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Show i . jl Fm ! llVflRJJElVSl Utah farmers were urged this week to ln:rease their acreages of dry edible beans in order to meet the increased military, lend-lease and civilian demands for the commodity. com-modity. About 3.300,000 acres must be planted in the nation to meet 1943 goals, but up to March, the nation's farmers had indicated intentions in-tentions of planting only 2,480,000 acres. In Utah, where the goal has been increased 138 per cent, a report from 60 per cent of the farmers in the state showed that Intended acreages will fall below that a-mount. a-mount. However, Orville IL. Lee, state USDA war board chairman, commended com-mended Utah's 24,000 farmers for the excellent showing they are making on their farm plan signups. sign-ups. "With the exception of dry edible beans and canning peas, all war crop goals will be exceeded on the acreage planted basis, according accord-ing to a report made last week in the state office," Mr. Lee stated. With the issuance of slaughter permits and dealer permits to farmers, butchers, meat packers and livestock dealers, J. M. Palmer chairman of the Iron county USDA war board, called attention to the following points of the meat management man-agement program which particularly particular-ly concern farmers: 1. Farmers must remember that the permit number must be stamped on each whole-sale cut unless he sells the meat directly to the consumer, in which case a tag on which the number appears will do. 2. In order to determine the number of points to collect for the meat delivered, the farmer should use OPA wholesale or retail charts. 3. All reports of sales, along with the red ration stamps collected, must be filed with the local war price and rationing board. The last remaining item of farm machinery needed for spring plowing, plow-ing, planting, tillage, and early cultivation has been removed from government freeze, it was announced announ-ced this week. Haying and harvesting equipment equip-ment Is still frozen, but it will probably be released for distribution distribu-tion by April 15. Sensational reports of an impending im-pending shortage of potatoes have no basis, J. M. Palmer, war board chairman, reported this week. The situation is tight, but not unusually unusual-ly so for April and May. The present supply is only one per cent below normal and the total 1943 commercial acreage for early Irish potatoes has been Indicated In-dicated at 342.000 acres. With average av-erage growing conditions, this acreage ac-reage should produce 499 million bushels, Mr. Palmer said. This is about the same amount as produced pro-duced In 1942. Farmers of Iron county were reminded re-minded that they should place requests re-quests for labor with the U. S. Em-plo;ment Em-plo;ment office at Cedar City. Likewise, local persons desiring employment as farm workers should get in touch with this office. of-fice. Farm women who have to feeJ temporary hired hands will be j!ad to know that they can obtain rat'or.ed foods for those extra persons per-sons by arpl.vinj to the local ration boards. Aimed at preventing a black market mar-ket on potatoes, the office of price adm'nlstration has prohibited the sale of seed potatops by retail stores for purposes other than planting. All such potatoes miit be tagged "seed'' and cannot te sold in quantities quan-tities of less than 50 pounds. However How-ever OPA recently made available to houeswives 1000 carloads by removing re-moving the "seed" label from potatoes pota-toes h.ch were in transit or delivered de-livered at terminals on March 19 |