Eagle Valley news. (Richland, Or.) 191?-1919, March 28, 1918, Image 8

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E. & W. Chandler
Different Store
EASTER
Millinery- Opening
The Most Comprehensive Collection
of Trimmed Hats Ever Shown
in Eagle Valley
Already we have a Complete Line of Trimmed Hats
to choose from, that is the reason we use the word
"comprehensive." We want you to come and see them
will show all the Latest Designs
Chgpcaus and Military Shapes, all beauties
We will have hats for' all the family
For the Kiddy to Mamma
And the important pai t is that they are priced right
kByCl2arks37man
(In the CountiyGenllemaii)
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meat. D6!
7 w-vm.
IS
i -s-n f'!'l.l.(! tho farmer's
"h-ire of the wheat dol-
- i mr la one of Hit' war
ty i-tj J"'"1 "l''tf N"1 m,M
' .wfMJ dune since food control
became possible. AfltT
live mouths of grap
pling Willi tliu problem,
I'uclo Sum Is now trans
luilnj. Into i lie pockets of both produc
er miiiI consumers benefits derived by
the Niitlott. I lis has shut oft specula
tun, produced a frco market timl
movement of nil grades of wheat, out
rxpciiMW mill Induced u normal How of
whom In iniltii-iil directions, mill ef
fected ii thousand other economies.
The Food Administration (Jinln Cor
(oration, which supervises the will', or
lln'lf buys every bushel of wheat pro
h.i'wj in llii Nn 1 1 n In Its progress
I roil) country elevator to foreign buy
er or domestic consumers, marks n
im step toward niitlonul etllclency
How In fm.r short iiioutliM It Iiiih been i
ill':..- Is tulil III tlu following episodes
wh. iolu two bushels of whi'iit trawled
to market.
(Hit' Mm fnll afternoon, Col. Hill
.lonklii-t. who farms somewhere In .Mis
souri, loaded his whont Into ii wagon
mill drove along tho black road that
led m-roMM tho prnlrlo to town. When
he reached tho co-opunitlvu elevator
of which lit was ii stockholder, ho
pulled up on tin scales, chocked IiN
grons weights carefully, ntnl began to
iinli'Mil. Tho manager came out mill
iihlitHl :
"Whi'ii jom wnt to sell this wheat?"
"I tlunno,''- ho answered. "One
time's nhout us good iik nuothcr
tlifsn (lays. 'T won't weiKh any more
laler," he iiiltleil, with a dry millo.
"Wheat vhrlnkM a lot," admitted the
miitiaser. "1 hear the Government
wiiuts us much wheat us It can Kft
Just now understtuid tho Allies do
out a terrllde lot of It since the war."
"Wlmfs wheat to-day?" asked Col.
JeiiUlus, Kt'ttlm; Interested.
"W'o'l. let me see," parleyed the
uuitiaKer. "I kiuss this wheat'd be u
jfinid No. ii under the new jcrades."
. 'Onides? What about grades? That
.JrViid AdnilijUtiatloii seems to ml ato
ly an administrative arm of the Gov
ernment formed to buy araln or ouper.
vise Its sale at the prlceo determined
by the commission, and It must do Its
work on the basis of the new grades.
Hut to return to nur farmer and his
expectations of price.
Introducing Two Bushels of Wheat
l.yliiK side by sldo In his wncon had
been 'J bushels of wheat that fate had
marked for straifoely different etuis.
They wero very much alike, those
bushels of wheat, and to look at them
you would not have suspected the
strange Jind wonderful adventures In
store for them. Vet one. was destined
to travel abroad for consumption In
France : the other to And Its way Into
(b'orKla, where It was milled mid Its
Hour ilnally reached a New York
baker on the Kast Side. Itut In the
sum of the travels made by the two.
as we shall follow them, will he un
folded the International panorama of
wheat marketing In time of war.
Finding a Price at a Country Point.
IIIkIi wnr costs of production pive
our Missouri farmer uiiyli concern as
to his returns and accounted for hi
depression over tho prospects of Ii:
wheat "cradliiK down"; for that meant
a reduction of II cents per bushel un
der tbu No, 1 grade. Hut It Kradcd
No. '.
The elevator would nlso deduct nn
additional ft cents a bushel to cover 1 1 1 -llxcd
chnrKu made In tills locality foi
hmitllliik' and selling. The O-ceii'
chai'Ko Included the commission of 1
cent per buMiol customary In KMT
iiiiiouk commission men for sellliiK the
wheat to domestic millers or furclgi
buyers.
