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On theCoviuiyGentlenion)
I OUnLING the farmer's
share of the wheat dol
lar is one of the war
time jobs Uncle Sam has
doue since food control
became Possible. After
five months of grap-
13 pling with the problem,
Uncle Sam is now trans
lating into the pockets of both produc
ers and consumers benefits derived by
the Nation. He has shut off specula
tion, produced a free market and
movement of nil grades of wheat, cut
expenses and induced a normal flow of
wheat in natural directions, and ef
fected a thousand other economies.
The Food Administration Grain Cor
poration, which supervises the sale, or
itself, buys every bushel of wheat pro
duced in the Nation in its progress
from country elevator to foreign buy
ers or domestic consumers, marks a
new step toward national efficiency.
How in four short months it has been
done Is told in the following episodes
wherein two bushels of wheat traveled
to market.
One tine fall afternoon, Col. Bill
Jenkins, who farms somewhere in Mis
souri, loaded his wheat into a wagon
and drove along the black road that
led across the prairie to town. When
he reached the co-operative elevator
of which he was a stockholder, he
pulled up on the scales, checked his
gross weights carefully, and began to
unload. The manager came out and
asked :
"When you want to sell this wheat?"
I dunno," he answered. "One
time's about as good as another
these days. 'T won't weigh any more
later," he added, with a dry smile.
"Wheat shrinks a lot," admitted the
manager. "I hear the Government
wants as much wheat as it can get
Just now understand the Allies do
eat a terrible lot of It since the war."
"What's wheat to-day?" asked Col.
Jenkins, getting Interested.
"Well, let me see," parleyed the
manager. "I guess this wheat'd be a
good No. 2 under the new grades."
"Grades? What about grades? That
Food Administration seems to mix Into
mighty nigh everything from rabbits
to axle grease."
"Hold on, Colonel," said the eleva
tor man, good-naturedly. "The Food
Administration Is not to blame. Con
gress passed the act and told the De
partment of Agriculture to fix the
grades. They became effective last
July. I sent out n letter on it."
"Well, I guess you better sell for
the best you can," said the farmer.
"I am needed at home." And lie drove
away.
A New Order In the Grain World.
ONVF.IiSATIONS of this
kind nilglit have taken
Place In almost everv
lvv?! town In the great grain
nf tlle Nation aft-
er August 10; for revo
lution In grain market
ing was taking place. Uncle Sam
had started on this remarkable ex
periment ; he was going to see wheth
er wheat could lie marketed minus
rake-offs to the speculators. This
necessitated complete control by the
xiovoiuinoiit of storage facilities, trans
portatiiiii and distributive agencies,
ami the marketing machinery fur
wheat and rye.
Everybody was troubled; most of
all, the iillioinls of the 1' 1 Adminis
tration Grain Corporation who had
undertaken, wlilmut salary, and at the
iarrltlie of their personal connection
with the grain trade, to whip Into
hupe the forces that would drive for
ward I be big business machine for
marketing American "bent. A single
control; and a J.VUHXU"! nonprofit
funking corporation to do the work.
This work Ik a necessary arm of the
r ooil Administration, allowing the
Government to do busine. quickly
and without red tape. In stock ll held
In trust by the .'resident of the Unit
ed Slates. Tor the time of the war It
will supervise the rate or purchase
the part commercially available of the
COn.mm.miii bushel of wheat and the
oO,iKU"N surplus of ye grown In
America In I'.MT. In Job li to And
market for every bushel. Irrespective)
of class mid grade. Under it patron
age, wheat ncreenlpg are moving Jut
an easily n No. 1 Northern. It must
also work out atlsfactiirlly the local
price for wheat at H'li of almost
i;o.i 1 country elevstor Mlnt, djust
thousand of complHltit. organize tho
gathering and aiuil)s1 of dme. Inspect
concern reported dealing unfairly,
aohe vexation disagreement among
the trade, and deal effectively ltn th
allien' pun busing agent and the neu
tral ho may desire to purrhn.
