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Show Here's Wickard Home Farm Plan i mmmmmmmmmmm. immmmmmz& I ft f& t v s 5115 K ! s - Fi- v ;;Ssi; y ; :y -iy;:i .yy -. ($ r V ' V fc: mmmp- ;:"-..7V : - .;---v'.:i - . y y': O "- r" ' - Claude R. Wickard, U. S. Secretary of Agriculture, is shown making out his "farm defense plan for 1942," joining thousands of other American farmers in increasing production of dairy, poultry, and pork products. In the background is the appropriate U. S. D. A. poster, "Your Farm Can Help." On his 380-acre home farm in Carroll County, Indiana, Secretary Wickard is reducing his beef herd, increasing in-creasing his dairy herd, maintaining high poultry production, and providing for record- hog production. To get sufficient feed for his hogs, he expects to plant nearly his full AAA corn acreage allotment. allot-ment. He will reduce his wheat acreage, in line with AAA policy of cutting 1942 wheat production due to large supplies already in storage. |