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Show Women Assume New Responsibilities Take Over Men's Jobs ' To Meet Food Goals The big push will come in 1944 for farm women as well as the boys in uniform. The farm woman's 1944 Job will be new In many ways, too. To reach food production objectives, the War Food administration points out, farm families must continually change their farming operations in line with shifting developments on the home front and Qn the battle fronts. Take the higher goals for egg production, pro-duction, for Instance. That's a special spe-cial concern of farm women, since about 90 per cent of the eggs come from farm flocks and since the womenfolk wom-enfolk usually tend the poultry. The old way of increasing egg production produc-tion would be merely to build additional addi-tional hen houses, increase the size of the flocks of laying hens and lay in an extra supply of feed. But the 1944 way to increase egg production is to give the hens tip-top care and to build up the quality of the flocks by culling out the poor layers and buying better chicks. Such a' program pro-gram is calculated to result in more eggs from fewer hens, at the same time helping to economize on feed supplies. , Larger nerds Urged. Good milk cows well cared for are one of the most efficient converters con-verters of feed into high quality protein pro-tein foodstuffs. That is why Uncle Sam is urging farmers to increase their dairy herds by 2 per cent and , to step up total milk production by a like amount. Women will help more with this job, too keeping records, feeding the livestock, milking and caring for the milk. Gardening is one of the chores that usually falls to the farm home-maker. home-maker. This year, as last, the aim will be a garden on every one of the nation's farms. Furthermore, families usually planting small gardens gar-dens are asked to increase their vegetable plots so as to supply most of the family needs for fresh and home-canned vegetables. |
