River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1918-02-28

further drains of labor, the new draft
regulations have been drawn with q
view to taking from the farms an
even smaller proportion OF men, and
it is my hope that the local exemption
boards will make the new classified
tons with view Of tightening the
load upon the farms to utmost extent.
Marketing TO Be Facilitated.
"The federal railway administration
is cooperating in the most active, in
telligent and efficient way with the
food administration to remove the diff
fculties of transportation and of the
active movement of the crops. Their
marketing is to be facilitated and
the farmers given the opportunity to
realize promptly upon their stocks.
"The department of agriculture and
the food administration will continue
to cooperate as heretofore to assist
the farmers in every way possible.
All questions of production, of the
marketing of farm products, of con-
servation in the course of production,
and of agricultural labor and farm
problems generally, will be handled
by the department of agriculture;
while all questions of distribution OF
food supplies to the Allies and Of
conservation in consumption will be
handled by the food administration,
but the chief reliance is upon the
farmer himself, and / am sure that
that reliance will be justified by the
results. The chief thing to be kept
clearly in mind is that regulations
of this sort are only part Of the
great general plan of mobilization
into which every element in the ma
ton enters in this war as in no
other The business of war touches
everybody. 1t is stern business, a
cooperative business, a business of
energy and sacrifice, business Of
service in the largest and best and
most stirring sense of that great
work"
Proclamation Given.
After this explanatory preamble
comes the proclamation proper, which
reads as follows:
Now, therefore, /, Woodrow Will
son, president of the United States, by
virtue of the powers conferred upon
me by said act Of congress, and es-
pecially by Section IA thereof, do
hereby find that an emergency exists
requiring stimulating Of the produc-
ton of wheat, and that it is essen
tial that the producers of wheat pro-
duced within the United States shall
have the benefits of the guaranty
provided for in said section; and, in
order to make effective the guaranty
by congress for the crop Of 1913 and
to assure such producers a reasona-
BILE profit, do hereby determine and
fix, and give public notice of reason
able guaranteed prices for No. l
northern spring wheat and it's equiv
alent at the respective principal pri-
mary markets, as follows, to wit:
Prices at Different Points.
Minneapolis, $2.17; Chicago, 1920;
Omaha, $2.15; Kansas City, $2.15;
St. Louis, $2.1S; Duluth, $2.17; New
York, 1928; Philadelphia, 1927; Bal
timore, 1927; Newport News, $2.27;
Charleston, S. c., 1927; Portland,
Ore, $2.05; Seattle, $2.05; San Fran
cisco, $2.10; Los Angeles, $2.1O; Gal
weston, 1920; New Orleans, 1920;
Salt Lake City, $500; Great Falls,
Mont, $500; Spokane, Wash, $500;
Pocate1lo, Ida., $500; Fort Worth,
Tex, $500; Oklahoma City, Okla,
$205; Wichita, Kan, $2.O8.
reasonable FFOTlE ASSuFEOs
"And that the guaranteed price for
other grades established under the
United States grain standards by the
act approved August IL, 1915, based
on said price for No. 1 northern
spring wheat at the respective pr1n-
cipal primary markets, above men
toned, will assure the producers OF
wheat produced in the United States
a reasonable profit, the guaranteed
prices in the principal primary mar
kets above mentioned being fixed by
adopting No. / northern spring wheat
for it's equivalent at the principal in
terror markets, as the basis.
''For the purpose of such guaranty
only, I hereby fix the guaranteed
prices at the respective principal prl-
mary markets above mentioned for
the following grades Of wheat, to wit:
No. 1 northern spring; No 1 hard
winter; No. 1 red winter; No. / du-
rum; No. hard white. The guaran-
teed prices at the respective primary
markets aforesaid Of all other grades
of wheat established under the Unit
ed States grain standard act approved
August II, 1916, shall be based on the
above guaranteed prices and bear
just relation thereto.
Prices Guaranteed by U. S..
'The sums thus determined and
fixed are guaranteed by the govern
ment Of the United States at the re-
spective principal primary markets
of the United States above mentioned,
to every producer of wheat of any
grade so obtained under the United
States grain standard act, upon the
condition that said wheat is harvest
ed in the United States during the
year 1918, and offered for sale before
the 1st day of June, 1919, to such
agent or employee of the United
States, or other persons as may be
hereafter designated, at any OF the
above mentioned cities. which are,
for the purpose of this act, hereby
declared to be the principal primary
markets of the United States. and
provided that such producer complies
with all regulations which may be
hereafter promulgated in regard TO
said guaranty by the president or the
United States.