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Show 0; Fa rm tifAR NEWS Ijele-rniined to do all that can !k done to supply farmers and ranchers with enough manpower to produce needed food and fiber, vVayne Darrow, director of the newly-created Agricultural Labor administration, said this week that "tabor needs fall into two classes. The first, and the most acute, is for full-time experienced farm la-ooivrs. la-ooivrs. The second is for seasonal seas-onal and emergency workers. Mr. Darrow said the second can be met through recruiting, training and organizing school youth, women and volunteer townspeople. But the first requires holding experienced ex-perienced laborers on the farm. He said it is expected that before the end of 1943 more than 3 million men will have been deferred de-ferred for farm labor through selective se-lective service. Mr. Darrow is a former Texas farmer and extension worker. The new farm labor program, under Mr. Darrow's direction, will be carried out in cooperation with the extension service and other federal and state agencies. It calls for the recruiting of some j,d()0,(XX) voluntary workers by the peak harvest season; the transportation o f approximately 300,000 seasonal workers, including includ-ing 50,000 foreign workers; the recruitment of several hundred thousand high school youths and women workers, and the movement move-ment of 50,000 year-'round workers work-ers from submarginal farming areas for work on dairy and general gen-eral purpose farms. Special recognition was given farmers and the farm program in Box Elder county on National Farm Day this week. A. W. Bishop, chairman of the county (JSDA War board, was one of three county chairmen to report to the nation over a nation-wide .radio hook-up on how the farmers of his county are mobilizing to produce food for the war effort. The other two chairmen were from Georgia and Pennsylvania. Secretary Wickard has asked all state governors to provide for excusing ex-cusing youths, 14 years and older, from schools in areas where they we needed to help with the spring planting. The Secretary points out that unless crops are planted, no amount of labor later on will make is possible to harvest implanted im-planted crops. TJSDA War boards have been directed in initiate requests for deferment of necessary farm workers work-ers not in 2-C or 3-C. Experienced farm workers with insufficient war units will be referred to the war board and thirty days will be given to place the registrant in essential farm work. Farmers enlisting in the 1943 food production program will be awarded a certificate of farm service, signed by the Secretary of Agriculture. These certificates which are 11 by 14 inches, are to be presented by the county USDA War board. Awards will be made just as soon as possible after completion of farm mobilization. ' The "farm plan" which the farmer . ' has .filled out in the mobilization v drive will serve as a guide for making awards. |