The Fayette falcon. (Somerville, Tenn.) 190?-current, 1918-10-11
RULING ON USE OF !
WHEAT MILL FEED
FOOD ADMINISTRATION SAYS N
MUST NOT be USED FOR FEED
ING DRY CATTLE AND WoRlN
STOCK.
MUST SIGN PLEDGE CARDS
Purchasers To Agree That the Mllt
ss Feed VIII Be used Exclusively
For Feeding Pigs, Poultry Sr /
Mich Cove.

Nashville.-In order tAat wheat mila
iced may not be used for feeding dry
cattle or work stock the United States
Feod administration has promulgated
an order that hereafter no miller %
merchant may sell 1t ct retail unless
be first exacts from the purchaser Q
signed pledge that the mill feed shall
AOt be diverted to improper uses.
This pledge requires the purchaser
TO agree that he will use the mill fees
exclusively for feeding pigs, poultry
Or miloh cows. Wheat mill feed under
the directions OF the federal food ad.'
ministration is selling at considerably
Jess than other feeds are selling in the
markets and for that reason there has
been an Unprecedented demand. Ia
fixing the price as low as it is the food
administration expected that it would
be used exclusively for young pigs,
poultry and to make 1t easier for the
dairymen to meet the increasing de-
mands for milk and butter. 1t has,
however, come to the knowledge Of the
food administration that much Of ths
feed is being diverted and used for
other purposes, hence the pledge that
10 required.
This order became effective on MOB
day last and the county food admins
traitors were instructed to rigidly en-
force It, The food administration will
not only punish those who improperly
use wheat mill feed, but they will be
held up as slackers, who, for their own
interests, are willing TO take milk out
Of the mouths of babes and invalids.
Cotton Seed Prices.
Samples of cotton obtained from III.
teen counties in the state analyzed a.
average of 36,74 gallons of valuable oil
contents and 1852 pounds of SO per-
cent protein meal. The official yields
OF oil and meal upon which former
prices have been based were II gall
Ions of oil and 900 lbs. Of meal, and for
this reason for the ensuing period OF
two weeks the price of cotton seed In
Tennessee has been fixed at s6f per
ton in car lots and $64 for wagon seed
at railroad stations. 1t is the inten'
ton of the food administration to 90
tain on the first and fifteenth day n
each month samples OF cotton seed to
be analyzed by the state chemist and
/ thereafter to announce the fair prices
to be based upon the yield Of the seed
In oil and meal.
WeakIey County Organized.
Under the direction of w. W. House.
rscently appointed county food admir-
Istrator, q meeting of the merchants,
millers and patriotic people Of Weak
ley county was held Tuesday at Dres.
den and the county food administrs
tion was thoroughly organized. ]. I.
Finney, assistant federal food admiu-
istrator, d. w. Moss, district repre-
sentative for West Tennessee, and
Guy Abernathy, district agent fos
West Tennessee, attended and aG
dressed the meeting. There was a
large attendance.
Poultry Feed.
The following ration fed TO an
breeds OF chickens has been found 10
give the largest egg returns, in an en-
pertinent recently made, at the small
est cost: 300 lbs. Of corn meal, unbolt
ed; 100 lbs. OF meat scraps; three
parts Of cracked corn; one part ct
gsod quality oats e scratch feed.
Seed Wheat
Farmers who are having difficulty
IN getting gsod seed wheat should
esnmunicats either with their cousty
agent or county feed administrator
and If they cannot gst informatioa
that viii be satisfactory from those %
ficisls they should write to the Unt
versity OF Tennessee. marketing So
cialist at Knoxville. OF Dr.. II. A. MaN
gan, federal food administrator Ma
vile who will assist
New Conservation Plan. &
There viii be distributed to the aoes
600 homes in Tennessee through tAe
county food administrators betweex
Oct. Is and New. . new conservation
program for the coming year issuet
BY Herbert Hoover, United States fost
administrator. It IL expected through
the various county administrations 81
put these cards in every home n ths
stats within the period Of one week;
This particular time has been selected
because it comes between the close q
the Liberty Loan and the drive for the
N. 9. A. and its allied organizstio.s~