The elevator man was none too sure
as to bow to get at the price which
this wheat should hrltii;. He kucu
considerably more nhout human nature
thmi freight rates mid decided to
"check up" the problem to tho nearest
zone ni'cnt of tho Grain Corporation
So ho wroto a lottur to tho rvpresentu
tlvo stationed at St. Units. That let
ter was referred to tho trulllc expert
In tho Now York office, who transmit
tel the. following rult for dutennlnliit;
Jit M'mLtiP
:m, t.iv... i. v. .ti'tffiiKi i
L
Bttm i IKtiT ntJ't prrrrt
thins a tk tf null Ctanlfl
He Gels Days oS Comfort
onfl ol a nouch of
fleal (GRAVELY Chewing Pluff
Gust enough swcctcninp to flavor), that
a plug of Rcnl Grnvoly last much longer
man an orumury puis, "w
fort and saliafactiou of good tobacco.
CWo anr man a chow c.r Re.l Gravely Plua, ml ho
will tell you that's tho kind to srnd. Send tho lH
Ordinary plua I lo economy. It coti let per
vreeh to chow Heal Grcvcly, becftuto ft Kiall chaw
of it Inits n long wlillo. ,
If you amoUoixpipr,1lco Gravuly with your Unlfo
ami odd littlo to your moUln tobacco. It will
Clvo flavor Improvo your imolic.
menu vomt VHii:w in Tim v. ff. uaiviCK
3 A TOUCH Of OKAVIXY
DetUr U roml bra carry It In 10e. imieli. A .3.
iluni. will mil it Into Ml hR.li In any Tialnlna Camp or 3.
port of th U. 3. A. r.n "ot .r Ili.rV . 3. lui IU
It to Mm. Your d.aUr will urply aUpa aad lvJ ycu oKU
clal dlrMtlom hovr to Jl(c It.
P. II. GRAVELY TOBACCO CO., DimvlUc, Va.
JU PaJcnl hack ktpi it Fiuh and Qtan oJ Gxl
It is nut Rial Crcwi iWiAout this VnUdhx Seal
Eatabllshod 1(131
tnlKhty tilcli everything from rabbits
to axle urease."
"Hold on, Colonel," snld tho eleva
tor man, Kood-nnturedly. "The l'ood
Administration Is not to hlnme. Con
Kress passed tho net and told tho De
partment of Agriculture to fix the
grades, They brenmo elTectlvo last
July. I sent out n letter on It."
"Well. I kucss you better sell for
the best you can," snld tho farmer,
"I nm needed nt home," And ho drovo
nway.
A New Order In the Grain World.
?5crCa ONVKHSATIONS of this
rl&Sa iul m'Bnt nnvo tok-'"
f'JV?5 place In almost every
L t?TlK??l ,mv" '" 1,10 Rrcut rtrnln
utiJ belt of tho Nation aft-
. or Auuust 10; for revo
lution In grain market
tug was taking place. Uncle Sam
had started on this remarkable ex
periment; he was going to seo wheth
er wli.at could be marketed minus
rake-olTs to the speculators. This
necessitated complete control by the
Government of storage facilities, trans
portation and distributive agencies,
and thu marketing machinery for
wheat and rye.
Kverybody was troubled; most of
till, the oIllclnlH of thu Food Adminis
tration Grain Corporation who had
undertaken, without salary, mid at thu
sacrifice of their personal connection
with the grain trade, to whip Into
shape tho forces that would drlvu for
ward thu big business machine for
marketing American wheat. A slnglo
control; mill a JSO.OOO.tXX) nonprollt-
uiaklng corporation to do the work.
This work Is u necessary arm of tho
Food Administration, allowing tho
Government to do business quickly
and without red tape. Its stock Is held
In trust by the President of tho Unit
ed States. Kor the time of the wnr It
will supervise the rate or purchase
thu part commercially available of the
000,000,000 bushels of wheat and tho
W),000,000 surplus of rye grown In
mcrlca In 11)17. Its Job Is to llnd a
market for every bushel, Irrespective
of class and grade. Under its patron
age, wheat screenings aro moving Just
as easily us No. 1 Northern. It must
also work out satisfactorily the local
prices for wheat at each of almost
110,000 country elevator points, adjust
thousands of complaints, nrgnnlr.o tho
gathering and analysis of date, Inspect
concerns reported us denllng unfairly,
solve vexatious disagreements among
the trnde, nnd deal effectively wltn the
nines' purchasing agent and the neu
trals who may deslro to purchase.
