
. Tall strong straw—and a thick wall of well-filled heads .. . 
RUBBERIZE 
YOUR ACRES 
New Farm Slogan 
With all this talk of a rubber 
shortage and the possibilities of 
grain for a substitute, this heading 
seems timely. 
But it’s really another kind of 
rubberizing we are talking about— 
stretching your acres to bigger 
crops! 
Right now, two real forces are 
working for and against the farmer. 
With the shortage in help nearly 
every farmer has faced, it takes 
courage to plan for crops ahead. 
On the other hand, those crops 
themselves are worth more today 
than they have been for a genera- 
tion. Look at wheat. When has the 
Government ever protected the 
price of wheat like it has right now? 
Or take barley. The day may soon 
come when war Officials decide to 
use the corn surplus for alcohol or 
other purposes. Then barley—equal 
to corn for feeding, and almost 
twice as productive as wheat—will 
suddenly become doubly valuable. 
The sound way to build for bet- 
ter farm income is to “rubberize 
your acres.” Stretch your yields so 
mean a splendid crop 
from this 21 acres planted with Hoffman “‘Leap’s Prolitic’’ Seed. 
that ten acres will give you the 
crops you used to get from twelve. 
Don’t stop here and say that’s not 
possible. A lot of farmers have 
done that very thing in the past 
several years. And most of them 
reasoned it out on this basis. There 
are four main factors which affect 
yield. Out of these four, they 
couldn’t do anything about the 
weather—so they eliminated that 
one. They Knew they couldn’t count 
on any more help, so they struck 
extra labor out of their calculations. 
What had they left from which to 
get their increase? First, proper 
preparation of the ground, and this 
means the right kind and the right 
amount of fertilizer. Second, the 
right kind of seed. When it comes 
to seed, every farmer knows that 
certain varieties are best for certain 
locations. 
But it is just as true that there is 
a difference in the quality of differ- 
ent seeds of the same _ variety. 
(Read the article on pages 8 and 9.) 
Very soon now you are going to 
be planning for your winter wheat. 
The Government has made it plain 
that farmers who follow its pro- 
gram will profit by their coopera- 
tion. This means limited acreage. 
The labor situation is an urge in the 
same direction. 
But ... the other crop factors 
will raise your pay if you plan now 
to rubberize your acres. 
