Show farm WAR W S are you all burned up because eyou you couldn coulden t get that drill for spring planting Is your blood pressure Pre sion up P because became the county U S D A at W war r board ecial coulden couldn clat t keep your son oui of the armye are you sure that the country is a going to the dogs because became you had to till ill out it I a PD and you haven t heard from it yet war is just what sherman sherm n said aid it was a but dont go to the british is farmer roter tor for sympathy heres here s a few ill things ings he has to put up with he he has to do all 11 his after dark chores cli orect without a alight light blackout 11 he has to tolerate an anu aircraft battery down in the turnip patch and every few nights night this flames into i tit action with the combined fuss of an old fashioned fourth of july fall roundup round up and abet auction sale a he has to plow around nd and be tween bomb craters as many as an 50 in a field then sometimes same times after he gets the crop planted some ca care e less nazi comes along and blows it all 11 to smithereens prices for all his bis commodities are fixed and if he should happen to make a profit above the taxes g get t him he has to pay a heavy in come ome tax and if his profits this level it he are have above is a fixed must most give up for the duration of the war exactly per cent of the surplus profit under lder the excess profit tax ta he has to use stamps or coupons to obtain feed for his livestock they re on rations too so little sympathy can be expected from fr the british farmer fa crater hes he a too busy dodging bombs national concern is being felt ov er the me livestock feed supply al though feed gram grain supplies supply are now large if farmers carry out their current intentions to increase hog production and meet the goals for other livestock present indications are I 1 that hot existing reserves of feed will have t to 0 to be redrawn drawn upon during the feeding year beginning ili this fall jn in case of any ry drouth or shortage in feed gram yields in 1943 an actual 1 shortage of feed grains graim might develop I 1 during the feeding year 1143 44 despite the present large supplies of feed grams arai corn has not recently ce ti y amov moved ed freely through normal trade fr ad channels and shortages lages have ato cle developed I 1 in many cases es I 1 the situation is evert even more sen ous om in utah with the widespread 1 1 winterkill of alfalfa some small grams and corn will have to be planted to supplement the expected ad limited supply of hay but prompt action has done much to les sen mn the ill effects of the disaster farmers ars are being urged to plant more corn for silage more field pe peas small all grains gnand and sugar beets t to give added feed for livestock by pro 1 ducts of sugar beets can be used to take the place of considerable supplies of hay USDA war board members say r farm machinery rat rationing toning is a product of war although ugh the united states la is producing ng its greatest greutel it volume manne of steel the total demands demand all that of the war pro program gram requires 1 is produced and more mom wars wan are gluttons for far steel A 35 tons battleship consumes 81 million pounds of tough rough stock steel feel the 3 58 pounds of rough stock steel which go into a d destroyer es troyer are enough to make more than 2 tractors an tile the steel t 1 going into a henvy heavy to tok lank k is a enough for about plows the war production board has the responsibility of deciding for far what purpose the available sup ply of critical materials rate shall be used it 1 t must most be remembered that we ha have ve rationing ration ting because became there them is a shortage we do not have is a shortage bee because th chrt there rt is rationing farmers of iron county are c cooperating P in the war food program by growing acres of dry beers beans and acres of potatoes these crops are b being ng especially IY push pushed ed at this pr time but t cb because ficca ses they are b being ng pushed is at no indication that other ati essential 1 ca crops should ill if be neglected the call is as out again for ions for production practices which are to be included I 1 in the 1944 farm program in making becom ions the utah state USDA war board advises that continued con tanum high production of vital war foods should be back of all suggestions aug g for change and it should be kept in mind that a sick farm or ranch can not of fight and every acre shoula be fighting by producing the food needed to def defeat hitler r and to tojo supplies are short on fungicides is and nd insecticides where it has to b be imported ample supplies of nico fine and other home produced materials aerials are am on hand but victory gardens and vital war crops get first chance on what there is grasshopper control hio has begun in utah the firt guns gum in the hottle hottie being fired in sevier county re ports dr G F knowlton state lead er for far the federal state county grass hopper control program I 1 grasshoppers are now hatching batching generally the h highest ghost populations I 1 ions found to date being in certain fields near green nver river states dr D knowlton early baiting of such infested adeas will 1 1 most easily and awl economically control t r 1 the pes pests a de lay laying g control fr operations of until injury ing aeple 0 occurs and the hopper becomes larger will require more work by I 1 the farmer greater quantities of balt bait and the results will not always be as satisfactory the government is now shipping bran and sodium into many U utah to h counties to permit crop protection on through gras grasshopper s hopper con can aral su such eh material aids far farmers raters and home bome gardeners to control grasshoppers i at little pe personal 0 o at cost i the large percentage of the family food supply which can be produced ars at home is shown by mrs perry L stanfill of penrose hm box elder county i mrs mot stanfill antill St stat states T in see account ing for the years it income for or income tax we estimated that our mor cash s expenditures tures for things bought from auja said eat avo than 2 00 p all why when she explain pitted celery la 17 potato Z t turnips pl blad beets and cabbage cabbab S ned or f froze roxe an adequate penn peas eom corn beets beat meat the Sta Stan nhija fiU aag wa t preserve all the an ft c need lia the ther R A N l jordan baket of alk in salt lake cou ring the c cau U to prad prodie a gar gar beelas beets and a po m 1 1 handicaps the three favl y are in war P production hs 1 p lack the twin do daughters melva ai fic 1 va 16 and it mr me Q and mra me M lef left I 1 to do the wor work on a 1 1 which contains contain acre aclei of adz ed land and cd acres of d t the be N taylors naylors I 1 are inc 7 let ayin increasing reasin bes beets ts fr from 7 acres mereen last and ye an gau 1 this a and potatoes froni noih year r to 10 fi this I 1 besides ui milk 14 cows care cam for far edoia in h hens and raise a 16 6 hogs hs s faza ipri n pec hect the farm to produce as ial barley 50 t tons of alfalfa h 2 bah bushels of at wheat they t to be busy calla the farm plan sign up vy ear plated this wak week in iron nin am suits of the he n up show a tiny I 1 farmers me of the tola local farmers in the county are age v up to fight t the he axis a on ches front their farms and randii lt pledged to the production of kill supply our m military ill gitary forces is lease and the fighters on an lh thle front |