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Show OUR DUTY IN THE HARVESTING OF CROPS Utah has now reached tho most critical stage In tho dorelopmcnt of Its food campaign. Wo must save what has been so bounteously produced. pro-duced. With a crop avorago ranking rank-ing aboro any other stato proport-Ilonately proport-Ilonately In tho anion, our responsibility responsi-bility Is correspondingly greater. 4fc Through tho various means of dry- 1fi ing, canning, presorrlng and storing wo must save that portion of our harvest which Is not capablo of immediate im-mediate sale in tho fresh stage. Every town in Utah which has not already dono so should within tho next few wooks consldor tho advisability advis-ability of establishing municipal canneries, evaporators a nd storago facilities to handlo tho surplus fruits and vegetables. Patronlxo tho local canning and evaporating plants to their capacity. They should bo en- I couraged to develop. Tho houso- 1 wives of the wards and counties Should help. Salt Lako and other cities havo already led out in the matter of community action In preserving pre-serving and storage. Tho necessary oxponso for equipment need not bo groat. Thcro aro county agricultural agonts In most of tho counties of tho stato. Call upon them for advlco and assistance In tho mothods of construction con-struction and operation Involved In drying, canning and storing. It you havo no county agent, call upon tho county chairman on Food Supply and Conservation for advlco. Thero Is a chairman In each county as 11st-od 11st-od below. It cannot be too strongly emphasized emphas-ized that it will roqulro difficult and sustalnod endeavor to provent a largo portion of our crops being wasted. County and city leadership In tho next few weeks moans a vast saving In food, which, if conditions continue as at present, moans a vast saving of life. Energy was never worth so much as now. |
