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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Mar 24, 1944
Page
9
Wartime appeal urging Americans with gardening plots to grow more in 1944 to support troops and allies. Emphasizes growing a Victory Garden to supply nutritious foods for families while conserving national farm production. Promises help to readers who pledge and participate.
A Maryland bulletin from the University of Maryland Experiment Station and Extension Service outlines which potato varieties suit home gardens and markets. It covers growth, yields across the state, disease resistance, cooking tests, and storage guidance for baking, mashing, creaming, salads, French fries, and chips. Copies are available by writing to College Park for Bulletin No. 12 titled Quality Adaptability and Disease Resistance of Potato Varieties.
Indiana farmer and former Secretary Claude R. Wickard lauded farmers for meeting wartime food goals amid labor and equipment shortages. He called food a war weapon, noting record production for a seventh straight year in 1943 despite production constraints and high demand.
Government officials warn that wartime farm machinery will be hard to obtain this season due to transport bottlenecks and container shortages. Railroads need 40 000 to 50 000 new freight cars and 1 200 locomotives, with little built yet though authorized months ago. Trucking faces breakdowns driver scarcity and tire shortages while egg cartons and other containers remain scarce.
Maryland farmers and farm hands are urged by the War Food Administration to cut trees in woodlands before spring planting to meet pulpwood and lumber needs for harvesting and shipping crops. Extension forester Harry Dengler warns that wood production must rise now to avoid hampering the war effort and to profit from favorable timber markets.
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