Show Could Yoo Farm Without Your MUCH ATTENTION HAS BEEN given to stockpiling of strategic from tin to hydrogen and to bomb shelters and fallout shelters as deterrents from a sneak hydrogen bomb Apparently the only attention given to the food supply problems which would follow the nuclear devastation of the country has consisted of the development of a couple of dry a suggestion that some wheat be stored near and some consideration of radioactive contamination of farm and grazing AMERICAN AGRICULTURAL production depends upon particularly upon the power of petroleum If America should become the victim of nuclear all petroleum sources and and processing plants would be prime If these were how much food could our farmers produce without tractor 5 Of present production would be a liberal There are in this country no of if there were no tractor only manpower and inadequate hand tools would be FOOD FOR TWO WEEKS HOW LONG WOULD IT TAKE to restore petroleum production and transportation after all-out nuclear The question must be qualified by considering that food supplies available for reconstruction workers at any to no more than enough for a couple of and such an attack would destroy How long would it take to restore petroleum supply if the reconstruction workers have only a couple of weeks' food CAN WE LF SUCH an attack that it would be possible for farmers to get the necessary seed and equipment to plant anything before the spring of and to harvest anything before the summer and fall of What would city people do in the other than starve or move to the country by any available transportation on to share the farmer's grain and IT SEEMS THAT TIUS country needs to stockpile at least a year's supply of foodstuffs within walking distance from all the people In the If we Communist nuclear attack can starve us into helpless submission within a If we the stockpile will be a powerful deterrent from THE ARE NOT as vulnerable as we Half or more of their people are on For power they use and their own and the fuel is produced on the Their food production cannot be crippled by nuclear TO STOCKPILE EVEN A YEAR'S supply of food for our country would require 20 of our total production every year for 5 if we start To quote Secretary of Agriculture Orville is short but I believe the need to be Our surplus should be transported to safe storage near the big industrial and stockpiled for and it is urgent to produce and process foods in at least a year's supply for the entire AT THE PRESENT if we felt the blow of an enemy sneak attack which crippled us to the extent that we were unable to grow our present national food supply would last us approximately two TO EXPRESS IT EVEN how many of you depend on the grocery store tonight for your breakfast in the |