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Show 7 FOOD fjf" &g y m I III 111 NEWS Victory on the Farm Front Production battles are going in favor of the farmers according to September 10 crop reports. "Totally "Total-ly unprecedented crop yields per acre" are indicated hi the reports. Total reduction is running ahead of last year's record crop and . is expected to go 35 per cent above the 1923-32 average and 12 per cent more than any previous year. Practically all crops are exceeding exceed-ing goals set up in the Food for Freedom program. Feed grains are showing heavy increases. Corn will exceed goals by 12 per cent; oats, 13 per cent; barley, 25 per cent; hay, 11 per cent; and rye, 24 per cent. Wheat will exceed the goals set last faU by 24 per cent. Dry edible beans will exceed goals by 5 per cent and dry field peas 10 per cent. Only two crops reported report-ed will fall below production goals potatoes and peanuts. Potatoes will fall short about 9 per cent in Idaho but much less in other potato po-tato areas, the report says. Meeting Farm Labor Shortaffes Farm women have come to the rescue of many farm crops during the summer. One Cache valley farm woman with a baby only -months old has been helping her husband harvest the wheat crop. The hired man quit a farm in Box Elder county to take work at Brigham City. The wife and her little daughter under 10 filled m and harvested the hay crop. When farmers' 'wives realize they are helping to win the war against the Axis, they are ready to sacrifice sacri-fice says Alphonso Christensen, chairman of the Cache county U. S.D.A. War Board. The Box Elder county USDA War Board is leading out in seciir-inK seciir-inK outside labor to take care of j the harvest. Box Elder county is moving to obtain a labor camp for Japanese, evacuees according to A. W. Bishop Bish-op of Garland, chairman of ths county USDA War Board. Cooperating Cooper-ating in the move are Box Elder county, sugar company, canneries, beet growers association and canning can-ning crops association. Total 1942 U. S. wheat crops expected to exceed 971 million bushels, making total 1942-43 supply sup-ply about 1,600,000,000 bushels. England is really clamping down on rubber conservation. Fines and imprisonment face folks who throw away scrap rubber such as hot water bottles, overshoes, etc. Meat for everyone and not a favored few! That is the idea back of the move to place ceilings oil live hogs and cattle, according to Alphonso Christensen. chairman of the Cache county USDA War Board. He explained that with ceilings on meat products and no ceilings on live animals for slaughter, slau-ghter, small packing plants were being squeezer out. And to furnish the meat needed in the war effort, every packing plant must be kept going, he said. Ceilings on live hogs can be expected soon and limits on cattle cat-tle will follow. Meat rationing can be expected about the first of the year, he predicted, but explained that rationing would apply only to federally inspected meats and not to meat which farmers slaughter for their own use. "Price ceilings and rationing cannot be looked upon as war sacrifices but an intelligent move to prevent hoarding and unequal distribution. This plan will give low income consumers an equal chance st the meat counter," Mr. Christensen 6aid. "We must see that every American Ameri-can has the food he needs to keep him or her well and strong. We must not let a lack of proper food defeat us." the chairman declared. A special ruling of the OPA will prevent the price of work clothes |