effected as soon Southworth & Co., Toledo, Ohio; J. F. Zahm & Co., the floor of the Exchange for this well-known grain as suitable quarters are available, probably soon Toledo, Ohio; Willis E. Sheldon, Jackson, Mich.; firm. and hay after the first of the year. Halliday Elevator Company, Cairo, 111.; Goffe & John B. Kempner, a broker on the Chicago Board William A. Dinham, formerly with Stair, Chris- Carkener Company, St. Louis, Mo.; Oscar C. White of Trade, was suspended indefinitely for debt re- tensen & Timmerman, and Roy Dinham, formerly of Lipsey & Co., Chicago; E. P. Bacon & Co., Mil- cently by the Directors of the Board. with the Itaska Elevator Company, have received waukee, Wis.; Victor Dewein, Warrensburg, 111. Arthur Hessburg, who left the Gould Grain Com- their discharge from Uncle Sam's naval service James M. Anderson, formerly identified with pany of Minneapolis, Minn., to join the army, is and have returned to Duluth. grain trade publications in Chicago as associate back with the firm in his old position. Chicago Board of Trade memberships ranged dur- editor, and more recently adding to his grain ex- H. H. Savage, manager of the St. Joseph office of ing 1918 from $3,075 to $6,500, being highest in perience by operating country elevators from Strong- Marshall Hall Grain Company of St. Louis, Mo., November and lowest in January. The 1917 range hurst, 111., became associated with the Rosenbaum took a short vacation during the holidays. was $7,000 and $4,000. Early in January member- Review of Chicago on January 1, and will have charge during the absence of Editor J. Ralph The Moering Grain Company, recently incorpo- ships sold at $6,300 net to the buyer. Pickell in Europe. rated at Milwaukee, Wis., with a capital stock of Tilghman A. Bryant of St. Louis, Mo., made a sale $20,000, has increased the issue to $30,000. on the Merchants Exchange recently of 25,000 The Elmore-Schultz Grain Company of St. Louis, ,Mo., remembered their friends during the holidays J. W. Mullally, son of Martin J. Mullally of the bushels of Idaho winter wheat. It was the first by the gift of a metal desk container for pins, clips Mullally Grain & Hay Company, St. Louis, Mo., sale of the season, made possible by the removal and rubber bands. A message accompanying the spent the early part of January at home on a fur- of the Government restrictions. gift tendered their most sincere sympathy in what- lough. Henry J. Murdock announces that he has with- ever anxiety the war had brought and hoping that Lieutenant K. P. Pierce has resumed his posi- drawn his interest with Rugg & Murdock Company the peace and spirit of Christmas would be pres- of Boston, Mass., and has engaged in the grain and tion with Bartlett Frazier & Co. of Chicago, 111., ent all the year around. after a year in the Government service at Camp feed business on his own account. Offices are in J. Ralph Pickell, editor of the Rosenbaum Re- Pike, Ark. the Chamber of Commerce Building. view, published by the J. Rosenbaum Grain Com- Dilts & Morgan have succeeded Wm. G. Dilts, Jr., John J. Stream, chairman of the Coarse Grain pany of Chicago, 111., will sail about February 1 on & Co., grain merchants at Kansas City, Mo. Division of the Food Administration, was in Chi- a six months tour of Europe and Asia. He will L. J. Morgan has been associated with the firm for cago January 8. He was optimistic as regards the represent, besides The Review, a branch of the Fed- some time. present grain situation but made no comment on eral Government and his mission will be the in- the Argentine corn importation problem. Geo. J. Ohlenroth, late with E. M. Hoyne & Co., vestigation of financial, commercial and food con- handsomely framed picture of "Smiling Jack" on the Chicago Board of Trade, engaged in the A ditions in those countries. grain brokerage business on his own account Pershing was mailed to their friends late in De- on An entertainment was given by the Commercial January 1. cember, by the Bert A. Boyd Grain Company of In- Exchange of Philadelphia, Pa., on December 31, to dianapolis, Ind. "Peace and prosperity without Charles W. Avery has left the Kemper Mill 6 commemorate the close of the year. The program limit" were the wishes accompanying the picture. Elevator Company of Kansas City, Mo., to go with was opened by piano solos by Frank Montmore An amendment to the rules of the Chicago Board the milling wheat department of the Thresher-Puller of Richardson Bros, and Louis Stoll of S. F. of Trade has been posted for ballot that has as its Grain Company. Scattergood & Co. The committee in charge object the prevention of an employe of any member, Out of respect to the memory of Theodore Roose- of the entertainment was Robert Morris, F. Marion firm or corporation from trading through another velt all grain exchanges throughout the United Hall and David McMullin, Jr. member, firm or corporation, unless he has his em- States closed early January 8, a few of them holding James M. Grannon of 5626 North Throop Street, ployer's consent. no sessions whatever. Chicago, 111., for years cashier and a trusted em- The Board of Directors of the Cincinnati Grain David H. Larkin, chief grain inspector of the ploye of the J. Rosenbaum Grain Company, was ar- & Hay Exchange were guests of retiring President Baltimore Chamber of Commerce, was remembered rested recently charged with a shortage of $5,000 E. A. Fitzgerald at a dinner at the Hotel Gibson by his associates on Christmas morning by the gift to $20,000 in his accounts. It developed that he had January 7. Mr. Fitzgerald was presented with a of a large mahogany clock. lost the money in speculation and three Board of gold wrist watch by former President W. R. Mc- Trade firms were said to have handled Grannan's Ware & Leland of Chicago, 111., whose principal behalf of the other directors and mem- Quillan on business, violating of New York office is at 61 Broadway, have opened a thus an unwritten law the bers. branch office at 140 West Forty-second Street, with Board. J. L. Nessly will head the Memphis Hay & Grain Charles P. Palmeter in charge. Renwick W. Young and A. F. Fisher of Pitts- Exchange the coming year, succeeding E. P. Cook. William P. Brazer, grain and feed broker of burgh, Pa., formed a partnership under the style E. E. Anderson was chosen vice-president and Wal- Philadelphia, Pa., has admitted his two sons, How- of Young & Fisher January 1 to do a general bro- will continue as secretary and ter J. Fransioli in feed.. ard F. and William P., Jr., to partnership, and the kerage business grain and Both young treasurer. The Board of Directors consists of E. E. firm is now William P. Brazer & Sons. men are well known in grain circles in Pittsburgh D. Jones, R. Smith-Vaniz and Buxton, Lee W. and the partnership will merely continue the busi- Jacob Weisheimer of Columbus, Ohio, was a vis- Roberts. A. C. ness to greater advantage to their patrons which itor among the grain and milling trade of Chicago The Nellis-Witter Milling & Grain Company has they have been conducting as individuals. Offices early in January. He was introduced "on 'Change" been organized at Kansas City, Mo., to carry on a are in 617 Wabash Building. by G. E. Newman of Rosenbaum Brothers. general grain and feed business. L. P. Nellis is The Western Terminal Elevator Company has Gim'pel, for John C. years with the grain inspec- E. secre- president of the company and A. Witter been incorporated at Sioux City, Iowa, with a capi- tion department of the Baltimore of Chamber Com- of the firm were tary and treasurer. The heads new tal stock of $2,000,000. M. King, head of the King took charge, merce, on January 4, of the Grain In- Mill Elevator Com- associated with the Kemper & Elevator Company, is president of the company; spection Department of the Newport News Chamber pany, retires from business. which John J. Large, vice-president; T. F. Harrington, of Commerce. Exceptionally handsome calendars for 1919 were treasurer; W. F. Montgomery, secretary. All are Jesse H. Ridge, recently manager of S. C. Bartlett sent out January 1 by McConnell Grain Corporation prominent business men of Sioux City. The com- & Co., of Peoria, 111., has assumed his duties with of Buffalo, N. Y. ; J. Rosenbaum Grain Company of pany will build a 1,000,000-bushel grain elevator in the Bartlett Frazier Company of Chicago, and was Chicago, 111.; Toberman, Mackey & Co. of St. the spring, and a flour mill will follow. It is the recently elected treasurer to succeed Henry J. Pat- Louis, Mo. Reynolds & Thornhill of Bluefield, Va. intention give City rightful place as ; to Sioux her ten who resigned. Mullally Hay & Grain Company, St. Louis, Mo.; a grain center. The Claiborne Commission Company has been of Lima, Ohio. H. G. Pollock Grain Company George S. Bridge, senior member of Bridge & organized at Kansas City, Mo., to do a general grain L. A. Fuller, formerly of the Thresher-Fuller Leonard of Chicago, 111., who retired December 31 commission business. Hugh Claiborne, the head of Grain Company, of Kansas City, Mo., has formed as chief of the Forage Branch of the Quartermas- the firm, was until recently with the Orthwein- the Fuller Grain Company, which will conduct a ter Corps, bid farewell on the night of December Matchette Company. general grain business. He will have as his asso- 27, to the army officers and civilian executives who The Stratton-Ladish Milling Company of Mil- ciates W. W. Fuller, his son, E. L. Love, W. S. had been associated with him in the purchase and waukee, Wis., expects to have its new feed plant, Gable, and H. G. Miller, all of whom were with the distribution of forage for the military forces of elevator and mill in operation sometime in January. old firm. Offices are in 334 Board of Trade Building. the United States in the last year. Mr. Bridge was The company recently increased its capital stock We acknowledge indebtedness to the following host at a dinner to his associates at the Union from $500,000 to $750,000. for holiday greetings and remembrances, many of League Club, and the party later attended a per- Charles J. Brand, chief of the Bureau of Markets, the latter being useful and valuable: Pope & Eck- formance of "The Crowded Hour," a military play, announced late in December that the Board of Re- hardt Company. Chicago; Lowell Hoit & Co., Chi- at the Woods Theater. Messages of congratulation the exceptional work of the Forage Branch were view and the inspection efficiency project of the cago, 111.; W. B. Foresman Company, LaFayette, on read dinner. Federal grain supervision work, now maintained Ind.; Geo. J. Colby, chief grain inspector and weigh- received from Washington and at the in Washington will be transferred to Chicago. The master, New Orleans Board of Trade; The O'Ban- One letter expressed the opinion that the Forage transfer is being made in order to establish closer Branch had accomplished so much and conducted non Company, Claremore, Okla. ; Lipsey & Co., its affairs so successfully that its members prob- contact of the Board of Review with field super- Chicago, 111.; Mullally Hay & Grain Company, St. visors and licensed inspectors with a view of in- Louis, Mo.; The Cleveland Grain Company, Cleve- ably worked harder in the year of its existence creasing inspection efficiency throughout the coun- land, Ohio; O. W. Cook & Co., Columbus, Ohio; than in any other twelvemonth in their lives. Mr. JHE^MERICAN ELEVATOR AND

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Bridge said he believed that message applied to spirit of self-sacrifice which prompted them to join and our local hay handlers consider this arrangement every officer and civilian executive who had served that Quartermaster organization. A silver loving as one of the best and most active accomplishments of the past year. with him in the Forage Branch, and warmly cup was presented to Mr. Bridge by the officers The prospects for the year 1919 thanked his aides for their co-operation and the and civilians at the farewell. on the Cincinnati market are apparently an improvement over the year 1918. The Food and Railroad Administrations' restrictions have been removed, so that the country shippers r at rmleal Ma are not compelled to secure permission to ship and the Cincinnati consignees to receive grain and hay ship- Secretaries of ihhistory of agriculture and the fur- Exchange. in excess of 50 per cent of the grain received here. ther dilemma of maintaining a proper relative ratio with Including a new mill which is about to the fodder -crops, some of which have been so gener- CINCINNATI begin oper- ously used as substitutes for wheat during the war. ations, the manufacturing capacity of Milwaukee's This can only be accomplished by those who have The Cincinnati Grain and Hay Exchange incorporated grain products plants is approximately 40,000,000 April successful made the handling and distribution of cereal crops a 1, 191S, and had a very term since bushels annually, and the various manufacturing its inauguration. life's study and who in their dealings with the producers plants, excluding malting, which are now practically and consumers are under the careful guidance of a duly The rules and regulations of the U. S. Food and Rail- out of business, have a daily capacity of 2,005 tons

• organized exchange whose affairs are administered by road Administrations restricted operations somewhat, of feedingstuffs. officials under strict rules in the interest of the public but the patriotic spirit displayed by the efforts of the The Milwaukee elevators have a storage capacity of for whose benefit the Board of Trade of Chicago was trade to win the war against the Imperial German Gov- 17.000,000 bushels. This elevator capacity, and the organized 60 years ago. ernment practically offset any inconveniences suffered, facilities at all the Milwaukee storage plants have been John R. Maupf, Secretary Chicago Board of Trade. and through these efforts our share of the grain and hay placed at the disposal of the United States Food Ad- moving during the year 1918 was secured for the Cin- ministration, and several millions of bushels of Gov- market. CAIRO cinnati ernment grain have been stored awaiting transporta- The establishment of the Hay Plugging Yard in- tion by lake and rail routes to Atlantic Ports of this Notwithstanding the difficulties of handling business creased the movement of hay to the Cincinnati Market country and Canada. On January 1, 1919, there was when the entire resources of the country were concen- trated on fighting the war, lifetime customs of the trade restricted or temporarily abolished for the general welfare and an unprecedented rate re-adjustment to contend with, the Cairo market enjoyed a fairly prosperous year during 1918. The demand from the territory tributary to this market was probably not as great as during 1917, but our elevators were kept running and labor employed at the highest wages in history. In additions to restrictions thrown about us by war conditions, we were severely handicapped at the very beginning of the year by the extremely cold weather and heavy snows of January, which practically stopped railroad operation for a time and forced us to remain idle part of the month which usually brings our heaviest business. Labor shortage curtailed operations at times, and other troubles arose, but we felt that our problems were no greater than those of other markets, and always kept in mind that winning the war was the main business of all of us. Some important additions were made to the handling a.nd storage facilities at Cairo during 1918, and last fall the large house, belonging to the Illinois Central Railroad, was opened and operated for the storage and handling of Government wheat. Had the war continued, we probably would have seen immense quantities of wheat loaded direct from this elevator to river barges for cheap water transportation to New Orleans for export. Cairo is ideally situated for the movement of grain by water to gulf ports, should means of transportation be provided and the rates made attractive. The Cairo Board of Trade looks back to 1918 with no NEW WORLD OLD ^VORLD. regrets, feeling satisfied with its work and that it has done its small part in carrying on a business necessary to the conduct of the war. We feel grateful to our splendid fighting men who made an early ending of the war possible and look forward with hope to the prosperous times which will undoubtedly come with the final signing of peace. W. G. Cunningham, Secretary Cairo Board of Trade.

ST. LOUIS Frospects for a favorable and prosperous year in the grain business at St. Louis were never more promising than those that confront the trade at the present Lime and unless unforseen political situations or disturbing business conditions upsets things the year 1919 should be one of record for the grain industry. In the trying months of the winter of 1918-19, the world faces a food crisis not as spectacular as that No business in the country has operated under greater of 1917-18, but far more desperate than most of us in well-fed America realize. Only thrift and sacri- restrictions than the grain business the past year and fice will give us the food surplus necessary to save the lives of millions in Europe. a half, but the close of the past year finds the trade Leslie's Weekly January 4, 1919. gradually returning to normal. St. Louis interests — THEAMERICAN elevator and 512 GRAIN TRADE Thirty-Seventh Year approximately 7,000,000 bushels of grain in store in Buffalo. Local grain merchants believe that the the idea of holding for New York the' vast trade elevators at this point. Buffalo route is the natural one, but its advantages of the Great Lakes. The improved system was H. A. Plumb, Secretary Milwaukee Chamber of Commerce. will not stand against lack of facilities. The ready for navigation last May, but little advantage efficiency of the enlarged Barge Canal between Lake was taken of it. If preparations had been made, BALTIMORE Erie at Buffalo and the Hudson River at Albany millions of bushels of grain would have been car- The abnormal conditions surrounding the grain would be increased 100 per cent if New York City ried on the stream during the summer, thereby trade and the many difficulties encountered, seriously had the necessary grain storage elevators. lowering the carrying charges on grain from points hampered the movement of grain at the port of Balti- The great natural advantage of the Buffalo route in the Middle West to the Atlantic Seaboard. more during the past year and while some activity over the Montreal route is that this is more Because of the shortage of elevator facilities at followed the harvesting of the new crops, the volume of trade showed a very decided decrease as compared southerly, and so is open longer to navigation. The New York and the danger of Buffalo and New York with the years 1916 and 1917. Various causes may shipping facilities at New York are immeasurably State losing its prestige as a grain receiving plant, assigned in be for the decline the movement of grain superior to anything the Canadians can offer. But General W. W. Wotherspoon, State Superintendent to the seaboard, but the most potent factors were the neglect of New York state to meet the require- of Public Works, sharply calls attention to the the inadequacy of railroad transportation and the scarcity of ocean tonnage. ments for the handling of grain will mean cheaper necessity for providing grain elevators at New The necessary curtailing of the transportation of shipment by way of Montreal. The fraction of a York. General Wotherspoon says it is for the various commodities other than those absolutely essen- cent will turn the scales to the advantage of the state legislature to determine whether the elevators tial to ' win the war, meant that grain was often Canadian city. shall be erected by the state or by private capital. diverted from the natural and customary channels of the past. The Government has received the hearty It is pointed out that the only grain elevators at The wheat and grain tonnage during 1918 was three co-operation of the grain merchants who were ever New York City are those of the railroads. The times greater than that carried in the preceding ready to give their best efforts in every way for a grain that is shipped by rail and the new State 12 months, but the lack of adequate elevator speedy and successful termination of the War. Barge Canal must be held either in canal boats or facilities at New York proved a serious obstacle. Flour and wheat were accorded first consideration box cars until there is ocean vessel ready to of and the movement of flour, because of the demands an Completion the Welland Canal improvement by of the Government for army supplies here and abroad, take the cargo. The various grades of wheat are a the Canadian Government may be looked for within showed an increase at Baltimore, and the falling off complicating factor. An ocean going vessel might & few years and General Wotherspoon says that in wheat was not so pronounced as was the case in be loading with grain of a certain grade, and unless unless the Empire State has taken steps by that corn, oats and rye. Trading in corn was extremely light it that the canal boat cargo of throughout the year and the shipments abroad were the happened had a that time to make sure that this tonnage will be car- smallest since 1882. Baltimore, for years, with few grade there would be delay. ried on American waterways, there is grave danger exceptions, has been the leading port for the exporta- Since 1903 the State of New York has expended it will be handled via Duluth and Montreal without tion of corn, but during the past year the exporting $154,800,000 to rehabilitate its canal system with breaking bulk until the latter port is reached. firms, under prevailing conditions, had little oppor- business. corn, of tunity to do Nearby the crop of a i i i r, 1917, was of better quality and condition than Western corn and was in good request, bringing several cents a bushel premium. With a removal of present restrictions and abolish- ment of the various Governmental agencies, it is rea- I sonable to expect a revival of Baltimore's grain trade TRADE NOTES in the near future. B. Hessong, Secretary, Baltimore of Jas. Chamber • 4 • Commerce. Nordyke & Marmon Company, of Indianapolis, Chain Sprocket data and illustrations of a number Ind., extensive manufacturers of grain elevator of Morse Silent Chain Drive installations in large BUFFALO'S GRAIN TRADE SUFFERS and flour mill machinery, wished their patrons and plants. Much information is also given of a varied BY ELEVATOR SHORTAGE friends a prosperous New Year in an attractively character to make the book well worth while. AT NEW YORK printed and illustrated art folder. Skillin & Richards Manufacturing Company, of The Hess Warming and Ventilating Company, of Chicago, 111., call attention in their advertisement BY ELMER M. HILL in this issue to their new catalog, No. 18. It is a Chicago, 111., reports a good sale of its new elec- Unless action is taken very soon to increase the trically heated official Brown-Duvel Moisture very comprehensive book of 548 pages, profusely il- number of grain elevators at New York City, Buf- Tester. The low price and convenience of the ma- lustrated and printed on heavy enamel paper, list- falo's fate as a grain port is sealed. That is the chine has evidently made a hit with the grain ing power transmission and conveying machinery opinion expressed by members of the Buffalo Corn trade. A goodly number of testers have also been of all descriptions, as well as all machines neces- Exchange and operators of large grain elevators in sent in to be fitted up with the new electric heat- sary for a complete grain elevator equipment. All the waterfront district. If elevators are not built this ers. parties interested are requested to write for at New York to take care of the grain tonnage of very exhaustive book. represent- the Great Lakes, elevator interests see Buffalo's William J. McMillan, the Pacific Coast 1820- Manufacturing of Sil- The Weller Manufacturing Company, of trade diverted to the Canadian route. Grain car- ative of Huntley Company, died at his in Portland, De- 1856 Kostner Avenue, Chicago, manufacturers of riers would then follow the Duluth-Montreal route ver Creek, N. Y., home 28. Mr. at one time con- grain elevator conveying and transmission machin- via the Welland Canal to the Atlantic Seaboard. cember McMillan was the Russell-Miller Milling Company, ery, have supplied their friends for a number of The Canadian Government is making extensive nected with Minn., and is a son-in-law of A. F. years past on January 1 with renewal pads for the preparations to obtain the grain trade that is now of Minneapolis, representative at Minneapolis of the Hunt- original gift of a Southgate Desk Calendar. These Buffalo's. The Dominion is adding to the elevator Shuler, The interment was have been sent out for 1919. Those who have used capacity at Montreal and millions of dollars are be- ley Manufacturing Company. this desk calendar know its convenience and the ing spent for the improvement of the Welland Canal at Minneapolis. thanks of countless users of Weller-made machin- between Lakes Erie and Ontario so that when the Corn Exchange National Bank, of Chicago, The ery no doubt arise very fervently each year when enlarged canal is completed grain carriers can take 111., makes an excellent showing in its report of the renewal pads make their appearance. cargoes from elevators at the head of the lakes condition on December 31, 1918. Individual de- The George W. Moore Company has succeeded direct to the Atlantic Seaboard via Montreal. posits made a large gain during the year, aggre- the Moore & Lorenz Company, manufacturers "The situation is one that should have the atten- gating $64,783,002.72, while the amount of $73,569,- of elevating and conveying machinery, at 2144 Ful- tion of every American interest, especially the 357.22 from banks and bankers gave a total of ton Street, Chicago. P. A. Lorenz retires from the elevator and grain men of Buffalo and New York $102,352,359.94. Time and demand loans amounted business and is succeeded as vice-president by Max City," said Dudley M. Irwin, who has long been to $67,426,643.84. The bank does a very large busi- H. Hurd, formerly secretary of the Union Iron one of the foremost grain dealers in the Buffalo ness with and through the Central and Western Works and Beall Improvements Company, of De- market. "We have elevators enough in Buffalo to grain trade. catur, 111. The officers of the company are George meet all ordinary demands but the fault is not Fairbanks, Morse & Co., of Chicago, 111., W. Moore, president and treasurer; Max H. Hurd, ours. The trouble is at New York. Because there gave a special Christmas bonus to all their em- vice-president; P. G. Hinkley, secretary. are not elevators there to handle the grain shipped ployes. It amounted to 10 per cent of the year's to the seaboard from Buffalo, the movement of The fifty-fifth annual statement of the First salary to all employes who had been with the com- grain from the Northwest is retarded. The grain Trust and Savings Bank of Chicago was published pany the full 12 months and 5 per cent to those backs up on Buffalo. Every influence should be early in January. Earnings of the First National who had entered the service after January 1, 1918. exerted to correct this condition." Bank are $2,507,271.11 as compared with $2,121,- The company also made a special donation of $50,- The elevator capacity of Buffalo is approximately 599.48 for the preceding year, while earnings of the 000 to the employes' pension fund, which brought 20,000,000 bushels. That is much larger than First Trust and Savings Bank are $846,310.25 as their total contribution to that fund for the year to Montreal can claim but the Canadians are alive to compared with $1,006,110.33 last year. After hav- about $100,000: the opportunity that will be offered when the new ing made provisions for depreciations and losses, Welland Canal is opened for navigation. If it had A "very useful souvenir of the New Year was realized and anticipated, and for Federal and local not been for the war that waterway would now be mailed early in January by the Morse Chain Com- taxes, the combined net profits of the two banks open for navigation. Work on it is now being pany of Ithaca, N. Y., with branches in the prin- are $3,353,581.36. The dividends paid amount to rushed, and it may be ready for lake boats within cipal cities. It is primarily a memoranda calendar $2,200,000, leaving a surplus for the year above di- the next three years. for the year, with illustrations of Morse Silent- vidends of $1,153,381.36. These combined profits Mr. Irwin says the Southern ports and Phila- Running High Speed Chains, and directions for in- show net earnings for the year of 9% per cent on delphia have been developing at the expense of stalling and operation. Then there is given Morse the average aggregate capital employed. T#EAMERICAN ELEVATOR AND

January 15, 1919 GRAIN TRADE 5ls quest for turning. This new schedule was adopted after the elevators had put into effect advanced rates, against which small receivers and shippers objected strenuously. All excess charges collected were returned. * * * 3 NEWS LETTERS Captain Harry Fowler of the Fowler Commission Company and Charles Dayton, president of the Frisco Elevator Company, both members of the Board of 5 Trade, have received honorable discharges from the Army and are back in their offices. tions rather than criticism, but have not yet resulted in any improvement. Small grain dealers also report the same kind of difficulties. * * * KANSAS CITY Before the Food Administration removed the maximum prices on flour and mill feed a fair trade had B. S. BROWN CORRESPONDENT been built up in ground barley at Kansas City. ST. LOUIS Lately demand for this has diminished greatly, de- R. O. JOHNSON CORRESPONDENT spite the big advance in bran and shorts. Practically all the barley came from the Northwest.

* * * IlllllllllllllllUlllllilllllllllli 'ANSAS CITY received over 100,000,000 bushels No. 2 Red recently sold for $2.48 at Kansas City, of grain in 1918, an increase of 32,500,000 over the highest prices paid for the 1918 crop at this mar- annual report of the St. Louis Merchants' 1917, although about 15,000",000 less than the ket and 33 cents over the guaranteed price. THEExchange was issued to the members by Presi- * * * high record set in 1918. Average receipts for the dent J. O. Ballard on January 7. The report past 10 years were around 75,000,000 bushels. Due Since the first of the year when all restriction have made a very favorable showing for the year 191S. The to war prices, the value of the grain was the largest been removed from the future market at Kansas City, financial and real estate interests of the Exchange, on record, over $175,000,000. Wheat receipts, 50,448,- with the consent of the Food Administration, there are in a gratifying condition. There is a cash balance 150 bushels, were 6,000,000 bushels above the aver- has been no appreciable increase in the amount of tn the credit of both accounts amounting to $22,401.80, age. Corn and oats arrivals each were the largest speculative business. of which the Current, or Exchange Account, aggregates * * * to date. $10,630.65, and the Real Estate Account $11,771.15. * * * Despite numerous reports that the Grain Corpora- Aside from the cash balance on hand the Current tion is planning to release part of its enormous hold- Guy A. Moore, vice-president and treasurer of the Account has to its credit Liberty Loan Bonds of the the various terminal markets for domestic Moore-Lawless Grain Company, was elected presi- ings at Third Issue bearing 4% per cent interest, value $10,000, use, there has been nothing said by Government offi- dent of the Kansas City Board of Trade at the an- while the Real Estate Account still owns IT. S. Pan- cials to indicate that such action is contemplated. nual election January 7, succeeding Orla A. Severance. ama 3s, par value of $50,000, making a total to the Several inquiries directed to D. F. Piazzek, zonal agent at Kansas City, have brought the reply that the Government has no wheat for sale. * * * Members of the Kansas City Board of Trade recently voted to resume trade in privileges under the name of bids and offers. All transactions go through the clearing house.

