Norwich bulletin., 1918-10-09
PROPER CONSERVATION
 OF FEEDING STUFFs

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 Hartford. Oct. Slowing to the ex- tension of the drought area, the shortening of the corn crap, the larger animal population in the country, and the allied demands upon us for feeo- ing stuffs for their own animals, De- cause of their own shortage ill pro- auction of feed grain, it is necessary that we should exert every eHort m the proper conservation Of feeding stuffs, during the next twelve months; yet we must maint an our own animal production. This important announce men was made tonight by Connect- CT deral food administrator, Rob- Q lille, who had just received a le telegram from Washington.
 IL IS necessary that w. should ship larger proportion of wheat as com pared with flour Curing the next F months than during the last twelve months to the allied countries, be- cause their own shortage O. feeding stuffs is such that it they are to keep alive their dairy herds, they must have larger supply of grain wheat.
 Already, the milk supply in the al- lied countries has been limited prac- t!cally to the supply of children and other vitally necessary national uses,
 
 them with necessary foodstuffs for their dairy herd means that we shall cut into the actual safety of the chill dren amongst the allies. On the other hand, botb our own population and the allies are dependent upon our pro- duct1on of animal products, and we do not in any way wish tC stif1e this production Whit we must secure is the utmost elimination of waste by the careful feeding of animals ard 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 fact that the food administration, ill an endeavor to protect the farmer, is maintaining an drtiicialiy low price on these feeds. One consequence is hat great deal of mTll feeds are now going unnecessarily into work animals or beef production. Every farmer will recognize that rEe wheat mill feeds are vitaliy necessary for the dairy catria, te some extent for the poultry, and fer the young pigs owing to the absorption of mill feeds at local points near the mill, con siderable sections of the dairy in dustry are practically without lnjl feeds and our dairy production is thereby in danger. With view tC correcting this, so far as possible, the | food administration desires to appel for the assistance of the farmers of the country in the use and distribu- ton of wheat mill feeds. In this view VIC are asking every buyer of wheat mill feeds, outside of the acute l drought area. to sign a pledge ot honor not to use the wheat mill feeds 1 for any purpose except the essentia 1 use in dairy. young pig and poultry production, |ad not to purchase ol 1 hold at any one time more than sixty l days supply. Unless we can secure ] this careful and specialized use of mil 1 feeds, our dairy production in the congested eastern areas of the United 1 states is bound to fall and to jeopar- | dize the food supply of our people il ! that section. Otherwise it will be ne | cessary to release the price restric | lions on mill feeds and allow them tC take their natural course
 With a view to securing this CO | operation from the farmers ali oveI | tle country in the interests of thei1 | industry as whole, we are instruct ing the mills and all dealers in feed to secure from the buyer of whea mill feeds the following pledge
 | Tn order to assist the food admin iatration in the distribution of mil 'cds. l hereby undertake on homo hot to use wheat mill feeds for an, other purposes than the feeding 0 | dairy cattle, poultry. young pigs o young calves, or the preparation o a weekly bran mash for work ani mals. I will not feed any more Whea
 mill feeds than is customarily fee
 to such animals and I further agre not 10 have at any one time nor
 than foday supply of wheat feed on hand
 The food administration is also re curing the millers and feed jobber
 to distribute their wheat mil feeds i lsuch manner that each state receive l ,hc same proportion of the mills c jo5ber's shipments as it received
 the same quarter in 1917