Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-08-18 | Page 33 | Irish Farmer will Adopt New Methods

IRISH FARMER WILL ADOPT NEW METHODS Shipping Oats to Scotland for Conversion Conver-sion Into Meal Is to Be Thing of Past. DUBLIN, Aug. 17. The Irish farmer in the past has been In the habit of growing excellent oats. The oats are then exported ex-ported to Scotland and imported back again to Ireland in the form of oatmeal for his food and of by-producLs as food for his cattle. The thrifty Scotsman makes a handsome profit out of ft. The war promises to change this very uneconomic Irish method and Induce the Irish farmer to do better for himself. In many districts grain mills are being erected in Ireland. About seventy cooperative co-operative FOcifties now have oat mills and flour of their own. One society of Sir Horace Plunkett's organization in Kerry borrowed 2000 from the bank, started a mill and worked the grain to the utmost, extent, so that the members obtained excellent flour for their families and feeding stun for their cattle and pign. Tho result unprecedented unprece-dented prosperity in the district.. The old great milling business of Ireland Ire-land was lost to the country because the millers would not change their methods and u?e up-to-date machinery and plants. Now there i? a healthy change of fooling, stimulated by the needs of the war.