. * * Total deliveries on December contract at Kansas City were 16,000 bushels of corn and 259,000 bushels of oats. * * * "W. T. Kemper, long identified in Kansas City as a banker, politician and grain dealer, has retired from the grain business. The Kemper Mill & Elevator Company, organized nine years ago, has discontinued business and in its place had been formed the Nellis- Witter Grain & Milling Company, with little change in the active personnel. L. P. Nellis, vice-president and general manager of the old concern, is president and E. A. Witter will continue as treasurer. The new company will do a general merchandising business in grain. Mr. Nellis made his first acquaintance with the grain trade in office of the secretary of the Exchange where he served several years as clerk. * * * L. A. Fuller, former secretary of the Thresher- Fuller Grain Company, announced the organization January 1 of the Fuller Grain Company. Associated with him as president are his son W. W. Fuller, E. L. Love, W. S. Gabel and H. G. Miller, all with the Thresher-Fuller Grain Company at one time. The GUY A. MOORE E. C. ANDREWS latter firm will retain the same name, with R. J. New President of Kansas City Board of Trade. New President of St. Louis Merchants' Exchange. Thresher as president. Charles W. Avery, formerly with the Kemper Mill Mr. Moore is 34 years old and is the youngest presi- & Elevator Company, will be credit of the Exchange accounts aggregating $82, 401. SO. associated dent the Exchange has ever had. He served as first with Mr. Thresher. The membership of the Exchange at the close of the * * * vice-president last year. Fred C. Vincent, treasurer year numbered 902. The Dilts, Jr., Grain of the Simonds-Shields-Lonsdale Grain Company, au- Wm. G. Company has been Dues for 1919 were fixed at $100, the same as changed to Dilts Morgan. L. tomatically became first vice-president. He is with & J. Morgan has been the two preceding years. The amount to be paid for with the firm for several the Red Cross in France at present. B. L. Hargis years. the transfer of a membership during 1919 was fixed * * * was elected second vice-president. The following di- at $150, an advance of $50 over the previous two Service charges of the rectors were chosen: D. C. Bishop, C. K. Davis, L. A. Kansas State Grain Inspec- years. The Hay Department of the Exchange, which tion Bureau were reduced 30 per cent, as Fuller, F. P. Logan, R. T. Morrison and H. B. Ragan. January 1, has now been in operation for the past three years, was follows: All inspections. 45 cents a car; reinspections, Guy Moore, the Exchange's new president, for sev- self-sustaining the past year. 45 cents a car, except when grade is changed, in which eral years has been identified as one of the most ac- In 191S the Exchange suffered the loss of 14 mem- case there is no charge; on direct transfer and "in" tive of Kansas City's younger grain dealers. He hajs bers by death. In accordance with the custom of the and "out," inspection will be made with but one served three terms on the Board of Directors, has Board of Directors a page of the records was ordered charge of 45 cents, with 15 cents additional for mois- been second vice-president and first vice-president. devoted to the memory of the deceased and the be- ture test; sacked grain, 45 cents a car, with an addi- In 1916 he was president of the Grain Club. Since reaved family so advised in a letter of condolence. tional charge of 40 cents an hour for the time con- the declaration of war he has been a member of the * * * sumed; extra samples, 25 cents; weighing out of pub- 7th Regiment, National Guard (Kansas City Home president St. Louis lic elevators, 25 cents E. C. Andrews was chosen of the active service numerous a car; private, 40 cents: weigh- Guards) and has been on election, January 8. ing in, 40 cents; weighing all commodities, 40 cents Merchants' Exchange at the annual times during strikes. years as first vice-presi- an hour if fee does not cover expenses. The depart- He had served the last two grain busi- Mr. Moore first became interested in the ment has $40,000 on hand, and makes the reductions dent. He is vice-president of the Kehlor Flour Mills a receiver and ness through his father, who was in accordance with the law. In like manner when Company, and has an extensive acquaintance in the until his death in shipper in Nebraska and Colorado their fund drops to $25,000 an advance may be made. milling and grain trade throughout the St. Louis in 1904 and after get- 1916. He came to Kansas City The reduction means a big saving to elevators and territory. ting a knowledge of handling grain at a terminal receivers. Charles L. Niemeier was elected first vice-president market by working two years in the office of the * * # of the Exchange after serving two years as second organized the Ernst-Davis Commission Company, he The new schedule of elevator charges, adopted in vice-president. He is a member of the Sehultz-Nie- Moore-Lawless Grain Company in 1906. He is a na- December, after several conferences between Board meier Commission Company. F. B. Chamberlain, of the tive of Nebraska and is a graduate of the State Uni- of Trade interests and the Railroad Administration, F. B. Chamberlain Company, was elected second vice- in the pit than in versity. Mr. Moore is more active includes the following: For direct transfer, % cent a president. There was no opposition to any of the easily sustains his reputation of the cash market and bushel; for receiving and loading, including first 10 candidates, as only the regular ticket was voted on. ringing voice of any having the loudest and most days' storage or part thereof, 1 cent a bushel; for .T. O. Ballard, the retiring president, as is customary, City broker. 1 of of Direc- Kansas storing after the first 10 days, / 30 of a cent a bushel becomes an honorary member the Board * * * for each day; for cleaning, % cent a bushel; clipping, tors. Other directors named for two years were W. J. Elevators at Kansas City have complained several Vz cent a bushel; drying grain not over IS per cent Edwards, A. C. Robinson, J. H. Watson and Mason H. times recently to the Railroad Administration about moisture, 2% cents a bushel; for each 1 per cent of Hawpe. unnecessary delays and inconveniences that have de- moisture, % cent a bushel, up to 25 per cent; mixing. The Committee of Appeals elected was: Edw. H. veloped since the Government took over the trans- Ys cent a bushel, with no charge when mixing can be Hunter, S. A. Whitehead, Claude A. Morton, W. J. portation systems. Their communications on the mat- done on one elevation; turning of special bin grain, Niergarth, A. T. Leonhardt, Logan M. Baxter, Thos. ter have been more along the line of helpful sugges- Vs cent a bushel, with no charge without owner's re- Y. Wickham, Aderton Samuel, John H. Herron, Julius XflE^MERICAN ELEVATOR AND 514 GRAIN TRADE Thirty-Seventh Year W. Cohn, J. L. Frederick and H. F. Ketehum. The machine in which Mrs. Cheney was riding with her" been associated with his father, Emilio Pritchard, an Committee of Arbitration named was: Adolph Corneli, husband overturned on a curve in St. Louis County old member of the grain trade, under the firm name Jos. T. Newell, O. J. Woolridge, A. Eaton, Louis F. F. and she was instantly killed. Mrs. Cheney was a sis- of Pritchard & Co. Schultz, M. R. Parrott, Chas. E. Valier, Jos. E. Dixon, ter of George Harsh of the George Harsh Grain * * * H A Von Rump, John C. Burks. Company, and a niece of Alex. Harsh, president of the John A. Hamilton, recently appointed representative * * * Elmore-Schultz Grain Company. cn the Produce Exchange for Shearson, Hammill & The Supreme Court of the United States on January * * * Co., has been elected to membership. 7 affirmed the judgment of the Missouri Supreme Court Edward M. Flesh, president of the C. H. Albers Com- * * * in denying- to the Merchants' Exchange of St. Louis the mission Company, who has served as second vice presi- Carl F. Andrus, another young member of the local privilege of conducting its private grain inspection and dent of the United States Grain Corporation Food Ad- grain trade also returned to civil life this month and weighing bureau. Justice Brandeis rendered the opin- ministration here for two years, was signally honored resumed business on the Produce Exchange, being as- ion, which was concurred in by all the court. He held recently, when he accepted the invitation of Herbert C. sociated with his father, C. W. Andrus, in the firm of that the Missouri statute providing for the state grain Hoover, Food Administrator, to aid in distribution of C. W. Andrus & Son. Mr. Andrus has been engaged inspection system was not in conflict with Federal leg- food supplies in the liberated nations of Europe. Mr. in the aviation branch of the army for islation. This statute prohibits any person or corpora- Flesh received about nine the call unexpectedly and left almost months. tion other than a bonded state weigher from issuing immediately for Europe. Before leaving members of * * * weight certificates at public elevators where a state the St. Louis Merchants' Exchange presented him with Included in the usual new year announcements weigher is on duty. a set of platinum and pearl shirt buttons and links in of business changes was that of the formation of a According to E. C. Andrews, president of the Mer- appreciation of his excellent work while associated new firm, styled La Sauce-Bissell & .Co., domestic and chants' Exchange, the decision of the Supreme Court with the Grain Corporation. .Mr. Ballard made the export dealers in flour, corn products, oats and hay. will not mean the abandonment of the Weighing De- presentation speech from the rostrum of the' Exchange. Karl H. Bissell, formerly interested in hops, brewers' partment now under John Dower, but may work some In reply Mr. Flesh, after thanking the members, said materials, etc., under the firm name of K. H. Bissell & hardship on the grain trade here, as every effort has that much of the good work of the organization had Co., has recently become a member of the Produce been made to raise the service to the highest point of been done by Bert H. Lang of the Grain Corporation. Exchange. efficiency, and St. Louis weights have become famous Mr. Lang now has been appointed to fill Mr. Flesh's for their accuracy. The Weighing Department has place, and John L. Wright, a former grain man, has been carried by the Exchange for many years at a loss, been appointed his assistant.

owing to expenditure in improving its service, and only * * * recently it has been placed on a paying basis. The an- Smoking again has been prohibited on the St. Louis nual report of the Exchange, just issued, shows that Merchants' Exchange, after the ban being off for ILWAUKEE during 1918 total earnings of the department were nearly a year. George Harsh of the Floor Committee C. O. SRINROOD ?5S,6S3, and expenditures $57,537, leaving a profit of CORRESPONDENT is vigorously enforcing the rule and smokers are • - , ¥1,146. fined. The rules were abandoned one day recently, * * * however, owing to the birthday of P. P. Connor, who flow of ice in the Mississippi River last Willi A heavy was 79 years. Mr. Connor is one of the oldest mem- Mackie, week, caused A. W. manager of the Govern- bers of the Exchange, having seen 40 years' service. River Service to issue orders that the towboat ILWAUKEE has started ment * * * a movement which is Barret, which was due to arrive at Cairo with three expected to be of great importance to grain men W. B. Gardner, the well known Chicago grain man, barges, should terminate her upstream voyage there in the entire Middle West and in fact important was in St. Louis last week, and was welcomed by his and that all other towboats in the service should do to all those who are affected by lake traffic. Frank many friends on the Merchants' Exchange. likewise. Thus terminates the first season out of St. Barry, secretary of the Association of Commerce, is * * * Louis of the revival of the use of the Mississippi River the real sponsor for a move to get the mayors of all as a freight highway. Under the principle of joint Sam S. Carlisle, of the S. S. Carlisle Grain Company, lake cities together to discuss the question of get- Omaha, Neb., river and rail rates approved by Director-General of was a visitor on the St. Louis Merchants' ting the necessary number of ships back on the Great Railroads McAdoo, a schedule of rates is being pro- Exchange recently. Mr. Carlisle formerly was in the Lakes. Mr. Barry says that since the Government has grain business St. mulgated at Washington to permit the receipt of in Louis. taken the lake ships for the war emergency, it should freight in St. Louis for shipment by rail to Cairo and take steps to bring them back again at the earliest transfer there to the river service. possible moment. The letters planned by Mr. Barry When shipping is resumed from St. Louis the new were sent out through Mayor Hoan's office since the municipal wharf will be used. The first unit of the invitation is to the mayors of the various lake cities. wharf and warehouse plan is completed except for the Mr. Barry says that the Great Lakes conference will installation of the loading crane, which is in possession NEW Y O R K be called to meet in Milwaukee probably about Febru- - cf the city and which can be put in place in a few C. K. TRAFTON CORRESPONDENT ary 1. At that time it is hoped that representatives hours. The barge service opened on September 28, will come not only from the lake ports but also from there have been 13 sailings from St. Louis, one each the interior points dependent on lake traffic, like the week, thus maintaining the announced Government Twin Cities, Grand Rapids and many other inland schedule, which is looked on as a good augury for suc- points. * * * cessful continuance of this line. wN OBSERVATION of a custom of many years stand- The Milwaukee Chamber of Commerce adjourned at The daily capacity of the equipm'ent which is under I ing the members of the New Tork Produce Exchange 11:30 a. m. on the day of the burial of Theodore Roose- construction will be 2,700 tons. The difference be- dedicated the afternoon of the last day of che velt. A resolution was passed by the Chamber of tween 225 tons furnished each day and 2,700 tons ca- eld year to their Year End Entertainment, acting Commerce at a special meeting giving praise to the pacity a day represents what St. Louis confronts if as hosts to about 2,000 poor children of lower achievements of Mr. Roosevelt as a virile American. she is to prove that she has need and demand for water New York, including a delegation of little cripples This is a mark of honor which has seldom been paid transportation to the South and through New Orleans from various asylums. Long tiers of "bleachers" to any man by the local grain men. to the ports of the world. were erected on three sides of the huge floor to ac- * * * The Marshall Hall Grain Company has been one of commodate the young audience which displayed en- the largest shippers from St. Louis since the service thusiastic appreciation of the extensive program pro- Receipts of grain at Milwaukee have been running was inaugurated. vided for their amusement, which included a military close to normal with the following statistics for the * * * band, acrobats, fancy skaters, clowns, jugglers, and first week of the new year: 172 cars barley, 26 cars of corn, 289 cars of oats, 249 cars of wheat and 130 Members of the St. Louis Grain Club, the Merchants' trained animals. Doubtless many of them were best cars of rye. This was a total of 870 cars, compared Exchange, representatives from the banking interests pleased with the closing number in which they all with 981 cars the week before, 526 cars a year ago of St. Louis and James A. Hooke, director of public took part, marching past a prominent member who and 885 cars for the same week in 1916. The figures utilities, met at the Merchants' Exchange January 8 acted the part of Santa Claus and gave each child a indicate that the corn movement is still very much to discuss the erection of municipal concrete grain ele- basket containing a miscellaneous array of gifts. It restricted, while the oats, wheat and rye offerings vators to co-operate with the work being done with the subsequently came to light that this highly popular are still fairly liberal. line. It brought at meeting individual was none other than George W. Blanchard. new barge was out the * * * that Chicago has 10 times and Kansas City five times the genial head of the North American Grain Com- The extent of the wheat movement at Milwaukee as much elevator space as St. Louis. Despite this fact, pany, although his disguise was so perfect as to de- for the season is illustrated in the figures showing in the last 15 years St. Louis has done a greater grain ceive even close friends. that receipts of the present crop have been about business than Kansas City and one-fourth as much as * * * 12,000,000 bushels compared with a little more than Chicago. Harry M. Stratton of the old Milwaukee grain firm 2,000,000 bushels for the corresponding period a year The projected elevators, modeled after the munici- of Donahue-Stratton Company, was one of the first ago., pally-owned elevators of Seattle and New Orleans, will visitors of the new year in the local grain market and * * * have a capacity of 1,500,000 bushels of grain. made application for admission to membership in the Barley has sold as high as $1.10 a bushel for choice * * * New York Produce Exchange. Wisconsin due to the brisk bidding of the various At the Racquet Club, January 8, John O. Ballard was * * * industries for the grain. The desirable qualities are guest of honor at a banquet given by members of the Members of the grain trade on the New York pro- especially in brisk demand. Some grain men declare St. Louis Merchants' Exchange as a testimonial of his duce Exchange were greatly pleased to hear that their there will be difficulty in taking care of a large crop services to the organiatiozn. Mr. Ballard was the first old friend and associate Leslie F. Gates of Lamson of barley with the probable elimination of the brew- head of the Exchange to serve two consecutive terms, Bros. & Co. had been elected president of the Chicago ing of beer permanently. Other grain men are more and because of disturbances caused by the war, his Board of Trade. optimistic and say there will be a large food and task was an unusually hard one. John M. Messmore * * * milling demand for barley, besides a large call for the presided. Frank I. King, head of the old Toledo grain firm of grain for feeding purposes. * * * C. A. King & Co., whose bright, snappy daily market * * . Friends of Tilghman A. Bryant, the well-known St. circular is read with so much interest all over the Milwaukee has been growing rapidly as an oats Louis grain man, were grieved to hear recently of the country, spent a few days recently with friends on the center during the present crop season, the figures on death of his 18-year-old son, Maxwell, from pneumo- Produce Exchange, having come east to attend a con- receipts since August 1 showing total offerings of nia. The boy had been sick only a short time, and ference of the Grain Trade Advisory Committee at more than 23,000,000 bushels compared with a little his death came as a great shock to his family. the headquarters of the Grain Corporation. more than 14,000,000 bushels for the same period of * * * * * * 1917. The well known Chicago firm of Logan & Bryan has Among other prominent visitors were George H. * * * opened a branch office in the Arlington Hotel at Hot Marcy, president of the Armour Grain Company, E. D. The Milwaukee Chamber of Commerce, instead of Springs. Ark., under the management of George White- McDougal, vice-president of that company, and Wm. its usual frolic at Christmas time, in which a show man of New Tork. The St. Louis office is in charge H. Noyes of Lamson Bros. & Co. of some kind has been given, turned its holiday activi- of William T. Rooke, familiarly known as "Billie." * * * ties into a new channel by filling 100 or .more large * * * Wm. Emilio Pritchard, familiarly called "Bud" by baskets with food and other dainties for the benefit Deep sympathy has been expressed by St. Louis Mer- his many friends in the local grain market, recently of more than 100 tubercular families. Several hun- chants' Exchange members to P. W. Harsh, head of the returned to his post on the Exchange in civilian at- dred pounds of chicken and wagon loads of all sorts Terminal Elevator, over the loss of his daughter, Mrs. tire, having received his honorable discharge from of vegetables and even bread were purchased to fill Ruth Cheney, recently in an automobile accident. The the navy. For a number of years Mr. Pritchard has these huge baskets. Various grain men went out THE^MERICAN ELEVATOR. AND

January 15, 1919 GRAIN TRADE 013 personally to deliver the baskets on Christmas Eve. this business, like other work resulting from the war, indicated: John De Molet. John H. Dorsel, F. B. Ed- Other firms donated trucks for hauling and much has of course disappeared to a considerable extent, the mands, Wm. Fedders, R. S. Fitzgerald, Daniel B. satisfaction was expressed by the committee in this removal of the various restrictions brought about by Granger, Charles B. Hill, Geo. Keller, Lyman Perin enterprise. the war will go far toward making up for it, and the and Robert O. Strong. The Board, when elected, will * * * certainty of big grain crops this year, at big prices, select officers for the year, succeeding President E. A. Notice has been received at Milwaukee from the coupled with the business growing out of the handling Fitzgerald, Vice-President W. R. McQuillan and Sec- United States Railroad Administration that carriers of the big crops of 1918, will give the trade all that it retary-Treasurer C. S. Custer. Max Blumenthal and have been instructed to postpone the publication of can do. It is one business which the so-called recon- John Dorsel also retire as directors, although the lat- tariffs which were to have been effective on February structions period will benefit, rather than injure, as ter, as stated, has been renominated. The annual 1. The new tariffs provided for an advance of 2 cents one prominent grain man not long ago pointed out. meeting of the Exchange will be held that evening, per 100 pounds in the rates on grain and grain prod- * * * in connection with a dinner to the new officers and points in East- ucts from Milwaukee and Chicago to The success of the hay market in Cincinnati under directors, at a place to be announced. ern Trunk Line territory. the plugging system of sampling hay was made cer- * * * tain during 1918, under the vigorous direction and W. G. Bruce, secretary of the Association of Com- handling of the local trade and the committees charged merce, says Milwaukee is sadly in need of more rail- with the supervision of the market. During the year, roads and that if private capital will not come for- largely on account of the favor with which shippers ward and provide these facilities, that the municipal- regarded the market under the new system, more than ity should come forward and provide the proper belt 10,000 carloads of hay were received, as compared TOLEDO lines and terminals to the end that the growth of with about 7,500 cars during the previous year. The JOHN O. NEWMAN CORRESPONDENT Milwaukee commerce be not delayed. firm establishment of the market under the new sys- * * * tem resulted recently in a renewal of the lease on Postmaster F. B. Schutz says he thinks that the the L. & N. tracks on Front Street where the cars are city will soon have aerial mail, a project of especial placed. W. R. McQuillan, chairman of the committee eager to get this appointed about two years ago to investigate the mat- importance to grain men who are of winter wheat are so low in this section possible. Detroit, later to take steps to establish the sys- STOCKS fast mail service just as soon as ter, and new that millers are refusing orders, and high prices other centers are tem, is given a large share of the credit for the Grand Rapids, the Twin Cities and of flour will continue unless northwestern Ohio the Northern aerial mail route successful operation of the market, and in the formal now strongly behind millers are able to find some way to obtain wheat congestion of the Chicago route. discharge of his committee at a recent meeting of the which will avoid the without bidding against each other. Millers charge * * * of Directors of the Exchange was highly Board com- the United States Grain Corporation has 1,000,000 rate of interest of the Chamber of plimented on his work. The January bushels of wheat stored in Toledo elevators, but refuse has been fixed by the Finance Committee * * * Commerce to sell it to them. The supply of soft winter wheat 7 per cent. at E. A. Fitzgerald, of Fitzgerald Bros., president of is practically exhausted and as the Food Administra- * * * the Exchange during the stormiest and most difficult tion has given them permission to return to pre-war A. Krause. prominent miller, says that Charles year in its history, retires this month to give way to grades of flour they are anxious to begin operations on American mills ground almost 500,000,000 bushels of whatever successor may be elected by the new Board a more liberal scale. Discussing the situation, C. S. year. asserts that unless export busi- corn last He Coup, manager of the Northwestern Elevator & Mill develops in corn flour, the output will be much ness Company said: "Toledo millers are bidding $2.2S% a less this year. find is little * * * bushel, track Toledo, for wheat, and there to be had. The grain corporation has a large amount Of the water shipments from Milwaukee in 191S of this wheat on hand but refuses to let us have it. bushels went across Lake Michigan by car 7,000,000 The country elevators of Ohio and adjacent points are ferry and IS, 000, 000 bushels or more were consigned cleaned up on wheat, as they are not in the market to lower lake ports. at this time."

Frank I. King, one of the best posted grain and seed men in the country, propounds the question whether increased grain storage is desirable. Mr. King says that proposed suggestions to provide for the 1919 CINCINNATI wheat crop include storage facilities by lease or pur- K. C. CRAIN - - CORRESPONDENT chase of facilities now in existence, or by building additional facilities, or both. In other words, he says, the bill may provide for increased storage erected mum. by the Government. Continuing, Mr. King says: "Will the Government NEW YEAR was ushered in in Cincinnati, need them after the 1919 wheat corpse is buried? THEas far as the grain trade was concerned, with If so, will it develop into more Government owner- the enthusiasm which is usually found among ship? Railroads and grain men have erected terminal members of the trade. There was especial vim and and country elevators heretofore. Farmers must be joyousness this year, due to the fact that the trade accommodated when they have the time and disposi- can look back on 191S with pride in the things which tion to sell their grain. They are gradually enlarging farms. are no longer it accomplished, and with relief in the knowledge their own storage on the Many that the war, with its restrictions and regulations, required to put their surplus on the bargain counter is past. The celebration was held at the Hotel Sinton soon after harvest." de- on December 31, in the beautiful quarters on the On the subject of terminal elevators Mr. King second floor set aside by the hotel management for the clares they have not expanded with the country. He build Army and Navy Officers' Club. The occasion was ren- states it takes capital and encouragement to dered the more notable by the presence of Mayor John them. They almost starved during the first year of Galvin, who was the guest of honor, being seated E. A. FITZGERALD the Food Administration, he says. between President E. A. Fitzgerald and Chairman Al- Retiring President, Cincinnati Grain & Hay Exchange. "Providence and a desire for a war reserve have ' fred Gowling, of the Entertainment Committee. The helped them this season," declares Mr. King. "Three Mayor delivered a short address, filled with patriotism, pf Directors. With the numerous complications brought seaboard markets have only 15,000,000 letter head and calling attention to the historical importance of on by the war, and with the heavy responsibilities of capacity. And there is a big difference between letter the past year, paying incidental tribute to the fine virtually organizing the trade anew, President Fitz- head and working capacity." * * * part which the grain men of the country as a whole gerald discharged his numerous and important duties during played in feeding the world and winning the war. with firmness and discretion. At a dinner tendered Toledo gained prestige as a grain market Besides the substantial refreshments which were him at the Hotel Gibson on January 7 by his directors, 191S. The movement and sales recorded on the Pro- served during the afternoon, an elaborate program of much was said to this effect, and he was presented duce Exchange was unusually heavy. Trading in> entertainment was provided, making the celebration with a handsome gold wrist watch, suitably inscribed, barley was established successfully and shipments sold staged by the Exchange in many respects the most as a memento of his term of office, and a token of the and receipts were satisfactory. Cash corn at enjoyable the trade has ever held. esteem in which he is held by his fellow grain men. $2 a bushel on February 21, making the second highest * * * Former President W. R. McQuillan presented the mark in the history of the Exchange. High and watch on behalf of the other members. low marks for cash grain during the year were as The prominence of Cincinnati in connection with follows: departments was especially marked * * * the army's supply Corn Oats' Rye in the work of the Forage Division of the Quarter- The secession of the grain men in a body from the High - ?2.00 §101 12.90 established in the city a depot Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce, and the establish- master's Corps, which 1.57 Low . 1-35 .67 for the handling of hay for export to France. A comment by them of the Cincinnati Grain and Hay Ex- Receipts and shipments for the year as compared plant, with a capacity of 100 tons a day, was change, separately incorporated, with headquarters on pressing were: the second floor of the Gwynne Building, was one of with 1917 installed, and while this plant was burned, presum- RECEIPTS the big events of 1918, as far as the grain trade in ably by pro-Germans or enemy agents, in October, Barley resulted from Wheat Corn Oats Rye 1917, it was at once rebuilt and put to work, with the Cincinnati is concerned. The secession 191S ..5,513.707 2,544,650 S,880,350 415,100 9S0,200 result that, all told, the plant handled over 30,000 irreconcilable differences over the supervision at- 1917 ..5,443,200 3,720,600 124,100 14.S00 32,615 tons of compressed hay. tempted to be exercised over inspection and other SHIPMENTS * * * matters by the Chamber, it will be recalled; and it is Wheat Corn Oats Rye Barley The grain and hay men of Cincinnati had good reason nor now likely that there will be any return to the 191S ..1,187,110 997,995 6,223,550 223,800 202,901 to celebrate the coming of the new year with some old affiliation, although the grain men, as a matter o,f 1917 ..1,939,300 1,056,300 2,365,060 99,900 pride circumstance, in view of the accomplish- course, retain their membership in the Chamber and and * * ments which they had behind them for 1918. In spite will continue to count heavily in its proceedings. The Mayer, president of J. F. Zahm & Co., and one of the restrictions resulting from the war, and the Exchange was fortunate in taking with them D. J. Fred of the most popular grain dealers in northwestern Ohio, difficulty in moving shipments East, in the latter half Schuh, their executive secretary, and in his recent elected president of the Toledo Produce Exchange of the year, on account of the embargoes existing, the return to the secretaryship from work in the navy. was * * * its annual election this month. Mr. Mayer suc- trade managed to roll up a splendid volume of busi- at I. King, president of C. A. King & Co. ness, figures on which have not yet been fully com- The annual election of a new Board of Directors ceeds Frank election of Kenton D. Keilholtz, of Southworth piled, but which will show a larger volume of busi- of the Cincinnati Grain and Hay Exchange will be The Co., one of the progressive young members of the ness, both inbound and outbound, than the city ever held for the first time in its new quarters on January & of treasurer, met with the approval before handled. The needs of the army of course 16, and the event is expected to be a notable one. trade, to the office seed merchants, as well as the millers. accounted for a great deal of business, as Cincinnati's A Nominating Committee consisting of Messrs. C. S. of grain and Other officers and members of the standing commit- position as a gateway city made it natural for many Custer, F. B. Edmands, Lou McGlaughlin, Geo. Keller are: Harry R. Devore, first vice-president; large transactions to be handled through this point, and Robert O. Strong. The Board, when elected, will tees chosen Sheldon, second vice-president; Archibald both in grain and in forage for army horses. While out of which five directors will be elected on the date Richard S. THEAMERICAN ELEVATOR AND 516 GRAIN TRADE Thirty-Seventh Year

Gassaway, secretary; Directors: Frank I. King, David rail rates, which should influence a larger movement. delphia the continuation or withdrawal of former Anderson, Fred O. Paddock, Jesse W. Young, Frank It is conceded that rail rates will not be reduced for steamship lines. Without a grain export business, R. Moorman, George D. Woodman, Jesse D. Hurlbut, some time to come. On the other hand there are no steamships could seldom obtain a cargo here." Frank W. Annin, Charles W. Mollett, Raymond P. suitable traffic handling arrangements on the river. * * *

Lipe; Committee i of Arbitration: C. S. Coup, J. A. At the present time such grain as is handled has to Announcement was made January 2, by William P. Smith, George R. Forrester, L. A. Mennel, John W. bo sacked, hauled and handled by hand. However, it Brazer, that he has associated with himself in the Luscombe, E. A. Nettleton, Fred W. Jaeger; Commit- is believed that the difference in rates may result in grain and feed brokerage and commission business tee of Appeals: John Wiekenheiser, R. L. Burge, Fred some better barge lines. The 9-foot stage is far from hi* sons, Howard F. and William P., Jr., under the C. King, G. J. Rudd, W. A. Boardman, O. H. Paddock, a reality, and this may keep the river companies from firm name of William P. Brazer & Sons, 483-85 Bourse A. Mennel, W. J. Perry, L. J. Ulrich, John C. Husted, making many improvements for a time, but they are Building. W. E. Stone. sure to come eventually. * * * * * * Walter Passmore, of the firm of Passmore & Co., Millers, elevator and other grain men, farmers, and grain and feed dealers, Nottingham, Pa., who has been in fact everyone concerned with the grain trade re- ill in one of the local hospitals, has recovered and gone ports that the 1919 wheat crop, to be harvested in the to his home. He is well known to the trade, having spring, is unusually promising through Kentucky and been associated with his father in business for sev- LOUISVILLE Indiana. Mild weather during the fall resulted in eral years. A. W. WILLIAMS - CORRESPONDENT much late wheat being planted, and the acreage is * * * estimated at about 10 per cent over normal. The crop G. P. Lemont, of E. K. Lemont & Son, grain and feed to date has been growing rapidly, but is now checked shippers, left this city January 4 for Daytona, Fla., by colder weather. So far the weather hasn't been where he will spend the winter in an effort to obtain cold enough to injure it, although there hasn't been a much needed rest. EP|F\]HE 191S season with the elevator and grain trade much snow for protection in this part of the winter * * * of Louisville showed an increase in gross ton- wheat district. Harvey C. Miller of L. F. Miller & Sons, receivers | * * * nage handled, although business was not as satis- and shippers of grain, hay and feed, has left for a factory as it could be, due to the numerous Federal The Kentucky Public Elevator Company, after hav- business trip to Chicago. regulations, traffic conditions, increased rail rates, ing been out of commission a little less than two * * * car shortage, and labor shortage. A good volume years as a result of fire, has finally completed its new Officers and directors of the Commercial Exchange of business was handled in the spring in connection plant, which is of concrete and steel throughout, and in the Bourse will be nominated January IS. At that with the distilleries making alcohol, but this dropped equipped with the most modern grain handling equip- time nominations will be in order for a candidate for off as well as brewery demand. ment. The plant starts operations within a few days president, vice-president, treasurer and six directors. The loss of distilling business has been a hard blow and is now testing out the machinery. The company Any number of candidates can be nominated for any to the Louisville as well as Cincinnati and Evansville lias installed two moisture testing machines, while office but it is believed that several positions will be grain handlers. It formerly meant a big tonnage, and Lee Irving, head of the grain inspection department of uncontested. The elections will take place January accounted for a larger volume of rye and small grain the Board of Trade, has taken two of the six machines 28. It is planned to serve a dinner on the floor of the business than can possibly be handled in this section in his department and located them at the Public Exchange on election day during the noon hour. otherwise. However, during the year there was a very Elevator plant. * * * heavy Government movement of oats through the * * * L. G. Bournique of the firm of Taylor & Bournique gateway, this resulting on the total carlot movement Movement of grain during the past few weeks has Company, Milwaukee grain merchants, was a recent showing an increase over the year 1917, when a con- been quiet in the Louisville section. For the week of visitor in this city. He paid a visit to the local office siderable amount of liquor was manufactured in the December 28, there was a total of 133 cars in and 59 of the company while here. state. * * * out. The week ending January 4, showed 81 cars in * * * and 84 out. The week of January 11, showed a total William C. Walton, of Walton Bros., who has Comparative figures for 1917 and 1918 for this of 128 cars in and 62 out. Of corn receipts there were been in the Government service and stationed at market show a big falling off in corn handling, and 19 cars, and 2 shipped; oats, 35 in and 60 out; wheat, Chicago in the Forage Department, has been mustered a considerable drop in wheat and rye, but a great 74 in and no cars out. Rye movement has dwindled to out and is back with the firm. gain in the movement of oats. In fact the increase nothing in this market, as there is no distilling de- * » * in oats movement was larger than the losses suffered mand and no rye flour milled here. Hay movement Penrose Ash McClain, Jr., son of the late Penrose A. in other grains, and the elevators did a very fair has been light during the month as farmers haven't McClain, who was Select Councilman from the First business. been satisfied with low prices, which hardly paid for Ward and United States Collector of Internal Revenue, * * * labor, baling, hauling, high freight rates, and cost of died December 25, 1918, at his home, 5150 Hazel Louisville suffered in 191S from a shortage of ele- production. However, prices have advanced sharply Avenue, after an illness of several months. He was vator space. "With the big plant of the Kentucky Pub- during the past few days, and a better inbound move- 36 years old. He is survived by his wife, two children lic Elevators out of service as a result of fire in ment is expected. The demand is good as pasturage and a sister, Mrs. F. Joseph Laws, of Atlantic City, February, 1917, the private elevators were jammed is gone, and heavier feeding is taking place. For the N. J. Mr. McClain succeeded his father in the grain past capacity in taking care of the business of the present receipts are running 15 to 30 cars a week, bu- mess and was a member of the Commercial Ex- owners, that left and of the concerns without grain with shipments of five to ten cars. change. handling facilities as a result of the fire. One con- * * * cern handled a good deal of grain through Indianapolis George E. Paules, of E. L. Rogers & Co., grain which ordinarily it would have handled through Louis- receivers, with offices in the Bourse, died at his home ville, and other large lots were handled through out- in Cynwyd, Pa., on December 28. Death was due to side elevators. pneumonia. He was 29 years old. He had been with * * * PHILADELPHIA the firm for several years. Mr. F'aules is survived The 1917 corn crop which was handled during the F.W.COLQUHOUN . CORRESPONDENT b}' his wife and two children. spring of 191S was the wet, mouldy, frost bitten crop, * * * which is alleged to the worst ever handled through be Among the out-of-town visitors at the Commercial the section. It had to be dried and carefully handled Exchange in the Bourse the past month were: G. E. in order to keep it from heating spoiling. pri- or The Newman, of Rosenbaum Brothers, grain dealers, Chi- vate elevators were so busy handling this corn, that cago; F'. E. Goodrich, of Goodrich Bros., grain and some concerns were forced to send their grain to points G. GRAFF, president of the Commercial Ex- LOUIS hay shippers, Winchester, Ind., and president of the as far off as Baltimore in order to get it dried. change, expresses an opinion that the outlook for The Grain Dealers National Association; C. C. Lynn, feed Public Elevator had of business in grain and flour for the year of 1919, Kentucky a battery four big and grain dealer, Bethlehem, Pa.; T. G. Williamson, of dryers, and could have taken care of the situation is excellent. He said: the Harvey Grain Company, Chicago; M. J. Malone, of easily if it had been in operation. "Never has there been such a glowing prospect for the Halliday Milling Company, Cairo, 111.; T. G. Gulitt, * * * the largest grain and flour business in the United of G. E. Patteson Company, feed manufacturers, States. The transportation of the country will There hasn't been much difference in the volume of be Memphis, Tenn. wheat handled at Louisville during the past two years. taxed to its utmost to move the remainder of the 1918 * * * .During 1917 prices were so high and wheat so scarce crops before the greatest wheat crop ever known is that the volume was under usual figures. Then sub- ready to move in Jul}'. Fall planting was completed Plans are under way by the sub-committee on Port stitutes cut in on wheat in the fall of 1917 and spring under the most favorable conditions and 40,000,000 Development to take up the question of securing ad- of 191S. This year's wheat was superfine, free of acres of winter wheat is assured; this is in the very ditional grain elevator facilities at Port Richmond. moisture, and one of the nicest crops ever handled best of condition. The spring wheat planting will un- Louis G. Graff, president of the Commercial Exchange elevator through the elevators. However, Kentucky wheat is doubtedly be the largest in history, because farmers and chairman of the sub-committee on grain L. exhausted, and wheat now moving in is going direct are facing their last chance for $2.20 wheat. That facilities of the Port Committee, has named James to the Ideal mills which have been eagerly accepting price will expire June 1, 1920. Increase in acreage of King, Morris F. Miller, William M. Richardson and all that can be had. winter and a presumed increase of spring wheat makes George T. Omerly as members of the sub-committee. * * * possible a crop of 1,200,000,000 bushels and a probable The committee, together with Mr. Graff, will make a for addi- The outlook for 1919 is generally considered good crop of 1,100,000,000 bushels. Weather conditions will plea to the Philadelphia & Reading Railway pressure is also by local grain handlers. It is well to consider the govern that. tional grain facilities. Congressional increasing facilities of the fact that there is not a ghost of a chance to get back "The price of corn and oats at spring seeding time being brought to bear for this city January 9 to go to into the distilling game this year, or at least that is will have some effect upon their acreage. The demand port. A committee left the authorities there the the way the distillers and grain men have sized up for both seems assured. Europe's need is great, and Washington to lay before On Decem- the situation. However, they are making an effort. with a renewal of the corn business with Germany, necessity of these needed improvements. and his as- The grain trade will be forced to look up new mar- formerly our best customer for this cereal, that busi- ber 17 Mayor Smith, Director Webster 'the Department of kets in order to hold up tonnage since the Government ness will be improved. The removal of restrictions sistant, Joseph F. Hasskarl, of Washing- movement has slumped. Indications are that there on shipping to terminal markets will greatly help the Wharves, Docks and Ferries, journeyed to there to take steps to will be a considerable shortage of wheat in the spring, year of 1919 business and it now behooves the rail- ton and urged the authorities facilities this port. unless the Grain Corporation releases some of its roads entering this port largely to increase their ex- bring about better at holdings to the mills, with the result that some of the port elevator terminals. It is up to them to say if * * * elevators of the South are doubtful as to whether 'Philadelphia is to keep pace with Baltimore and New That Philadelphia is in need of more grain ele- there will be any movement of wheat to speak of until York in the grain trade or fall into insignificance in vators is evidenced by the large shipments of grain the new crop comes on. comparison to them. that have recently been made from this port abroad. * * * "Vast quantities of grain, the largest ever exported, Exports of wheat from here during December, 191S, Much interest is developing in river navigation in will be moved during 1919 and 1920. Building ele- amounted to 5,689,406 bushels as compared with 2,367,- Louisville at the present time as a result of the vators will open the present congested outlet of this 093 bushels the previous month. The shipments of 25 per cent increase in rail tariffs, which has not port and bring to Philadelphia its share of the big oats abroad in December amounted to 463, S97 bushels been offset by any regulation of river tariffs. River grain traffic. The business will pass through the as compared with 475,707 bushels in November. The packet, towing, and barge concerns have increased ports offering the best facilities, and as there is no exports of wheat during the entire year of 1918 rates somewhat as a result of increased operating ex- other ocean tonnage in large quantities constantly amounted to 17,S64,S60 bushels as compared with 29,- penses, but there is a wide margin between river and available at this port, the grain exports mean to Phila- 197,855 during 1917. The falling of shipments dur- .

