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Show One Week To Go On Farm Defense Sign-up For IQ42 Farmers May Sign Planning Sheets . At Farm Bureau Only one week remains for Franklin Fran-klin County farmers to reach the 1U0 percent goal set for signing up 1942 Farm Defense Program plan sheets, R. W. Geddes, chairman chair-man of the county USDA Defense Board, warned today. A check in the County office shows that approximately So percent per-cent of the farmers have signed to date. This 'leaves 20 percent or about 250 farmers who must yet sign before the closing date in order for the county to reach the proposed goal. Sign-up work, carried on in conjunction con-junction with the annual AAA Farm plan sign-up usually held in the spring by community AAA committeemen, is progressing in the county. Representatives of agencies of the Department of Agriculture Agri-culture which operate in the coun ty, are assisting with the work of surveying- intentions of farmers in the county to produce foods in 1942 that are vital to national defense. de-fense. "However, it is a big job, and we're going to need conscientious help from every farmer in, thei county if we are to meet the December De-cember 1' deadline that has been set for the entire nation," Geddes said. "We should ike every farmer in the county to make it his own responsibility to see that he has signed a farm plan sheet. Every farmer has a part In the program to produce the foods that will be needed next year. Making the survey sur-vey through the farm plan sheet sign-up is the first .step in. .getting ' tht production job completed suc- cessfully. We hope every farmer I will make sure he is signed up." r r - fl |
