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FARM FRONT ROUNDUP 



SURPLUS AUCTION SALES — 



Two public sales of surplus war 

 plant property have been scheduled 

 in Illinois. They are: at Sterling, 

 Whiteside county, Feb. 13, and 

 Princeton, Bureau county, on Feb. 

 15. Another was scheduled to be 

 held at Ashland, Cass county, durr 

 ing the week of Feb. 1. 



BAN ON CONVENTIONS — 



Organizations planning to hold con- 

 ventions, conferences, trade shows or 

 group meetings after Feb. 1 "will 

 hove to show how the war effort 

 would suffer if the meetings were 

 not held," Col. J. Monroe Johnson, 

 chairman of the war committee on 

 conventions, announced Jan. 11. Ap- 

 plication forms for groups seekipg 

 to hold meetings of more than 50 

 persons may be secured from ODT 

 regional and district offices. All ap>- 

 plications should be sent directly to 

 Secretary Clare, Room 7321 Inter- 

 state Commerce Commission Build- 

 ing, Washington 25, D. C, where 

 they will be reviewed by the com- 

 mittee. 



FARM CENSUS STARTS — 



The Census Bureau is conducting an 

 agricultural census over the United 

 States in 230 census districts. Many 

 of the farm enumerators will be crop 

 reporters because of their knowl- 

 edge of farm conditions in their 

 neighborhoods. All farmers are to 

 be contacted in person by the enu- 

 merators. Farmers are asked to be 

 prepared in advance to answer the 

 more difficult questions that require 

 calculations or estimates of values of 

 land, buildings, crops, and even the 

 vegetable and small fruits. 



SPRING PIG GOAL — wFAhas 



asked hog producers having ade- 

 quate feed supplies to keep addi- 

 tional sows suitable for farrowing 

 next spring to help meet the goal for 

 spring pigs, and an.nounces exten- 

 sion of the present support price of 

 $12.50 per hundredweight, Chicago 

 basis, for good to choice butcher 

 hogs weighing 200 to 270 pounds, 

 to March 31, 1946. In order to reach 



the goal of 57,500,000 spring pigs, 

 hog producers would need to in- 

 crease the number of sows farrow- 

 ing next spring by about 1 1 per cent 

 over the number planped, as indi- 

 cated by the December pig crop re- 

 port. 



FLAXSEED PROGRAM — wfa 



has announced a program to pay 

 farmers $5 an acre for flaxseed 

 planted for 1945 harvest within goals 

 set for individual farms. To qualify 

 for this special payment, farmers 

 must plant the flaxseed on land 

 adapted to the crop and care for it 

 in a workmanlike manner. National 

 flaxseed goal for 1945 is 5 million 

 acres. Goal for Illinois is 2 thousand 

 acres as compared with planted 

 acreage of 4 thousand in 1944. 



INCOME TAX DEDUCTION — 



Farmers may deduct their costs and 

 expenses in carrying out soil prac- 

 tices under last year's AAA program 

 from their 1944 income tax, accord- 

 ing to the Bureau of Internal Rev- 

 enue. Any assistance received 

 from the program must be ac- 

 counted for as income. Farmers 

 were required to make their final 

 declaration on their 1944 estimated 

 income Jan. 15, but will .still have un- 

 til March 15 to file their return. 



REVISED EGG GOAL — wfa 



announces a revised farm egg pro- 

 duction goal for 1945 of 4350 million 

 dozen eggs as compared with the 

 preliminary goal of 3920 million 

 dozen suggested in November. The 

 goal of 4350 million dozen while 

 slightly less than the 1944 record 

 production, would provide 347 eggs 

 for each civilian in 1945, which is 

 equal to the record consumption in 

 1944 and an increase of 49 eggs 

 over the prewar 1935-39 average 

 consumption. It also would provide 

 for all military requirements for shell 

 eggs and for military and lend-lease 

 needs for dried eggs from 1945 pro- 

 duction. About 125 million pounds 

 of dried eggs carried over from sur- 

 plus 1944 egg production are avail- 

 able to meet the balance of the 

 lend-lease program. WFA suggests 



that the number of early hatched 

 chicks should be maintained at a 

 level at least as high as last year. 



WFA TO BUY CORN— wfa is 



offering to buy 50 million bushels of 

 yellow corn from farmers for de- 

 livery to WFA during the summer 

 months at ceiling prices for corn 

 grading No. 3 or better, and at mar- 

 ket prices for corn grading below 

 No. 3. The com will be purchased 

 in farm storage prior to March 15 

 in areas where farmers have a sur- 

 plus above local needs with delivery 

 on or before Sept. 30. Until then, 

 purchased corn will be stored on 

 farms. A down payment equal to 

 the goverrmaent loan value per 

 bushel for the quantity purchased 

 will be made to farmers when con- 

 tracts are signed. Upon delivery of 

 the corn, farmers will be paid the 

 applicable delivery price less the 

 down payment. County AAA com- 

 mittees will handle the contracts. 



LIGHT TRUCKS — with about 



60 per cent of the scheduled 1945 

 output of 35,704 light trucks ear- 

 marked for agricultural applicants, 

 county AAA committees have been 

 given the go-ahead to receive farm- 

 ers' applications for purchase prior- 

 ities. Applications filed with the 

 county AAA are submitted to the 

 ODT for final approval. 



MILITARY TRUCKS — Thirty 



eight per cent of all military vehicles 

 manufactured by the American 

 automotive industry have been 

 shipped to Allied Nations under 

 lend-lease or direct 'purchases ac- 

 cording to the 1^44 edition of "Motor 

 Truck Facts" published by the Auto- 

 mobile Manufacturers Association. 



USED CAR CEILING — a farmer 

 who buys a used car primarily to 

 carry on his business is not con- 

 sidered a "consumer", according to 

 OPA. He is in the same category 

 as a salesman or doctor who uses 

 his car for work. Such buyers are 

 not entitled to recover in case they 

 are overcharged. 



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