Show Puts Defense Task Up to Utah Farmer Secretary of Agriculture Urges Boost In Production 0 Asserting that today looks into the business end of a loaded Secretary of Agriculture Claude R. In Salt Lake City Monday called upon the nation's farmers to undertake a job to that of 10 field Secretary told a regional farm conference at the Newhouse hotel facts concerning the administration's 1942 crop planning program in connection with the defense More than representatives of agriculture from the 11 western states attended the opening of the two-day Speaking to farm men as a farm Secretary left no doubt as to the task faced by the nation's agriculture He told of expected production the need for furnishing supplies to Britain and the weapon this country holds against aggressors in the form of vital food for Farmer The conference was the first of a series planned in the It-became a vital one in the inter-mountain region because of a pronouncement of administration farm policy a policy meaning more money in the farmer's j pockets as well as defining the part of that same farmer in defense As Secretary explained there are reasons why farmers should make adjustments in operations in the coming I can state these reasons briefly and it is their duly in national Second it will pay financially British Need Foods farmers are the only Americans who can do one job that is the absolute rock bottom foundation of national That job is the of For strength and we need more of some foods in For the very core of their defense the British need great stocks of some It is up to us in 1942 to supply one-fourth of the food supply of Great enough to feed about 6 to 8 per cent of our average annual The secretary gave this question lo we merely to talk about saving or arc we going to work and produce the things needed to save agriculture must adjust its production to supply the increased he of the time in the last eight years we have adjusting production downward because markets had As a matter of we need to adjust production downward in some We now have enough wheat on hand to last us for two On the other we need more and certain So for we have some of the old problems of adjustment then we have some big new problems of adjustment Adjustment Planned don't want a blind We want and must have planned Secretary described food as the arsenal of weapons in this struggle for human Is even more than that to people who are deliberately be ing Diplomats and newspaper people who come back from occupied Europe tell me that food is almost the whole topic of social he do you think is the effect upon those people looking the channel from half-fed France or Holland and seeing that the British are getting enough to think the effect is the equivalent of about 10 field is our fifth Secretary predicted that the day of victory the nations Kit down at the peace our food stock piles ready to be drawn upon by the famished people of the old world will give great force to our He reported he had organized all the forces of the department of agriculture and state extension services into defense boards to farmers the maximum help from the men and women In public The defense he will all the government programs into focus on one big job production of food for Goa's Listed Howard R. D. chief of the bureau of agricultural presented the conference a summary of production goals for He listed the following minimum against in 4 against beef and against against against The over-all he said would be per cent of the |