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Show PLITMSIE WHEATGROWEHS Severe Losses Through Winter Killing of Crops to Be Remedied Rem-edied by Government. WASHINGTON. July 29. To aid wheat growers of the west who have suffered severe losses through winter killing of their crops and through drought, President Wilson has placed 5,000,000 at the disposal of the treas-ur3' treas-ur3' and agriculture departments, it was announced tonight. The sum wtll bo issued in loans to farmers in the affected sections generally through the federal land banks. "The primary object of the fund," says a statement issued by tho department de-partment of agriculturo tonight, "is not to stimulate the planting of an increased in-creased acreage of wheat or rye in the severely drought-affected areas or even necessarily to secure the planting plant-ing of a normal acreage but rather to assist in tiding the farmers under all conditions with a view to increasing the food supply of the nation and to add to tho national socurity and defense." de-fense." The loans, the department announced, announc-ed, probably will not be made for more than threo dollars an aero with maximums maxi-mums of 100 or 150 acres. It is stated that it is not intended that the fund should bo used as loans to farmers who have banking collateral and can otherwise secure loans. nn |