southernmnman - 12/17/2015 10:55 Actually Lewis was a wheat broker in Minneapolis, a very successful one for a while
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis,_Wisconsin With the decline of milling in Minneapolis and then the crash of 29 we have little to go on of what happened to mr Lewis.
It's also interesting at a time of the development of the wheat pools and subsequent development of Cooperatives why any one farmer would be speculating in wheat.
May be but my grandfather traded cattle quite a bit back in the day. And he had plenty on the ground as well. I think he was a better cash trader than paper trader from what I gather. But maybe those were just "hedge losses". LOL He was successful in any event.
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