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half that of a year ago, or 100,000,000
bushels less. 1t was nothing short of
master strategy.
The total number of bushels pur-
chased by the Grain Corporation from
the time it commenced activities to
February 1 is 1926, 1859. Arranged
by months, the purchases in bushels
were: September, 7,941, 209.20; Octo-
Der, 19,359,646.59; November, 3O920,-
07426; December, 21,456,249.06, and
January, 1885, 966O8.
During July and August our flour
exports were about the same as In the
same two months of 1916; but in Sep
TENDER, October, and November, the
expectation was 90 per cent larger
than a year ago. So the Grain Cor
poratiOn has discharged our obliga-
lions to the allies, and restored our
-four reserves. which is the larger as
pect Of the question.
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MOTHERS

Should see that the whole family
take at least 8 or doses of thoro,
purifying, system cleaning medicine
this spring. Now is the time. The
family will be healthier, happier, and
get along better if the blood is given
a thoro purifying, the stomach and
bowels cleaned out, and the germs of
Winter, accumulated in the system,
driven away. HOLSTERS Rocky Noun
tain Tea is one of the very best and
surest Spring medicines to- take. Get
1t and see the difference in the whole
family. Their color will be better.
they'll feel fine and be well and
happy. w. w. Albers.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-03-12

Toast-"The Spirit of Cooperation"
Chas. Miller
Piano Solo Mis- Viola Bohsa
Reading a Far Country"
Miss Eleanor Crevier
Song 1.-The End of a Perfect Day"
Misses Stella Smith, and Gertrude
Melang and Mr.. Charles Miller
Toast-"Have a Purpose in Life" -
--------M Mr.. Richard Romack
Piano Solo -----------M Mr.. Paul Giese
Toast-"We Can Succeed in Spite of
Every Obstacle"
Miss Verona, Jackson
Instrumental-"P Carnation" 80
Messrs. Carpenter, Hoene, Manual
America --------------------
Mr.. Parsons. of Beaver Dam, was a
business caller last Friday in the in
terests of the Central Wisconsin Sup
ply Co.
The following students are assisting
with the stenographic work in the
interests of Justice Rosenberry's cam
paign: Olive Wells, Leona Schulz,
Ellen Bendel, Alfred Baumann and
Frank Handrick.
Jennie Evans is assisting with the
work in the ]. n. Manson Office dur
ing forenoons.
Gaylord Carpenter has accepted a
position in the st. Paul freight Office
in this city and began his new duties
Monday.
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About the same time our cooperative
elevator manager had listed shipment
with his terminal representative
highly reputable commission firm, also
under Grain Corporation license. This
firm caught wind of the Georgia order
and secured permission to sell the Mis-
souri, wheat. The second buShel was
among those poured into a car and
hustled along to its destination This
shipment did not pass through any
terminal market. 1t moved straight
to Atlanta, where it went between the
rollers of the mill.
Controlling the Jobber by License.
Now, the flour which came from our
second bushef of wheat was rolling
serenely along in another direction,
but the car was diverted by special or
der of the U. S. Food Administrator
and received by large wholesale job
Der in New York City. This jobber
also does business under a Food Adj
ministration license, but administered
by the distribution division. Under IL
cense terms the jobbers must sell at
a fair profit only, although the exact
amount of this profit is not determin-
ed, the Food Administration reserving
the right in each case to call q halt
when a licensee has gone "the limit"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-03-12

