The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1918-10-07
Mr. EI0OVERS MESSAGE
TO AMERICAN FARMERS

Owing to the extension of the
drop area. the shortening of the
corn crop, the larger population in the
country, and the allied demands upon
us for feeding stuffs 70 their own ami
mails because of their own shortage in
produce Of feed grain. it is necessary
that we should exert every effort in
the proper conservation OF feeding
stuff3 during the next twelve months.
ut is Necessary that we should ship
large proportion of wheat as COM
pared with flour during the next
twelve months than during the last
twelve months to the allied countries
because their own shortage of feeding
stuffs is such that if they are to
keep alive their dairy herds, they
must have larger supply of wheat
milled
Already, the milk supply in abe al
lied counties has been limited practi-
cally to the supply of children and
other vitality necessary national uses,
and any failure on our part to supply
them with necessary feed stuffs for
.lheir dairy herd means that we shall
cut into the actual safety of the chill
dren amongst the Allies. On the 9th
hr 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 production What we must Sc
cure is the utmost conservation in
feed and the total elimination of
waste by the careful feeding of ami
mails and the use of all the roughage
available.
Dairy Production in Danger
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, in an
endeavor to protect the farmer is main
tanning an artifcially low price on
these feeds. One consequence is
that a great deal of mill feeds are go
ing unnecessarily into work animals
or beef production Every farmer will
recognize that the wheat mill feeds
are virtually necessary for the fairy
cattle, to some extent for the poultry.
for young pigs. Owing to the absorb
ton at local points near the mill, con-
siderable sections of the dairy indus
try are practically without mill feeds
and our daily production is thereby
in danger.
A pledge: With view to correcting
this. so far as possible, the Food Adj
ministration desires to appeal for the
assistance of the farmers of the coun-
try in the use and distribution of
wheat mill feeds, in addition to gen.
eral conservation of feeding stuffs
In this view we are asking every buy
err of wheat mill feeds for any purpose
except the general use in dairy, young
pigs and poultry production and not
TO purchase or hold at any one time
more than 60 days supply. Unless
we can secure this careful and sepcial
lied use of mil feeds, our dairy pro-
duction 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
ii will be necessary to release the
price restrictions on mill feeds and al
low them to take their natural course.
Mills and Dealers Notified
With a view to securing this CO.
operation from the farmers all over
the country in the interest of their in
dustry as a whole. we are instruction
the mills an dali dealers in feeds to
secure from the buyer of wheat mill
feeds the following pledge.
In order to assist the Food admin
istraiton in the distribution of wheat
mill feeds. hereby undertake on hon
or not to use wheat mil feeds for any
other purpose than the feeding of
dairy cattle. poultry, young pigs or
young calves or the preparation of
4 weekly bran mash for work animals.
will not feed any more wheat mill
feeds than is customary fed to such
animals, and I further agree not to
have at any one time more than a
sixty day supply of wheat feeds on
hand.
A woman of 20 in Kent England.