The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1934-10-22
~. ID. Winter Stock Feed
Cost Set at Is Million
Proposals for Financing and
Purchase Made in Wash.
ington Report

kota livestock will amount to more
than $4,000 900 q report submitted to
Washington authorities showed Mon
day.
The report was prepared by N. D.
German, county agent leader, A. j..
Dexter, assistant drouth director. and
Clyde Banks, assistant director Of stock
feed purchases for the FERA.
Proposals for financing, purchase
and distribution Of feeds throughout
the state were included in the report,
made to Dr.. Calvin Hoover, chairman
of the national stock feed committee.
Immediate action was urged by the
North Dakota representatives on ap-
proval Of the proposal to make avail
able a 100000 revolving fund to be
used for purchasing feeds.
The report pointed out that unless
feed could be contracted for and
stacked or bailed before snowfall, a
large percentage of the feed would be-
come inaccessible. Costs Of bailing
would increase after snowfall, and it
would become impractical to ship
frosted grain after snow had covered
the shocks, the report claimed.
Buy Canadian Roughage
Most Of the roughage will be pur-
chased In Canada. Protein supple
ments and available roughages will
be bought in this country.
A picture OF starving cattle and
other livestock, unless immediate and
speedy action was taken to approve
the plan, was shown to the Washing
ton authorities in the report.
All feed will be sold to the farmers
Of the state for cash, under the plan.
Cooperating in the plan will be the
federal feed committee, the state re-
Mobilization corporation, federal en-
Urgency relief administration, federal
feed agency at Kansas City, farm
credit administration, state extension
service, county agricultural drought
service and local dealers or service
agents to be appointed.
The federal feed committee would
make available the 100000 revolv-
ing fund, which would be turned over
to the state rehabilitation corporation,
which In turn would designate the
FERA as the purchasing organization.
Under FERA, purchases will be made
and directed into counties where feed
Is needed. Local dealers will be paid
at the rate of so cents per ton for
distribution in districts Of roughage
and protein supplements.
A.
With the federal feed agency acting
as a clearing house Of information on
feed purchases and location Of avail
able feed stocks, the farm credit adj
ministration will finance emergency
feed loans to farmers under the plan.
The state extension service will or
ganize drouth relief committees, act
as liaison office between the county
and FERA: the county agricultural
drouth committee will select dealers
In each county, among other duties.
). It Is estimated that total Of a.
e04,3l5 tons OF roughage will be need
ed to winter livestock Of the state for
200 day period OF this amount,
but little remains to be contracted for,
according to the report.
Total cost Of the roughage IS ex-
pected to reach more than $4,000, 600.
Grain required to expected to total
~, 232 600 pounds. OF this amount
259, 40, 900 pounds Of grain are on
hand. Total cost Of amount Of grain
to be shipped in Is $3,723.849.
Cost Of 1922 tons Of protein sup
elements is estimated at $5,2l5,ll2.