Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 85, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 January 1920 — ATTENTION, CATTLE AND HOG FEEDERS [ARTICLE]

ATTENTION, CATTLE AND HOG FEEDERS

The Iroquois Roller Mills is in receipt of the following letter from the Golden Grain Milling Co.: Iroquois Roller Mills, Rensselaer, Ind. Gentlemen: Our Mr. W. S. Dickason informs us that you are going to push our FAT BACK HOG FEED, and we appreciate that you want to try this feed out, or at least have it tried out with some of your good customers, and ascertain whether it has all the merit we claim for it. I presume there are 25 or 30 mills manufacturing HOG FEED today, and it is reasonable to expect they are claiming to have the heet HOG FEED »n the market. Before going into both tfhe HOG FEED and CATTLE FEED business, we gave both of these particular feeds con<slderable study, in fact, I have in my office 3,200 government bulle-

tins on “Hog Feeding Tests” Chat were conducted by the United Staten government and various state agricultural colleges. There Is nothing going into our HOG FEEDS but what wiH make good, solid, flrni pork. We find a great many ot our competitors using peanut meal, a product that we know will make soft and oily pork. We find other competitors that are using rice bran, and while rice bran is quite digestible in a pig’s stomach; we are fully convinced that it is not digestible in a hog’s stomach, and a large quantity of rice bran will prove very detrimental. We have no apologies to make for a single ingredient that enters our HOG FEEDS and that doesn’t except the WHEAT SCREENINGS that we use. The SCREENINGS that we use come out of our own elevator, and are sorted, and the bitter feeds are taken out when sold and the balance of the 'broken grains reground and bolted. Very few of our competitors anywhere in the country maintain a chemical laboratory, and once or twice a year they send a sample to a public Chemist and have it analyzed, and we assure you, they do not send many samples, for It costs about 120 for each sample that is analyzed by a public chemist. If they manufacture ten different kinds of feed, you, can readily see that it will cost them *2GO every time they have their feeds analyzed. We maintain our own chemical laboratory, right here in this very office, under the direct supervision of a registered pharmacist druggist, and his assistant, and every single carload of RAW MATERIALS that come into our plant, is analyzed in this laboratory before It is spotted at our mill for unloading. Every single carload of finished feeds that is shipped from our plant is analyzed before the car Is (permitted to leave our city. Even the feed we loaded out for you this morning la being run in our laboratory at this very hour, and if there is anything wrong with the feed, that it is not up to our standard, the car will be ordered back to our plant late today. In this connection will state that we run our guarantees all above what we clglm for them on both our tag and bag, so it is never necessary for us to order back any of our feeds. The first time you came to St. Louis we will be glad to show you around our plant and let you see the great care we take in the 'mlamufacture of all of our feeds. We really should have advanced our HOG FEED $1 per ton the last time we Changed prices on our other feeds, but we have been holding off simply because we had some, RAW MATERIALS purchased quite a little under present prlcee. .If it becomes necessary to raise the price on our FAT BACK HOG FEED during the next 10 days or two weeks, I will protect you on two or three carloads of feed, subject, of course, to your acceptance at the time we raise our prices. For your information McCoy & Garten of Indianapolis handle five, six and as high as seven carloads of our FAT BACK HOG FEED per month, and I presume they tried at least a half dozen different feeds before taking on the sale of our FAT BACK. We have been shipping them our HOG FEED for a matter of about 18 months, and they will be glad to tell you that it runs Identically the same today as it did at the time we made our first shipment to them. On the 11:30 mail this morning we received an order from Mr. W. 8. Dickason to ship you a 40-ton carldad of feed as per our order acknowledgment attached. It so happened that we had an extremely large car spotted at our loading dock which was immediately used for your order and on the 1 o’clock switch your car Is leaving our plant and we have Just dispatched you a wire giving the car number. This is just a sample of our GOLDEN GRAIN service that we give to our customers during normal times. However, durifig the last few months we have had to disappoint many of our good friends and 1 customers only on account of the. car shortage, which we, of course, feel that you appreciate Is a circumstance beyond our control. We appreciate the mighty fine business that you have given us and we assure you that whenever within our power, we will give you 24-hour service on your orders. The only occasions on, which we will fall down will be those times when we simply do not have empty equipment In our yards that can be loaded with your orders. Yours very truly, GOLDEN GRAIN MILLING CO.,

G. G. Keith,

Sales Manager