Show Utah Ready to Increase Its Wheat Acreage 1918 I 9 I 8 Crop Exceeds Average Request Made of State for jor This Harvest I Was a l Million Jl Bushels Increase Over Ovel 1917 Which If Will ill Be Exceeded Exceeded Exceeded Ex Ex- Ex- Ex by Bl Bushels BY M. M H. H GREENE Manager Salt Lake Branch Food Administration Grain Corporation IF U E were prone to lo believe at least before tile the war var that the price of wheat reflected itself m in th the value of all commodity commodities It lit carriell car- car vied lied with it a n standard of value alue determining the purchasing power of the dollar Its value alue depended upon its supply not of a n state or nation but of the world Wheat is said to be the only agricultural product that has a world market The Tile worlds world's distribution of wheat terminated in the famous Liverpool Liver Liver- Liver Liver-I pool market near the world worlds world's n 5 money monc center London n n Since tho declaration of or war the first t attempt toward a stabilization of or prices of oC food officials of oC warring na nations nations na- na was the control of or tho the price of or wheat The cost of ot living centered upon the cost of or this Important product product prod prod- and had not ot restrictions been placed d upon wheat values It Is not unreasonable unreasonable un un- un- un reasonable lo to say that wheat would be nearer 5 15 a bushel than 2 52 and flour would b be b reaching chin th the 20 O per pel barrel banol mark malk If It the food administration has I Idone done no other thing It has hns saved to every ever consumer one half the value of ot the breadstuff consumed At the same time with one of the shortest wheat crops ver er er produced In the th United States approximately tely 1 bushels or or to speak exactly 14 bushels one fourth of or the hue nations nation's crop was waa spared for Cor our allies last season This act alone has been one of ot the chief factors sustaining the strength lh of if IC the allied nations So o eXtensive ex- ex have hn b been en the lon conservation cl motives motives mo mo- tives lI of oC the American merican public that considering the consumption of oC wheat as human food lood on tho basis of public consumption for tor th the month of ot otIa May Ia only bushels of wheat would I be necessary to sustain this nation for fOl time the period of or one year ear Yet the month of or May Mav has not produced different r re- re I from front any oth other I month while the fifty fifty-fifty substitute rule applies With lh Hucl uel a saving Having the grain corporation corpo colpO ration will h ho l o able to build up UI a ic- ic serve 5 r e of at wheat al nt public elevators elc In III America ard Eur Europe pe which will Insure the allied cause protection against a food shortage for years carf to lo come Already Al- Al ready reserves are ure accumulating In terminal rI elevators at nt portIS lort antI and In In Interior Interior In- In tenor rl In market et centers conters There has haH never ne been a n time before when the wheat was as so nearly nearl h 1 u on 1 tn f. t el unu 0 p av v v u I harvest hanest sea season U Utah ah in answering j I Ithe the tIme call for tor wheat had hall less les In storage storage storage stor stor- age a month a g. g I 1 II I at any tUne time since silice 1860 Time The tide tille has hall been stemmed and th time the Important thought of at the time food administration now Is the accumulation tion of vast quantities o of wheat particularly pat par Ial In Europe so that thal no submarine submarine submarine rine menace will v endanger our food tood supply f Then too the shipment of oC wh wheat at to lo Europe is encouraged rather than that of flour Clour because of oC the saIng saving say sav ing lug of or time In the service A boat can bo be loaded with wheat wheal In a a. few tew hours by the tho aid of ot modern machinery while the time loading of flour Clour requires days to complete the tho jo job Mill feeds arc ale to be cheaper this season In order to encourage the time production production pro Iwo of at dairy products and amid hogs hog The good Samaritan spirit Is It being hown l h II y allowing I lo u manufacture manu facture flour Jour and mill feeds front from our wheat in order to lee kee keep up Ut the livestock live livestock stock industry over there The Tho campaign n for Cor or a still greater reater acrea acreage of or wheat is about to be b waged agel b by the United States department u of agriculture More than a n billion bush- bush harvest hal for 1 1319 19 Is the forecast for our nations nation's security Time The reque request t made malle of ot Utah for fot this was a million bushels Increase over ocr 1017 which will wilt be lie exceeded by 11 no AA 1 11 m Ili I j 1 n i is nOt nor tin m nc- W I counted for tor pt because of or orthe the request t but on account of or the thc re request ue 10 quest coupled with favorable crop rop condition condition con con- The lime forecast t of oC the wheat crop timis season exceeds Utah's average aver aver- ago age production approximately b bushels bushel u sh c is Utah stanza stants t day a to Increase Its wheat heat acreage The Tho man marKin of cultivation cultivation cul cul- can cither be bo extended into now lands the lands landH already cropped cultivated more lILure or the time in- in e application b by producing that crop rov which requites requires the least amount I I of or labor 0 |