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Show SHY LIMIT xBi mms. New Measure to Encourage Encour-age Farmer to Sell Wheat and to Buy Flour. The mills of Utah can no longer store grain for farmers for a longer period than thirty days, according to announcement announce-ment made today at the office of the federal food administration. . It has been customary for the local farmers to bring thetr grain to the mills and to keep It there for grist for the entire year. The new step has been taken, according ac-cording to M. H. Green. Utah representative represen-tative of the United btates Grain corporation, cor-poration, merely to comply with the stor-uKe stor-uKe requirements of the food administration. administra-tion. The new measure, he declares, will work no hardship on the farmer, but will really encourage him to sell his wheat and to buy flour, at present a distinct economic eco-nomic measure. Mr. Greene states that It is really a big it -vantage to sell the wheat and buy 'IvJrrour. the millers ordinarily charging - V?i the old grist basis of thirty pounda V -"of flour and fourteen pounds of bran ' and shorts. To sell wheat at $2 a bushel, rather than paying such a toll to the miller, will be considerable Baving to the farmer, jUr. Greene estimates, especially as most of the millers give the farmer the opportunity to buy at wholesale rates. The practico of storing the grain at the mills only prevails In the intermoun-tain intermoun-tain country and not in the big central grain states. A number of local citizens owning farms in the suburban districts are greatly great-ly interested in the new ruling, and say that the storing of grain at the mills for grist Is not today a paying proposition. Another ruling of interest to the farmer, just received at the office of the federal administrator, states that when a farmer brings to a mill wheat grown by himself, the miller may deliver to him on the toll or exchange basis a sufficient amount of flour, without substitutes, to provide eight pounds per month for each person per-son in his household or establishment until October 1, 1318, provided the farmer signs a certificate and that the miller hiis reasonable cause to believe the truth thereof. The certificate Is to be signed by the farmer exchanging wheat for flour. This certificate provides that the farmer has raised on his farm the wheat delivered deliv-ered to him in the form of flour, that he will not sell, lend or deliver such flour to anyone else, nor permit it to be used for -other than human consumption in his household or establishment, and that the supply Is no more than sufficient to meet his immediate needs. Before this ruling the farmer has only been allowed to get a supply to last him thirty duys. Mr. Greene has been besieged by long distance calls, in regard to whether or not the farmer not raising grain can receive re-ceive wheat for his labor to be taken to the mill for grist. He states that under t he rulings of the government only the farmer who raises his grain has a right to exchange. |