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Show Triple-A Committeemen Enlist Farm Cooperation Even while Japanese bombs were exploding on Hickam Field and spreading ruin over Hawaii and the Philippines, Triple-A committeemen were covering the country enlisting farmer co-operation voluntary cooperation. co-operation. There were shortages to contend with shortages of labor, shortages of machinery and equipment, shortages short-ages of burlap, baling wire, and dozens doz-ens of other supplies. The state and county war boards have worked with every available agency to keep shortages from holding production. Most of the goals were set higher than production had ever been before. be-fore. Only a few were lower. Wheat, for example, was down 12 per cent from the 1941 level because there was already a two-year supply of wheat on hand. We couldn't aftord to use land, labor, and materials for a crop that isn't needed, any more than we can now aflord to build pleasure cars and luxury gadgets. |