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

11 THE SOUTHWESTERN GRAIN AND FLOUR JOURNAL. INTERSTATE COMMERCE RULING. The statute, however, requires carriers to publish their tariffs and adhere to them. In the enforcement of this statement the commission has no decision. If it were to hold that this sum should be repaid its order could not be enforced.

D. F. PIAZZIK, S. II. PITTS, W.

A. HINCHMAN, President. Vice Pres. Secy Treas. The Kemper (Eraimi Co.

WICHITA, KANSAS Receivers and Shippers ol Grain NEW ALFALFA MILL AT VALLEY CENTER, KANSAS. We make a specialty of receiving grain on consignment and always have orders for milling wheat for which we can bid you highest market price. Ask us for bid. The George Wetterhold Alfalfa Mill at Valley Center, Kansas, which is now nearing completion, expect to begin grinding not later than August 1, and from reports this will be one of the most complete mills in this immediate district. It hs a grinding capacity of two tons per hour, being one of their own design and manufacture.

This mill is located in one of the best alfalfa growing districts of the Southwest, and it is the intention of the mill to grind all through the busy season. The first crop cut in the vicinity of Valley Center was not up to that of previous first cuttings. As far as quality was concerned the crop will grade high, but was not as heavy on account of backward season. Reports, however, indicate that the second cutting will grade high and the crop will be heavy. The-recent decision of the Interstate Commerce Commission denying relief to the shipper on losses occurring by reason of freight agents quoting wrong freight rates is of vital importance and interest to all grain men.

This decision grew out of a case in Duluth, where the Duluth firm had shipped fifty thousand bushels of wheat for export and had been misinformed by the railroad agent as to the correct rate. This firm shipped from Duluth on June 1st, 1908, fifty thousand bushels of wheat by steamer. At the time of the shipment the destination of the grain had not been determined upon. While it was on the water the grain firms agent in Boston made a contract for its export and asked the Boston main for a rate. The Boston Maine in conjunction with the Rutland railroad quoted a rate of 3c at and east of Ogdens-burg.

The Rutland has an elevator at Ogdensburg but up to a short time before had been elevating grain from ship to train without charge. The shipper secured and signed a contract on the 3 y2c rate and understood that it was to include elevation. When the freight charge was made, however, a charge of one-half cent per bushel was added for the elevator charges. Now the interstate commerce commission finds that the Aines-Brooks company had every reason to believe that 3 cents was the entire rate, but it finds also that the added one-half cent was a regular charge. Therefore it cannot order a refund to the Minnesota company without being guilty of rebating.

The agent of the complainant had every reason to believe that the established rate would include the elevation service, said the commission, and it adds: Every consideration of justice demands that the elevation charges collected by the defendants should be repaid. J. R. Williamson Grain Co. O.

D. HOLLIS, Manager COMMISSION MERCHANTS BOARD Or TRADE WICHITA Consignments Solicited Bell Phone 2472 A. htu.tH U. J. Tmubhhbh J.

H. TURNER Wholesale Prairie and Alfalfa Hay Alfalfa is veiy long-lived; fields in Mexico, it is claimed, have been continuously productive without replanting for over two hundred years, and others in France are known to have nourished for more than a century. Its usual life in the United States is probably from ten to twenty-five years, although there is a field in New York that has been mown successively for over sixty years. It is not unlikely that under its normal conditions and with normal care it would well-nigh be, as it is called, everlasting. From Coburns The Book of Alfalfa.

THRESH! Ih FILLER Grain Co Consignments Solicited. Grain Bought and Sold for Future Delivery. tlt.SII Board al Trade Kansas Gtv. Ma. Subscribe for the Southwestern Grain and Flour Journal.

We buy or sell at all points. Send us your inquires. plete. This feeder is adaptable to any of the standard makes of alfalfa mills, and is being fitted almost exclusively to the Fairbanks-Morse, and the Axtell Mills. The inventor, Mr.

W. F. Reschke discs, as shown in the cuts. The hay is fed with a steady pressure between two rollers, the upper one automatically adjusting itself to any thickness of the flow. While passing between these rolls, which are moving very slow, the hay is brought in contact THE CLIMAX SELF FEEDER.

The Climax Self Feeder, designed especially for the feeding of Alfalfa Ilay to Alfalfa Mills, comprises the only correct idea of a successful Feeder for this work. A Feeder in order to be successful must have absolute 533-541 West Douglas Ave. LONG DISTANCE PHONES WICHITA, KANSAS THE WATSON MILL CO. Manufacturers of U-KNEAB-IT Flour We are always iu the market for good milling wheat. Write us if you have anything to offer.

Get our prices before selling. THE WATSON MILL CO. WICHITA. KANSAS Long Diitance Phoneo of Wichita, Kansas, says that he can keep his machine shop going during the busy season working on the Climax Feeder alone, and that the demand at this time is fn excess of the supply, he being about a month behind on orders. with very rapid rotating four-point knives, which will successfully separate the toughest bunches.

This gives a steady, even flow of the hay into the mill, avoiding slugging or slacking of speed. As shown in the cuts the mechanism is very simple, yet com- control over the material fed into the mill, and must be equipped to handle hard pressed flakes from bales as well is the loose hay. In the Climax the material is carried into the Mill on a smooth heavy canvas apron passing under the front.