Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 230, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 October 1918 — Food Administration Urges Test for Wheat Waste; Tells How to Rectify Operation [ARTICLE]

Food Administration Urges Test for Wheat Waste; Tells How to Rectify Operation

A matter of unusual importance to grain growers is the food administration's official test for clean threshing, says Indianapolis News, By this rule any farmer can test the work of the threshing machine he has hired. The test is made by directing the straw blower against a blanket, sheet or canvas during the time the weighing device trips five times, recording two and one-half bushels. If more than one pint of wheat is winnowed 1 from the straw on the canvas, bad work is indicated. One and one-half pints indicates a loss of 1 per cent. If more than three pints is found—-which means a 2 per cent loss —reasonable time should -be given to correct the bad operation, and a second test should be made. If improvement is not obtained, steps should be taken through the county threshing committee to discontinue operations until the avoidable waste is corrected. Most threshing committees have formulated detailed rules for the guidance of threshing crews in effectively stopping waste of grain. But more effective than the rules and regulations, the food administration believes, has been the eagerness with which farmers and threshermen have accepted * their harvest-time responsibility and the diligence with which they are now stopping every source of grain waste.