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Show miuOs wuvr mIxed- IffiTBEDIIW Say Old Federal Standards Should Be Changed to Meet Demands. U. S. OFFICIALS HERE Will Submit Suggestions of Grain Men to Department : of Agriculture. ! Fedora .ta lizards for tha grading of j wh'-ar,, particularly those governing the, gracing of fiuxed grain a, wre under riificuBaion ycitordny afternoon at a ron-ferenoe ron-ferenoe -bet wiu oi'i'u'iab of the t'nittvl States ''! ":f j:j rrm ont of agriculture and Joi:al millers, oJovator and grain warn-hotiKO warn-hotiKO men. The principal diflfussion at- the meeting meet-ing yesterday con to red around tho rules governing tho grading of mixed wheat, the intermoiintnin grain handlers contending con-tending that the mixed grains of thin district fdiould he given a higher grade than they aro under tho present l'cderal htandardH. Thf Hiiggitionn offered at tho meeting meet-ing yesterday were made nf record hy the federal officials and alter conclusion con-clusion of a series of hearings throughout through-out the western country tho various i suggestions and recommendations will he .submitted to tho department at Wash-I ington for action. Local wheat men art; in hopes that tho government department depart-ment will see its way (dear to place the mixed grain of the intermountain district dis-trict in .higher grades than flt present. . Grain Men Confer. George L. Livingston, in chargo of federal gram supervision, presided at the meeting at the Hotel Utah yesterday, yester-day, which lasted from .1 until 6 o'clock in tho afternoon. Among other federal officials representing the grain bureau of tho department ot agriculture present were B. W. Whit look, local grain inspector; in-spector; E. B. Quigley, legal representative representa-tive of the department of agriculture; .L .F. Wilnieth of the bureau of markets, mar-kets, S. P. Jeffers, supervisor of grain for the western division; Dr. J. W. T. Duvall, in charge of grain standardization, standardiza-tion, and Charles J. Brand, chief of the bureau of markets. More than forty millers, elevator men and warehouse men of the "Utah district were in attendance. Three special points were brought out by the local grain men in support of their contention that the mixed grains of the intermountain district should be graded higher than under the old federal fed-eral standards. Replanting Necessary. The first reason set forth is that it is more difficult, in this district to secure good seed wheat than in the usual grain bolts of the United States, because of the great distance of this territory from the central seed markets. The second reason advanced was that climatic conditions here are such that considerable replanting is necessitated and this brings about' more or loss mixture but, the bn-al men contend, does not really change the grade of the wheat. What is termed accidental elevator mixtures are more frequent in this district dis-trict also, it was argued, but this mixture is of a nature, it was pointed out, that does not harm the finality of the flour producing value of the wheat. If the era in men can get the government govern-ment to be more liberal in the matter of grading mixed wheat in this district it will mean better result for the wheat producer and for the handler, it is stated. The federal officials are traveling over the entire country hearing complaints com-plaints of the grain uud corn men relative rela-tive to the government standards of grading and weights, and will go from here to Sau Francisco. |