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Marketing quotas for cotton and 



flue-cured and dark types of tobacco, 

 the first proclaimed under the AAA of 

 1938, set the cotton acreage allotment 

 at 26,300,000, as compared to 34,383,- 

 000 acres planted in 1937. The flue- 

 cured tobacco quota was fixed at 704, 

 000,000 pounds and the dark type 

 <]uota was set at 145,000,000 pounds. 



Quotas were announced Feb. 18 



Want to know which hybrid corn 



varieties have yielded highest in your 

 section of the state? Send for Bulletin 

 429: "Illinois Corn Performance Tests" 

 — Results for 1936 to University of 

 Illinois. Agricultural Experiment Sta- 

 tion, Urbana, 111. The 1937 tests are 

 expected to be published shortly. 



Permanent pastures occupy 55 per 

 cent of the total land area in U. S. 



More than 50,000, or approximately 



22 per cent, of all farms in Illinois are 

 of less than 50 acres each, according to 

 the University of Illinois, college of 

 agriculture. 



Farm incomes and the price of milk 



fluctuate around the general price level, 

 and the long-time outlook for a further 

 rise in this level is favorable for dairy- 

 men, economists say. 



Rough and careless handling of live- 

 stock in shipments to market causes 

 damage which averages about 38 cents 

 per head on cattle, seven cents on hogs 

 and 2^ cents on sheep, says, R. C. 

 Ashby, chief in livestock marketing. 

 University of Illinois. 



Exports of wheat and flour from July 



1, 1937, to January 31, 1938, amounted 

 to the equivalent of about 50,000,000 

 bushels of wheat, and went mainly to 

 the Netherlands, Belgium and the 

 United Kingdom. This was the largest 

 export movement of wheat for that pe- 

 riod since 1931-32. 



The first referenda under the new 



Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 

 will be held on March 12 among the 

 cotton farmers and producers of flue- 

 cured, fire-cured and dark air-cured 

 tobacco. The outcome of the vote will 

 determine whether marketing quotas 

 will be applied to these commodities 

 in 1938. 



The Secretary of Agriculture has is* 



sued an order under the Commodity 

 Exchange Act requiring a period of 

 seven business days during which con- 

 tracts for the future delivery of wheat, 

 corn, oats, barley, rye, or flaxseed may 

 be settled by the delivery of the actual 

 cash commodity after trading has 

 ceased in any given delivery month. 



Armin J. "Brick" Rehling, teacher of 

 agriculture in the Galesburg High 

 school for 10 years began work Jan- 

 uary 24 as farm adviser in Henderson 

 county. Rehling is a University of Il- 

 linois graduate, a brother of Charles 

 H. Rehling (former Clinton county ad- 

 viser) and Ed. Rehling of Monroe 

 county. 1 



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