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Herculean Task Requires Advance Painstaking Plans Before they win 1943's global glob-al battle for food, farmers of this country must solve a double-barreled problem. They must produce record highs of foods and fibers with less machinery, machin-ery, equipment, supplies and labor. Enough food and fiber not only for civilians of this country, but for those of the United Nations, for our fighting men and those of our Allies. That's a task a Hercules might shy from; a job which demands painstaking advance planning. To this end, the department of agriculture ag-riculture has again established food and fiber goals for the nation, as it did in 1942. (See accompanying diagrams.) dia-grams.) These goals have been broken down into state goals, which in turn are being broken down into goals for each of the 3,090 counties of the United States. Throughout the nation, America's 6,000,000 farmers are now talking over the goals with neighbors who are Agricultural Adjustment Agency For 1943 Mr. Farmer must see to it that there Is a great increase in all meats and corn. (But there will be a reduction in canning vegetables, fresh fruits). (AAA) farmer-committeemen. Eventually, Even-tually, goals will be set for each farm, with the producer signing a voluntary "production contract." A contract which, in effect. Is a pledge to the nation that he'll keep food and fiber rolling to all fronts, at home and abroad.' Broadly, food and fiber goals in 1943 call for the same over-all production pro-duction total that farmers achieved this year when their efforts resulted In an all-time production high 12 per cent greater than that of any previous year In American historyl Just what does that 12 per cent gain represent? It represents a gain In production which is more than twice that achieved during the five-year period covering World War I. It is by far the greatest production gain that has ever been made in a single year by American agricul- as great a production in 1943 as in 1943 of the things for which we have the most critical need. In some cases, production may be greater. Thus, the farmer is out to get more meat, dairy and poultry products, prod-ucts, hides and by-products. About the same production of fresh vegetables for consumption and processing, of dry beans and dry I peas and potatoes, sugar and rice. Almost the same feed-grain production, pro-duction, pasture and forage crops. More fiber flax, hemp, long staple cotton and about the same production produc-tion of other cotton and tobacco. To get more of these all-Important crops, the farmer knows that he must plant less of others. Wheat is an outstanding example. We have enough on hand to take care of normal nor-mal needs for two years without raising another grain. It would be virtual sabotage to put more land Vitamins and Victory During the dark days of 1940 in England, British doctors noticed that superficial scratches which should have healed in a day or two were taking two weeks to heal. They found that a lack of vitamins in people's blood was the cause. There's a direct connection con-nection between vitamins and victory. ers is determined largely by the kind and quantity of food they eat. Take the figures on comparativa days lost by strikes and sickness in 1941. About 20 times as many man-days were lost by sickness as by strikes in that year. And the most prevalent illness was the common com-mon cold which, doctors say, can be best prevented by a good diet. Good fnnd Is thi ArHiivalnnt nf mil- That gives one a rough Idea of what America's farmers are up against in 1943. Besides wartime obstacles which will grow to ever-greater ever-greater proportions, farmers must assume that they're going to have normal weather next year, another way of saying "bad weather" compared com-pared with this year when growing conditions were better than they've been in years. . That means lower yields. The difference dif-ference will have to be made up by more efficient farming, by more intensive in-tensive farming, by planting crops where they'll grow best, by vigorous, unremitting effort on the part of all civilians to help farmers get labor, la-bor, equipment and materials. Waste Must Go. The farmer's objective in the Battle for Food, 1943, will be to reach each goal without wasting an wv -..L ivvi- Lfk f 'i-- a lions of laborers. The British, for example, have pointed out that production pro-duction is 15 to 20 per cent greater when their workers are eating as they should. Vitamin B curbs nervousness and digestive