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Show USDA Farm-Home Canvass First Step In Program Support Promised By 600 Farmers, Poultrymen, Dairymen, Says Schmutz Completion of the farm-to-farm canvass in Washington county is only the first step in the "Food For Freedom", and farm defense program, declared Wilford A. Schmutz, of the county USDA defense board, in reporting results re-sults of the canvass which has been carried on during the past month. Pledge Support He reported that 600 farmers, including poultrymen and dairymen dairy-men who are not engaged in any other agricultural enterprise, have pledged support of the farm defense de-fense program for 1942. Of this number, approximately 97 per cent have also indicated they intend to cooperate in the 1942 AAA farm program. "But signing a pledge is just the first step toward producing the food we need for national defense", de-fense", said Mr. Schmutz. "We have pledged Britain enough food for 10 million people. That's a fourth of the population in England. Plans have been made and a part of them carried out to send Britain during 1942 dairy products that will require between four and one-half to five million pounds of milk; about a half a billion dozen eggs; 18 million pounds of poultry meat; almost a billion and a half pounds of pork and lard; a million and a quarter tons of fruit; and more than two and half million cases of canned of TJ. S. People Too "And we are not forgetting the people in our own country. We expect to improve food conditions , (Continued on page eight) Farm-Home Canvass (Continued from first page) for people who have been going just a little bit hungry over here. Some of these people have been getting plenty of some kinds of food but their- diets have been none too good. We want to help correct some of these maladjustment. maladjust-ment. Then, too, defense activity is bringing a demand for more of some of the foods produced on the farm. We .have pledged more food for these demands." |