Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 156, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 July 1917 — Hold Wheat On Farm Advice to Farmer. [ARTICLE]

Hold Wheat On Farm Advice to Farmer.

“Farmers, stack your wheat! Hold it right on the farm at present.” Such is the first official advice to Hoosiers given by Harry E. Barnard, acting in Indiana for the national food administrator. The advice constitutes a part of a nation wide movement to handle the country’s food supply systematically in the present war crisis. It is pointed out that if this advice is not followed the elevators of the country will be overtaxed, for there is no longer the export outlet at the seaboard that has taken millions of bushels annually as soon as it could be rushed from the farm to the market.' It is hoped the grain will be held on the farms so that the movement will be stabilized and this, it is pointed out, is entirely in the hands of the farmers, who are asked to co-operate with the unified control under Mr. Hoover, the federal expert. Mr. Barnard regards it better to hold the wheat in stack as long as possible, for he declares that if it is packed away in home granaries much of it will be lost through ordinary wastage in the handling, rats, etc.