- However, 



(9 /from January to June, inclusive, there was an Increase this year of 



11 per cent. According to the latest western shoep and lamb contract 

 reports, trading in the inter-mountain areas is on a very limited 

 basis. Dry, hot weather was reported from most sections. Several 

 bands of black-faced feeders from south-central Idaho changed hands 

 during the week ending July Ig at $12 to $12.50 for immediate delivery. 

 A few thousand head of mixed white and black-faced fat and feeder lambs 

 near the eastern border of Oregon were contracted for early fall 

 delivery at $11.25. ^ few scattered contracts of wether lambs for 

 September and October delivery were made in Montana at a range of $10.75 

 to $11 per hundredweight, f.o.b. loading point. Some white-faced ewe 

 lambs sold at around $11.50 a hundredweight. In Colorado, growers con- 

 tinued to hold black-faced feeder lambs well above $11, and only 

 scattered deals were made at that figure, according to the U. S. 

 Department of Agriculture. 



Dairy situation - On July 9 Roy F. Kendrickson of the Agri- 

 cultural Marketing Administration discussed the dairy situation as it 

 pertains to lend-lease requirements before the U. S. Department of 

 Agriculture War Boards. He pointed out that conditions have changed 

 since Pearl Harbor because of the shipping situation. For lend-lease 

 purposes, England had been taking very large quantities of evaporated 

 milk. They first requested a million cases a month, then doubled the 

 request. The AMA raised its paying price for evaporated milk in rela- 

 tion to butter prices, and by October 19^1 the Industry was meeting the 

 evaporated milk requirements. 3y December, the rate of production had 

 doubled. 



The emphasis has novr shifted to powdered milk because only 

 one-fourth as much cargo space is required to ship powdered milk as is 



