Show 2 I THE THE WHEAT SHORTAGE SHORTAGE c r J An Indiana newspaper of Tues Tuen Tuesday I 1 f day da records the tile sale 14 to an mill of a carload carlONI of ot wheat heet at per I J bushel and the report tt adds add that It j was wa the last Caribou o of t wheat in the thet I state tate t i The price itself is In extraordinary but I the fact that the test It carload of Indiana Indianan I I 1 i heat wheat n has baa gone mill is ia I a phe pe phenomenon worth recording Probably no each complete exhaustion of ot the sup supply supply i ply pI has hall ever occurred In hi I the tha state elate since Mace I it was wan settled Commenting on the sale nate saler r 1 the miller r Interested said naki hi ne ie had been i unable to secure grain enough eno gh to run f more than one day in the week and andI 1 I after atter this thin carload is gone he will have havo y 4 I 4 I to t shut mut don don doen n until the new MW crop crap comes I If f in III two or three weeks week from ROW now BOWIn i j In 10 view of or such melt a situation in one of c 1 th the best beat rail fan wheat ht state stat in ba the coon coun country I try it is about time for tor the department S I of or agriculture to revise Its Ito figure of or stocks on hand and confess that Mr Ir 1 Patten Patton knew a good deal more about abot i ithe the subject than did the department j with its thOI of ol correspondents 1 I Also Alao It seems ms about time thIS for far a complete 1 reorganisation of or the system of esti estimates 1 matH mates used by bv the department The 1 1 whole woolf milling trade has baa depended d ed upon 11 if t these the e estimates and been misled with a aron atOn aa 3 a tOn ron lone loae of millions of dollars Something is wrong ron somewhere when 3 i 4 a nt department with lark large fund fuMi at lit it II Its disposal misses mise its calculations i ii I i I lations b anywhere from M OM to huh and insists that the I I figures ures an a correct orret 1 i Any one of half laif a doses dosen board of trade firm gets more accurate It statis statistic ties tic of the tb grain trade than does the I agricultural and gets gEta it with considerably less expenditure of ot ott t That being lM the ease case ea it is ill Ume time timeto j to ut Ute use the thc ax a liberally in Washington Wa i and make a 11 fresh start on the crop es estimate esI I business 1 1 a l |