Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 May 1919 — CONVENTION WILL SHOW RISE OF LOCAL MILLERS [ARTICLE]

CONVENTION WILL SHOW RISE OF LOCAL MILLERS

Louisville, Ky., May 17.—Mow community flour millers can best compete with the big milling centers of the country will be determined at the convention of the Community Millers’ Association of America, which will open here next Monday. The aims of the association, representing 1,500 millers, are to aid the small miller In Installing modern machinery, in procuring a yeararound run of wheat through conversion of his mill into a bonded warehouse, and In disposing or 'his surplus product by shipping it to a co-operative center, wnere it would be ground and sold under a standard brand. jE. R. Sherwood of Chicago, sec-retary-treasurer of the association, said the milling Industry has been revolutionized by the short roller process of grinding, which enaoles community millers to compete with centralized millers by 'making and selling products in their community. “A fifty-barrel mill, for Instance, which operates 300 working days annually, can save Its community >7,200 a year on freight alone,” be said. “I am basing this figure on the ’ prevailing rate of 10 cents a hundredweight on wheat shipped to big milling centers and on the flour and grain shipped back.” A big exhibit of flour and grain machinery will be a feature of the five-day convention.

The above is what the Iroquois Roller Mills has been advocating for the past three years. Many farmers have taken advantage of the opportunity and reserved wheat .enough for their own flour. If the farmers had all takem advantage of the same opportunity their flour today would be costing them sp.6O per barrel less than the (price at the present time. \ The farmer who sold wheat at $2.12 per bushel ana buys his flour at the present price pays $2.95 for his wheat back in flour. Can you see why the community mill will save the community $7,200 per year? Every farmer the coming season should avail himself of this Opportunity and save his own wheat for his flour. The Iroquois Roller Mills is a member of this community association and expects to be represented at the convention at Louisville. — Advt.