The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-05-02
By DOUGLAS LARSEN
 NEA Staff Correspondent WHAT III 6 SAWS.

I Washington, May 2 =. (NEA) =
 The next 90 Gays Is. the most im-
 portant' period for enforcing the
 conservation measures of the Fam
 inc Emergency Program if America
 is going to fulfill her wheat export
 commitments to the famine-stricken
 countries according to the Depart
 ment of Agriculture.
 This statement is made in answer
 to charges of officials in the wheat
 milling industry that the conserva- | tion orders are not producing addi- tional food for export. Agriculture officials say that reducing the use of
 grain as livestock feed when it can
 serve as human food has been one
 of the chief problems in making 8
 greater quantity of wheat available
 for export.
 Agriculture's latest crop report ad-
 mitS that consumption of feed grains by livestock and poultry dur ing January March period con tinued at a relatively high level" But it says that the combination of measures now in effect is chang ing this situation and providing more grain for human food. Here are the three important reasons for the change:
 l. The 30 per cent extraction flour leaves a smaller percentage of the wheat for livestock feed. In other words more people are fed per bushel of wheat now than formerly.
 2. The Government has imposed restrictions on the use of wheat by mixed feed mar dfacturers.
 3. The purchase of grain or grain products these include wheat by feeders for use in feeding hogs, cattle, and poultry beyond specified weight, grade and number is pro- l1ibited.
 A LIFE PER BUSHEL
 All these measures, the officials say, leave only the wheat on farms outside the livestock feeding con- trolS and the department men con tend this wheat is moving off the farms in a volume that does not in- dicate excessive loss due to live stock feeding. They say that since January l wheat has moved from farms at record rate. More than a billion bushels have been moved from farms since the new crop was harvested last fall, a quantity that has never before been approached. The April crop report estimates cur rent farm stocks at 204,O00, ,O0O bushels, the lowest for April 1 since 1941.
 Officials look to the newly an- nounced wheat certificate plan to move what wheat is left. The plan gives the farmer who delivers his wheat now, the opportunity to benefit from any later increase in price. He does this by selecting the day on which he will take payment for his wheat. This can be any time between now and the end of March 1947.
 Officials explain that every bushel of wheat that goes abroad can save one more life. They maintain that no measure can be spared which will produce extra food for human beings now. That is one reason they give for making the bulk of the snip mentS in wheat rather than flour. Wheat that is exported is milled abroad at extraction rates ranging from 85 to 100 per cent. EXPORTS UP
 From the beginning of the emergS ency early this year, officials says, each measure in the food program including restrictions in the use of | grain in alcoholic beverages of all | kinds, has been drafted after con- ;ultation with representatives of the industries affected. For example, after President Truman indicated that change in the extraction ate of flour was considered neces- ;ary part of the conservation pro- gram, Department of Agriculture officials held conferences with mill CTS and bakers before working out the details of the order which was set at 30 per cent instead of the proposed 85 per cent.
 Exports of wheat and four dur ing the first quarter of 1946 were Tar in excess of first-quarter ship