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Show UTAHNS ASKED TO sariiiiT Government Needs the Flour For Our Soldiers in the Trencher Local Flour MINs WiJI Buy the Wheat, Grind It Into Flour and Ship it-Farmers' it-Farmers' Duty Is to Get the Wheat to the Mills. No people in the history of the United States have such an opportunity oppor-tunity to serve their government as the fjtah farmers have right now. Almost Al-most half of the people in the world are hungry, women as lovable and good as our own mothers are starving, children as tweet as ours are dropping by the wayside from famine, the soldiers sol-diers in the trenches may have to give up the fight because they haven't enough food to keep up their strength. Farmers read this announcement from the Federal Foody Administrator, W. W. Armstrong, and see what he has to say about your wheat and flour : Every patriotic citizen In Utah is 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 So high In many portions of the state that farmers have been compelled to feed their wheat or to sacrifice their stock both 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 bus done a splendid thing In releasing over 200,000 bushels of wheat, but every single 48-pound sack of flour is bought up .with rejoicing and e,very bushel of wheat sent to the mills Is recorded with Joy. . L Flour must be in original mill packages, either 24, 48, or 88 pound sacks. 2. Flour must be "one hundred per cent flour or better," commonly known as straight grude or high patent . 8. The local flous mills will buy the wheat, grind It Into flour and ship out the flour. The farmer's duty is to get his wheat te the mill, 4. " The price to be paid for flour is $4.75 per hundred pounds, net weight This 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 fixed the price for the 1918 crop and the crop reports ludicate a much heav-ler heav-ler yield of wheat and other grains In 1918 than In 1917. There Is no reason to expect that grain will command a better price, and every farmer knows that the longer he holds his wheat the greater his risk of loss from shrinkage, vermin, dampness damp-ness and fire. Take flour to the nearest mill or re-taller. |