Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 140, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 June 1918 — WHEAT TO GO HIGHER COMBAT FREIGHT RATES [ARTICLE]

WHEAT TO GO HIGHER COMBAT FREIGHT RATES

State Administrator Barnard states that farmers of Indiana will be protected against the reduced price of wheat, due to the advance of freight rates on June 24th. A telegram has been received from Herbert Hoover, federal food administrator, that wheat will be advanced at the principal Mississippi valley and eastern terminals so as to equalize as far as may be possible the loss that the farmer would otherwise incur through the increase in rates. The rates will be established and made known June 25th. By these new rates the farmer is left in the same intrinsic position that he was before.