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Show PLENTY OF- Gil ii IE UNITED STATES Up to Government to Move It From Farms to Centers of Distribution. CHICAGO. Jan. 17. There is plenty of grain to supply the needs of the United States and the allies during 191c, but it is up to the government to move It from the farms to the centers of distribution, dis-tribution, representatives from trrain exchanges ex-changes from all over the country declared de-clared here tonight at the convention of the National Council of Grain Exchanges. Millions of( bushels of com will gu to waste unless trains to move it can he furnished within sixty days, it was said. Delegates to tho council declared that corn and wheat crops last year exceeded all expectations and that an even greator yield was expected this year. Conditions for winter wheat were declared lo be better bet-ter than at any time during the past ten years. The council was addressed tonight by Julius H. Barnes of Is'ew York, president of the food administration grain cooperation, co-operation, who said that there, was u sufficient suf-ficient quantity or" wheat and dour, although al-though much of ir. is still on the farms, to supply the I'nifed States and to justify jus-tify the food administration in proposing to" send an additional 9O,oo0,O0O bushels to the allies. "In addition to the excellent wheat situation," sit-uation," said Mr. Karnes, "there has been an extraordinary development ir. tho in- rcase of production of other cereals. The increase in meal and tluur from barley, rye and oals is 4ii,000,nun bushels over a i year ago, and exports of corn and oa in pi oducts the past six months arc tivc times greater than the previous six months. "There has been a gmat increase in everv crop and there will be h, bigger increa se t his yea r because Americ;i n democracy de-mocracy claims the right to feed tiio allies al-lies as' well as America." U YV. Forboll of New York w td the grain situaiion for IP! depended entirely on. the government. "Not only must rail-road rail-road action be- obtained, but there must bo ships for export s and an ample supply sup-ply of coal." he said. George Wells. delegate lVorn Ijch Moines Iowa, told the council tha.t h1-though h1-though Iowa 'produced more than K'O,-(.fp(i,000 K'O,-(.fp(i,000 buidicls of corn hist yp;ir. much of It will mold and be wnrlhbj:-s unlets it can he moved within sixty diiy?. The Kansas grain belt should produce more grain than ever tins yenr and h;-s plenty on hand, G. H. Carkoncr of Kansas Kan-sas City said. ('. K. Mcl'opHld, secretary of the l"u-lutli. l"u-lutli. Minn., benrd of trade, rldnrcd thai the winter wheat, situa l ion in the nor I Ii -v est was excellent h rid t ha t t lie re was pif-n ly of q nt in on ha nd. The de'c.i ! ex were una iiininus in t he belief that the present grain prices, fixer by the government, were meeting with approval. Tne con vent jr,n arliouri-r-rf tnniy.'d, after electing the following ol'licers: .1. H. McMillan. M. i nne;ii:n is, nrcslden t William M. Kckhardr. Chl'-apn. vie president; pres-ident; Jc.hn W. Snyder. K;j It imore ti eas-urer eas-urer ; .1. Ralph Pi- k ell, Chicago, :,ec-re'ary |