The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1918-07-17

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Meeting Was Held In Denison Last
| Week at the Call Of the Food
Administrator
PRICES FIXED FOR THREsHiNG
Threshermen Now Members of Food
Administration-WiI Enforce
| Conservation Measures.
Crawford county threshermen to the
number of forty-two, and number of
farmers, met at the court house in
Denison last Wednesday afternoon.
Meeting was for purpose of establish
ing, threshing prices and to take such
| other actions that would be for the
mutual benefit of both threshermen
and farmers.
| The Crawford County Threshers'
club was organized, with Amos Peter
son president; John Reecy, vice presi-
dent; Jas. Fleming, secretary and
| treasurer.
Prices were fixed for threshing in
1918 as follows: Oats 4 cents, barley
cents and wheat cents.
The meeting was called and the
club formed at the request of the
government food administration, with
a view to the conservation of grain
lin threshing. Every thrasherman is
now an officer of the food admins
tration. -
County Agent Quist, Frank Wool
ston, county food administrator, and
~. H. Patterson, district fuel admins
TRAITOR, met with the threshermen and
took part in the meeting. Mr.. Pat
terson spoke of the necessity of buy
ling the threshing coal now and he
also told the farmers that they were
mot getting a fair price for their wheat
from the local millers. It was con-
sidered advisable to publish the mar
Iket reports in the local newspapers.
The motion that every member of
the club pay 81 as membership fee
carried and forty-one memberships
ere secured.
Any machine owner who does not
receive a pledge card in 10 days from
the Threshing Division, AZ Broadway,
New York, should notify the county
food administrator and he will see that
the farmer gets a card to sign. AS
soon as the cards come, sign and re-
turn them to ]. F. Deems, Burlington,
Iowa, when a license for one year will
be issued without expense.
The following resolution was draft
led by Frank Woolston, James d. Flem-
ling and Frank Simon and upon its
|reading was adopted:
Resolved, that it be the sense of
this meeting that every farmer should
plow where he places his stacks. in
order to keep butts dry and save
grain. Be it further
Resolved, that the farmers buy and
haul their threshing coal at once; al
so that care be exercised that grain
be not cut too green.
The following rules for operating
threshing machines were adopted at
the meeting and they are to be tackled
to each separator working in the coun-
ty. All must cooperate to get the
grain saved with the least possible
loss.
1. All machines must be inspected
and o. KID before the threshing seas
on opens. Inspectors will be furnish
ed free on request.
9. Two canvases are to be furnish
ed by threshermen, to save waste of
grain. One canvas shall not be less
than GX8 and the other less than 10
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8. Threshing must not be done un-
til grain and straw is in as mt condi-
ton as possible. Much valuable food
is left in araw if bundles are wet
when put Though the thresher.
4. Much grain is lost through i'm
proper feeding. The bundles should
be put on feeders straight and enter
the machine head first. Either crowd
ing or allowing the machine to run
idle wastes grain. Pitchers should be
cautioned about this matter.
S. The federal food administration
has approved the following scale of
prices for threshing in Crawford
county for 1918: Oats cents, barley
S cents and wheat cents.
6. The owner of this threshing out
fit is a member of the federal food ad-
ministration, and is directly respon-
sible to the government for its proper
operation Anyone interfering in any
way with the operation of the machine
should be reported at once to Frank
Woolston, Food Administrator, Deni-
son; Iowa, or the federal authorities.
Z. Every thresherman must report
to County Agent J. S. Quist, Denison,
Iowa as soon as he has finished his
ring, the names of all the men he
threshed for and the number of bush
els of each kind of grain threshed. He
shall also report names Of farmers
having seed winter wheat and num-
ber of bushels.
8. It is agreed that the members
of this club will refuse to place grain
in any leaky wagon box. This agree
ment was made for purpose of con-
serving grain, and it will be enforced.
9. While every thresherman is now
an officer of the food administration
and has authority to force every man
working about the machine to live up
to the government requirements for
the handling Of grain at threshing
time, they ask the hearty cooperation
Of the farmers that as much grain as
possible may be conserved and that
all may work for each others good
10. A threshing committee, COM
posed of the county food administrat-
or, county agent and a third member
to be selected by the two above