The Washington herald., 1918-02-24
WILSON GIVES.
WHEAT PRICES
WAR RATING
In Proclamation Yesterday
Fixes $2,28 a Bushel as
Price Limit.

President Wilson yesterday issued a
proclamation fixing the price OF wheat
for the 1918 crop in the primary mar
kets Of the country at from 500 a
bushel to s2.2S a bushel.
1t figures out approximately cents
a busheI lower than the prevailins
average price of $40 a bushel set by
the government. but is so graduated
that there will be a somewhat greater
margin of profit in some markets and
only slight decline in others.
President Wilson's action forestans
efforts now being made in three di-
rections in Congress to boost the
price OF wheat for the farmers to from
$50 to $50 a bushel. Congressional
amendments putting a higher price on
wheat for the farmers. 1t Is pointed
out by Food Administration officials,
could have but one effect-create a
tendency among the farmers to hold
up their present stocks for the higher
!. price to come, thereby causing a panic
and alarmingly delaying shipments &c
the allies.
President Wilson, after citing the
authority Of war emergency encour'
, aging production and conservation OF
food supplies, says in his proclama-
ton:
Text Of Presidents Proclamation
Now, therefore, I, Woodrow Will
son, President OF the United States
by virtue of the powers conferred
upon me by said Act OF Congress
do hereby find that an emergency
exists requiring stimulation of the
production of wheat, and that it is
essential that the producers OF
wheat produced within the United
! States shall have the benefits OF
the guarantee provided for in said
! section and, in order to make ef-
fective the guarantee by Congress
for the crop of 1918 and to assure
such producers a reasonable profit
do hereby determine and fix, and
give public notice of reasonable
guaranteed prices for No. 1 North
ern Spring wheat and its equivalent
at the respective principal primary
markets as follows. to-wit. Chicago,
ILL.,, $2.20 a bushel; Omaha. Neb.
$2.15; Kansas City, Mo-. sails; st
Louis, Mo-, s2.1S; Minneapolis. MINI.
s2.17; Duluth, MINI. $2.17; New
York, ". Y. S2.2S; Philadelphia. Pa.
s2.27; Baltimore. Nd, $2.27; New
port News, Va, $2.27; Charleston
S. c., S2.27; Savannah, Ga, $2.z7
Portland, Ore. $2O5; Seattle, Wash.
$2.O5; San Francisco, Cal, $2.10; Los
Angeles. Cal. $2.10; Galveston, Tex.
s2.2O; New Orleans, La, $2.20; Salt
Lake City. Utah. $500; Great Falls
Mont, $500: Spokane, wash, 5000
Pocatello, Idaho. $500; Fort Worth
Tex. $2.09; Oklahoma City, Okla.
s2.05; Wichita, Kans., S2.0S.
How Primary Markets Are Affected
"And that the guaranteed price for
the other grades established under
the United States Grain Standard
Act, approved august Ii, 1916, based
on said price for No. 1 Northern
Spring wheat at the respective prin-
cipal primary markets of the United
States above mentioned will assure
| the producers of wheat produced
within the United States a reasonable
| profit; the guaranteed price in the
| principal primary markets above
| mentioned being fixed by adopting
No. l Northern Spring wheat or its
| equivalent at the principal interior
IlldIhclS, lIl6 DdS1s.
For the purpose of such guarantee
only. 1 hereby fix the guaranteed
prices at the respective primary
markets above mentioned for the fol-
| lowing grades of wheat, to-wit. No. ]
Northern Spring, No. Hard Winter,
No. 1 Red Winter, No. Durum, No.
1 Hard White. The guaranteed price
at the respective principal primary
! markets aforesaid OF all other grades
| OF wheat established under the United
! States Grain Standard Act, shall be
based on the above guaranteed prices
| and bear just relation thereto.
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 mention
ed, to every producer of wheat of any
grade so established 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 first day of June, 1919, to such
agent or employe of the United
States. or other person as may be
hereinafter designated. at any one o!
the above mentioned cities, which
are, for the purposes of this act
| hereby declared to be the principal
primary markets of the United
States, and provided that such pro-
ducer complies with all regulations
which may be. hereinafter propul.
gated in regard to said guaranty by
the President Of the IJnited Sta fes ~