In the early dnv. following the de
termination of price fur 1!'I7 , wheat
tjr the .'resident Flr Trice fommln
alon, confusion existed In err part of
the wheat producing region. Tld
Intensified by ttie Inauguration of the
rew grain grade, a promulgated by
the lH.pnrttiietit of Agriculture, which
t k place about the time tltoe, and
led to dhTw ron.platnt and a f-!
lug among f irmer that the Grain Tor-
oration if tt f'sd Admln!trHon
KM rwn.oh.ll.le for both the ftr M
dr'rnilr,.-d and s'rtcter frTnce if
train grw But tht trpertlee '
ly an administrative arm of the Gov
ernment formed to buy grain or super
vise Its sale at the prices determined
by the commission, and it must do its
work on the basis of the new grades.
But to return to our farmer and his
expectations of price.
Introducing Two Bushels of Wheat.
Lying side by side in his wagon had
been 2 bushels of wheat that fate had
marked for strangely different ends.
They were very much alike, those
bushels of wheat, and to look at them
you would not have suspected the
strange and wonderful adventures in
store for them. Yet one was destined
to travel abroad for consumption in
France; the other to find its way Into
Georgia, where It was milled and its
flour finally reached a New York
baker on the East Side. But in the
sum of the travels made by the two,
as we shall follow them, will be un
folded the International panorama of
wheat marketing In time of war.
Finding a Price at a Country Point.
High war costs of production gave
our Missouri farmer much concern as
to his returns and accounted for his
depression over the prospects of his
wheat "grading down" ; for that meant
a reduction of 8 cents per bushel un
der the No. 1 grade. But it graded
No. 2.
The elevator would also deduct an
additional 5 cents a bushel to cover the
fixed charge made In this locality for
handling and selling. The 5-cent
charge Included the commission of 1
cent per bushel customary in 1917
among commission men for selling the
wheat to domestic millers or foreign
buyers.
The elevator man was none too sure
as to how to get at the price which
this wheat should bring. He knew
considerably more about human nature
than freight rates and decided to
"check up" the problem to the nearest
zone agent of the Grain Corporation.
So he wrote a letter to the representa
tive stationed at St. Louis. That let
ter was referred to the tratllc expert
In the New York office, who transmit
ted the following rule for determining
the price of wheat at any country
point;
There I only one price for wheat at
a country point. That price I always
to be arrived at by taking a a basi
the price at the most advantageous
primary market where we have fixed
a price and deducting the freight to
that market and a fair handling prof't.
That I the price to be paid for wheat
at any (tatlon, regardles of the point
to which It may be (hipped.
Working out the price which should
be paid for wheat at your station Is
a fine occupation for an off day. If
you cannot find the answer, write to
the Food Administration Grain Cor
poration In New York City und Its
traffic expert will give you aid.
Finding the Price of No. 2 Wheat at
8iketton.
AKE on actual example:
An elevator man In
Sikeston, Mo., wanted
to know what price
No. 2 wheat should
bring at his elation
when No. 1 wheat
at New York City was $2.2S per bush
el. Here la how- he went about It :
The freight rate from Sikeston to
New York being lOtlS cents per bush
el, he deducted that from $2'.'S per
bushel and found the price at Sikeston
to he 12.11112. From tills he deducted
1 per cent per bushel for the commis
sion (inn' charges, which put the net
price f. o. b. Sikeston at
He next compured this price with
what he could get If he sold at St.
I.oulN, hi nearest primary market. At
St. toul the basic price I 2 IS per
bushel, and the freight rate from
Sikeston to St. I.oula 6 cent per bush
el. This would make the Sikeston
price $2.12, le. 1 rent per bushel for
selling charge, or 12.11 net. The St.
Uiul price would therefore govern,
being advantageous to the Sikeston
eller.
If our Imaginary 2 bushel of wheat
had started from Sikeston, lli e It mil
a No. 2 grade, we must deduct 3 cent
per bushel, which would bring the
price f. o. b. the elevator point In
f jiwrj r bushel. A our Inuuiiiary
eletator man I rbnrglng ft cents per
bushel for handling, which Include
the commission fe Just mentioned, we
deduct an additional 4 cent to arrl
at the prb e the farmer re. ehed. Tbl
price w ould be 12 M"2 at the eletor
Some of that cent will return to our
fnrmer If the eletor proT ; for It
I owned co-opera timely.
