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FARM FRONT ROUNDUP 



BEAN MEAL PROGBAM — 



Illinois AAA committee has an- 

 nounced a general plan whereby 

 producers of soybeans are entitled 

 to priority in obtaining soybean 

 meal to meet their minimum feed- 

 ing requirements as follows: (1) 

 Producers market their soybeans 

 through regular market channels. 

 (2) If the grower cannot secure pro- 

 tein meal for his minimum feeding 

 requirements through his ordinary 

 Bources of supply, he can request 

 the county AAA committee for a 

 grower-feeder certificate to meet 

 these needs. (3) The county com- 

 mittee can then issue the certificate 

 to the feeder, who will take it to 

 his dealer. The dealer then uses 

 this certificate in securing soybean 

 meal for the grower-feeder or in 

 replacing the meal if he has it al- 

 ready in stock. All that is necessary 

 to make the producer eligible for 

 meal applications is evidence that 

 Jiis beans have been sold. 



GASOLINE SUPPLIES — The 



nation's stockpile of civilian gaso- 

 line, near minimum working levels, 

 is barely sufficient to take care of 

 any reasonable fluctuations be- 

 tween demand and refinery produc- 

 tion during the remainder of this 

 year, according to the Petroleum 

 Administrator for War. 



POULTBY MARKETING — 



WFA recommends that farmers con- 

 tinue to cull their poultry, but urges 

 them to contact their poultry buyers 

 or processors before attempting to 

 market their chickens, because of 

 the inability of some processing 

 plants to handle them as rapidly as 

 they ore offered. The WFA says 

 that farmers, in attempting to find an 

 immediate market, sometimes take 

 a much lower price than is justified 

 by the high consumer demand. 



FARM LABOR — The smallest 

 farm labor force of record is har- 

 vesting one of the biggest produc- 

 tions of fuli crops this country has 

 ever raised, the U. S. Department 

 of Agriculture reported Oct. 13. 



Despite the utilization of workers 

 from unusual sources, the number 

 of people working on farms Oct. 1 

 was slightly lower than at the same 

 time last year and 5 per cent less 

 than the 1935-39 average, when crop 

 production was much smaller than 

 this year. Of the 11,839,000 per- 

 sons working on farms Oct. I, 8,- 

 928,000 or 75.4 per cent — the high- 

 est percentage in more than a dec- 

 ade — were unpaid family workers. 



CORN ORDER ENDED — An or 



der (WFO No. 103) requiring eleva- 

 tors and others to set aside certain 

 corn for sale to authorized purchas- 

 ers has been terminated by the 

 WFA. The order has been in effect 

 since June 24. Corn acquired un- 

 der the program totaled 71.5 milHon 

 bushels as of Sept. 25. 



FERTILIZER FOR FRUIT — 



Fruit ranks high on the food list, 

 and fruit orchardists should be able 

 to get as much fertilizer as they 

 need for the 1944-45 season if they 

 buy early, says the WFA. The total 

 supply of nitrogen for essential crops 

 in 1944-45 may be somewhat less 

 than last year. The WFA is en- 

 couraging fall buying of fertilizer 

 to keep factories working and to 

 relieve the spring rush. 



FARM MACHINERY — war 



Food Administrator Marvin Jones 

 ended all WFA rationing and dis- 

 tribution control of farm machinery 

 and equipment, except corn pick- 

 ers, Sept. 28. Rationing and con- 

 trol over state and county distribu- 

 tion of com pickers were retained 

 as of this date, but will be removed 

 as soon as it is practicable to do 

 so, the armouncement said. 



SCHOOL BUSES — a free mar- 

 ket in the sale of secondhand school 

 buses and other local passenger 

 transportation equipment was 

 scheduled to be reinstated Oct. 15, 

 as a result of the suspension of a 

 part of general order ODT 35, says 

 the office of defense transportation. 



FERTILIZER SUPPLIES — 



Prospective supplies of nitrogen 

 and phosphate fertilizers for use on 

 1945 crops have declined since mid- 

 summer, due to greatly increased 

 military use of materials required 

 for manufacture of those fertilizers, 

 but substantially increased supplies 

 of potash are expected to be avail- 

 able, the WFA reported Oct. 12. 



REA Ear-Marks $347,416 



In Funds For Illinois 



Rural electrification Administrator 

 Harry Slattery has announced estimates 

 of unelectrified farms, by states, as of 

 July 1, 1944. On the basis of these es- 

 timates, as required by the REA act of 

 1936, Administrator Slattery allocated 

 half of the REA loan funds available for 

 the current fiscal year. These ear-marked 

 funds totaling $12,500,000 will be re- 

 served for loans in the designated states 

 during that period. 



Slattery again emphasized the fact that 

 no funds will be made available on ap- 

 plications which do not comply fully with 

 WPB regulations. 



Allotment of funds for loans during 

 the year ending June 30, 1945, for Il- 

 linois designates $347,416. 



Farms without central station electric 

 service as of July 1, 1944, in Illinois 

 numbered 97,939. 



Sunflower Crop Harvested 

 By Piatt County Farmers 



A group of Piatt county farmers in 

 October began harvesting 100 acres of 

 sunflowers for a Monticello processor 

 who declares that the seed will furnish 

 an excellent food for either animals or 

 humans and a potential source of in- 

 dustrial raw materials. 



The sunflowers are being harvested 

 like soybeans with a combine. 



The Monticello processor, Ezra Levin, 

 who is also a bio-chemist, reports that 

 the seeds taken from the sunflower heads 

 will be treated in his plant by a solvent 

 extraction process. Preliminary tests 

 have indicated, he said, that meal and 

 oil thus obtained can be stored, or 

 shipped for an indefinite time without 

 becoming rancid. The crop can be 

 grown in any climate, he said, and will 

 grow on submarginal land. . . .. ... 





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