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Show UTE'S ASKED TO SEN OJI WHEAT Government Needs the Flour For Our Soldiers in the Trenches. Local Flour Mills Will Buy the Wheat, Grind It Into Flour and Ship it. Farmers' Duty ia to Get the Wheat to the Mills. No people In the history of the United States have such an oppor-' tunity to serve their government as. the Utah farmers have right now. AK most half of the people In the world are hungry, women as lovable and pood as our own mothers are starving, children as iweet as ours are dropping by the wayide from famine, tlie sol-: diers In the trenches may hare to giver up the figl because they haven't enough food to keep up tbelr strength. Farmers read this announcement from the Federal Food Administrator, W. W. Armstrong, and see what h9 has to say about your wheat and flour: Every patriotic citizen in Utah in asked to turn in his surplus flour. and to send his wheat to the nearest; mills to be ground, thus releasing mill, feeds for the livestock. The cost of; Imported mill feeds, oil cake etc., is, eo high In many portions of the state that farmers have beeu compelled to feed their wheat or to sacrifice their stock botli instances of criminal waste under the present war time necessity. It Is absolutely a question of patriotism patriot-ism now, for the government needs the flour and the soldiers need the food. The Mormon Relief Society has done a splendid thing in releasing oyer "00.000 bushels of whent, but every single 4.S pound suck of flour is bought up with rejoicing and every bushel of wheat sent to the mills is recorded with joy. 1. Flour must lie in original mill packages, either 2-1, 4S, or 9S pound sacks. 2. Flour must be "one hundred per cent flour or bolter," commonly known as straight grade or high patent. 3. Hie local flour mills will buy the wheat, grind it into flour and ship out the flour. The fanner's duty Is to get his wh?at to the mill. 4. The price to be paid for flour Is $4.75 per hundred pounds, net weight. Vhis will allow the mill to pay the farmer the fair market price for his wheat. Farmers should turn in their grain and take! the cash. The president has Mixed the price for the 1918 crop and the crop reports indicate n much heav-'ier heav-'ier yield of wheat and other grains in 1018 than in 1017. There is no region to expect that grain will command a better price, anil every farmer knows that the longer Tie holds his wheat the greater his risk of loss- from shrinkage, vermin, damp ness and fire. ' Take flour to the nearest mill or retailer. |