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Show FOOD fT- eg; Farm WAR NEWS War's demand for more steel for ships and guns has made necessary neces-sary another cut in materials allocated al-located for the manufacture of farm machinery. The War Production Pro-duction Board in an order this week reduced production quotas allowed under previous orders by approximately 50 per cent. The new order, L-170, places the manufacture of farm machinery machin-ery under stricter controls, reduces re-duces the allocation of materials and transfers practically all production pro-duction from large companies to small and intermediate manufacturers. manufac-turers. This order restricts the manufacture manu-facture of all farm machinery, equipment and repairs for the period Nov. 1, 1942 to Oct. 31, 1943. However, materials allowed for repair parts will be 130 per cent of the amount used in 1940. 1 Secretary of Agriculture, Claude R. Wickard, has been given authority au-thority by the War Production Board to direct and bring about an orderly marketing of cattle, calves, sheep and hogs. This authority au-thority is to be used to prevent ' avoidable transportation jams and uneven marketing distribution. Feed wheat will give farmers a real opportunity to produce the extra hogs called for in the 1943 Food for Freedom production goals, says Wilford A. Schmutz, chairman of the county USDA War Board. He called attention to the record feed grain supplies in the country and urged hog producers to consider using more feed wheat. Wheat is at its best as a hog feed, he said. Bushel for bushel wheat is worth about 10 per cent more than corn in the hog ration. The Railway Express Agency has been named to collect tires from those who wish to sell them under the Idle Tire Purchase plan. Farmers who have idle tires to sell or turn in on this program should communicate with the nearest Railway Express Agency office. More than 7,000 workers of Japanese Jap-anese descent from the Pacific Coast are harvesting sugar beets and other crops in the eight western west-ern states. These workers are largely American-born between the ages of 21 and 30. Of this number, 367 are working in Utah. A program to protect the wheat grower under bread and flour ceilings has been worked out between be-tween OPA and the Department of Agriculture. In order to prevent pre-vent "squeezes" between the ceilings ceil-ings placed on bread and flour and the loan rate under AAA, Commodity Credit wheat will be released for resale at prices below be-low the loan rate if it becomes necessary to do so to keep flour and bread moving on 'the market. The loan rate will protect the farmer and the release of wheat below the loan rate will insure bread and flour to the consumer. That more attention will be given to manpower to produce the Food for Freedom in the future fu-ture is indicated by statements from Washington. The President, the manpower commission and the U. S. Department of Agriculture are placing this problem at the top of their lists of "musts" for attention. With more and more USDA War board work and responsibility responsibil-ity coming to county and community com-munity committeemen under the AAA, the importance of electing the best leaders that can be obtained ob-tained is obvious, says Orville L. Lee, chairman of the Utah State USDA War board. Elections will be held in December, but it is not too early to begin thinking about the men who will lead farmers in the big battle on the food front next year, he said. Even though there is an abundant abund-ant supply of meat, farmers are being asked this week by the Secretary of Agriculture to voluntarily volun-tarily limit meat consumption to 2 V, pounds of meat per adult person per week. This amount is much more than the amount allowed persons of any other country, he said. Increased demands de-mands for military use and lend-lease lend-lease shipments, and not limited supply, has prompted caution in the consumption of meat. The Office of Defense Transportation Trans-portation warned all truck operators oper-ators this week that no delay should be allowed in making application ap-plication for a "Certificate of War Necessity". It takes two weeks to get a "Certificate" from the Detroit office after the applica- tion has been mailed. Farm truck owners and operators should see their county farm transportation transporta-tion committee at once if they have not received an application for a "Certificate". A more equitable distribution of the limited amount of new farm machinery was the reason given today by the county USDA War board for the "freeze" orders on machinery and the rationing program pro-gram which will be worked out soon. Inventories of all farm machinery ma-chinery now in the hands of dealers, deal-ers, distributors and manufacturers manufactur-ers are due Nov. 10th. A rationing ra-tioning program will be worked out on the basis of this information. informa-tion. This permanent rationing program, which supersedes the temporary plan, which terminated Oct. 31, will also be handled In the county by the county farm machinery rationing committee. |