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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
May 17, 1918
Page
2
USDA urges farm communities to share labor for essential pre harvest tasks to boost food production during war time. Advocates regional plans to finish planting and harvesting before nonessential work, balancing risks of early or delayed harvests across farms.
The Department of Agriculture urges poultry club members in the north and west to cann every week to save feed and stock up on meat when prices rise. The method taught is to kill fowl, dress at once, cool, wash thoroly, draw, then cut into convenient portions for storage.
O I Liebers of the U S food administration at Denver offers pinto bean seed to growers at 9 cents per pound in hundred pound bags. Orders must be accompanied with draft or post office money order and are available through Greeley Denver and Trinidad Colorado.
Householders may buy 25 pounds of sugar at one time for canning and preserving, with a signed certificate to be shown by retailers. The certificate must state the sugar is for canning and excess will be returned. The limit, set by Gordon W. Wattles upon Washington guidance, applies to mail order distributors and other concerns. Merchants are responsible for enforcing the privilege and avoiding abuses. Beginning May 13 manufacturers using sugar must also buy on the certificate plan, with percent allocations for essential, less essential, and non-essential manufacturers.
County Food Administrators of Nebraska have been asked by Federal Administrator Gurden W Wattles to survey all flour held by retailers and distributors for possible export. After reports and tabulations are completed, definite export prices will be set. A W Vickman of Hamilton reports 102,000 pounds exportable. The Gering band leader Lynch, now bandmaster at the Iowa state hospital, may join the government service. The Western Nebraska Bar Association meeting in North Platte is canceled as members enlist or assist in war efforts, making a full gathering impractical.
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