Show A CLEAN HARVEST by F S HARRIS now that thai the nation is engaged in in war in which food supply will be one of tile the large factors in fit deciding tle the issue it is hec necessary essary that every possible means of conservation be a adopted careless methods which might in part be justified in times of plenty I 1 must abw now be changed and everything must bp be done to save every pound ot of food for man mail and beast li ast 1 j with the cultivation of vast areas and the use of large machines old time methods of carefully harvesting tile the crop live five been neglected it lias has been easier to increase the area of the farm than to give extra care to a few acres As a result such a thing as gleaning or malting making a clean harvest has become be coille almost unknown when grain was cheap and the supply abundant farmers might find justification forr for a certain degree of carelessness in harvesting the crop but now that the price of all farm products is so I 1 high and in view of the nations in i need of all products there seems to I 1 be no good reason why tile greatest care should not be taken to make an absolutely clean harvest at a recent interstate c ereal cereal con I 1 foresee ference held in kansas city it was estimated that in the united states at least twenty million bushel bus helIs ot of wheat and proportionate quantities of other cereals are annually lost logs by waste in harvesting harve gUng and threshing this waste can and should he be in a large measure easily avoided A man and team aar known 6 to hay cleared from 27 to lo ta 2 a day from clean cleaner tr it up after thre threshers in another instance was castr gained gaind by a man with a te team am and fanning mill in three time denning cel laIng up after threshing baclit io i nat tinga this carelessness careless nesi is not cononel ti to I 1 the on cereals lint ut sv IZ Sc to all ceope fly by icing going I 1 over I 1 tile the I 1 alfalfa field with a rake after the ills crop has been removed it to I 1 surprising hew haly which can be had on every tann farm ar ditch barels barils banlos and corners carriers where grass grase Is s allowed go gc to waste this could profitably bu cut or could be eaten by ant julinah tethered where the feed could be reached X kach ach farmer should adopt tho th slogan that ho he will harvest every aunce cunce ot of crop that Is produced oil ing his cartri and we IMO it us as economically as possible not only tt to increase hla his own pro fits lits but also to add to the war eft clency ot of the country i |