Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1918-10-11
Conservation Of Mill Feeds.

Conservation OF Mill Feeds.
owing to the extension of the drought
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 grain,
1t 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 produc-
ton, 1t is necessary we should ship a
larger proportion of wheat as compared
with flour during the next twelve months
than during the last twelve months to
the Allied countries 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 vitality
necessary national uses, and any failure
on our part to supply them with necessary
feed stuffs for their dairy herds means that
we shall cut into the actual safety of the
children among the Allies. On the other
hand, both our own population and the
Allies are dependent upon our production
of animal products and we do not in any
way wish to stifie this production. What
we must 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 dis
tribution of wheat mill feeds, and this is
made more difficult by the fact that the
Food Administration. in an endeavor to
protect the farmer, is maintaining an arti-
ficialIy low price on these feeds One con-
sequence is that great deal of mill feeds
are going unnecessarily into work animals
or beef production. Every farmer will rec
ogniZe that the wheat mill feeds are vi
tally necessary for the dairy cattle. to some
extent for the poultry. and for young pigs.
Owing to the absorption Of mill feeds at
local points near the mills, considerable
sections of the dairy industry are practi-
cally without mill feeds and our dairy pro-
duction is thereby in danger. With view to
correcting this. SO far as possible. the Food
Administration desires to appeal for the
assistance Of the farmers Of the country
in the use and distribution of wheat mill
feeds. In this view. we are asking every
buyer of wheat mill feeds, outside of the
acute drought 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 to purchase or hold at any one
time more than so days supply. Unless
we can secure this careful and specialized
use Of the mill feeds. our dairy production
| in the contested 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 release the
price restriction on mill feeds and to allow
them to take their natural course.
With view to securing this co-opera-
ton from the farmers all over the country
in the interests of their industry as a whole.
we are instructine the mills and all dealers
in feeds to secure from the buyer of wheat
mill feeds the following pledge:
IN order to assist the Food Administra-
ton in the distribution of mill feeds.
hereby undertake on honor not to use
wheat mill feeds for any other purpose
than the feeding of dairy cattle. poultry,
young pigs or young calves. or the prepara-
tion of the weekly bran mash for work
animals. will 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 60-day sup
ply Of WHEAT FEEDS on hand"
The Food Administration is also requir-
ing the millers and feed jobbers to dis
tribute their wheat mill feeds in such man
ner that each State receives the same pro-
portion of the mills shipments as it re-
ceived in the same quarter in 1917.
EDWIN G. BAETJER.
Federal Food Administrator for Maryland.