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S Farmers With Less Labor Supplies Machinery Must Double the Production Shown in World War I Herculean Task Requires Advance Advance- Painstaking Pl Plans ns Before they win global battle attle for food farmers of this country must solve a double double- problem The They must produce record highs of foods and fibers bers with less machinery machin machin- ery ry equipment supplies and labor Enough food and fiber not only for civilians of this country but for those hose of the United Nations for our fighting me men men and those of our Allies That's a task a Hercules might shy from a job which demands painstaking advance planning To this end the department of agriculture agriculture ag ag- ag has again established food and fiber g goals als for the nation as it did in 1942 See accompanying dia dia- grams These goals have been broken down into state goals which in n turn are being broken down into ho o goals for each of the counties of the United States Throughout the nation Americas America's farmers are now talking over the goals with neighbors neighbor who are Agricultural Adjustment Agency AAA farmer Eventually Even Even- goals will be set for each farm with the producer signing a voluntary production contract A contract which in effect is a pledge to the nation that hell he'll keep food and fiber rolling to all fronts at home lome and abroad Broadly food and fiber goals in 1943 1943 call for the same over over-aU production production pro pro- production total that farmers achieved this year when their efforts resulted In an time all production high high 12 12 per cent greater than that of any previous year in American history Just what does that 12 per cent gain represent It represents a gain In production which is more than twice that achieved during during- the year five period covering World War Var I. I It is by far the greatest production gain that has ever been made in a single year by American agriculture agriculture ture That gives one a rough Idea of what Americas America's farmers are up against in 1943 Besides wartime obstacles obstacles' which will grow to ever- ever greater proportions farmers must assume assum assume that going to have normal weather next year another way of saying bad weather compared compared compared com com- pared with this year when growing conditions were better than they've been in years 1 That means lower yields The difference difference dif dit dif dif- ference will have to be made up by more efficient farming by more intensive intensive in in- farming by planting crops where they'll grow best by vigorous unremitting effort on the part of all civilians to help farmers get la labor labor la la- bor equipment and materials Waste Must Go The farmers farmer's objective In the Battle for Food 1943 will be to reach each goal without wasting an ounce of effort a minute of time an acre of land or a sliver of material and machinery Only by doing this can he reach one goal without jeopardizing his chances of reaching another He must face the fact that there arent aren't enough land resources in inAm Am America rica for much acreage sion He lie must apply the principle of selective service to his acres For example he knows that only about seven million acres of land can be added to the 1942 figure of million acres put to row crops small grains and hay crops But he also knows that he can make that added acreage count for more by putting it to war crops which bring higher yields than crops he would normally plant B By wise expansion of this sort b by shifting other acres to crops that SUGAR CANE n. n T WHEAT ua I 4 TOMA IN I 3 OO 1941 IMS SUGAR BEETS BEErS ii T CANNING PEAS It c C. C RYE i. i to as 1141 au 1141 r e 1141 f alt 1141 e. e 1141 1911 err IHS r r IHS r r 1943 rear 1 11 POTATOES ie a to Cm IT T-I T RICE tio IJ r 1441 wr tI 11 41 11 1941 I 6 X f IMS 1143 o IMS 1943 66 6 TOO OO e SWEET POTATOES II is FRUIT fr hall h bo besle basla til n. n i ALL FEED GRAINS IT 19 rr 14 NI r liar I 1141 1141 r r. r r r e r e IMS 54 O 43 1143 14 I r. r 1147 1143 U r er CANN NO VEGETABLES ALL AU MEATS UH CU CORN u. u ID I ec Icod c au m e II 6 I 1141 UI IMS gamer aN 14 28 rase For 1943 Mr 1 Farmer must see to It that there Is a great increase In is isan all aU meats and corn But there will wID be a reduction In canning canning- vegetables fresh fruits count m will be possible as great a production In 1943 as in 1942 of the things for which we have havethe havethe havethe the most critical need In some cases production may be greater Thus the farmer is out to get more meat dairy and poultry products products prod prod- hides and by About the same production of fresh vegetables for consumption and processing of dry beans and dry peas and potatoes sugar and rice Almost the same grain feed-grain production production production pro pro- pasture and forage crops forage crops More fiber flax hemp long staple cotton and about the same production production production tion of other cotton and tobacco To get more of these important all-important crops the farmer knows that he must plant less of others Wheat is isan isan isan an outstanding