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No Increaso In com price ceilings . Secretary Anderson stated July 50 that 

 ho had no intention of reconanending an increase in corn price ceilings. He indicated 

 that "farmers are receiving a full parity price," that "there is an urgent need for 

 corn now in deficit areas and fanners will he doing a real patriotic service hy market- 

 ing as rapidly as possible the corn they do not need for their own operations. 



"Inasmuch as the Office of Price Administration has already announced that 

 there will he no advance in ceiling prices of com, I hope that no producers who have 

 com they could sell will hold back supplies in anticipation of a price rise." 



I9U3 oats loan program . The government has announced a loan program on oats 

 to produpers of the I9U5 crop, The loan will average ^8 cents a bushel nationally, 

 and is intended to facilitate orderly marketing at a time when the oats crop is esti- 

 mated to be the largest in 25 years and the wheat crop at an all-time high. The 

 country's transportation system is already overburdened, and it is believed that the 

 loan program will make it possible for producers to place their oats in local or farm 

 storage, thus holding it back from the terminals, relieving the burdens on railroads 

 and tending to spread marketing over a longer period. Loans will be made only on oats 

 grading No. 5 or better. The rates will range by counties from kO to 60 cents a 

 bushel. All loans will be administered by county conmittees of the AAA. They will 

 be made until December 31> 19^5^ and will mature on April 30, 19^6, or earlier on de- 

 mand. 



Com crop report . Although the condition of the corn crop is spotty, de- 

 pending upon the date of planting and weather conditions, in many sections of Illlnole 

 and the com belt corn has made excellent progress. A private crop reporter predicts 

 a corn crop of 2.8 billion bushels on the basis of conditions existing the first of 

 this month. This would be up 130 million bushels from the government's July report. 

 His oats estimate is also 125 million bushels larger than the official estimate last 

 month. In fact, it looks as if we would have plenty of feed grain during the coming 

 yoar^ especially if any substantial quantity of wheat is used for feed, 



Illinois farm prices . As of July 15, Illinois farm prices wore higher than 

 the 1935-1939 average by the following percentages: 



Potatoes up l30^ Hay up 8l^ Wool up 72^ 



Apples up 160 Wheat up 79 Milk up 70 



Soybeans up 135 Butterfat up 78 Barley up 70 



Milk cows up 116 Eggs up 75 Veal calves up 67 



Oats up 106 Beef cattle up 7k Hogs up 66 



Sheep up 98 Lambs up 72 Com up 6k 



Chickens up 90 



The 19^5 lamb crop . The official government estimate places the 19^5 lanib 

 crop at 28 l/k million head, or about one million head or 3 l/2 percent smaller than 

 the 19^^ crop. Pt was about 8 percent below the 10-year, 193^-^3^ average, and with 

 the exception of 1935 --following the 19UU drouth--it was the smallest since 1929. The 

 percentage of lambs saved was higher than a year ago, but the number of breeding ewes 

 was down 6 percent. 



The government wants your surplus hens . The government has Issued a new 

 order applicable in 12 major poultry-producing states, including Illinois, which pro- 

 vldan that beginning August 13 all poultry handled in "authorized" plants will be 



