THE STORY OF THE NONPARTISAN LEAGUE 



Received Shipped 



Grade of Wheat iBushels) (Bushels) 



No. 1 Hard 341,567 1,000,438 



No. 1 Northern 10,070,414 16,900,917 



No. 2 Northern 7,341,594 3,978,311 



No. 3 Spring 1,335,830 444,041 



Rejected 256,063 134,471 



No Grade 1,335,531 344,823 



This seems to throw some light upon the 

 wand-waving, spell-weaving, incantation, or 

 whatever it is that makes the high grades multi- 

 ply so marvelously after their kind, for it shows 

 that 5,466,372 bushels of wheat went into these 

 elevators as low grade and came out as high. 



In the course of this transformation there 

 was added to their value from eight to twelve 

 cents a bushel. If the farmer could have had 

 this value it would have changed for him the 

 raising of wheat from an unprofitable to a 

 profitable business. But the farmer did not 

 get this value. The owners of the elevators 

 got it and the spreading knowledge of that 

 fact could result only in added bitterness in 

 the farmer's mind. For he had raised that 

 wheat, it was the product of his toil and his 

 hard-won acres; and no sophistries could 

 obscure the fact that if it was No. 1 when it 

 came out of the elevator, it was No. 1 when 

 it went in. Yet he had not been paid for No. 

 1 ; he had been paid for Rejected or No Grade, 

 away down at the foot of the market list. 



Concerning these facts and the wide prev- 



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