STORY OF THE "FEED WHEATS" 



introduction of "Feed" grades than the needs 

 or palates of the country's live stock, and with 

 a profit of 112 per cent, on "D Feed" we shall 

 not be astonished that much wheat of that 

 variety passed into the elevators. 



Or to make the case still plainer, let us 

 suppose that nine North Dakota farmers 

 grew each one car-load of wheat and these 

 nine cars supplied one car for each of tlie 

 nine grades. We should have then this show- 

 ing of the relation of the amount the farmer 

 got for his wheat to the amount the consumer 

 paid for it when it became flour: 



Farmers' 

 Whai the What the Percentage of 



Grade Farmer Got Consumer Paid Consumers' Price 



No. 1 Northern. . . . $1,526 . 15 $2,558 . 47 59 



No. 2 Northern. . . . 1,479 . 01 2,627 .11 5Q 



No. 3 Northern. . . . 1,387 . 73 2,413 . 90 57 



No. 4 Northern. . . . 1,214 . 43 2,409 . 24 50 



No. 4 1,156.65 2,415.62 47 



A Feed 1,034.39 2,330.73 44 



B Feed 876.05 2,288.43 38 



C Feed 814.97 2,318.18 35 



D Feed 653.01 2,107.03 30 



Yet on the basis of the actual value of the 

 wheat — that is, on the basis of flour and not 

 of millers' profits — the farmer that received 

 $653.01 for his grain should have had about 

 as much as the farmer that received $1,562.75, 

 for both handed to the miller material for 

 the making of about the same quantity of 

 flour of the same kind. 



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