The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1940-07-18

Mississippi Form
News
BY F. j. Hurst, Extension Editor
2

Tbrouph the organization of the
! AAA national farm program Farmers
| are in better position than ever DS
gro IN make changes in agriculture
hat NAV be needed at any tune ~
the future, Secretary of Agrlcul'uie
Henry A. Wallace said in a receh'
statement. The Secretary added Ihat
the opinion seems TO be wldespreau
;, the United States that Europe IL
tho coming months will see the most
widespread famine in the worlos MS
tory.
an view of this fear" the Secre-
tarv said, attention should be cane"
once agar to the abundant supphes
! 30 food and fiber in this country Inc
| evernormal granary program mas pido
ad the United States in a position 10
ha NJ the utmost service to a suffering
y,orld when and if fears Of famine anu
scarcitv abroad become realities. Inc
Immediate a of the farmers still
remains the finding of Market lo'
their products.
useful in peacetime, the ever-nof-
! NAL is doubly useful To-Day
Through commodity loans, the gran
arv has prevented ruinous declines III
,rices which inevitably would nave
| followed the wars curtallment "a
farm exports. At the same time sup
niles have beer stored against future
emergencies which may grow u %
this war.
Almost every department since the
war began has curtailed our foreign
outlets for fran products. At present
the Mediterranean area, Central Eu-
rope, Scandinavia, Holland, Belgium,
and the Balkans are for all practical
eliminated as markets.
THE Triple-A program with its ad-
iustment and conservation features
is a part of the broad ever-normal
ana program. So is the food stamp
plan for removal of surplus farm, pro-
ducts for direct distribution to the
needy. BY increasing domestic con-
| SUMPTION dHu lCCoAIS thC Cai oPS"At
refugees we will, to a degree, offset
the loss of our regular export mar
kets.
Farmers have had 25 years of ex-
perience in working together in Elk
tension Service programs. The nat
ional farm programs have given us the
machinery for effective farmer CO.
operation in times of peace or war.
Through the AAA organized OF a
county by county basis, farmers are
operating their programs. In every one
of the 3,021 agricultural counties in
khe United States there is a county
AAA committee elected by the far
mers of that county. In 24,056 farm
communities throughout the United
States there are farmer-elected com
munity committees. Farmer commit
tees are cooperating with the Farm
Security Administration, the Soil Con-
servation Service, and other depart
ment agencies in hundreds Of coun-
ties. The members of these commit
tees are familier with their local agri-
culture and, through years of actual
experience in operating farm pro-
grams, they are familiar with govern
ment procedure. Through this organi-
cation, it is possible to move swiftly
toward any changes that are needed
in agriculture.
Abundant reserve supplies are on
hand to raeet all requirements be-
tween now and the next years har-
vest. Before next years crops are
planted it will be possible to antici-
pate future requirements.
Never have the farmers of the
United States been in such good posi-
ton to produce to the limit with the
minimum of labor. Both our soils and
our methods of agriculture manage
ment have been greatly improved in
the past Z years. If labor should ever
run short in the cities, there is a
great reserve supply on the farms
hat can be drawn On. This can be
done efficiently and without hysteria
by means of the county and COM
munity committeemen. Because Of our
organization, agricultural eff
ficiency and u great supplies, we
will not need to plow the hills and
the great plains as we did in 1917
and 1918"