Show brought ENDANGER it SUPPLY OF NATIONS FOOD the drought wrom je rIlls as t has been t throughout man of the leadin state has not a agricultural endangered dang ered the nation food supply according to specialist 1 ot of the as 9 ad adjustment p ton and the united states department of 0 agriculture who dave studied tile the situation carefully states director william peterson of the atal state agricultural college extension service if I 1 wheat production this year should be as low as million millio 1 bushels as indicated in recent foro fore cadlet the burdensome surplus would lie be still further reduced but I 1 the he c carryover arr 0 of o unused wheat would still be about bushels bush els next year when the 1933 1915 rop crop conic come in the present sur surplus plu or of about million bushels bushel sp plat tills this years expected crop of about million bushels would give a supply ot of about million bushels as compared with the estimated an unal needs of 0 not more than million a bushels bushela force forced d marketing and the emergency cattle buying operations or of the government in the drought arpas areas will remove large numbers of animals but this disposal ot of low lov grade stock wi will 11 merely help in the reduction ot of an estimated surplus of more than six million cows and loiters wheat and cattle are two commodities conis coms modi ties s vital to the food supply of 0 the nation which although they are ara affected by the drought continue to exist in quantities in excess of c demands it it were not tor for the tragedy which it inflicts on its victims the drought might be considered to have compensating advantages because it reduces existing surpluses 0 three of the drouth bellef beliel pump wells in cedar valley two for the coal creek irrigation company ani and one for the northwest field irrigation company have been completed and are now each pumping tron from to gallons of water r per minute this amount of water will jo do much to relieve the drouth sit jr tion on oil some of the farms binder this irrigation system aita al 11 tie season reason is well advanced A drouth relief pump has also alro been put down on the A T jones well which is one of tile the good god wells of the valley this also will insure crops for some of the ta tanners in tho the vicinity of this soured source ot of supply al mr r A C esplin extension sheep and wool specialist has been appointed as a representative of the state emergency cattle purchase program director to represent him bint in the southwestern counties of the state mr air esplin is now in idol county coffering con fering with men in barge of the program here accord ing to mr air esplin it Is 13 desired that a uniform method of classifying and appraising cattle be adopted by all those who have this responsibility lity shipments from washington kine beaver ad millard counties are expected to be made at the beginning of next week according to sir air Es esplin pilli |