initiated a program to ^purchase large quantities of dried whole milk 

 weekly on an offer and acceptance basis for the United Nations and 

 other needs. 



Egp:s . Wednesday, May 27 » refrigerator egg futures attained 

 their best May level in I3 years on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange when 

 November contracts sold at ^li cents. Egg futures prices are bolstered 

 by persistently smaller inputs to storage tV.an a year ago in spite of 

 heavier arrivals. Processors are taking ^Ifne cash eggs for breaking. 

 The Chicago feed-egg ratio for the week ended May 23 was 5*72 compared 

 with 5*90 last year and the 1931-^0 average of 7.05 for the corresponding 

 week. This means that egg production is much more profitable than in 

 previous periods. It means that only 5*72 dozen eggs will pay for 100 

 pounds of feed now, although on the average during the past 10 years it 

 took 7 dozen eggs to pay for 100 pounds of feed. 



Sugar for canninp: . The Office of Price Administration has 

 liberalized sugar rationing for home canners. They will now be per- 

 mitted to obtain sugar in proportion to the amount of fruit canned, that 

 is, they may obtain one pound of sugar for every four quarts of finished 

 canned fruit and an additional one pound a year for each person in the 

 family may be obtained for making Jams, jellies, preserves and fruit 

 butter. The OPA wishes to encourage canning instead of preserving 

 because of the smaller amount of sugar used. The sugar rationing for 

 fruit canning v/ill be made by local rationing boards largely on the basis 



of home canning an individual or family unit has normally done, avail- 

 ability of fruits and related factors. The lacli of sugar was tendin»<; to 

 greatly restrict the outlets for Illinois strawberries at reasonable 

 prices. Other fruits would have been affected in a similar way as they 

 came on the market. This revision of the sugpjr rationing program should 

 be of material aid to fruit producers, especially sis compared with the 

 penalizing action of the original rations. 



Honey . Comb honey as a raw agricultural commodity is excluded 



from the general maximum price regulation. Extracted honey is covered 



at all levels including retailer, wholesaler, bottler, importer and bee— 



keeper. 



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