means of control of the retailer by
making the jobber voluntary police
man to his customer. The jobber is
licensed to sell only to traders who
deal fairly, and if it should turn out
that a jobber persists in doing BUSH
ness with retailers guilty of profiteer-
ing in staples under control the Food
Administration has and may exercise
the right to revoke the license of the
jobber.
The other part of this shipment con-
tanned our second bushel of wheat and
went over to the East Side into small
bakery, which quickly made it into
creamy loaves. These loaves were
placed in groceries and delicatessens
and the next day were eaten by hun
CRY little boys and girls with dark
eyes and big noses and quaint ways.
Brings Out Startling Truths.
Government control has brought out
these startling truths:
More people unnecessarily make
their living out of wheat distribution
than was suspected. Thousands and
thousands of little spectators have
had to turn elsewhere for a livelihood,
number of commission men have
had to close shop. There are places
where elevators should be built and
other places where there are too many
elevators. The Government, dominat-
ing the wheat market, carries its own
marine insurance Wheat handlers at
terminals have had their activities re-
stricted
But most of all 1t is interesting to
see how the price of flour per barrel
tumbled from the time Uncle Sam took
a positive hand in the matter. The
Food Administration has recently COM
pleted an interesting chart on the
prices of wheat and bulk -four at Min
neapolis. In a statement Of Novem-
Der 26, the Food Administration says:
The farmer received for the 1915 har-
vest between S1.45 and $3.50 per bushel
for the harvest, taking the country by
large and .. Last year he received
under 90 per cent of the price of the loaf
Today he is receiving over 40 per cent of
the money paid for the cash loaf this
being the result of the sterilization of
III ASCo anu the lOIdl eLInlnaIlOn OF nOarQ-
ing and speculation in this industry.
The statement reports that farmers
on November 26 were receiving with
freight charges included from the ter
ritory represented to Minneapolis, ap-
proximately $3.50 for Az bushels of
wheat. The price of bulk flour at the
Minneapolis mill is about $1025 per
barrel, showing that the miller is now
receiving about rs cents per barrel,
which must include both his operating
expenses and profit.
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WOMAN'S COMMITTEES DOINGS

In Winnebago county the woman'S
committee of the County Council of
Defense are collecting rubber, tin,
paper, rags and anything junk man
will buy; a registration for women,
available for work on farms, is soon
to be made in this country. The
high school girls of Manitowoc county
are being organized as Daughters OF
Defense"
There are 500 women in Wisconsin
wearing the bronze button service pin
of the Woman's committee of the State
Council of Defense.
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period in 1916 In September, October
and November, under the supervision
of the Food Administration, flour pro-
duction was ia per cent of the same
period in 1916. What this means in the
great national situation, with depleted
domestic flour reserves and clamOring
foreign buyers, can hardly be over
emphasized, when movement of wheat
into primary markets has been hardly
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lating into the pockets of both produc-
ers and consumers benefits derived by
the Nation. He has shut off specula-
ton, produced a free market and
movement of all grades of wheat, cut
expenses and induced a normal flow of
wheat in natural directions, and eff
fected thousand other economies.
The Food Administration Grain Cor
poration, which supervises the sale, or
itself buys every bushel of wheat pro-
duced in the Nation in its progress
from country elevator to foreign buy
ers or domestic consumers, marks a
new step toward national efficiency.
How in four short months it has been
done is told in the following episodes
wherein two bushels of wheat Travelled
to market.
One fine fall afternoon, Col. Bill
Jenkins, who farms somewhere in Mis-
souri,, loaded his wheat into a wagon
and drove along the black road that
led across the prairie to town. When
he reached the cooperative elevator
Of which he was a stakeholder, he
pulled up on the scales, checked his
gross weights carefully, and began TO
unload. The manager came out and
asked:
"When you want to sell this wheat?"
Il dunno" he answered. "One
times about as good as another
these days. TT won't weigh any more
later" he added with a dry smile.
Wheat shrinks lot" admitted the
manager 81 hear the Government
wants as much wheat as it can get
just nOw-understand the Allies do
eat terrible lot of it since the war"
whats wheat to-day?" asked Col
Jenkins, getting interested.
"Well, let me see," parleyed the
manager. 81 guess this wheat'd be a
good No. 2 under the new grades"
Grades? What about grades? That
Food Administration seems to mix into
mighty nigh everything from rabbits
to axle grease"
Hold on, Colonel" said the eleva-
tor man, good-naturedly. "The Food
is not to blame. Con-
gresS passed the act and told the De-
partment of Agriculture to fix the
grades. They became effective last
July. sent out letter on it."
"Well, l guess you better sell for
the best you can," said the farmer.
Il am needed at home" And he drove
away.
NoNu nrdar IL, %ba Hr,in MJ1rId
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ly an administrative arm of the Gov.
eminent formed to buy grain or super
wise its sale at the prices determined
by the commission, and it must do its
work on the basis of the new grades.
But to return to our farmer and his
expectations of price.
Introducing Two Bushels IF Wheat.
Lying side by side in his wagon had
been 2 bushels of wheat that fate had
marked for strangely different ends.
They were very much alike, those
bushels of wheat, and to look at them
you would not have suspected the
strange and wonderful adventures in
store for them. Yet one was destined
to travel abroad for consumption in
France; the other to find its way into
Georgia. where it was milled and its
flour finally reached a New York
baker on the East Side But in the
sum of the travels made by the two,
as we shall follow them, will be I'M
folded the international panorama of
wheat marketing in time of war.
Finding a Price at Country Point.
High war costs of production gave
our Missouri farmer much concern as
to his returns and accounted for his
depression over the prospects of his
wheat grading down.; for that meant
a reduction of 3 cents per bushel I'M
der the No. l grade. But it graded
No 2.
Tho oil would n1cn dn6Inf .
additional 8 cents bushel to cover the
fixed charge made in this locality for
handling and selling. The Scent
charge included the commission of l
cent per bushel customary in 1917
among commission men for selling the
wheat to domestic millers or foreign
buyers.
The elevator man was none too sure
as to how to get at the price which
this wheat should bring. He knew
considerably more about human nature
than freight rates and decided TO
''check up the problem to the nearest
zone agent of the Grain Corporation.
So he wrote letter to the representa-
tive stationed at st. Louis. That let
ter was referred 10 the IFdnlc expert
in the New York Office, who transmit
ted the following rule for determining
the price of wheat at any country
point:
There is only one price for wheat at
country point. That price is always
to be arrived at by taking as a basis
the price at the most advantageous
primary market where we have fixed
a price and deducting the freight to
that market and fair handling profit.
That is the price to be paid for wheat
at any station, regardless of the point
to which it may be shipped.
Working out the price which should
be paid for wheat at your station is
fine occupation for an off day. If
you cannot find the answer, write TO
the Food Administration Grain Cor
poratiOn in New York City and its
traffic expert will give you aid.
Finding the Price of No. 2 Wheat at
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NOTICE 70 AUTOMOBILE OWNERS

