The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-02-25
Proclaims Figures for Pri-
mary Wheat Markets Rang
ing from $500 to $2.2S
JUNE l, 1919, is
LIMIT FIXED
Forestalls Agitators in Con-
gress and Assures Fair
Return to Farmers

! Washington, Feb. 25.-- President vii
son Saturday threw down the gauntlet
TO Senator Gore t0klahoma) and other:
in Congress who have urged guaran'
teed price of at least $3.50 for wheat
this year. He issued proclamation
which in effect maintains the SO basic
price previously set by the president un.
der authority from Congress, In expla.
nation of his announcement he issued
statement based on information given
him by the department of agriculture, the
food administration and other advisers,
in which he sets forth that il is his duty
under the food control act to announce
the price of wheat for the coming year
The prices fixed. the president declared,
would assure the producer of reasona
BILE profit. On the basis of No. North
ern spring wheat and its equivalents the
president fixed the prices as follows:
Chicago, $500; Omaha, S2.l5; Kansas,
City, S2.l5; st. Louis, S2.lS; Minnesota,
S2.l7; Duluth, SLY; New York, S2.2s;
Philadelphia. 1921; Baltimore, 1927;
Newport News, 1927; Charleston. S. e.,
1927; Savannah, 1927; Portland, Ore,
S2.05; Seattle, S205; San Francisco
$40; Los Angeles, $40; Galveston,
1920; New Orleans, $500; Salt Lake
City, 81; Great Falls, Mont, 81; Spo
kane, Wash, 81; Pocatello, Idaho, So;
Fort Worth, Texas, 500; Oklahoma
City, s2.05; Wichita, Kan. sos.
The equivalents of No. ! Northern to
which the same price applies are No. |
hard winter No. red winter No. dur
um and No. hard white The wheat
must be harvested in the United States
during 1918 and sold in the market be
fore Jan. |, 1919 The presidents proc
lamation states that the action is to
meet an emergency requiring the stimu
lation of wheat planting
In statement accompanying his proc
lamation the president said;
Under the food control act of Au- |
gust 10, 1917, it is my duty to announce |
a guaranteed price for wheat of the 1918 |
harvest. | am therefore issuing proc
amation setting the price at the prin
,ipal interior primary markets. 1t makes |
no essential alteration in the present |
1t is continuation OF the
present prices of wheat with some ad. |
ustment arising from the designation of /
additional terminal marketing points.
This guaranteed price assures the
farmer of a reasonable profit even if the
war should end within the year and the
arge stores of grain in those sections
IF the world that are now cut off from
transportation should again come into
with his products. To in
,rease the price of wheat above the
present figure or to agitate any increase
VI price would have the effect of very
eriously hampering the large opera
ions of the nation and of the allies by
ausing the wheat of last years crop
o be withheld from the market. 1t
would moreover, dislocate all the pres
mt wage levels that have been estab.
ished after much anxious discussion
nd would therefore create an indus
rial unrest which would be harmful TO
very industry in the country.
Il know the spirit of our farmers, and
ave not the least doubt as to he 10y
lty with which they viii accept the
resent decision. The fall wheat plant
~. which furnishes two-thirds of our
heat production. took place with no
Their assurance than this, and the
irmers' confidence was demonstrated !
v the fact that they planted an acre
pe larger than the record of any pre-. I
,ding year, larger by 100000 acres 9
nan the second larger record year and
600, 900 acres more than the average q