FARMERS may obtain certificates for Grade 1 pas- 

 senger tires for use on cars converted to serve as farm 

 vehicles. This is permitted provided regular farm 

 vehicle tires cannot be used and secondhand ones are 

 not available. 



SOME 60 million more hatchery chicks broke the shells 

 during the first 5 months of 1945 than in the same period 

 last year, or 6 per cent more output by commercial 

 hatcheries; only 4 per cent below the 1943 record pro- 

 duction. Illinois was second among the 10 high states 

 in hatchings for 5 months this year with a figure of 

 87,592,000. 



NEW MILK payment rule provides that hereafter ac- 

 ceptable evidence of milk and butterfat production 

 under the dairy payment program will be limited to 

 regular sales statements issued by cooperatives, dairies, 

 local creameries, etc., showing amounts bought, date 

 of sale and names of buyer and seller. Producer-dis- 

 tributors of course retain the personal certification 

 privilege. 



USDA REPORTS that the 1945 spring pig crop totaled 

 about 51,687,000 head, considerably short of the gov- 

 ernment's goal of 57,500,000, and 7 per cent under 1944. 

 Nearly all the decrease in this year's spring pig crop 

 was outside the corn belt. Illinois' 1945 spring pig crop 

 was reported at 5,379,000 as compared with 5,391,000 

 lost year. June reports for Illinois show 117 per cent 

 fall sows to farrow compared with 1944. Corn prospects 

 may change this figure either way. 



TWELVE production credit corporations of the coun- 

 try recently voluntarily returned $6,700,000 of their 

 capital to the revolving fund of the U. S. Treasury, 

 according to C. R. Arnold, Production Credit commis- 

 sioner of the Farm Credit Administration. This recent 

 payment mokes a total of $11,700,000 that the corpora- 

 tions have repaid in the past two years in their program 

 of retiring the government-owned capital in the pro- 

 duction credit system. 



AN ORDER restricting the distribution or use of corn 

 for the manufacture of alcohol or for export issued by 

 the WFA became effective June 16. The order also 

 prohibits the use of previously acquired corn in manu- 

 facturing alcohol or for export, unless the com was 

 acquired under contracts entered into before June II, 

 1945. 



MAY FARM INCOME report by BAE shows that 

 farm marketings for that month were 1,390 million dol- 

 lars compared with 1,416 millions in April. Milk pro- 

 duction gained 14 per cent while prices fell 4 per cent; 

 egg production down 4 per cent but prices up 2 per 

 cent; meat animal income unchanged, and fruit income 

 having less increase than usual. 



FORMER Secretary of Agriculture Claude Wickard 

 won Senate confirmation to a 10-year term as rural 

 electrification administrator June 22 by a 56 to 6 vote. 

 He succeeds Harry Slattery who resigned last Dec. I. 



WHEAT SYRUP process developed at the USDA 

 laboratory, Peoria, has been taken up commercially 

 and one company has been producing wheat syrup 

 at the rote of one million poimds a month, with market 

 value between 8 and 1 cents per pound. It is believed 

 that the most logical area for production of syrup from 

 wheat is in the Pacific Northwest, where wheat has 

 consistently sold for less than com delivered from 

 Chicago. Wheat is more expensive than com as a rule 

 in the Midwest. 



WFA HAS been informed that the War Department is 

 releasing 10,000 light and 20,000 medium trucks to meet 

 agricultural needs. The 30,000 trucks will be released 

 Aug. 1 to the department of commerce. WFA is per- 

 mitted to certify specific needs to the surplus property 

 board, which may direct the department of commerce 

 to sell specific trucks to dealers, who serve the needy 

 areas and who agree to sell only to persons holding 

 certificates from county AAA committees. 



WHEN SURPLUS TRUCKS are available, county 

 AAA committees will begin issuing certificates en- 

 titling farmers and cooperatives to buy surplus trucks 

 in areas where lack of trucks threatens to impair agri- 

 cultural production. WFA will certify such areas to 

 the Surplus Property Board on the basis of information 

 received from the field. 



VETERANS OF this war are given preference over 

 nearly all other prospective purchasers of new farm 

 machinery through an order issued in late June by 

 WFA. Under the order, veterans who can show both 

 the need for and the inability to obtain farm machinery 

 may obtain preference certificates that require dealers 

 to give priority to their needs. 



WHEAT LOAN rates on the 1945 crop, recently an- 

 nounced by WFA, will average $1.38 a bushel at the 

 farm. In another government action, producers' ceil- 

 ings for the 1945 wheat crop have been increased S'/a 

 cents a bushel. . •, • r,.:. ;■ V- ' ' ; 



WHILE QUOTA restrictions have been removed on 

 the manufacture of new farm machinery, the industry 

 warns farmers not to expect an ample supply of ma- 

 chinery at any early date. '•, ;/ l "■ ■'..'■•'•-'■. , 



CONGRESS HAS authorized the Farm Security Ad- 

 ministration to lend 25 million dollars in the next 12 

 months to returning servicemen who want to buy 

 family-size farms. •■, •'. ■; -■/' ■<■..('' H''' ^ ^'.-''-^V" 



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