MAGIC OF THE MIXING-HOUSE 



of wheat that goes into the elevator from North Da- 

 kota. It is depreciated and doctored wheat. 



This is an astonishing statement. What 

 could Mr. Manahan mean by it? "Doctored 

 wheat" it sounds strange, does it not? So 

 we turn to the records of the terminal elevators 

 or "mixing-houses" of Minneapolis in search 

 of possible information and this is what we 

 find: 



In two years these elevators received 15,- 

 571,575 bushels of No. 1 Northern wheat, 

 and shipped out in the same two years 19,- 

 978,777 bushels of that same grade. That is 

 to say, they shipped 4,407,202 bushels more of 

 No. 1 Northern than they received. At the 

 beginning of the two years they had no No. 

 1 Northern, so the excess cannot be accounted 

 for on the theory that it was wheat left over. 

 Where did it come from? W r heat is not or- 

 dinarily planted and reaped in elevator bins. 

 What then was this mysterious source of pro- 

 duction? And we find that in the same period 

 the same elevators received of No. 2 wheat 

 20,413,584 bushels, and shipped out of that 

 same grade 22,242,410 bushels, or 1,828,826 

 bushels more than they received. Where did 

 all that wheat come from? 



And again a record of twelve months of 

 grain inspections in Minnesota terminal ele- 

 vators revealed this astounding productivity, 

 in such institutions: 



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