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FHA3T ’7ITU TFARG
--Faith G. Lancaster
You moor your midget ship, and on
brown feet
You run to me for something good
to oat.
There is cool milk, sweet butter
for your broad,
‘■J}M c\ C ^ C‘ • •
od CiT^ d 1"*0 d. •
apples, sun
I have brown moat to slice, and
fragent broth,
There is a feast to lay on red
chockod clothJ
I glance into your lifted, eager
face
And fight v;ith tears before ^
take my place...
Because, small sn, I fancy how
t’would feel
Had I to toll you 1 could sot no
me a 1;
(How can they bear iti women
who must say
"Bo still, my child, there is no
broad today.")
There a,re small sons in Yuropo,
and small daughter0 too, to whom
it is said "There is no bread to
day.'1 To keep o"r land out of
trio war zone.
BUY DUFF:TSB BOFDS
On May 8, a number of potato
growers net to discuss the grow
ing and marketing of potatoes.
Many very good suggestions were
made and a committee, meeting with
Co-op Mgr. ■Ll. C. Stock, drew uo
a sot of suggestions and rules
to be followed in handling the
1941 crop.
Quoting Mr. Stock at that
nccting 11 The Assgeiation is not
inter stod iri being a du ■ ing
place for surplus produce when
it cannot be marketed els .where.
'.Vo intend to first find a market
for those people who on .net us
t do their marketing...:t ^r.
Stock still fools the sa o way
about it, and the recommendations
of the committee will be carried
out.
The advance payment will
be ,,j1.75 per cwt. as loin as
funds are available for this pur
pose and storage s acc will por
mj t.
All potatoes will 1 hand
led on a pool basis v/i-.tli addition
al advances to bo made from tine
to tine as justified and only
one cool will bo formed to handle
all potatoes harvested from 1941
4
crop.
Samples for tcstin^ to be
re.thered fron each producer.
Referring to item x-o. 10
of the x ot ato Rules approved on
Lay 8, 1941, you will refuse to
take into the pool potatoes from .
any producer v/ho has sold or con
templates soiling a portion of
his crop direct. We will, under
no circumstances, be used as a
dumping ground after a x eduocr
markets uart of his crop. Cur
market will be reserved first
for those pr>d,,cers who r.ro ex
pecting us to market the'r en
tire potato crop.
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