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Show The Cache American. Page Two Ijrnn. Cache County. Utah Tighter Competition After War Demands Soil Fertility Be Maintained at High Level SEirisr. chicle needlework Unusual Bird Cage Pot Holders 5799 Soil hy Bumper Crops Should Be Replaced so-call- ed lend-leas- e Sur-vey- tfrfc: r rT fit- - 1 -- 41 A , . P 0 Mighty Good Eating r J J f ew a good deal diiTerent from that of the manufacturer or Industrialist The farmer peak production job will be completed. Vast stocks of food and fiber will be in storag competition for markets will be keen. Industry, on the other hand, will be reconverting from war production to the greatest peacetime output in history. The backlog of demand for virtually every commodity used in civilian life automobiles, machinery, building materials, refrigerators, radios, heating equipwill ment, household furnishings be big enough to require years of d industrial activity. Some economists believe that If peacetime industrial output and employment remain high say at about 150 billion dollar Income level annually the demand for farm products would be sufficient to absorb a total production at about' 1943 levels. But even if the nations efforts to maintain postwar production and employment succeed, farm economy must be prepared to withstand some shocks. The switch from peace to war will inevitably bring changes in farm methods to cope with new techniques in marketing and production. In such a setup, the individual farmer who uses antiquated methods or who fails to maintain the fertility level of his soil is doomed to failure. Three Big Problems. Most farm authorities are of the opinion that postwar agriculture will face three major problems: 1. Farm acreage, vastly expanded to meet wartime food demands will have to be reduced. That means more efficient farming on fewer acres. 2. Farm surpluses may become a peacetime headache. 3. farm income will inevitably decline when the present abnormal demand for food slackens. In 1944 farm crop acreage goals totaled 371 million acres, compared with 325 million acre plantings in prewar years. That is an increase of 48 million acres. Commenting recently on the adjustments that will be necessary to fit postwar requirements, Chester Davis, former AAA administrator and now president of the Federal Reserve bank of St. Louis said: The farm plant has been expanded beyond the capacity needed to supply abundantly the peacetime domestic market and any normal export market that may be available. Farmers will face real need for acreage adjustments and in some areas shifts may be drastic. farm sur- The second problem high-geare- 1 War-spurr- ed these days when farm machinery of all kinds is scarce, outfits to spread fertilizer may be hard to obtain. Frequently, however, companies selling crushed stone and other soil treating chemicals have equipment which may be rented at reasonable rates. When a large area is to be covered, it is generally wisest to call on one of these companies to help with the job. A large dump track, .hauling a spreader, can cover a big pasture In remarkably short time. In J j r- cr. war and their ions coming home from the army, they will be able to work more land than hitherto. To obtain troche tin f Instructions for Ike Ilomeatead for Soldier. Bluebird and Canary Bird Cage Potbolder IJ'VERY producer of musicals In (Pattern No. 8W). actual cue bird, coles "The government la already plan-nln- g Hollywood Is trying to equsl Fin chart for embroidery send IS cents m to give homesteads to serviceone for no person coin, your name, address and the palter Zlrgfrlds record, men. When this Is done, th owner ever discovered morn beautiful girls number. of an expensive farm will be In a than Flo. Dua to an unusually large demand and current war conditions, slightly more time tough spot to produce crops in comFlo picked 'em for his Broadway la fur a few of required In filling ordi-rpetition with the man who haa no shows, but sooner or later It was the moat popular patter number. capital Investment In the aoil por- usually sooner the studios signed Send your order to: tion of bis food factory. 'em up on contracts and made 'em "The enly way Ute American screen stars. lEWIVa CIRCLE NEEDLEWORK farmer can successfully compete Strangely, too, many of thosn lus141 New Montgomery It rither In domestic or world markets cious blonde, brunette and titian Saa Eraaciaco, Calif. In postwar yearn, in by ended producing stunners Enclose 16 cents for Patters crop at n lower cost per unit. In theircareers trag. No aucb n program, the steady use of ically. Seemi the mixed fertiliser containing nitrogen, candle- of Ufa " phosphorus and potash will be nn burned too brightenormously Important factor. More ly for them, a a bushels per arre can, and will mean most of the lovemore food from less land. It will ly moths finally also mean more geod food per acre burned tbelr to help build healthier human brings wings on the nnd farm animals In the future. Came of fame. The need for building up the Irene Donne evaded the "Ziegsoil productivity is widely recog nized as a postwar "must. No less feld curse" of an authority than Secretary of agri heartbreak. Shes one of the succulture Claude Wickard recently cessful girls who started with Fla 'Bird Cage Holders declared: "Now Is the time for This last aeason the hat appeared in farmers to worry