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WHEAT PARITY SUPPORT — 



War Food Administrator Marvin 

 Jones, Sept. 23, announced that 

 WFA will purchase from farmers at 

 parity prices, less carrying charges 

 to the end of the storage year, all 

 unredeemed 1944 crop wheat which 

 is under loon May 1, 1945. The 

 wheat parity price is the 1944 loan 

 rate plus 15 cents a bushel, Jones 

 explained. Deducted will be the 

 carrying charge to the end of the 

 year, which for warehouse loans is 

 May 31 in the southwest and June 

 30 in all other areas, and which will 

 be to the date of delivery in May 

 and June for farm storage loans. The 

 Aug. 15 parity price for wheat was 

 $1.50 per bushel. The Sept. 15 par- 

 ity prices have not been announced. 

 Jones had announced on July 7 that 

 wheat loans on the 1944 crop would 

 be raised from 85 per cent to 90 per 

 cent of parity as of July 1, 1944, a 

 national average of about $1.35 per 

 bushel at the farm. Jones also an- 

 nounced Sept. 23 that the WFA will 

 purchase from farmers at parity 

 prices all cotton of the 1944 crop for 

 which a loan schedule has been an- 

 nounced and which is placed in ac- 

 ceptable storage. The program will 

 start as soon as arrangements can 

 be made and extend through next 

 Jiine 30. 



NITROGEN PIANTS — s e c r e 



tary of Agriculture Claude R. Wick- 

 ard has made public the recommen- 

 dations of the USDA postwar plan- 

 ning group, calling for the produc- 

 tion of solid nitrogen fertilizers at 

 some of the synthetic ammonia 

 plants now operated by the gov- 

 errmient. 



LUMRER SUPPLIES —Addition 



al quantities of certain lumber, 

 which has accumulated in distrib- 

 utors' yards and is slow-moving, will 

 be made available to home owners, 

 farmers and other consumers until 

 Dec. ."^i, 1944, according to WPB. 

 This lumber — estimated at 500 

 million board feet and not adapt- 

 able for war uses — may be sold 

 by distributors without priority rat- 



ings or special WPB authorization 

 up to an amount not exceeding one- 

 third of their Sept. 1 , 1 944 lumber in- 

 ventories, but only if there is no in- 

 terference with the filling of certified 

 orders. Farmers also may receive 

 without certification up to 5000 

 board feet of lumber annually if it 

 is produced from trees cut from 

 their own farm, WPB has an- 

 nounced. 



HOG PRICE PROGRAM — 



OPA and the WFA with the approv- 

 al of the director of economic stab- 

 ilization, Sept. 15 announced that 

 ceiling prices on live hogs will not 

 be reduced from present levels prior 

 to June 30, 1945. Ceiling prices are 

 $14.75 per hundredweight, Chicago 

 basis, for hogs weighing 240 pounds 

 or less and $14 per hundredweight, 

 Chicago basis, for hogs weighing 

 more than 240 pounds. The WFA 

 also stated that the support price 

 of $12.50 per hundredweight, Chi- 

 cago basis, for good to choice butch- 

 er hogs weighing 200 to 240 pounds, 

 which becomes effective Oct. 1, 

 1944, as heretofore announced for 

 the period ending March 31, 1945, 

 will be continued until June 30, 

 1945. 



PEA FLOUR FOR SALE — 



WFA is offering for sale to feed mil- 

 lers and grain merchants 1498 bags 

 (100 pounds per bag) of pjea flour 

 for livestock and poultry feed. The 

 flour was made as an experiment in 

 an attempt to find a use for human 

 consumption of dry wrinkled peas 

 purchased under the price-support 

 program. Testing found that the 

 product was undesirable for human 

 food. The flour is located in Chi- 

 cago. 



WAR SURPLUS SALES — 



Surplus War Property Administra- 

 tion has announced that between 

 May 15 and Aug. 15, approximately 

 38 million dollars of surplus wen- 

 property had been disposed of by 

 five authorized disposal agencies. 

 The Treasury Procurement Division 

 disposed of surplus consumer goods 



m July appraised at $9 million for 

 $71/2 million. Among the larger cate- 

 gories of sales were used Army 

 trucks and leather products. 



MACHINERY PERMFTS — all 



certificates for the purchase of new 

 farm machinery were scheduled to 

 be cancelled Oct. 1, according to 

 AAA orders to county committees. 

 Notices are to be mailed to the hold- 

 ers of these certificates for the pur- 

 chase of rationed farm equipment. 

 New certificates will be issued soon 

 after Oct. 1 to those people whom 

 the county farm rationing commit- 

 tees deem eligible. Many items 

 have been taken off the rationed 

 list, but permits are still needed to 

 buy new tractors, pick-up balers, 

 side delivery rakes, hay loaders, 

 combines, manure spreaders, corn 

 pickers, corn binders and mowers. 



CHEESE SET-ASIDE — wfa 



will require that 40 per cent of the 

 Cheddar cheese produced in Oc- 

 tober be set aside for sale to govern- 

 ment agencies, compared with 50 

 per cent required to be set aside in 

 September. 



HATCHERY PRODUCTION — 



Bureau of Aricultural Economics re- 

 port says that the output of chicks 

 by commercial hatcheries during 

 August was 52 per cent less than the 

 record output of August last year. 



SWEETCLOVER SEED — a bae 



report says production of sweetclov- 

 er seed this year is expected to be 

 about 40 per cent larger than the 

 very small crop of last year, but 

 about one- third smaller than the 10- 

 year (1933-42) average. 



TRUCK TIRES — severe short- 

 age of heavy-duty trucks and bus 

 tires for replacement purposes will 

 continue through the fourth quarter 

 of 1944 and a spread of the tire 

 shortage to smaller size truck tires is 

 in prospect, according to the ODT. 



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