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Show FOOD 7 K) ra rin WAR NEWS Feed wheat is moving out of the Ogden terminal to add to the supplies of meat, dairy and poultry products needed in the war effort. James Nelson, commodity com-modity credit corporation representative repre-sentative at Ogden, reports that more than 300,000 bushels of the corporation's feed wheat have been moved out of this terminal in the past 60 days. Most of this wheat has gone to California and Nevada. Farm women can help out. Mrs. S. M. Dopp of Lewiston has canned can-ned 1200 quarts of fruit and vegetables veg-etables as a part of her war effort ef-fort to conserve food. Besides taking care of a 1-acre garden, she helped in the field thinning sugar beets, irrigating and putting up hay. She is an old hand at driving the truck and is helping this fall with the beet harvest. This farm woman is the mother of 14 children, 11 of them living. She has three sons and a son-in-law in the service. Ever-increasing amounts of food from America are reaching Russia, as well as other United Nations, according to a report from the Agricultural Marketing administration. A total of six and three-fourths billion pounds of American food have been purchased pur-chased for lend-lease shipments during the past year and a half. To relieve the threatened shortage short-age of rope and twine, a program pro-gram for planting 300,000 acres of hemp for fiber, and constructing construct-ing 71 mills for processing hemp was approved by the WPB. "Conserve the meat and save the fat," is the advice given deer hunters of Washington county this week by the county USDA War Board. With meat rationing expected and the urgent need for fats with which to make glycerine glycer-ine for nitro-glycerine, deer hunters hunt-ers can do much to aid the war effort by taking this advice. A permanent farm machinery rationing program to replace the temporary one which ends Oct. 31st will be ready about Nov. 1st, Wilford A. Schmutz, chairman of the Washington county USDA War Board said today. Farm families of Utah have been asked by Orville L. Lee, chairman of the Utah State USDA War Board, to join in the "share the meat" campaign. While farmers may butcher and use their own meat, they should help conserve the supply by limiting use to 2 pounds per person per week, he said. Buying of food to meet winter needs of the United Nations has been stepped up by the Agricultural Agri-cultural Marketing administration. administra-tion. September purchases increased in-creased 38 per cent over August. Food from American farms is helping the folks of these other nations hold on until this war is over. |