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Show Farmers' Scoreboard for the Year v-iKMWM luff" VfU ! t I Estimotei for 1943 how WAi JW I V CHICKENS 34 percent MORE lY I X thon in 1942 Vs 1 EGGS 1 3 percent MORE 1 j i & i DRIED PEAS-40 percent MORE J 'Y t'ts ' k - VJ JLAW 1 5 percent MORE (ft U'l f MEAT 8 percent MORE I r& JjM9m DRY BEANS 17 percent MORE 1 if0AltM (CrTRUSFRUrrS-6percentM0RE f feRlml WHEAT ,5percw,,LESS i record and a sizable increase over the 1942 harvest of 371,150,000 bushels. bush-els. Sweet potatoes are expected to exceed last year's crop by 24 per cent for a total of 81,255,000 bushels. Although truck crops for processing process-ing will be about the same in the aggregate as in 1942, three of the four principal processing crops show marked increases. Processors can anticipate a harvest of 11 per cent more snap beans, 7 per cent more green peas and 4 per cent more sweet corn. Beets, a less important impor-tant crop, also show an increase. Tomatoes, the fourth of the leading vegetables for processing, will probably prob-ably be down about 2 per cent below last season's supply. Where the Food Goes. Now that the farmers have come through with another topnotch harvest, har-vest, what is going to happen to all this food? Well, civilians will get poundage of pork available for marketing. mar-keting. Total meat allocation for civilians, out of the more than 23 billion pounds produced, is 13 billion bil-lion pounds. The armed services will get 3.9 billion, lend-lease 3.2 billion and reserves and other needs, 1.4 billion pounds. The major portion of meat going to lend-lease is pork. Marvin Jones, war food administrator, adminis-trator, has pointed out that in spite of the United States' enormous production pro-duction record, short supplies of various va-rious foods will arise from time to time, and some foods will maintain a constant shortage. "In fact," says Jones, "no matter how much we increase production, the requirements for foods by our fighting forces, our home front and our Allies will outdistance the supply." sup-ply." Planning for Next Year. The busy farmer knows that record rec-ord demands are absorbing his rec ord food production and asking for more. He has no time for resting on his laurels after another successful success-ful year. Even as he harvests his 1943 crops he is planning the sowing of some 380 million acres in 1944, an increase of about 5 per cent over this year. In addition, he must make sure of sufficient pasture for his livestock, which will push the farm acreage in 1944 over the billion bil-lion mark, an increase of 18 million acres over 1942. He has to plan the maintenance of high levels on production pro-duction of meat dairy products and eggs, too. Once there were limits on the amount of food for which farmers could find a ready market, at home or abroad. In the world at war today to-day there might be said to be no limit to his market. It's production that is now of first account for the farmer, not where he ran coil ,v, most of it a good, round 75 per cent of the total Of the remainder, some 13 per cent will go to the armed services, 10 per cent to lend-lease lend-lease and 2 per cent to other outlets. out-lets. The civilian portion is about equal to the average amount of food consumed In the years 1935-39. Civilian per capita consumption in 1943 compares favorably with consumption con-sumption during that period and is greater for many commodities. For example, preliminary estimates esti-mates of per capita consumption are larger than 1941 record year for consumption on most foods for chickens, eggs, fluid milk and cream, margarine, potatoes, sweet potatoes, dry edible beans, and the grain crops: wheat, rye, milled rice, corn, oats and barley. While total fats and oils consumption will be about 1 point less than 1941, it will show an increase of slightly more than 1 point over 1942. Canned Juices, dried fruits and fresh citrus I I . J L" . i X , I liS ma inn ill i4'rWl.J J .. nuab he raises. For this reason, he's looking ahead to plan his own crops for the best use of as much acreage as he can plant Every farm crop grown in 1944 will be a war crop, except for a few special crops already much curtailed. Greater emphasis will be placed on cereals, including an Increase in wheat acreage, and there will be special need for more soybeans, dry beans, the dry peas, flax, potatoes, canning crops and feed crops. Conservation practices to increase production next year will be empha-sized empha-sized under the agricultural conservation conser-vation program carried out by the Agricultural Adjustment agency of the department of agriculture. These practices include measures to assist farmers to reach and maintain main-tain maximum productivity of their land, without jeopardizing production produc-tion in succeeding years. After the farmer has set up his own farm plan, the AAA committeemen, committee-men, both county and communitv will assist him in obtaining equip! ment, materials such as fertilizers and other items essential to getting the production job done. Women who are taking over the many difficult Jobs deserve a large share of the credit far the enormous crops being harvested despite manpower man-power shortages. Mrs. Elden King binds oat's en her farm near Arlington, Arling-ton, Ohio. |