All automobiles operated in the city
of Wausau must carry at the front
and rear 1918 license numbers. No
license applied for" cards will be
tolerated unless a receipt for the
license fee has been o. KID. by the
police department.
THOMAS R. MALONE,
Chief of Police.
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Milling Canadian Wheat.

being forbidden, the mill
operatives became curious and made
inquiries This wheat was part of a
large supply which the Grain Corpora
ton had brought into the United States
to aid in keeping the American mills
running.
There was another reason. Domes-
tic wheat was not moving from the
farms as freely as the millers needed
it, and shortage forced the mills to
operate at a great disadvantage and,
according to them, at higher costs.
The last journey stage of our first
bushel, although considerably changed
in its form, was to go as flour to port
under rush orders. 1t now had right
of way over all other classes of freight
except other munitions of war. Con-
sent of the War Trade Board being
obtained, it was loaded on a ship and
passed safely through the submarine
field to France, where it succored the
hungry.
We started out to follow the travels
of two bushels of wheat from the farm
to their points of consumption under
war condition with the U. S. Food Adj
ministration in control of the market
ing. l have previously discussed the
journeys of these two bushels from
the farm to the elevator at the country
point. Here they parted and one of
them passed on to q terminal, and
from the terminal ~ a mill and from
the mill to seaboard. There it went to
France for consumption.
The Other Bushel of Wheat Starts
TravaIinn
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-03-12
Dependency Due to Constipation

Women often become nervous and
desrondent. When this is due to con-
stipatlon it is easily corrected by TAX
ing an occasional dose of Chamber
lain's Tablets. These tablets are easy
to take and pleasant in effect.
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Selling Wheat to Government.

