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Show Farm War News Iron County U. S. D. A. War Board "No School Today!" Those three words may mean tons of Food for Freedom this fall. County and city school officials of Utah are showing an excellent spirit of cooperation in trying to find a way to harvest war crops tills fall, according to Reed W. Bailey, Chairman of the farm labor la-bor committee of the Utah Staie USDA War Board. In Cache county coun-ty the school boards of the county and the Logan city school offered to do anything they can to help harvest the crops. Utah county schools have gone on record as ready to "go all out" to save the tomatoes, sugar beels and potatoes. One county proposed holding schools only half a day during the harvest season. One county USDA War Board has proposed that the dates for the fall deer hunt be postponed to release re-lease workers for the sugar beet fields. Utah farmers are being urged by Orville L. Lee, chairman of the U-tah U-tah State USDA War Board, to make full use of the U. S. Employment Employ-ment Service. He points out that some farmers have not been aware of the services offered by this a-gency. a-gency. As the labor situation becomes be-comes more acute, it. becomes increasingly in-creasingly more necessary that all farmers seeking labor know about the facilities offered by the U. a. E. S. If you need farm labor, It Is suggested that you get in touch with your local USES, office located lo-cated at 55 North Main Street, Cedar City, Utah. Store it on the farm! That's the advice of J. M. Palmer, chairman of the Iron county USDA War Board, to farmers wondering what to do with their 1942 crops of wheat, oats, and barley. "Storae11 room for one year's crop" has been the, advice of farm leaders of Utah since the nation's wheat crop started star-ted backing up a few years ago. I With a carry-over on July 1, 1942 of more than 600 million bushels and an estimated 1942 crop of a-bout a-bout 904 million bushels, wheat represents re-presents the most pressing storage problem this year. What do yon intend to do with that anti-aircraft gun back of the barn, that pile of army rifles down in the fence corner? You may not recognize that pile of scrap iron as rifles or an anti-aircraft gun, but they're there. They may need allttle processing before they can be used to fight for freedom, but If they are left there to rust away they'll be helping . the Axis, Mr. Palmer said. Utah's quota of Iron and steel scrap to be turned In between July t and December 1, 1942, Is 33 thousand thous-and tons. The War Production Board, in setting this quota, points out that inventories on scrap metal are dangerously low with little more than a month's supply on hand. That national quota Is 1? million tons for the six months. M. J. Greenwood, 6tate chairman of the Salvage Program, has requested re-quested the cooperation of the USDA War Boards in gathering In tins scrap. Farmers of the nation are expected expec-ted to turn In 2'i million tons in the big scrap "harvest" this fall. If you need an electric motor, use every possible means you can to locate a used motor before you apply for a new one, cautions the Utah State USDA War Board. Welding rods are scarcer than "Hens Teeth" and farmers are urged to unearth all they can. Feed wheat under the authorization authori-zation from Congress to release 125 million bushels to aid in reaching reach-ing dairy, poultry, pork and beef production goals will soon be offered of-fered to farmers and feeders of Iron county, says Herman E. Bay-les, Bay-les, member of the county AAA committee. The price of this wheat at Cedar City will be approximate ly 95 cents a bushel. Farmers who have reseated 1941 farm-stored wheat can transfer It to the Commodity Com-modity Credit Corporation in satisfaction sat-isfaction of their loans and then buy It back at fted prices, all without with-out moving the wheat. It is expected ex-pected that there will be no such release wheat before maturity date of the loan. |