Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1927-12-01 | Page 4 | How Wheat Farmers Suffer Losses

HOW WHEAT FARMERS SUFFER UFFER LOSSES In a bulletin issued by the tIe ilc- of oC agriculture the loss Joss to farmers through weed seed runs Into Inlo millions of dollars Tho The bul bul- letin says SIlS the spring wheat grow grow- growers ers era ra of Minnesota North Dakota South Dakota nod and Montana havo have paid aid the lie railroads about In n freight charges for transporting weed seeds with the wheat during he the last four years jears The weeds went ent to market with the tho wheat and nd their weight was I deducted from flom rom the wheat before it was paid vald for or Also because of ot the presence of f the weed seeds the sale price per pcr cr bushel of wheat was about 18 lS cents lower than it would have has been had the wheat heat entered the market free from weed seeds The rho department estimates mat enat a loss ot of o approximately would have hae ave been avoided if it all the wheat had ad been cleaned It H all the dock dockage dockage age ge which 1 is the trado trade name for weed seeds and other foreign mat mat- mater matter ter ler er In commercial wheat had had been kept on the farms it would have had laj an estimated feed value of The total of these three prevent prevent- preventable able ble losses Josses in transportation tr costs lowered loss prices and feed losses is estimated at about aboul and he the cost coat of prevention by cleaning all 11 the lie wheat for the four years would have been about which would have left leU the spring wheat heat growers of ot tho the four states a prom profit of about For the five Ivo years before 1920 the dock- dock ago go averaged i 1 per cent For Tor 1921 I InS 1925 and 1926 1920 the average dock dock- ago for or tho the respective years years' was was 5 52 2 69 C and 7 1 per cent