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ing last year was due to war conditions but grain He had been for 33 years connected with the grain ;nen say that the increased shipments in November trade in Duluth, having come here in 1886, when he as compared with December prove that with peace entered the employ of A. J. Sawyer & Co., a firm of conditions and better movement of vessels that this grain exporters. On the death of Mr. Sawyer he port is rapidly coming to the fore in grain export busi- became associated with C. H. Canby & Co. After that ness. he was in business for himself and for the last six COMMUNICATED The Philadelphia & Reading Railway had extensive years he was connected with Jackson Bros. He was plans for improvement in grain handling facilities at born in Inverness, Scotland, in 1859, and came to this this port, but the Government restrictions on build- country when a young man. He had a wide circle 511 ing caused a halt. Fresident Graff and his sub-com- of friends in the grain trade and social circles, and mittee are now taking up with the railroad the ques- he was generally esteemed for his sterling integrity THE PULSE OF THE GRAIN TRADE tion of renewing this project. and general high character. Editor American Grain Trade.—Am enclosing * * * Members and employes of grain firms on the Du- check to pay my subscription to the American luth market who had been in active military service Grain Trade another year. I cannot do without

or in training camps, are gradually being returned to it, as it reflects the pulse of the grain trade for private life and are falling into their old positions. the whole country. Among the recently returned contingent was William DULUTH truly, J. C. Dinham, formerly with Stair-Christensen & Timmer- Yours SMITH. S. J. SCHULTE - CORRESPONDENT man on this market. He was stationed in the pay- master's department at the naval station at San Diego, Cal., during the greater part of his year's ser- NECESSITY OF INCREASED STORAGE vice with the army. Ray Dinham, his brother, was Editor American Grain Trade.—We have added Denver, and two trips across on the battleship made more storage to our elevator at this point, prin- XTLTJTH has been especially fortunate in being to Liverpool in the convoy service. able to dedicate a large number of very * * * cipally, of course, to profit by the normal advances capable men to public service," said F. G. The annual Duluth Board of Trade elections will be in grain. A further reason was that with the ad- Crowell, vice-president of the Food Administration held on January 21. Following out past precedents, ditional storage we might continue to receive grain Grain Corporation, in a letter to M. L. Jenks, presi- Benjamin Stockman, manager of the Duluth-Superior uninterruptedly, even though we would not get cars dent of the Duluth Board of Trade, replying to a com- Milling Company, who has been vice-president during with which to load out our purchases. munication that had been addressed by the Board to the last two years, will be elected president without Julius H. Barnes (now in Europe) congratulating him opposition. M. L. Jenks, the retiring president, is As a rule the Government grades do not inter- upon the efficiency shown by himself and Percy H. being highly commended for the rare judgment he ex- fere with country buyers, if they will but buy on Ginder, in charge at Duluth, in directing the affairs ercised in the trying emergencies that have arisen dur- the same rules that they are required to sell by. of the Corporation. Mr. Crowell intimated further ing the two war-time years he headed the Board. We do not find the grading rules irksome or un- that the activities of the Food Administration could Competition is promised for places on the directorate not have been carried on with its present efficiency and on some of the standing committees. fair. We do not always find competitors that will had it not been for the co-operation of Watson S. * * * follow Government grading rules, but they are to Moore, its secretary, who also was identified with John Washburn, of the Washburn-Crosby Milling blame for that. interests in Duluth. Company, has been elected a member of the Duluth * * * A country elevator should be equipped so as to Board of Trade, having purchased a membership held As a result of the continued good of grain enable it to keep separate the different grades of movement by the late W. H. Dunwoody. from over the "West to the terminals there is now in ^ >' wheat, to the end that the producer who tries and . *:, store in the Head of the Lakes elevators over 21,000,- R. M. White, of the White Grain Company, asserted does succeed in growing a high grade of grain 000 bushels of grain, leaving space for only about that trade in feeds and coarse grains of all kinds so •should reap the benefits for so doing, and not be 9,000,000 bushels available to take care of marketings far this season had been the best in his experience in between now the penalized because the bulk of the grain grown is and opening of the new lake naviga- several years. The recent sharp bulges in bran and tion season. measure relief it is A of may be afforded mHl feeds quotations has resulted in increased sales of a lower grade. This is only fair, and a through the chartering of 16 steamers wintering in of oats. Experiments have shown oats and barley, rule that applies to the elevator owner as well as this harbor and some special shipments to the East mixed half and half, to be a satisfactory feed, and to the grower of grain, and it also applies to the all-rail. In that connection it be mentioned may that liberal sales of it have been made recently by the nearly the the laborer .who does his work well and who is entitled whole of 240,000 bushels of flax seed White Grain Company for shipment over the entire now in the elevators here is indif- marked for shipment to district. to more pay than he who does his work linseed oil crushing plants east of Chicago, with some * * * ferently. to go clear through to the seaboard. As the storage In order to obviate the danger as far as possible of clean our grain rather than mix it, because situation at this point We stands now, the Capitol, Car- market flurries such as have developed at times in the gill and Itasca Elevator we have never been successful at the markets in plants are filled up, but the past through difficulty experienced in making deliveries Globe, Consolidated mixed grain. and Great Northren Elevator sys- of grains on contracts, an amendment to the general getting the increased grade on tems have a fair amount of left to space carry the rules of the Duluth Board of Trade is proposed to Yours truly, W. H. HURLEY GRAIN CO. usual winter storage. admit of grain or seed in cars, including that graded * * * "subject to approval," being a valid tender on con- In spite of a bad start until the new season's crop tracts when the grade is evidenced "by a certificate of TEXAS WHEAT CONDITION AND ACREAGE began to move on September 1, the Duluth market inspection as being of proper grade for tender. In state made a good showing during the calendar Editor American Grain Trade.—Taking the year ended order to be deliverable, it is suggested that the ear last. rainfall every section during the December 31, Receipts of all grains were re- must have been within the switching limits of Duluth as a whole, the in ported Board of by the Trade here at 99,112,524 bush- or Superior for a period of at least 72' hours. Bills month of December, 1918, was greater than for els, as compared with only 52,240,377 bushels during for grain or seed so tendered shall not be due and the corresponding month of all of the four pre- 1917. Wheat receipts accounted for 78,842,730 bushels, payable delivered shall have been until the grain so ceding years. Wheat, oats and other small grain against 30,576,769 bushels during the preceding 12 unloaded into the elevator and until the warehouse re- months. A feature was the fairly active are in better condition at this time than ever be- movement ceipt covering it has been delivered to the owner. of rye, amounting to S, 274, 897 bushels, as against fore known in the agricultural history of the state. 3,860,736 bushels during 1917. The barley movement While the more or less continuous rain during De- fell off to 4,828,278 bushels against S, 559, 418 bushels cember and November caused heavy losses to the in the preceding 12 months. The * * * rice crop in the Gulf Coast region of east Texas, Shipments of all grains during the year aggre- IfUROPEAN the benefits to small grain, pasturage and winter gated 78,980,556 bushels as against 55,171,999 bushels crops in other parts of the state were enormous. during 1917. Wheat shipments bulked up to 61,146,313 The wheat acreage is considerably larger than bushels, in comparison with only 31,746,513 bushels BORER m previous season. The official figures show during the preceding twelve months. in any isthe caterpillar * * * of" a small moth.. 2,108,600 acres, which is probably low. If a normal The removal of all restrictions in trading in coarse The moths lay their yield should be obtained, and at this time pros- grains on January 1, was hailed with satisfaction by eg$s in flat masses, on the under sides pects would seem to warrant the prediction that the operators on this market as indicating the restora- of the corn leaver. yield per acre will exceed al previous records in tion of normal marketing conditions in the near future. The caterpillars the state, the total crop should amount to close Market experts generally are watching with interest hatch from these eggs and" the developments as regards the handling of the 1918 feed at first on. the leaves.hut to 40,000,000 bushels, as compared with about 25,- scon "bore into the tassels, the domestic wheat crop. With the ending of the war stalk.the leaf-ribs and the ears. 000,000 bushels as the highest production any one and the prospect of a bumper crop ahead under normal They livein the. Al .stalks all winter and year heretofore. One of the significant features weather conditions, it is regarded as virtually certain in spring change this is that the planted that the Government will be compelled to take a large reddish-brown pupas^ti of the wheat crop season * loss on the transaction. Grain men on this market "hichsoon transform, area extends all the way from the Oklahoma line n to moths have suggested that the Government after paying the to the Rio Grande. Wheat is being grown in coun- grower the agreed price for the wheat, should turn it The pest also attach othergardenplants.weeds, ties and sections of the state this year where it into the general market at the market price, charging and larger grasses,and lives the accruing loss up to the general account of the cost through the winterin the. was never before planted. stalks ofthese -plants as of the war. welt as in corn,. The acreage planted to oats is larger than ever * * * E"?i before, and the condition of the crop could hardly Burn All Plants Containing Caterpillars. ^ Lieut. Reginald Hoehle has assumed the position of be better, according to reports received here from deputy weighmaster for the Wisconsin Grain & Ware- fe" Cornstalks, corn stubble, grasses/weeds, and stalks of garden plants should be thus destroyed^ all parts of the state. house Commission at Superior. He was recently hon- ' throughout infested areas during' fall, orably discharged from Gordon, Ga., where he Yours truly, W. D. HORNADAY. Camp winter or early spring. No other effective had served for several months as an instructor. His method is known for combating this pest. A appointment was in line with the commission's policy of putting former employes who were in the army or THE Pood Administration on January 1 lifted all navy back in the Board's service. restrictions on the special price regulations on mill * * * feeds and those limiting wholesalers', retailers' and Alexander Guthrie, representative on this market jobbers' margins of profit on mill feed sales. The for the firm of Bros." of Chicago, died on New Stubble and scattered stalks- Jackson irf where the borer spends nter in corn. feedingstuffs remain in force. Tear's day after an extended illness from heart trouble. regulations on other : ;

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"Memphis terms" are irreconcilable; 3, that plaintiff should have sold the car and then presented his evidence of loss, which he did not do. So the Committee held for the defendants and ordered plaintiff to pay cost of arbitration.

adopted by the carriers, that such improved methods CONVENTION CALENDAR ought to be applied to the box car equipment now in January 16—Michigan Hay & Grain Association, use, as far as it is practicable to do so; CARRYING QUALITIES Third: That copies of this resolution be placed in OF AMERICAN Cadillac Hotel, Detroit. the hands of the master car builders of the extensive EXPORT CORN January 21-22 Indiana Grain Dealers Associa- grain carrying railroads, and the builders and design- — ers of freight cars and any others who may be in tion, Board of Trade, Indianapolis. position to grant relief in this matter of grain leakage, that is due to the tendency of the sheathings to spring That a considerable percentage of the corn ex- January 21-23 Farmers Grain Dealers Associa- from the car sills. — away ported to Europe previous to the World ar- Resolved: That copies of these resolutions be War tion of Iowa, Cedar Rapids. placed in the hands of the carriers and the builders rived in poor condition, as a result of the voyage, February 12-14 Farmers Grain Dealers Associa- and designers of box cars, for their consideration. — has been learned in investigations made by the U. S. The U. S. Railroad Administration has acted tion of Kansas, Topeka. of officially upon the above resolution. The Mechanical Department Agriculture. These investigations February 18-20 Minnesota Farmers Grain Deal- — Department of the Railroad Administration in a are described in detail in a bulletin about to be Minneapolis. ers Association, car circular relating to standards for freight car issued by the Department. During the latter stages 27-28 Ohio Farmers Grain Dealers repairs, just issued, have included the following February — of the war the authorities who had control of the Toledo. paragraph Association, Boody House, of large "Metal strap to be applied to side sheathing—Double shipping amounts of corn to Europe took 20-21 Grain Dealers Association of Okla- May — sheathed box cars will have applied to face of sheathing steps to insure that only such corn as would safely of car at side sill a small angle iron, channel iron or Oklahoma City. homa, strap securely bolted in place to insure sheathing being stand any voyage should be exported. Some of the May 27-28—Kansas Grain Dealers Association, held tight against side sill to prevent grain leakage bolts to have single nuts and to be riveted over. Loca- requirements imposed were more strict than appear Hutchinson. tion of bolt spacing to be the same as on United States to be necessary under normal conditions and since October 13-15 Grain Dealers National Associa- Standard cars where practicable. Channel or strap to — be painted on back with freight car paint before it is such normal conditions will again obtain after the applied." tion, St. Louis, Mo. close of the war, the information presented in this MICHIGAN DEALERS AT DETROIT bulletin will be of interest to the export trade.' MEETING OF COUNCIL CALLED On July 16 the Michigan Hay & Grain Asso- The carrying qualities of export corn during ship- The Council of Grain Exchanges will meet in the ciation will meet at the Cadillac Hotel in Detroit. ment in Europe depend for the most part on the at order 2 m. Directors' Room of the Chicago Board of Trade The convention will be called to at p. moisture content and the quality and condition of 10 o'clock on January 16. Every market is expected by President Robert Ryon. George S. Bridge will the corn as loaded, the length of the voyage, the to be represented. speak on the subject, "Our Government and the

' Hay and Grain Trade." "Hay" is the subject as- season of the year during which shipped, weather INDIANA DEALERS TO MEET signed to Harry G. Morgan. P. E. Goodrich will conditions during the voyage, and the position of talk on "General Topics" and D. W. McMillen The Indiana Grain Dealers Association will meet storage of corn in the vessel. In order to determine will discuss "How Will Reconstruction Affect the at Board of Trade January 21 and 22. One of the influence of each of factors the Hay and Grain Trade?" these under vary- the most important meetings in the history of the ing conditions, eight representative cargoes of corn Association is in prospect. FARMERS DEALERS OF SOUTH DAKOTA were accompanied from the United States to various European ports by representatives United KANSAS DATE CHANGED ELECT of the Closing the final session of the Farmers Grain States Department of Agriculture from March 8, The dates formerly set for the Kansas Grain Dealers Association of South Dakota at Sioux Falls 1910, to April 16, 1912, and one additional cargo was Dealers convention at Hutchinson, May 22 arid 23, on December 12, the following officers were thoroughly sampled at the time of loading in Amer- conflicted with the Oklahoma dates, so the con- elected: President, John T. Belk, Henry; Board ica and again at the time of discharge in Europe. vention has been postponed a week and will be of Directors, A. R. Fryer, Doland; F. O. Simonson, held on May 27 and 28. Vermilion; E. H. Day, Clark; A. G. Swanson, La In the investigations covering the cargoes which Bolt; Louis Kelker, Britton; A. L. Berg, Baltic; were accompanied to Europe, observations and tem- NATIONAL ASSOCIATION TO MEET AT A. E. Willard, Colton. perature tests of the corn were made daily from the The Board reappointed Charles H. Eyler of ST. LOUIS time the corn was put into the vessels until it was Sioux Falls as secretary, and C. D. Hayward, of The Board of Directors of the National Grain Henry as treasurer. F. 0. Simonson, of Vermilion discharged in Europe. The temperature tests were Dealers Association has selected St. Louis, Mo., as is first vice-president, and E. H. Day of Clark, sec- made with electrical resistance thermometers, which the meeting place of the 1919 convention. The ond vice-president. dates are Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, Octo- were placed at various definite positions in the corn ber 13, 14 and 15. during the loading of these cargoes. The thermom- ARBITRATION DECISIONS eters were extended by leads to the deck of the OUR HAND, BROTHER RILEY ship and connected with a temperature indicator The sympathy of my many friends, grain dealers The Anchor Grain Company of Wichita, Kan., and the temperature of the corn in the various and millers, will be extended to Charles B. Riley, secretary of the Indiana Grain Dealers Associa- brought a claim of $104.20 against O. A. Talbott positions of storage was recorded each day during tion, with office at Indianapolis, who lost his eldest Company of Keokuk, Iowa, The claim is based on the voyage, when the weather permitted. daughter, Mrs. George C. Bosley, from pneumonia difference in freight charges over the C, R. I. & P. As the thermometers were being placed in the recently. Mrs. Bosley was the wife of George C. and the C, B. & Q. The Committee referring to corn, three-quart samples of the grain (were taken Bosley, formerly engaged in the grain business at plain- from the Milroy, Ind., and was 36 years of age. Trade Rules 27 and 28 awarded $42.62 to the corn surrounding each thermometer with tiff and ordered the costs to be divided. which to determine the changes in the quality and RAILROAD ADMINISTRATION ACTS ON condition of the corn during the voyage. The corn WEIGHM ASTERS' SUGGESTION TO The Clement Grain Company of Waco, Texas, in the several vessels varied considerably in quality STOP GRAIN CAR LEAKS brought a claim for $441.02 against Embry E. An- and condition. Likewise, a large proportion of the derson of Memphis, Tenn., for overage on destina- corn became hot and damaged while it was in the weights, in draft for 13 cars of snapped vessels. The records show that the carrying quali- During the past year over 40 per cent of the total tion paid a grain car leakages reported were directly traceable corn. Arbitration Committee held for plaintiff and ties of the corn during the time it was in the vessel to defective sheathings. Last September at the ordered Mr. Anderson to pay claim and costs. were influenced to a great extent by each of the Weighmasters' Conference in Milwaukee, the follow- * * * factors mentioned. ing resolution was adopted: A car of feed barley shipped by Arnold A. Thur- The moisture content of corn is the primary fac- SHEATHING LEAKS: THEIR CAUSES AND PREVENTION nau Company of St. Louis, to Davison & Co. of tor determining whether it will stand an ocean voy- Whereas, investigations made by terminal grain Galveston, Texas, was graded "rejected" at Gal- age without deterioration. Corn in which the mois- weighmasters, as well as grain leakage statistics com- veston and was refused as contract called for ture content is sufficiently low will carry safely piled by terminal grain-weighing departments, show that a large majority of all the leaks of grain from "good feed barley." Davison & Co. unloaded and under ordinary conditions of ocean transit for any box cars occur between the outside car sheathings and barley claim for reasonable length of time, during season of the car sills, due to the tendency of the sheathings screened the and made a $159.83. any to spring away from the sills under load; and The Arbitration Committee cut this to $114.65 in the year, no matter where it is stowed in the ves- Whereas, examination of tens of thousands of box cars used for transporting grain clearly indicate that making the award to the plaintiff. sel, while corn containing a high moisture content the nails used to secure these sheathing boards to the * * * is constantly in danger of heating at time, sills are inadequate, since they do not effectively and any ow- permanently hold the sheathing boards firmly and E. R. Kolp of Ft. Worth, Texas, brought a claim ing to a variety of contributing causes. tightly to the sills under the stress and strain to which cars are subjected in switching and handling; for a car of milo, against John Wade & Sons of Thoroughly airjdried corn contains from about and 12 to 13 per cent of moisture. corn be Whereas, a few of the railroads, apparently, have Memphis, Tenn., before Arbitration Committee No. Such may seen the inadequacy of nails alone for holding the 1 of the Grain Dealers National Association. Sale shipped for export at any time, under ordinary con- sheathing permanently and tightly in position, for at least two of the grain carrying lines have experi- of car was made through a broker who failed to ditions, with little or no danger of heating in mented with metal strips being of two designs, viz: specify terms," in the confirmation. De- transit. This is also practically true of corn con- One of them consists of flat baas of iron, fastened "demand by means of bolts, which, we are informed, are not fendants immediately protested. Plaintiff wired taining up to 14 per cent of moisture, provided fer- entirely fulfilling their functions satisfactorily; the other design used consists of an angle iron which is he was making draft in full at invoice weights and mentation has not started. The fact that certain also bolted to the sills: that if defendant refused sell car for de- lots of corn contain higher percentages of moisture Therefore, be it resolved: First, That the carriers he would and the builders of box cars be urged to find other fendants account. Defendant refused and consid- does not necessarily mean that they will not stand and more effective methods for securing the sheathings to car sills than nailing; ered incident closed. The Arbitration Committee an ocean voyage safely. The corn may be perfectly Second: That should more effective methods of found: 1, that broker was at fault in not specifying sound, the voyage may be short, the air temperature securing the sheathings to the car sill than nailing be ELEVATOR. AND

January 15, 1919 GRAIN TRADE 519 at the time of loading and during the voyage may ticeable decrease in the amount of grain shipped erty may be deemed to be in the course of exportation it conditions: be low, no disturbing influence such as heat radiat- to Canadian and United States ports is revealed by when moves under any of the following (a) Under a through export bill of lading. ing from the ship's boilers and engine room and the figures. Whereas only 50,571,281 bushels of (6) Under a domestic bill of lading or receipt on encountered, and the corn wheat were shipped to shaft tunnels may be Canadian and United States which, at point of origin, "For export" is marked or therefore kept practically in cold storage. Under ports in 1918, a total of 87,006,092 bushels of wheat the foreign consignee and destination are specified. such conditions corn with a relatively high mois- were shipped in 1917. The total barley shipped in (c) Under a through bill of lading or through livestock contract to a place in Canada or Mexico. ture content may sometimes be safely carried; yet 1918 was 373,202 bushels against 2,227,778 bushels (d) Under a domestic bill of lading or receipt landed upon the quays in Europe last year; the flax shipped in 1918 such corn when was 546,140 bush- marked, at point of origin, "For export," wherein the in a perfectly cool condition, may, upon being ex- els against 1,841,375 bushels the year before. Food Administration Grain Corporation, Director of posed to warm atmospheric conditions, often be- Overseas Transportation, British Admirality, or any representative of the United States or of a come out of condition in a short time, becoming hot export foreign Government, approved by the Commissioner of and unfit for reshipment. When corn goes out of STAMP TAX ON DRAFTS OF SEABOARD SHIPMENTS Internal Revenue, is named as consignee: condition, the effect of its relative moisture content Provided, That in either case (a) or (b), the property requires a much longer time to reach the stage so consigned be delivered to a vessel clearing to a The Federal Reserve Bulletin contains the fol- ship's receipt is taken designated as "hot" or to become discolored or foreign port or place and a lowing interpretation of the ruling on stamp tax therefor, or in case (c) the property so consigned be damaged by the process of heating than corn with on drafts: delivered at a place in Canada or Mexico, or in case a high moisture content, while corn with a higher (d) the property so consigned be delivered to such The Board's attention has been called to the fact moisture content will heat, become discolored, and consignee. that some difference of opinion exists as to the for trans- lose weight by evaporation quickly. The processes If when property is delivered to a carrier proper interpretation of the ruling of the Commis- portation it clearly appears that such goods are in of deterioration are accelerated with each additional sioner of Internal Revenue, published on page 614 the course of exportation, as provided in clause (a), cent of rapidly than the per moisture much more (&), (c), or (d), no tax shall be collected on the of the July (1918) Bulletin, in regard to the appli- proportionate increase in the moisture content. amounts of any otherwise taxable charges prepaid cation of the stamp tax to drafts drawn in connec- It appears from the investigations that if corn is upon such property; but unless such property is deliv- tion with shipments of goods to the seaboard for ered in such manner as is specified in the proviso to sound and dry when loaded into the ship, the length export. such clauses, the total transportation charges on such condi- of the voyage has little or no effect upon its property from the point of origin to destination are To clear up any misunderstanding, the question tion; but if it has a high moisture content when subject to the tax, and' such tax must be collected as was again referred by counsel of the Board to the loaded, and if it is stowed in such a way as to be and when the transportation charges thereon are col- office of the Commissioner of Internal Revenue, and lected, if the transportation charges be billed collect, subjected to heat from the inside of the ship, or is there is published below a copy of the counsel's or upon delivery of the consignment, if the transpor- shipped during the warm season of the year and is tation charges, or any of them, be prepaid. letter and the reply thereto of the commissioner. subjected to considerable heat from the outside tem- Washington, November 6, 191S. perature, the length of the voyage is a very impor- Sir: In June we had some correspondence on the POSSIBLE GRAIN TRADE WITH tant factor, especially if the heating begins early subject of revenue stamps on drafts drawn to finance in the voyage, in which case the heat is gradually sales of goods to the allied purchasing- commission, GERMANY diffused with each succeeding day and a higher and your office finally ruled as follows: "It is accordingly held that the stamp tax imposed It was reported by cable in November that Ger- temperature is developed in the corn already hot. by subdivision 6 of Schedule A of Title 8 of the Act of many had completed arrangements with Denmark Thus with each succeeding day more of 'the sound October 3, 1917, does not attach to drafts on domestic for the importation from that country of 230,000 corn begins to heat and the corn already heating banks in connection with the shipment of articles of every month. This report, meaning becomes more severely damaged. from the interior to the seaboard where such articles tons wheat have been sold to the United States agent of foreign 7,500,000 bushels of wheat every month, was after- In making export shipments of corn, the quality, a purchaser for export under circumstances entitling wards declared erroneous, the explanation being condition and temperature of the corn can be de- the transportation within the United States to exemp- that the figures meant the monthly requirements of termined before the grain is delivered on board the tion from the transportation tax." in the matter of wheat for its immediate vessel. The season of the year in which the corn The Federal reserve banks and member banks were Germany advised of this ruling future. is to be shipped, the stowage of the corn in the ves- through the Federal Reserve Bulletin, but it appears that the interpretation placed This amount would not be excessive, though un- sel, and the approximate length of the voyage are upon it by banks in different parts of the country is usual; and it is interesting to note the figures of also known, or the information can be obtained not uniform. In some instances counsel advised the imports of grain before the war, in view before shipping. It is believed that when the qual- banks that drafts drawn in connection with the sales German American grain will undoubt- ity and condition of the corn and the shipping to the Allied Purchasing Commission are subject to of the fact that some the tax unless accompanied by shipping documents or in the near future. conditions are approximately the same as those edly go to Germany other evidence showing that the period the is draft In the 10 pre-war years from 1902-1911, inclusive, given for the nine cargoes accompanied by observ- to run is more or less coincident with the time con- imported on an average 107,873,515 bush- ers from the United States Department of Agricul- sumed in the shipment from the interior point to the Germany els of barley yearly. The yearly average of corn, ture, it may reasonably be expected that the replace from which the exportation is to be made. In other instances counsel have taken the position was 34,966,553 bushels. The sults, with reference to the quality and condition including cornmeal, that if the drafts are drawn in connection with the yearly importation of oats was 16,766,997 bushels. of the corn on its being discharged at the ports of actual sale of the Allied Purchasing Commission they average yearly importations of wheat were 69,- Europe, will also be the same as those given for are exempt from the stamp tax, whether or not the The ex- these shipments. time the draft is to run is a longer period than would 235,000 bushels. In those 10 years, Germany's ordinarily be consumed in the domestic shipment of bushels more than The dates of shipment of the nine cargoes of ports of rye averaged 7,000,000 the goods. In ord-er that the matter may be definitely only large surplus crop corn, the destination, length of voyage and the av- her imports. It was her dctermined, will you be good enough to let me know of bread grain. erage time the corn was in each vessel, were as which of these is the correct interpretation of your importation of all grain into follows: ruling? Respectfully, The average annual M. C. ELLIOTT, Counsel. Germany in those 10 pre-war years was 228,000,000 March 8, 1910; to Denmark; voyage 24 days; av- of this came from adjacent countries, erage time of corn in the vessel, 34 days. Office Commissioner of Internal Revenue, bushels. Most so Washington, November , 191S. which for a year or two will be unable to spare March 17, 1910; to Bremerhaven; voyage 14 days; — Sir: Reference is made to your letter of November being nearly four bushels average time of corn in the vessel, 20 days. much grain, the amount 6, 191S, relative to the method of determining whether per capita of the population. December 24, 1911; to Bremerhaven; voyage 14 a draft on a domestic bank is exempt from stamp annual production of the grains days; average time of corn in the vessel, 21 days. tax within the ruling of the letter to you on June The average 19 on the ground of its connection export in Germany was, barley, 144,776,000 bushels; February 22, 1911; to Bremerhaven; voyage 20 with an named transaction. bushels; rye, 401,209,700 bushels; days; average time of corn in the vessel, 34 days oats, 543,084,000 The reason for holding such a draft exempt is, as wheat, 139,000,000 bushels. for some lots and 37 to 40 days for others. stated in the letter of June 19, its direct connection March 3, 1911; to Denmark; voyage 40 days; av- with a process of exportation; it provides a financing erage time of corn in the vessel, 47 days. method which permits the exportation to begin. This KAFFIR PRODUCTION connection depends solely on the function of the draft March 28, 1911; to Rotterdam; voyage 20 days; and not at all on the length of time which the draft crops have increased very vessel, The various sorghum average time of corn in the 27 days. has to run. The letter of June 19, stating that even largely in the past few years; and while figures are March 31, 1911; to Belfast; voyage 21 days; aver- though the draft is to be paid before the ocean voyage six states, these show that kaffirs age time of corn in the vessel, 39 days. begins the connection with the export transaction is available for only not thereby affected, necessarily holds the length of exceed even the present relatively large production March 1, 1912; to Rotterdam; voyage 19 days; life of the draft is immaterial on the question of of rye. Last year the six states of Kansas. Texas, average time of corn in the vessel, 21 days. exemption. Oklahoma, Colorado, New Mexico and Arizona were April 16, 1912; to Liverpool; voyage 17 days; av- The ground of exemption is the function of the bushels. Kansas produced erage time of corn in the vessel, 24 days. draft to finance an export transaction. Therefore the credited with 75,866,000 draft and attached papers should be examined to see the most, or 31,890,000 bushels, with Oklahoma next price of that the draft represents all or part of the with 22,400,000 bushels. Texas following with 14,- goods bought for export and placed in a course of 766,000 bushels. LAKE SHIPMENTS FROM CANADA export in one of the ways specified in Article 31 of with Regulations 42. Respectfully, This year the six states named are credited Sixty-three million bushels of wheat, 10,000,000 DANIEL C. ROPER, Commissioner. a slightly smaller crop, estimated at 72,650,000 bush- bushels of oats, 3,000,000 bushels of barley and 2,- [Treasury Department. United States Internal Rev- els in November. Texas leads with about 25,000,000 000,000 bushels of flax were shipped from Fort enue. Regulations No. 42.] bushels with Kansas next, witht 23,000,000 bushels. William and Port Arthur in 435 Canadian and Art. 31. Charges on property shipped for export and Oklahoma's production has fallen to about 17,000,- actually exported exempt from tax.—Amounts paid for United States vessels during the 1918 navigation 000 bushels. The other three Southwestern States the exportation of property in the course of exportation issued season according to a statement by the to foreign ports or places are held to be exempt from which produced 6,810,000 bushels last year are cred- Board of Grain Commissioners of Canada. A no- the tax imposed under Section 500 of the Act. Prop- ited with over 8,000,000 bushels this year. — ... : :

