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Show J kj arcferi vSLore rieis F or Each Household Good Farm W ar Board I DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, WASHINGTON. 4 egetalilc Garden Every family in Cache tocounty land should avail themselves and water to raise an adequate the d use, garden for committee recommends. Select the best possible soil". Fertilize with heavy applications of barnyard manure plus commercial phosphate. Prepare land and plant early. Irrigate once a week. Buy known varieties of certified seed from reliable dealers. Gardens should consist of a wide variety of vegetables adapted to local conditions. Plant at intervals if possible to insure fresh vegetables all during the growing season and for good quality products for storing. Families are urged to raise a supply garden large enough to summer family needs during the and to can, dry, store, or freeze sufficient vegetables for winter use: (1) To promote family health. (2) Release commercial canned food for our armed torccs, industrial centers, and our allies. 3 Save money for defense purposes which otherwise would be spent for food. The committee stresses the importance of canning or using vegetables as quickly as possible after they are gathered to pre- - f. serve food value and quality. (The experiment station reports a loss of 60 in the sugar content of peas after holding eight hours). To year-roun- the People of Rural 5ha growing season American history of America 1 Just ahead is ' the aoat critical In Agriculture. nation has given farmers a war assignment in which they cat not fall tha production of foods and fibers needed by this country and the United Nations in their fight for The freedom production goals which have been set u$ to fill these needs call for the greatest total fans production lit our history. Ke shall have to put every sere of land, every hour of labor, and every tit of farm machinery,-fertiliser- , and other supplies to ths uss which will best serve the Ration's wartime needs.' The 19L2 urgent needs are for more of the vegetable oil crops peanuts, soybeans, and flaxseed. We must als? break all past records for production of milk, eggs, pork, and certain The most vegetaDles. The task will not be easy, but I believe that fanners will do the Job. I urge that their neighbors in the villages and towns of America give every possible support to this effort. American ingenuity and determination plus cooperation will overcome shortages of farm labor, machinery, and production supplies to achieve farm goals, and to help our Nation toward the greatest goal of all Victory and a Just peacel I Meet the Cache county USDA War Board. Through this board all agricultural activity of the U. S. Department of Agriculture is to be carried on. In placing this responsibility on county War Boards, the Secretary of AgriR. Wickard Claude culture, said : will function These boards of the as the representatives Department of Agriculture in the war effort, including further extension of the food and fiber production programs, the handling of problems arising out of on materials war priorities needed in agriculture; shortages, such as those of labor, mathe terials. 'and machinery; gathering of speficied agricultural information of vital importance to the war effort, and cooperation at the county level with other defense agencies and programs. Heading up this county war board is the chairman. Alphonzo Mr. Christen! en Christensen. was appointed by the secretary of agriculture to be chairman of the county War Board. Other members of the Cacho War Board are: Samuel Christensen, representing the Federal Land Bank; R. L. Wrigley. extension service: John Welch. Farm Security Administration; and James Stewart, of the forest service. Mr. Wriglcy is secretary of the board. This board Is to seek the cooperation of all other agencie.and organizations engaged in the production or processing of food or having to do with th-of processing and production food and fiber This should m-- i elude dairy, poultry, canning crops, and wool producers and organizations of these groups. It should include condensed milk, canning faetory people and F F.A. along with groups. The board is to correlate the efforts of these various groups land organizations in the all out effort to produce the food needed to wl the war- - nd i.ho peace. The Food for Freedom program is a direct assignment from the Secretary of Agricul-- j ture. All instructions from the Seo-- 1 retary of Agriculture are be:ng ("sued to countv USDA War Boards through the State USDA War Board Full responsibility for getting the job done" rests with the chairman of the county USDA War Board. Among the jobs assigned to the Cache county War Board during the winter have been the Food for Freedom program to- -i gether with the canvass to determine wbat in- -! oividual farmers would pledge themselves to do to reach pro- -' duction goals in the food program, the