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Show Farm Bays Needed to Produce Food Concerted effort is being made by organized groups of this state to ease the acute labor situation which faces the majority of farmers farm-ers in UtJ.h. Farmers report that they will not be able to meet the production produc-tion goals set by Secretary Wick-ard Wick-ard for 1942 and pledged by themselves them-selves unless more recognition is given to the need for keeping farm-trained boys on the farm. Recommendations of the Agricultural Agri-cultural and Livestock committee of the State Council of Defense drafted, rcently at a conference in the State Capitol, expressed the desires of the farmers regarding regard-ing the farm labor situation. Following Fol-lowing are excerpts from this committee's report: "Farm boys are trained in a specialized field of activity. Feed-' Feed-' ing and handling of farm animals is a business in which only those specially trained can perform. Crops production likewise requires requir-es specialized training and an intimate in-timate acquaintance with the farm production plant. "It is widely accepted that the highest degree of loyalty to the American government demands that farm boys remain in the service of farm production. "It requires a high degree of loyalty from young men to remain, re-main, on the farm when defense industries offer high monetary rewards re-wards and military service offers opportunities for heroic service. But farm production in an emergency emer-gency period requires the highest degree of loyalty and the greatest devotion to duty. "If farm boys who are being drafted are needed in agricultural production they should inform selective service officials since General Hershey has repeatedly outlined the necessity of deferment defer-ment of boys when they are needed need-ed to produce food." |