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Show save 16,000,000 bushels h ' of wheat that formerly ' 'was lost in threshing Farmtr. Urod by Food AtfmlaUtra tlon, Provld 8vn Kra Lhvm of Brtd for Kvtry American. Of sdoptlnf cleaner threshing rotth-ods rotth-ods and by literally combing harvest fields t gather grain formerly wast-ed, wast-ed, thrherraen and farmers of the I United States this year aavad fully fl 1 10,000,000 butheia of -Wheat, Mtlmated aa equivalent to about acres on-pound loavea of bread for crary paraoa In Uia country, nils result, accompanied BBfl by corresponding aavlnga of barley, BBfl oats, rye and other grains, is shown by Bfl reports from 83 grain atatea to tht V, 8. Food Administration. Othtr states, HBb although not prepared to furnish delt BBa ntta figures of conservation In tho grain fields, report grtaUy raduccd Bfl harvest losses, This rural food saving achievement, accomplished In scarcely six months' HBb time, wus In direct response to re- BVJ quests by the food Administration, IBfl which asked fanners and tbresbermen JBb to reduce harvest losses from about fBfl 8tt per cent. the estimated averago In normal times to the lowest nossl- BBb bis minimum. Country grain thresh- IBb Ing committees carried Into every JBl grain growing community ths offlchil recommendations for accomplishing HBfl the results desired. HH In numerous Instances drivers of racks with leaky bottoms wer sent from tho Holds to repair their ejul- BBh tuent and frequently bad order thresl HBJ Ing machines were stopped until tlm HBb cause of wasto was removed. But In proportion to the number of persons HH engaged In gathering the nation's grain crop, cases of compulsion were com- BBV paratlvcly rare. The Food Admin h- HBb tratlon freely attributes the success ot JBfl tho grain threshing campaign to pa HBV trlotlc service by farmers, thresher- men and their crews. Incidentally grain growers of tho United. States nro many millions of dollars "In pocket" aa a result of the grain saved. |