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Show WHEAT PRICE 15 TO REM inn Protests From Farming Districts Dis-tricts Do Not Move Food Administrator. WASHINGTON, Sept. 8. The price of $2.20 a bushel for wheat fixed by President Wilson will be maintained, it was made clear today at the food administration bureau, despite isolated protests from farming interests that the figure is too low. Virtually the only objection of any consequence, it was said, has arisen in North Dakota, where the crop was unusually poor. North Dakota farmers are demanding demand-ing $3 a bushel for their wheat, and are asking for the removal of the food administration's regulations, designed to prevent speculation. They particularly particu-larly object to restrictions against elevators ele-vators storing grain more than thirty da vs. t)r. R. A. Pearson, assistant to the secretary of agriculture, is just back from a trip throughout the west, with a report that he found tho wheat price generally acceptable except in communities com-munities where crops were far .below normal. ' The result of the price fixed, food administration officials say, is that the farmer will receive about 33 per cent more a bushel than last year. On the other hand, by tho rough "arrangements "arrange-ments made for the elimination of speculation spec-ulation and to control distribution, the consumer should, they contond, obtain a saving of at least $3 a barrel on flour, or 20 per cent under the average of the last four months. Herbert Hoover, the food administrator, adminis-trator, foresees some actual suffering among farmers in North Dakota and in localities in other states, whatever the price. The wheat failure in some dis- growers will lose money. "The plan generally,'' he said, "is running smoothly, except for the necessarily neces-sarily expected local misunderstandings, and the food administration will not de- part one iota from the prices determined deter-mined on by the president for govern- ment purchases either now or through-j through-j out the year. I believe that the sense i of support shown the government in dealing with the difficulties of war is an ample guarantee that wheat will I flow regularly to our consuming centers cen-ters and to the allies. "The arrangements made by the I railroads permit their handling wheat moro rapidly this year than last. So far the roads have been able to take ' care of all the movement, and probably proba-bly can continue to do so until a little I later in the fail." J. W. Sullivan, who represented the American Federation of Labor on tho wheat price fixing committee, said today to-day that if the price of wheat came up again for review labor would demand de-mand a lower figure. |