Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1917-08-29
Heroic Efforts Being Made BY
Several Divisions Of States
Food Committee.
SAVE STRAW FOR FORAGE
Appeal Being Sent to Farmers to Keep
Livestock Il Possible and Not
TO Burn Straw.
lsssed BY ths Miaaeseta Food Committee with approval
OF the Public Safety commisSion.


Of the Public Safety commission.
The livestock, crops and markets
divisions of the Minnesota Committee
Of Food Production and Conservation
are making heroic efforts to meet the
grave livestock situation in Minnesota
I and the Northwest.
Northwestern Minnesota, North Da-
kota and Montana are without rough
age for the feeding Of livestock. and rs
result the farmers are being forced
to sell their animals. This means not
only immediate loss to these farmers,
but a serious and long-continued set
back to the livestock industry Of the
Northwest, on which a successful per-
manent agriculture in large measure
depends. 1t means also the possibility
OF an acute meat shortage. Herbert
I G. Hoover, the nations food admins
traitor, 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 livestock of this
years drouth regions in the Northwest
shall not be sacrificed on the block.
It is to prevent such sacrifice, except
when absolutely necessary, that they
are adopting extraordinary measures.
Southern Minnesota Can Help.
The committee sees an opportunity
to meet the situation in part in the
bountiful harvest which Southern and
Western Minnesota are reaping.
Southern Minnesota can help to save
the livestock Of the Northwest in two
ways; 50. 60. 's5 ~.
By saving straw and hay to be
sold to the farmers of the drouth-
stricken regions. With timothy
at $40 a ton-as it will be in
such regions this fall and winter
oats straw will be worth $40
ton for feed and wheat straw $3.50
a ton. Such roughage shipped to
Northwestern Minnesota, North
Dakota and Montana, will enable
the farmers there, say the mem
"a bers 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
possible, and by planting fall rye
for pastureall this in order to
provide an extra supply of feed to
take care of cows and heifers sent
to the markets by the farmers in
the drouth regions and bought by
the farmers of Southern Mime
sofa to be fed through the winter:
Members of the committee believe
that there will be large demand
for such animals throughout the
Northwest next season at adj
vanced prices, and If the war ends
there will be an extraordinary de-
mand for such animals from Eu-
rope. Already Europe is con-
tracing for breeding stock to be
delivered when the war is done.
The railroads are being urged t,
make special rates in order to he'll
meet this serious situation and vii
doubtless comply.
Burning Of Straw Crime"
To meet the desperate situation tn
livestock, crops and markets men Q
the state food committee are appealin
to farmers throughout the state i
save every particle Of straw. The
4 say that to burn straw is to burn foo
and money, when others not favore
with such supplies are eager and vii
ing to buy it. One prominent farme
Of Southern Minnesota said to men