Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-10-06
FARMERS ASKED
TOCONSERVE0N
Grain FOR FEED
Food Administration Points
Out Necessity Of Keeping Up
Stocks Of Cattle, Hogs
and Poultry.

10 meet the wheat mill iced
shortage, farmers are asked to sign
pledges when purchasing, covering
amounts they have and how it will
be fed. Gurdon w. Wattles, federal
I. food administrator for Nebraska,
announces the plan through the fol-
7 lowing statement from Herbert
Hoover:
Sowing to the extension of the
drought area, the shortening of the
corn crop, the larger animal popula-
ton in the coutry, and the allied de-
mand3 upon us for feeding stufs
for their own animals, because of
their own shortage in production of
feed grain, it is necessary that we
should exert every effort i'll the
proper conservation of feeding stuffs
during the next II months; yet we
must maintain our own animal pro-
duction.
1T is necessary that we should
ship larger proportion OF wheat
as compared with -four during the
next y months than during the last
IL months TO the allied countries, be-
cause 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.
Allied Milk Supply Limited.
" Already, the milk supply i'll the
allied countries has been limited
practically to the supply of children
aud other vitality necessary national
uses, and any failure on our part to
supply them. with necessary feed
stuffs for their dairy herd means
that we shall cut into the actual
safety of the children amongst the
allies.
.'On the other hand both our own
population and the allies are depend
ent upon Our production of animal
products, and we do not in any way
wish to stihe this production. What
we must secure is the utmost elimi-
nation of waste by the careful feed
ing of animals and the use of all the
roughage available.
Zone of the difficult problems is
the distribution of wheat mill feeds,
and this is made more difficult by
the fact that the food adminisra-
ton, in an endeavor to protect the
farmer, is maintaining an artifcially
low price on these feeds. One conse-
quence is that a great deal of mill
feeds are not going unnecessarily
into work animals or beef produc-
ton.
Wheat Mill Feeds Necessary.
Every farmer will recognize that
the wheat mill feeds are vitality
necessary for the dairy cattle, to
some extent for the poultry, and for
young pigs.
lowing to the absorption of mill
feeds at local points near the mill,
considerable sections of the dairy in
|dustry are practically without mill
feeds and our dairy production is
thereby in danger. With view to cor
|recting this, so far as possible, the
food administration desires to ap-
peal for the assistance of the farm
|ers of the country in the use and
distribution of wheat mill feeds. In
this view, we are asking every buy
er 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 60 days supply. Unless
1--we can secure this careful and spe-
|cialized use of mill feeds, our dairy
Production in the congested east
fern areas of the United States is
bound to fall and to jeopardize the
flood supply of our people in that
section. Otherwise it will be neces-
sary to release the price restrictions
ION mill feeds and allow them to take
Their natural course.
Pledges Are Asked.
With view to securing this CO.
Operation from the farmers all over
1.-THE country in the interests of their
Industry as a whole we are instruct
ling the mills and all dealers in
| feeds to secure from the buyer of
wheat mill feeds the following
pledge:
Tn order to assist the Food Ad-
|ministration in the distribution of
| mill feeds, / hereby undertake on
honor, not to use wheat mill feeds
flor any other purpose than the feed
ling of dairy cattle, poultry. young
|pigs and young calves, or the pre-
|paration of weekly bran mash for
work animals. | will not feed any
|iRore wheat mill feeds than is GUS
|t6rrarily fed to such animals and |
further agree not to have at any one
thine more than a 60-day supply of
on hand"
The food administration is also re-
|quiring the millers and feed jobbers
Ito distribute their wheat mill feeds
|in such manner that each state re-
|ceives the same proportion of the
mills or jobber's shipments as it
received in the same quarter i'll
|lol7.