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The Nome Nugget
Nome, Nome County, Alaska
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In Syracuse, NY, Secretary of Agriculture Claude Wickard urged Americans to reduce cheese consumption to supply dairy products to Britain amid food shortages, praising farmers' role in defense and aid efforts.
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SYRACUSE, N. Y., June - Secretary of Agriculture Claude Wickard reiterated belief today that the American people will have to cut their cheese consumption to help supply British food needs.
Wickard told the Dairymen's Cooperative Association that the British need dairy products to ease their food supply shortage. He said each person would have to forego some dairy products to send Britain food more vital than any other.
The agriculture secretary praised the farmers for their cooperation participation in the defense program and in the aid-to-Britain drive. He stressed the important role the American farmer must play in the current conflict. Said he:
"The American farmer has a vital part in this struggle to defend democracy - a place which is likely to prove decisive - just as it proved decisive in the first World War."
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Syracuse, N. Y.
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June
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americans urged to reduce cheese and dairy consumption to aid british food supply; farmers praised for cooperation in defense and aid-to-britain efforts.
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Secretary of Agriculture Claude Wickard spoke to the Dairymen's Cooperative Association, reiterating that Americans must cut cheese consumption to supply vital dairy products to Britain facing food shortages. He emphasized each person's need to forego some dairy and highlighted the decisive role of American farmers in defending democracy, similar to World War I.