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Show Crop Prospects Favorable Prospects are favorable for another anoth-er record-breaking year of food production, pro-duction, the department of agriculture agricul-ture has pointed out in a summary of agricultural developments. However, Howev-er, the demand for farm products is expected to increase more than production. pro-duction. Moisture conditions were favorable favor-able at the beginning of 1943 and with only average weather from now until harvest, crop yields per acre are likely to be about equal to the general level in 1940 and 1941, and higher than in any earlier year. Stocks of feed grains and of wheat and numbers of cattle on feed January Jan-uary 1 were at an all-time record. rec-ord. Numbers of sheep and lambs on feed for market were only slightly slight-ly below the record set a year earlier. Commercial hatchery production reached an all-time high in 1942 and recent output has been at record pace, reflecting a strong demand for chicks to meet the need for increased production. More than 90 per cent of the recent output has been in heavy breeds many of them going to areas which specialize in producing produc-ing young chickens for meat. Goals for several important war crops have been increased since the beginning of the year. They include grain sorghums, 152,400,000 bushels; flaxseed, 39,875,000 bushels; soybeans soy-beans harvested, 216,000,000 bushels. |