When Ftrmtr and Elevator Man Die
agree. TTad till elevator bwn ownod by pri
vate firm or person, or had It be,-n
"line' plant, f'ol. Jenkins wtmld not
hare been so bland and truifiil.
He might have ref-ied to ll at all
and arranged to atorp hi wheHt or be
might ba'e taken It oer to rorn
petllre concern w hb h r.Tered a Ush
er price; for the Fi.d Administration
ha not yt ttemped to rgu't th
price pld farmer for wht at coun
try poln' It dote, however, or7e to
tell for any firmer or farmer' a'gn
iMt'on vrfceat oered t termieal
point, but make a cemmiMon cearg
Ult delay in gel tin
wheat started across
the world was occa
sioned by (lie uncer
tain judgment of the
uianuger. lie sent a
sample on to the St. Louis zone agent
for test, which verified his Judgment as
to grade. He then went about bis usu
al duties, cleaning the grain, lining liis
bins, and shipping out as regularly as
he could iu maximum carload iiiauli
ties, In order to economi.e the use ol
cars in time of congestion, lie was
careful to keep his records very
straight as to dates and nuanlilles of
wheat purchased, on bund, und shipped
out, for the Gruin Corporation requires
weekly reports and full details of
transactions.
Selling Wheat to Government.
BOUT 2!) days after
(lie
fanner brought In Ms
wheat there came a re
quest to this elevator for
a carload to be purchas
ed by the Grain Corpora
tion. So one of our
wheat bushels was poured Into a car
which miraculously hud appeared on
the siding at a time when car shortage
was troubling the entire eomuu'reiar
world. Inquiry might have shown that
V
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1 -
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wneat siarioa acros.-; rl
LJbd 1 1 . ... ' fPM,. I I
f VJ 11 "'-e ti Liic wiiviii, grums 10 cover 1 rr
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SB
Loading Wheat at an Atlantic Pert for tO Alllwi
the Grain Corporation was making a
large purchase for the Allies ami was
utilizing Its knowledge of available
stocks by having on the job a Irans
portutlon strategist IMwaid Cham
bers, vice president ol the Simla I'e.
Mr. Chambers was assisting the Food
Administration ami has a remarkable
"way with lilm." I'.ven before he win
called to assist Mr. .Me.Vdoo. the lirec
tor (lenernl. bis suggestions to the rail
roads bad n womb-i-fiil eifecl In dls
(ouriiglng their hesitancy as to (hiding
available curs and 'n clearing up con
gestion that looked us though tiny
never could be uncoiig.-led.
How Uncle Sum Keep the Whip
Fuse In getting the in il d i.ns was
one of the udMiiuages enjoyed by thi.-
particular elevator iil'ler signing the
voluntary agreement which miol to
Hie Grain ( 'oiponii Ion the right to con
trol storage and direct slnpm.-nw and
sales of all wheal bought by the pro
prietor. While Xoluutiiry, this ng i ei ii.ent Is
almost eoiiipnl-oi y siine imlro.ol- ive
priority roconiitiou to i; Coip.,1,1
Hon requests for mis, lili'l il.v.lois
nr mills Hillside tl tin i.il told noi l
"rustle" for IheiusoUo. In 1 ,1 ill 11 ihe
I tovertilHi'liI gtl.iralit
proprietor ugalnsi h.
I1I111 In every way a
He
Iitnl ptoic
a o e 11 1 1 -1 I
I 1 1 1 rentals for all sioi.u. ! qui
sIHmiic.I by II.
All elevators, 1 . ,1 1 nial t.n ..I,
must tnl.e mil 1 1. , n - or t o" 11 -I 'll
down. What Is
povtol- ol I I"
reuse? It require" I In- op. I
nil cards 011 Ihe ItiMc n- 10
lies dealings I or the Hue
w 11 r the c!o 11 1 or be. 1.11 1 a p'
I')- mid Its proprietor urn 1 (
formation us to his In
I line bell reipill e. b' Ibe .
p'.riltl'.ll I. I' ll "ilk be ll.
Mild lllllll repoMs sh'.w 11 11 .
