The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1918-08-20
new RULES
FOR THESHlNC
Food Administrator and
Thresher Inspector
Tell How to Save
Grain in the Harvest
Time.

New rules for threshing will gt
into effect this season when the
thresher begins its work. The fooC
administrator advises that several o1
| the greatest avenues of waste have
been cataloged and by Americas
wonderful cooperation of all work.
ers, vast savings of grain will be
made in threshing. Careless hand
ling of the bundles, operating the
thresher al too low or too high speed,
not having separators tight, spilling
grain and not cleaning it up, and not
cleaning up all about the stacks COM
bine to make heavy loss, and it is
proposed that all shall combine to
save it this year.
Last fall when Americas surplus
wheat supply was exhausted, Eng
lands food administrator cabled Mr..
Hoover that the war was over and it
had been lost for want of wheat.
Hoover cabled him to stay on the job
and the American people would take
flour off of their own tables for the
allies, and eat corn and barley them
selves till after the war was won.
Then he shipped twenty million
bushels of wheat, taken practically
off Of the American tables, and fol-
lowed that with another twenty mil
lion bushels, and another, and an
other, till he had sent $50 million
bushels taken from the savings and
sacrifices Of the American people.
Now the allies have new hope and
are saying, "Can the Americans do it
again? Will they do it AGAIN."
And Mr.. Hoover assures them we will
and will go enough farther to give
their children square meals and get
them to frowing again. The thresher
men will do their share; the harvest
hand will do theirs; the engineer
and horsepower man will do theirs,
and they will scrape up wheat and
dust and chaff at the finish of each
setting to get every possible cup of
wheat for hungry people over there.
BY arranging that all machines go
into harvest in excellent repair, with
ample power, and that during harvest
they are efficiently adjusted to meet
varying conditions, so that mini
mum Of grain is blown into the straw
pile, We believe that one and a half
bushels in every hundred threshed
can be saved, that is usually lost.
BY arranging that all thresing
machines are in such repair that very
little grain leaks under and around
them on to the ground, and that
what does leak outa in this manner,
and is otherwise scattered about the
machine, shall be cleaned up and
threshed before the machine leaves
The field, that one more bushel in
every hundred can be saved.
That by careful handling of bun
lies from the shock to the machine
Dr. stack; and by arranging the bun
lie wagons so that all grain scatters
herein shall be caught and saved,
;hree-fourths bushel can be saved out
If every hundred threshed.
There being total of three and
! quarter bushels saved in every
lurdred threshed, or 444,033 bushels |
1alued at $888,066 for this state. A |
otal of many million bushels will in |
his way be added to the food sup
,ly for the hungry people abroad,
where we can reach them, and this |
lot include $50 million people who |
will 60 hungry in Russia the coming |
vinted, twenty million of whom it is
PREDICTED will die of hunger because
Germany is taking what little food
here is available, and using it in
heir fight against us.