Show boop W 51 y farm 1 arm WAR NEWS ranu farm mobilization farm mobilization in the county counis la is well under way according to the ell chairman airman of the USDA war board blaid the mobilization drive to contact every larder farmer began with farm F arm mobilization day january 12 since that time tho the county committee and members of the war w ar board have been making plans to help farmers and ranchers with their plans to produce the war crops and essential commodities modi odi ties needed in the war elfort with food as important as bullets in winning the war every effort should be made ma de to produce the kinds and amounts a in of tood food needed by our armed forces our allies and our workers on the home front L the chaliman chairman of the board stated ln in urging farmers and ranchers to sign up aal follow through on the plans made tor for war production panguitch Pan gultch and spry farmers are aie expected to complete their signing feigning up on thursday friday and saturday of this illis week and monday of next week other farmers in the county are expected to have completed their signing up by that time it was stated USDA farm labor members of the extension ger er v alce fee wartime committee held a farm labor conference in washington D C luring during the week the committee waa ivas called by the secretary of agriculture to develop plans for recruiting in ova every agricultural neighborhood village and city all aval available lable labor bo r and tor for helping farm people train and make tho best use of 0 this new labor USDA more steel for machinery several things have happened recently to relieve the farm machinery shortage some of the machinery which has baa been frozen in manufacturers factory stocks since october 31 has been released leased le the release permits regular transfers through trade hanels chanels c but requires rationing on sales to farmers also an additional ditto dit ional n al tons of bessemer steel lias has been allocated tor for the manufacture of farm machinery tills this increased allotment increases the amount of steel some 30 per cent for the first quarter of 1943 the situation is still very critical says the tha county chaliman chairman of the farm machinery rationing board and farmers should do all they can to repair their old machinery repair and order older parts now he urged USDA blange program more moie catle always mean more beef says J vern hopkin in charge of of the AAA range program in utah there Is EL a stocking rate it at which each individual tract of 0 rangeland will produce the greatest quantity of beef or mutton or wool when loss liss li ss stock than this is put on the range production Is not as efficient as with more numbers it Is equally true and much anoe ino e damaging that when more animal 9 than the range will carry carly are grazed fewer fewer pounds 01 01 beet beef or mutton or wool are the result and sometimes it takes years to bring the particular tract of rangeland back into full production USDA rubber boots this winter has been 9 a reminder I 1 that certificates authorizing purchase of rubber boots are available through the local war price and rationing boards to farmers who need more protection than cloth artles or low rubbers give 11 USDA given labor job unified reap responsibility angi ability for supplying labor for war production on farms was given to secretary this week A directive irom from the war manpower commission now places the responsibility of recruiting placing determining ter mining minin g needs transportation ot of farm workers to shortage areas and the determination of war essential crops on the department part ment of agriculture A pro itous directive gave the responsibility of dealing with farm wages to the dep department ariment however selective standards will continue to be determined by the manpower commission USDA Wll tAry lend lease foods military and lend lease demands for food are expected to take at least 25 per cent or of t tny n b food produced in the united states la in 1943 L arst st year they took between 12 and IS 13 3 per per cent USDA loan Prof Pr frain under the new loan program to be handled by the fie county USDA war board loans will be made to producers produce is upon approve pl 1 of the USDA loarl loan representative and tile the chairman of the I 1 county USDA war board individual loans will 6 be limited only y by the amount needed to do the production job the loans will be cor one agricultural season not to exceed ono one year abut but renewals may bo bc granted under proper e r circum st aces interest will be at five per cent col collateral will be a fust dist lien hen on the commodities or 0 livestock being financed USDA three 4 0 rant o war joby A three paint pAnt war wai job was waa outlined this week tor for farmers of 0 the county by the U S treasury the first Is to produce the maximum of essential foods the second is 18 to jet get debts in shape by reducing debts to a safe basis the third Is to invest in war bonds to help win the war and to build a financial reserve USDA elect lect sugar goes east normally sugar from utah Is sold west of chicago but by a ruling ruling of the war production board beet sugar has been shipped aa far as the atlantic seaboard USDA ever eve granary approximately a million bushels el of utah wheat about 20 per cent of the 1943 crop have been placed in storage under the f farm a r m program ever normal granary plan nearly 76 75 per cent of this is in bins on the farm nearly million bushels of wheat are in the national ever normal gran granary ary bins USDA cotton coton binder twine an indemnity p payment adment program will assure farmers arg antly needed supplies of binder twine tor for harvesting their 1943 grain crop the payment program will keep the price wathla reason leason says the USDA war board |