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Show Farmers Advised Of Their Part In National Defense Completion of the farm-to-farm canvass in Iron County la only the first step In the "Pood for Freedom'' Free-dom'' and farm defense program, declared J. M. Palmer, chairman of the county USDA defense board, In reporting results of the canvass which has been carried on during the past month. He reported that 600 farmers, including in-cluding poultrymen and dairymen who are tot engaged in any other agricultural enterprise, have pledged pledg-ed support of the farm defense program pro-gram for 1042. All of these have also indicated they intend to cooperate co-operate in the 1942 AAA farm program. pro-gram. "But signing a pledge Is Just the first step toward producing the food we need for national defense," said Mr. Palmer. "We have pledged Britian enough food for 10 million people. That's a fourth of the population po-pulation in England. Plans have been made and a part of them carried car-ried out to Bend Britian during 1042 dairy products that will require between be-tween four and one-half to five billion bil-lion pounds of milk; about a half billion dozen eggs; 18 million pounds of poultry meat, almost a billion and a half pounds of pork and lard, a million and a quarter tons of fruit, and more than two and a half million cases of canned vegetables. . "And we are not forgetting the people In our own country. We expect ex-pect to Improve food conditions for people who have been going Just a little bit hungry over here. Some of these people have been getting plenty of some kinds of food, but their diets have been none Too good. We want to help correct some of these maladjustments. Then, too, defense activity is bringing a demand de-mand for more of some of the foods produced on the farm. We have pledged more food for these demands." de-mands." Mr. Palmer said it wouia now be up to the individual farmer with the help of the county defense de-fense board and cooperating agencies agen-cies and organizations to produce the food called for in production goals. "Signing a pledge is not enough. Now we must go ahead and produce pro-duce the food called for In order to make these production goals a reality," he asserted. it IL |