example We have enough on hand to take care of normal normal normal nor nor- mal needs for two years without raising another grain It would be virtual sabotage to put more land 1 I I fl AA F FIL 1 i J h IL n. n iW k Mr American Farmer lie fie will do the job job I to wheat in 1943 Consequently the goal for wheat has been lowered Demand for dairy products in 1943 will exceed supply but bread grains will be abundant Although meat production reached a record high hig this year and will probably be higher high high- er next rationing is necessary because because be be- cause of unprecedented demand However the ration will allow the average consumer about as much meat as usual The man who has devoured a large bone T-bone or two each day will have to change his habits It may maybe maybe maybe be good for him nutritionally speak speak- ing The 1943 goals are closely linked to the nations nation's dietary needs For Forthe Forthe the number of planes and tanks and I BEEF CATTLE MILK OATS tut Ie N r Wed a II x mI 4 1141 42 27 Jjr INt 12 r 1 IMS 1113 SHEEP LAMBS fOIl MEAT EGGS BARLEY IS nW aW 1 4 r 1142 OO r ree IHS 43 ecru IS HOGS I CHICKENS tut tL GRAIN SORGHUMS I 1141 lII 1141 2 ru 1142 ItS aA M lI ll err r J I LARD ILI FLAXSEED COTTON is iJ M Id r 4 r 1141 I rr 1141 er ree 1942 1142 a 1141 r 1 14 IHS 1 43 1 There must be more hogs bogs more milk mot more lard more and still stitt more beef beet cattle But not as much cotton or bar barley Ie or oats t r Vitamins and Victory Victor During the dark days of 1940 In England British Britis noticed that superficial scratches which should have healed in a aday day or two were taking two weeks to heal They found that a lack of vitamins in peoples people's blood was the cause Theres There's a direct connection con con- between vitamins and victory guns turned out by workers work work- ers is determined largely by the kind and quantity of food they eat Take the figures on comparative days lost by strikes and sickness in 1941 About 20 times as many man-days man were lost by sickness as asby asby asby by strikes in that year And the most prevalent illness was the common common com com- mon cold which doctors say can be best prevented by a good diet Good food is the equivalent of millions millions mil mil- lions of laborers The British for example have pointed out that production production pro pro- production is 15 to 20 per cent greater when their workers are eating as they should Vitamin B curbs nervousness and digestive troubles trouble's s vitamin C wards' wards off scurvy bad teeth and many similar sim sim- ilar liar ailments Scurvy was an important important im im- im factor in the internal breakdown breakdown break break- down in Germany in 1918 That Hitler lilt Hit ler knows this is only too evident from the way he heis is bleeding the occupied occupied oc oc- oc countries of Europe Scurvy has bee been responsible for more deaths than all the weapons of war combined Food for good diets is not the only thing the farmer is after as he sets out to meet 1943 goals He wants fibers and oils and other crops which are vital to the maintenance maintenance main main- of our war Nar industries In 1942 farmers raised enough soybeans soybeans soy soy- beans flaxseed peanuts and cottonseed cottonseed cotton cotton- seed to produce million gallons of vegetable oil oil 54 54 per cent more than thanin thanin thanin in 1941 Our Allies are asking for five times as as m much ch vegetable oil as we normally export to all nations Next years year's vegetable oil goal calls for about as much as the record record rec rec- ord 1942 production If farmers meet the test the resulting geysers will literally drown the Axis For vegetable vegetable vege vege- table oils are the source of glycerine used in explosives the they are used in protective paints for battleships planes and other war machines and they have a thousand industrial uses use to to sa say nothing of their use in foods and cooking Suffice to say the farm Job in 1943 is important all-important to farmers and civilians alike Perhaps the greatest greatest great great- est obstacle will be lack of help on the farm Fortunately it is in overcoming this obstacle that civilians can do most to help the farmer This year townspeople school schoolchildren schoolchildren schoolchildren children professional men and women women wom wom- en en college youth and men from army camps achieved miracles on harvest fields throughout the nation Even British sailors pitched in to help harvest our bountiful food and fiber supplies Next year the Job will be much tougher The department of agriculture agriculture agri agri- culture estimates that the nation could use 1 million more full full- time workers than there are in sight to do the Job The department has thrown every everyone everyone everyone one of its agencies into the farm labor fight and it is receiving valuable valuable able assistance from other agencies of the government However it is going to take the continuing efforts of civilians and others to fill the gap Through such operation co-operation operation co and sheer hard work on his part the part the farmer will get his Job done |