Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1919-07-17
WHEAT IN A BLANKET
Government Recommendation Helps
Threrhermen to Sn,e Grain Which
Made h.OOO.OOO nnrrels OF tNOMr

Tire shermen to sn,c Grain which
Made 5.OOO.O00 barrels OF tfour
Notwithstanding the fact that our
wheat crop this wear promises to APP
proxinlate a billion and n quarter bush
els by far the largest crop ever
raised in this or any other country, we
shall have no wheat to throw away. Up
to a year ago. however. the farmers OF
the country actually threw away some
thing like twenty-five million bushels of
wheat each year because they did not
practise careful methods of threshing the
grain says Robert H. Moulton in the
Boston Transcript. Last year the
Grain Threshing Division of the
Food Administration Grain Corpo-
ration inaugurated campaign to
increase threshing machine efficien-
cv and the result was 100000
bushels Of wheat saved in the principal
wheat growing states. Kansas heading
the list with about 10000, 600 bushels. All
of the wheat thus saved was worth at
the Government guaranteed price, over
fifty million dollars. AS matter of
fact. the saving of 5000 600 bushels of
wheat meant not merely $5o.oH"M on
the farm for buying automobiles, farm
Ing matter. and education. but 100000
more barrels Of flour for a starving
world.
Without that 25.oNoln bushels of
wheat we could not have succored Po-
land It is many times more than all
the seed wheat needed for Roumania.
More than enough 10 keep Armenia in
bread for one year. Il is more wheat
l,-,tI !, ,irn Y
in France from Chateau-Thierry to the
srmistce
THE MANNER N WHICH 1T Is DONE
Nor are the estimates of p. nm
bushels, 100000 barrels of -four. and $50
100000 wild guesses where the wish is
father to the thought. If the amount
saved is correctly estimated, we know the
dollar estimate is right for it was al
guaranteed at $50 .26 at Chicago The
quantity estimates are based upon actua
tests. which for the machines actually
tested were as accurate as counting
grains. This is the way it worked.
1t is threshing day. The machine /:
set. The neighbors are in to help. The
women folks" are busy in the kitchen
making ready for the best dinner thai
variety, skill, and competitive spirit car
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to spout its burden of straw and dus
tI,;e
NO one mas time to watch the bianke
excent the Government experts wh'
have bug about waste and have beef
preaching mobilize threshmen to saw
wheat holding county institutes, AM
distributing circulars of caution
Who cares Tor wheat when wheat !
pouring out by the hushel' ENerynod'
sticks to his Job, scarcely noticing tina
the stacker spout has been swung hac
from the foreign blanket 10 the orthodo
straw pile. Where the experts go no
body cares until
The machine stops sudd lt. The OK
perts report that after carefully gettin
all the wheat off the blanket and screen
ing it they gathered eleven pints Will
the machine was delivering two and
half bushels. or eighty pnts. Nearly on
pint in seven going out with the stra,
and dust Nearly one bushel in seNe
lost after all the trouble Of raising il
Nearly one barrel Of -four in seven neve
ground though world is crying 10
bread Two hundred and forty-one dol
lars wasted in one day and one farm b
the bad masticat'on of one threshn
machine
PROVING THE PERCENTAGE o.
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