STORY OF THE "FEED WHEATS" 



These grades, after No. 4 Northern, were 

 new designations; no one had ever heard of 

 any such thing as *'A Feed" or ''B Feed." 

 Nevertheless, these innovations, no matter 

 how strange or arbitrary, became instantly as 

 effective as if they had been laws of Congress. 

 At the time the farmers, however they might 

 be wronged in this way, had no redress against 

 such decrees, and an immense amount of 

 North Dakota wheat was graded and sold on 

 these classifications. 



Yet the pigs got none of it and none went 

 to fatten other live stock. Subsequent in- 

 vestigation showed that all of the "Feed" 

 grades had substantial milling values, all 

 were ground into flour, and even the despised 

 "Feed D," away down at the bottom of the 

 list, so bad that by a fiction the omnivorous 

 hog was supposed to turn from it, made 

 bread of a quality superior in nutritive content 

 to bread made from the aristocratic No. 1. 



All this was demonstrated at the North 

 Dakota Agricultural College.^ Repeated tests 

 made there showed that 100 pounds of average 

 No. 1 Northern wheat yielded about 69 pounds 

 of flour, while 100 pounds of the lowly "D 

 Feed" yielded 60 pounds of the same class 

 of flour — "not quite so white," says the 



^ Details may be had from Bulletin No. 119, issued by the college, 

 and from Wheat: lis Milling Value and Market Value, by Dr. E. F. 

 Ladd. 



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