The Southwestern Grain and Flour Journal from Wichita, Kansas • 11

11 THE SOUTHWESTERN GRAIN AND FLOUR JOURNAL. the southeast. Insure Your Mill, Elevator, Warehouse and Grain in a Western Companj The Western Millers Georgia Grain men, asking that the railroads be ordered to withdraw from Nashville the reshipping and rebilling privileges on grain. These two privileges have made Nashville the grain and milling centre of the South, and to take them away would mean a very great loss to the city. Railroad officials and the members of the committee appeared as witnesses and the matter was taken under advisement.

Mutual Fire Insurance Co. of Kansas City, Missouri UNQUESTIONED INDEMNITY an Note and Cash Assets Nearly $900,000.00 Paid, Over $500,000.00 Average Annual Saving 23 Years 45 We Alford You PROTECTION li rt Write lor further information CHAS. H. RIBGWAY, Secretary 30 Board of trade, KANSAS CITY, M0. THE WATSON MILL CO.

Manufacturers of U-KNEAD-rr Flour All planting of winter wheat in the south has been completed and it is now certain that the acreage will be 10 per cent or more less than last year. A great portion of the crop was planted in dry weather and the plant has had a poor start in the way of root growth in many localities. In this section there are many alternate freezes and thaws during the winter and plants with poor roots are often rized out of the ground so far as to either kill or greatly stunt the plant. Unles weather conditions are extremely favorable throughout the winter the yield per acre will be below the average. This and the reduced acreeage may make the crop next summer 15 or 20 per cent under the average.

The Nashville Roller Mills company has been organized here with a capital stock of $25,000 and has taken over the plant of the Tri-State Milling company. The incorporators are V. S. Tupper, Bruce Shepard, John Coode, W. E.

Remshart and Jordan Stokes, Jr. 'The Rouzer-Sullivan company, a grain brokerage establishment, has been organized here and has been opened for business. Mr. Rouzer has been identified with the grain business of Nashville for years. He was at one time secretary and treasurer of the Nashville Warehouse Elevator and until he entered this new field lately was general manager of the Hermitage Elevator.

Mr. Sullivan has been in the grain business at Birmingham and came to Nashville because of the larger field, as this is the distrib uting center for the South. W. L. Fain and associates are to put up a warehouse and elevator inAtlanta and will also put in corn grinding machinery.

A three story brick building will be erected for the plant. L. W. McCord, and Allen Moore of Pulaski, and J. B.

Harlin ot Memphis, have organized the Merchants Elevator company at Memphis, Tenn. The capital stock is $50,000. Jos. T. Cameron of Rutledge, has purchased the Clinch River.

Flour Mills at that place. The Forked Deer Roller Mill company at Trenton, has been granted a charter. The capital stock is $16,000 and the incorporators are J. J. Tatman, W.

J. West, W. Wade, W. W. Wade and S.

R. Clark. The millers here are a uim in opposing and fighting the decision against bleached flour, with one notable exception, J. A. Jones of the J.

A. and O. L. Jones Mill Elevator company, says that he was in the business for thirty years without bleaching and only started it a year ago because of competition. He says soft wheat flour requires very little bleaching, as it is naturally white, and that he would favor abolishing the new practice if all would do so.

A committee representing the Nashville Grain Exchange and the Nashville Board of Trade went to Washington City just before the holidays to oppose the petition filed with the Interstate Commerce Commission by Nashville, Jan. 12. The cost of wheat has steadily advanced in the Southeast during the past month until now Western grain, on which the mills of the Southeast now have to depend for their current supply, is costing on a basis of $1.15 delivered at Nashville, with a milling in transit bill attached valued at 2 to 4 cents a bushel. Prices on flour have of course had to be advanced in proportion and the mills are now asking on a basis of Nashville proves, $5.75 per bbl. in wood, for the best patent and $4.75 lor the lowest grade, with the usual difierentials for intermediate grades.

