New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1917-08-15
BILLION BUSHELS
OF WHEAT Is MARK
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
SETS HIGH MARX FOR NEXT
YEARS CROP
ACREAGE OF WINTER VARIETY
TO BE GREATLY INCREASED
is PLAN

TO BE GREATLY INCREASED
is PLAN
It is proposed by the agricultural
Department at Washington to induce
the farmers of this country to increase
the production of wheat and rye to the
largest in the history of the country.
The stake set is 1,00O,OOO,OOO bushels Of
wheat and more than 83,O0O,O0O bushels
of rye for the 1918 harvest. This is to
be done by the planting of 47,337 900
acres of winter wheat and 5,131,O
acres Of rye this fall. This program has
been announced by David F. Houston,
secretary Of agriculture.
Big Acreage Increase
This record winter wheat acreage, an
increase of Is per cent over last year,
would yield 672,00O,OOO bushels if the
yield for the past ten years is equaled,
or under a repetition of the favorable
conditions of 1914 would give 88O,0OO-
600 bushels. In either case with spring
wheat crop next year equal to that Of
1915, the Nation will have more than
one billion bushels of wheat for omestic
use and export.
This vastly increased production of
wheat, needed in any case, will be alb
solutely essential to prevent serious
shortage of breadstuffs next summer
should the growing corn, now behind
the season, be much damaged by early
frOsts.
Approved by Secretary
The program approved by the Sec
rotary of Agriculture represents the
best thought of the U. S. Department of
Agriculture and of State agricultural
officials and State councils of defense.
The study of this question has in
volved many factors and the specialists
have been aware from the first that the
demands for wheat exceed the supply
next year. Effort therefore has been
made to recommend in each State about
as large an acreage in wheat and rye as
can be sown without upsetting proper
farm practice which must be maintained
In the interest of wheat and rye crops
this and succeeding years, as well as
in the interest of other necessary spring
planted crops which are not discussed
in detail at this time as they are not
! food crops in which marked shortage
exists
The estimates, the Department states,
are made with the knowledge that there
is some shortage of the fertilizer supply,
but with the understanding that there
will be no general shortage in the supply
of seed or of farm machinery which is
necessary in the production of the wheat
crop. 1t is understood also that ample
transportation facilities will be provided
and fair price for wheat will be estab-
lished. These factors have been as
stunned as fixed and satisfactory. If |
any one or more fail to be adjusted in
good time, no person can tell how serious
will be the effect On the total crop.
The planting and cultivation of these
increase acreages of fall-sown grains
calls for unusual effort on the part of the
farmers. Plans to place at the disposal
of farmers all assistance possible, are
being perfected in the U. S. Department
of Agriculture, the State colleges of
agriculture, and other State and local
agencies which cooperate in farming
matters. The assistance of successful
growers of wheat and rye in campaign
to turn out bumper crops in 1918 is
assured.
The State officials will do their ut
most to get the acreages expected of
their States into the ground. The
program as originally worked out by
tie Federal Department of Agriculture
called for somewhat more than $4,000
900 acres to be sown this fall. When this
proposal was presented to the officials
of the several States a further increase
was considered possible and desirable
| by them. AS consequence the recon-
mendation for the sowing of Al, 337 900
acres is made.
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CITIZENS TO BUY COAL.
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