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Show FARMERS ADVISED TO STORE WHEAT, On account of tho delay In the morfrj ment of whent, which' hnBbeen ojj. casliined by the congestion of various i rcnnlnnl mnrkuts In the shipment ot wlient conftigned to the Food Administration Adminis-tration firnln corporation, the state food ndmlnlxtrntlon advises farmers to store their wheat. TJie Kent-nil policy of the food nd ministration has been to purchase wheat rather than flour. The grata corporation,' -. guaranteeing to take wheat on the basis of a fixed Minimum terminal market price, has been merely In? most of the wheat entering (lis primary; markets. Some days govern.' ment, receipts have even exceeded 1000. cars nt the principal grdlttcenters. As the peak-load was approaching It wns found that the movement of "wheat from tho terminals Was 'slower' than Its receipt, mnd consequently a ' halt was' declared. The grain control i committee .handling the shipments of , wheat for the food administration de i dared an embargo upon the Wheat en-, tering the .primary markets. A few days Infer the permit system was adopted? and shippers .must now fits an application for. a permit In order to make a shipment. Ferfrirfs are being granted rather' stow.ly, .as the problem of handling the vast accumulation of wheat at tner termlnalsils V great one. Country storage Is encouraged; and (the grata corporation '.'bas' already authorized certain Utah ..elevators to store wheat on government account, the 'grant corporation purchasing the warehouse receipts. ,ir ' M. H. Greene, manager of the Salt Lake office of the grain co.ioratloB. has received advices that tls applies. tion for a bond by the Vltaraltf.cbm. pony of Logan has been granted, allowing al-lowing this company to purchasb wheat and store It upon government account, the grain corporation purchasing purchas-ing the wnrehouse receipts Issued upon, tho 200,000 bushels of .wheat, which Is the capacity ..of the elevator, and allowing al-lowing the Vitamin' company a nominal nomi-nal storage rate for holding th wheat. , The Issue nt hand Is oV wnr-tlme 'significance nnd points, to the fact that difficulties arc encountered ln the handling of the food supply ns Well as In combating the German army. On account of the price of whent being be-ing standardized, fanners, everywhere have Miown a disposition to relenso their wheat, and on an average, half of the, wheat of Utah has already found u market,1 according to the report re-port of Sir. Greene. The movement I has been very rapid In Tooele, Juab, nnd Utah counties on account of the carlv harvest season. |