The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-12-14
TO SAVE FARM
BREEDING STOCK
HEROIC EFFORTS ARE BEING
MADE BY SEVERAL DIVISIONS
OF THE STATES FOOD
COMMITTEE.
THE STRAW MUST BE
SAVED FOR FORAGE
Appeal Being Sent to Farmers to Keep
Live Stock if Possible and Not to
Burn Straw.

Burn Straw.
ISSUED by the Minnesota Food Com.
mlttee with the approval of the Public
safety Commission.)
Inc live stock, crops and markets
divisions of the Minnesota Committee
OF Food Production and Conservation
are making heroic efforts to meet the
grave live stock situation in Mime
sofa and the northwest.
Northwestern Minnesota, North Da-
kota and Montana are without rough.
age for the feeding of live stock, and
as result the farmers are being
forced to sell their animals. This
means not only immediate loss to
these farmers, but serious and long.
continued setback to the live stock in
dustry of the northwest, on which q
successful, permanent agriculture in a
large measure depends. It means also
the possibility of an acute meat short.
age. Herbert c. Hoover, the nations
food administrator, says the world
faces an actual meat famine
The state food committee, therefore.
believes that it Is of the greatest i'm
portance that the live stock of this
years drouth regions in the northwest
shall not be Sacrificed on the block.
1t is to prevent such sacrifice, except
when absolutely necessary, that they
are adorting extraordinary measures.
Southern Minnesota Can Help.
The committee sees an opportunity
to meet the situation in part in the
beuntiful harvest which southern and
western Minnesota are reaping.
Southern Minnesota can help to save
! the live stock of the northwest in two
ways:
BY saving straw and hay to be
sold to the farmers Of the drouth-
stricken regions. With timothy
ut $40 ton-as 1t will be in such
regions this fab and winter-oats-
straw will be worth $40 ton for
feed and wheat-straw $3.50 ton.
Such roughage shipped to north
western Minnesota, North Dakota
and Montana, will enable the farm
ers there, say the members of the
committee, in part at least to save
their breeding stock-their cows
and heifers.
By saving corn slower, by put
ting up every ounce of silage pos
sible, and by planting fall rye for
pasture-all this in order to pro-
vide an extra supply of feed to
take care of cows and heifers
sent to the markets by the farm
ers in the drouth regions and
bought by the farmers of southern
Minnesota to be fed through the
winter. Members of the commit
tee believe that there will be q
large demand for such animals
throughout the northwest next sea-
son at advanced prices, and if the
war ends, there will be an extra
ordinary demand for such animals
from Europe. Already Europe is
contracting for breeding stock to
be delivered when the war is done.
The railroads are being urged I'd
make special rates in order to help
meet this serious situation, and will
doubtless comply.
Burning of Straw a "crime."
" LAOOI IAC OCopCldIC oltudIAOh LIZ
live stock, crops and markets men Of
the state food committee are appealing
to farmers throughout the state tC
save every particle of straw. They say
that to burn straw is to burn food and
money, when others not favored with
such supplies are eager and willing to
buy it. One prominent farmer Of
southern Minnesota said to member
of the committee that to burn straw
this year was a crime,-that on hi
own farm he was saving every wisI
of straw for forage. Feed specialists
at University Farm say that oats-strav
fed with silage this year will be worth
all Of SIS a ton, and that wheatstrav
fed with silage will be worth as much
as $40 ton.
Farmers Urged to Keep Live Stock
The state food committee also ap
peals directly to the farmers in thu
drouth regions to make extraordinary
efforts to keep their cows and heiferi
and not to sell unless absolutely com
PEELED to. This appeal is based on
both patriotic and economic grounds
because the country needs such live
stock, and because they will be worth
more next spring than they are today
To aid farmers in northwest Min
nesota in keeping their live stock. the
state food committee suggests:
The cutting of all the hay possible
The saving Of corn fodder, stovel
and straw.
The use of fall pastures.
The feeding of root crops.
The purchase of hay and straw from
other parts of the state.
The utmost care to avoid waste In
feeding.
Pressure Is being brought to bear or
bankers, merchants, and indeed all
commercial interests with the rail
roads. to assist the farmers in solving
the problem of bringing live stock and
forage together for the saving Of
breeding stock, that the live stock in
dustry of the northwest may not sui
fer catastrophe, and that the people
of the nation, and particularly Of Min
nesota, may be fed. The appeal il
being made by personal contact
through the press, by letters. and
even by the use Of rosters.