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Show SOUTH CACHE COURIER. IIYRUM. UTAH Agricultural Tools Rationing Called Off. But War Demand Will Limit the Supply Big Increase in Parts, However, Will Be Available I SNAPPY FACTS ABOUT RUBBER Wives Who Are Saboteurs Bell Syndicate. WNU Feature!. 1 f The farmers of America are continuing, as usual, to do a magnificent job of producing foodstuffs. In 1944, for the eighth successive year, they produced a record food total despite a steadily dwindling Kathleen Norris Says: Overloading has been responsible for much lost tire mileage on commercial and farm motor trucks. Loading si a truck or trailer so the weight is evenly distributed to all wheels will prove an important rubber conservation measure. It pays to check loads. : load-carryi- tic I I9 If the average rubber supply that its lowest in 35 reached years. point Agricultural tools are no longer rationed, but that doesnt mean that the farmer, though he has the money, is going to be able to get that new tractor or combine he wishes so he can Improve on the production miracle he has already accomplished. Its the same old trouble weve had since Pearl Harbor. Theres a war on! Manufacture of farm machinery, although recognized as an essential civilian "must program, has to be balanced in relation to direct war production. Here la the way the government sums np the situation: During the 1945 crop year it Is expected that American farmers will obtain approximately the same amount of new farm ma- - consump- tion in China, Russia and India were brought up to American rubber consumption standards, they would require 4,500,000 tons of rubber a year, nearly twice as much as the anticipated world supply of natural and synthetic rubber after the war, B. F. Goodrich officials declare. manpower A REGoodric Potato Digger That Handles Two Bows at a Time. ing supplied 20 per cent of the food eaten by American troops stationed there. Australia has supplied nearly all the food for American troops in the South Pacific. as cast iron, rubber, zinc, copper, that had gone into farm machines in pre-wa- r days, had to be diverted to make tanks, military trucks, landing craft, guns and other war ''When I got my captaincy and sailing orders, she came a thousand miles. goods.. 1944-4- 5 In 1939 American farmers With my little girls, to wish me Godspeed.' 1943-4- 4 Schedule B were able to buy 161,000 new tracActual Production (Planned) tors. But that was a year when By KATHLEEN NORRIS ITEM 1940: this country made only 2,141 HAT has happened to planes. In the calendar year of the honor and fidelity 1943, when American farmers of American women in were able to buy a mere 85,000 new tractors, the United States this war? What has become manufactured more than 85,000 of the old-tim- e fineness anc planes mainly for war. faithfulness that made it secondThe critical shortage of raw ma-nature for our war wives terials that put a ceiling on manuto cherish the memory of the of new farm machines in facture who men were away on battle-front- s, 1942 has been superseded by a shortto preserve the sacredage of manpower and components. ness of home and home ties in During the first quarter of the 1945 their absence? farm machinery production year, Gone with the wind, evidently. Remanufacture of new machinery exclusive of wheel tractors, repair cently an eminent military authority was responsible for the statement parts and attachments was approxthat among married men in the imately 25 per cent behind schedule. fighting forces today, one out of evThis lag in production was caused ery three receives news from home that his wife is no longer faithful. by manpower shortages and the difficulty in obtaining components, That he Is no longer loved. That POSTS chiefly malleable and gray iron castthe home of which he dreams ings. In the Middle West, where in the smoke and blood and horror Includes production carried over from WPB Limitation Order GOLDEV FLAKES OF most of American farm machinery of the firing line, is no longer ready plus all production from appeals and supplemental authorizations. is 1944. the labor Production inademade, tYHEAr AAfD BRAV to welcome him back. That the supply is Q through September 30, quate, a condition that will not children for whom his arms and his COMBVED American farmers will be able to change while war goods are still urchlnery and attachments as they heart hunger are no longer to be did in 1944. There will be, howobtain no more new tractors, side gently needed. One concern, that to live under their fathers roof his, SCCARSWEEF ever, nearly $20,000,000 more In delivery rakes, combines, or other before the war made approximately if indeed he ever has a home FEVDER RASKS haying and harvesting machinery 35 per cent of American farm ma- - again. repair parts. In other words, there is still not The cruelty and selfishness of enough new farm machinery to go the women who write such letters around. Farmers, in many cases, delicious HEW breakfast idea to lonely, homesick men is suffare going to have to conserve and iciently dreadful. But even worse is repair and get along the best they the implication that our girls are bePosts can with what they have, rather 40 Bran Flakes plus sweet, tenwithout ing brought up respect any than buy new replacements. der raisins right in the same for marriage, motherhood or thempackage. Its a flavorful combinaApproximately 90 per cent of the selves. tion to set your mouth to watering. new farm machines (except tracWhen a woman goes through Your whole family will love it. Ask will in be made the United tors) that years of weakness and illness, as your grocer for Posts Raisin Bran States during the 1945 production in women the is no comfort do, there many big package year July 1, 1944, to June 30, 1945, in the world to her like the deep today. Wants Wealthy Man. will be available to American farmhappiness of knowing that her husAnn and I have been married 10 ers. About 10 per cent will go band is faithful, is concerned, is he writes. She wanted me years, abroad approximately 7 per cent in eager with tender help and care. to and when I got my volunteer, commercial exports and 3 per cent Soldiers Give Up Much. captaincy and sailing orders she through Lend-Leasaccording to the And when men leave their homes, came a thousand miles, with my Foreign Economic administration. leave safety and friends, beloved little girls, to wish me Godspeed Lend-lease- d farm machines (that children and wives, be- That was 14 months ago. We have small 2 totaled only 5 per cent of the enbeen very happy, have a lovely hind them; when they are regitire production of U. S. farm maout of all individuality; mented home, books, friends, work