The states-graphic. (Brownsville, Tenn.) 1???-1984, 1918-10-11
PLEDGE OF FARMERS
TO CONSERVE FEEDS
u. 5. Food Administration Says Mill
Products Used Unnecessarily for
Beef: Pledge Exacted.

Owing to the extension of the
drouth area, the shortening of the corn
crop, the larger animal population in
the country, and the allied demands
upon us for feeding stuffs for their
own animals, because of their own
shortage in. production of feed grains,
says bulletin of the United States
food administration, it is necessary
that we should exert every effort In
the proper conservation of feeding
stuffs during the next twelve months:
yet we must maintain our own animal
production. 1t is necessary that we
should ship a larger proportion of
wheat as compared with flour during
next twelve months than during the
last twelve months to the allied coun-
tries, 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 grain
wheat.
Already the milk supply in the allied
countries has, been limited practically
to the supply of children and other vi
tally necessary national uses, and any
failure on our part to supply them with
necessary feedstuffs for their dairy
herds means that we shall cut into the
actual safety of the children amongst
the sllies. On the other hand, both
our own population and the allies are
dependent upon our production of ami
NAL products, and we do not in any
way wish to stife this production of
production. What we mast secure is
the utmost elimination of waste by the
careful feeding of animals and 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 administrator, in an en-
deavor to protect farmers, is main
tanning an artifiially low price on these
feeds. One consequence is that a
great deal of mill feeds are now going
unnecessarily into work animals or
beef production.
Every farmer will recognize that
the wheat mill feeds are vitality nee
essary for the dairy cattle, to some ex-
tent for the poultry and young pigs.
Owing to the absorption of mill feeds
at local points near the mill, consider
eble sections of the dairy industry are
practically without mill feeds, and our
dairy production is thereby in danger.
With view Of correcting this, so far
as possible, the food administration de-
sires to appeal for the, assistance Of
sne 6rnn kntry in the use
~ Silo Htion Of wheat mill feeds.
In this view we are asking every buy
er Of wheat mill feeds, outside Of the
rcute drouth area, to sign a pledge OF
honor not to use the wheat mill feeds
for any purpose except the essential
use in dairy, young pig and poultry
production, and not purchase or hold
at any one time more than sixty days
supply. Unless we can secure this
careful and specialized use of mill feed
our dairy production 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 it will be necessary to re-
lease the price restrictions on mill
feeds and allow them to take their
natural course.
With a view to securing this coop
Grafton from the farmers all over the
country in the interests of their indus
try as a whole, we are instructing the
mills and all dealers in feeds to secure
from the buyer of wheat mill feeds
the following pledge:
an order to assist the food admin
istration in the distribution of mill
feeds, | hereby undertake on honor
not to use wheat mill feeds for any
other purpose than the feeding of dali
nv cattle, poultry, young pigs or young
calves. or the preparation of weekly
bran mash for work animals. | VIII
not feed any more wheat mill feeds
than is customarily fed to such animals
and further agree not to have at any
one time more than a sixty-day sup
ply of feedstuffs on hand"
The food administration is also re-
ouiring the milIers and feed jobbers TO
distribute their wheat mill feeds IN
such manner that each state receives
the same proportion of the mills or
iobbers' shipments as it received IN
the same quarter in 1917.