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Show FARMERS AWAIT OBSERVANCE OF NATIONAL FARM DAY Monday, March 8, Cache county farmers and ranchers ranch-ers wll join others throughout the nation in observing National Farm Day as the tenth anniversary of the farm program, Alphonso Christensen of Newton, chairman , of the Cache county U S D A war board, announced today. This day also will mark the opening of the spring offensiye on the farm front, he said. During the past weeks : farmers and ranchers of the state have been mobilizing to reach food production goals in 1943. G. F. Geissler Will Speak at Meets In Cache County G. F. Geissler of Washington, D. C, acting director of the western division, AAA, expects to be in Utah on farm day and will speak at Cache county meetings. Plans are going - forward for meetings in Clarkston and Logan, Mr. Christensen Chris-tensen announced. Orville L. Lee, chairman of the Utah state USDA war board, said that this year National Farm Day will be more significant and will carry more vital implications than any farm day in the past. As chairman of the state USDA war board, he has directed that the day be observed by public meetings, where practioal, sponsored sponsor-ed by county USDA war boards. Utah will be given special recognition recog-nition on this day over a national radio network. A. W. Bishop of Garland, chairman of the Box Elder El-der county USDA war board, will be one of three war board chairmen chair-men to report from the farm front. Other reports will be from Georgia and Pennsylvania. An Iowa county mobilization committee commit-tee will also be heard. These reports from the farm front wil be given on the National 1 ?arm and Home program over the Rlno TJefnrirlr at 10-30. a m mrtlin- tain wa rtime. Mr. Bishop will tell to the Secretary of Agriculture what the farmers of Box Elder county are doing to mobilize for the battle of food production hi 1943. National Farm Day will be featured fea-tured in a special broadcast over radio station KDYL, Salt Lake City, Saturday, March 6, at 8:30 a.m. On this program, ten years of farming under a national plan of cooperation will be reviewed. Chairman Lee, in calling attention atten-tion to observance of the tenth anniversary of the farm program had this to say: "Thanks to ten years of national farm conservation conserva-tion and planning, the soil of the vast majority of America's farm lands is ready for the food production pro-duction burden being put upon it. America's farm leadership in every ev-ery locality is ready to answer the nation's calL With . a farm program, pro-gram, our farmers and ranchers can answer this call with organized organiz-ed production. The record crops of 1942 showed that. We are ready again th aeysioprtETAOINUmRh again this year to produce to the limit of our resources and abiity the things needed in the war effort." ef-fort." He urged that county meetings bring the farmer's problems before each community and that, plans be made to meet manpower, machinery ma-chinery and transportation short-j short-j ages through pooling and exchange. National Farm Day gives us an opportunity to complete the farm mobilization of every community by laying our local reports before the eyes of the public and calling for all-out civilian and volunteer assistance, he said. "Food production produc-tion today is everybody's job. Let's keep it out in front until the job is done." Mr. Lee, in explaining the significance sig-nificance of National Farm Day. said that it was on this day, March 8, in 1933 that farmers end farm leaders met in Washington, D. C to consider the plight of agriculture agricul-ture and determine some remedy From recommendations made ii this meeting, Congress forniulatet the legislation which served as tip basis of the present far program. The aims of the farm program as at the beginning, still are "Ab undance of foo dand fiber at fai prices, a parity of income for ac riculture, and conservation of u. soil," Mr. Lee said. And he added that in this tin-of tin-of emergency, these aims are mo: important than ever, especially n abundance of food and fibor f the war effort. But, h. pointf out, only through coiv.vaUon the soil and a pirity of incr-n can formers produce aburd.-:ii:. |