Show farm war news paul V mcnutt chairman of the war manpower commission states that the U S employment service placed workers on farms in june 54 per cent above the may figure news from the war product production IO n board reveals that limits have been placed on the amount of rubber available for milking g equipment hog scrapers paddles belting hose and rubb rubber r footwear 0 P A administrator leon henderson has exempted grain alcohol an important ingredient in the synthetic rubber process from general maximum price regulations he also states that no changes are contemplated at present pre sent in sugar rationing regulations the bulk of the old crop of beans Is believed to be still in the growers hands although dealers in some areas are speculating to a certain degree by holding stocks prices are arc being quoted at per hundred pounds and slightly higher A heavy movement of produce at harvest time is anticipated and it Ls is believed that the agricultural marketing administration will be in a position to take all of the 1042 1942 bean crop in weber county a very tory plan was worded out to take care of fruit picking under this plan a central labor center was set up with parley bates principal of the weber high school in charge at this center any person who could help out reported for work here also farmers and growers made madd requests for labor known when workers assembled each morning they were allocated according to the needs of the growers bus drivers served as supervisors in the field the daggett county U S D A war board reports that pounds ot of scrap rubber was collected in the resent recent salvage drive and this was the county where when one halt half a tire was the monthly allocation i washington county farmers will substitute green manure for onate in view of them the phosphate shortage increased amonds of green manure cros will be planted the county war board says the shortage of has resulted in the loss of many tons of first quality peas this year according to the utah county U S D A war board this board has requested that the state U S D A war board investigate the number of acres of peas for each viner in the state statland and require that each canning factory have enough to take care of crops there are approximately acres of tomatoes to be harvested in utah to harvest these tomatoes it will require man days in picking alone in the opinion of the state U 8 D A war board it if they are arc harvested the work will have to be done largely by junior and senior high school students A year ago according to a report from the utah canners association people worked in the factories fact oies in a surey which was made recently only of these workers are available to help in the processing of the 1942 tomato cro |