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Show Cotton, Wool, Hemp All Playing Part in Winning War Wool from the farmers sheep goes into uniformt for soldiers and clothes (or civilians. Aviators' Jackets, pantt and helmed and boott are lined with thearllng therp tkint. The average toldier uset 100 pounds of wool a year, against an average of V pounds for civilians. And there It hemp. War htt cut off most of the nations usual fiber tourcet. For a time, the navy ftced terioui shortages in rnhlen. cordage, hawsers and the like r' l wat alto essential to the home front, and badly needed by the army, maritime commltlon, and (or lend-lease. lend-lease. The result? Farmers have revived a hemp fiber Industry that had all but disappeared. It hat taken year thlt year to get under way because we had no teed. However, farmer! htv exceeded their 1942 (inl of 3.M1.0MJ t o Ml of hemp teed. The teed acq.. ', emphatit In Kii.t ill turn to pi lurtion of actu al hemp fiber. It It estimated that total production of fiber will be 30 timet that of 1941 Most of the fiber will be planted In four tUtes Wisconsin, Wis-consin, Minnesota, Illinois and Kentucky. Ken-tucky. Cotton hat thousand! of war uses. One type of army plane hti In Its wings, tall and fuselage some 650 square feet of cotton linen. The Hit could be extended Indefinitely, not only (or cotton but for many other farm crops. |
