Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-10-06
Demand For Army Animals Makes It Necessary to
 Cut Down Over Here.
MILK SUPPLY
 IS LIMITED
Hard to Make Distribution of Wheat Feeds In Eu-
 rope Owing to Farmers


 drought area, the shortening of the corn crop, the larger animal popu- lation in the country, and the Allied demands upon us for feeding stuffs for their own animals, because of their own shortage in production of eed grain, it is necessary that we should exert every efort in the pro- per conservation of feeding stuffs during the next twelve months; yet we must maintain our own animal production. It is necessary that we should ship larger proportion of wheat as compared with flour during the next twelve months than during the last twdlt months to the Allied countries, because their own short age of feeding stuffs is such that if they are to keep alive their dairy herds, they must have a larger SUD- ply of grain wheat.
 Already, the milk supply in the Allied countries has been limited practically to the supply of children and other vitally necessary national uses. and any failure on our part to supply them with necessary feed stuffs for their dairy herds means that we shall cut into the actual safety of the children amongst the Allies. On the other hand, both our own population and the Allies are dependent upon our production of animal products, and we do not in any way wish to stifle this pro- duction. What we must secure is the utmost elimination of waste by the careful feeding of animals and the use of all the roughage available.
 One of the difficult problems is the distribution of wheat mill feeds, and this is made more difficult by the act that the Food Administration, in an endeavor to protect the farmer, is maintaining an artifically low Mrice pn these feeds. One conse- quence is that a great deal of mill feed Is now going unnecessarily in- to work animals or beef pl oduction. Every farmer will recognize that the wheat mill feeds are vitally neces- sary for the dairy cattle, to some ex- tent for the poultry, and for young pigs. Owing to the absorption of mill feeds at local point near the mill, considerable sections of the dairy industry are practically with out mill feeds and our dairy produc- tion is thereby in danger. With view to correcting this, 50 far as possible, the Food Administration de- sires to appeal for the assistance of the farmers of the country in the use and distribution of wheat mill feeds. In this view, we are asking every buyer of wheat mill feeds, out side of the acute drought area, to sign a pledge of honor not to use the wheat mill feeds for any. purpose ex- cept the essential use in dairy, young pigs and poultry production, and not to purchase or hold at any one time more than 60 day supply. Unless we can secure this careful and specialized use of mill feeds, our dairy production in the congested Eastern areas of the United States is bound to fall and@to> jeopardize the food supply of our people in that section. Otherwise 1t will be neces- sary to release the price restrictions on mill feeds and allow them to take thir natural course.
 With a view to securing this CO., operation from the farmers all over the country in the interest of their industry as whole. we are instruct ing the mills and all dealers in feeds to secure from the buyer of wheat mill feeds the following pledge:
 "In order to assist the Food Ad- ministration in the distribution of mill feeds, hereby undertake on honor not to use wheat mill feeds for any other purpose than the feeding of dairy cattle, poultry, young pigs or young calves, or the prepar- ation of a weekly bran mash for work animals. I will not feed any more wheat mill weeds than is cus- tomarily fed to such animals and I further agree not to have at any time more than a 60-day supply of feedstuffs on hand"
 The Food Administration is also requiring the millers and feed job bers to distribute their wheat mill feeds in such manner that each State receives the same proportion of the mills or jobber's shipments as it received in the same quarter i'll 1917.