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Show ing or faking a clean harvest has; become almost unknown When' grain was cheap and 'he supply abundant farmers might find justi-l fication for a certain degree ofi carelessness in harvesting the crop;, but now that the price of all farm products is so high, and in view of the nations need of all products,! there seems to be no good reason I why the greatest care should not be taken to make an absolutely clean harvest. At a recent interstate Cereal Conference held in Kansas City, it was estimated that in the United States at least twenty million bushels bush-els of wheat, and proportionate quantities of other cereals are annually an-nually lost by waste in harvesting and threshing. This waste can and should be, in a large measure, easily easi-ly avoided. A man and team arc known to have cleared from $27 to $i2 a day from cleaning up after af-ter threshers. In another instance $5()0 was gained by a man and team in three weeks time, cleaning up after threshing machine settings. set-tings. This carelessness is not confined to the cereals but extends to all the crops. Hy going over the alfalfa al-falfa field with a rake after the crop has been removed it is sur- prising how much ran be made. )n every farm there are ditch banks and corners where grass is allowed to go to waste. This could profitably be cut or could be eaten by animals tethered where the food could be reached. Ivich farmer should adopt the slogan that he will harvest every ounce of crop that is produced on his farm and use it as economically economical-ly as possible, not only to increase his own profits, but also to add to the war efficiency of the country. |