Show PRICE PIXEL FIXED BY GRADE Farmers Far of Utah must remember that a bush bushel 1 for tor No 1 wheat wheaton on the Chicago market does not mean necessarily nor even usually for their wheat t in Utah In other words there are other things than the activities of the price-fixer price to disturb the Utah market this fall Grading regulations put into effect by the federal government have no bearing on the war At At any rate they do not result from from the war seeing that they were in effect long before the war began They are intended to to standardize the wheat market Under those regulations when a man buys No 1 Turkey r red d wheat he knows know pretty much what i ine ne Is getting He Ho is getting wheat that will run 60 pounds to the bushel bus bus- hel not hel-not not 59 69 pounds but 60 pounds He Is ia getting wheat that has a aver very small proportion of imperfect kernels kernels ker ker- nels in it that has a very small percentage percentage percentage per per- of foreign substances in it such as seeds of various arious weeds that thatis is almost impossible to to keep out of the wheat field or to fan or separate out of the threshed grain Ho He is getting wheat that complies with deveral several other very strict regulations He is getting a wheat that is uniform uniform uniform uni uni- uni- uni form in color That is what No 1 wheat means and it applies in a general way to all varieties of course as well as to Turkey lurkey red And here is the point Unless the wheat complies with tho the requirements of No 1 wheat tho the dealer si sl going to lose mone money on it if he ho pays the price of No 1 wheat for it He Will ViUl not get the price of No 1 wheat for tor It when ho he comes to sell it Wheat that falls fails to come up to No 1 standards may be No 2 wheat which Bolls sells for 3 cents a bushel less loss than does No 1 i wheat t It i it II not hot I of these requirements before It is that wheat fall below helow all graded as No 2 wheat If the wheat weighs only 59 pounds to the bushel It Is No 2 wheat If It it has more than 1 per cent of imperfect kernels it Is No 2 wheat even though It weigh 61 pounds to the bushel And so it may be enumerated Then again No 2 wheat is of a high standard itself under these grading regulations No 3 wheat will draw on th e a market 4 cent cents a bushel less than No 2 wheat which Is some of an item to the farm farm- farmer farmer er if he has bushels to it Is just as big an item to the grain dealer should he buy No 3 wheat as No 2 and then find himself compelled compelled compelled com com- to sell It as No 3 only 3 only the grain dealer instead of selling 50 may be selling or more But the point the farmer should not lay the blame entirely on the price fixing he find that wheat for which he expected expect expect- ed to get a on the Chicago figures or perhaps more than that amount based on Pacific coast not bring him so much as he it would It is not the war that is to blame It Is the grading regulations adopted by the national government and these regulations regulations reg reg- illations were not Imposed with ou out reason or even suddenly They came after long efforts had been made to educate the grower up to the need of such regulations and the advantages of growing Nol wheat instead of No 5 or worse I It If Ithe he did not heed the now finds himself confronted by a condition condition con con- of which he Is almost entirely ignorant It is hardly fair to lay the blame blamo on the war or the price fixer It is perhaps unfortunate that tha such regulations should be enforced during war But it hardly could be expected when the grading regulations were wele the war was going to come on at this particular time Moreover it is better to get war-time war prices for No 5 5 wheat than the prices which prevailed prevailed pre pre- before the war began better better ifor the farmer at least though the consumer may not be quite so confident confident con con- about It |