THE^MERICAN ELEVATOR AND 520 GRAIN TRADE Thirty-Seventh Year FEEDING EUROPE'S HUNGRY that must enlist the sympathy of the American RECEIPTS AND SHIPMENTS people and for whom we are prepared to make any The food problem in Europe today, says Herbert necessary sacrifice. Following are the receipts and shipments of Hoover, is one of extreme complexity. Of their There is a great problem in the situation of the grain, etc., at the leading terminal markets in the United States for the 420,000,000 practically only three areas—South enemy people—about 90,000,000. This problem is month of December and year 1918: Russia, Hungary and Denmark—comprising, say, not one of going to their relief. It is a problem of BALTIMORE—Reported by Jas. B. Hessong, secre- 40,000,000—have sufficient food supplies to last un- relaxing the watertight blockade, which continues tary the Chamber of Commerce: -Receipts- til next harvest without imports. Some must have through the armistice, sufficiently so that they -Shipments- may 1918 1917 1918 1917 immediate relief. secure for themselves the bare necessities that Wheat, bus. 4,489,881 1,779,415 4,648,309 2,382,639

Corn, bus . . . 244,706 349,202 8,567 229,302 All continental Europe has reduced herds and will give stable government. Unless anarchy . . can Oats, bus , 1.537,709 1,766,948 612,740 1,166,392 Barley, bus. is consequently short of meats and especially fats. be put down and stability of government can be ob- 1,572 2,676 99.545 Rye, bus. . . . 511,346 674,704 107, 5S0 1,134,6 i 6 Those countries have their last harvest and under tained in these enemy states, there will be nobody Hay, tons. . 5,831 4,240 3,814 • 2,207 Flour, bbls. 436,141 382,271 *2S8,902 380,626 orderly governments this would furnish bread- to make peace with and nobody to pay the bill to 'Estimated. stuffs and vegetables for various periods from two France and Belgium for the fearful destruction that BALTIMORE •The Chamber of Commerce (year): upwards, depending upon the ratio of indus- had been done. I would certainly months . approach this prob- , Receipts N Shipments ., trial population. Something over 200,000,000 of lem with mixed feelings, having been long a wit- 1918 1917 1918 1917 Wheat, bus. 20,611,023 25,373,787 IS. 601, 246 24,228,940 peoples are now in social disorder. In these cases, ness to the robbery of food from women and chil- Corn, bus . . 4,314,090 19,191,062 1,549,755 15,082,751

Oats, bus. . 14,262,561 22,670,743 11,625,947 financial demoralization, dren and the 17,010,257 with transportation and destruction of millions of tons of food Barley, tius 192,637 1,586,769 184,047 1,509,624 the tendency is for peasants to cease marketing at sea and to the misery under which the millions Rye, bus. . . 2,S81,807 9,073,S36 2,087,696 8,319,506 Malt, bus . . 481,772 558,522 even their surplus, and thus instant difficulties are amongst the big and little Allies have suffered Buckwheat. resources bus 12,391 projected into the cities even when are under the German yoke. Justice requires that gov- Straw, tons 2,922 3.085 Mill feed, tons 21,340 12.44S 4,405 1,279

Hay, tons . . 62,531 52,854 42,335 14,364 Flour, bbls ,714.148 3,263,173 *2, 247, 957 2,083,333 FOOD IN EUROPE Estimated. CHICAGO -Reported by John R. Mauff, secretary FAMINE C0N0ITI0NS of the Board of Trade: , Receipts , Shipments- 191S 1917 1918 1917 F000 SHORTAGE APPROACHING FAMINE P0IN1 Wheat, bus. . . 7,137,000 1,006.000 736,000 523,000

Corn, bus. . . . 5,489,000 6,228,000 274.000 2,223,000 SERIOUS FOOD SHORTAGE Oats, bus. . . . 12,472,000 8,745,000 436,000 6,144,000 Barley, bus. . . 2,226.000 2,206.000 487,000 704,000 Rye, bus 62,200 326,000 62,000 188,000 SUFFICIENT PRESENT FOOD SUPPLY Timothv Seed, lbs 1,463,000 1,>915,000 688,000 1,291,000 BUT FUTURE SERIOUS Clover Seed, lbs 1,146,000 587,000 787,000 1,144,000 Other Grass

~~Seed, lbs . . . 1,275,000 3,507,000 029,000 790.000 Flax Seed, bus 3,800 96,000 8,000 Broom Corn, lbs 2,299,000 2,509,000 453,000 1,460,000~~

~~Hay. tons . . . . 21.322 34,681 1,609 9,409~~

~~Flour, bbls. . . 1,057,000 833,000 706,000 822,000 CHICAGO—Reported by John R. Mauff. secretary of~~

~~the Board of Trade (year) :~~

1 -Receipts N , Shipments 1918 1917 1918 1917 Wheat, bus. 69.610,000 31,7 51,000 49,984,000 24.047,000 Corn, bus. .100,409.000 70,8 54.000 39,877,000 36.006,000 Oats, bus. .137,072,000 125,9 10.000 S6, 738. 000 101.078,000 Barlev, bus. 18,534,000 22,3 48.000 4,650,000 6.719,000

Rye, bus.. . 4,480.000 4,5 41,000 2.616,000 3,667,000 Timothy Seed, lbs. 24,397,000 39,1 44,000 23,728,000 35,005,000 Clover Seed. lbs 8,616,000 8,8 14,000 7,-558,000 10,411,000 Other Gras; Seed, lbs 22,764,000 32,1 89,000 9,504,000 13,663,000 Flax Seed. bus 481,000 1,2 22,000 8,000 42,000 Bi oom Corn, lbs 23,837,000 15 77.000 11,220,000 9,882,000 Wav. ton=.. 325.098 79.647 63.198 44.838 Flour, bbls. 8,914,000 78,000 6,436.000 8,383.000 CINCINNATI- -Reported by D. J. Schuh, executive secretary of the Grain & Hay Exchange:

~~-Receipts N , Shipments- Dec, 1918 Wheat 85 cars = 91,375 BUS. Corn 219 cars = 240,900 bus. Oats 171 cars = 273,600 bus. Rve 40 cars 44,000 bus. Ear Corn.... 31 cars" = 21,700 bus. Feed (all~~

~~kinds) . . . .112 cars 3,360 tons~~

651 cars : 7,161 tons HUNGER MAP OF E U ROPE—COM PILED BY THE U FOOD ADMINISTRATION Hay CINCINNATI—Reported by D. J. Schuh, executive available in the country. The peasant and vil- ernment be established able to make amends for secretary of the Grain and Hay Exchange (year) -Shipments- lager of Europe always provides for himself for wrongs done, and it cannot be accomplished through -Receipts- 1918 1917 1918 1917 the whole year in any event. The problem thus spread of anarchy. Famine is the mother of an- Wheat, bus. 4,813,337 7,517,958 850,160 6,152,512 Corn, bus. 5,091,655 8,839,172 447,541 4,656,197 narrows itself to the support of the cities and archy. Oats, bus 4,887,778 7,073.714 665,160 5,146,452 large towns pending restoration of order and the Barley, bus 1, 033,8 2S 118,351 Rve, bus 543,071 7150,664 524,078 511,274 establishment of confidence in future supplies Timothy Seed. WHEAT EXPORTATIONS THROUGH lbs 27,633 31,998 and the cities are the centers of anarchistic infec- GALVESTON Clover Seed, tion. lbs 24,687 34,127 Other Grass Arrangements have long since been completed Seed, lbs 163, S86 138,214 It is stated in shipping circles at Galveston that Flax Seed, by which the big Allies, that is, France, England 268 208 the movement of export wheat through that port bus and Italy, will be provisioned. This covers 125,- Broom Corn, will average more than 5,000,000 bushels a month lbs 1,502,21S 715.477 000,000 people. Hay, tons 19S.478 327,086 257,307 for the next four months. Advices received there Flour, bbls 2,070,264 , 1,47S,178 Our first and deepest concern now must be for show that approximately 17,000,000 bushels of DETROIT—Reported by M. S. Donovan, secretary of the little Allies who were under the German yoke; the Board of Trade: wheat are stored in elevators at Kansas City await- Receipts- -Shipments- they are the Belgians, Serbians, Roumanians, 1918 1917 1918 1917 ing shipment to Galveston for export. Thirty-five Greeks, Czechs, Jugo-Slavs and others. There are Wheat, bus.. 94,000 176,000 12,000 20,000 99,000 8,000 thousand tons of flour and 22,000,000 bushels of Corn, bus . . . 185,000 191,000 31,000 some 75,000,000 peoRle in these groups and they Oats, bus. . . 322,500 300,000 176,000 wheat is the amount in sight for movement through Barley, bus. 6,000 must be systematically helped—and at once. We "44,666 Rye, bus. . . 77,000 ¥3,6 6 6 9,666 this port for the period including the first four have already doubled the stream of food flowing DETROIT Reported by M. S. Donovan secretary months of the new year. Of the wheat, 2,000,000 of the Board of Trade (year) toward Belgium. -Receipts- -Shipments- bushels are now in wharf elevators here or being Our next concern must be to relax blockade 1918 1917 1918 1917 loaded on vessels, 2,000,000 bushels are enroute, and Wheat, bus 1,634.000 2,484,000 195,000 650,000 950.000 measures as far as possible in order that the neu- Corn, bus . . 4,450,000 2,715,000 703,200 bushels are loaded at Northern ele- 589,000 being . 1.000,000 Oats, bus. . . 3,8S1,000 3,626,000 997,000 tral states in Europe, who are now all on short Barley, bus.. . 42.000 vators for shipment to Galveston. The trains carry- rations, should be able to take care of their people Rye, bus 635,000 460,000 44,000 105,000 ing this grain move on express schedule, so great is DULTJTH—Reported by Chas. F. MacDonald, secre- and prevent the growth of anarchy. This is another tary of the Board of Trade: the demand for wheat in European countries. group of about 40,000,000. -Receipts- -Shipments- 191S 1917 1918 1917 Another problem lies in the 50,000,000 people in Wheat, bus. 18,308,359 3,057,631 13,57S,311 2,559,346

Oats, bus.. . 367,704 36,791 136, S16 79,684 north Russia, a large part of whom are inaccessible BEFORE the war 20 per cent of the world's wheat 598.426 Barley, bus. . . 955, S10 27S.271 1,238,796 owing to the breakdown of transportation and was exported; 7 per cent of the corn; 34 per cent Rye, bus 1,134,4S0 83,149 767,413 129,233 Flaxseed, bus. 630,154 S45.262 949,263 7S3.S55 rice; through sheer anarchy. Millions of these are be- of the tobacco; 12 per cent of the 66 per cent Flour, bbls.. . 46,250 600,840 347,455 1,006,360 Flour produced 94,015 15S.815 yond help this winter. These groups are the ones of the cotton; and 40 per cent of the sugar. 1,478,178 Flour, bbls. . . 2,070,264 : . : — : : ... : — .. — :

~~TtfEA.MERICAN ELEVATOR AND~~

~~January 15, 1919 GRAIN TRADE 521~~

DULUTH—Reported by Chas. F. MacDonald, secre- MONTREAL—Reported by Geo. Hadrill, secretary of ST. LOUIS—Reported by Eugene Smith, secretary Merchants' Exchange (year) : retary of the Board of Trade (year) the Board of Trade (year) : of the , , Receipts . -Shipments- -Receipts s Shipments- -Receipts , Shipments- ' 1918 1917 1918 1917 1918 1917 1918 1917 1918 1917 1918 1917 .37,731,818 30,359,894 21,065,500 25,060,400 Wheat, bus.. .7 42,730 30,576,769 61,146,313 31,746,513 Wheat, bus.. . 36,359,093 24,041,526 Wheat, bus. Corn, bus.... 280,968 107,982 Corn, bus. . .25,707,161 22,249,732 15,933,040 13,425,400" Corn, bus. . . . 189,932 31,938 170,319 5,617 " Oats, bus 2,507,492 5,184,253 2,037,991 6,356,151 Oats, bus 42,825,432 25,249,974 Oats, bus. . . .32,884,465 30,842,6 27,271,340 26,890,800 480, Barley, bus... 4,828,278 8,559,418 4,144,245 8,675,978 Barley, bus... 5,010,525 2,807,952 Barley, bus. 905,883 1,726,644 6S0 160,310 . 460,432 286,820 Rye, bus 8,274,797 3,800,739 7,422,677 3,859,081 Rye, bus 428,767 242,650 Rye, bus. . 418,333 365,290 Flax Seed, Flax Seed, Hay, tons. . 216,926 238,946 159,060 147,070 bus 4,469,295 4,087,260 4,059,011 4,528,659 bus 394,544 Flour, bbls. . 2,965,320 3,893,922 3,951,120 5,412,710 Flour rec'd, Hay, tons 166,398 SAN PRANCISCO—Reported by W. B. Downes, Stat bbls 5,961,525 4,603,160 6,869,280 5,765,495 Flour, sacks.. 6,364,422 8,463,551 istician of the Chamber of Commerce: Receipts — , Shipments- Flour pro- NEW YORK CITY—Reported by H. Heinzer, statis- ; v duced, bbls. 913,705 1,148,610 tician of the Produce Exchange: 1918 1917 1918 1917 -Receipts—- , Wheat, ctls 597,503 GALVESTON—Reported by H. A. Wickstrom, chief —s Shipments- inspector of the Cotton Exchange and Board of Trade: 1918 1917 1918 1917 Corn, ctls. . 32,008 . . . 19,187 , Wheat, bus. . . 7,095,000 711,820 Oats, ctls -Receipts ^ Shipments- 1918 1917 1918 1917 Corn, bus .... 469,000 385,560 Barley, ctls. 139,009 Wheat, bus 1,368,162 Oats, bus 3,814,000 ,839,653 Rye, ctls.. . . 1,200 tons 3,004 . • Barley, bus 12,000 Barley, bus. . . 1,342,775 977,705 Hay . Rye, bus 41,285.48 Rve, bus 259,750 ,466,205 Flour, bbls . . 74,419 Timothy, Clo- TOLEDO -Reported by Archibald Gassaway, GALVESTON—Reported by H. A. Wickstrom, chief other inspector of ver & tary of the Produce Exchange: the Cotton Exchange and Board of Trade Grass Seed, -Receipts- -Shipments- year) : ( lbs 8,408 8,947 1918 1917 1918 1917 , Receipts , Shipments , >N r 72,430 130,700 Flax Seed, Wheat, bus. . , 417,900 512,800 1918 1917 1918 1917 ' bus 156,000 Corn, bus. . . 149,350 238,200 84,160 86,600 Wheat, bus. 4,334,613.56 14,060,965.20 105,700 Hay, tons .... 22,544 750 Oats, bus. . . 712,300 429,400 735,700 Corn, bus . . 3,775,024.12 556,899.20 Flour, bbls. . . 1,685,271 • 1,006,948 Barley, bus.. 8,400 600 13,760 Oats, bus. . . 929,350 ' 17,400 20,560 '20,7:66 Barley, bus. 2,417,793.46 865,103.18 NEW YORK CITY—Reported by H. Heinzer, statis- Rye, bus. .... 45,000 tician Timothy Seed, Rye, bus. . 242,979.02 150,030.54 of the Produce Exchange (year) : = , 8,370 10,151 2,788 1,527 , Receipts bags Flour, bbls. 1,500,766 689,209 —^ Shipments ,, 1918 1917 1918 Clover Seed, H. sec- 1917 INDIANAPOLIS—Reported by Wm. Howard, Wheat, bus.. .33,855,000 28,924,324 bags 6,137 4,144 3,228 5,608 retary of the Board of Trade: Corn, bus 7,626,900 6,008,778 Alsike Seed, -Receipts , Shipments- 972 N Oats, bus bags 680 507 936 1918 1917 1918 1917 27,229,800 18,4S2,467 Barley, bus... 5,684,575 5,717,359 TOLEDO—Reported by Archibald Gassaway, secre- Wheat, bus. . , 93,750 66,250 18,750 25,000 Rye, (year) Corn, bus 526,250 407,500 bus 3,790,6;50 4,260,204 tary of the Produce Exchange 1,671,250 ,343,750 Timothy, Clo- Shipments- bus.. . . 336,600 Oats, 828,200 887,400 527,400 ver & other 1918 1917 1918 1917 Rye, bus 65,000 12,500 53,750 7,500 1,939,300 Grass Seed, Wheat, bus.. . 5,513,707 5,443,200 1,127,110 INDIANAPOLIS Reported by Wm. H. Howard, sec- 1,056,300 — bags 17,367 . . : 23,722 Corn, bus 2,544,650 2,227,800 997,955 reaty of the Board of Trade (year) : Flax Seed, Oats, bus 8,880.350 3,720,600 6,223,550 2,365,060 , Receipts , Shipments N N bus 163,800 2,370 Barley, bus.. . 980.200 14,800 202,901 1918 1917 1918 1917 Hay, bales 93,506 Rye, bus 405.100 124,100 233,080 99,900 Wheat, bus... 6,822,500 3,607,500 2,767,500 1,420,000 Flour, bbls. . .14,823,979 5,0S2,25O Timothy Seed, Corn, ous 21,426,250 21,532,500 9,533,100 12,628,000 25,149 OMAHA—Reported by F. P. Manchester, secretary bags 73,331 55,643 22,940 Oats, bus 17,809,350 17,802,000 10,318,150 12,438,000 Clover Seed, Rye, bus of the Grain Exchange: 865,000 305,000 488,450 268,250 -Receipts- -Shipments- bags 40,088 32,615 45,445 66,045 KANSAS CITY—Reported by E. D. Bigelow, secre- 1918 1917 191! 1917 Alsike Seed, 11,216 tary of the Board of Trade: Wheat, bus... 2,847,600 1,048.800 2,019,600 78,900 bags 10,983 8,315 10,764 •Receipts—- , Shipments- Flour, year's s Corn, bus 2,343,600 2,359,000 1,778.000 1,318,800 1918 1917 1918 1917 Oats, bus 1,448,000 2,638,000 1,910.000 2,366,000 production, Wheat, bus. 2,921,400 1,586,250 2,902,500 328,050 1,117,013 1,478,500 Barley, bus.. . 392,400 226, S00 282,600 271.800 bbls Corn, bus. . 1,926,250 2,187,500 1,087,250 1,227,500 Rye, bus 234,300 124,300 143,000 12S.700 WICHITA, KAN.—Reported by R. B Waltermire, Oats, bus. . . 442,000 1,346,400 468,000 1,116,000 Reported secretary of the Board of Trade (year) Barley, bus.. 310,500 27,000 96,200 66,300 PEORIA— by John R. Lofgren, secretary of the Board of Trade: -Receipts- Shipments- Rye, bus. . . 39,600 33,000 1,100 36,300 1917 -Receipts- -Shipments- 1918 1917 1918 . Hay, tons. . 27,276 33,960 11,784 19,728 1918 1917 1918 1917 Wheat, bus. .15.160,500 71,478.000 Flour, bbls., 42,250 53,950 208,650 283,075 1,456,200 Wheat, bus.. 46,200 426,600 34.600 163,400 Corn, bus. . . 2,646,800 647,100 Oats, bus. . . 9S0.500 KANSAS CITY—Reported by E. D. Bigelow, secre- Com, bus. . . 2,364.350 2,431,150 1,814.550 848,380 Barley, bus. *33,000 33,000 tary of of : Oats, bus. . . 529,100 1,252,900 994,200 the Board Trade (year) S06,650 106.500 . . . 106,500 , , Rye. bus Receipts ^ Shipments N Barley, bus. 30,800 171,200 5,400 102.500 1918 32,400 31,200 Kaffir Corn, 1917 1918 1917 45,000 15,600 100.000 Wheat, bus. ..50,448,150 36,954,900 21,915,900 31,044,600 Mill Feed, bus 123,000

~~Corn, bus . . .30,302,500 14,017,500 24,221,000 9,210,000 tons 9,180 9,040 11,580 13,736 October and November. Oats, bus. . . .1)5,548,200 14,917,500 10,210,500 13,018,500 Flax Seed,~~

~~Barley, bus. . 1,566,000 711,000 787,800 583,700 bus 1S0.000 90,000~~

Rye, bus. . . 465,300 442,200 391,600 344,300 Broom Corn, Hay, tons.. 399,552 400,608 198,216 178, 00S lbs 135,000 30,000 75,000 15,000 CRIBBED CORN SHRINKAGE Flour, bbls. 555,425 508,300 2,060,825 3,442,725 Hay, tons. . . 1,750 2,480 230 575

Flour, bbls . . 317.100 201,420 25S,500 162,247 LOUISVILLE—Reported by the Board of Trade (year) PEORIA Reported by John R. Lofgren, secretary A larger than usual amount of corn will be fed of the Board of Trade (year) -Receipts , Shipments- x county this year and some dealers 1918 1917 1918 1917 Receipts- -Shipments- in its native 1918 1917 1918 1917 Wheat, carlots 3.33S 3,557 35 156 will figure on handling the grain through the season Wheat, bus. . 3,520,700 2,792,200 3,140,400 2,270,700 Corn, carlots.. 2,130 3,374 773 1,593 feeding Oats, carlots.. 6,307 4,115 5,341 3,654 Corn, bus. . .37,584,660 29,266,890 18,846,035 11,318,382 without shelling, in spite of the fact that Oats, bus. . . .15,231,100 16,9S6,450 14,168,010 13,168,435 Rye, carlots. . . 167 134 11 105 have proved that ground corn feeds Barley, bus. . 1,060,900 3,297,200 477,400 1,810,900 experiments MILWAUKEE—Reported by H. A. Plumb, of the Rye, bus. . . 382,800 220,800 326,200 267.800 advantage than either ear or shelled. But Chamber of Commerce (year) Mill Feed, to better , Receipts ear corn and , -Shipments- tons .... 93,670 103,834 170,017 1S1.090 there are feeders who are wedded to ~ 1918 1917 1918 1917 Seeds, lbs. . 1,200,000 4,020,000 660,000 660,000 Wheat, bus.. .13,049,429 7,676,447 8,681,189 5,558,966 Broom Corn insist on buying in that form. So those who handle Corn, bus. .. .11,803,920 11,121,900 6,960,187 7,711,557 lbs 870,000 960,000 2S.500 26,000 cribbed corn would do well to bear in mind the Oats, bus 39,266,245 29,344,010 29,694,205 22,296,218 Hay, tons . . 39,130 43,040 9,053 12,204 Barlev, bus. .. 10,117,640 16,724,120 4,369,495 3,776,821 Flour, bbls. 2,585,590 1,866,720 2,399,561 1,661.021 shrinkage which it is subjected to. Rye. bus 26,677,785 2,500,165 709,284 1,583,695 Daniels, PHILADELPHIA—Reported by Samuel S Illinois Experiment Station has cribbed corn Timothv Seed, statistician of the Commercial Ex change: The bus 5,275,016 5,070,493 -Receipts- Shipments for over 10 years and has found that on the average Clover Seed, 1918 1917 1918 1917 bus 9,452,787 970, S55 Wheat, bus. 5,774.661 ,S75,362 5,6S9,406 2,081,001 ear corn lost about 10 per cent of its weight up tc Flax Seed, . . 49.33S Corn, bus. 64,886 91,082 to 1, and 16.6 per cent bus 436,916 ' April 1; 13 per cent June Oats, bus. . . . 1,535,480 ,197,659 463,897 300,628 Hay, tons 19,59i5 3,341 Barley, bus. 28,750 14,574 up to September 1. This year the corn is in better Flour, bbls 1,072,830 1,367,943 Rye, bus .... 233,143 131,260 ' 198,586 than average condition and the shrinkage will prob- MINNEAPOLIS—Reported by H. J. Craig, statis- Flour, bbls. . 250,964 230,034 tician of the Chamber of Commerce: ably be little more than half the average, but it is *Not available. -Receipts ^ , Shipments- to considered if the dealer 1918 " 1917 1918 1917 PHILADELPHIA—Reported by Samuel S. Daniels, a factor that has be Wheat, bus.. .18,020,210 7,779,880 5,903,030 2,157,480 statistician (year): of the Commercial Exchange wishes to break even. Corn, bus 953,160 977,650 613,870 630,700 -Receipts—- , Shipments N : r Oats, bus 5,041,260 2,898,440 5,145,230 4,564,170 1918 1917 1918 1917

Barlev, bus. . . 4,140,980 3,917,790 2,132,770 2,103, 2S0 Wheat, bus.. .20.920,536 31,285,652 17,864.860 29.197.S55 Rye, bus 3,200,620 1,267,950 412,050 399,990 Corn, bus.... 3,012,593 4,034,394 1,742,894 2,692,505 MATERIALS USED IN BREWING Flax Seed, Oats, bus 14,050,358 1S,974,7S9 8,997.150 12,465,919

