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Show MUST SAVE AY HAT HAS BEEN BOUNTEOUSLY RAISKI) Utah has now reached the most critical stage in the development of its food campaign. We must save what has been so bounteously produced. pro-duced. With a crop average ranking rank-ing above any other state proportionately proportion-ately in the union, our responsibility responsibil-ity is correspondingly greater. Through the various means of drying, canning, preserving and storing stor-ing we must save that portion of our harvest which is not capable of immediate sale in the fresh stage. Every town in Utah which has no! already done so should within the next few weeks consider the advisability advisa-bility of establishing municipal canneries, can-neries, evaporators and storage facilities facil-ities to handle the surplus fruits and vegetables. Patronize the local canning can-ning and evaporating plants to their capacity. They should be encouraged encourag-ed to develop. The housewives of the state are doing more than their share of the work. Cities, wards and counties should help. Salt Lake and other cities have already led out in the matter of community action in preserving and storage. The necessary neces-sary expense for equipment need not be great. There are county agricultural agents in most of the counties of the state. Call upon them for advice and assistance in the methods of construction con-struction and operation involved in drying, canning and storing. Sanpete San-pete county's agricultural agent is Theron Bennion, and its Food Supply Sup-ply and Conservation chairman is L. R. Anderson. Address botli men at Manti. It cannot be too strongly emphasized empha-sized that it will require 'difficult and sustained endeavor to prevent a large portion of our crops being wasted. County and city leadershin m the next few weeks means a vast saving in food, which, if conditions continue as at present, means a vast saving of life. energy'nwas never worth SO MUCH AS NOW. v" |