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Show ivfcFarm ! WAR HEWS I Food for Freedom Meetings Utah USDA war board members i and farm leaders will receive de-I de-I tailed information on the 1943 Food for Freedom program in a j meeting to be held at Denver, Colorado, November 30 through December 2. This will be the first of a series of four regional meet-i meet-i ings to explain and discuss the 1 1943 program. Other meetings will ! be held at Chicago, December 3-5; Alemphis, December 7-9; and New York, December 14-16. A similar I series of meetings were held in September last year with the first meeting being held in Salt Lake City. : Secretary of Agriculture, Claude R. Wickard, is expected to attend the meeting at Denver. At this meeting food production goals will be allocated to states in the Western West-ern Region to be later broken down to county and individual farms. Marketing Quota Decision The unanimous decision of the Supreme Court on wheat marketing market-ing quotas is looked upon by students stu-dents of constitutional law as an historic opinion. It is important to all Americas. This decision clarifies clari-fies the power of Congress to regulate regu-late local, state or national industry indus-try under the interstate commerce clause, even though the product in question is not moving in interstate inter-state trade. The high court decision deci-sion upheld Congressional power to place a penalty on excess wheat under the Marketing Quota law speech at Indianapolis, November 19, asked for the immediate establishment estab-lishment of an international organization or-ganization to enforce a permanent peace. Enough fertilizers to meet food production goals have been promised pro-mised American farmers. But nitrogen ni-trogen fertilizers are expected to be limited. QPA says price ceilings will be boosted 8 per 'cent. t Ever Normal Granary More than 400 million bushels of wheat are expected to go into storage under loan in the United States this year. As of November 10, Utah farmers had placed 684,-876 684,-876 "bushels of 1942 wheat under loan. Of this amount, 588,434 bushels bush-els are in farm storage. even though the wheat is used for feed on the farm where grown. Shortcut Saves Labor Sterling M. Jones of Wellsville, Cache 'county, eliminated several operations in storing his grain this fall. The usual method was to thresh the grain, haul it from his farm to his home in town, then later haul it to a mill for grinding grind-ing and then haul it back to the farm to be fed to his hogs a beef cattle. This year he put up a 1000-bushel bin near his feed yard, obtained the services of a feed grinder and when he threshed, thresh-ed, he put the grain spout of the threshing machine in the hopper of the feed grinder and the blower of the grinder through the top window of the bin and set both machines going. Result ground grain in the bin ready for use. No sacks. No bagger. No trucks. And now, no worry. Hog Market Program To avoid market gluts and de-days de-days and to bring about an orderly shipment of hogs to packers, a lruck operators who have not as yet received applications may now obtain them from state Office of Defense Transportation branches. branch-es. In Utah the office is in the Atlas Building, Salt Lake City; in Idaho, the Idaho Building, Boise. Address requests to the Office of Defense Transportation at either of these branches, depending on where your truck is registered. Victory Food English walnuts, pecants, almonds, al-monds, filberts, and other domestic-grown tree nuts are being featured fea-tured as a Victory Food Special during the period, November 9 through November 21. Effective date of Certificiates of War Necessity has been postponed from November 15 to December 1, ODT officails have announced. Nationwide Na-tionwide gasoline rationing has been postponed to December 1 also, and its regulations will permit issuance of temporary gasoline rations ra-tions after December 1 to anyone who has applied for a Certificate of War Necessity but has not re- I ceived it. I program has been worked out by the U. S. Department of Agriculture. Agricul-ture. Reports of supplies at each market will be kept current to all markets and to producers. This special news service is expected to provide shippers and producers with the information which will air them in working out an orderly movement of hogs to market. Embargoes Em-bargoes and use of permits will be restored to if necessary but only if necessary, officials of the department say. Thanksgving Observance "Arrangements going forward" is the report from several Utah counties on the special Thanksgiving Thanksgiv-ing Observance which will pay tribute to folks on the farm front. Newspapers are cooperating by putting out special editions. Governor Gov-ernor Maw has indicated that he will pay special tribute to farmers in his proclamation of Thanksgiving Thanksgiv-ing day. On November 25 a special half-hour half-hour Thanksgiving broadcast will be released over national networks. The poet, Stephen Vincent Benet, is preparing the script. Time and networks have not yet been decided. decid-ed. Watch for announcements. The U. S. Department of Agriculture Agri-culture expects to release a comprehensive com-prehensive statement on the farm labor situation before the end of the month. Victory gardeners can expect adequate supplies of insecticides for 1943, says the War Production Board. A London report says Germans will receive a small extra food ration ra-tion as a special Christmas gift. This contrasts sharply with the turkey dinners planned for American Ameri-can boys in training camps and overseas. And one of the dinners the family of our war workers moves up to Thursday, November 26, would probably give an even greater contrast. Men In Service President Roosevelt has estimated estimat-ed that all U. S. forces will total 9,700,000 men by the end of 1943. But local draft boards have been instructed to defer "essential" farm workers. To make available steel go as far as possible in the production of barbed wire, wire fencing and poultry netting, the War Production Produc-tion Beard has prohibited the manufacture of non-essential types of fencing materials. M. Clifford Townsend, in a |