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Show rooD Ft WAR NEWS 1 ! Mobilization to produce the food needed to beat Hitler and Tojo is the farmers' and ranchers' way of answering Hitler's charge that Democracy has "gone to pot". ! Farm Mobilization Day was the I "kick off" for the 1943 food pro-I pro-I duction campaign. On this day, j President Roosevelt charged farmers farm-ers with the responsibility of growing the food needed to beat the Axis. He said this nation, and the United Nations, are grateful for record-breaking crops produced pro-duced in 1942, but that if there is enough food for only "essential" "essen-tial" needs this year, farmers will have to increase production of many commodities over last year. Farm meetings over the country registered a willingness on the part of farmers to assume this responsibility. Four questions keep coming up on the food production program for 1943. First, what is wanted? Second, how much? Third, what help will we get? And fourth, what price will we get? Some of the answers to these qeustions will be given when the community committeemen calls in the farm-to-farm sign-up. . Farmers and ranchers were urged today by Wilford A. Schmutz, chairman of the county USDA war board, to cooperate fully with the committeemen commit-teemen or person assigned by the war board in this sign-up. Nearly all the questions asked on. the, forms to be filled out are needed to obtain aid in the production of crops and livestock. Farm program pro-gram payments will depend on goals set up for each farm and on meeting the goals after they are set .up. Ten teams, two men each, from the U. S. Army are cooperating co-operating this week in . the Farm Mobilization campaign.. Some of these soldiers are just back from the battle fronts. Two of them have been assigned to Utah. An amendment in the 1943 agricultural agri-cultural conservation program eliminates the requirement that not less than 90 per cent of the wheat acreage allotment be seeded seed-ed to be in full compliance. No deductions will be made for failure fail-ure to seed at least 90 per cent of the allotment. The substitution substitu-tion of special war crops will not be required. It will be also unnecessary un-necessary to establish usual deductions de-ductions in connection with war crops. Goals and excess special crops remain unchanged. Some representative new items have been added to the list of "selective service" crops. The new "essential" crops include: Alfalfa seed, other tame hay and seed and sugar beets. Other items on the preferred list are dairy cattle and calves, sows to farrow, sugar beet seed and honey. Rationing purchase certificates now entitle delivery of woven and welded fence wire, poultry netting, net-ting, and barber wire without priority rating. Announcement of price support vegetables will probably not be made until around Feb. 1st. This announcement was scheduled previously pre-viously for Jan. 15th. New maximum ceilings effective effec-tive Jan. 14th, have been set up for cheese, butter, fresh citrus fruits and poultry. These new ceilings will replace those based on the Sept. 28 to Oct. 2 levels. Housewives may expect slightly higher poultry and citrus fruit prices, but it is expected that prices on butter and cheese will remain about the same. Excess' profits on used farm machinery are out. All retail sales on used tractors (except the crawler type), combines, corn pickers, binders, and motor or tractor operated hay balers have been placed under price control regulations. Private owners and auctioneers cannot charge more than 85 per cent of the base price for machines less than a year old. and not more than 70 per cent of the base price for machines more than a year old. A special radio program on the fa nr.-to-farm sign-up will be broadcast over station KDYL, on Saturday. Jan. 16. at S:30 a.m. Secretary Wickard has ordered that 30 per cent of all creamery 'ratter and the total pack of can-led can-led citrus fruits, except uncon-entvated uncon-entvated grapefruit juices be set '.side for direct war purposes. It is now estimated that nearly a third of the food produced in 19 13 will go for military uses and lend-lease. lend-lease. Amendments in the 194.3 agricultural agri-cultural conservation program provide pro-vide that farmers may overplant com allotments without deductions. deduc-tions. War crops will include such additions as hay and pasture. Bar-j ley price support has been set up at levels equal to its feeding value in relation to corn. But barley support will be available only to' farmers. |