bus 7S7.946 613,670 172,150 117,570 Barlev, bus. . . 444,366 151.477 570,961 49,842 in- Hay, tons. . . . 2,415 4,080 386 545 Rve, bus 1,337,242 1,205.913 335,706 1,185,736 Brewing closed the first of December and it is * * Flour, bbls. . . 109,529 94,624 1,009,311 1,594,156 Flour, bbls... 2,746,615 1,872,445 teresting to note the official figures of the grain and H. J. Craig, statis- MINNEAPOLIS—Reported by *Not available. tician of the Chamber of Commerce (year) other materials that have hitherto been used in the -Receipts- Shipments PORTLAND, ME.—Reported by Geo. F. Feeney, traf- — N of malt liquors. It may be noted that 191S 1917 1918 1917 tie manager of the Chamber of Commerce: manufacture -Receipts- -Shipments Wheat bus. .111,885,020 101,021,250 19 571,430 33,395,650 ( for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1918, less than Corn, bus 16,527,430 S,065,390 9 927,660 6,789,930 1918 1917 1918 1917 Wheat, bus. 5,195,279 1,413,645 3,772,883 1,378,528 materials were used than were shown in Oats, bus. . . . 44,065,160 29,382,160 45 091,020 37,349,930 half the Oats, bus. . . 230.839 535,000 Barley, bus.. 32,715,370 27,791,110 23 242,740 23,912,110 the preceding year; for while 1,909,998,457 pounds Rye, bus 13,233,580 9,212,550 5 631,510 4,801,770 Barley, bus 142,032 6S.0OO Flax Seed, Rye, bus 14,949 of grain and other material were used in the last bus 6,291,2S0 6,026,380 1 001,920 1,172,150 (All export grain.) preceding fiscal year, ending June Hay, tons 29,867 35,752 6,517 2,974 PORTLAND, ME.—Reported by Geo. F. Feeney, traf- fiscal year, in the Flour, bbls.. . 749,981 S8S,394 19 098,039 17,964,545 fic of of Commerce (year): manager the Chamber 30, 1917, 3,938,987,318 pounds were used in hrew- -Receipts , , Shipments- NEW ORLEANS—Reported by Geo. S. Colby, chief 1918 1917 1918 1917 ing; and in the year preceding that, or the 12 inspector of the Board of Trade, Ltd.: Wheat, bus. .23,657,948 10,951,197 24,0S9,243 54S.314 pounds. , Receipts , Shipments ending June 30, 1916, 3,004,754,590 x ^ Corn, bus 430,362 519,306 months 1917 1918 1917 1918 Oats, bus 641,056 79,696 575,450 386,191 figures of the Wheat, bus 2,669,555 60,594 For the last fiscal year, the official Barley, bus.. . 313,011 479,643 395.78S 545,555 524,043 Corn, bus 28,780 86.406 260.8S1 109,023 271,366 grain stuffs used, comprise 36,097,096 bushels of 232,720 Rye, bus Oats, bus 1,429,110 (All export grain.) Barlev, bus 185,804 malt; 78,942,550 pound's of rice; corn or cerealine, Rye, bus 221,442 ST. LOUIS—Reported by Eugene Smith, secretary of the Merchants' Exchange: 459,842,338 pounds; grits, 66,575,282 pounds. Reported by Geo S. Colby, chief -Receipts — , —Shipments- NEW ORLEANS— N Roughly speaking, the grain used in brewing the inspector of the Board of Trade, Ltd. (year) : 1918 1917 1918 1917 , , Shipments . . 1,933,820 977,950 Receipts ^ , Wheat, bus. 1.930,117 1,109,955 past fiscal year would be about 45,000,000 bushels. 191S 1917 1918 1917 Corn, bus. . . . 507,516 1.547,310 83S.620 939,160 Wheat, bus 10,480,092 16.946,899 Oats, bus 646,000 1,926.100 1,143,780 1,679,750 Less than half the barley was used as compared 5,047,609 10,020 28,100 Corn, bus 8,968,403 Barley, bus.. . 73,600 118,400 year, and only a third of the Oats, bus 18,357,856 10.509.7S2 Rye, bus 26,223 34,300 2,760 31.010 with the preceding Barlev, bus 7,551,830 8,991,691 Hay, tons .... 12.846 22,295 2,295 17,850 corn grits. Rve, bus 239,842 281.442 Flour, bbls. . . 251,115 2S0.230 338,080 550,270 T^EA-MERICAN ELEVATOR AND 522 GRAIN TRADE Thirty-Seventh Year 30E ELEVATOR. AND I GRAIN NEWS J EASTERN United States Trading. The latter company was to facilitate the handling of grain in the plant. A F. Capitalized at $75,000, the John D. Peck Grain formed by A. B. Haslacher and G. Lange. The corn dump will aid in handling the corn crop of United States Trading Company will continue con- the vicinity. Mr. Higdon has "been connected with Company has been organized at Warren, R. I. ducting the California concern's grain business and the Henderson Elevator Company for a number of H. L. Baker grain business at Springfield, The mill, also engage in general import and export trade. years. Vt, has been purchased by E. Crosby & Co., of Brattleboro, Vt. Capitalized with stock of $15,000 the Quinlan Farmers Grain & Supply Company has been in- Geo. W. King has sold his grain business at INDIANA corporated at Quinlan, Texas. J. F. McFadden, Charlton, Mass., to Chas. Adams of Worcester'. Mr. The elevator plant of Wm. Bosley at Milroy, Ind., W. E. Stark and C. E. Willier of Quinlan are in- King bought a large farm at North Brookfield. has been repaired and equipped with new machin- terested. C. E. Routzahn has completed a new addition to ery. Plans are again being investigated for the con- his elevator at Breathedsville, Md. He will install The Halstead Bros.' grain elevator at Lafayette, struction of a great grain elevator at Norfolk, Va. mill machinery and operate as the Monorado Mill. Ind., has been purchased by the Farmers' Grain The plant was planned some time ago, but was not The building used for storing grain and coal by Company. built because of the war. Secretary W. A. Cox of the Bond Grain Company at Charlton, Mass., has W. B. Springer's elevator at Fountaintown, Ind., the Chamber of Commerce is one of the leading been enlarged, increasing the handling capacity of has been purchased by the W. J. Hungate Whole- promoters. the grain company. sale Company. A 50x100 foot mill construction building is to be D. G. Bennett, N. S. Bennett and P. B. Combs Reiman & McCammon are remodeling and' en- erected at Evarts, Ky., by the Evarts Wholesale have incorporated as Barber & Bennett, Inc., at larging their elevator located at Letts, Ind. New Feed & Grain House of which B. M. Williams is Albany, N. Y. The firm will handle grain, flour, equipment is being installed. president and manager. The building will cost feed, seed, etc. Capital stock of the company The elevator site of H. Griffith at Jonesville, Ind., $3,500. The contract has not yet been let. The amounts to $225,000. has been sold to J. P. Sohn who will erect on it a firm will deal in grain, hay and feeds. The Wm. G. Dilts, Jr., Grain Company which has new building replacing the old one which burned. been operating at Philadelphia, Pa., is now An addition is being built to the plant of the operated as Dilts & Morgan. L. G. Morgan has MINNESOTA AND WISCONSIN Nading Grain Company at Greensburg, Ind. New bten with the company for three years. January 1, machinery is being installed and alterations are C. Steinkopf sold his elevator located at 1919, was the date of change. being made. Brooten, Minn., to W. H. Wilson of Minneapolis. Plans are under consideration for the erection The plant of O. Gandy & Co., at Bippus, Ind., Repairs are going to be made to the plant of of a mammoth grain elevator on the site of the which was burned is undergoing improvements. A the Kennedy Grain & Supply Company at Kennedy, Elevator Buffalo, N. Y. C. Marine Company at Lee modern concrete elevator and brick power house Minn. Abell is president of the Marine concern and he will be built. Reports state that a new grain elevator will be has made the statement that the elevator, if built, J. A. elevators at Fairland and Lon- built at Vlasaty (r. f. d. Dodge Center), Minn., in will be of concrete material of the latest type of McComas' don, Ind., are the property of the very near future. construction. The capacity of the elevator will be Shelby County, now J. S. Sellers of Crawford'sville, Ind. Posses- of Clara City, 2,000,000 bushels. & Son The Farmers' Elevator Company sion was given the purchasers immediately. Minn., is contemplating the purchase of the Car- The Liberty Center, Ind., elevator has been pur- gill Elevator at that point. WESTERN chased by the Farmers' Grain Company from the The St. John Elevator at Beaver Creek, Minn., Studabaker Grain & Seed Company. The purchas- over Rathjen who recently G. C. Mead has discontinued operating a grain has been taken by Wm. ing but recently organized. con- business at Coberg, Mont. company was This sold his Nunda, S. D., plant. cern has also bought the Garrett & Funk Mill. addition is being built to the plant of the The new elevator at St. Maries, Idaho, together An at Darwin, Minn. The with the feed mill, has been completed. Farmers Elevator Company addition will be used in connection with the feed The O. L. Mitten Grain Company, which has been SOUTHERN AND SOUTHWESTERN mill. operating at Wray, Colo., has discontinued busi- grain, elevator is to constructed at plant of ness. A be West A new warehouse is to be built to the Palm Beach, Fla., by W. L. Brandon. the Willmar Farmers' Co-operative Company of J. E. Patton is now located at Great Palls, Mont. A 50,000-bushel elevator is to be built at Waco, Willmar, Minn. The new building will be 70x100 He disposed of his elevator at Texhoma, Okla., Texas, by the Clement Grain Company. feet. some time ago. J. W. Nelson is no longer associated with the The property of the Farmers' Elevator Company The McCaull-Dinsmore Grain Company office is Durrett Flour & Grain Company of Ft. Smith, Ark. at Franklin, Minn., which remained after the fire now located in the Securities Building at Billings, which occurred last spring was sold at a public Mont. The change on January 1. The Bower-Venus Grain Company of Muskogee, was made auction recently. Okla., is succeeded by the H. J. Venus Grain Com- A new cleaning machine is to be installed in the pany. Efforts are being made to interest the farmers Stanwood Grain Company's elevator at Stanwood, around Goodridge, Minn., in the erection of a new Wash., to be used1 for cleaning grain seeds. The W. W. Black Grain Company of Lucien, and grain elevator there. G. W. Hunt of Sunbeam is Okla., has built a warehouse in which it will store A barley crusher and roller of 2,400 sacks daily the promoters of the enterprise. mill feeds. one of capacity is being installed at the place of business The Moore Elevator at Benson, Minn., has been of A. B. Shoemake, a grain lo- A combined warehouse and grinding room is to and bean dealer Geo. Welsh of DeGraff. M. W. be built in the spring at Yewed, Okla., for the purchased by W. cated at Modesto, Cal. discharged from the Farmers' Grain & Supply Company. Sutfin, recently honorably The Fisher Flouring Mills, Seattle, Wash., have U. S. Army, will be in charge as buyer. purchased the Bellingham (Wash.) property of the A grain elevator of 3,000 bushels' capacity is to Because of its lack of systematic accounting the Ford Grain Company. The amount paid for the be built at Green Cove Springs, Fla., for the Green owners of the Dalton Grain & Elevator Company, a property was not announced. Cove Springs Feed & Milling Company. farmers' concern operating at Dalton, Minn., faces C. A. Poison will conduct a grain business at The 20 new tanks of the Globe Grain & Milling a deficit in its accounts of $14,000, it is reported. Company of Los Angeles, Cal., have been completed Oklahoma City, Okla., as C. A. Poison & Co. He It is reported that the Equity Co-operative Ex- by them at West Ogden, Utah. A 12-story rein- has had 10 years' experience in the business. change of St. Paul, Minn., has increased its capital forced concrete workhouse will now be erected. capacity of the Guthrie Mill Elevator The & stock from $1,000,000 to $10,000,000. The company Company at Guthrie, Okla., is to be enlarged by the The announcement has been made by the Floers- expects to purchase a line of elevators making a erection of a 80,000-bushel concrete warehouse. heim Mercantile Company that a grain elevator will total of 100 in its control, this year. be built at Springer, N. M., immediately. elevator mill is to built at Martin, The An and be The elevator located at Clear Lake, Wis., is now ground upon which the elevator is to built Tenn., for A. L. Ford, Phipps be has W. R. and E. B. the property of the Anderholm Bros. It was been leased. Jolley. The foundations of the plant have been formerly owned by E. J. Schneider. The company laid. A bean warehouse of studded construction is will ship their wheat to the Apple River Milling being built to the plant of the Weldon Farmers' Co- The Palestine Grain Company has been incor- Company at Amery, having it ground there and operative Company, Weldona, Colo. The plant will porated at Palestine, Texas, capitalized with stock shipped back, selling it under their own brand. have a concrete basement and will be equipped of $30,000. The incorporators of the firm are W. M. with modern machinery. Keller, W. L. Welborn and O. H. Pitts, The 100,000-bushel grain elevator of the Farmers' A final account has been filed by the trustee of THE DAKOTAS Union Warehouse Company at Genesee, Idaho, has the estate of the A. B. Crouch Grain Company of Repairs have been made to the South Dakota been completed. The elevator handles grain in Temple, Texas. A meeting of the creditors of the Grain Company's elevator at Letcher, S. D. bulk. The Hickock Construction Company the concern was held on December 28 at Waco, Texas. had LeRoy Booher's elevator at Delmont, S. D., has contract for the erection of the plant. The charter of the Panola Grain & Grocery Com- been undergoing repairs lately. O. S. Warden, chairman, Adam Stimpert, Judge pany at Carthage, Texas, has been amended and The Occident Elevator Company is succeeded at Lew L. Calloway, Sam Stephenson and Dan Fisher capital stock increased to $100,000. The company Adrian, N. D., by the Adrian Equity Elevator Com- have been appointed has by the Great Falls Commer- purchased the San Augustine Grocery at Cen- pany. cial Club of Great Falls, Mont., to investigate the ter. proposition for the erection of a new elevator there. Numerous repairs were recently made to the Thomas Baskett and Joe Higdon have formed a The project was authorized last November at Huntting Elevator Company's Hudson (S. D.) ele- partnership at Henderson, Ky., as the Baskett elections. vator. Grain Company and will conduct a grain business The announcement was made recently in a Port- on an extensive scale. The elevator has been com- A new grain elevator and coal warehouse is to be land, Ore., paper of the transfer of property and pleted and the warehouse is nearly so. Electric built at Webster, S. D., on the site pf the old plant business of the California Grain Company to the motors and modern apparatus has been installed for the Webster Equity Elevator & Trading Com- XHE^MERICAN ELEVATOR AND

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pany. The livestock business of the Equity was for a quarter of a century interested in the eleva- and other modern handling apparatus. It has a also taken over by the grain company. N. F. Ny- tor business of Sioux City, is at the head of the capacity of 20,000 bushels grain. H. J. Walter is mann will be in charge of all the branches. corporation. manager. The late Jos. Heille's interest in the grain busi- L. P. Coffman is now manager of the plant of A new separator is to be installed at McClure, ness at Wales, N. D., has been purchased by C. H. the Elliott & McBeath Grain Company at Whiting, Ohio, for the McClure Elevator Company, of which Vance. Iowa. He was formerly with the Nye-Schneider- John M. Miller is manager. of Omaha, Neb. Ross McKenzie is succeeded as manager of the Fowler Company Incorporation papers have been filed at Grand Fields & Slaughter Elevator at Elk Point, S. D., The Armour Grain Company is building a 40,000- Blanc, Mich., as the Co-operative Elevator Com- by C. Enright. bushel country elevator at Lavinia, Iowa. The pany by men of that vicinity. work has been started by the contractors, Burrell The elevator at Westhope, N. D., formerly oper- A 35,000-bushel elevator with office and warehouse Engineering & Construction Company of Chicago, ated by G. A. Cornwall, has been taken over by the will be built next spring at Sugar Ridge, Ohio, Cargill Elevator Company. 111. for the Sugar Ridge Grain Company. The Farmers' Elevator Company, operating at The Armenia Elevator Company has purchased The capital stock of the Strittmatter Grain Cornell, Iowa, has installed a five-bushel Richardson & the business formerly conducted at Ross, N. D., by Milling Company, located at Portsmouth, Ohio, has Automatic Scale and a loading spout. New offices the Thorpe Elevator Company. been increased from $10,000 to $50,000. and a lumber shed, 20x36 feet and 56x82 feet, re- The New Hope Company of Crooks, S. D., has spectively, have been built. Case M. Elliott will equip his elevator at Hamil- changed its name to that of the Crooks Grain Com- E. ton, Ohio, with fire-fighting apparatus in shape of pany. G. A. Crooks is manager. The office of the J. Feehrey Grain Commission Company at Jefferson, Iowa, has been closed. The fire barrels. His elevator has a capacity of 10,000 Electric motors are to be installed in the Farm- bushels. Feehrey Company is a Chicago concern and L. T. ers' Elevator and the Spencer Farmers' Union Mill- Feehrey, who has been in charge of the Jefferson H. M. Crites & Co. are installing new equipment ing & Supply Company of Spencer, S. D. branch, is now in the Chicago office. in their elevator at Circleville, Ohio, including a A grain elevator at Dunseith, N. D., has been A 25,000-bushel elevator has recently been com- new dump, new buckets, car puller, manlift and purchased by the Dunseith Equity Co-operative pleted at Adel, Iowa, for the Farmers' Elevator moisture testers. Exchange. H. F. Sanders is to be buyer for the Company. The elevator is equipped with electric Henry Kleemala and N. Erickson have incor- company. power, Richardson automatic scales, a 1,500-bushel porated at Bessemer, Mich., as the Farmers' Mill- The Cooperstown Co-operative Association, re- cleaner and other modern grain handling apparatus. ing & Elevator Company. Its capital stock cently organized at Cooperstown, N. D., has taken amounts to $5,000. over the business of the Farmers Elevator Com- New equipment has been installed in the elevator pany there. CANADA of the A. C. Gale Grain Company at Cincinnati, Wm. M. Ryan of Waskada, Man., has sold out to The elevator of the Equity Co-operative Exchange Ohio. The plant is being closed while these im- the Interior Elevator Company, Ltd. at Sanborn, N. D., has been equipped with a new provements are being made. electric motor. The plant was formerly operated J. R. Genest, Montreal, has been succeeded in his by a gasoline engine. business enterprise by Genest & Genest, Ltd. J. H. Ingraham & Co.'s elevator at Spencer, Ohio, has been purchased by the Spencer Equity Union The elevator of the Equity Elevator & Trading A Federal charter has been granted the Northern Exchange Company. The latter concern is Company at Werner, N. D., has been improved. A Grain Company, Ltd., which will operate at Edmon- capitalized with stock of $30,000. new boot and dump controller has been installed. ton. Its capital stock amounts to $100,000. C. B. Howard is manager. The Canadian Northern Railway contemplates Capitalized with stock of $25,000, the Toledo W. M. Rowley has finished his elevator at Alces- the erection of a grain elevator at New Westmin- Bean & Seed Warehouse Company has been incorporated at Toledo, Ohio. R. ter, S. D., with a capacity of 20,000 bushels. A ster, B. C. G. Forrester, E. B. Slawson, Maude Van Cise and K. A. Gehring are motor-driven 10-ton auto truck dump scale and an The plant of the Western Elevator at Company interested. automatic scale and cleaner have been installed. Sceptre, Sask., is to be rebuilt. The plant burned a short while ago. An organization was formed at Prairie Depot. Ohio, for the purpose of conducting a grain eleva- IOWA The Terwilliger Grain Company, Ltd., has disposed of its elevator at Calgary. Alta., to the tor on the co-operative basis there. Roscoe Knisely, An addition has been built to the farmers' ele- Spencer Grain Company, Ltd. H. H. Reynolds, Sam. Huber, Wm. Dowling, and vator located at Dumont, Iowa. Geo. Nonnemaker are interested in the company. A new grain elevator is being built at Edmonton, It has capital stock amounting to $25,000. Delbert Shorrett succeeds I. N. Shearer & Sons Alia., for the Gillespie Elevator Company. This in the grain business at Ida Grove, Iowa. elevator will add to the company's storage capacity Cole, Morgan and Anderson have taken over the The office at the elevator of the Farmers' Ele- in the province of Alberta about 40,000 bushels. elevator at Greenville, Ohio, of which Geo. Nagel vator Company at Hull, Iowa, is being enlarged. The announcement has been made that the was sole owner. Mr. Nagel recently purchased the of The Huntting Elevator Company's elevator at Dominion Elevator Company will rebuild its ele- holdings Mr. Miller in the plant, which has Hartley, Iowa, is undergoing numerous improve- vator at Whitewood, Sask. The elevator burned been conducted as the Miller & Nagel Grain Ele- ments. some time ago. T. T. Hamill is manager of the vator. The Cole, Morgan & Anderson concern operates the Wenrick & Mote Elevator. A new elevator 30x31 feet has been completed company. at Plessis, Iowa, for the DeWolf Grain Company of In the election of directors for the Saskatchewan Spencer. Co-operative Elevator Company, held recently at ILLINOIS Half interest in the elevator at Hamburg, Iowa, Regina, Sask., A. G. Hawkes and T. Sales were re- A new grain elevator was completed at Meyer, conducted by H. A. Noble has been purchased by elected and H. C. Fleming was chosen to succeed recently. Don McBride. J. E. Paynter. Profits for the vear amounted to 111., $124,811.28. A 20x40-foot warehouse is being built at Carlin- The Angus, Iowa, elevator of the Clark-Brown ville, 111., for A. C. Brown. Grain Company, which burned not long ago, is to The annual meeting of the United Grain Growers be rebuilt immediately. was held at Calgary on December 17 and continued The elevator at Central (Morris P. O.), HI., has for three days. The financial statement presented been overhauled. C. J. White is manager of the An addition is to be built to the present elevator showed that a balance of $41,760.96 has been car- elevator. of the Hornick Cereal Company at Hornick, Iowa. ried to the balance sheet, subject to Dominion A. J. Nelson is manager. The elevator located at Nilwood, 111., has been taxes. Expense of operating elevators during the purchased from Higgerson & Tarley by William F. Joe Drennan has disposed of his elevator, scales, year were $2,371,779, while $131,892.34 was paid for Alford. etc., at Corning, Iowa, to Joe Curry. Possession rental of the Manitoba Governmental elevators. was given on January 1. A 2,550-bushel Richardson Automatic Scale has A new cleaning house is under course of con- been installed at Weston, 111., for the Weston Grain The new elevator of the McKee Bros. Company struction at Port Arthur, Ont., for the Saskatche- Company. at Letts, Iowa, has been completed. A feed ware- which will be wan Co-operative Elevator Company, at house is also operated in connection with The Richardson Hay, Grain & Coal business the ready for operation by February 1. It includes a Toledo, 111., has been purchased by G. C. Sparks elevator. work house, storage annex, a 600-foot pile trestle and J. T. Congill. Under the management of the Tooley Bros, and with crib protection for receiving tracks, two ship- J. W. Schilling the elevator of Gilchrist & Co., at ping galleries, two boat spouts, and an office build- The A. E. Rosenbeek Grain & Coal Company of New Hampton, Iowa, has again been opened for ing. The work house will have capacity of 200,000 Hartsburg, 111., is succeeded in its business there business. bushels; storage house, 500,000 bushels. The clean- by the Coorts Bros. ing machinery includes six No. 10, Style B ware- The grain business at Greene, Iowa, has been pur- A new elevator of 50,000 bushels' capacity is to Ira Marsh. He will erect a scale office house receiving separators; one No. 9, Style A chased by be built at Cissna Park, 111., for the Cissna Park screenings separator; one No. 7 oats clipper, fur- and storeroom on the site which he has leased Grain & Coal Company. from the railroad. nished by Huntley Manufacturing Company. Two wheat and oats separators and one automatic 10- The capital stock of the Farmers Elevator Com- The Home Lumber Company now operates the bushel scale and four hopper scales of 120,000 pany located at Danforth, 111., has been increased business of the King-Wilder Grain Company at pounds' handling capacity are also to be installed. from $15,000 to $60,000. Buchanan, Iowa. The company will make improve- The plant will be equipped with passenger elevator ments on its plant. Probably a grain elevator will be constructed at and complete dust collecting system. Electricity is built Woodland, 111., this spring for the Farmers' Eleva- A new 40,000-bushel elevator to be at will furnish motive power. Onawa. Iowa, for Harper & Murphy. The old elevator Company of that town. tor of this concern burned last summer. The new Extensive repairs are being made to the Sniith- high. elevator will be 80 feet OHIO AND MICHIGAN Hippen Elevator at Manito, 111. A new concrete of the Farmers put in. Capitalized with stock $50,000 The plant of the Rose City (Mich.) Elevator driveway is being Co-operative Elevator Company has been incor- Company will be improved this coming summer. Business operations have been started at Ramp- porated at Mondamin, Iowa. W. A. Robinson is Capitalized at $15,000, the Edmore Grain & Lum- ler (Ogden P. O.), 111., by the recently incorporated president and John McClanahan, secretary. ber Company has been incorporated at Edmore, Farmers' Elevator Company. The Farmers' Elevator Company was recently or- Mich. have been made at the ganized at Bremer, Iowa, and started operations Extensive improvements A new grain elevator is under course of con- elevator of the Wyanet Grain Com- on January 1. Fred Bortz is secretary of the com- Wyanet, 111., struction at Defiance, Ohio, for the Farmers' Ele- pany. The company has purchased the A. Jahnke pany. W. R. Teece is manager. vator Company. Elevator there. The capital stock of the Farmers' Elevator Com- A 10,000-bushel elevator addition is to be built to A group of business men have formed a $2,000,000 pany operating at Taylor Ridge, 111., has been in- the elevator of the Vanlue Grain & Supply Com- company which it is reported will operate as the creased from $10,000 to $50,000. pany of Vanlue, Ohio. Western Terminal Elevator Corporation at Sioux Binsley A company is to be formed at Lewistown, 111., City, Iowa. The firm will build and operate a The new grain elevator of the Company which will build and operate a grain elevator. The 1.000,000-bushel cereal elevator in Sioux City. M. at Rogers, Ohio, has been practically completed. engines, cleaners building will be located on a site recently pur- King, president of the King Elevator Company and The plant is equipped with gas TKEAMERICAN ELEVATOR AND 524 GRAIN TRADE Thirty-Seventh Year chased from Frank Sheets by John Thorn, and will and gallery were replaced by a concrete structure. pany and assume all the Kemper connections. They cost about $12,000. The elevator will be built this A hopper bin was put in and new machinery in- will operate as the Nellis-Witter Grain & Milling spring. stalled, including a 10-horsepower motor. Company with Mr. Witter as its head. Farmers in the neighborhood of Bluffs (Fulton Fred T. Walters contemplates the erection of a Repairs are to be made on the elevator of Frank P. O.), 111., have made plans to organize as the circular grain tank at Monarch, 111., on the site of Bartling at Douglas, Neb. He will then handle Farmers' Co-operative Company. the Gilbert Store, which he purchased a while ago. grain, with J. Deitz as manager. interest of C. E. Davis in the elevators of The The grain elevator at Stonington, 111., formerly The H. J. Arnold Elevator at Sterling, Kan., is Davis & Craig at Cadwell, 111., was traded in by owned by B. F. Jofpes, has been purchased by undergoing improvements which will increase the him for an 80-acre farm of Dr. T. G. Wells. Philip Alyward. The consideration was $30,000. capacity of the plant to 75,000 bushels. The Lake City Farmers Co-operative Grain & Mr. Jofpes will enter the commission business at Capitalized at $10,000 the Farmers Supply Com- Mercantile Company of Lake City, 111., is building St. Louis. pany was organized at Zenith, Kan. J. A. Henry, its elevator. a new grain office in connection with A new brick office has been completed to the ele- Aaron Simpson both of Stafford are interested. A brick office will soon replace the wooden struc- vator of the Farmers Elevator Company at Cooper Capitalized with stock of $10,000, the Sublette- ture at the elevator of the Farmers' Elevator Com- Station (mail Deer Creek), 111. The old office build- Grain Company has been organized at Sublette, pany of Watseka. 111. The building will cost $5,000. ing has been moved and equipped with a scale for Kan., M. K. Kriden, G. E. Murphy and N. T. Yount The site of the elevator of the Smith-Hippen handling livestock. are the incorporators. Company at Green Valley, 111., has been purchased Incorporation papers have been filed at Carroll- August Fink has disposed of his elevator at by the Farmers' Grain & Coal Company of that ton, 111., as the Carrollton Farmers Elevator Com- North Union, Mo., to the Farmers Warehouse As- city. pany capitalized at $15,000. The incorporators are: sociation. This organization will take charge in The former Delaney Elevator at Niantic, 111., has A. W. Scott, W. R. Bare, S. E. Shannon, Faulkner March. Eldred been purchased from Frank Beall by Arthur Barnes and Thomas. C. A. Krouse has disposed of his elevator busi- Pritchett. Mr. Beall bought it from the Delaney Ole Volden, Randolph Kellar and Frank Helmer- ness at Kinney, Neb., to the Kinney Grain Com- Bros. icks have filed incorporation papers as the Ellicott pany. Mr. Krouse has moved to Canada to engage Capitalized at $40,000, the R. F. Cummings Grain Elevator Company of Paxton, 111. The capital stock in farming. Company has been incorporated at Gilman, 111. is $9,000. The company will engage in grain, hay, The Crowell Lumber & Grain Company has pur- The company will deal in farm products, lumber, straw and livestock business. chased the elevator at Wayne, Neb., formerly coal, etc. A new elevator is to be constructed at Roanoke, owned by G. A. Lamberton. The firm's office is at The charter of the Glenarm Grain Company 111., for the Roanoke Farmers' Association. The Omaha, Neb. will built which operates at Glenarm, 111., has been amended, plant be between the two elevators now The Farmers' Warehouse Association has pur- the capital stock being increased from $8,000 to standing. After the new plant is completed one of chased from August Fink his elevator at Union, $10,000. the old ones will be torn down. Mo. The association will take charge of the busi- A. C. Kaiser, O. L. Kaiser and C. L. Emerson Extensive repairs are being made to the elevators ness in March. have formed a partnership at Homer, 111., and will of the Mazon Farmers Elevator Company, Mazon, Operations have been started in the new Farmers operate as A. C. Kaiser & Co. Its capital stock is 111., at Gorman and Booth Station, 111. The con- Elevator at Garden City, Mo. The main building $28,000. tract has been awarded to the Burrell Engineer- will be 30x30 feet, 70 feet in height; the warehouse ing & Contracting Company, of Chicago, 111. The elevator of the Buckley Farmers' Grain Com- will be 20x48 feet. pany at Buckley, 111., has been repaired. The Watson & Hannah's elevators at Alvin, 111., have A company has been incorporated at Bushnell, cupola has been raised and two grain distributors been bought by the Alvin Grain & Electric Com- Neb., which will build a 50,000-bushel elevator installed. pany. Watson & Hannah recently purchased one there. The company is capitalized with stock of of the elevators from the Farmers' Elevator Com- A building has been purchased at Murrayville, 111., $25,000. pany. Mr. Watson is selling out because of ill by the Murrayville Farmers Elevator Company The elevator of the Farmers Union at Morrill, health. which it will remodel into a feed and flour estab- Kan., has been remodeled and capacity increased lishment. The Bucks Grain Company of Bucks Station from 7,000 to 8,000 bushels. A storehouse 60 feet (Heyworth o.), 111., has sold out to the recently The Brocton Farmers' Elevator Company of p. long has been built. incorporated Farmers Co-operative Grain Company Brocton, 111., has practically completed its new ele- Repairs, are being made to the damaged elevator of Heyworth, 111. The Bucks company will not, vator. It will be ready to receive grain the middle of the Western Star Milling Company at Salina, however, go out of business entirely. of January. Kan. The elevator was damaged by fire recently The East Elevator at Sadorus, 111., has been pur- The Farmers' Grain, Fuel & Supply Company of to the extent of $1,740. chased by Arthur Goers from Chambers & Foote. Macomb, 111., expects to erect a new house, E. J. Mark, M. J. Hamling, Jos. Mark and Her- Possession was given on January 1. Chambers & equipped with all modern conveniences for han- man Ulaymon have incorporated at Platte Center, Foote will in all probability begin to erect a new dling grain. Neb., as the Farmers Union Co-operative Company. elevator near Tuscola. Their Tuscola plant has honorably dis- Its capital stock is $25,000. Capt. Louis J. Colehower recently been recently equipped with a new grain drier. charged from the U. S. Army will engage in the The Farmers' Equity Exchange has been organ- Farmers of Dewitt County, 111., have organized to grain business with his uncle, Harry Taggert, at ized at Wilsonville, Neb. The Exchange will open operate at Clinton, 111. The firm is capitalized al Wenona, 111. a store and later on take over the elevator of the $150,000. The company has plans under considera- is be Farmers' Elevator Company. A considerable amount of remodeling to tion for either purchasing or building about 15 grain the Fidelity Co-operative is 1 clone to the elevator of elevators in Dewitt County during the coming year. A. W. Christensen president and C. R. Bishop Grain of Fidelity. 111., increasing its is secretary of the Leshara Farmers Elevator Com- Company F. L. Johnston, county agent, is named as one of recently at handling capacity. the foremost promoters of the enterprise. pany which was incorporated Leshara, capital is The elevator and grain business at Seaton, 111., Neb. Its stock $20,000. formerly conducted by the Inland Grain Company The business at Gering, Neb., formerly con- has been purchased by the Seaton Farmers' Grain MISSOURI, KANSAS AND NEBRASKA ducted by R. L. Davison as the Gering Grain & Feed been taken charge of E. G. & Supply Company. The Oran Grain Company of Oran, Mo., has dis- Company has by will it hereafter. Numerous improvements have been made to the continued business at that place. Davis who operate J. J. expects rebuild his elevator at elevator of the Morrisonville (111.) Elevator Com- The plant of the Avoca Elevator Company of Wiggins to pany. concrete has built Carrollton, Mo., which burned down last summer. A driveway been and Avoca, Neb., is being remodeled. repairs made on the dumps. The capacity of the plant will be about 14,000 The Farmers' Elevator Company has erected a bushels. Work will start on March 1. A certificate of dissolution has been filed by the new concrete elevator at Big Spring, Neb. McKenzie Company of Taylorville, 111. The com- A building has been leased, located at Kansas City, Peter Gravert has moved his elevator at Benson, pany was incorporated, capitalized at $25,000, to Mo., by the Croysdale Grain Company, whose ware- Neb., to his place of business on 62nd street. deal in grain in the year 1917. house at East Bottoms burned on December 15. Capitalized at $10,000, the Farmers Equity The elevator formerly the property of the Symer- Co- The building was formerly occupied by the Mid- operative Company was formed at Kincaid, Kan. Poultry Feed Company. ton Farmers Grain Company at Symerton, 111., is land now being operated by Stephen Tulley, John J. O. Keith is now located at Trenton, Mo. He A 20x40-foot warehouse is being built to the ele- Quigley, Wm. Nugent and Pierce Carey. was formerly in the grain and hay business at vator of the Farmers' Union Elevator Company at Gait, Mo. Superior), It will mill feed B. C. Holl, W. Grady and Henry A. Hagan have Abdal (r.f.d. Neb. handle flour, etc., and will install feed grinder, cornmeal incorporated at Sadorus, 111., as the Sadorus Grain The Murphy Elevator Company of Niles, Kan., & Coal Company. The capital stock of the cor- will make numerous improvements on its elevator and graham machinery. Anton Damin is manager. poration is $20,000. this winter. The Farmers Elevators at Watson and Hanna The Hugoton Elevator Company has remodeled its elevator at Rolla, Kan., preparatory handling City, 111., have been purchased by the Alvin Grain to IN THE COURTS & Electric Company. The firm will operate both this year's crop. the elevators in the near future. Latto & Robinson of Sylvan Grove, Kan., have filed the E. B. Conover Grain The grain, hay and coal business of Richard changed their name to that of the C. E. Robinson Suits have been by Company of Springfield, 111., against the C. P. & Richardson at Mattoon, 111., has been purchased by Elevator Company. S. L. and the C. & A. to recover $1,500 from the G. C. Sparks and J. T. Cougill. They will operate A 25,000-bushel cribbed, iron clad elevator, will former and $3,000 and $2,500 from the latter. The the business, taking immediate possession. be erected at Clatonia, Neb., for the Farmers Ele- former roads are said to have caused the loss be- new Richardson automatic scale has been in- vator Company. A cause of delay in the delivery of grain. stalled in the elevator of the Farmers' Elevator A fireproof grain elevator is being built by a Justice Middleton awarded J. C. McKeggie & Co. Company at Piper City, 111. The company will build stock company which was organized by farmers of Toronto, Ont., the full amount claimed in their a new office this spring. C. F. Hupp is manager. around Lamont, Kan. suit against Quance Bros, of Delhi for $1,051 dam- The Farmers' Elevator at Yorkville, 111., has co-operative A company, capitalized at $20,000, ages for breach of contract to accept delivery of been equipped with a 10-horsepower Fairbanks- has been formed at Spencer, Neb., to operate as three cars of rye. Defendants alleged that two of Morse scale. The company has also built a 24x80 Farmers' Elevator Company. the cars were of inferior grade and that the third foot feed and storage house, two stories in height. The Farmers' Co-operative Grain & Mercantile was undelivered. Jake Haning, Harvey H. Hea and Carl L. Frevert Union of Anthony, Kan., are anticipating the erec- In the District Court of Republic County, Kan., incorporated at Midway Station (Mail La Salle), tion of a grain elevator there. at Belleville, the Derby Grain Company filed suit 111., as the Midway Grain Company. The firm owns The Kemper Mill & Elevator Company of Kansas against the Farmers' Co-operative Grain & Supply a grain elevator Minier. near Its capital is $6,000. City, Mo., which has been in the grain and feed Company of Narka, Kan., to recover $1,167.74 said The plant of the Kaneville Elevator & Supply business at that city for a great many years retired to have been paid the Narka firm for several ship- Company, located at Kaneville, 111., has been re- on December 31 from business. E. A. Witter and ments of corn. Upon the arrival of said corn it modeled. The damage needing repair was done by L. P. Nellis, long interested in the company, have was found to be off grade because of heating and fire last July. The cribbed walls and wooden roof announced that they would organize a new com- was graded No. 5. The agreement by telephone THE^MERICAN ELEVATOR AND

