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Show I Fa nil 1 WAR f JEWS Secretary Wickard announced this week a re-grouping of the U. S. Department of Agriculture into three administrative units: Food Production Administration, Food Distribution Administration, and Agricultural Research Administration. Administra-tion. Herbert W. Parisus, associate associ-ate director OWAR, formerly assistant as-sistant regional director FSA, of Madison, Wis., has been appointed Director of Food Production, with M. Clifford Townsend, former governor of Indiana and now administrator ad-ministrator of ACAA, as associate director. Roy F. Hendrickson, administrator ad-ministrator of AMA, formerly administrator ad-ministrator of SMA, was named Director of Food Distribution, with Clarence W. Kitchen, associate as-sociate administrator of AMA, as associate. The membership of a new streamlined U. S. Department of Agirculture War board to advise with the Secretary of Agriculture has been cut from 11 to 8 members. mem-bers. The new board will include the Directors of Production, Distribution Dis-tribution and Research, president of the Commodity Credit Corporation, Corpor-ation, Director of Extension, Chief of the Forest Service, REA Administrator, Ad-ministrator, and Chief of the BAE. But, for the time being, the department's administrative set-up on the regional, state and county levels will continue to function without change. The period for temporary gasoline gaso-line rationing for farm trucks and to make appeals on "Certificates of War Necessity" has been extended ex-tended from Dec. 31, to Jan. 31. Owners and operators of farm trucks are advised to make ap- nonlc t-ViTVM i crh thoir rrnni"7 fnrml transportation committees. Truck operators who have not yet received re-ceived "Certificates of War Necessity" Ne-cessity" or who have not been given sufficient gasoline for "essential" "es-sential" operations should see their county farm transportation committee for advice on making appeals and for receiving temporary temp-orary rations of gasoline to keep their trucks operating. Keeping that old mower or manure spreader in working condition con-dition may be one way to defeat the axis. There will be very little new farm machinery in 1943. The allocation of materials for new machinery, has been cut to 20 per cent of the amount used in 1941. To give some idea of how this will affect Utah, here are a few examples: Under the rationing order there will be 4 potato planters plant-ers and 4 potato diggers to be divided among 29 counties; 7 beet drills, 34 beet cultivators, 34 manure spreaders, 31 spring-toothed spring-toothed harrows, and 14 disc plows. Dairy machinery will come in larger numbers. To Utah has been allotted 187 milking machines, ma-chines, 58 separators and 61 milk coolers. That supply means most farmers will have to make the old machinery do for another year maybe until Mr. Schickel-gruber Schickel-gruber is finished off. The following have been designated desig-nated as war crops: Soy beans for beans; peanuts for oil; flax for seed and fiber; Irish potatoes; American-Egyptian cotton; hemp; tomatoes for processing; peas for canning; dry edible beans; dry beans; and vetch. Also, some feed grains have been named as war crops in certain areas. In Utah, barley and corn have been added to the list. War crops may be substituted for wheat, acre for acre, in meeting compliance requirements. re-quirements. Yes, the county agricultural agent is a member of the county USDA War board. In nearly all instances he is the secretary. The war board membership is made up of repersentatives of all U. S. Department of Agriculture agen cies. The chairman is tne cnui-man cnui-man of the AAA. Membership will include representatives of the Forest Service, Farm Security administration, ad-ministration, Extension Service that's the county agent Farm Credit administration, Soil Conservation Conser-vation Service, Rural Electrification Electrifica-tion Administration, and Bureau of Agricultural Economics. This has been set up to help farmers with their many food production problems. Use them! Sharp increases are asked in the output of dry edible beans as a means of supplying protein to the war diet. Utah farmers have been asked to increase their output out-put of dry beans by 59 per cent over the amount produced in 1942. Prices will be supported for the 1943 crop of dry edible beans of the following varieties: Pea, medium med-ium white, great northern, small white, flat small white, pink (pinto), cranberry, light red kidney, kid-ney, dark red kidney, and western red kidney. This price protection will be not less than $5.35 per hundred for U. S. No. 1 beans, and $5.20 per hundred for U. S. No. 2, in bags, f. o. b., cars at country shipping points. The 1943 AAA program will stress the production of war crops and stiff payment deductions on farms failing to meet war production pro-duction goals will be made. Crop payments under the 1943 program will be conditional on the degree to which each cooperator carries out the individual farm plan, which represents each farm's share-of share-of the national war production goals. As certain commodities become scarce or are no longer seen on the shelves at the grocery store, townspeople, as well as farmers, will be reminded that in 1943, "a Victory Garden will not be just a patriotic gesture, but a necessity. neces-sity. It may be the only place to go for some foods." Feed wheat prices for January will be up lc from the December level. The average price for feed wheat in Washington county during dur-ing December is 95c. A sLx-point labor program was outlined at the Food-for-Freedom conference held in Denver this month . as follows. Shifting of workers from non-essential to essential es-sential crops; Deferring essential workers; Transporting trained workers from surplus areas to year-'round employment; Transporting Trans-porting seasonal workers to special spe-cial crops for seasonal work; Use of high school youth; and use of volunteer city workers during critical harvest seasons. Triple A elections are being held in each community in the county on Wednesday, Dec. 16, and results of the elections will be in next week's paper. Have friends or relatives visited you this week? If so, please phone 149 or 46-W. |