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Show ! URGE FREE MOVEMEfff OF TIE GRAIN CROP Representatives of All Branches of the Business Busi-ness Confer. tlo?L,Y?,.UK- May 1 Recommenda-m Recommenda-m n m lh,e,sov''rnmcl" purchase that 'J ' f 1918 wheat crop which deal-1" deal-1" " lf to sell and that free move-to move-to Alt V"" 0t' Kr:iin fronl Producer:, tlnJSfe b. Hllowed were made to the united .states food administration hy .ne,se'UatlvPS f "'I branches of the nrln,.ryn.v.ftra,n hadling business here uraaj. The recommendations, drafted by "nnJ"imittee representing a majority of . -uu delegates from grain centers, holding '. two-day conferenco with Julius Barnes president of the food administration grain corporation, were declared to express the opinion of the trade as to the beat method ot handling the 1.91S crops. E C. Eiker.berry of Camden, Ohio president of the grain dealers national association, who headed the committee which prepared the report, said it is essential, es-sential, in view of the fact that the government gov-ernment has fixed the price of wheat and has limited ownership and storage of coarse grains to sixty days, that steps bo taken to assure expeditious movements of the current season's crops and to encourage en-courage heavy planting next season as a win-the-war policy. The committee "report urged that dealers deal-ers be allowed to accumulate reserve stocks of grains in terminal elevators to meet transportation and weather emergencies emer-gencies and that sale of wheat and coarse grains in open market be permitted. A majority of the dealers, led by C. 13 Pierce of Chicago, expressed dissatisfaction dissatisfac-tion with the food administration's sixty-day sixty-day limit on ownership and storage of grains. Mr. Barnes replied that, the object ob-ject of the regulations was to insure steady flow of grain to American trading centers, to United States troops abroad and to the allies, and asked the conferees if they would prefer a policy of requisitioning re-quisitioning to that of restricted storage. At the close of the conference Mr. Barnes announced that he would welcome appointment of a council representing the various grain exchanges to advise with him from time to time on food administration adminis-tration problems. The dealers favored the idea and through their organization will select a permanent committee. |