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was that the defendants ship 2,000 bushels white in December of the preceding year at $1.22 for 800- He sold out in 1910 to his nephew. Again in 1911 corn at $1.65 per bushel. The Toledo firm had odd bushels. he entered the grain business at Colby and Brew- already sold this for milling purposes, but because McQuinlan & Currus of Cincinnati, Ohio, are de- ster, Kan. He was here until taken ill. His widow of its poor quality was compelled to sell it else- fendants in suit filed in the U. S. District Court at and son left. where at a loss. Cincinnati, Ohio, by the Young Bros. Hay Company McCLAIN.—On December 25 at the age of 36 A suit was filed in the Philadelphia Municipal of Lansing, Mich. The plaintiffs are attempting to years, Penrose A. McClain, a member of the grain Court against Robert McKinley by Chas. H. Long- recover $3,571.20, said to be due for hay which firm of P. A. McClain & Co., of Philadelphia, Pa., scope to recover $192.38, balance alleged to be due they refused to accept. The defendant ordered 50 died after a long illness. He was a member of the on feed sold by the plaintiff and delivered to de- cars of hay and accepted only 18 of them. Commercial Exchange. fendant. The suit of the Walker Grain Company of Ft. McKEE.—After a week's illness, John E. McKee, H. P. Madsen of Hinton, Iowa, was awarded Worth, Texas, against the Blair Elevator Company a Chicago Board of Trade man, died at his residence $353.75 and interest from January 2, 1918, in suit was on December 14 reversed and remanded for a in that city. He was secretary and junior member filed against the Atlas Elevator Company. Mr. new trial by the United States Circuit Court of of Lynch & McKee. Mr. McKee was born in Canada Madsen claimed that he sold in January, 1918, 254 Appeals of New Orleans, La., from the Northern 62 years ago. bushels and 6 pounds grain at $1.40 per bushel. Texas Federal District Court. The plaintiff claimed MEIGS.—During the early part of the month of The company failed to pay in full for the grain. that the defendants failed to pay for corn delivered December, John B. Meigs, president of the Mohr- The firm states that they made a verbal contract on a future contract. Holstein Commission Company, died at a sanitarium in Milwaukee, Wis., after a long illness. He was 64 years old. His widow, two daughters and two sons survive him. PAULES.—On December 11, Geo. E. Paules, an employe of E. L. Rogers, a grain receiving concern operating in the Bourse, Philadelphia, Pa., died at OBITUARY Cynwyd, Pa. SCHMITZ.—Double pneumonia caused the death of Albert J. Schmitz of the Wichita Grain Exchange and formerly associated with the Mid-West Grain Company of St. Joseph, Mo. Following an operation for ulcers of HEILLE. Influenza caused death of Joseph ARNTSON.— — SELEY.—Pneumonia caused the sudden death of Arntson at Rochester, Minn. Heille of Wales, N. D. He had been employed in the stomach, A. J. died W. W. Seley, well known in grain business circles identified with the business the grain business for a number of years and since Mr. Arntson had been and president of the Seley-Early Grain Company of for 12 years and had 1916 had very successfully operated an elevator of interests of Sheldon, N. D„ Waco, Texas. He had been a resident of Waco for been engaged as elevator manager. His widow and his own. 42 years. five children survive him. HELLER. Horace H. Heller died recently at his — STIERS.—Isaac Newton Stiers died on Decem- Elzear A. Beauvais died suddenly home in Rockville, Ind. He was a member of Rohm BEAUVAIS.— ber 10 at his home in Logan, Ohio. He moved to 111., from influenza on De- Bros. & Co., elevator operators and millers, of Rock- at his home in Chicago, Logan from Zanesville 35 years ago and for several in and moved to ville, Ind. cember 19. He was born Montreal years had been engaged in the grain business with Chicago in 1881 and with the late Zanophile P. Bros- KEHLOR.—Aged 51 years, John M. Kehlor died his brother. seau and the latter's brother Auguste engaged in at Los Angeles, Cal., on December 12. Mr. Kehlor TAYLOR. Influenza the grain business until in 1915. Then he formed was formerly a prominent member of the Chicago — caused the death of Joseph H. Taylor, connected with the a partnership with his brother-in-law, Joseph H. Board of Trade and lived in Kenosha, Wis. He Treasure State Grain at Boyd, Mont., Bourassa, the Arm operating as Beauvais & Co. retired from business several years ago. In the Company at Red Lodge, where he was taken for treatment. He was an active member of the Board of Trade. early days he was engaged with his brother in the widow, three sons and a daughter are left. His milling and grain business at Memphis, Tenn., and WILLIAMS.—On January 2, Clarence L. Will- BRIGHAM.—Pneumonia caused the death of Al- St. Louis, Mo. iams died from pneumonia at his home in Newton, fred R. Brigham, general manager of the Cutler KEIGHLEY.—After a two years' illness, H. Mass. He was senior member of the Williams- Grain Company's store at West Brookfleld, Mass., Keighley, a grain and hay dealer of Providence, Donahoe Company of Boston, Mass., grain receiv- on December 16. R. I., passed away. He was 59 years old at the ers. He was a member of the Boston Chamber of Commerce and was well known among the grain CLARK.—After an illness of long duration, Henry time. 1 dealers of New England . T. Clark died at his home in Richmond, Ind., where KELLOGG.—After several months' illness, J. M. he moved a few months ago from Indianapolis, Ind. Kellogg died at Denver, Colo. He was an old timer WINSOR.—On December 28, Geo. T. Winsor, of Mr. Clark was for 27 years engaged in the grain in the grain business, having entered it in 1880 with Riordon, Winsor & Co., grain and provision dealers business at Indianapolis. His widow, three daugh- his father at Beatrice, Neb. Mr. Kellogg later built on the Chicago Board of Trade, passed away. He ters and one son survive. elevators at Naponee, Culbertson and Stratton, Neb. was buried at Morris, 111. COMSTOCK.—Albert J. Comstock died during JO the month of December at his home in Middleport, ODO N. Y. He was a feed and flour dealer of that city. Widow and three daughters survive him. COOPER.—Heart trouble caused the death on December 19 of Archie Cooper, a pioneer citizen of Rushville, Mo. He had for a great many years been FIRES-CASUALTIES engaged in the grain business at Rushville and o was engaged in such at the time of his death. His o 1=30 widow, a son and two daughters survive. oa Marshall, Texas. Fire damaged to DYER.—Following a brief illness from pneumonia, — the extent of and machinery installed as soon as weather per- the of the Fidelity Jerome Dyer died at his home in Kansas City, Mo. $50,000 warehouse Grain Com- mits. Loss, $20,000; partially covered by insur- pany and other buildings. He was a member of Dyer & Co., large hay oper- ance. ators in Kansas City and Omaha, Neb. Sceptre, Sask.—The elevator of the Saskatche- Owensboro, Ky.—The Rapier Grain & Seed Com- wan Western Elevator Company was damaged by lost its ELLIOT.—J. K. Elliot died not long ago at Minne- pany plant by fire with a $250,000 loss. The fire to the extent of $4,000. apolis, Minn. He was formerly of J. K. Elliot & elevator contained 150,000 bushels grain, including Co., grain commission merchants. Weymouth, Mass.—A. J. Richards & Son sustained wheat, corn, cottonseed meal, kaffir meal, kaffir corn, barley and oats. ERSKINE.—On December 11 Frank D. Erskine a loss of $2,500 when fire broke out in its office building and grain storehouse. died at Hawarden, Sask. He was for 20 years con- Minot, N. D.—Fire destroyed the two frame ele- nected with the Illinois State Grain Inspection Cairo, Ga.—Fire damaged to the extent of $40,000 vators here belonging to the Minot Flour Mill Com- Department at Chicago, 111. the seed and syrup warehouse of W. H. Robinson pany. The fire is supposed to have started from sparks from passing locomotive. The elevators FANSLER.—Pneumonia caused the death of W. during the month of December. a and contents were insured. A. Fansler, manager of the Equity Elevator at Sitka Dunning, N. D.—On December 23, together with (mail Glenham), S. D. His widow and four children 10,000 bushels grain, the Farmers Elevator was Colon, Neb.—The Nye-Schneider-Fowler Com- survive him. destroyed. W. H. Greer is manager. pany lost its elevator at this point with a loss of $5,000. The damage was fully covered by insur- FAIN.—After an illness of three months, W. L. Sikeston, Mo.—Fire destroyed the offices of the ance. The office and lumber sheds were saved. Fain, head of the W. L. Fain Grain Company of Sikes-McMullin Grain Company. The loss was Company will rebuild at once. Atlanta, Ga., died on January 4. He established the fully covered by the insurance carried. Port Huron, Mich. The McMorran Milling firm of which he was president in 1881. His widow Edmore, N. D.—Fire destroyed totally the St. — Com- and an only son, now a lieutenant in France, sur- Anthony & Dakota Company's elevator plant. Sev- pany's elevator, operated as the Farmers Elevator, vive him. eral thousand bushels grain were destroyed. was destroyed recently, together with several bushels wheat, oats, buckwheat and rye. Loss amounted FERGUSON—Aged 72 years, Hugh Ferguson Chelsea, Mass.—The Brennan Grain Company's to between $30,000 and $50,000. Thenoss is partly died from heart disease at St. Louis, Mo. He was warehouse was burned. Loss amounted to $10,000. covered by insurance. a of the St. Louis Mer- for over 50 years member The fire started in a hay pile in the warehouse. chants Exchange. Winona, Minn.—Early in the month of December Lennox, S. D.—A grain elevator annex filled to the Gould Grain Company lost its Elevator "F" by Influenza caused the death of Edwin L. FOELL.— over capacity, with grain hurst under the strain fire. Several large bins of screenings which had Louis, Mo. He was 29 Foell, of Foell & Co., St. scattering 4,000 bushels oats on the ground. It was been stored in the elevator for some months were the firm in the cash years old. He represented salvaged with but little loss. destroyed. The elevator was of wooden construction grain department. Kansas City, Mo.—The building occupied by the and was formerly owned by the Northwestern and GRAHAM.—Samuel Creighton Graham died, aged Grosedale Feed & Grain Company burned recently. for years operated by J. H. O'Neil, a barley man. 62 years, at his home in Pittsburgh, Pa. For years It was owned by the Tarkio Molasses Feed Com- After his retirement the plant was taken over by he had! been engaged in the grain and feed business. pany. Loss amounted to $3,000. the Dyer Company. Danville, Va. Fire destroyed James L. Pritch- Fort William, Ont—On January 2 the 100,000- GUTHRIE—After an illness of several weeks' — ett's warehouse, with 500 tons of hay and a quan- bushel elevator of Parrish & Heimbecker, Ltd., was duration, from heart disease, Alexander Guthrie tity of cement and lime. Loss amounted to $20,000. destroyed. The entire building, which was of frame died at his home in Duluth, Minn. He had been in The loss was partly covered by insurance. construction, covered with galvanized iron, was the grain business in that city since 1886 and had the elevator and totally destroyed. The fire is thought to have been for almost the entire time been a member of the Amery, Wis.—On January 4 de- caused by an overheated bearing in the upper por- Board of Trade. For the past six years he had mill of the Apple River Milling Company was of the house. Loss on building is $250,000; been representative of the firm Jackson Bros. & stroyed. The plant had just been completed during tion The plant is to be rebuilt 80,000 bushels wheat were contained in the plant at Co., of Chicago. the month of December. THEAMERICAN ELEVATOR AND 526 GRAIN TRADE Thirty-Seventh Year the time. Insurance will cover, fairly well, the loss surrounding the spindle, a thrust plate fixed upon the Bureau of Markets at Washington, D. C, and ar- incurred. Plans for rebuilding have not been an- upper end of the spindle, antifriction rollers turning upon the spindle within the pulley hub between the rangements are under way for unrestricted inter- nounced. lower shoulder and the said packing and between the change of seeds between both countries and for upper shoulder and the said thrust plate, re- South Bartonville, near Peoria, 111. The plant of and a plug seed exports to overseas Allied — movably held in the outer end of the pulley hub. countries. Assur- the American Milling Company was destroyed, with ance is given Canadian farmers that the supply of Bearing Date of November 26, 1918 the exception of the concrete elevator. The prop- both field and vegetable seeds will be sufficient for erty loss amounted to $500,000. The plant is to be Grain elevator cleaner.—Charles P. Nail, Min- their needs. rebuilt. neapolis, Minn., assignor to Nail Separator & Ele- vator Company, a corporation of South Dakota. Portage la Prairie, Man.—Loss of between $400,000 EXPORT OF SEED CORN TO CANADA Filed July 29, 1914. No. 1,285,783. See cut. and $450,000 was caused on December 25 when fire Arrangements have been made with Claim: In an apparatus of the kind described, the the Canada broke out in the Woodward Company's elevator combination with a closed hopper, of suction tubes ex- Food Board whereby applications for licenses to here. The plant, which has a capacity of 165,000 export seed corn in quantities of 100 bushels or bushels, was pretty well filled with grain when the less need not be accompanied by a Canadian im- flames broke out. The cause of the fire is unknown port permit. for holiday when as the plant was closed Christmas All applications for licenses to export seed corn the blaze broke out. Sixteen freight cars, nine of to Canada in quantities exceeding 100 bushels must them loaded with grain, were burned. have attached thereto a Canadian import permit, issued by the Canada Food Board, Ottawa, Canada, to the consignee for the quantity specified in the VJrRAIN TRADE PATENTS application for export license. The War Trade Board, after consultation with the United States Department of Agriculture and the Bearing Date of November 5, 1918 Seed Commissioner of the Canadian Department of stop for elevator heads. Pinlay R. Mc- Back — Agriculture, announced that on and after December Minn. Piled June 1, 1917. Queen, Minneapolis, 10, 1918, licenses would be granted for a limited 1.283,539. See cut. No. quantity of seed corn (without restriction as to Claim: Back stop for elevator heads comprising- a varieties) for export to Canada. shaft, a brake wheel mounted thereon, a. frame pivoted tending into the same, and means connected to one of said tubes for producing a partial vacuum therein, the ends of said tubes within said hopper having re- versely beveled portions. BUREAU BENEFITS TO THE FARMERS Grain drier.—John F. Monahan, Peoria, 111. Filed The wheat crop in St. Claire County, Mich., this May 8, 1918. No. 1,285,779. See cut. year was practically a failure, due to unfavorable Claim: A grain drier comprising a grain pipe sec- weather conditions, and the growers were so obliged tion haying closed chambers at its ends, one of the to obtain seed from outside sources. chambers being provided with a grain inlet opening The members and the other with a grain outlet opening, a steam of the Executive Committee of the Farm Bureau devised a plan whereby seed of uniform grade and producing a standard variety of grain could be T obtained by the farmers, a plan which w ill bring for oscillation in the plane of said wheel, a spring- credit to the Bureau not only now but in the future friction wheel carried by said frame to en- actuated also. The Bureau instructed gage the periphery of the said brake wheel, a brake the county agent to take band pivotally supported at one end adjacent said orders for Red Rock, a superior variety of pedigreed brake wheel and partially encircling the same and wheat. Orders for 1,600 bushels came in promptly having brake shoes for engagement with said wheel, and the agent to St. Joseph the other end of said brake band having no eccentric went County in the pivotal connection with said frame, oscillation of said western part of the state and through the assistance frame operating to loosen or tighten said band on of the Farm Bureau of that county easily obtained said brake wheel. a carload of wheat that had passed a rigid inspec- reclaiming seed. Shirl Herr, Craw- Process for — tion, both in the field and after threshing. By buy- fordsville, Ind., assignor to Crawfordsville Seed ing in carload lots through this organization the Crawfordsville. Filed Company, a co-partnership, farmers of St. Claire County saved 30 cents per March 9, 1918. No. 1,283,512. bushel and obtained a high grade of seed, preparing pipe surrounding the grain pipe, means for circulat- off for grain spouts. Claude Simmons. Gib- for producing a qjf Cut — ing steam in the space between the grain pipe and the way standard variety grain. son City, 111. Filed July 14. 1918. No. 1,283,929. the steam pipe, a tubular shaft passing longitudinally See cut. therethrough and having thereon a screw conveyor, means for causing the circulation of steam through EXPERTS INVESTIGATE EUROPEAN SEED Claim: In a grain spout, the combination, of a, the hollow shaft, and a hot air pipe surrounding the hopper section, an outlet section, guiding plates posi- steam pipe. SITUATION tioned between the adjacent ends of the hopper and outlet sections and having registering openings there- Dr. A. J. Pieters, of the Bureau of Plant Industry, and M. A. Wheeler of the Bureau of Markets, were sent by the United States Department of Agricul- FIELD SEEDS ture to Europe (sailing from here on December 30) to investigate conditions in regard to clover, grass and vegetable seed stocks and requirements for same in European countries. The information thus CANADA WILL BUY SEED OATS FROM assembled will be used by the Department and the UNITED STATES War Trade Board in making up the export policy regarding certain kinds of seeds. experts will An order in council has been passed authorizing The visit Britain, France, Belgium, Italy, the Seed Purchasing Commission to purchase seed Great Hol- land and Denmark. Most likely the neutral coun- through, a slide valve arranged between said guide oats required for Alberta and southern Saskatche- tries considerable surpluses of certain kinds plates and provided with an opening adapted to regis- wan in the United States, and providing the oats have

1 of seeds ready for export to the United States where- ter with the openings in the guide plates, the upper purchased be not liable to payment of customs guide plate having at its opposite lateral edges out- as they may need some kinds of which the United standing arms with downturned forked extremities, duties. About 3,500,000 bushels of seed oats will States has a surplus. Seed production in the United rollers carried by the forked extremities, and flexible be required, owing to the shortage of which not States has increased considerably during the past cables trained over the rollers and extending beneath more than 1,500,000 bushels are available in the the arms for engagement with the opposite ends of years and now many growers who were formerly the slide valve to shift the same. three Western provinces, 500,000 bushels in On- only importers are now exporters. Indications are, tario and 300,000 bushels in Prince Edward Island. Bearing Date of November 19, 1918 however, that the supplies of certain seeds must be If these figures are approximately correct, it will conserved maintain crop production. Bean polisher.—Cary W. Naramor, Mecosta, be necessary for the seed purchasing commission to Mich. Filed December 4, 1915. No. 1,285,322. to buy at least 1,000,000 bushels of seed oats from Seed Germinator.—LeRoy M. Smith, Chicago, the United States. NEW YORK SEEDS MARKET 111. Filed August 16, 1915. No. 1,285,439. BY C. K. TEAFTON Bearing Date of November 12, 1918 CANADA INCREASES ITS SEED PRODUC- There has been much unsettlement in the mar- Carrier for belt conveyors.—Myron A. Kendall, TION ket for seeds, although as a rule there was a Aurora. 111., assigner to Stephens-Adamson Manu- For many years Canada imported most of its stronger undertone, but more especially in the in- facturing Company, Aurora, 111., a corporation of seed stocks, both field and vegetable, either from stance of red clover and alsike. It is generally ad- Illinois. Filed November 28, 1917. No. 1,284,364. European countries or the United States. But mitted that there are fairly large export orders here See cut. a few years ago, because of the possibility of a for both descriptions, and notably for red clover, Claim: In a belt carrier, in combination, a support- shortage in foreign supplies of seed, the Seed Bu- but anything like general activity has been pre- bracket ing having an upwardly facing inclined socket, reau of Canada started investigations relative to vented by the scarcity of tonnage and the prohibi- an inclined spindle having its lower end removably since the held in the said socket, a pulley turning on the spindle the feasibility of home production. Individual tion of exports in December. Moreover, farmers had been experimenting on a small scale turn of the year the Government has been reluc- and some success had been obtained at Yarmouth tant to give export permits. It was the consensus County, N. S., for Swede seed, and Waterloo of opinion that the general quietude mainly sug- County, Ont., for seed of more tender vegetables. gested that virtually everyone was holding back The Government conducted for four years ex- awaiting developments. The suspended action was periments in western Ontario and kept close ac- largely attributed to the fact that a survey was be- count of the results. These results served as a ing taken by the Government both here and in basis for drawing up a schedule of subventions to Europe. It was evident that the administration was growers authorized by the Minister of Agriculture unwilling to permit exports of importance, knowing in 1913. that our supply was small, at least, until they could At the outbreak of the war the Seed Branch of- obtain positive information respecting the urgent ficials conducted a campaign in Eastern Canada requirements in Europe. It is known that owing and British Columbia and in 1915 reported over to the war the production of seeds in Europe has 36.000 pounds for subvention. In 1913, 10,000 been severely reduced and that large quantities pounds had passed inspection. Last year the Can- would be taken from here, provided we had more requirements. It was al- with the hub of the pulley extending beyond the upper adian crop was 64,000 pounds. Officials estimate than sufficient for home end of the spindle and the interior of the pulley hub that the 1919 seed crop will amount to well over leged that moderately large lots of red clover had formed with outwardly facing annular shoulders adjac- three-quarters of a million pounds. already been bought around $41@$42, and sim- ent its opposite ends but with the upper one of the which will prob- said shoulders below the upper end of the spindle, a Canada's Seed Bureau has been working in close ilar lots of alsike at $29@$31, packing fitting the lower end of the pulley hub' and touch with the American Seed Reporting Service ably be cleared as soon as permits can be obtained. T^E^MERICAN ELEVATOR AND

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528 GRAIN TRADE Thirty-Seventh Year Timothy has continued in liberal supply, but has tion of chaffy orchard grass seed containing little the supervision of the United States Customs serv- ruled firm at ?10.50@$12, holders strong being or no good seed, nor the importation of clover seed, ice, of seed unfit for entry, and the release of the in their views as they expect larger exports. Some especially crimson clover seed, containing such a seed cleaned to meet the requirements of the Seed were of the opinion that more timothy would be small proportion of live seed as to be of little or no importation Act after the refuse has been disposed used because of the scarcity of clover. agricultural value. of in such a way as to prevent the possibility of its J. F. Zahm & Company say of clover seen January On August 11, 1916, the Seed Importation Act use as seed. The provision makes it possible to 13: "The movement of the cash stuff balance of was amended by prohibiting the importation of import all seed from foreign sources which can be the season will furnish the best clue to what's seeds containing less than a stated percentage of brought up to the required quality by proper clean- ahead. If Europe demands a lot of clover and this live pure seed as contrasted with dead seed, dirt, ing. country grants it, then comes the test whether we chaff, or other worthless material. The enforce- Thus the Seed Importation Act has not prevented have a surplus or not. It's the latter that always ment of this amendment has resulted in stopping the importation from any foreign country of forage makes the price in the end." the importation of dead and chaffy seed which was crop seeds which either are of good quality or can South-worth's Weekhj Market Review, Toledo, Ohio, not prohibited,:.under the original Act. In one of be cleaned to the required quality, but it has pre- says, January 11: "Timothy stocks are large. They the lots of red clover seed prohibited entry during vented putting on the market in the United States felt are whenever any slacking is shown in the buy- the present year, all of the seed, sufficient to sow imported seed of such poor quality as to be of little ing movement. Good deal of reliance has been over 5,000 acres, was found to be dead. or no agricultural value. placed export on demand. Maybe too much. One The Act provides for the cleaning in bond, under (field seed notes will be found on page 530) seaboard dealer thinks much more timothy has been sold for export than shipped. Another considers demand from other side up to now has been dis- appointing although normal quantity has been sold since the war. Will probably take more settled conditions on the other side to bring demand up to the point anticipated by many." NEW SEED TRADEMARKS The following new seed trademarks have been purchased recently in the United States Patent HAY AT ST. LOUIS iety to sell, and at the same time such indifference Office Official Gazette: "Holco" seeds, bulbs and There has not been near enough hay coming in among buyers. In some quarters the impression ob- plants. The Holmes-Letherman Seed Company, for the past two weeks to supply the trade, conse- tained that the termination of the war was primarily quently the stock on hand here is smaller than it chiefly responsible. There were many members of has been at any one time the past year. No. 1 and the trade who believed that with the war over there choice hay of all kinds is most looked for but owing would be less and less necessity of shipping freely to to the scarcity of the most desirable hay, buyers Europe, and this opinion was in a measure corrobo- bought freely of the medium and low grades caus- rated by the fact that many cars of hay owned by ing a very free movement and our market now is the Government were sold. In addition, it was in an excellent condition for fresh arrivals and we the consensus that appreciably smaller quantities advise prompt shipments. Shippers that have hay would be needed for Government account in this on hand should make a special effort to get it on country. There was still another phase that was this market promptly and take advantage of the considered important, namely: That hereafter more prevailing prices which are good and better than freight cars would become available for civilian use, other markets and better than they will be here and consequently it would be possible to bring more later on as the receipts of hay will increase if the hay from the interior to the various markets than country roads keep in good condition. was possible during the war. According to advices Prairie hay continues scarce with an urgent de- received from trustworthy sources, farmers and mand particularly so for No. 1 Kansas. Our mar- country shippers still held fairly large supplies ket is practically bare of all grades of prairie and which they probably will be more willing to sell now the trade unsupplied. that the war has stopped. Nothwithstanding the facts described, there are HAY CONDITIONS AT CINCINNATI numerous conservative dealers who feel that the break has been too rapid and too great. their The Brouse-Skidmore Grain Company, of Cincin- In judgment hay has become decidedly cheap compared nati, Ohio, under date of January 10, gives us the with oats, cornmeal, millfeed, etc., and moreover, Canton, Ohio. Filed following report of the situation at their market: February 8, 1918. Serial No. they contend that there will not be an abundant 108,886. See cut. Seed. J. "The market here has shown considerable The Chas. McCullough supply of freight cars. Hence they anticipate a Seed Company, Cincinnati, strength for the last few days. Hay has shown Ohio. Filed September recovery in prices hereafter. Straw also declined an advance of $3 per ton since the first of the 6, 1917. Serial No. 106,095. See cut. for similar reasons. New Year. The shipping demand has shown a wonderful improvement and the market is being SEED TESTING LABORATORIES IN USE well sustained. Receipts are very light, not enough TRUCKS IN CURING HAY The Seed Testing Laboratory of the United States arriving to supply the demand. The market is in In times past it has seemed to the average hay- Department of Agriculture at Washington, in its a very satisfactory position. maker a positive fact that whenever the hay was report for the year 1918, states that nearly 17,000 "Country offerings do not promise much in the ready for curing, the weather took a most unfavor- samples of seed were received for testing at that way of additional receipts. We have been in close able turn and there was a prevalence of rainy and laboratory and 11,349 samples at the five branch touch with country stations both by mail and per- cloudy weather. If farmers will follow the advice laboratories maintained in co-operation with State sonal visits and it is our belief that not more than given by the United States Department of Agricul- Institutions. The special duties of the laboratories one-third of the crop remains to be shipped. ture in Farmers' Bulletin haymaking will no were to determine the quality of the seed and the "Cold weather having finally arrived, considerable 956, longer be catalogued "unsuccessful" or "successful" presence of adulterants. The Seed Importation Act clover and clover mixed hay is being fed in the according to the whim of the weather man. The has served admirably in stopping the shipments of country, many shippers reporting that farmers are Bulletin describes hay trucks which be used imported seed of no value for seeding purposes from buying from each other. Less than half of the re- may in curing the hay. These trucks are of frame being distributed in their original condition. In one maining hay is timothy, so it is likely that this mounted on two low wheels. Upon these are placed shipment of 675,000 pounds of red clover seed, pro- character of hay will be badly needed before the the stacks of partly cured hay, which is thus lifted hibited entry into this country because of presence new crop is harvested. off from moisture of the ground and covered by of weed and dead seeds, one-half was reclaimed by "Present prices are high, but under existing condi- canvas, preventing injury by rain. The truck and recleaning and allowed to go into the seed trade tions we do not look for much of a change. In the necessary canvas (9 feet by 14 feet) cost the remainder was destroyed. Three other ship- fact, the present price basis looks to us as being about $20. ments, aggregating enough seed to sow 16,000 acres about right." A hay truck 12 feet long by 7 feet wide will hold at a normal rate of seeding, contained no seed which about 1,500 to 2,000 pounds of cured hay. It con- could be expected to grow in the field. Almost the NEW YORK HAY MARKET LOWER sists of a rack which rests on an A-shaped frame only kinds of seed imported this year, in excess of C. K. TRAFTON. At the rear, the frame is supported by two 16 to the previous year, owing to the difficulties of trans- 20 inch wheels placed about 4 feet from the end. Atlantic travel, has been the Canada Bluegrass from In the main conditions in the hay market have The front is supported by a 6 by 8 inch wooden Canada and the Winter Rape from Japan. been unsatisfactory to practically all concerned, ex- cepting, of course, to those buyers who had sold block of sufficient length to hold the truck level. out at a higher plane and needed to replenish. There This is known as the trigger and is fastened by THE SEED IMPORTATION ACT has, in short, been striking depression. Indeed, a heavy bolt between the two main frame timbers Before the Seed Importation Act became a law there has been such conspicuous weakness as to near where they come together. Upright standards much of the forage plant seed imported into this create much surprise on all sides. Many conserva- are placed at each end of the frame in an A-shaped country was of such poor quality that it was worth- tive and usually well-informed dealers have found position. At the top of each standard a notch is agricultural cut to less for purposes, according to Edgar it somewhat difficult to discover convincing explana- receive a 2 by 4 ridgepole that supports the Brown of the Bureau of Plant Industry. One mil- tion for the great weakness. Certainly there was canvas covering and keeps it from lying flat on the lion pounds of the red clover seed imported in one not sufficient increase in the receipts to warrant any hay, thus permitting the air to circulate freely at year contained a large proportion of weed seeds such break, but nevertheless, it seemed evident that the top. The truck is moved by means of a 2-horse and germinated less than 43 per cent, while impor- practically everyone who held any stock became team and a 2-wheeled running gear, similar to the tations of equally alfalfa frequent. front running poor seed were anxious to sell. At the first casual glance it was dif- gears of a low-wheeled wagon. This For the most part, these shipments screen- gear is to front were ficult to perceive just why there should be such anx- attached the end of the truck by ings which could not be sold in Europe and were means of a long clevis pin, and when the team starts imported .into the United States to be sold to our the forward movement causes the trigger to trip farmers for seed purposes. and drag on the ground, the weight of the load The original Seed Importation Act, approved Au- A ALFALFA A being thus shifted to the running gears. Upon reaching the barn or baling machine the team is gust 24, 1912, prohibited the importation of the L We are the Largest Distributors L more common forage plant seeds when containing r of ALFALFA in r backed up a step or two, which causes the trigger to more than a specified proportion of weed seeds. assume an upright position and again support the « GREATER NEW YORK . The Act did not, however, prohibit the importation front end of the load. The running gear can then Shippers who have Alfalfa Hay to dispose of, if they will 9\ ^ be detached and taken to the field for of such seeds because they were dead or because communicate with us we will provide a satisfactory outlet. I another they contained large proportions of chaff or dirt. loaded truck. p ALFALFA The enforcement of the original Act practically p Hay must be partly cured before it is placed on 1215 Y H chan stopped the importation of weedy red clover and °e the truck, to avoid danger from heating A W. D. Power & Co., Sfcw Yo& A and spoil- alfalfa screenings, but did not prevent the importa- ing, the bulletin says. It is desirable to do the last :