I e
111.
of beul. r e, or He I di I . a . ' . I '
1 llHsi d. sloli ., III.' I ' I I I
Under pn s. 1,1 11, . 1. .. iii. . !.e
i elisee I all I . . p on I il ! f I ' 1 1 .
1,1 y s, nit;. I l-i ,0.- a -, ' I I
Hill. Kill st,,, I , ,f ! . i ' .
Ibi lr d. 1 ,1 ii'!-. s ll.- I- 1 I-.''
! II to 1 ! "l.'O I for ll e .- . f
product be li eii lei I"
Hl'l.lii :vt d; s nf-. r H ' ; i 1
II.B'le
How th Whe.it W.i H u I.
A n v t,i o'ii I 1 I of . 1 - 1
I' Jeirt,e lo ll,,. I. 1 . ' I-
nwt oil i t lo.'.t of t . mi
far's of '!' i.i.i-.f. H .lit'
ll.lltket 1 l.i le II ... I. I
sp.- ui r- .piir. 1.". 1, .! ; . I f .r 1
lll"llllle ti.illll g Itl.-I I ' !
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t.,.'ik!.l ll,e I,. . fr, 1 " . ' I
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Is
,ii,
ri
1 1
r lo 1
it supervision. The corporation
barges each miller 1 uer cent of the
value of the wheat he grinds to cover
the costs of administering the cor
poration; for the $50,000,001) capital Is
to he returned to the United States
Treasury, unimpaired.
The agreement has its compensa
tion, however, for the policy of Uncle
Sam Is to provide each mill with all
wheat possible. To do so, every mill
signing up was required to furnish an
estimate of Its possible milling capaci
ty for the season. This nation-wide
survey of milling capacities, when bal
anced against the available supply of
wheat, enables the Grain Corporation
to equalize supplies In a way never
done before. In fact, the schedule of
prices ill-ranged for the primary mar
kets had for nil object this equaliza
tion. For instance, if the proprietor
of an elevator at Maryvllle, Mo., 40
miles northeast of St. Joseph, and 450
miles from Chicago, desires to market
wheat be has available these markets'.
St. Joseph. Mo.; Kansas City, Mo. ;
St. Louis. Mo.; Chicago, 111., and New
York City, N. Y. To ascertain the
most advantageous price for him, he
would work It out on the basis of the
following table :
From this table you can see what
i- 4
A-c"
- M1. y ,
AtftPJ ft
A-'M-d-i'
ill
wheat would bring at five different
markets If shipped from Muryvllle,
Mo.:
St. Kansas
V. A. o. rr. Jnseih, ctiy
liiHt'kf-tH. Mo. M'l.
St.
iotii.
Mo.
2.18
.1I7S
.07115
1 pm
New
Yurk
City.
12. ?
.JD15
liea
2 uaK7
Itase I'll. I. 2 :l
F.itte tier 100 pounds .1)65
Mi
H:tle per liusiiel.
.(1:19
.l't.5
2 (19b
N.I irli-
2 111
K. A. ). C.
miui kets.
I' ctu prlco
K,tl n-r loo pounils.
I::i'e per IxisUel
Clilcuao,
III.
.. 12 2D
.. .147S
.. .mm
I l'il 2 1115
t inier these conditions the proprietor
would probably sell at St. Joseph or
Chicago, according to his Inclination.
1 lie table further Illustrates Hie
cquull.iilloii of prices and Indicates to
what extent the miller Is protected
when buying wheat In any territory.
I bi'oiigb this plan discriminations
iigiiliist the producer, the miller, and
the consumer me eliminated so far us
it seems humanly possible under a
I ! it ii of hui li lieiiieiidouH proportions.
; V s5
J j jit' f1
' ,J
W if' i
III. .si; s.heilules arrang
ed for the various
iimikeis are veritable
"price dams" to pre
wot tbii ovei llow lug
if Ihe sIHiiln of
wh.'iii at any single
nkei 'I In ) also tend to correct
my nhii.es piowilolit In Ibe past.
