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Show URGES ACREAGE CUT FOR WINTER WHEAT Gray Silver Would Make Cut 20 Per Cent Instead of 15. "If the farmers are going to make a serious effort to reduce the wheat acreage they should cut their winter wheat acreage 20 per cent instead of the 15 per cent which they indicated recently to the Department of Agriculture Agricul-ture they expected to do," says Gray Silver, Washington representative of ing American Farm Bureau federation. federa-tion. "It Is too early to state how much of a reduction should be made in the spring sown crop but It will be time to do this after it Is certain what acreage acre-age the farmers actually have sown to winter wheat and Its condition. The winter wheat crop comprises two-thirds of our entire wheat acreage and therefore there-fore It Is most important from the standpoint of reduction of acreage. "If there should be very little winter win-ter killing and the abandonment of acreage from that cause varies from 2 to 30 per cent there would not necessarily nec-essarily be a material or even any reduction re-duction In yield next year If the reduction re-duction in acreage sown amounts only to 15 per cent. We should make sure that the acreage Is much smaller than a year ago. "The American Farm Bureau federation feder-ation along with numerous other agencies agen-cies for some time has been urging upon up-on tin; farmers the necessity for adjusting ad-justing uhi'at production In response to consumptive demand and thus eliminating elim-inating to a considerable degree the surplus wheat which annually breaks our markets and makes us largely dependent de-pendent upon the world price for that commodity. It makes us compete with the Indian labor and coolie labor, the virgin lands of Argentina, and the cheap lands of Camilla. The production produc-tion of a surplus of any commodity Is a waste !" |