about soil fer- a pair of screen hits. Irene will THESE unusual bird cage pot will add a gay note shortly commence a comedy at Cotility. kitchen. Each one is 714 to In answer to any farmer' state- lumbia "Over 21, based on Ruth your inches high, and theyre not a bit ment that "My yields are better Gordons stage hit. Irene Dunne, Incidentally, ia as Hum ever," Secretary Wickard counter with this question: lucky In private life at she is proAsk yourself how much better fessionally. She married Dr. Franmachinery and better plant varieties cis Griffin in 1927; they have one have had to do with those increases. adopted daughter, Mary Frances, Over much of our best farm land, and they're all very happy, thank better yields are the most pro- you. nounced cause of accelerated soil A Hard Worker a steady decline that depletion Faolette Goddard Is another who most farmers cant see yet, but started as a Ziegfeld girL Paulette which could bring a nationwide was in "Rio Rita. She came here crisis in soil fertility. as a blonde showgirl to appear in "No great nation can afford to the line of some of the early Eddie "The Grain arc Craat Fsoda fafifcjyr neglect the productivity of its soil. Cantor musical films. Paulette was The problems of abundance, baf- ambitious still Is. She married Kellogg's Cora Flakes bring you fling as they seem, are a challenge. Charlie Chaplin, appeared as his nearly all the protective food elements They can be solved; and their solu- leading lady in "Modern Times and r oi the whole grain declared essential tion will be the gateway to a better "The Great Dictator," and pros. to human nutrition. way of living. But to the problems pered even more after she left his of steadily declining production board and pictures. Paulette is curthere is no answer. That pathway rently under contract to Paramount eventually leads to decline and ruin. and is married to Actor Burgess It not only is impossible to pro- Meredith. duce abundantly on depleted soils; Virginia Bruce still appears in pic it is almost impossible to produce tures. Virginia is wealthy In her efficiently. own right, but her life has had TevnJ; Huge Crops Robbed Soil. many tragic moments. Her mar Kai Yeast "After four years of record-breakin- g riage with John Gilbert ended on production for war, farm- the rocks. They had one child. Her ers have special need for checking happy marriage to Director J. Walup on their soil resources and for ter Ruben ended In despair when he died suddenly. They had a child, too. repairing the effects of depletion. Such a checking up would In most From Teart to Cheer s cases reveal that the soils fertility Fannie Brice, MS level is lower than it was in prewar one of her rare currently making appearances before years. Fertility has been one of the the movie cameras In "Ziegfeld Folnecessary casualties In the battle lies, is a big radio name through to meet wartime food production her Baby Snooks character. Fannie goals. Peak-loa- d croppings have was never a beauty, but she soared taken a heavy toll of the soils re- to fame as a comedy star. Although sources of nitrogen, phosphorus and Fannies career has been perennial, potash. her private life hasn't been all orRehabilitation of the soil is thus a chids and ermine. She broke her necessity, if the fertility level is to heart over the man she married, ' be built up and the productive WitF Nicky Arnstein, when he went to capacity of the land maintained in jail. She was once Mrs. Billy Rose, 7 the competitive postwar period. but that didnt work either. v. All things considered, the cost of Gorgeous Olive Thomas was in tj , i i plowing, seeding and cultivating a several shows for Flo, and later .4 , ) y f starred in silent pictures for Lewis David's father. J. Selznlck, Get It Early! t. Olive married Jack Plekford, Ma"The War Food administration ry's kid brother, and died tragically , t again calls on farmers to accept j of an overdose of sleeping powders delivery of their fertilizers during in a Paris hospital. Pretty, dainty the winter and early spring, when Marilyn Miller starred In Sally the manufacturing plants can ?! and "Sunny on the stage before make delivery most easily, and she repeated those successes for the to store it in their barns and cameras. fUtSCHMAKirS FAMOUS RECIPE BOOK sheds for use when needed, Marilyn, too, married NEWLY REVISED FOR WART1MEJ 1 Jack Pickford, and the ceremony P. H. Grogglns, chief of the Clip and past on a penny caused a breach with Flo. The marchemicals and fertilizers branch, Pt card for your free Hot copy of Fleitcbmanns advises. riage didnt last long, ended in dinewly revised The Bread Basket. Dozens ctf easy Addma. vorce. Marilyn was still a star when "The Individual farmer can asrecipea for breads, tolls, she died. sure himself of sufficient fertilizdesserts. Address Stand ard Brands Incorporated, er by placing his orders as Never a Dull Moment Grand Central Annex, Box far as possible ahead of the sea477, New York 17, N. Y. Claire is best known as a Ina son of use. It all farmers will stage star of drawing room comedy, do this, plants can be kept workbut Ina was a Ziegfeld lass 'way at the capacity permitted by ing back in "Follies of 1916. Inas available labor. Continued maxilife has been temmum production and nse of ferpestuous, and several of her martilizers is necessary in support riages have ended in divorces. Now of the war