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Show ARMSTRONG URGES . PLANTIKGJBF CORN Food Administrator Tells of Wheat Substitute Need in State. That the people of Utah should plan for nearly 10,000 acres of corn to be planted within he next two or three weeks, was the subject of an appeal made last night by W. W. Armstrong,- state food administrator. It is pointed out that there will be urgent need of an added corn crop in Utah this year. The request' of Mr. Armstrong to the people of the state follows: One of the serious difficulties encountered en-countered in carrying out the food administration programme has been the problem of supplying substitutes for wheat flour. The price of our wheat is based on the Chicago price, less the freight from Utah to Chicago. Substitutes are produced and manufactured manu-factured in Utah only to a very limited lim-ited extent. This necessitates their importation with freight added, making mak-ing the ratio of value between wheat products and substitutes equal to the freight both ways from eastern territory. terri-tory. This project is designed for the purpose of supplying substitutes for wheat flour. White Flint corn can be successfully raised in Utah and lends Itself readily to small acreage and garden plots. It is estimated that there are approximately ap-proximately 61,000,000 pounds of white flour consumed in this state. To produce pro-duce substitutes for 2-5 per cent of this, we must produce 15,250,000 pounds. Tt is very conservatively estimated, all kinds of land and conditions con-ditions included, that we should produce pro-duce forty bushels of White Flint corn to an acre, which in turn will make forty pouids of cornmeal to the bushel, or 1600 pounds per acre. Therefore, 9500 acres will produce substitutes for 25 per cent of our wheat consumption. It is the aim of this project not to alio' the raising of tte corn to interfere inter-fere with other necessary war crops, but rather to raise it in small areas which would otherwise probably not be utilized to the. fullest extent. Arrangements are also being made with the local mills to provide the necessary facilities for grinding the cornmeal In order that the substitutes substi-tutes may be immediately available in all localities. The city committee on agriculture and food production announced last night that it has a large number of pieces of vacant land listed that are adapted to the raising of corn or potatoes. The location of these lands may be secured by applying at room 5, city and county building. |