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Show Farm NotesAgriculture Notes NotesAgriculture Agriculture ExportsIf s Stake in Exports If farmers cannot sell abroad abroadapproximately abroadapproximately abroadapproximately approximately 50 million mllhon acres acresagrIcultural acre acreagricultural acresagricultural s : agrIcultural lands will have to tobe t tbe tobe be retired rebred This statement comes comesfrom come comefrom comesfrom s from the business and mdustrIes industries mdustrIescommIttee industriescommittee industriescommittee commIttee for Bretton Woods WoodsThey "WoodsThey WoodsThey " They ' hey back up this statement byreciting by byrecItmg byreciting recItmg reciting prewar official sta statis statistics statistics statisticsDuring ls , hcs tics ticsDuring : period1935 During Durmg the five year perIod 1935 39 40 per cent o of the cot cotton cotton cotton ton acreage 30 per cent of thetobacco the thetobacco thetobacco tobacco acreage and 15 per cent centof centof centof of the wheat acreage of thiscountry thIS thIScountry thiscountry produceEor producefor country were used to produce for export During Durmg the 10 years ' 1925 years1925 34 for every seven bales balesof balesof balesof of cotton consumed in 111 the U S SeIght Seight Seight eIght bales were exported For Forevery Forevery Forevery every six pounds of dried fruIt fruItconsumed fruitconsumed consumed in m this country four fourwere fourwere fourwere were exportedCattle exported exportedCattle Cattle Cycle at PeakThe Peak PeakThe The sudden end of the warcaught war warcaught warcaught caught industrywith mdustrywIth the livestock mdustry industry wIth cattle numbers close to the thepeak thepeak peak ' despiterepeated despitrepeated eak of the cattle cycle despite despit e repeated urgings urgmgs of the depart department departmerit ment merit of agriculture over the thepast thepast past cattleherds cattle two years to reduce cattle cattl e herds while wartime warhme meat demand de demand demand mand was still sbll high Cattle num bers numbers on Jan 1 1945 were re reported reported reported ported at 81 81760 760 000 only 600 highreached higreached 000 below the record high hig h reached about16 a year earlier and about abou t atthe 16 million mllhon head higher than a at t the thecattle tha beginning begmnmg of 1939 when th the e cattle herds were beginning begmnmg torecover trecover to t o recover the1934 from front the effects of the th e 1934 36 droughts Over two beefcattle beefcattlethe beecattlethe thIrds twothirds twok of this increase mcrease is in m beef bee p cattle-the cattle the cattlePresent cattleu - - the rest in dairy cattle Present cattle numbers are near thanwhen thank ly nearly seven million higher than n when the peak of the last cattl cattle e c cycle cle was reached on Jan 1 1934 1934Fred 1934Fred 11934 -Fred Fred - Fred H .comaby comaby Cornaby . . County .CornabyCounty CornabyCounty .comabyCounty Agncultural AgrIcultural Agent |