farm machinery re- -, pair program, the scrap iron drive, salvage campaign and the graveyard" survey. ;auto The War Board lias been charged with the responsibiaty of investigating labor shortages as they affect the production of food and to meet with local se- lective service boards on rant- ters of deferment. These War Boards in connection with the AAA organization in every county and township of the United States constitute a. production army of more than 6 million men. i - Fruits r Increased Raspberries. and plantings of newer varieties recremoval of old varieties are ommended. Cuthbert, Newburgh, and Taylor are best varieties for the fresh market and for freezing and canning. Town lots with good soil could profitably be put into berries but plant one of the varieties recommended above. Raspberry patches that wont Note The followproduce No. 1 berries should be ing(Editors editorial written by Editor eliminated. Ben Buisman in the March 5th An increase 2. Strawberries. of the Oregon Grange in production of strawberries is issue Bulletin will undoubtedly be recommended. Varieties for loof interest to Cache Valley cal markets and for shipping are Marshal and Jennesen. Growers are urged to support There should be a law forbidthe Berry- - Marketing Associading editors from writing open tion in the county. yet 3. Cherries. Since the demand letters, but as no such statute going to use our for Montmerency sour cherries exists, we are to one urerogative and address new plantings Leon is increasing, OPA chief, Henderson, should be made for canning with a few suggestions about the and freezing. program. Omitsugar rationing cultibe should trees Existing the usual formalities such as vated or mulched, pruned, and atingsalutation, etc., we are going fertilized with either amonium to dive t: into our letter, right lbs. to 5 (3 tree), per sulphate or a heavy application of ma1. If you, Mr. Henderson, denure. of the 4. Apple. Families of Cache sire the full cooperation housewives, you should revise county are not taking full ad- your hoarddefinition of a vantage of the apple crop pro- er. Press releasessugar emanating use duced here. Increased of ap- from office affix the nasty ples would provide an excellent word your to any and all who have fresh fruit at low cost. more than two pounds advance Apple trees should be sprayed, on hand. fertilized, and pruned to pro- supply With your ofiice frightening duce a maximum of quality about an impending sugar fruit and provide the increased people for the last three production asked for by the shortage the while fumbling all months, government. Use spreaders with around trying to put a rationing arsenate of lead to increase system into effect, it would incontrol of worms. deed be an improvident housewife Fertilize with a good coating who had less than two pounds of manure or ammonium sul- of sugar on hand. phate which should be bought Theres another angle to it. j also. cooperatively. As the Washington Grange V News puts it. whoever heard of Labor buying sugar Some system should be work-- 1 ain farm housewife than 50 or ed out to organize, train, and lots?less Thats in times, mobilize college, high school and understand, and normala housemany junior high school students for holder (the editor included) has work on the farm. The commit- a sugar carryover from last cantee recommends that the schools ning season, when the most logigive training to boys and girls cal and economiutil way to puron farm work especially the: chase sugar was in of - canning harvesting crops, sacks. fruit, berries, and sugar beets. are perfectly These Workers should be made to ready andpeople to have willing feel that they have a responsi- tear out all the coupons you you is their patriotic wish from their hitherto bility, that it to give their best efforts duty rationing books, but in production of foods for de- -, resent being called hoarde ." fense. 2. If you really want to save All organizations should co- - f some sugar and at the same time operate by setting dates for keep the retail price down, your be should camps and outings which do not rationing system interfere with berry picking and changed to permit housewives to on a the harvesting of other crops. purchase their quotas monthly basis. Committee will tell you Any groceryman Wm. R. Zollinger, chr.. Provi- he loses two or three pounds in dence; A. L. Baer. Providence; transferring the contents of a Melvin Bitters, Providence. Jo-d bag into seph McKnight, Lewiston; Fran- - sacks. Some of this loss can be ris Nelson, North Logan. Albert charged up to errors in weighZbinden, Nibley; Mrs. John H. ing. but a lot of it goes on the Kemp, North Logan; Mrs. Helen' floor. This loss will be increasJensen, Hyrum; Irvin Sorenson, ed when it becomes necessary to d and pound Hyrum; F. M. Coe, USAO, and put it up in .Denton Mathews, Providence. nags. L Oregon Editor Dislikes Sugar Rationing to-wi- j loO-pou- ' nt tj-e- ! j 