HOW FALSE CHARGES WERE MADE 



to the shipper, which constantly results m loss of his 

 product, and should be abolished at once. 



This might be thought to explain where 

 the missing five hundred thousand bushels 

 went to every year; at least the farmers 

 could hardly be blamed if they assumed it to 

 be an adequate light cast upon this phase of 

 the mystery. But upon only a part of it, be- 

 cause Mr. Drake was speaking of the weighing 

 practices at the terminal elevators at Minne- 

 apolis, not elsewhere. There was also the 

 weighing operation at the country elevator, 

 and what that was like may be gathered 

 from the fact that when there came to be a 

 state department of grading, weights, and 

 measures in North Dakota, as we shall learn 

 hereafter, official testing of all the scales in 

 use at country elevators revealed 60 per 

 cent, of them to be false or defective. 



