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Show Farmers Urged To Throw Your Scrap Into The Fight Now ' hours each day. We are making as much steel as the entire rest of the world. To keep oip that rate of production. product-ion. We need more scrap than ever before. For scrap goes into the furnaces and helps to make new steel. If each of us turns in what scrap metal we have, we will aid' our steel mills to beat their present production record, and we will be helping to provide vital steel parts for airplane engines and for anti-craft anti-craft and anti-tank guns. We will be providing the armor that will protect our boys in planes, tanks and ships. A few pounds of steel scrap in your barn may help to decide a naval battle in the Pacific, help our tanks beatt he enemy in some vital battle on land, or drive enemy bambing planes from the skies. Aid that means saving thel ives of American boys fighting far from home. - The nation has called on the farmer to help win the war. You have heard again and again that food will wni the war. It will. But the full effort of every man, woman and child in America is needed to win the war. So, your nation is calling on you the far mer of America for yet another important contribution to the war effort. The nation is calling on the farmer to produce one of the vital weapons of war. It is the weapon that you may not have thought about but it will help win the war just as surely as Americas Amer-icas 80,000 bombers will sour over the enemy and blast him to bits. What is this vital weapon? It's JUNK. Scraps of all kinds. Its old harrows and rakes and discs an dplows. Its old chains and old tires, old rags and burlap bags and manila rope. Its in 1942 one of the most precious weapons in the' arsenal of democracy. And in forging that weapon, the farm- ! ers of America must play a very i important part. In peacetime-f ifty per cent of all the new steel manufactured by this country came from scrap. Nearly seven hundred thousand tons of i a week or about thirty five million tons of it in a peak year. Our steel plants are now producing produc-ing record-breaking amounts of steel over seven milions tons a month about two or three tons every tick of the clock twenty-four |