BOUT % days after the
farmer brought in his
wheat there came a re-
quest to this elevator for
a carload to be purchas-
ed by the Grain Corpora
ton. So one of our
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HESE schedules arrang-
ed for the various
markets are veritable
price dams" to pre-
vent t. e overlooking
of the stream of
wheat at anV single
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-03-12

wheat bushels was poured into car
which miraculously had appeared on
the siding at a time when car shortage
was troubling the entire commercial
world. Inquiry might have shown that
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-03-12

sample on to the st. Louis zone agent
for test, which verified his judgment as
to grade. He then went about his usu-
al duties, cleaning the grain, filling his
bins, and shipping out as regularly as
he could in maximum carload quanti-
ties, in order to economic the use of
cars in time of congestion. He was
careful to keep his records very
straight as to dates and quantities of
wheat purchased, on hand, and shipped
out, for the Grain Corporation requires
weekly reports and full details Of
transactions.
Selling Wheat to Government.
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Nh-bI at any oihSAO
market They also tend to correct
many abuses prevalent in the past,
such as cutthroat methods adopted by
mills to secure supplies and indiscrimi-
nate moving of wheat to terminals.
For all practical purposes the wheat
business of the country is appOrtiOned,
and whenever possible mills are sup
piled from wheat in the territory near
est them: This policy has for an OBJ
ject the saving of waste in transport
tation. In another way saving is
made: Formerly large quantities of
undergrade wheats have been difficult
to dispose of on account of uncO-ordi-
mated purchase of the competing mills;
but under Uncle Sans domination
each bushel Of wheat must now go
somewhere and the poorer wheat will
move just as freely as the more de-
sirable grades.
Limiting Millers' Profits.
The Illinois miller who received the
carlot containing our buShel of wheat
milled it promptly and shipped its -four
to a port for expectation. The miller
was permitted by the Food Admins
tration to make a fair profit, not ex-
ceeding a maximum of % cents per
barrel on the flour and a maximum
profit of so cents per ton on the feed
stuffs left over. All mills, however,
must furnish at regular intervals to
the Milling Division full statements Of
manufacturing costs, which are scru-
tinized carefully. The derivatives of
this wheat the miller sold for dOmes-
tic consumption, as the policy of the
Government is to keep in the United
States all available feedstuffs in order
to encourage livestock production.
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JRING last July and Au-
gust, while Congress was
wrestling with itself to
produce a food admins
tration, and there was
no Grain Corporation,
flour production in the
principal centers was rs
nor cont JIn1o,. tho sauna
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-03-12

DIV as to the other bushel
of wheat. A certain
Georgia miller, in need
of supplies, notified the
Grain Corporation and
received permission to
huv ,h the oman rnarlyat
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SikeSton.

AXE an actual example:
An elevator man in
Sikeston, Mo-, wanted
to know what price
No. 2 wheat should
bring at his station
when No. l wheat
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-03-12
A New Order In the Grain World.

1NVERSATIONS of this
kind might have taken
place in almost every
town in the great grain
belt of the Nation aft
er August 10; for revO-
luton in grain market
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-03-12
St, vituS Dance Cured

Have you a child, afflicted with st. Vitue
Dance? Clark's Nerve Tonic effects a positiv-
cure In all cases. 1t is equally effective in re-
HeVlng nervous pfoStration, extreme nervous.
ness and other forms of nerve derapgement
1t is also an excellent general restorative in
all cases where the system is in a run down
condltlon. IL has recently cured seperoi cases of
epilepsy. Clar<'s (SPecisD will promptly re-
lieve and effect permanent cure for bed wet
ung. Prepared under the formulate of the late
DR.. f. q: Clark of Wausau, Wis, and for sale
by q. w; Clark, now located at 726 9TH ST..
Miami, Fla, to whom all mail orders should
be sent. Guaranteed under the Food and
Drugs Act of June 30 1906 Guarantee fled
with the Department of Agriculture. Serial.
No. 9-435 adv (oom6S
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-03-12

UR delay in getting this
wheat started across
the world was occa-
stoned by the uncer-
tain judgment of the
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Under these conditions the proprietor
would probably sell at st. Joseph or
Chicago, according to his inclination.
The table further illustrates the
equalization of prices and indicates to
what extent the miller is protected
when buying wheat in any territory.
Through this plan determinations
against the producer, the miller, and
the consumer are eliminated so far as
it seems humanity possible under
plan of such tremendous proportions.
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the farmers
share Of the wheat dol
lar is one of the war
time jobs Uncle Sam has
done since food control
became possible. After
five months of Crap
pling with the problem,
TnaIo Con-, 20 NOM fro,1e,-
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wheat would bring at five different
markets if shipped from Maryville,
Mo H.:
The Redwood gazette., 1918-02-13
Good Work AT Lucan

