| Show six million farmers throughout U S producing worlds world largest food crop war material vital but soldiers and workers must get No nourishing 9 food uncle sams farm the whole united states will produce this year the biggest food crop inthe in the worlds history harvesting of this ahi S planned production for the war effort has begun and the of it allis adall an all time tribute to the american farmer off 00 uncle sams farm assembly line every minute of every day throughout 1942 are coming something like quarts of milk pounds of potatoes pounds ot of beet beef veal pork and lard think of it EVERY MINUTE II if you saw the U S navy riding majestically in a sea of muk milk chances are bowd call it a nightmare but could bel our farmers this year are scheduled to produce 57 billion quarts of 0 milk more than enough to float not only our navy but every battleship aircraft carrier cruiser destroyer and submarine owned by the united states sta tes britain russia and all the other united nations combined if you are good at mental pictures ma maybe be youcan you can visualize 60 billion agys eggs enough eggs to make a line ime reaching seven times from the earth to the moon or 22 billion pounds of meat enough to pave seven four lane highways an inch thick from new york to san francisco seven of them or 91 million acres of corn an area one fifth larger than italy and sicily combined but why all this production of food and fiber it a part of our victory plan to drown the nazis in milk or to bombard the japs with eggs and potatoes farmers build planes and ships I 1 well food and fiber are not merely so many bags of wheat and so many bales of cotton they are re flying fortresses and big battleships like the washington and the north carolina and aircraft carriers like the wasp and general grant tanks and workers in the factories and brave men at the front those are the crops our farmers are harvesting this year in counties of the united states T take al ke that swift winging willing army 0 onca non plane up there in its wings tall a and fuselage are square feet ot a cotton linen yes bac uncle ae sams farmers are turning out war var crops this year corn and and aek wheat for example most imort of it goes for teed feed and food but some Is used in making ethyl alcohol which in turn Is employed in making ma king explosives synthetic syri rubber and othir other products peanuts and soybeans are used to make oil which replaces other oils employed 11 in cooking and Ye releases lelies them forwe tor use in altro glycerine explosives plo i oil from soybeans and flaxseed is used in the te paint and varnish vai mish covering our ships hl p and planes plan es flax Is isia i a source of linen for parachute harnesses and rigi rigging ing wool from our sheep makes uni forms tor for soldiers and aad clothes for civilians aviators jackets pants helmets and boots are lined with shearling sheep skins in fact the average soldier uses pounds of wool a year against an average of Ws 2 pounds tor for civilians I 1 but vital as are arc these materials for our weapons ol of war they are much less jess important than the food which nourishes our workers and sy sustains stains our fighters food is one essential without which no man can fight or work batman proved it look at bataan to see how true that Is look at bataan to see ee the importance of food acl according to reports mule meat and rice were all our forces had to eat from early february until the time of ultimate surrender we just get through to them with enough pork and beef to do them any good mid and what happened our last coun ter attack failed not because of bullets or bombs but because of sheer exhaustion A shortage of food and sleep had drained out almost the last dregs of vitality batian bataan fell only after its defenders no longer had the physical 15 strength to stand that time food worked tor for the enemy given the shipping six million american farmers are d determined eter that freih now nonfood on food shall work vork for us 4 they know that today a tractor used in production ot food is just as important as a tank on the battlefield ahey they know that what they do on their farms Is important the number of planes tanks and 7 L V WP q up i J A 4 Threshing wheat la in bartholomew Bt klew county indiana this wi was taken on the perry thompson farm at i the n height of r activities guns turned out this year will be determined ter mined largely by th the kind and amount of food bur our wo workers akers eat the newest type planes need high octane gas no more than our har ar workers need highly nutritious foods better food means more guns good food in fact can be translated more or less directly into guns for example the british mh minister ister of labor has said to our agricultural ALL FARM PRODUCT FOOD F FEED ED GRAIN BRAIN na 4 WOOL TOMATOES RICE FICE U PEAS I 2 0 0 COTTON lom 1 CORN ta 8 FLAXSEED 34 rea CATTLE E a 49 CALVES CALV Es FRUIT OB oncina 4 84 foy BEANS ila il 1 MILK mia 4 4 bover CROP 57 SEED CHICKENS 10 POTATOES 10 turpentine 4 ROSI 50 TOBACCO M 11 s OW DRY BEANS 13 ar YF I 1 t EGGS 13 PEAS HOGS 14 FARM PEANUTS wheat it is the only ay fo for which a 0 decrease dekreon 1 li deil able 1 GA GARDENS DENS r american farm goals for or 1912 1942 showing increase over 1941 production officials give us the meat eggs and cheese and well increase production 15 to 20 per cent again an appalling loss of production is suffered annually through sic sickness kriess ot of workers in 1941 more than 20 times as many man days were lost loit by sickness as by strikes the most commora common sickness is the ordinary cold and the best preventive lor for it is a good diet so its the job of our farmers to keep ou our men fit as fit as our machines its their job to provide the vi taminA ninA which helps fliers see at night the nin ln B which helps curb seasickness sea sickness nervousness and digestive troubles the vita vitamin mn C which wards off scurvy bad teeth irritability listlessness and plagues w which in the world war took a bigger toll of 0 lives than bombs pullets shells and gas combined yes vitamins and good food are war weapons but to get them and especially to get the right amounts of 0 the right things Is a colossal task that is why goals are just as necessary for agriculture as they are for plane or tank manufacturers we want a specific number of fortresses or medium bombers or pursuit ships or training planes so too in agriculture we want a specific amount of pork of beef of milk and all other farm products fortunately our farmers are ready for the job eight months before pearl harbor they began turning out war products requested by the british tor for lend end lease shipment three months before pearl harbor farmers aimers were fully organized on an a wartime war time basis farm production Is planned production on apul april 3 1941 secretary of agriculture ri called tor for a bi big g expansion in the products which the british had just made known they would need under lend lease evaporated and dry skim mm milk cheese eggs and pork and our farmers set out to see that neither our own om folks nor pie oe british would run short during the summer of 1941 still several months before pearl harbor the department of agriculture went to work on a plan to get war production goals tor for all farm products the production goil goal idea had been used for years by triple A on basic crops but it was a new departure to apply atto it to all farm products it meant estimating our own needs those of our allies the allowances necessary for food reserves and finally the ability of farmers to produce it meant breaking ng down the national goals into state county and finally into litto individual farm goals it meant the contacting of practically every p producer ro by a triple A farmer commit teeman teem an size of this undertaking Is almost beyond comprehension the six million farm plants in the united states are more than twice as many as all the other business establishments in the couii country iry factories mines oil 11 stat sta hns tims country stores city retail shops shop to get six million farmers operating cooperating co in war production is befar by far the biggest job of subcontracting of the I 1 entire war but it has baa been done and the united states stated Is the he only nation that has gone into this war with plenty of food ammunition |