^HEA-MERICAN ELEVATOR AND January 15, 1919 GRAIN TRADE third or fourth of the curing on a truck under a The company deals in feed and flour, wholesale. ness with Mr. Morgan's and will operate as Morgan canvas cover. When the yield of hay is light it Philip Orth and son, Philip Orth., Jr., are named & Crenshaw. is a good plan to mow it in the morning, rake it in as the incorporators of the company. John Holden has entered into the feed and flour the afternoon it the and put on trucks in the even- The business of the Conway Feed Company at business at Fosston, Minn. ing or next morning after the dew is off. When Conway, Ark., has been purchased the by Brames A feed and flour store has been opened at Mid- the yield is above a ton per acre the hay should Feed Company. land, Ont., by John McCarthy. be mowed in the morning, tedded the next morn- The Eagle River Creamery Company has pur- ing and raked in the A co-operative feed store is to be windrows before noon, where chased the feed, hay and flour business of Robert opened at New it Paris, Ind., farmers should be allowed to lie for about two hours be- Fett at Eagle River, Wis. by the located in Jackson fore being put on the trucks. It is best to bunch Township. Mr. Davis will have charge of the busi- New quarters are now occupied by the Plain- the hay with a push rake and then load it upon the ness. The company will, in addition to feed, also view Feed Company of Plainview, Texas. J. M. trucks which have been distributed in convenient handle seeds. Murphy is the manager. places about the field. In good curing weather On December 27, George S. Bridge bid farewell hay is in condition to be baled after curing A. H. Pike and Wm. Lauritzen are now engaged three to his associates in the Forage Department of the days in the trucks. If the is in the feed and flour business at the Creamery hay a little green Quartermaster Corps. Mr. Bridge retired on when put on the trucks or the weather is unfavor- Feed Store at Pine River, Minn. December 31 from his position as chief of the for- able, it will take a week or possibly longer cure building at Groesbeck, Texas, recently to The age branch. After dinner at which he was host, the out thoroughly. vacated the Buchanan Bros., is occupied by now party attended a performance of "The Crowded The truck also effects saving of labor over the the feed store of J. C. Eaves. by Hour." A silver loving cup was presented to Mr. common method of cocking and loading from the A feed and flour establishment has been opened Bridge by the officers and civilians at the farewell cock by hand. at Maiden Rock, Wis., by H. A. Benson in a build- party. ing which he recently purchased. Dan B. Granger & Co., grain and hay com- The Smith Feed Coal Company of Everett Kent has filed incorporation papers at & Blytheville, mission merchants of Cincinnati, Ohio, in a recent Ark., has surrendered its charter. Bangor, Pa., as the Traders Flour Feed Com- & letter advise: "With continued cold weather pre- pany. Its capital stock is $40,000. M. M. Frink has purchased the St. Johns, Mich., vailing the demand for hay of all kinds is steadily Landru Company, of Canby, Minn., have made feed business from L. B. Pierson. & growing stronger. The receipts have increased ma- plans to carry a line of feed and flour in addition W. E. Wilson has purchased the feed business terially, but are still far from sufficient to supply with their produce and livestock business. of J. W. Caldwell at Versailles, Mo. the urgent demand. Top quality hay is scarce, and Bull & Co.'s feed business at Uniontown, Pa., has high prices, prices E. J. Swain, flour and feed merchant of Girvin, commanding very but the on been purchased by the Shuster-Gormley Company lower grades considering the difference in quality Ont. has been succeeded by B. J. Allbright. of Jeanette. Change became effective January 1. are even more attractive." James S. Carter will conduct a feed business at D. F. Daniel has disposed of his hay business at Conway, Ark., as the Carter Feed Company. The Government bought huge quantities of hay Ottawa, Kan., and leases, barns, presses and ma- for our forces overseas and the signing of the R. M. Hale of Fairdale, Okla., has opened a feed chinery at Mount Ida to the Rolla Hay Company. armistice found the Forage Department with 2,500 and flour business at Baxter Springs, Kan. The feed and flour business of J. H. Phelps at tons of hay in its overseas warehouse at Locust M. A. Morley has purchased from J. A. Convers Fonda, Iowa, who has now retired from business, Point. As there was no demand for this overseas, his feed and flour business at Gibbon, Neb. has been sold to the Interstate Flour & Feed Com- the Government decided to resell it. In competi- Stacy & Maloney are succeeded in the feed and pany. tion with several other firms, E. Steen & Bro. of flour bid. business' at Canton, N. Y., by Geo. Stacy. A. C. DeBruin is no longer manager of the Feed Baltimore submitted their Theirs proved to be the highest and they were awarded the 2,500 tons A feed and flour store is to be opened at Supe- Department of the Queen City Flour & Feed Com- of hay, which is said to be mostly timothy of rior, Wis., by Anton Johnson adjoining his grocery. pany at Cincinnati, Ohio. He is in the elevator and very uniform grade. The "American Grain Trade" received a Christ- business. mas greeting from the National Hay Association, A line of feed will be handled by Ed Grigsby of "The hay crop was short," say C. A. King & Com- Inc. Heber Springs, Ark., in connection with his gro- pany, of Toledo. "Last hay crop was only 75,459,- in will 000 tons against 83,308,000 tons last season 91,- A feed and flour business is being established at cery. He has leased a building which he and 192,000 Baxter Springs, Kan., by R. M. Hale of Fairland, conduct his feed business. two seasons ago. Acreage last summer was largest in three years but yield per acre was small Okla. J. L. Fernando and F. J. Myers have dissolved due to extreme heat and drouth. New York is the An addition for handling feed and flour is being their partnership under which they have been con- leading producer. She had 5,375,000 tons against built to the elevator of H. L. Aden at Malvern, ducting a feed business at Eldorado, Kan. Mr. 6.325,000 last season and 7,047,000 two seasons ago. Iowa. Myers will conduct the business. Other large producers are Pennsylvania, Ohio, Illi- Philip Orth & Co., have incorporated at Milwau- Geo. Murphy has disposed of his interest in J. S. nois, Iowa, Wisconsin, Michigan and California. kee, Wis., under the name of the Philip Orth Com- Morgan & Co., at Georgetown, Ky., to Geo. Cren- Ohio had 4,095,000 tons against 4,154,000 last season pany and is capitalized with stock of $100,000. shaw. The latter has consolidated his feed busi- and 5,102,000 two seasons ago."

~~wl,h ,ass flasks The Official BROWN-DUVEL Moisture Tester a or copper :~~

This is the standard tester prescribed in Bulletin 72, Department of Agriculture, and in the Federal Grain Rules of In- spection. In every detail it conforms to the specifications, and is of the type used in all Government grain inspection offices. It is HEATED ELECTRICALLY

We have a new heating element, our own design, which is so simple and convenient, so free from fire hazard that it will supersede all other heaters, with liquid fuel, for testing purposes. Its points of merit are

1. SIMPLICITY. When a coil burns out, as all coils will, pull off the connector body; lift out the heating plate, which is then free. Turn two screws and the burnt coil will drop out A new one is inserted, the screws turned up, and the job is done. The element is not even taken apart for the purpose, and the expense involved is just TEN CENTS. No delay, no inconvenience. 2. EASY REGULATION. The heat is regulated just like a lamp; the turning of a thumb- nut raises or lowers the temperature just as you want it. 3. LOW COST. A new heater costs $1.00; a new coil 10 cents. 4. ADAPTED TO ANY VOLTAGE and quickly changed from one voltage to another, such as lighting (110V) or power (220V) current, by the change of a screw. 5. SAFER AND MORE CONVENIENT than alcohol or gasoline, and cheaper. The tester is made throughout of smooth steel, galvanized to prevent rust. The glassware is of the best quality obtainable and accurately calibrated. Heat and oil resisting stoppers are supplied. The thermometers are guaranteed correct. Each tester is equipped with a strainer oil-tank, with SELF-MEASURING FAUCET, de- livering 150 CC of oil at each discharge, which has no valves or adjustments to get out of order and leak. No electric tester was ever so good nor sold so low. Our prices, which include all accessories and one. gallon of testing" oil, are as follows, f. o. b. Chicago:

One flask $25.00 Four flasks $65.00 ) A liberal discount for quan- flasks 40.00 Six flasks 90.00 tity orders or for resale. Two ] We supply gas or alcohol burners if electric current is not available. ./ We will equip your old tester with these new electric heaters for $3.00 per burner, including wiring, you to pay transportation charges both ways. In sending testers to be changed over, do not send anv glassware, accessories, or water tank; just the heater body. We carry a COMPLETE LINE OF ACCESSORIES for testers at lowest possible prices. We still supply the Hess Improved Tester, with copper flasks, for gasoline, gas, alcohol or electricity. ASK FOR FULL INFORMATION. HESSHESSWARMING & VENTILATING CO.DRIERS1210 Tacoma Building., Chicago, 111. More are in use, and more are sold yearly, than all other makes combined. There's a reason —a GOOD ONE. THEAMERICAN ELEVATOR. AND 530 GRAIN TRADE Thirty-Seventh Year

~~-HDrr- 4iD /Jra/Vi and FIELD SLEDS Seeds~~

H. Pare has started a seed store at Montreal, as vice-president; Marcus Aus, who is manager of FOR SALE Harry's Seed Store. The store is located at 249 Madison Mill & Grain Company, Madison, is treas- Japanese Clover Seed. Car lots or less, whole- LePailleur Street. urer; H. R. Dennis, secretary. sale. COLE SEED SAVER COMPANY, Newbern. new warehouse, equipped with latest of Plans have been completed by the Texas Seed & A type Tenn. Floral Company of Dallas, Texas, for the installa- machinery for handling seeds, wholesale and retail, tion of new store fixtures and equipment of its has been completed at Sioux City, Iowa, for the retail store. Wertz Seed & Bird Company. The Word's Seed Store at Texarkana, Ark., has WANTED The capital stock of the Grand Junction Seed been taken over by the Texarkana Seed Store. The We are in the market for clover seed, screenings, Company at Grand Junction, Colo., has been in- Word Bros.' interest has been purchased by J. H. creased to $50,000. The company plans to increase tailings, and badly bucked clover seed. Send sam- Pecantet and S. E. Mann. Mr. Pecantet is man- its business considerably. ples to THE KING SEED CO., North Vernon, Ind. ager of the company. Thomas Campbell and C. J. Beisecker of the Two stands of elevators, two conveyors for un- Montana Farming Corporation of Poplar, Mont., loading from cars and a conveyor in cupola are to structural steel. Mechanical agitators have been have awarded the contract for the construction of be installed in the plant of the Fangboner Seed provided to insure the steady flow of the seed. a 10,000-bushel seed house near Poplar. Company of Fremont. Ohio. This will increase the Eight cleaning machines, dust collectors with each William Utterman is associated at Grand Junc- handling capacity of the plant considerably. cleaner, and a bag cleaner for taking care of the tion, Colo., with the Grand Junction Seed Company. A fireproof extension is being built to the A. E. empty sacks are included in the new equipment. Mr. Utterman has been in the seed business for McKenzie Company Seed House at Brandon, Man. The Young-Randolph Seed Company of Owosso, many years at different places throughout the The improvement is a 60 foot square addition built Mich., now occupies its new seed house, which is western states. to the top of the present warehouse. The addition of steel and concrete construction. It includes a A new organization known as the Northwestern has 36 bins of 40,000 bushels' capacity and is of seed warehouse and elevator. G. S. Young, G. W. Seed Company has purchased the Sioux Falls, S. D., reinforced concrete and steel. The roof is covered Young and Fred Randolph are interested in the of O. S. Jones Company. I. iron and is of structural steel con- business the Seed W. with corrugated company. Thompson, who is president of the Thompson Ele- struction. The leg towers, which extend 100 feet concrete and brick seed plant, fireproof, has vator Company, is president; John W. Wadden, above the sixth floor of the warehouse, are also of A been built at Dieterich, 111., for J. M. Schultz. Five seed cleaners, steel legs, spouting, hoppers, stairs, etc., including a 20-horsepower oil engine, freight elevator, and dormant and wagon scales have been A. W. SCHISLER SEED CO. installed in the new plant. LET US KNOW YOUR WANTS IN The capital stock of the Manitowoc Seed Company, FIELD AND GARDEN SEEDS located at Manitowoc, Wis., has been increased from $100,000 to $200,000. Office: 704-6-8-10 North 4th St. ST. LOUIS, MO. Track Warehouse: S. W. Cor. Collins and Biddle White Clover Grain, Clover and Grass Seeds CHAS. E. PRUNTY Orchard Grass 7, 9 and 11 South Main St. SAINTLOUIS Tall Meadow Oat Grass Rye Grass We Butj, and sell all Varieties of Wm. G. Scarlett & Co. Grass and Fiele) BALTIMORE, MD. L ^kTVTk."^ Seeds 2fMlbertDic%sonC9 ™^ at REGISTERED BRANDS MINNEAPOLIS SEED CO. WHOLESALE FIELD SEEDS

~~wBRAND Hardy Northern Grown Seeds Our Specialty~~

~~BUYERS, RECLEANERS, SELLERS~~

BRAND ASK OUR BIDS BEFORE SELLING : 186-194 FLORIDA STREET MILWAUKEE, WIS. WRITE OR WIRE FOR SAMPLES AND PRICES TIMOTHY, CLOVERS, MILLETS Xjgf, < CLOVER, TIMOTHY GRASSES, FORAGE SEEDS, SEED GRAINS, \, / PEAS, BEANS AND SCREENINGS.

~~••c ° it P. O. ADDRESS: LOCK DRAWER 1546 OFFICES: 3444 RAILROAD AVE. SO.~~

~~SEED ELEVATOR t WAREHOUSES: 34TH TO 3STH STS. & R R. AVE 30 CRAIH ELEVATORS & WAREHOUSES: 3STH TO 37TH STS. i R.R. AVE. SO. Please Figure with Us, when you wish to Buy or Sell BRAND MINNEAPOLIS, MINN.~~

We Buy and Sell All Kinds of Grain CORRESPONDENCE SOLICITED SIMONDS-SHIELDS-LONSDALE GRAIN CO., Kansas City, Mo. I^AMERICAN ELEVATOR AND January 15, 1919 GRAIN TRADE 531 BAGS For Accurate Moisture Tests use For Sate FOR SALE—BURLAP BAGS OF EVERY KIND our Grain Dealers Air Tight Cans New or second-hand, plain or printed with your If for forwarding your grain sam- brand; seamless cotton grain bags; sample bags; burlap, cotton, sheeting, or paper for car lining, etc. |l pies. Write for prices. Wanted: Second-hand bags; best prices paid. ST. LOUIS PAPER CAN AND TUBE CO., ST. LOUIS, MO. [Copy for notices under this head should reach us by WILLIAM ROSS & CO., 409 N. Peoria St., Chicago, the 12th of the month to insure insertion in the issue 111. for that month.] ELEVATORS AND MILLS THE SYKES COMPANY 930 West 19th Place, Chicago MAKERS OF BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY Have $5,000 to $6,000 to invest in a mill or eleva- FIREPROOF WINDOWS tor that will carry a position as manager with it. TT7E manufacture all gauges of corru- " gated iron, either painted or gal- Have had 15 years' experience in milling, handling vanized. We make Patent Cap Roofing, Roll Cap Roofing, "V" Crimped Roofing, grain and seeds. B., Box 1, care "American Elevator Metal Ceilings, etc., etc. and Grain Trade," Chicago, 111. We make a specialty of [Copy for notices under this head should reach us by the 12th of the month to insure insertion in the issue for that month.] Corrugated Iron and FOR SALE Grain elevator and lumber yard in northern Metal Roofing Kansas. Owner has had about 20 years' success- BUYERS' ATTENTION J IP For Grain Elevators ful business in this location. Fine opportunity and We are desirous of negotiating the sale of flour And take contracts either for material alone or job completed. a good community. NORTHERN KANSAS, Box 1, Write us for prices. We can save you money. in car lots, equipping new up-to-date flour mill. care "American , Elevator and Grain Trade," Chi- Please correspond. A. J. LAUER, Sec'y, Auburn, cago, 111. N. Y.

Spear, Grain and Flour FOR SALE Elevator and malting plant located at Davenport, WANTED Iowa. Grain elevator 220,000-bushel storage ca- Man with ability to superintend plant manufac- SAMPLE ENVELOPES pacity. Malt house 1,800-bushel daily capacity. turing mixed live stock feeds. Good salary. FOR Situated on the C. R. I. & P. Ry. tracks, and C. M. SUPERINTENDENT, Box 1. care "American Eleva- & St. P. and C. B. & Q. Roads are available. Transit tor and Grain Trade," Chicago, 111. privileges are granted for Eastern and Southern Mailing Service points, and the location is very favorable for dis- WRITE FOR SAMPLES tribution of feeds and grain to these points as well as to the central feeding district. The location FLOUR AND MILL FEEDS Heywood Mfg. Company is in one of the best farming districts. Plant is Mixed cars of flour and mill feeds in 100-pound MANUFACTURERS OF good physical condition and was operated until sacks are our specialties. Would like to send you m ENVELOPES, CEREAL CARTONS, GENERAL PRINTERS malt was prohibited. For particulars apply to a trial order to convince you of the superiority of DAVENPORT MALT & GRAIN COMPANY, Daven- our products. ANSTED & BURK CO., Springfield. 420 No. 3rd St. Minneapolis, Minn. port, Iowa. Ohio.

~~GODFREY- BLANCHARD COMPANY g re a i IV SUPERIOR SATISFACTORY SERVICE MINNEAPOLIS~~

Co. CARGILL ELEVATOR CO. The Scroggins-McLean Co. Cereal Grading SHIP PEPS W. T. FRASER, Vice Pres. & Mfir. SHIPPERS OF WHEAT GRAIN MERCHANTS of all kinds of GRAIN Minneapolis - Minn. MILLING WHEAT & RYE Operating Terminals at CHOICE Minneapolis, Minn., & Green Bay, Wis. Twenty-five years' experience in selecting I. L. MeCAUIX, President E. A. DINSMOEE, Vice President and forwarding choice wheat and rye for S. J. McCAULL, Secretary A. M. DINSMORE, Treasurer mills. Largest rye handlers in the West. Prices Write for Samples and Also shippers of oats, barley and screenings. The McCaull - Dinsmore Co. General Offices COMMISSION MERCHANTS Operating Elevator L 612 Chamber of Commerce 1100 Soo Line Building 915-16-17 CHAMBER OF COMMERCE MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. MINN. - MINN. MINNEAPOLIS, MINNEAPOLIS DULUTH MILWAUKEE OMAHA

~~i V THE^MERICAN ELEVATOR AND 532 GRAIN TRADE Thirty-Seventh Year~~

~~x GRAIN PEORIA - RECEIVERS~~

~~I CONSIGN YOUR GRAIN TO Warren Commission Co.~~

~~If you prefer to sell to arrive, wire or telephone for bids. PEORIA, ILLINOIS~~

T. A. GRIER, Pres. J. A. WARING, Sec. Louis Mueller, President F. W. Mueller, Sec. & Treas E. V. MALTBY, Vice-Pres. SAMUEL THOMAS, Trea». P. B. & C. C. MILES Mueller Grain Company T. A. GRIER & CO. Established 1875 Incorporated 1910 (Incorporated) (Incorporated) Receivers and Shippers Grain Commission PEORIA, ILL. Merchants and Shippers GRAIN Handling Grain on Commission Members: Peoria Board of Trade, Chicago Board of Trade We Solicit Your Consignments of Grain 18-19-20-22 Chamber of Bids., ILL. Our Specialty Commerce PEORIA, Room 39 Chamber of .Commerce, PEORIA, ILL

Try Feltman Service for Satisfaction BUCKLEY & CO. E. B. Conover Grain Co. COMMISSION MERCHANTS C. H. Feltman Grain Co. Receivers and Shippers GRAIN, HAY AND SEEDS Grain Commission PEORIA, ILL. GRAIN CONSIGNMENTS Room 27 First National Bank, Peoria, 111. Rpfprpn<-p<:c [ Chamber of Commerce Peoria, 111. I commercial German National Bank, Peoria, 111. Peoria, III.

Good Prices and Quick Returns Smith -Hamilton Grain Co. Rumsey, Moore Co. Grain Merchants TRY US & Peoria - Illinois GEO. L. BOWMAN & CO. GRAIN COMMISSION Members Correspondent Grain Commission Chicago Board of Trade Beach-Wickham Peoria Board of Trade Room 24, Board of Trade Bldg., PEORIA, ILL. Grain Dealers Nat'l Assn. Grain Company Chamber of Commerce PEORIA, ILL.

~~J. A. McCREERY H. A. McCREERY J. R. McCREERY CONSIGN YOUR GRAIN TO J. A. McCREERY & SONS~~

~~Service and Satisfaction Guaranteed. RECEIVERS AND SHIPPERS Board of Trade Bldg- PEORIA, ILL.~~

~~GRAIN RECEIVERS EXCHANGE * * AND ST. JOSEPH SHIPPERS~~

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~~WE WANT CORN Get Our Bids Write or Wire Us Marshall Hall Grain Co. ST. JOSEPH HAY AND GRAIN COMPANY H. H. SAVAGE, Manager ST. JOSEPH, MO. St. Joseph Missouri~~

CONSIGNMENTS SOLICITED MILLING KINKS The latest book for grain elevator operators and millers. A companion book to the Book of Wrinkles. Contains 169 illustrated devices assembled and classified for ready reference. Grain Bought to Arrive for Different Ter- PRICE $1.00 POSTPAID MITCHELL BROS. PUBLISHING minal Markets and Sold for Shipment COMPANY 431 S. Dearborn St., Chicago. T^AMERICAIN ELEVATOR AND V January 15, 1919 GRAIN TRADE 533

Established 1879 OUR HERB BROS. & MARTIN pecial W.F.HECK&CO. J. W. Smith & Company Grain, Hay and Feed Car lot buyers and GRAIN MERCHANTS ervice shippers of BUYERS- - SHIPPERS The only strictly Grain Receiving House in Pitts- atiSfiBS CRAIN, HAY, STRAW, MILL FEED Wabash Building, Pittsburgh, Pa. burgh market. We specialize in Corn. Large kinnnrC Try Us For Pittsburgh Market Grain Dryer situated on Penna. Company Lines. niPP6rS 705 Wabash Building

ESTABLISHED 1872 R. S. McCAGUE, Lt!d. HARPER GRAIN CO. GEO. E. ROGERS & CO. Receivers and Shippers Wholesale 401 Wabash Building, Receivers and Shippers Pittsburgh, Pa. Grain, Hay, Flour and Mill Feed Corn, Oats, Hay and Mill Feed — We know how to market grain only. Experience Years of it 417-419 Westinghouse Bldg. Modern elevator facilities at your command. TRY US ON THAT NEXT CAR Pittsburgh, Pa. 801 Wabash Bldg. PITTSBURGH, PA.

~~PRODUCE GRAIN EXCHANGE TOLEDO RECEIVERS~~

CLOVER SEED JOHN WICKENHISER & CO. Chatterton & Son Wholesale Grain Dealers Mt. Pleasant, Mich. Toledo, Ohio International Game, Played in TOLEDO, OHIO Wholesale shippers of Toledo, Ohio. Providence Does We make track bids and quote delivered prices. Solicit consignments of Grain and Clover Seed. Dealing. favor and Soft When "Seedy" Members Toledo Produce Exchange and Chicago Michigan Hay, Oats Board of Trade. Milling Wheat C. A. KING & CO. Also Michigan Beans and Potatoes Like Billy Sunday, they Deal in oar prices. Cash and Futures When in the market ask for MEMBERS PRODUCE EXCHANGE, TOLEDO, OHIO Clover Seed— Timothy Seed THAT ORDER FOR CLOVER OR Robinson Telegraphic Cipher TIMOTHY FUTURES Revised Edition "Send it to Zahm" BUCKWHEAT Cloth Binding $1.50 Leather Binding 2.00 J. F. ZAHM & COMPANY Receivers and Shippers MITCHELL BROTHERS PUBLISHING CO. TOLEDO, OHIO Southworth & Co., Toledo 431 S. Dearborn Street Chicago, 111. Here since 1879. Ask for our daily Red Letter—Free

THE YOUNGt GRAIN COMPANY Elevators TOLEDO, OHIO Walls, Bins and Grain GRAIN and SEEDS By MILO S. KETCHUM Consignments :: Futures The Design and construction are covered completely in this book of 556 pages. Let Us Demonstrate Our Service new second edition brings it up to the minute with fresh data, new cuts, and a modern treatment throughout. Over 150 pages were added to the old edition. The new chapters on "Reinforced Concrete" and "Methods of Construction and Cost of Retaining Walls" are especially valuable. It is the standard work on stresses due to granular materials. H. D. RADDATZ & GO. PRICE $4.00 POSTPAID Wholesale Dealers Wheat, Corn, Oats, Barley, Rye Mitchell Bros. Publishing Company Are you receiving our bids and quotations? Ask to be placed on the list. 431 S. Dearborn St., Chicago, 111. TOLEDO, :: :: OHIO XHE^MERICAN ELEVATOR. AND 534 GRAIN TRADE Thirty-Seventh Year

~~BOARD GRAIN OF TRADE KANSAS CITY RECEIVERS~~

GET OUR BIDS TO ARRIVE Universal moore-seaver: WHEAT Grain Code co. AND MILL FEED SUPPLEMENT ; grain ^fflJALim CORN BARLEY 520-3 BOARD OF TRADE \h\VIW Compiled for Use of KANSAS CITY, MO. OATS Grain and MillingTrades OF THE United States and Canada CONSIGNMENTS Send for a Copy Now Price $3.00 WESTERN GRAIN COMPANY Shippers (a Speciality) Mitchell Brothers Natural Feeding and Milling Corn, Oats, Barley, Kaffir Corn and Milo Maize Bulk or Sacked Publishing Co. GIBRALTAR BUILDING KANSAS CITY, MO. 431 South Dearborn St., Chicago, 111. MEMBERS — Kansas City Board of Trade, St. Louis Merchants' Exchange, Grain Dealers National Association

~~BOARD OF GRAIN TRADE INDIANAPOLi RECEIVERS mm~~

P. M. GALE GRAIN CO. John W. McCardle Bert K. Black Clyde A. McCardle Established 1883 BROKERAGE McCARDLE-BLACK CO. H. E. KINNEY GRAIN CO. My Specialty GRAIN COMMISSION MERCHANTS GRAIN, HAY, FEED Let me buy for you in Indianapolis. We Know the Kind of Service You Want Consignments Have Personal Attention; I satisfy others—why not you ? And Can Furnish It Correspondence Solicited INDIANAPOLIS - - - INDIANA 601 Board of Trade Indianapolis, Indiana 617 Board of Trade Indianapolis, Indiana

THE URMSTON GRAIN 00. INDIANAPOLIS BUFFALO The Real Market Place CONSIGNMENTS OF CORN, OATS, WHEAT AND RYE SOLICITED. Thoroughly equipped at Indianapolis and for grain men is centered in at Buffalo to handle your shipments. Indianapolis Office— conducted on a strictly commission and brokerage basis. Buffalo Office— conducted on commission, the advertising columns of the track buying and distributing basis. Ask them for bids. «« WE RESPECTFULLY SOLICIT YOUR BUSINESS American Grain Trade"

~~RECEIVE GRAIN AND EXCHANGE DENVER. SHIPPERS~~

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The Denver Elevator TECHNICAL BOOKS THE WESTERN GRAIN CO. tor the Grain Elevator Operator RECEIVERS AND SHIPPERS Wholesale Grain and Grain Products If we don't publish the book you wish Colorado and Kansas Flours we can obtain it for you. PINTO BEANS DENVER, COLORADO Mitchell Brothers Publishing Company F. G. OLSON, Manager DENVER, COLO. 431 S. Dearborn St. Chicago, 111 T**EAMEWCAN ELEVATOR AND

~~January 15, 1919 GRAIN TRADE 500~~

~~MERCHANTS' IN EXCHANGE RECEIVERS~~

~~Nanson Commission Co. [INCORPORATED) GRAIN AND HAY Marshall Hall 202 Chamber of Commerce 1 Consignments a SfaSJiflSr™ «T IflllK st. Louis Markets « I LU U I O Specialty Grain Co.~~

~~GOFFE & CARKENER CO. RECEIVERS GRAIN, HAY AND SEEDS 106-107 MERCHANTS EXCHANGE ST. LOUIS MARTIN MULLALLY, Pres. W. C. GOFFE G. S. CARKENER G. C. MARTIN. Jr. K. C. Mo.. Office, 101-102 Board of Trade~~

~~"THE CONSIGNMENT HOUSE MULLALLY HAY AND GRAIN CO. " OF ST. LOUIS HAY, GRAIN SEEDS GRAIN, HAY and GRASS SEEDS AND~~

~~Picker & Beardsley Com. Co. Merchants Exchange ST. LOUIS, MO. 118 NORTH MAIN STREET~~

ALEX. C. HARSH V. C. ELMORE JOHN H. HERRON PRESIDENT VICE-PRESIDENT SECRETARY AND TREASURER Mason Hawpe Grain Co. LMORE - CHULTZ OMPANY GRAIN MERCHANTS Q GRAIN f Expert Service IVEN \J\CUSTOMERS Belt Elevator St. Louis, Mo. 513-516 MERCHANTS EXCHANGE 322 S. WASHINGTON STREET ST. LOUIS, MO. PEORIA, ILL. 440-445 POSTAL TELEGRAPH BUILDING, CHICAGO. We SOLICIT A PORTION OF YOUR BUSINESS FOR ANY OF THE ABOVE MARKETS, ON THE O^HIRTY-SIX MERITS OF THE SERVICE WE CAN RENDER YOU. LET US HAVE YOUR OPTION BUSINESS IN CHICAGO AND ST. LOUIS. Years in the NOTIFY AND MAKE DRAFT ON US AT ST. LOUIS ON ALL SHIPMENTS. Grain Trade Field is one Reason why Toberman, Mackey & Company the " American Fastest Growing Commission House in America. GrainTrade "is such Can handle your consignments in St. Louis and Kansas City. a valuable paper for GRAIN, HAY AND SEEDS ST. LOUIS KANSAS CITY both advertiser and subscriber. For Satisfactory Results Consign Your There are many Ballard -Messmore Grain, Hay, Seeds & Wool other reasons, some Grain Co. Service Is f^JM^r of which are appar- Our Watchword % ent on the surface Special Attention Given Consignments and Orders and others which For Future Delivery Eaton- the publishers will McClellan Exchange 417 Merchants Commission Co. be glad to explain to ST. LOUIS, MO. Merchants Exchange you. ST. LOUIS, MO. :

~~E Tf* AMERICAN ELEVATOR ANDk 536 Grain trade Thirty-Seventh Year~~

W. SIMONS WARREN T. McCRAY Gerstenberg & Company President Vice-President HITCH & CARDER S. E. SQUIRES Members Chicago Board of Trade COMMISSION MERCHANTS Vice-President CASH GRAIN OUR SPECIALTY Grain Seeds and Mill Feed

~~605 Insurance Exchange Bldg. Barley a Specialty Tel. Wabash 6584 CHICAGO 305-315 So. La Salic St. CHICAGO, ILL.~~

E. LOWITZ J. F. BARRETT RUMSEY & COMPANY W.F.McWHINNEY E. LOWITZ & CO. Treasurer Representatives FOUNDED 1 867 Grain Commission GEO. L. STEBBINS W. A. Werner, Edgar E. Rice ROOKERY BUILDING CHICAGO Secretary Earl M. Davis, John M. DeBoIt Chas. H. Lyons COMMISSION MERCHANTS MEMBERS: Chicago Board of Trade. Milwaukee and Minneapo- lis Chamber of Commerce, St. Louis Merchants Exchange, Kansas City Board BOARD OF TRADE of Trade, Winnipeg Grain Exchange. , .» . CHICAGO GEO. S. DOLE, Pres. H. N. SAGER. Sec.

