Willmar tribune., 1917-09-05
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BREEDING STOCK
Heroic Efforts Being Made by
Several Divisions Of States
= Food Committee.
Save STRAW FOR FORAGE:
Appeal Being Sent to Farmers TO Keep
Livestock If Possible and Not
TO Burn Straw.

TO Burn Straw.
ssued BY Tie Maaesota Food Committee with appcevaI
q the Public Safety comnissiea.
g: 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
and the Northwest.
: Northwestern Minnesota, North Da,
7kota and Montana are without rough
age for the feeding of livestock, and "a
q result the farmers are being forced
to Sell their. animals. This means not
only immediate loss to these farmers.
but serious and long-continued set
back to the livestock industry of the
Northwest, on which a successful per
.manent agriculture in large measure
depends. It means also the possibility
OF an acute meat shortage. Herbert
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:
By saving straw and hay to be
sold to the farmers of the drouth-
stricken regions. With timothy
at $40 a tomas it will be in
such regions this fall and winter
oats straw will be worth $40 a
ton for feed and wheat straw $3.50
ton. Such roughage shipped to
Northwestern Minnesota, North
Dakota and Montana, will enable
the farmers there, say the men,
bers OF the committee, in part at
least to save. their breeding
stock-their cows and heifers.
By saving corn stover, by put
ting up every ounce of silage
possible, and by planting fall rye
for pasture-all 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 Minne.
sofa to be fed through the winter.
Members of the committee believe
that there will be a large demand
for such animals throughout the
Northwest next season at ad-
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 to
make special rates in order to help
meet this serious situation and will
doubtless comply.
Burning Of Straw a "crime.">
To meet the desperate situation The
livestock, 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 will
ing to buy it. One prominent farmer
of Southern Minnesota said to mem
bers of the committee that to burr
straw this year was crime; that or
his own farm he was saving every
wisp of straw for forage. Feed spe
cialists at University Farm say thai
oats straw fed with silage this veal
will be worth all of SIS ton, and tha,
wheat straw fed with silage will be
worth as much as $40 a ton.
Farmers Urged to Keep Livestock.
The state food committee also ap
peals directly to the farmers in the
drouth regions to make extraordinary
efforts to- keep their cows and heifers
and not to sell unless absolutely com
PEELED to. This appeal is based or
both patriotic and economic grounds
because the country needs such live
stock, and because they will be wortt
more next spring than they are today
To aid farmers in Northwest Min
nesota in keeping their livestock, thu
state food committee suggests:
The cutting of all hay possible.
The saving of corn fodder, sto-
yer 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.
Even the borrowing of money
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