Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1918-06-20
MIDDLE TENNESSEE
FARMERS TO MEET
CONVENE FOR ANNUAL coNVEN.
TIoN AT AUDITORIUM OF
COLUMBIA ACADEMY.
SESSIONS BEGIN JULY %

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the Columbia Military Academy, ad,
joining the Middle Tennessee Expert.
ment Station at Columbia, on Tues.
day, July %. for a session of three
days The call for the meeting on the
dates named has been made by Col.
y. Knox Bryson, commissioner OF ag'
riculture Of TennessSe, who in conuec-
ton with Prof Charles A. Keffer, Of
the University OF Tennessee, director
Of the division of extension, 10 busy
preparing the program.
On the first day of the convention
there will also be meeting of the
federal food administrators Of the Mid.
die Tennessee counties, all OF them
being urged to attend by DR.. II. A..
Morgan, federal food administrator Of
Tennessee. In addition to those from
Middle Tennessee any other food ad.
ministrators of the state who desire to
attend are invited to do so. DIR. ].
W. Hallowell, of the United States
Food Administration at Washington,
2nd the right-hand man OF Hebert
Hoover, United States food admins
traitor, has promised to attend.
On the second day of the convention
appropriate exercises will mark the
former delivery by Maury county of
the deed to the experiment station
property. Judge j. T. Mcknight, of
the county court of Maury county, will
formally tender the deed, and It will
be accepted on behalf Of the state by
no less a distinguished parsonage
than the governor. Hon. Thomas c.
Rye. These exercises will be attend
cd by the following specially invited
guests, the board Of trustees of the
University of Tennessee, the members
OF the educational and agricultural
committees of the state legislature,
Dr. Brown Ayres. president OF the
University, Col. H. Knox Bryson, com
missioner Of agriculture, and the mem
bers of the Maury county court.
This will be the first time that the
farmers convention has ever been
held at Columbia, but 1t will doubtless
be the permanent home, since it is
the location of the Middle Tennessee
Experiment Station. While the con.
vention is in session the farmers win
be invited to make trip of inspec-
ton over the experiment station and
witness the work Of development that
Is being carried on there under tho
direction of DR.. H. A. Morgan, dean Of
the college Of agriculture.
Splendid results have been obtained
In the heep production campaign I'M
der Tie direction Of Prof Murphy, ii
the University of Tennessee, and A.
D. Knox, Of the United States Food
Administration. Several counties have
reported a movement that will result
In largely increased. sheep holdings
Rutherford county under the able d.
rection of j. Moore King, the county
food administrator, reports an increase
of over 1000 ewes.
Wheatless Ration.
Practically the entire state Is no -
on a wheatless ration. Among the
counties that have Joined the process.
sion during the past ten days are
Maury, Roane, Rutherford, Sullivan
and Overton and Putnam. Other coun.
ties are practically without any flour,
and will have none shipped into them.
DR.. H. A. Morgan, federal food adj
ministrator for Tennessee, has issued
an order that hereafter no hundred
per cent wheat flour, that is flour that
would be acceptable to the govern
ment for export, will be allowed to be
shipped into any county without the
written permission Of the food admin
istrator of the county into which :
Is proposed to, ship it. This does not
apply to fifty-fifty flour, self-rising
flour or mixed or entire wheat flour.
T..ese will not be accepted by the food
administration for export to our allies,
1t is estimated that as a result of
the efforts of the food administration
to have better inspection OF threshers
that the waste from that source OF
wheat will be cut half in two Inspec'
tors have gone all over the country ia
specting the machines and insisting
upon repairing Of parts out OF order.
"The food administration will no
longer take the plea of ignorance as
defense from those charged with
violating its regulations" said ]. /.
Finney, educational director, who re-
turned last week from meeting of
the federal food administrators at
Washington ut was made plain in
this meeting that the period of educa-
ton was over and that in the future
violators of food regulations would be
dealt with just as severely as are
other violators of the law. Enforce
ment was the chief topic discussed
and all of the administrators were IN
structed to tighten up on this feature
OF their program. There will be abso.
lutely no exceptions in the enforce
ment of the new sugar regulations
which limit the amount of sugar that
the non-essential industries may OBJ
tain. Under these rules many non
essential industries may have to close
down, but the food administration is
going to take care Of the needs OF the
essentials, like canning. preserving
and domestic uses, II all the non-el4sn
tials have to stop business for the 20
Rod OF the war"
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