The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1917-07-17
100000 BUSHELS
OF WHEAT NEEDED
Eight Oklahoma Counties win
Require Amount for Seed,
STATE SURVEY IS MADE
Bankers, Grain Men and Others
Will HeI p the Farmers,

SALTWATER, Okla, July IL
Eight Oklahoma counties will require
100000 bushels more seed wheat than
those counties have produced this sea
son, according to facts revealed in a
survey OF the seed wheat situation OF
the state.
All indications point TO a record
breaking acreage OF wheat to be sown
This fall, according to agricultural au-
thorities, The task of supplying seed
wheat where needed is a gingantic un-
dertaking and has been delegated by the
state council OF defense to sub-com-
mittee OF which President J. w. Cant.
we'll Of Oklahoma Agricultural and Me
chanical college is chairman.
Organizations Help,
In mobilizing his forces. President
Cantwell has called into action the en-
tire extension forces of the agricultural
college and the united states department
of agriculture, the Oklahoma Seed
Growers association, the grain dealers,
mill and elevator men the county bank
ers associations and leading wheat
growers.
AS the first step in the campaign, n
survey is being made Of the needs OF
counties having a seed wheat shortage
and OF counties having a surplus This
survey is being made by the district and
county agents The information soon
will be complete
Distribution OF the seed will be ac-
complIshed through the mill and clc-
vator men of the various counties. Seed
wheat will be kept in separate bins, will
be inspected by county agents and will
be allotted to the growers by the coun-
ty agents.
II is believed that Oklahoma will pro
duce enough seed wheat for her own
needs, as many counties have a surplus.
1t is largely in the extreme western
counties, where the 1917 crop was a dis
NAL failure, that help is needed. Har-
per, Texas, Cimarron, Ellis, Woods,
Woodward, Roger Mills and Beckham
counties are the eight wheat growing
counties that will require a total of al
least 10000 bushels above local supply.
lillman and Cotton counties, although
not in the principal wheat belt, will
make heavy demands on seed wheat.
Financing the situation is a consid-
cradle problem, President Cantwell
has had the matter up with the county
bankers associations and, where posi-
Bile, the local bankers will finance the
new crop The large banking centers
OF the state may extend aid to local
banks where needed State officials
have suggested that state funds can be
transferred to drouth- stricken sections
and thus enable the local banks to be,
ter meet the crisis. The proposed emer-
senoy bill in congress- carrying a spe.
cal agricultural appropriation of SIS.
ou,OoO, would solve The problem Sec
retary ID. +. Houston of the United
states department Of agriculture, is in
favor OF government aid in such cir.
cumstances. II this measure fails. the
federal land banks offer a final solu,
tion All of these resources may not
be needed, but they arc being considered
so that the committee may be ready for
any emergency.
Experts Called On.
President Cantwell has called into
conference Director James A. Wilson
OF the extension division of the six dis
triet farm demonstration agents, Dean
w. L. Carlyle OF the agricultural expe-
riment station, Prof NJ. A. Bceson,
agronomist at the college and secretary
OF the Oklahoma Seed Growers asso-
oiaton, and officers of the bankers and
mlllers' associations. The sixty eight
county farm demonstration agents con-
stitu,e the machinery upon which the
success of the movement chiefly hinges.
These men are making the survey of
both surplus and shortage and will pass
upon the quality Of the wheat offered
for seed.
The Oklahoma Seed Growers asso-
citation, according to Prof. Beeson, ex-
poets to have several hundred wheat
growers listed within a few weeks. The
association has fixed standards of
purity for all seeds listed.