Show SAVE BUSHELS r 11 OF WHEAT THAT FORMERLY WAS LOST IN IN THRESHING Farmers Farmere Urged by Food I Provide Seven Extra Lo Loaves ve of Bread for Every American By adopting cleaner ner threshing methods methods meth meth- and by literally combing harvest halest fields to gather grain formerly wasted wast ed and nud farmers of the United States this year ear saved fully tully bushels of ot wheat estimated as equivalent to about seven pound one-pound loaves of bread for every person person In Inthe inthe the he country This result accompanied by corresponding savings of at burley barley oats r rye e and other grains Is shown by reports from 33 M grain states to the U U. 3 S. Food Administration Other states althou although h not prepared To fo t furnish definite alto nite figures of ot conservation In the grain fields report greatly reduced harvest harest losses This rural l food saving achievement accomplished In scarcely six mouths months time lime was In direct response to requests re ro- ro quests by the F Food od Administration which asked ed farmers formers and to o reduce harvest losses from about 3 3 34 4 per the c cent the estimated average In n normal Donnal times to times to the lowest ble le minimum Country grain thresh thresh- Ing ng committees carried Into every grain growing community the recommendations for tor accomplishing he the results desired delred In numerous Instances drivers of racks with leaky lel bottoms were sent 1 n- n from tom rum the U fields to 10 equip equipment ment meat and frequently bad order thresh thresh- Ing ng machines were weYe stopped until the cause of ot waste was removed But In ll proportion to the number of ot persons engaged in gathering the nations nation's grain crop croP cases of compulsion were comparatively comparatively com com- ely rare The fhe Food ration freely attributes the success of or orthe the he grain threshing campaign to pa pa- service b by farmers thresher thresher- men and their crews Incidentally grain growers of the United States alemany ore are ninny many millions of dollars In pocket us as a result of ot the WI grain saved saed |