Engine tests prove the quality of 



BLUE CIRCLE 



The New, Improved, Regular -Type 



MOTOR OIL 



Tha new BLUE CIRCLE Motor Oil is a reel farmer's motor oil. brought to you with 

 pride by Illinois farmers' own organization. Engine tests— not guesswork— prove 

 the superiority of this new, IMPROVED regular-type motor oil. 



See that piston shown above? Clean as a whistlel It was token from a stand- 

 ard automobile engine which hod been run continuously at the rate of 60 miles 

 per hour for 36 hours (2160 miles) without stopping. 



This engine was lubricated with BLUE ClkCLE Motor Oill 



Careful examination of all parts of the engine— pistons, bearings, push rod 

 covers, side plates— at the end of the test proved conclusively that the new, 

 IMPROVED regufor fype BLUE CIRCLE Motor Oil will give you: 



• Safe lubrication 



• A cleaner ongin* 



• LeM sludge and vamith 



• Longer bearing lif* 



$•• your talmtman in th» b/u* and while truck. 



Extend Hog Price 

 Supports Into 'JO 

 At 90 % of Parity 



HOG PRICES will be supported at 90 

 per cent of parity through March, 

 1950, when the marketing season 

 for 1949 spring pigs ends, according 

 to an announcement made late in Febru- 

 ary by the U. S. Department of Agricul- 

 ture. 



This action was taken to assure farmers 

 the same level of price support during 

 the last half of the October 1949-March 

 1950 marketing period as is required dur- 

 ing the first half by the Agricultural Act 

 of 1948. Hog price support level at 

 Chicago April 2 was $17.50 per hundred- 

 weight. 



Specific price supports, with the usual 

 seasonal variations, will be announced 

 next fall for this entire period and will 

 be based on the Sept. 15, 1949 parity 

 price. 



Only other recent government an- 

 nouncement on new developments in 

 price supports was on Feb. 8 when the 

 U. S. Department of Agriculture reported 

 its program to support the price of but- 

 terfat at a national average of 90 per cent 

 of parity during 1949 as required by the 

 Agricultural Act of 1948. 



In carrying out any necessary support 

 operations, the Department will offer to 

 buy in any area during 1949 butter, of 

 U. S. Grade A or higher at 59 cents per 

 pound for delivery before Sept. 1 and 

 at 62 cents for delivery on and after 

 Sept. 1. The Department's purchase price 

 for U. S. Grade B butter will be two 

 cents lower in each period. 



On Feb. 23, a parity equivalent for 

 manufacturing milk was established by 

 order of the Secretary of Agriculture. On 

 a national average basis, this figure is 

 set at 88.5 per cent of current parity price 

 for all farm milk at wholesale, as re- 

 ported regularly. 



The 88.5 per cent relationship is the 

 relation between (1) the average price 

 f.o.b. the plant for evaporating, cheese- 

 making and the butter-powder price for 

 30 months — July 1946 through Decem- 

 ber, 1948; and (2) average price at the 

 farm for all milk sold at wholesale. 

 For that stated period the manufacturing 

 milk price at $4.10 per hundredweight 

 was 88.5 per cent of the $4.36 per hun- 

 dredweight representing, the general na- 

 tional wholesale milk price. 



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Coatinuous cropping, especially if do 

 manures and chemical fertilizers are added 

 to the soil, progressively robs it of both or- 

 ganic and inorganic materials. 



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