I.I
sell as cuitliioiil iiieibods adopted by
mills to se, me supplies and Indiscrimi
nate muting of wheat to terminals
1 I or all piio ll. ul pill poses Hie wheat
business of the count!) Is HpHirtloliei,
and whenever possible mill are sup
i pod fioiii w bent 111 ih territory iiear
I '-I llieiii ' his policy has for all oh
i I"' I I lie saving of wuste In trmispor
, '.'Hon In in. ml. er May saving la
nut ! : Formerly large ipiniitlllcs 'of
' Hie lei gi ado wheals bine I, "en illlllciilt
I lo dispose of 011 H'-coiiiit of lilieoordl
j i.aie.l pnri base of His competing mills;
I
il lllnli r t in le Shiii 1 ' 1 1 11 1 1 1 h ' 1 1 1 1
oil bushel of WbeNt IllUst lloW go
ii,en ie niol the poorer wln-al lll
' I'isl fn-.ly lb Iiioik !
r.il.le grndes
-1
f-1
mniLiirniMiii
Limiting Mill' Profit.
The Illinois miller bo re.eli.d H.
rL.t 1 oii'iiiiiit.K nor tiltsbel of XI bent
. !. . il promptly mid shipped It floor
l-.il f .r 1 .oriiiion Ibe miller
I. .l,oH,. ,y Ihe tisid Adll.llilS'
1 1". 11 to imike fair profit, not n
dug 1. , milium of 2', i,iiis jir
,11. 1 on it,., (lour iid tiisxiiii'ii'i
..r.i ..f 't .. i,'. ,.-r ion n the feed
1. ft .o. r A'l iiilll". bovi..r,
1 i.i f nii (1 si r'tutsr liiier'sls to
I... V illi,,. inN;.,! full nletliet.lS of
. ..'. if 1. 1'tCt. ,,..t. wlili ti fire s. ru
' .I .i.i.'.ptr He irlst is of
I.. l,i,,i 11,. 1,, liter "ld f"r domes
I .1. .111 pMoli. !l poll, T '.f lb"
.1 . 11,11 i'i.i la lo k"'p In He t l.l'el
' .'. s 'ill ii-. "..!, !e f, ..t.l.l In Old, r
, - 111 1 . !!t'k pnelu-Hon
Wheat,
bushel whs
irm uu.h our
being milled a earlot of
wheat reached this mill
from Canada. Importa
tion of Canadian wheat
without special consent
being fot bidden, the mill
operatives bet-nine curious Jind made
Inquiries. This wheat was part of a
large supply which the Grain Corpora
tion had brought Into the United Stales
to Md In keeping the American mills
running,
There was another reason. Domes
tic wheat was not moving from the
farms as freely as the millers needed
It, and shortage forced I lie mills to
operate at n great disadvantage and,
according to them, at higher costs.
The last Journey stage of our first
bushel, although considerably changed
in Its form, was to go as Hour to port
under rush orders. It now had right
of way over all other classes of freight
except other munitions of war. Con
sent of tbo War Trade Hoard being
obtained, It was loaded on a ship and
passed safely through the submarine
field to France, where It succored the
hungry.
We started out to follow (he travels
of two bushels of wheat from the farm
to their points of consumption under
war condition with the V. S. Food Ad
ministration In control of the market
ing. I have previously discussed the
Journeys of these two bushels from
ths farm to the elevator at the country
point. Here they parted and one of
them passed on to a terminal, and
from the terminal to a mill and from
the mill to seaboard. There It went to
France for consumption.
The Other Bushel of Wheat Starts
Traveling.
I W us to the other bushel
of wheal. A certain
Georgia miller, in need
of supplies, notified Hie
Grain Corporal ion and
received permission to
buy on the open market.
About the same time our co-operiillve
elevator manager had llsled a shipment
with his terminal ri pi-esenlallve a
highly reputable commission llrm, also
under Grain Corpoiatlon license. This
linn caught w ind of Hie Georgia order
and secure. 1 permission lo sell the Mis
sourl wheat. The second bushel was
among those poured Into u cur mid
bustled along to lis desllmillon. This
shipment did not pass through any
terminal market. II moved Klinlglit
to Atlanta, where It went between the
rollers of the mill.
Controlling the Jobber by License.
