Show I Cotton Wool Hemp All Playing laying P Part rt in hL Wi Winning ing War War Wool from the farmers' farmers sheep goes into uniforms for soldiers and clothes for civilians Aviators' Aviators Jackets pants and helmets and boots are lined with shearling sheep skins The average soldier uses pounds of wool a year against an average of I 2 pounds for civilians And there is hemp War has cut cutoff cutoff cutoff off most of the nations nation's usual fiber sources sources' For a time the navy faced serious serious' shortages in cables cordage hawsers and the like Fiber was also essential to the home front and badly needed by the army maritime commission and for lend lend- lease The result Farmers have revived a hemp fiber industry that hud had allbut ell all but disappeared It has taken a year year this this year year year-to to get under way because we had no seed However farmers have exceeded their 1942 goal of bushels of hemp seed The seed acquired emphasis in I 1943 will turn to production of actu actu- al hemp fiber It is estimated that total production of fiber will be 30 times that of 1942 Most of the fiber will be planted in four tour states states Wis Wis Wisconsin Minnesota Illinois and Ken Ken- tucky Cotton has thousands of war uses One type of army plane has in its wings tail and fuselage some square feet of cotton linen The list could be extended Indefinitely not only for cotton but for fur many other farm crops |