in com chinery from the start of the Lend-leas- e when they may no longer have a mon. Now she writes me that she program from March, 1941, to will of their own or be free for a wishes to go to Reno; she has promJune, 1944), had to be sent abroad single hour without some other ised to marry a much older man, to step up food production for our mans permission then what sort of quite wealthy, and prominent in our boys fighting overseas. This farm a wife is it who begins at once to town. He is 52, Ann 34. She asks Cultivating Corn, Four Rows at a Time, Saves Labor. not machinery export only helped A ,. entertain herself with friendships of me not to make any fuss and hopes to feed our boys, but saved ur- during the 1945 crop year than dur- chines, reported in October, 1944, other men, who presently writes her that I will someday find a woman v$ gently needed shipping space for ing the 1944 crop year. that by March, 1945, it would probhomesick soldier that she has met more worthy of me. She says the munitions instead of thousands of Considering the types of machines ably be short 6,000 workers needed another love, that she wants to be girls will share their time between tons of food grown on the wrong in use on American farms, the re- to keep production up to schedule. free, that he must make some us. side of the ocean. The chief recipiother living arrangements when he and the In placements Is that the way wives write to required crop effect, during the war this ents of Lend-leasefarm machines shifts necessitated WFAs has war, asked to their husbands in war time? the its by farmers gets home? country have been Australia, New Zealand current farm machinery program The army official above quoted letter concludes bitterly. Is that the raise more crops with less men and the British Isles, the latter hav- continues to emphasize the manuto do the work, to keep their says one soldier out of every three best they can do to brace their men facture of such labor-savinmachinfarm equipment in working orgets this sort of letter. Our enemies through the crudest ordeal that huaf ery as com pickers, side delivery der somehow without counting could hardly devise anything more man flesh and blood ever faced? rakes and pickup hay balers. WFA, P'f UV. too heavily on replacements, destructive to the morale of our Were tired, discouraged, homehowever, has requested the manuand to share their machines with troops. To wait for mail from home sick, over here. We know how this facture for the 1945 crop year of other farmers whenever and and to eagerly receive it, only to be war is going to end, and that well more planting, fertilizing and tillage HMlUMTO wherever possible. stunned by fresh misery and lonelicome home some of us victorious, Olivia de equipment than for 1944. Included ness, a sense of inferiority and fail- but believe me, its a slow, hard To help farmers keep their maare such items of farm equipment chines of the ure, is an experience that may pull, and to have nothing to which .r;ecommend going, manufacture of repair as corn and cotton planters, listers, to well weaken look the deterand inand courage forward, attachments has been for parts which nothing to work, nothing loving and comfortpotato planters, beet and bean drills, creased considerably. In 1944 the mination of any man. St,ine. endgate seeders, fertilizer distribuTOOTH scheduled production of repair parts ing to which to come home, is tors, tractor plows and cultivators, and attachments amounted to apCVLOX po We have one baby pretty disheartening. If anyone had Mary, girl disc harrows, walking cultivators writes Corporal W. J. J. from north- told me this of Ann Id have proximately 28.3 per cent of the toand rotary hoes. tal farm machinery output, as comern France. I think the world of knocked him down. Written by he During the war, manufacture of pared with 14 per cent in 1940. her, and God knows I dearly love own hand, I have to believe it, and farm machinery, although recogTwenty-on- e my wife, too. But now Ethel writes it has shaken the foundations of my per cent more farm nized as an essential civilian "must commodities were produced in 1944 that she wants a divorce, she is whole life. program, has had to be balanced in than in 1940 with 5 per cent fewer going to marry a fellow I know, and relation to direct war production. workers. take Mary with her. I wish I knew Thousands of wives are piling up When the United States entered The annual employment on Amerwhat to do, ought I try to hold her. eternal regret and shame for themthe war, production of farm machinican farms decreased from 10,585,-00- 0 feeling like she does? I get almost selves. For thousands of others perin 1940 to 10,037,000 in 1944. ApCreomulsion relieves ery was sharply curtailed because sick, Hing so far away, and not haps it isnt too late to stop short, to promptly munitions production had become an proximately 4,000,000 workers have able to get home and see her. In my take the course of to the seat of the honand courage loosen oprmbl, help and expel mind I think Ill go coocoo imagin- or, fidelity and plain exacting demand on this countrys left agriculture for war industries torlnlhien Phlegm, and 111(1 nature Hay Baler Saves Labor supply of steel The steel, as well or the armed forces. ing myself talking with her and say- - goodness, as wives. heal raw, tender, inflamed bronchial mucous mem- Approximately 1,700,000 farm men t0 sell you had entered the atettfe of Creomulsion TRACTOR PRODUCTION SANITARY DISHWASHING , military service up with the un- to January 1, 1945. j For the Period July 1, 1943, to July 31. 1944 Washing dishes does not insure derstanding you must like the way it American farmers have been sanitary cleanliness if the dish cloth . toe yoSrSmoney0blcfc0r yoa out more use of individhas lain wet, concealing all kinds of getting ual farm machines during bacteria. Scalding dishes after washthe war. The exchange and coing removes the film which holds or Coughs, Chest Colds, Bronchitis operative use of some machines, bacteria to the sides of the dishes. such as tractors and combines, Dish cloth and dish towels for has increased markedly. One drying dishes must be boiled and corn picker, for example, might sunned often. Yellow laundry soap be used to harvest as much as and scalding hot water is a disinfect1,200 acres of corn in a year. ant, and a half teaspoonful of conCombines bate been hauled a centrated lye added to water in thousand miles to harvest crops which towels are boiled will whiten on farms in county after county. "lie is quite wealthy and prominent..." them and till germs. iM'BRAN 0, Wrf Nut-brow- crisp-toaste- d N d g - h srssrs' .vJsorf How To Relieve . Bronchitis CREOMULSION |