In tho early days, following the de
termination of prices for 1017 wheat
by the President's Fair Price Commis
sion, confuslon exlsted In overy pnrt of
the wheat-producing regions. This was
Intensified by the Inauguration of tho
now grain grndes, as promulgated by
the Department of Agriculture, which
took placo about the sumo time, mid
led to diverse complaints and a feel
ing among farmers that the Grain Cor
poration of tho Food Administration
was responsible for both tno pneo as
letermlned and stricter observance if
L'raln grades. But tho corporation wan
responsible for neither act It Is pure. 1
the price of wheat at any count 1
point:
Thero Is only one price for wheat at
a country point. That price It alw.is
to be arrived at by taking as bac
the price at tho most advantageous
primary market where we have flxcJ
a price and deducting tho freight to
that market and a fair handling prof t
That Is the price to be paid for whe'd
at any station, regardless of the poh. I
to which It may be shipped.
Working out the price which should
bo paid for wheat at your station I"
a line occupation for an on day. It
you cannot llnd the answer, write to
the Food Administration Grain Cor
poratlon In New York City and It
trulllc expert will give you aid.
Finding the Price of No. 2 Wheat at
Slkeston,
AKK an actual example ?
An elevator 1111111 In
.Slkeston, Mo wanted
to know what prhu
No, V! wheat shout I
bring nt Ids statin 1
when No. 1 who. t
ut New York City was ?.J3 per bus':
el. Hero Ib how bo went about It:
Tho freight rate from Slkeston t
New York being 10,118 cents per bus)
el, be deducted that from J-.-S pir
bushel and found the price nt Klkesti 1
to he JJ.llO'J. From this he deducti I
1 per cent per bushel for tho comml
slon linn's charges, which put tho u t
price f. o. b. Slkeston at 52.1002.
Ho next compared this price wit 1
what ho could gut If he sold at S
Inul.i, his nearest primary market, At
St. I-ouls the basic price Is $2 18 per
bushel, and the freight rate froi 1
Slkeston to St. Louis (1 cents per bus'
el. This would make the Slkesti 1
price $2.12, le. a 1 cent per bushel fi r
selling charges, or $2.11 net. The Si
l)uls price would therefore govern,
being advantageous to the Slkeston
seller.
If our Imaglnnry 2 bushels of wheitt
bad started from Slksctnn, since It wai
a No. 2 grade, wo must deduct .'I cents
per bushel, which would bring tho
price f. o. 1 1. the elevator point to
S2.0S02 per bushel. As our Imaginary
elevator man Is charging fi cents pi r
bushel for handling, which lucliidis
the commission fee Just mentioned, wu
deduct an additional 1 cents to arrive
at the price the farmer received. Th's
price would be $2.0102 at the elevator.
Some of that I ccutt? will return to orr
farmer If tho elevator prospers; for It
Is owned co-operntlvely.
When Farmer and Elevator Man Dis
agree.
Hnd this elevator beon owned by prl
vote firm or person, or hnd It been a
"lino" plant, Col. .lonklns would not
hnvo been so bland nnd trustful.
Ho might have refused to sell at alt
ami arranged to store his wheat or ho
might have taken It over to a com.
petltlvo concern which offered a high
or price; for tho Food Administration
has not yet attempted to regulate the
prices paid farmers for wheat at coun
try points. It does, however, offer to
sell for any farmer or farmers' organ
ization wheat offered at terminal
points, but makes a commission chnrpe
of 1 per cent for Its services.
V 1
nextwe k' issue
D. W. Allen callei yfsi ). .
and renewed his Subscript in:,, a
ordered the News sent ti .1. 1
nrrell at Canon City, (,ot'- v,-.
Amontr others n'memhoniv !
editor the past weolc woiv H
lyde. loin Jimi orris nnd ''r".
Brown for Mrs. Donald Htit
The German p;un that throws a
shell 74 miles is doinjr little dam
afie. French airmen will put it
out of-commission shortly.
Hoys, now's a good time to look '
.ihn. it..., ...... . r
tuivi iiiui "uw anil., luia ui mcu
patterns to se'ect from; come in.
Kitltiy's -ad
W. H. STRAYKR
Attorney at Law
Fourth Floor Sot, mors Building
Baker, Oregon
Irvine Lodge No. 86
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C. E. THORP
Notary Public
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