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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 30, 1943)
Behind the far flung battle lines on the South Pacific front our navy has established an oasis of peace and quiet where battered bodies and jangled nerves can be nursed back to health. Performing a near miracle, considering the time and 'labor expended, construction battalions have erected dock ing facilities and an airfield where casualties can be received from battles. For war weary but uninjured heroes the recre ation center is a mecca—one spot on the war bound deep that tis truly “pacific” where death can be forgotten for a brief • hour in the sun. IflVIfSS t£r „’m a 6000 TIME . rHf FtW **>•'"• r • !*■ ft f &<i. y: •• K f.'? " ■• v * •*\ .; . " •:• < ji ' "'rM.iii^iTiiiifl^illillinrlli ?: : ...M.Ik: A view of the hospital reveals the cool, airy canopy provided by the palms which tower over the buildings. Inset, top left: This sign i erected at the outskirts of the center is a cheerful harbinger of the hours ahead for men who have been under the strain of battle. Above: Water lovers find re freshment in the Pacific surf. Overhanging tree allows swim mers to indulge in acrobatics along with their aquatics. Right: Using utmost care to handle pa tients gently, crew of an ambu lance plane that flew casualties from battle area pass their pre cious cargo to another crew who will rush the injured to hospitals. t Island foliage surrounds the dock which a navy construction battalion erected on the sandy beach to facili tate handling of wounded men. Nation's Food Producers Achieve 1943 Goals, Elevate Sights to Meet Next Year's Demands - ■■■ — w Farmers Beat Floods, Cold and Drought to Reap Record Crops America’s farmers have done it again! Last year the skeptics said they’d never meet their goals. So the farmers upped food production 13 per cent over 1941, for a record total of 28 per cent more than the aver age for the five years before the war! Came Farm Mobilization day in 1943 and the skeptics were sure it couldn’t possibly be done that time. So the farmers decided which of the most-needed crops they could grow the best and planted the greatest acreage in 11 years! They brought together the largest numbers of livestock and poultry in history, and pushed egg, meat and poultry production to a new peak. Today they are exhibiting a na tional food basket containing 4 per cent more than the 1912 record pro duction, and 31 per cent more than the yearly average for 1935-39! Now those farmers face another growing year—and doubtless anoth er crop of skeptics who haven’t learned, after seven consecutive years of record food production, that American farmers know what they are doing. They attack the problem of raising food for war with the same spirit the American fighting rnan displays on the field of battle. And, like that fighting man, they get results! Estimated production figures for 1943 are significant. Despite a late and rather unfavorable spring, de structive floods in the com belt and other hindrances such as labor and machinery shortages, nearly 352 million acres are being harvested. Total crop production is slightly less than 1942’s record harvest, but 15 per cent greater than the five-year average of 1935-39. Food crop acreage under cultiva tion in 1943 exceeds the 1942 acreage by about 3 per cent. The decrease in crop production is largely attrib utable to smaller yields per acre on certain crops, although some plant ings were lost through the floods, and others came to maturity but could not be harvested for lack of ‘‘hands’’ or machines, or both. Livestock for food shows an esti mated 8 per cent increase over the 1942 record, and 22 per cent over the previous record set in 1941. An increase of more than one-third, or 38 per cent, is estimated over the average for 1935-39. Lowered food crop figures are more than offset by the livestock in crease, to push total food production in 1943 about 4 per cent above the 1942 record, and 31 per cent over the five-year period average of 1835-39. Meat Output Tops Record. Production of all meats for the year is estimated at an all-time high of more than 23 billion pounds, an 8 per cent increase over 1942 and 44 per cent more than the aver age for the earlier five-year period. Pork production will exceed that of 1942 by about 18 per cent, but it is expected that beef and veal, and lamb and mutton will show totals slightly below last year. Both poultry and eggs will mark a record production, if an antici pated four billion pounds of chicken is reached and the hens lay their expected five billion dozen eggs. These results would push poultry fig ures 34 per cent above 1912 and 72 per cent above the 1935-39 average, with eggs going 13 per cent over last year’s record and about 43 per cent over the previous five-year period. Milk and milk products are ex pected to show considerable fluctua tion. Maintaining of milk for hu man consumption at an expected level only about 1 per cent less than in 1942—a record consumption—will lower production of cheese and evaporated milk about 13 per cent from last year. Government restric tions on the use of milk solids will reduce ice cream production about 20 per cent, although butter produc tion is expected to be upped about 4 per cent over 1942. Housewives will be encouraged by estimates on production of edible fat and oils, exclusive of butter, at about 10 per cent higher than 1942. The increase for lard is set at 15 per cent, for compounds and vege table cooking fats at 12 per cent and margarine at about 46 per cent. Among the field crops many rec ords are anticipated this season. The peanut harvest is expected to set an all-time high with a total of 2,988, 450,000 pounds, 35 per cent more than the 1942 record and almost 2*4 times the average for the ten-year period from 1932 through 1941. Dry bean growers will harvest a record crop from a record acreage —23 million bags of 100 pounds each, or an increase of 17 per cent over last year's peak and 59 per cent over the 10-yeaf average. Another record will be set when estimates of 10 million bags for the dry pea crop are realized. Last year's crop was seven million bags. Potatoes dug this year will total some 443,067,000 bushels, another fruits will be consumed in larger per capita quantities than last year, but will not match the 1941 record. Among the meats, civilians will get a larger per capita supply of pork during the current year but less of the other meats such as beef and veal, lamb and mutton. Nearly two-thirds of the prospective 1943-44 supply of all