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Show " ' ? ft Farm WAR NEWS e No school today!" ose three words may mean of Foci for Freedom this fall. County and city school officials f ut.ih are showing an excellent "nirit'of cooperation in trying to mid a W 10 harvest wu' croixs I rtis fall, according to Reed W. Bailey, chairman of the farm lu- j Dor committee of the Utah state VJSDA War Board. In Cache county coun-ty the school boards of the coun- and the Logan city schools offered of-fered to do anything they can to Mip harvest the wops. Utah county coun-ty schools have gone on record as ready to "go all out" to save the tomatoes, sugar beets and potatoes. One county proposed holding the schools only a 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 more workers for the sugar beet fields. Otah farmers are being urged by Orville L. Lee chairman of the Utah state USDA War Board, to mate full use of the U. S. Employment Em-ployment Service. He points out that some farmers have not been aware of the services offered by this agency. As the labor situation becomes more acute, it becomes increasingly in-creasingly more necessary that all farmers seeking labor know about the facilities offered by the USES. If you need farm labor, it is suggested sug-gested that you get in touch with your local USES office located at 53 East 1st North. Store it on the farm! That's the advice of Alphonso Christensen, chairman of the Cache county USDA War Board, to farmers wondering what to do with their 1942 crops of wheat, oats, barley and (where applicable) beans. "Storage room for one year's crop" has been the advice of farm leaders lead-ers of Utah since the nation's wheat crop started backing up a few years ago. With a carry-over on July 1, 1942 of more than 600 million bushels and an estimated 1942 crop of about 904 million bushels, wheat represents the most, pressing storage problem this year. What do you intend to do with that anti-aircraft gun back of the barn, or that pile of army rifles down in the fence corner, asks Al-phonzo Al-phonzo Christensen, chairman of the county USDA War Board. You - may not recognize that pile of scrap iron as rifles or an antiaircraft anti-aircraft gun, but they're there. They may need a little processing before, they can be used to fight for -freedom, but if they are left there to rust away they'll be helping help-ing the Axis, Christensen said. -Utah's quota of iron and steel scrap to be turned in between July 1 -and December 1, 1942, is 33 thousand tons. The War Pro- duction Board, in setting this quota, quo-ta, points out that inventories on scrap metal are dangerously low with little more than a month's supply on hand. That national quota is 17 million1 tons for the tlx months. M. J. Greenwood, state chairman of the Salvage Program, has requested the cooperation cooper-ation of the USDA War Boards in gathering in this scrap. Farmers of the Nation are ex-j ex-j pected to turn in 2 million tons Iin 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. said A. Christensen, chairman of the county USDA War Board. The deadline for insuring winter wheat is September 30, 1942. Farmers are not holding livestock live-stock off the market for higher prices nor are they failing to produce pro-duce enough meat, declares Orville L Lee chairman of the Utah state USDA War Board, in answer to critics who claim those are the causes of recent meat shortages in some areas of the United States. Price ceilings and diff erent als, heavy army buying and the slack marketing season were given as some of the causes of temporary shortages - Welding rods are scarcer than I "hens teeth" and farmers are urged I to unearth all they can. c V Peed wheat under the authoriza- c tion from Congress to release 125 million bushels to aid in reaching 1 dairy, poultry, pork and beef pro- 1 duction goals will soon be offered i to farmers and feeders of Cache i county, says Sterling M. Jones, ' member of the county AAA com- : mittee. The price of this wheat at Cache county will be approximate - .90 cents a bushel. Farmers , who have resealed 1941 farm-stored wheat can transfer It to the Commodity Credit Corporation in satisfaction of their loans and then buy it back at feed prices, all without moving the wheat. It is expected that there will be no such release wheat before maturity date f the loan. To reduce the number of casualties cas-ualties on the farm front, wheat growers of Cache county will be encouraged during the next few j weeks to insure their 1943 crop against all hazards with the Federal Fed-eral Crop Insurance Corporation. we can't afford to have a food Production plant shut down during the war because of a crop failure, |