MAGIC OF THE MIXING-HOUSE 



of wheat that goes into the elevator from North Da- 

 kota. It is depreciated and doctored wheat. 



This is an astonishing statement. What 

 could Mr. Manahan mean by it? *' Doctored 

 wheat" — it sounds strange, does it not? So 

 we turn to the records of the terminal elevators 

 or "mixing-houses" of Minneapolis in search 

 of possible information and this is what we 

 find: 



In two years these elevators received 15,- 

 571,575 bushels of No. 1 Northern wheat, 

 and shipped out in the same two years 19,- 

 978,777 bushels of that same grade. That is 

 to say, they shipped 4,407,202 bushels more of 

 No. 1 Northern than they received. At the 

 beginning of the two years they had no No. 

 1 Northern, so the excess cannot be accounted 

 for on the theory that it was wheat left over. 

 Where did it come from? Wheat is not or- 

 dinarily planted and reaped in elevator bins. 

 What then was this mysterious source of pro- 

 duction? And we find that in the same period 

 the same elevators received of No. 2 wheat 

 20,413,584 bushels, and shipped out of that 

 same grade 22,242,410 bushels, or 1,828,826 

 bushels more than they received. Where did 

 all that wheat come from? 



And again a record of twelve months of 

 grain inspections in Minnesota terminal ele- 

 vators revealed this astounding productivity, 

 in such institutions : 



47 



