With feed and butterfat prices as they are now, it pays a dairyman mighty well to feed grain liberally. As long as butterfat stays at near 50 cents a pound and the price of balanced grain feeds remains at near $35 a ton, a dairy farmer should feed grain liberally. It is patriotic as well as profitable in our food for freedom war effort.

Iowa farmers have been asked to reduce their oat acreage by 8 percent in 1943. But Iowa farmers are “holding an ace in their hands” — they have enough seed of the new disease-resistant varieties so that they can cut their acreage 8 percent and still produce as many bushels of oats as with the larger acreage of the older varieties.

Iowa has sprung into soybean production so fast that farmers still have many questions about the crop even though they grew 2 1/4 million acres last year. But despite their questions, they have learned a great deal, for they are now getting average yields of close to 21 bushels an acre as compared with less than 15 a few years ago.

Conservation is a key word on the home front these days. Every civilian is conserving rubber, home equipment, farm machinery and energy. He must latch the doors of waste.