A very successful entertainment
was given last Thursday evening by
the German Aid Of the Catholic
Church at Lucan for the benefit of
the local Red Cross branch. The even
ing's program was opened by Rev.
FIR. Wander Velden, the local priest,
who gave talk on the origin of the
Red Cross movement in very pleas
ing as we'll as instructive way, show
ing that it was as much for Catholic
as the Protestant religion.
This was followed by music, songs
and drills Of a patriotic character,
given by the school children. Miss
Stella Mcclure also sang patriotic
solo.
FIR. Wander Velden then introduced
the speaker of the evening Rev. FIR.
Carlin of Marshall. The speaker from
Chaska being unable to come, Father
Carlin took the place of both speak
ers, so gave an extra long lecture,
which was surely appreciated by all
as he held his audience spell-bound
for over an hour. His talk was pa
triotism from start to finish with a
generous compliment to Americas
women thrown in. We are sure that
he made it very uncomfortable for
any disloyalists should there have
been any in the crowd.
The Redwood gazette., 1918-02-13

ever possible, the Red Cross urges
that the layettes be completed before
it is turned over to the chapters for
shipping.
And with all this work of knitting
must still continue. In urging knit
ters not to relax their efforts Mrs.
Fridley Of the headquarters says:
''The soldiers will use sweaters un-
til early summer and need socks the
year around. Red Cross workers
throughout the division should con-
tinue knitting until instructions to
the contrary are sent out from divl-
sion headquarters, according to Mrs.
F. L. Fridley, director of women's
work for the division.
"a telegram received recently from
Washington contained the notification
that there is still a great demand for
knitted articles. Sweaters will be used
by the soldiers until late in the spring
and to some extent during the sum-
mer. 1t will be necessary to continue
knitting socks all the year around"
Red Cross Notes.
Shutdown is having Red Cross Day
at the school house as the Gazette
goes to press. Dinner was served at
noon, Rev. B. P. Holt had been asked
to make the talk of the day and an
auction sale for the benefit of the or
der will be held this, Tuesday, after
noon.
Four men of Lamberton G.. E. Klue-
gel, Walter Clark, Albert Emerson and
c. C. Walker spent one evening last
week in cutting garments for Red
Cross work-one of the most ardu-
Gus tasks the women workers have to
do. They did the work very salts
factorily and will be asked to come
again.
Morgan gave Red Cross benefit
last week which was very successful.
The German Aid of the Lucan
gave splendid benefit last week an
account of which appears elsewhere
in this issue.
Redwood Falls will make a ship
men. of completed garments this
week. The following very excellent
report of the recent shipment of Lam
berton is taken from the Lamberton
Star:
"The following is list of articles
shipped by the Lamberton Red Cross
January 81, TO minneapolis f1eduqudr-
ters. The last previous shipment was
December Is, 1917.
20 bed shirts.
20 pajama suits.
10 towels.
20 table napkins.
80 pair bandaged foot socks.
5 pair bed socks.
a knitted afghans.
20 ambulance pillows.
so sweaters.
81 pair socks.
pair wristlets.
l muff1er."
The Redwood gazette., 1918-02-13
WOMEN MUST WORK
TO SUPPLY NEEDS
CONTINUED from first page)

dren is also taking the attention of
many women and is branch Of Red
Cross work which needs immediate
action. Several organizations are con-
templating taking up this work, the
w. C +. U. and the Pythian Sisters
having gvalready made start and the
girls of the high school will start the
work soon.
The Northern Division Bulletin has
the following to say concerning the
making of layettes for refugee babies
the work in which Redwood Falls
is especially interested.
"The American Red Cross is plan
ming to provide every French and Bel
gian mother who may need it with an
infants layette. The women's bureau
of the Red Cross has published leaf
let, available at every Red Cross chap
ter, describing this simple outfit OF
warm baby clothes.
'"The articles and garments in the
lavette have been chosen upon the
advice of women's bureau represen-