Now, the Hour which came from our
second bushel of w Ileal was lolling
serenely along In aiioiher direction,
but the car was diverted by s hil or
der of the U. S. F I Administrator
Slid received by a large wholesale Job
her In New York City, 'Ibis Jobber
also does business under a Food Ail
ministration license, bill inluiinlslei ed
by the distribution dhlsoii. I iidcr II
cense terms Hie Jobbers inllsl sell ul
a fair profit only, although the cucl
amount of this piolii is noi ili-leiniin
id, (be Food Administration losenlng
the right In eio b case to cull a bell
When a licensee bus gone "Hie lllllll."
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lit
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t
6u(.cr In thi Wjr D'p"il tsi
'lb.
loll,
lol.l.er I
li f.,r
ui' -i. In 11. .
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III, tit lO H I
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Milling Canadian
I,, i.
Ibe
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I. .lull
I
"he hll.e
m, ill Ml.
oil J ,il,d
uiel Hi'.1"'
!.. I t'lel
I. 'sill In tt,
f..r Hour in
srs 10 ion!
r t Ado.
f I.
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lil.'l.,'
ll. Oil.-II ' 1.
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f..r il.. li
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1
means of control of the retailer by
making the jobber a voluntary po1 -'-man
to his customer. The jobber is
licensed to sell only to traders who
deal fairly, and if it should turn out
that a Jobber persists in doing busi
ness with retailers guilty of profiteer
ing In staples under control the Food
Administration has and may exercise
the right to revoke the license of lha
jobber.
The other part of this shipment con.
lalucd our second bushel of wheat and
went over to Hie Fast Side Into a snm'l
bakery, which quickly made It inlo
creamy loaves. These loaves we'-e;
placed 111 groceries and delicatessens
and the next day were eaten by hun
gry Utile boys and girls with dark
eyes and big noses and quaint ways.
Brings Out Startling Truths.
Government control has brought out
these startling truths :
More people unnecessarily make
their living out of wheat distribution
Hum was suspeeled. Thousands and
thousands of little speculators have
had to turn elsewhere for a livelihood.
A number of commission men have
had to close shop. There are places
where elevalors should be built and
oilier places where there are too many
elevators. The Government, dominat
ing the wheat nuirkel, carries lis own
murine Insurance. Wheat handlers at
terminals have bud their activities re
stricted. Itut most of all 11 Is Interesting tf
see bow the price of Hour per barrel
tumbled from Ihe time Uncle Sam took
n positive hand In the mallei-. The
Food Adinlnlsli'iillon bus recently com
pleted an Interesting chart on tbo
prices of wheat and bulk Hour at Min
neapolis. In a slalement of Novem
ber 2li, the Food Administration says:
The fni-iuer recelveft for Hip l'.ll har
vest tu'tweon $i.4r itn.1 J 1 Till per tniNlnd
for the liHi-vest, liiUlnif the country ty
large iiuil . I ,usl yenr lie received
under 20 per cent of ttie price f tiie lost.
To'lny he Is receix his over 4U per cent off
the money paiil for Ihe cash lonf, thl
being the result of Hie slahllizutloll of
prices and the tutiil elhninat Ion of hoard
iiiK and HHi-ulHtlon lit tills ladustrv.
The statement reports that farmers
on November 211 were receiving with
freight charges Included from the ter
ritory represented to Minneapolis, ap
proximately $11.5(1 for -I'd bushels of
wheat. The price of bulk Hour at Hie
Minneapolis mill Is about $10.25 per
barrel, showing Hint the miller Is now
receiving about "5 cents per barrel,
which must include both his operating
expenses and prolil,
I'ltl.N'G last .Inly anil Ail
gusl, w bile 'ongress w na
wrestling with llself t
produce a food adminis
t III I ion, iiml Ihcre watt
mi : i n In Corporation,
Hour pro. hull. hi In Hie
principal centers was 75
per cent under the sain
period In I'.iHi. In September, October
and Nov elilher, under the supervision
of ihe Food Ailiuinlsl i ntlon, Hour pro
duction was 111 per cent of Hie siium
pel loil lii IUIII What tills means In the
great national situation, with depleted
louieslic flour rcseives and cliiniorlnif
foreign buyers, can baldly be over
eiiipbiisl.ed. when inoveiiienf of wheat
Inio pi'liiniiy mnikelH has been hardly
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