Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-12
Farm Families Rally
Today 10 Mobilize
For '43 Food Drive
Community Gatherings
All Over Nation Will
Louneh Compoien
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
This is Midday" for Americas
5000, 900 farm families, to whom
fellow citizens and members OF
the armed forces are looking to
fill the larder OF the Democratic
world.
Designated officially as National
Farm Mobilization Day." it brings
farmers together at community
meetings throughout the Nation to
launch their 1943 food production
campaign.
Over the four major radio net
works between and 1870 pm,
messages will be broadcast from
President Roosevelt, Secretary Of
Agriculture Wickard, Lord Woolton,
British Food Minister, and Maxim
Litvinoff, Russian Ambassador.
Presidents Message to be Read.
The President will not speak him.
self, as originally announced, but
his remarks will be read by James
r. Byrnes, director of economic
sterilization. Lord Woolton will
speak from London and Mr.. Wickard
and Ambassador Litvinon from
Washington.
Ten teams OF Army men, each
composed of an officer of the Quar-
termaster Corps and q veteran Of
recent action on some United Ma
lions battlefield, will speak at meet
ings In New Hampshire, Pennsyl-
vania, Tennessee, Michigan, South
Dakota, Nebraska. Texas, Washing
ton, Minnesota and Utah.
Leaders Of labor unions and farm
organizations also issued statements
pledging cooperation.
Labor's Spokesman Comment.
THE hard-working farmers Of
this country deserve to hold high
the flag Of excellence which they
have earned" said William Green.
AFL president.
Philip Murray, CLIO president,
offered that organization COM
plete cooperation to the farmers Of
our country and to our Government
in planning for the greatest possible
production of food"
A War Department statement said
the farmer had risen "heroically"
to the task of feeding the armed
services. the Nation at home and
providing for Lease-lend.
He has pledged that the Amer
lean soldier, whether in North Africa
or New Guinea, on a baking desert
or IN sub-zero Arctic stations, should
not lack for the best food which our
helds and grazing plains could
produce" the Army added.
The War Department knows how
fully he has kept his pledge"
Food Prospects Bright.
Meanwhile, the Agricultural De-
partment. in its first crop report of
the new year, said prospects for
heavy production of farm products
mad never been brighter at this sea-
son.
Record supplies of grain stocks on
farms were reported, with prac-
t,cally all sections we'll supplied with
feed grain and hay.
Moisture conditions are now IA
vorable in most of the West" the re-
port declared. Winter grain en-
tered the winter in unusually good
condition; supplies of improved
seeds, such as hybrid corn, certified
potatoes and adapted varieties of
soybeans, are the largest on record
II weather conditions from now
until harvest are as favorable as the
longtime average, the department
said. acreage yields of most crops
in lS43 probably would be nearly 20
per cent above the pre-droupht
l923-1932 period. as compared with
SO per cent last year and 81 per cent
in 1941.
of course" the department eau
toned, drought might upset all CAL
culations, and shortages of labor and
supplies will pinch furiously on
many farms.