meats combined has been allocated to civilian use, 63 pounds out of every 100. This amounts to 66 pounds out of every 100 of beef, 80 pounds of veal, 59 pounds of pork, and 65 out of 100 pounds of mutton. The large amount of pork available, despite the ap parently small allocation per 100 pounds, is due to the unusually large Farmers’ Scoreboard for the Year Estimotes for 1943 show— CHICKENS-34 percent MORE ! than in 1942 EGGS -13 percent MORE rDRIED PEAS—40 percent MORE J LARD -15 percent MORE MEAT -8 percent MORE DRY BEANS -17 percent MORE ) CITRUS FRUITS-6 percent MORE WHEAT - 15 percent LESS j > CORN-9 percent LESS j record and a sizable increase over the 1942 harvest of 371,150,000 bush els. Sweet potatoes are expected to exceed last year’s crop by 24 per cent for a total of 81,255,000 bushels. Although truck crops for process ing will be about the same In the ’ aggregate as in 1942, three of the four principal processing crops show marked increases. Processors can anticipate a harvest of 11 per cent more snap beans, 7 per cent more green peas and 4 per cent more sweet corn. Beets, a less impor tant crop, also show an Increase. Tomatoes, the fourth of the leading vegetables for processing, will prob ably be down about 2 per cent below last season's supply. Where the Food Goes. Now that the farmers have come through with another topnotch har vest, what is going to happen to all this food? Well, civilians will get most of it—a good, round 75 per cent of the total. Of the remainder, some 13 per cent will go to the armed services, 10 per cent to lend lease and 2 per cent to other out lets. The civilian portion is about equal to the average amount of food consumed in the years 1935-39. Civilian per capita consumption in 1943 compares favorably with con sumption during that period and is greater for many commodities. For example, preliminary esti mates of per capita consumption are larger than 1941—record year for consumption on most foods—for chickens, eggs, fluid milk and cream, margarine, potatoes, sweet potatoes, dry edible beans, and the grain crops: wheat, rye, milled rice, com, oats and barley. While total fats and oils consumption will be about 1 point less than 1941, it will show an increase of slightly more than 1 point over 1942. Canned juices, dried fruits and fresh citrus Women who are taking over the many difficult jobs deserve a large share of the credit for the enormous crops being harvested despite man power shortages. Mrs. Elden King binds oats on her farm near Arling ton, Ohio. poundage of pork available for mar keting. Total meat allocation for civilians, out of the more than 23 billion pounds produced, is 13V« bil lion pounds. The armed services will get 3.9 billion, lend-lease 3.2 billion and reserves and other needs, 1.4 billion pounds. The major portion of meat going to lend-lease is pork. Marvin Jones, war food adminis trator, has pointed out that in spite of the United States’ enormous pro duction record, short supplies of va rious foods will arise from time to time, and some foods will maintain a constant shortage. “In fact,” says Jones, “no matter how much we increase production, the requirements for foods by our fighting forces, our home front and our Allies will outdistance the sup ply.” Planning for Next Year. The busy farmer knows that rec ord demands are absorbing his rec ord food production and asking for more. He has no time for resting on his laurels after another success ful year. Even as he harvests his 1943 crops he is planning the sowing of some 380 million acres in 1944. an increase of about 5 per cent over this year. In addition, he must make sure of sufficient pasture for his livestock, which will push the farm acreage in 1944 over the bil lion mark, an increase of 16 million acres over 1942. He has to plan the maintenance of high levels on pro duction of meat, dairy products and eggs, too. Once there were limits on the amount of food for which farmers could find a ready market, at home or abroad. In the world at war to day there might be said to be no limit to his market. It’s production that is now of first account for the farmer, not where he can sell what he raises. For this reason, he’s looking ahead to plan his own crops for the best use of as much acreage as he can plant. Every farm crop grown in 1944 will be a war crop, except for a few special crops already much curtailed. Greater emphasis will be placed on cereals, including an increase in wheat acreage, and there will be special need for more soybeans, dry beans, the dry peas, flax, potatoes, canning crops and feed crops. Conservation practices to increase production next year will be empha sized under the agricultural conser vation program carried out by the Agricultural Adjustment agency of the department of agriculture. These practices include measures to assist farmers to reach and main tain maximum productivity of their land, without jeopardizing produc tion in succeeding years. After the farmer has set up his own farm plan, the AAA committee men, both county and community, will assist him in obtaining equip ment, materials such as fertilizers, and other items essential to getting the production job done. The total food supplies produced by American farmers are divided, or allocated, as the accountants say, among four big groups. These are the civilian population of the oo untry, who get the biggest share, the servicemen in training camps and on the fighting fronts, our Al lies, who get help through Lend Lease, and lastly our territories, Puerto Rico, Hawaii and Alaska. Small quantities included under this last heading also go to Central and South American nations that are mo tive in the Allied cause. How Food Is Divided Up CIvIIUb Military Allies Territories, ets. MEAT.63% 17% 14 % 6 % CANNED VEGETABLES 70% 26% 1.2% 2.8% CANNED FRUITS JUICES 53% 40% .5% 6.5% (Exclusive of citrus) EGGS .70% 10% 14 % 6 % BUTTER.78% 15% 6 % 1 % CHEESE.55% 11% 19 % 15 % CANNED MILK . . . 45% 32% 12 % 11 % DRY BEANS .... 50% 16% 16 % 18 % SEWING CIRCLE 6-14 yr» 8464 Young Favorite. /^•IRLS are so fond of this par ticular dress. They like its grown-up look and they love the way it fits. • • • ' Pattern No. 8464 Is in sizes 6. 8. 10, 12 and 14 years. Size 8 takes 2\k yards 35 Inch material. \ ASK MS O j \ ANOTHER f | l A General Quiz * ? The Questions 1. How high is the dome of the Capitol in Washington, D. C.? 2. What name do the Scots give to a lake? 3. What is the lightest metal known? 4. The words cumulus, stratus and nimbus generally refer to what? 5. 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