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MEAL SET ASIDE ~ Proces 



sors have been ordered to set aside 

 20 per cent of their February pro- 

 duction of oilseed meal for direct 

 distribution to areas designated by 

 the WFA. Mixed feed manufacturers 

 can use no more protein meal for 

 mixed feed than the average used 

 during the calendar years 1942 and 

 1943. Distribution of meal in critical 

 areas is in the hands of state and 

 county AAA committees. County 

 committees will take requests for 

 meal, but will not be able to take 

 any action at the time. It is not 

 expected that the Illinois allocation 

 will be large enough to permit in- 

 dividual feeders or small feed mixers 

 to obtain carload lots. Most county 

 cllocatioris will be divided among 

 feeders. 



BATIONING CONTROL — Farm 



rationing and distribution functions 

 have been placed under the juris- 

 diction of the state AAA committee 

 at state levels and county AAA com- 

 mittee at county levels. Jurisdiction 

 was formerly under the state and 

 county USD A war boards. While 

 the county AAA committee assumes 

 the general supervision over the ra- 

 tioning of farm equipment, the ac- 

 tual rationing will be dope by coun- 

 ty farm rationing committees as in 

 the past. 



FARM WAGES -^Marvin Jones, 

 WFA administrator, Jan. 22, an- 

 nounced plans for extending gov- 

 ernment control over farm wage 

 rates. State agricultural wage 

 boards will be appointed, he said, 

 where necessary to hold public 

 hearings and assist in establishing 

 spiecific wage ceilings. The boards 

 will function for agricultural work- 

 ers in a manner similar to the War 

 Labqr Board control over industrial 

 wages. Economic Stabilization Di- 

 rector Fred M. Vinson has frozen 

 wages and salaries of agricultural 

 labor which are $2400 per year or 

 more, and ruled that they cannot be 

 increased over this figure without 

 prior approval of Jones, or the com- 

 missioner of Internal Revenue where 

 such salaries are above $5000 per 



year. Wages and salaries which are 

 below $2400 per year may be in- 

 creased without prior approval, un- 

 less the WFA administrator has es- 

 tablished specific ceilings for such 

 labor. However, no reduction can 

 be made in the wages or salaries for 

 any piarticular work below the high- 

 est wages or salaries paid for that 

 work between Jan. 1, 1942, and Sept. 

 15, 1942. 



CUSTOM WORK CEILING — 



Peoria district office of the OPA has 

 issued a reminder that operators 

 doing custom work may not charge 

 more than the prices charged in 

 March, 1942. Regulations required 

 all persons performing custom serv- 

 ices to file their prices with local 

 OPA boards in March, 1942, and 

 those prices are still ceiling prices 

 for that type of service. Regulations 

 which fix prices at Mardi, 1942, 

 levels include shelling, grinding or 

 mixing, cleaning, cracking, crushing, 

 drying, elevating, hulling when done 

 on a custom basis. 



DAIRY PAYMENTS — wfa 



continued its dairy payment pro- 

 gram through January. John F. 

 Bickett, member of the Illinois AAA 

 committee, reports that figures on 

 October dairy feed pxiyments indi- 

 cated that 72,277 farmers have made 

 application for this payment in Illi- 

 nois. These applications totalled 

 $773,682.83 or an average of $10.70 

 per payment. To save gas and tires, 

 Bickett said, most counties will mail 

 applications to farmers, and most 

 evidence for payment will be sub- 

 mitted to county AAA offices by 

 mail. January rate for Illinois is 35 

 cents per hundredweight for milk 

 delivered and 5 cents per pound for 

 butterfat delivered. 



CONTAINER SHORTAGE — 



WFA has repeated its warning to 

 growers and shippers of fruits and 

 vegetables that new wooden con- 

 tainers will be scarce in 1944. If 

 fruit and vegetable yields are nor- 

 mal, wooden container materials will 

 be short of demand by 10 to 20 per 

 cent, WFA reports. 



PARITY FOR WHEAT — ceiUng 



prices for sales of all classes of 

 wheat by producers and all other 

 distributors have been established 

 by OPA at levels that reflect at least 

 100 per cent of parity, without taking 

 into consideration AAA "payments. 



CHEESE SET ASIDE — Man- 



ufacturers of cheddar cheese will 

 be required to set aside 30 per cent 

 of their output for government pur- 

 chases in February, a 5 per cent in- 

 crease over November and Decem- 

 ber. January set aside was 30 per 

 cent. 



NO MARKETING QUOTA — 



In view of the great amount of corn 

 needed to sustain the high rate of 

 livestock production called for in 

 1944 production goals, there will be 

 no marketing quotas on the 1944 

 corn crop, says the WFA. 



FEED GRINDERS — wfa has 



announced removal of rationing re- 

 strictions on feed grinders and 

 crushers, and pressure cookers for 

 food preservation uses. Hammer and 

 burr mills are also released from ra- 

 tioning controls. I 



MEAL DISTRIBUTION — im- 



nois Feed Advisory Committee, co- 

 operating with the Illinois AAA com- 

 mittee, has worked out a schedule of 

 distribution of oilseed meals for the 

 deficit areas of the state from the 

 January allocation of meal set aside 

 under Food Production Order No. 

 9. Some 3356 tons of oilseed meal 

 were allotted to Illinois and have 

 been distributed to feed mixers and 

 to farmers throughout the state. 



Representing farmers on the feed 

 Advisory Committee are Lee M. 

 Gentry, state AAA chairman, and 

 chairman of the feed committee; J. 

 S. Bumgamer, McNabb; Joe Boyd, 

 Toylorville, and B. J. Schumacker, 

 Altamont. 



J. J. Lanter of the Illinois Farm 

 Supply Company is also a member 

 of the committee. 



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