troubles; vitamin C wards off scurvy, bad teeth and many similar sim-ilar ailments. Scurvy was an Important Im-portant factor in the internal breakdown break-down in Germany in 1918. That Hitler Hit-ler knows this is only too evident from the way he is bleeding the occupied oc-cupied countries of Europe. Scurvy' has been responsible for more deaths than all the weapons of war combined. Food for good diets is not the only thing the farmer is after as he sets out to meet 1943 goals. He wants fibers and oils and other crops which are vital to the maintenance main-tenance of our war industries. ounce of effort, a minute of time, an acre of land, or a sliver of material and machinery. Only by doing this can he reach one goal without jeopardizing his chances of reaching another. He must face the fact that there aren't enough land resources in America for much acreage expansion. expan-sion. He must apply the principle of selective service to his acres. For example, he knows that only about seven million acres of land can be added to the 1942 figure of 340 million acres put to row crops, small grains and hay crops. But he also knows that he can make that added acreage count for more by putting it to war crops which bring higher yields than crops he would normally plant. By wise expansion of this sort, by shifting other acres to crops that count most, it will be possible to get Mr. American Farmer lla will do the job . . . ' to wheat in 1943. Consequently, the goal for wheat has been lowered. Demand for dairy products in 1943 will exceed supply, but bread grains will be abundant. Although meat production reached a record high this year, and will probably be higher high-er next, rationing is necessary because be-cause of unprecedented demand. However, the ration will allow the average consumer about as much meat as usual. The man who has devoured a large T-bone or two each day will have to change his habits. It may be good for him, nutritionally speaking. speak-ing. The 1943 goals are closely linked to the nation's dietary needs. For the number of planes and tanks and ships and guns turned out by work- in 1942 farmers raised enough soybeans, soy-beans, flaxseed, peanuts and cottonseed cotton-seed to produce 530 million gallons of vegetable oil 54 per cent more than in 1941. Our Allies are asking for five times as much vegetable oil as we normally export to all nations. Next year's vegetable oil goal calls for about as much as the record rec-ord 1942 production. If farmers meet the test, the resulting geysers will literally drown the Axis. For vegetable vege-table oils are the source of glycerine used in explosives; they are nsed in protective paints for battleships, planes and other war machines; and they have a thousand industrial uses to say nothing of their use in foeds and cooking. Suffice to say the farm job hi 1943 is all-important, to farmers and civilians alike. Perhaps the greatest great-est obstacle will be lack of help on the farm. BEEF CATTLE. CALVES MILK uti OATS (.. Lj rji.i,!,! I IHM" 4i ill y H.g.T.f.i,',!,'""! imi oyjuii va t j-iAASSiJiSS.!! IW'l.'''M'fi?'lMf'"' "42 fit f H -M ,i,,f .TiLT.?,'lJi;:;'"' mfiy.y.f.Mii,va" ny t.f.f.y.'.'.y i SHEEP. LAMBS for meai EGGS ooo BARLEY i H,TiytTi'iJ!"l'HJ I Li.frial.piuM i4i I i i,i , -mnaa ramMsa bsseee3 tilJjJI'?Kg v:,,;,;,,;,;,g 's .i-j,;,y,',f,?tr HOGS ikwi CHICKENS iui GRAIN SORGHUMS (Bui 1,48 immmx) mmmwm iiiJuif,;.M""j 43 I ! h JiTiTiTiT-wT-.,pl '3 f 1,1.1,1. f t f m "'-f 1943 ir-rnvTTfwvi URD"-" FLAXSEED e. COTTON iwimi There must be more hogs, more milk, more lard, more and still more beef cattle. But not as much cotton, or barley, or oats. Fortunately, it is in overcoming this obstacle that civilians can do most to help the farmer. This year, townspeople, school children, professional men and women, wom-en, college youth and men from army camps achieved miracles on harvest fields throughout the nation. Even British sailors pitched in to help harvest our bountiful food and fiber supplies. Next year the job will be much tougher. The department of agriculture agri-culture estimates that the nation could use 1 million more full-time full-time workers than there are in sight to do the job. The department has thrown every one of its agencies into the farm labor fight, and it is receiving valuable valu-able assistance from other agencies of the government. However, it is going to take the continuing efforts of civilians and others to fill the gap. Through such co-operation and sheer hard work on his part the I farmer will get his job done. |
