Involves Many Factors
The study of this question has involved many factors and the specialists have been aware from the first that the demands for wheat may exceed the supply next year. Effort therefore has been made to recommend in each state about as large an acre wheat and rye as can be sown without upsetting proper-farm practice which must be maintained in the interest of wheat and rye crops this and succeeding years, as well as in the interest of other necessary spring planted crops which are not discussed in detail at this time as they are not food crops in which a marked shortage exists.
Fair Prices Certain.
The estimates, the department states, are made with the knowledge that there is some shortage of the fertilizer supply but with the understanding that there will be no general shortage in the supply of seed or of form machinery which is necessary in the production of the wheat crop. It is understood also that ample transportation facilities will be provided and a price for wheat will be established. These factors have been assumed as fixed and satisfactory. If anyone or more facts to be adjusted in good time, no person can tell how germinating will be the effect on the total crop.
Help Farmers Farm.
The planting and cultivation of these increased acreages of fall-sown grains calls for unusual effort on the part of farmers all assistance possible, are being perfected in the U. S. Department of Agriculture. 