IVIAGIC OF THE MIXING-HOUSE 



by the loss of the low grades. The loss to 

 the farmers (and profit to the elevators) on 

 these transformations was more than $400,000. 



And I pause to point to the fact that the 

 great world of bread-eaters derived not a cent's 

 worth of value or of service from these tricks. 

 In not one particular was the wheat speeded 

 to the consumer, bettered for the consumer, 

 cheapened to the consumer. Only the trick 

 player and never the community had gain 

 from these jugglings. 



Approximately ten million bushels of wheat 

 in Minneapolis and Duluth every year were 

 raised from inferior grades two, three, or four 

 grades to No. 1 or No. 2. 



The farmer was paid for Rejected or No 

 Grade; the Eastern miller paid for No. 1 or 

 No. 2. Yet it was largely the same grain. 

 The farmers still insisted that if the grain 

 was No. 1 when it went out of that elevator it 

 was No. 1 when it went in, and of this I have 

 never been able to learn of any valid denial. 



In yet another year the same elevators at 

 Duluth made this record: 



Received Shipped 



Grade of Wheat {Bushels) {Bushels) 



No. 1 Hard 90,543 199,528 



No. 1 Northern 12,401,897 18,217,789 



No. 2 10,295,172 6,723,732 



No. 3 2,616,065 283,299 



Rejected 2,350,302 314,139 



No Grade 2,586,843 256,943 



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