Show WAR AIMS OF PROGRAM DESCRIBED food food and more afore food ha bec become ome the wartime objective of the farm security administration and all normal peacetime activities of the agency have been revised to promote the single task of feeding america and her allies according to lloyd K X county supervisor for rich and daggett counties our organization from washington right down to the office here in randolph has h been directed by secretary of agriculture to shape all its efforts during the coming year toward increasing production of food and uber uben mr air said and we aim to do just that in spite of reduced personnel and limited funds to make sure of full output secretary has ordered to work out food production goals for each borrower family and assist in every way possible to see that these goals are reached this work will be carried out in closest cooperation with the county war board farm security began to lay emphasis upon greater food production early last year the 1913 program will be a further intensification of the drive begun six months before pearl harbor sir air said that L 1 I hewes jr regional director with headquarters at sari san francisco had instructed the local office to judge every loan makes in your counties on the basis of how much additional farm produce such a loan will contribute to the nation farm security loans help farmers 0 o shift into high gear production when lack of credit prevents them from fully otheir land and manpower resources the loans pay for the feed seed fertilizer tools or stock needed for maximum output the supervisor predicted a wartime increase in cooperatives and in loans to set thern them up particularly for machinery use and repair services because the logical way to use material rapidly disappearing from the market is 18 to share it among the largest possible number of farm units to date has helped finance 32 cooperative ser vices with members in rich and daggett counties mr air said that his agen cys entire administrative system has been changed to make sure that special farm problems ms of each locality are given full attention instead of operating li in terms of regional or state farm problems now plans its activities to meet the most localized needs within small areas of each state this means that the farm security program as a whole is planned from the bottom up not from the top down the result is better service to each farmer and each locality he co concluded |