food program. Ina is happily wed to a San Francisco lawyer. field is the same whether the crop Billie Burke, who was not only yield be large or small. Therefore, Flos wife but the star of one of his the farmer who is able to get big musicals (strangely, a flop) called yields at a relatively low producAnnie Dear, still plays dizzy mation cost is the one who will trons in films, also on the air. Bimake money when competition is llies stage career goes back to keen. Charles , Frohman. Attention to essentials is, of Lupe Velez, who made so many course, important in any soil imMexican Spitfire films, was In provement plan for postwar years. Hotcha." The vehement Velez was In addition to good rotation, the married to Johnny Weismuller and legumes, divorced after a tempestuous period growing of contour plowing where necessary, of marital strife. and the return of manure and crop There are dozens and dozens of refuse to the soil, the use of mixed Follies graduates, some whose 1 fertilizer is a No. necessity. Qual- lives are happy, gay and successful, ity as veil as high yield will be others whose lives were tied up in important factors in the postwai eventual disappointment and defeat. farm market. Experience has dem It seems sad that so many beautionstrated that fertilized crops are oi ful girls who had so much of this higher quality and yield than unfer worlds goods ended by really havtilized ones. ing so little happiness. will not be troubleiome o pluiea ionf as Ue war lasti. Food needs of our Allies and liberated regions may keep it quiescent for a while even after Germany cracks up. But In some future day It will become worrisome reality. Reports from liberated countries What will the coming transisupply sitution from war to peacetime Indicate thatis the food acute than had less there ation economy mean to American been anticipated. France, the Bat agriculture? kans. Poland and even eventually That question has been Germany may require less food raised with increasing fre- tom our supply than we had been on. Stocks of goods in Great quency not only by dirt farm- counting are Britain reported to be 5.300, 000 ers but by agricula normal 1,500,000 kons. ton, tural economists, too, as Un- These against reserves have been built up cle Sams armies and fleets substantially from shiphave won smashing victories ments out of this country. If these overseas and as prayed-fo- r were reduced to say, 2.000,000 tons peace becomes a closer possi- when the war ends, there would bea left about 3.500,000 for relief. bility. One thins ti clear. When the war by the Stanford Food Reends, the farmer's situation will be search institute support the belief ElcmcntsTakenFroin complicated to make. One has a bluebird is In the other "cago" all ia a single chet stitch. yellow canary that Europe wont be much market for our food surpluses. of a When Germany Surrenders. Some decline in food prices can be expected after Germany's defeat, for then both military and lend-leas- e buying of farm commodities is likely to taper off. This need be only a gradual movement until some downward adjustment can be effected in production volume. By the end of the Japanese war, the reconversion from war to peacetime production of civilian goods should be well under way. Prices, however, could go to 90 per cent of parity for the basic crops. The government is pledged to step in at that level with support for at least two years after the war, so no further severe drop than that may be necessary. All of the foregoing factors spell competition in the farmers postwar operations. Farmers can arm themselves now to meet that competition and to withstand the economic shocks that will accompany the transition period. If they do some straight thinking they can be stronger at the wars end than they were at its beginning. First of all, they can safeguard their future by keeping their finances in a liquid condition, by buying war bonds, by shunning debt and by avoiding the pitfalls of overexpansion through the purchase of additional farm land. Secondly, they can take out an "insurance policy for long - range farm productivity by undertaking a soil fertility rebuilding program. Present high food prices have already lured some farmers into land speculation and overexpansion. Such recklessness brought ruin to millions in the wake of World War L It can bring disaster again this time. During and immediately after the last war when food prices were even higher proportionately than they are now, many farmers were foolish enough to mortgage their own farms in order to buy more land, a recent statement of the Middle West Soil Improvement committee points out. "The sellers were canny operators who preferred to take their own cold profit on real estate rather than gamble on the chances of food prices remaining eternally high. "The memory of the crash and deflation that followed is still painfully fresh. "After the present war, American farmers will have to compete in world markets. Because' of current income levels the temptation to acquire additional acreage is strong. Some farmers believe it is a smart move because with more and better machinery available after the ' ttakCShoseEtWV,jm" f -i 4- 7 deep-roote- d Ideas Not for Privates You could cast quite a play from the gang who gave Pvt. Robert Porterfield a surprise shipping-ou- t party. 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