No export business in flour is now being done and it is not expeclcd that there will be any soft wheat flour moving aboard until wheat goes down or else the foreigners advance their bids. Business with corn mills has been considerably below the seasonable average for the past month. It has been a difficult matter to sell meal and the demand for grits has been nothing like what was expected. On the whole the corn mills of the South-east are not averaging over half capacity and would not be running that much but for the good demand for hominy feed at good prices. Corn is now costing on a basis of 08 cents delivered at Naslnille.

There is a heavy movement of home corn for feeding purposes, but the movement of Western corn is not very heavy. The West has been shipping a great deal of feed stuff into the Southeast lately, but so far there lias been a market not only for the extra Western feed but for all home by-products. Prices are a little weaker than in the fall but have not been lowered The mills are asking f. o. b.

Nashville, in sacks, per ton; bran $23; middlings, $27; hominy feed, $27. At a meeting of the Southeastern Millers Association held here the past week (Jan. 5) steps were taken to get the Tennesee legislature to pass a feed law along the line of the law in several other states. The association has been for several years endeavoring to get the states of this section to pass a uniform law along this line and the law they have advocated has been passed by several states. Members from Indiana, Illinois, Kentucky and Tennessee attended the meeting and were in session all day discussing various phases of the milling business.

They endorsed the action of the National Federation of Millers in asking for a rehearing before Secretary Wilson on the bleached flour question. The association also favored the adoption of uniform grain inspection rules. The grain house of John A. Tyn.i Co. in this city was destroyed by fire just before the first of the year.

The loss was about $11,000, partly insured. j. E. Rice, of Flag Pond, 1a preparing to make some improvements on his corn mill in the spring. Among other things he will put in a waterwheel.

i i L. I We are always in the market for good milling wheat. Write us if you have anything to offer. Get our prices before selling. CHANGES IN GRAIN RATES.

Among the new grin tariffs recently filed with the Interstate Commerce Commission as reported in the Traffic Bulletin are as follows Great Western, wheat 9c, corn, rye, oats and barley 8c, from St. Joseph and Leavenworth to St. Louis, effective Jan. 4. 111.

grain, from New Orleans, to Richmond, Manchester and Norfolk, 2iy2c, effective Jan. 10. K. hemp, 30c; flaxseed, millet and wheat, 27c; corn and alfalfa feed, 23c; from Kansas City, to Texarkana, Tex. Vandalia, wheat, from East St.

Louis, 111., to Columbus and Shelby-ville, 7c, and to Rays Crossing, 7 y2c, effective Jan. 15. Great Western, wheat, 12c; corn, oats, rye and barley, 11c; from Kansas City, St. Joe and Leavenworth to Minneapolis, effective Jan. 11.

Great Western, wheat 12c; corn, rye, oats and barley, 11c; Minneapolis, when from beyond, to Missouri River points, effective Jan. G. An export rate of 18 y2c on wheat and 17c on corn from Missouri river points, when from beyond, to Galveston, Port Bolivar and Texas City, for the West Indies and South America, will be made effective Jan. 8 by the Santa Fe. Rock Island, grain, seeds and grain products, sup.

39 to ICC No. C7901, between Chicago, Peoria, Rock Island, Minneapolis and stations in Illinois, Iowa, Missouri, Minnesota and South Dakota. M. St. sup.

26 to ICC No. 1441, wheat and coarse grain, from its stations in Minnesota and South Dakota to Chicago, Milwaukee, Peoria and rate points, effective Jan. 15. Frisco, grain, from its stations to points in Arkansas, Illinois, Iowa, Mississippi, Missouri, Louisiana, Nebraska and Tennessee, effective Jan. 11.

W. T. L. grain and grain products, from Joliet and Rockford, 111.. Davenport, Muscatine, East St.

Louis and east Mississippi River crossings to middle and western states territory. Elevation of grain at Louisville, Henderson, Uniontown, and Memphis, is covered by the 111. Cent, in tariff sup. 475 to ICC No. 4444, ninth correcting page 90.

Many other roads are filing tariffs making elevation allowances effective Jan. 1 at different points. Grain door clmrges at St. Louis are covered by the Sou. Ry.

in ICC No. A2210, effective Jan. 9. Transfer of grain and seed at Missouri River points is covered by the Northwestern in sup. 8 to ICC No, 6815.

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