Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-02-18
Farmer Says No
Wheat k.crcc-c

Garden City, MINI, Feb. ~, 1919
Editor Times Republican;
Dear Sir. In your issue of the 18th
instant page 10 you published an aru-
Gle headed Grow Less Corn and more
Wheat. The article bears the date OF
Washington and In one place you quote
Chairman Lewis and in another Rep
resentatIve Cannon, This article brings
up very important question ana /
think IL would be OF the greatest later
est TO your readers, especai'y the
farmers, fyou would tell them through
your paper who caused there articles
TO go before the public and II you can
explain their motives
II seems to me that there are q few
agitators trying mighty hard to get the
government to break It's faith with
about one half OF It's subjects, About
one third Of our entire population are
engaged la agriculture, II our gov
eminent made promise and failed TO
keep Il can you tell Of any good reason
why It will not fail again when our
liberty bonds becomes due? But let
us not 20 any farther along that line be-
cause there is no reason in the world
why we should doubt our governments
promise.
But now let us go farther into this
article. In the first place, there Is no
man even II he does reside in WASH
inyton. d. e.. who Is wise enough to
tell what kind Of n crop of wheat we
are going to have next year. Neither
can that same wise individual tell us
within a long ways what the price OF
wheat will be next year and am sure
that no one that ever lived on farm
and actually produced crop of wheat
would write such stuff especially If he
had TO eat some of the barley bread we
farmers had TO eat last year.
This country had very large acre
age of wheat last year and | for one
am proud Of II and the yield was far
above the average and l thank the
Lord for that. But now our country
and our allies are not asking US to
make dying effort to produce bread
to feed the soldiers and We farmers will
naturally fall back into our normal
methods of farming without any pol
shevism from a few doubtful ones.
There Is not one place west Of the New
England states where a farmer can
get s2.26 for his wheat and there is not
one place in the United States where a
farmer can buy seed wheat for $3.50.
All this talk about Argentina wheat
and Australia wheat has just as much
common sense to it as that article
am ridiculing. According to the best
authority Argentina and Australia
could not furnish Austria Hungary
with enough to keep them from starv-
alone.
With wheat unusually high for
peace times" How about the price OF
everything the farmer has to use in
raising wheat? The farm machinery.
the twine the shortage and high cost
of farm labor, are not those things
still on a war-price basis?
Just one step farther. Suppose wheat
would go down in price, is that any
insurance that bread would be cheaper,
| unless you used whole wheat bread?
AS quick as the food administra ton
took off their restrictions on the price
of mill feed it advanced SO per ton
and the people from Washington
ma SSiAl OuI dLlS ItllS my articles on
that.
Ny advice to the farmers is to go
ahead and conduct your farming oper-
atoms just as you had planned them
and not pay any attention to this
doubtful propaganda. Don't be
afraid of getting over stocked with
wheat and don't be afraid that the price
won't be- Just as was promised us.
There is not many farmers in the
corn belt that re fools enough to nut
out wheat now since the government
does not need it, if their land is suit
able for corn, Wheat is the most I'M
certain crop known and with the war
time prices of wheat, corn is by far
the most profitable crop for the farmer.
There are agricultural colleges in
every state IN the union and if the
| farmer needs advice don't go to Wash
| ington for it.
Now for 1919 let US put forth our
greatest strength and grow the best
crops, "a Use the finest hogs and the hest
cattle, the most sheep and stand firm
IN our faith upon our government
A. d. Mccormack.