


g which members could order Eastern States 
which had been established on a historical 
: S6Ties and also for representative and warehouse areas. 
Some members will be disappointed in not getting the exact grade of fertilizer they 
ordered and the reason is simple. Orders have run heavily to grades high in potash. 
Eastern States, along with all manufacturers, is using potash which was allotted for 
the fall and winter mixing seasons. Members have ordered fertilizer containing 
higher amounts of potash than Eastern States' allotments will permit delivery of. 
Therefore, some substitutions in grades will have to be made. 
Prospects appear good for an adequate supply of corn to be used in Eastern 
States' feeds for the present, but there is still a lot of corn that has not been 
husked. This is high in moisture and there is a lot of soft corn that will have to 
be fed where it is raised. However, protein carriers are definitely short and pres— 
ent indications are that they will continue so for another year. The supply is 
large, but usage is much heavier than prewar in areas where protein carriers are 
produced, owing to the large number of units of livestock. 
Ten—quart Eastern States Motor Oil cans will be back in the picture soon. We 
have just been through a short period of NO CANS which may have affected you. Those 
eight-—quart cans were a wartime measure, now being discontinued. 
Eastern States has a carefully developed program for training of returned 
servicemen. The first group of eight men were back in the "little red school house" 
at West Springfield for a week the middle of December. Prime purpose is to refresh 
the men's memories generally on Eastern States work and also to bring them up—to— 
date on the many changes which have taken place*in the last four years. 
Lack of steel and castings and manpower problems are the reasons given for a 
10 percent decrease in farm machinery production in the third quarter of 1945 as 
compared with the corresponding 1944 period. 
National farm organizations have petitioned for a special federal fund of half 
a million dollars to be administered by USDA for research and investigation to im-— 
prove the volume of legume seed production. For at least five years per—acre produc-— 
tion of clover and other legume seed has been falling off. Supplies are now so low 
as to be a nationally serious problem. 

A revised version of the Flannagan Bill (HR 3422) to consolidate all federal 
farm credit agencies into an independent agricultural credit agency has been drafted 
by the House Agriculture Committee. The new bill still calls for removal of FSA and 
FCA from USDA, which Secretary of Agriculture Anderson opposes. 
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