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Show WHAT TO DO ABOUT WHEAT ANSWERED BY AAA CHAIRMAN Store it. Feed it. Cut down on the acreage next year. That is the advice of Alphonso Christensen, chairman of the Cache county A AA committee, on what to do about, wheat. He pointed out that on July 1, 1942, farm granaries and city elevators ele-vators over the country were loaded load-ed with last year's wheat over 600 million bushels. Adding to this huge carryover, farmers are now harvesting another big crop. It will make an estimated 904 million bushels, he said. The carryover added to the new crop will amount to more than a billion and a half bushels nearly a three-year supply. Every grower should store just as much of his wheat crop on his own farm as possible, Mr. Christensen Chris-tensen advised. The slogan in Utah is "Enough storage on every farm to take care of one year's crop." Adequate farm storage will help in four ways: It will take the load off crowded commercial storage. It will ease wartime railroad rail-road transportation. It will give the farmer an opportunity for a loan at a' higher than market price. It will place the wheat where it will be handy for local feeding. Every livestock grower can help out by feeding more wheat. Congress Con-gress has approved the sale of 125 bushels of Government-owned wheat for livestock feed at 85 per cent of corn parity price, which in Utah ranges from 89 to 95 cents a bushel. While the national wheat acreage acre-age allotment announced by the Secretary of Agriculture, Claude R. Wickard, is 55 million acres, there is no need of seeding that much wheat. The law sets the minimum on the national allotment at 55 milion acres. Secretary Wickard points out that the Nation could easily get by if farmers voluntarily voluntar-ily reduced this acreage to 40 million mil-lion acres. If the acreage taken out of wheat were then used to grow crops more urgently needed in the war program, then wheat situation sit-uation would be improved and farmers would be making a contribution con-tribution to the war effort, he says. |