Show NEWS BEHIN br H if TV I 1 TI by PAM PAUL MALLON TON released by western newspaper union SO PANACEA KNOWN FOR PROBLEM washington mr Tr new food master anderson put it mildly when he announced upon taking up his job that he could not zure ure the food crisis with a magic wand all he has been given is a baton with no discernible magic appendages his power has 7 no not t been increased one hall half of a whit in IBM the new OPA bill and as food expert herbert hoover commented congress wasted its time when it talked loudly for weeks about helping him then failed to do anderson anything this means an larsons ier ler sons wand will be only as long as mr truman decides when anderaon aanderson tries to do something from abow on that anderson andersen cannot do much is the common conclusion of intimates of the problem when the supply and distribution system is once broken down as ours has been long and powerful mending is required to get it going again anderson is working not only in i delicate price help machinery con stion but to restore a system disrupted by years of abusive regulations that is only half of it the system is not only war weary and heavily laden with disruptive regulation it is now dominated ex en by the black market an ai mv visible isible but powerful JOw erful force for example the corn hog ratio las been fixed high enough now by washington to stimulate pork pro luction but that result has not fol towed pig production prospects are infinitely finitely le down despite washington pulling of the main spring which was supposed to send them up these considerations furnish only a fast glance at how high the cards are stacked against mr anderson this is all anyone of authority really hopes for although the publicity mills are grinding out the jaily prospects that everything is going to become better and better CROP CHOP OUTLOOK MIXED crop prospects are mixed the wheat outlook is splendid corn doubtful so the publicity mills are playing the wheat prospects ig noting corn yet if you win look into the weekly farm weather bulletins you will find much corn has abot been planted at this late date lue due to weather much has rotted and been replanted vegetables outside the florida area are hopeful apples were ruined by march warmth and cold which factor also hurt the citrus fruits seriously eggs are getting shorter and shorter the increased civilian allocations of poultry for six border states will not solve the poultry situation for them or anyone poultry deficiencies are really due to the meat shortage and will continue as long as it does the better june marketing figures for or beef will not ease the meat situation as the army is still taking 50 to 60 per cent of all meat available for interstate commerce beef however will be somewhat more easily available due to better local slaughtering arrangements in some areas now as to wheat the most favorable produce one of andersons Ander sens first acts was to keep acreage requests to farmers for 1946 about the same as now superficially this may appear a doubtful move especially as the government simultaneously announced it expected to increase shipments ta europe the inner truth of the matter Is not much can be shipped to europe because ships are not available most bottoms already have gone to the pacific to 0 o supply our armies secondly we have a carryover carry over of million bushels of wheat added to our expected production of 1085 million bushels this will give us more than 1400 million bushels at the end of this crop year and we need normally at home only million bushels so anderson has played wheat reasonably safe the increase in rye acreage for 1946 anticipates more for whisky and rye bread the outlook for these two minor matters of living being exceptionally bright As tor for corn meaning hogs and to some extent cattle no one will know much what we will have before fall and next years acreage on that will be announced after a survey of the marketing situation then no new farm machinery excepting harvesters will be available until fall and the greatest need is for planters and cultivators the discharge plans of the army will not be sufficient to solve the farm labor problem this year frankly I 1 would not want mr andersons job |