The Bismarck Tribune

STUDY OF COMBINE MARKETING BEING MADE IN NORTH DAKOTA

Records Being Secured on 100 Carloads of Combined Grain from Garrison, Ryder, Makoti, and Parshall—Results Satisfactory

Fargo, N. D., Sept. 18.—The study of marketing combine grain, under the direction of Dr. A. H. Benton, head of the marketing department of the North Dakota Agricultural college and chairman of the committee on combine investigation, has progressed with satisfaction. Records are being secured on 100 carloads of combined grain and an equal amount of shocked grain. These records are being kept both as the grain is received at the country elevators and as it sells on the terminal markets of Duluth and Minneapolis.

The towns of Garrison, Ryder, Makoti and Parshall were chosen as centers where studies are to be made. These places were just visited by Dr. Benton. This phase of the combine harvesting studies is being carried on at present by H. G. Anderson, assistant to Dr. Benton. The local elevators and grain commission companies are cooperating in the study.

The towns of Garrison, Ryder, Makoti and Parshall were chosen as points for study because of the large number of combines operating in these territories this season. There were over 60 machines sold in the vicinity of Garrison this summer, according to Dr. Benton.

A dryer, to be installed by an elevator company, was recently put in by the Robideaux Grain company of Parshall. The dryer was installed to take care of grain too damp for safe storage. A large number of windrower machines have been sold in the state in connection with the combine machines, and they are apparently giving good satisfaction.