Show A CLEAN HARVEST P F S harris now that the nation is 13 engaged in a war in which food supply will be one a of the large factors in deloid ing the issue it la is necessary that every possible means of conservation be adopted careless methods which might in part be justified in times of plenty must now be changed and everything must be done don to save every pound of food for man and bea beast a t with the cultivation of vast areas and the use of large machines machine old time methods of carefully harvesting the crop have been neglected it has been easier to increase the area of the farm than to give extra care to a few acres As aa a result such a thing as gleaning or making a clean harvest has become almost unknown when gram grain was cheap and the apply abundant farmers might find justification for a certain degree of carelessness in harves harvesting tm 9 the crop but now that the price of all farm products is so high and in view of the nations in need of all products there seems to be no good reason why the greatest care should not net be taken to make an absolutely clean harvest at a recent interstate cereal conference held in kansas city cita it was estimated that in the united states at least twenty million bushels of wheat and proportionate quantities of other cereals are annually lost loot by waste in harvesting and threshing this waste can and should be in a large measure easily avoided A man and team are known to have cleared from 27 to 62 a day from cleaning up after threshers thre in an other instance WAS gained by a man with a team and fanning mill in three weeks time ti me cleaning up after threshing machine set settings t mad this thia ear carle asness is not confined to the ce cereals Is but extends tends to all crops by going over the alfalfa field with a rake after the crop has haa been re moved it is surprising howin how much uch can be had on every farm there are ditch banks and corners where gross grass is allowed to so go to waste this could profitably be cut or could bo be eaten by animals tethered where the feed could be reached each former farmer should adopt the slogan that he will harvest every ounce once of crop that is produced on hs his farm and use it as economically as possible not only to increase his own profits but also aaa to add to the war efficiency of the country |