J. H. DOLE & CO. H. M. PAYNTER (Established 185 2) Hnlburd, Warren & Chandler With H. W. ROGERS & BRO. Commission Merchants, Grain and Seeds Stock Brokers and Commission We solicit your Grain Commission— Correspondence Solicited Merchants, Grain and Provisions CONSIGNMENTS and orders in futures Business Solicited in Any Department Posta Telegraph Building CHICAGO Receiving, Shipping, Futures 226 La Salle Street. - - CHICAGO

~~208 S. La Salle St. CHICAGO~~

J. P. GRIFFIN & COMPANY Grain Commission ARMOUR GRAIN CO. GRAIN DEALERS 79 BOARD OF TRADE We Buy CONSIGNMENTS SOLICITED. This de- Long Distance Telephone partment is fully equipped in every way Harrison 693 CHICAGO to give the very best service in Chicago. Wheat- Corn — Oats —Barley— Rye Send Samples 208 S. La Salle St. CHICAGO SHIP US THAT NEXT CAR FOR GOOD RESULTS The Quaker Oats Co. Cereal Millers E. W. BAILEY & CO.

~~Grain Dept. 1600 Railway Exchange COMMISSION MERCHANTS CHICAGO GRAIN, SEEDS AND PROVISIONS~~

~~72 Board of Trade CHICAGO~~

Get in touch with our nearest office:— Champaign, 111. Esterville, la. Monticello, III. A SUCCESTION WHEN CONSIGNING Rockwell City, la. Princeton, III. J. Herbert Ware Edward F. Leland Be sure you have the NAME right. Bill vour GRAIN and SEEDS to ROSENBAUM CONSIGN BROTHERS, Chicago, 111., if you want good service. We see that it is properly graded, promptly unloaded, your Grain and Seeds, and send your and check sent with each account sales. firm in business 50 years; orders for We are the ORIGINAL — members of all the leading Exchanges. GRAIN, PROVISIONS and STOCKS to Logan & Bryan We buy grain TO ARRIVE for CHICAGO, TOLEDO, SANDUSKY, PORT HURON. BROTHERS, INC. 1 and 2 Board of Trade ROSENBAUM 77 Board of Trade, Chicago, Illinois. Administration License Number 0-4115. WARE & LELAND CHICAGO U. S'. Food 190 W. JACKSON BOULEVARD Royal Insurance Bldg. Cash Grain Department A. LAMSON H. H. LOBDELL CHICAGO W. Wheat, Corn, Oats and Rye L. F. GATES Long Distance Phones Wabash 3262 Automatic 51073 Barley a Specialty Bros. Your offerings to arrive given Lamson Co. prompt attention Grain 1874 Commission 1918 Pope & Eckhardt Co. Merchants Commission Merchants Forty-four Years of Service in the Grain Trade Grain and Seeds HOME OFFICE f^Vk\r*n nTV 111 W. Jackson Blvd. CHICAGO 6 Board of Trade ^IllCdgO TtfEAMERICAN ELEVATOR AND January 15, 1919 GRAIN TRADE

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Philip H. Schifflin, Pres. Eugene Schifflin, Secy-Treas. J. C. SHAFFER & CO. Bartlett Frazier Co. PHILLIP H. SCHIFFLIN & CO. GRAIN MERCHANTS Incorporated GRAIN Commission Merchants COMMISSION MERCHANTS CHICAGO 515-518 Postal Telegraph Bldg. Chicago, 111. Consignments of all kinds of Grain and Field Seeds a Specialty Western Union Building Chicago

~~HARVEY GRAIN CO. CONSIGN & CORN and OATS SHIPPERS BRIDGE LEONARD Commission Merchants~~

Grain, Hay, Seeds and Provisions Our fast working house, ample storage and car supplies and advantageous location on Eastern Trunk lines make possible immediate shipments to Eastern and Southern trade. 61-65 Board of Trade CHICAGO

~~Building W. M. TIMBERLAKE E. B. TIMBERLAKE Webster CHICAGO Mgr. Grain Dept. Asst. Manager~~

~~Mr. Pickell is going abroad shortly to investigate agricultural, economic and food conditions jointly for the Rosenbaum Review and a branch of the Federal Government.~~

~~Read the Review and Be Best Informed. HENRY H. FREEMAN~~

~~Mitchell Brothers Publishing Co., 431 South Dearborn St., Chicago, 111. 1^EAMERICAN ELEVATOR AND 538 GRAIN TRADE Thirty-Seventh Year~~

~~v BUFFALO v~~

~~Follow The Flag" With Your Shipments URMSTON GRAIN COMPANY Buffalo, N. Y.~~

~~Buffalo Grain Company Receivers, Forwarders and Commission Consignments Solicited~~

~~Est. 1903 Barley a Specialty~~

Established 1865 CONSULT ME Ship Us Your Whitney & Gibson WHEN BUYING OR SELLING Corn, Oats and Wheat Consignments Regardless Of Its Condition George E. Pierce Send us your consignments We are organized to CHAMBER OF COMMERCE render you the most BUFFALO, N. Y. OPERATING PRATT & CO. effective service in this OPERATORS OF market. Evans, Monarch and Wheeler Elevators SUPERIOR ELEVATOR COMBINED CAPACITY 1009-1010 910 Chamber of Commerce, Buffalo, N. Y. Chamber of Commerce BUFFALO, N. Y. 1,500,000 Bushels

FOR SATISFACTORY RESULTS FOR GOOD RESULTS CONSIGN CONSIGN YOUR GRAIN TO to , Your Wheat, Corn and Oats The Electric Grain Elevator Go. N.Y. SMITH & JENKINS Buffalo, GRAIN CORPORATION A. W. HAROLD S. M. RATCLIFFE Strictly Grain and Hay GRAIN Consignments ALWAYS IN THE MARKET FOR OATS Superior facilities for handling Consignments BARLEY A SPECIALTY Chamber of Commerce, Buffalo Chamber of Commerce BUFFALO. N. Y. 717 Chamber of Commerce, BUFFALO, N. Y

L. S. CHURCHILL, President "The Book of Wrinkles G. W. BARTLETT, Treasurer THIS IS A COLLECTION, IN BOOK FORM, OF A LARGE NUMBER OF HANDY AND Churchill Grain Seed Co. LABOR=SAVING DEVICES FOR GRAIN ELEVATORS AND FLOUR MILLS. A 136-PAGE The & Commission Orders Executed Grain and Seed Bought and Sold BOOK, FULLY ILLUSTRATED. PRICE $1.00. Offices: Buffalo, N. Y. Members Toledo, Ohio New York Produce Exchange MITCHELL BROS. PUBLISHING CO. Seed Warehouse: Toledo Produce Exchange 431 S. Dearborn Street CHICAGO, II I Located at Toledo, Ohio Buffalo Corn Exchange

ROPP'S CALCULATOR A new and improved edition of this standard work, in- can keep in touch with the news and reports of valuable to grain dealers. Tables show at a glance the Yrjl J value of wheat, corn, rye, oats, barley, seeds, etc., at all M Elevator world by reading the market prices per bushel ; also the weight reduced to the Grain and bushels. Trade discounts, stock tables, capacity tables, short-cut arithmetic. Solves any problem in the twink- "American Grain Trade." ling of an eye. The grain tables alone make it indispen- sable to all who handle grain. Price $1.25 postpaid. MITCHELL BROS. PUBLISHING CO. SUBSCRIBE NOW—$1.00 A YEAR 431 S. Dearborn St., Chicago, 111. THE^MERICAN ELEVATOR AND January 15, 1919 GRAIN TRADE 539

~~THE TOWNSEND WARD GO. Chamber of Commerce Bldg. BUFFALO, N. Y. Consignments Only Wholesale Merchants and Grain Commission~~

Eliminate risk of HEATING of early McConnell Grain Corporation shipments of NEW CORN. Our elevator at FOSTORIA, O., is only an overnight haul from your station. Because of our ability to handle grain BUFFALO rapidly, there was NEVER AN EM- BARGO AGAINST FOSTORIA.

~~Wheat-Rye-Corn - Barley-Oats Shipped to Eastern Grain, Mill and Elevator Corporation~~

~~Operators of Concrete Elevator, Central Elevator and Iron Elevator~~

~~5,000,000 BUSHELS CAPACITY~~

~~Will be properly cared for on arrival and show best possible results~~

~~ODUCE GRAIN EXCHANGE NEW YORK RECEIVERS~~

BRAINARD COMMISSION COMPANY L. W. FORBELL & CO. RECEIVERS AND EXPORTERS Commission Merchants' OATS AND BARLEY 342 Produce Exchange NEW YORK Try us with consignments of oats and oorn. Send samples all off grade grains Produce Exchange We are Specialists In these grains and Consignments Solicited NEW YORK are strlotly Commission Merohants.

~~GRAIN RECEIVERS~~

^7^X¥ T Can keep in touch with ¥ II II the news and reports of WHITE GRAIN CO. the Grain and Elevator FANCY OATS FEED WHEAT world by reading the "American SHIPPERS MILL OATS BARLEY Grain Trade." SCREENINGS RYE SUBSCRIBE NOW—$1.00 A YEAR. Write for Samples and Quotations DULUTH S

~~JHEy^MERICAN ELEVATOR AND k 540 GRAIN TRADE Thirty-Seventh Year~~

~~— 1 CHAMBER OF GRAIN 1 COMMERCE v MILWAUKEE * ~ 1~~

~~Superior Service assured in shipping to W. M1. BELL COMPANY "T~~

John B. Meigs, Pres. G. C Holstein, V. Pres. & Mgr. MINNEAPOLIS DULUTH A. Ballatine, Secy, and Treas. Ship to Taylor Bournique Co. & Mohr-Holstein Commission Co. CARGILL GRAIN COMPANY MILWAUKEE SHIPPERS OF GRAIN 29 Chamber of Commerce WE OFFER A VERY BROAD SERVICE MILWAUKEE A record of over 50 years in the grain business. Chamber of Commerce, Milwaukee, Wis. Sample Grain a Specialty Absolute Security Good Sales Branch Offices at CHICAGO and MINNEAPOLIS Courteous Treatment Quick Returns

For "UN-X-L-D" Service on CONSIGNMENTS For SERVICE that is UNSURPASSED consign your E. P. BACON CO. of GRAIN and SEEDS GRAIN AND SEED TO SHIP THAT NEXT CAR TO GrainCommissionMerchants Milwaukee Gram Commission Co. THE FRANKE GRAIN CO. Sellers of Cash Grain and MILWAUKEE, WIS. Chamber of Commerce Field Seeds on Consignment GRAIN- MILL FEEDS MILWAUKEE - - - WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE —CHICAGO—MINNEAPOLIS

J. V. LAUER & CO. L. Bartlett & Son Co. FUMIGATION METHODS By PROF. WILLIS G. JOHNSON Grain Commission Merchants GRAIN A complete practical treatise on fumigating grain elevators, flour mills, warehouses, etc. 313 pages. We SELL Grain Commission Merchants Well illustrated. Price $1.00. CHICAGO MINNEAPOLI Careful Personal Attention Given to All Consignments Chamber of Commerce MITCHELL BROS. PUBLISHING COMPANY MILWAUKEE, WIS. MILWAUKEE, WIS. 431 South Dearborn St., Chicago.

~~CHAMBER OF COMMERCE BALTIMORE~~

~~OUR PA TRONS Get the Service HAVE YOU JOHN T. FAHEY & CO. E. Steen & Bro. Grain Receivers and Exporters GRAIN --HAY Send Us Your BALTIMORE Shipments Baltimore, Md. BALTIMORE, MD.~~

New Firm Name But Same GOOD SERVICE CHAS. ENGLAND & CO. Baltimore Pearl Hominy Co. F. MACNEAL CO. RECEIVERS OF WALTER & Seaboard Corn Mills Formerly of and Successors to J. M. FRISCH & CO. and HAY Baltimore, Md. S. F. Evans, Mgr. GRAIN Baltimore 316 Guilford Avenue, We are always in the market for White and For 25 Year. We fiRAIN " * 308-310 Chamber of Commerce Have Specialized VjIV^Vll^ HAY BALTIMORE, MD. Yellow Corn for Milling purposes. Consignments Solicited Correspondence and Offers Solicited —

~~XHE^MERICAN ELEVATOR AND~~

~~January 15, 1919 GRAIN TRADE 541~~

~~A f>ERS~~

W. M. RICHARDSON RICHARDSON BROS. S. H. YOUNG & CO. E. L. ROGERS & CO. BROKERS COMMISSION GRAIN, FLOUR and MILL FEEDS GRAIN. FLOUR. ALFALFA AND MERCHANTS THE BOURSE, PHILADELPHIA, PA. Receivers and Shippers of MILL FEEDS HAY, STRAW, Grain Dealers National Ass'n. GRAIN, Etc. Commercial Exchange. Philadelphia, Pa. Consignments Solicited Chamber of Commerce Philadelphia, Pa. Over 50 years in the business Illinois Grain Dealers Ass'n. Indiana Grain Dealers Ass'n. 417 419 "The Bourse," PHILADELPHIA 358 Bourse Bldg., PHILADELPHIA, PA.

L. F. MILLER & SONS The fact that we want your Wheat, Corn, Oats Mill Receivers and Shippers of and Feed does not interest you, but the Taylor & Bournique Co. GRAIN, FEED, SEEDS, HAY, ETC. fact that it will make you money to ship to us does. Hundreds of satisfied shippers will say that GRAIN MERCHANTS OFFICE: 2931 N. BROAD ST., PHILADELPHIA, PA. LEMONT makes them money. Shippers of Quality and Uniformity CONSIGNMENTS SOLICITED Oats, Special attention given to the handling of E. K. LEMONT & SON Milling Rye and Corn CORN and OATS 411 Bourse Building PHILADELPHIA, PA. 627-629 Bourse Philadelphia, Pa.

~~GRAIN v OTHER MARKET! RECEIVERS~~

~~DETROIT CRAWFORDSVILLE SIDNEY, OHIO~~

Dumont, Roberts & Co, CR4BBS REYNOLDS TAYLOR CO. Crawfordsville, Ind. V. E. CHAMBERS GRAIN MERCHANTS GRAIN Sidney, Ohio Try our Service on Consignments of your Clover and Timothy Seeds The Grain and Hay Man WHEAT - CORN - OATS Buyer and Shipper Car Load Lots 31-2 Chamber of Commerce, DETROIT, MICH. Get in touch with us. Your Business Appreciated

LANCASTER CINCINNATI LOUISVILLE Consign to or Ask for Bids' We Solicit Quotations on DO YOU REALIZE That The Brouse - Skidmore Grain Co- CORN and OATS country trade always pays you best in every way ? Receivers and Shippers From Country Elevators We work a large country business. GRAIN -HAY- FEED Nesmith-Wilkes-Seaman Co. See the point ? CINCINNATI, OHIO Iroquois Lile Bldg. Louisville, Ky. JONAS F. EBY & SON, LANCASTER, PA. Milling Wheat and Corn Onr Specialty Mail Us Samples

~~SPRINGFIELD, ILL. CEDAR RAPIDS, IOWA~~

Robert L. Early W. A. Daniel John H. Lloyd & Co. The Mutual Commission Co. Cedar Rapids Grain Go. Grain Merchants Grain, Hay and Feed RECEIVERS AND SHIPPERS Members "Strictly Commission" Chicago Board of Trade Springfield, Grain Dealers Nat'l Assn. CEDAR RAPIDS IOWA Carew Building CINCINNATI, OHIO Illinois Grain Dealers' Assn. Illinois

THE most valuable work of its kind ever published. The book takes up the cultivation, growth and marketing of wheat, corn, rye, barley, buckwheat and other cereals in this country, and treats each grain from its botanical relations to the products manufac- The Cereals in America tured from it. An invaluable work to the grain man or miller. Printed on highly calendared paper, profusely illustrated and bound in cloth. 421 pages. Price $1.75 Postpaid By THOMAS F. HUNT, Professor of Agronomy, Cornell University MITCHELL BROS. PUBLISHING COMPANY 431 South Dearborn Street CHICAGO, ILL. fHE^MERICAN ELEVATOR AND 542 GRAIN TRADE Thirty-Seventh Year

~~LEADING GRAIN RECEIVERS IN i lLL MARKETS~~

ATLANTA, GA. COLUMBUS, OHIO. Cole Grain Co., Geo. W., grain receivers.* f^rp crcr Jos., & Son, grain & hay brokers.*! McAlister, Jas. P., & Co., shippers grain, hay.! Conover Grain Co., E. B., receivers, shippers. BALTIMORE, MD. CRAWFORDSVILLE, IND. Consumers Grain Co., grain receivers.* Baltimore Pearl Hominy Co., corn buyers* Crabbs-Reynolds-Taylor Co., grain, seed.*! Feltman Grain Co., C. H., grain commission.* England & Co., Chas., grain, hay receivers. *f DECATUR, ILL. Grier & Co., T. A., grain commission.* Fahey & Co., John T., receivers, exporters.* Baldwin & Co., H. I., grain brokers.* Luke Grain Co., grain commission.* receivers.*! Hax & Co., G. A., grain and hay DENVER, COLO. McCreery & Sons, J. A., com. merchants.* Macneal & Co., Walter F., grain, hay *f Denver Elevator, The, grain.* Miles, P. B. & C. C, grain commission.*! Scarlett & Co., Wm. G., seeds. Western Grain Co., grain and pinto beans. Mueller Grain Co., receivers and shippers.* Steen & Bro., E., grain, hay.*! DETROIT, MICH. Rumsey, Moore & Co., grain commission.* Smith-Hamilton Grain Co., grain commis- BLOOMINGTON, ILL. Dumont, Roberts & Co., receivers, shippers.* sion.* Baldwin, Roberts & Co., shippers and brokers. DULUTH, MINN. Warren Commission Co., consignments.* Hasenwinkle Grain Co., grain commission. White Grain Co., grain and hay.*! Slick & Co., L. E., receivers and shippers.* EVANSVILLE, IND. PHILADELPHIA, PA. Worth-Gyles Grain Co., buyers, shippers cash Small & Co., Inc., W. H., field seeds, grain.* Lemont & Son, E. K., wheat, corn, oats, mill and future grain.* FRANKFORT, IND. feed.! Miller & Sons, L. F., receivers and shippers.*! BUFFALO, N. Y. Frank & Co., Wm., grain brokers.* Richardson Bros., grain, flour, mill feeds.* Buffalo Grain Co., receivers, shippers.* INDIANAPOLIS, IND. Rogers & Co., E. L., receivers and shippers.*! Burns Grain Co., grain commission.* Boyd Grain Co., Bert A., grain commission.* Taylor & Bournique Co., oats, milling rye, corn. Churchill Grain & Seed Co., grain and seeds.* Gale Grain Co., P. M., brokerage.* PITTSBURGH, PA. Eastern Grain, Mill & Elevator Corporation, Kendrick & Sloan Co., receivers and shippers.! wheat, rye, corn, barley, oats.*! Kinney, H. E. Grain Co., grain, hay, feed.*! Harper Grain Co., grain commission. Electric Grain Elevator Co., consignments.*! McCardle-Black Co., grain commission. Heck & Co., W. F., grain, hay, mill feeds.*! Harold, A. W. grain, barley a specialty.! Merchants Hay Grain Co., rec. ship- Herb Bros. & Martin, grain and hay.*! : & & McConnell Grain Corporation, grain.*f pers.*! McCague, R. S., grain and hay.*! Pierce, Geo. E., oats.* Urmston Grain Co., grain commission.*! Rogers & Co., Geo. E., receivers & shippers.! Pratt & Co., corn, oats, wheat.* Witt, Frank A., grain commission and brokerage. Smith & Co., J. W., grain, hay, feed.* RatclifFe, S. M., grain and hay.! KANSAS CITY, MO. RICHMOND, VA. Smith & Jenkins Grain Corporation, corn. Moore-Lawless Grain Co., grain receivers.* Beveridge & Co., S. T., grain, hay, feed.*! Townsend-Ward Co., receivers and shippers.* Moore-Seaver Grain Co., corn and oats.* ST. Urmston Grain Co., grain commission.! JOSEPH, MO. Peppard Seed Co., J. G., alfalfa seed, millet. Marshall Hall Grain Co., receivers, shippers.* Whitney & Gibson, receivers and shippers.* Simonds-Shields-Lonsdale Grain Co., wheat, CEDAR RAPIDS, IOWA. kaffir, oats, corn.* ST. LOUIS, MO. Cedar Rapids Grain Co., grain merchants.* Western Grain Co., shippers grain and feed.* Ballard-Messmore Grain Co., consignments PA. and future delivery.* CHICAGO, ILL. LANCASTER, Eby & Son, Jonas F., receivers and shippers.*! Eaton McClellan Commission Co., grain, hay, Armour Grain Co., grain buyers.* LIMA, seeds, wool.* Bailey & Co., E. W., commission merchants.* OHIO Pollock Grain Co.. wholesale grain hay, Elmore-Schultz Grain Co., receivers, ship- Bartlett, Frazier Co., receivers and shippers.* pers.*! Bridge & Leonard, commission merchants.*! straw.* Goffe & Carkener Co., grain, hay, seeds.*! Dickinson Co., Albert, seeds. LOUISVILLE, KY. Graham & Martin Grain Co., rec. exclus.*! Dole & Co., H., commission merchants.* Edinger & Co.,! grain, hay, feed. J. Langenberg Bros. Grain Co., grain com.*! Freeman & Co., Henry H., hay, straw, grain.*! Farmer & Sons, Oscar, grain, hay, feed.*! Marshall Hall Grain Co., rec, shippers, & exp.* Gerstenberg & Co., grain and seeds.* Nesmith-Wilkes-Seaman Co., corn.* Mason Hawpe Co., grain merchants.* Griffin & Co., P., grain commission* Williams & Monroe, grain, stocks, cotton. J. Mullally Hay & Grain Co.*! Harvey Grain Co., corn and oats.* TENN. MEMPHIS, Nanson Commission Co., receivers, shippers.*! Hitch & Carder, grain commission.* U. S. Feed Co., receivers and shippers.! Picker & Beardsley Com. Co., grain, hay.*! Hoit & Co., Lowell, com. grain, seeds. MILWAUKEE, WIS. Prunty, Chas. E., grain and seeds. Hulburd, Warren & Chandler, com. mere* Bacon Co., E. P., grain commission.* Schisler-Corneli Seed Co., seeds.* Illinois Seed Co., seed merchants. Bartlett & Son Co., L., grain commission.* Toberman, Mackey & Co., grain, hay, seeds. *+ Lamson Bros. & Co., commission merchants.* Bell Co., W. M., grain, seed* Turner Grain Co., grain commission. merchants.* Logan & Bryan, grain Cargill Grain Co., receivers and shippers. commission.* SIDNEY, OHIO. Lowitz & Co., E., grain Courteen Seed Co., seeds. McKenna & Rodgers, com. merchants.* Donahue-Stratton Co., buyers and shippers.* Chambers, V. E., grain and hay buyer and produce.! Miller & Co., Albert, hay and Franke Grain Co., receivers and shippers.* shipper. Norris Grain Co., grain merchants.* Kamm Co., P. C, grain merchants.* Custenborder & Co., E. T., buyers and ship- Co., grain mer- Northern Grain & Warehouse Kellogg Seed Co., seeds. pers of grain in car lots.* chants. Wells Co., E., wholesale grain, seed.* Lauer & Co., J. V., grain commission.* J. Paynter, H. M., grain and field seeds. Milwaukee Grain Commission Co., grain. SPRINGFIELD, ILL. Pope & Eckhardt Co., grain and seeds.* Mohr-Holstein Commission Co., grain com.* Lloyd Co., John H., grain merchants.* shippers.*! & Rosenbaum Brothers, receivers, Taylor & Bournique Co., corn, oats, barley.* Grain Co., shippers.* TOLEDO, OHIO. Rosenbaum J., Thayer & Co., C. H., commission merchants.* Rumsey & Co., grain commission.* Chatterton & Son, hay, oats, wheat.*! Sawers Grain Co., grain commission.* MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. De Vore & Co., H. W., grain, seeds.* Cargill Co., grain shippers.* Schifflin & Co., Philip H., com. merchants.* Elevator King & Co., C. A., grain and seeds.*! Cereal Grading Co., grain merchants.* Shaffer, J. C, & Co., grain merchants.* Raddatz & Co., H. D., grain, seeds.* grain commission.* Simons, Day & Co., grain, stocks, bonds.* Godfrey-Blanchard Co., Southworth & Co., grain and seeds.*! merchants.* Thayer & Co., C. H., commission merchants.* McCaull-Dinsmore Co., com. Wickenhiser & Co., John, grain dealers.* grain merchants.* Van Ness Co., Gardiner B., commission.* Quinn, Shepherdson Co., Young Grain Co., grain, seeds.* Scroggins-McLean Co., The, wheat shippers.* Wagner & Co., E. W., receivers, shippers.* Zahm & Co., J. F., grain and seeds.*! Ware & Leland, grain and seeds.* NEW YORK, N. Y. TOPEKA, KAN. CLEVELAND, OHIO. Brainard Commission Co., oats, barley.* Derby Grain Co., wheat, oats, corn.* Cuyahoga Grain Co., hay, grain, feed. Forbell & Co., L. W., com. merchants.* Forbes Milling Co., wheat, oats, corn.* CINCINNATI, OHIO. Power & Co., W. D., hay, straw, produce.! Golden Belt Grain & Elevator Co., wholesale grain.* Brouse-Skidmore Grain Co., rec. & shipper.*! PEORIA, ILL. Mutual Commission Co., strictly commis- Buckley & Co., grain, hay, seeds.* WINCHESTER, IND. sion.*! Bowman & Co., Geo. L., grain commission. Goodrich Bros., wholesale grain, seeds, hay.*! *Members Grain Dealers' Association. fMember National Hay Association. THEAMERICAN ELEVATOR AND January 15, 1919 GRAIN TRADE Thirty-Seventh Year

~~THE CALL of the ELEVATOR~~

Co-operation of the farmers is calling to the elevator to install flour, cereal and feed mill machines. Will you heed the call or drive the farmers to organize and build their own flour and feed mills? The Wolf Self-Contained Flour Mill is a complete Six Reduction Mill with our famous Wolf Levelsif- ter and Two-Way Flour Conveyor. It is the most complete, satisfactory milling equipment ever put into a practical, self-contained, one-man mill. This mill avoids costly buildings. May be set up in any convenient room. Needs no expensive millwrights. Makes from IS to SO barrels per day. Uses little power. Keeps up-keeps down. Assures quality, yield and capacity. No divided profits. One man handles the whole proposition.

~~The Wolf Company~~

We guarantee the Wolf Self-Contained Flour Mill to be a complete Six Reduction, Builders of complete Flour, Corn, Sifter Mill, ready to apply the power and begin to sack the fine, velvety flour. Write for Cereal and Feed Mills Bulletin No. 114. Chambersburg, Pa. U. S. A. rH€ 3H€ 9WG 3H€ 3H€ 3H€ ANNOUNCING A NEW BOOK FOR MILLS AND ELEVATORS

ANY operators of elevators and flour mills have derived help from the ingeni- ous devices published in the "Book of Wrinkles." The great demand for this book, which is now in its Fourth Edition, has impelled the publishers to m issue a new volume in the series: Milling Kinks

~~which is just off the press and ready for delivery. Since it is probable that the first edition will be rapidly exhausted, those desiring a copy are urged to send in their orders immediately.~~

HE new book, "Milling Kiriks," is uniform in size and style with the "Book of Wrinkles" and contains 169 illustrated devices, many of which are of as much value to Elevator Operators as to Millers and Millwrights. Chapters are included on: Bins, Hoppers and Sinks; Valves and Spouting; Elevators and Conveyors; Receiving, Separating and Cleaning; Roll Auxiliaries; Sifters and Bolters; Belting and Transmission; Blending and Tempering; Filling and Packing; Sampling and Testing; Dust Collection; Lubrication; Heating, Ventilating and Fumigating; Special Tools and Devices; Miscellaneous.

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~~January 15, 1919 GRAIN TRADE Thirty-Seventh Year~~

~~"Attention Millers" WEBSTER DESIGNS AND BUILDS The Weller Continuous Everything Corn Meal and Flour Dryer In the House~~

For GRAIN HANDLING A Rotary Steam Dryer made to stand ex- and POWER TRANSMISSION treme usage and continuous service. years of * successful experi- Built Like a Battleship ence in the manufacture of elevating, conveying and power All steel and so constructed that parts are transmission machin- easily replaced. Made with "ALL STEEL" ery specially adapted to elevators and flour Cooler attached or as separate unit. The mills. In all our work most efficient dryer on the market. we have but one aim. That is Prices and details on request. QUALITY Complete Equipments.Extensions or Repairs WELLER MFG. CO. Catalog on Request

~~1856 N. Kostner Ave. Chicago, Illinois. The Webster M'fg. Company CHICAGO (2W) TIFFIN, OHIO NEW YORK~~

~~Thi Knickerbocker Cyclone"~~

Dust Collector If in 1918 it was patriotic to stop "leaks" in your plant, in 1919 it will be good business judgment. THE For Grain Cleaners BAUER "SCIEN- TIFIC" BALL ALL STEEL BEARING ATTRITION MILLS are used by most of the leading millers in Phis and foreign countries. Their preference is dictated, not by sentiment, but by cold business' judgment and a consideration of the proven ability and economy of this matchless machine. Increased profits pay for the investment. Inquiry and investigation is solicited. Write for Catalog 517 Bauer BIdg. j THE BAUER BROS. CO. Springfield, Ohio, vTsTa.

~~The Knickerbocker Company Jackson, Mich. SCIENXIFIC~~

y= s The Supreme Courts have 1 "UNCLE SAM" has now allowed us to purchase steel 1 J j and resume the manufacture of the 1 ruled against you, so why put i off having a dust collecting sys- § tern installed to prevent a dust | CLIMAX SCOOP TRUCK | 1 g which will be glad news for many waiting customers. The Scoop- § explosion? It doubles the lease § j Truck enables one man to remove more coal or grain from a box car H of life of your employes and 1 than three men can move in the ordinary way. Ask any of the 5,000 §f gives you a clean elevator even 1 users who have tried it. M Price M though you never meet with a | Standard - - - - $15.00 | loss. We make dust collectors, g Extra Heavy ... 17.00 m but collectors alone will not pro- § F. O. B. Factory I DETROIT tect you. | Write SCOOP-TRUCK' | THE DAY COMPANY, | COMPANY J 1 2227 W. Jefferson Ave. DETROIT, MICH Pioneers in the work. Minneapolis, Minn. 1