100-pou- two-poun- half-poun- The cost to the consumer, in like manner,- must necessarily increase. On a short margin commodity like sugar, no groceryman can afford to assume a cost of putting it in tiny paper sacks. The lost sugar incident to the operation, the labor involved and the paper sacks themselves must be charged up to the housewife. - WAR ACTIVITIES REQUIRE SUGAR gun is Every time a fired, it eats up the distilled product of a fifth of an acre of sugar cane. A thousand field pieces in an hour's firing burn up a much sugar as could be refined from a of a mile square. field When you have saved nine-tentof a pound of sugar, you have saved the equivalent of enough, sugar alcohol to make, together with nitric acid and ora whole pound dinary of smokeless powder. Sugar is refined from cane sugar molasses. Cane sugar molasses is one of the best sources of first-claethyl alcohol. We make smokeless powder from ethyl alcohol. Sugar alcohol is used for other military purposes, too. It is used for use in compounding dope on airplanes with fabric covered wings. A very Important use is in A making detonating agents." e detonating agent is and explodes very easily. It is used to light the bulk of less explosive powder which forms the shells bursting charge. To make detonating agents, is combined with sugar-alcohmercury to make fulminate of mercury. We used a lot of alcohol pounds to make fulminate of mercury during the last war, but the absolutely vital use of alcohol then, as now. was in the manufacture of smokeless powder. Smokeless powder fires our guns, and when you've saved s of a pound of sugar youve saved the equivalent of enough sugar alcohol to make, together with nitric acid and ordinary cotton, a whole pound of smokeless powder. Major General William Crozier, who had charge of munitions called smokefor us in 1917-1the best single less powder measure of strength which is afforded by all the materials of war. These "extras" could be teduced per cent if the system were placed on a monthly basis. We almost forgot to mention the saving in paper which could be made. Assume the average householder will be purchasing for a family of four. Under your system of weekly quotas, sugar purchases alone would require thirty-thre- e million paper bags every seven days. If our arithmetic is correct, this will amount to one billion, seven hundred and sixteen million pape bags the first year. This could be cut to four hundred and twenty-nin- e million bags under a monthly purchase system. (Editors have no business fooling around with numbers that run over three figures, but, Mr. Henderson, we wonder how many demolition bombs could be packed for shipment with the material required to make a paper bags?) 3. One last suggestion, Mr. Henderson. There has been a lot of loose talk going on of late that a million or so tons of Cuban sugar is to be converted into industrial alcohol to make smokeless powder. The people are wondering if alcohol made from our surplus grain stocks would not work Just as well. They are also wondering about statements appearing in the press that the rum distilleries in Cuba (owned by Uncle Sami must continue producing liquid dynamite so as not to dislocate the Cuban labor situation. The people dont know much about such things, but if alcohol from Cubar sugar makes the best smokeless powder, they are curious to know why there distilleries go v e r n m e couldn't do the job and keep the Cuban labor situation on an even keel at the same tune without making rum? We are not going to be obstinate about the foregoing suggestions, Mr. Henderson, and if you fail to see any merit in them, let s forget the whole thing. You're the boss and what you say we We can believe goes. speak for the farm people of America in saying that they will cooperate 100 per cent with any program which will contribute bringing this war to a quick and successful conclusion, We also believe, however, they are deserving of your confidence and a few fireside chats" to the nation via radio by your- self would not come amiss at this time. 75 two-thir- 190-pou- er gun-cotto- n, ss super-sensitiv- ol nine-tenth- i j i I farm-to-far- j i ; PESTS SHOULD BE ELIMINATED NOW Insect attacks on livestock ma tonally reduce yields of meat, nnlk, and wool and cut doA'n values of hides, thus impairing that branch of the nations higher war production goals, Ir. G. F. Knowlton, associate entomolo- t'tah Agricultural git at the Station, warned toExperiment day. Therefore, reasonable care in eliminating bleeding places for mosquitoes, horseflies, deerflies. houseflies, hornflies and stable-fliwould be beneficial amt economical this season, the entomologist averred. Dr. Knowltoii pointed out as an instance of such control benefit that elimination cf ishcep ticks would reduce lamb mortality, thus increasing growth size of lambs and production of quality wooL In addition, a eduction in livestock mortality would occur, he stated. es |