Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 194, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 August 1916 — STORE WHEAT CROP ON FARM IS URGED [ARTICLE]

STORE WHEAT CROP ON FARM IS URGED

Then Farmer Can Wait Until Market Looks Up—Of Special Benefit This Year. “Ability to store the wheat crop on the farm will be perhaps of greater value to the farmers this year than ever before,” says Edward C. Johnson, dean of extension in the Kansas State agricultural college. “For this there are two principal reasons —first, the shortage of freight cars, resulting from the congestion of freight on the Atlantic seaboard; second, the lower price per bushel during the early threshing season. This lower price necessarily results from inability to get transportation facilities, from the greater risk and hence greater margin taken by elevators to handle grain before it has gone through the sweating process, and from the fact that the whole grain trade knows that great quantities of wheat will be marketed during July,” August and September, whatever the price may be.”