All Out Wartime
Food Production
Agricultural Department officials
drew a picture recently of 30,000,000
farm people in wartime food produc
tion of big oil crops to be made this
year to defeat the Axis, of mountains
of food being produced for United
States forces and their Allies. They
pointed* also to new records month
after month in the production of
milk, eggs, meats and other protect -
lve foods.
Despite having to pay the highest
wages in years, farmers were report
ed hiring more help this spring than
last. However, a tight farm labor
situation may develop later in the
year.
Farmers costs of production are
considerably higher this spring than
last but the long time gap between
prices received end prices paid by
farmers has been closed. Farm in
come is rising seasonally now but
leas sharply than this time last year
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Broadway Reception for United Nations Heroes
Fifteen United Nations air heroes were showered with ticker tape as they drove up Broadway, from the
Battery to New York's City Hall. There the veterans of Pearl Harbor, Java, Corregidor and Libya w? i<?
received by Mayor LaGuardia, Bernard Baruch and Wendell Willkie. At night they were honored by nunc
than 20,000 people at a rally in Madison Square Garden. (Central Press)
Largest comparative gams are from
the unusually heavy marketings of
hogs at relatively high prices. In
come from other livestock and ani
mal products is also larger than at
this time last year. Officials pointed
to the enlarged agricultural market
ing outlets through Government j
buying programs. Besides making up
for lessened imports of many com
modities, farmers are having to pro
duce for a larger civilian, industrial
and military population and to grow
.large quantities for export. Large re
serves also must be accumulated
against future needs
"The job of the Agricultural Mar
keting Administration in charge of
food supply activities in connection
with the Lend-Lease program is to
narrow the gap between the farm
and the battlefields of democracy,"
says Roy F. Hendrickson, head of
the U. S. Department of Agriculture
agency. "We are geared," he says,
"to speedy and economical purchase
and distribution of food. During a
12 month period we have bought,
under the Lend-Lease Act, more
than 3 million dollars worth of farm
products a day for the United Na
tions.
"The big problems are time and
spaco. Time?gutting our food prod
ucts to their destination as quickly
as we can. Space?making the best
use of the very precious rail and
shipping facilities. Time and space
problems are being licked."
Millions of farmers are busy with
spring work, the land is in good con
dition and crop acreages are ex
pected to be largest since 1933. Live
stock numbers are the largest on
record and still increasing. Feed re
serves are large and pastures and
range prospects are promising.
Milk production continues to ex
ceed former records. Egg production
is declining seasonally but in com
ing months should be bigger than
in the like period last year. Market
ing of 1941 fall hogs has been large
with prices the highest in 16 years
The hog-corn price ratio is the best
for hog producers since the autumn
of 1938. Production of high protein
feeds is likely to break all former
records by reason of the increased
production of oil crops. Tobacco will
"orester Offers Tip
3n Drying Of Wood
A tip to farm people on a way to
Iry fuel wood in the shortest pos
11>11? time is offered by W. J. Bar
er, assistant Extension forester of
J. C. State College. He pointed out
reen wood, and its failure to burn, |
3 the cause of persons turning to!
ome other type of fuel.
"Fuel wood normally requires
rom six months-to a year to season
iropeHy," Barker explained. "There
ore, if the wood is intended for next
winter's consumption, it should be
ut not later than this summer."
The Extension worker said that
?ersons attempting to speed up the
eusoning of fuel wood should un
1 erst and the process through which
rood goes when it normally dries
?ut. "The leaves of a tree act as
lumps," stated Barker, "and the
eaves ure continuously drawing wa
er through the body of the tree.
"To hasten the drying-out process
he trees can be cut down and left
mtrimmed for two to three weeks.
7his cuts the trees off from the
[round. Still, the leaves continue to
Iraw water out of the tree."
Barker says this method of bar
ic in largo supply this year as meas
ircd by pre-war averages but do
nest ic consumption is also far above
?re-war figures. Cotton and woolen
nills running night and day are
urning out the largest yardage of
abrics in the nation's history. Pro
notion of truck crops to bo market
d as fresh products and to be can
ed and dried?will be in good sup
>ly. All products of the farm?food,
eed and fibers?are enjoying the
?est markets in years.
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vesting timber, will result m dryness
equal to three months of usual sea
soning. The trees should bo left on
the ground, untrimmed, for two
weeks in the summer for all kinds
of trees, and three weeks in winter
for pines. After the "sapping-out"
period, the wood can be cut into
lengths desired and handled in the
usual manner
The Extension forester's office is
urging that farmers prepare to use
Industry Urged To
"Patch And Pray'
"Patch and Pray"?That's what
Bill Batt, chairman of the Require
ments committee of WPB, says Am
erican industry has to begin doing
soon, to keep existing machinery and
equipment at work. Batt, one of the
most outspoken of all officials in the
early days of the war program, em
phasizes that war production de
mands have created a real shnrtngi*
of materials?not merely a tempor
ary dislocation?and one which will
grow more and more serious. "I can
see times when even a shipway may
stand idle for lack of steel, and an
ammunition line may slow down for
lack of copper and brass," he said
That means continuing, deeper bites
into materials and goods that con
sumers ordinarily would be using, so
the "patch and pray" watchword ap
plies not only to industry operators,
but also to householders, automo
bile drivers, people who run lawn
mowers or hair dryers or hay balers
or laundries pi- tvn.-writ.-rs m.
(Government Stages
\rinv ^ar Shows
Mindful that even the most trust
ingly patriotic soul tikes to see what
he's buying with his war bonds and
stamps, government departments
are staging some eye-filling specta
wood instead of other types of fuel
for their home needs this year. This
will help to relieve war-time short
ages of transportation of coal and
fuel oil. Farmers also can find a
ready sale for surplus wood m near
by towns and cities. Barker predict
ed
Secretary of Agriculture Claude R.
Wickard has been named chairnian
of the new Food Requirements Com
mittee of the War Production Board.
Wickard will be responsible for the
production and allocation of all food
for the nation, our allies and mili
tary need*.
k\S ol Ulu U- Sain mechanical
might around the country. Ace num
or is "Army War Show" which just
pened in Baltimore and will play
4 major cities for the Army Emer
ency Relief Fund It's organized
long the linos of an Army task
:>rce, with some 1.200 officers and
len participating, and features
battle" involving tanks, jeeps, and
thoi power equipment. Moanwhilo
^e Treasury department is experi
menting with a "Jeep Caravan"
ooked ti? visit 17 cities in Ohio this
lonth
ADMINISTRATRIX' NOTICE
lorth Carolina. Martin County.
Having qualified as administratrix
f the estate of David T. Griffin, de
eased. late of Martin County, North
arolina, this is to notify all persons
Food Administrator
having claims against the estate of
said deceased to exhibit them to' the
undersigned at Williamston, N. C.,
on or before the 26th day of May,
1943, or this notice will be Dleaded
in bar of their recovery. All persons
indebted to said estate will please
make immediate payment.
This the 22nd day of May, 1942.
LUCY F. GRIFFIN,
Administratrix of David T.
Griffin, Deceased.
Clarence Griffin, Atty. m22-6t
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OX THE HONE FRONT
ITT'S AN OLD axiom that "an
* army travels on its stomach."
Civilians in America's all-out war
effort do, too.
Uncle Sam knows that final
Victory demands good health far
behind our first line of battle. In
the factory, business, home, and
on the farm, the health of our
"civilian army" is just as essential.
To this army goes the task of pro
duction and supply . . . requiring
many men and women to supply
one fighting man.
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