Show FARMERS ASKED TO TURN IN ALL SCRAP METAL get in the scrap with that battle cry the iron county USDA defense board is calling for the cooperation of all farmers in the country to support a drive to clean up all the scrap iron on the farms and make it available for war materials the estimated million to a million and a half tons of scrap iron lying useless on american farms if combined with other necessary materials te would be sufficient to build modern ton battleships for the united states navy according 87 to advice transmitted by I 1 the 0 P M to the department of agri culbie cu luie through its farmer committee organization the U defense boards have taken the responsibility of collecting the scrap metai from the nations 6 million farms scrap iron is an essential ingredient in the production of steel sid ney J Nc beker chairman of the utah USDA defense board points out that pounds or so of rusty scrap on your dump pile mr neb eker said when mixed with other materials is enough to make a pound aerial bomb furthermore pounds of it will make one 27 ton medium tank the total amount of scrap available on american farms is estimate ed to make possible the manufacture of 50 million machine guns of 50 calibre or light tanks of the type which the british have used so effectively in the libyan campaign to the USDA defense boards goes the task of helping to move the metal off the farms into smelt ers and blast furnaces in the greatest production drive in the nations history the need for scrap i iron is is indicated by the fact that many steel plants throughout the country have been slowed down or have had to suspend operation for lack of metal |