Show I crr f s Meat Prices and Incomes Retail prices of meats especial especial- especially lly ly of beef h hose hive e risen in the last 12 months and are much high high- higher high high-ei er th thin than 11 a at t the depression low point in 1933 But so far as can be de- de determined determined de determined leI from the available statistics sta- sta statistics sta statistics they are arc nono now no no higher in inI I relation to consumer Incomes than the then were ere before the depression This does dOM not mean that the con con- consumer con consumer sumer Is not feeling the pinch of the reduction In meat supplies s caused bv by b In 1934 and 1936 Had there been no decrease in pro- pro I consumers would could have hate paid out about the same total amount of lOut money for meat ment but they w would ouId hale ha e received cd ed larger quantities for I their money Despite the marked advance in prices price of meats in the last 3 or four lour years v ears the they v are still somewhat bEl below 0 the prices in the years vears ears im- im immediately Im Immediately mediately prior to the depression In the first half of at 1937 the aver er average age retail price of ot beef bed at Nea Ne NewYork York was 20 pr cent below the average la average for the years ears 29 Z The retail price of pork was as as 14 per cent 10 loser cr than a average and that of lamb was vas 34 per cent below belov aver aser- average age The retail value at New Ness York prices priC S of ot consumption of federally inspected d meats to in the first half of ot 1937 1837 was 24 per cent smaller than the 2 1924 1924 average But the 1 incomes 01 at urban con con- consumers con consumers sumers were ere only o D per cent belos beIO beio the average for the J als lob 29 H In July this year vear ear retail prices of meats generally averaged high vJ i tuan in ill tin first 6 months of the year vear ear as Is the case in most years ear 1 rices of l beet Deet and pork rios ever ever v vere ere about 5 pel percent cent b 1055 10 the 29 1924 average and prices ot of ats ass and the total amount ex expended expended expended by consumers for meats laic I 1 e 10 wiser lower er in relation to the 1924 1914 29 as a than are total incomes 01 consumers Supplies of mea meats ts are likely to continue small during the remain tl Oi 01 o laj 1951 Hloi I at least lease and retail prices probably will be maintained near present levels during this I period But it now appears fairly certain that production of corn and lotner other teed mains in 1937 will wUl b be beabout labout about equal to average a and will vill be bethe bethe bethe the largest for tor any year vear ear since Thi-s Thi Increase in feed grain I production wJ w J be reflected In increased in inI Increased I creased slaughter supplies of hogs hogsand hogsand I and the better grades of cattle m Il load ii 11 corn production in 1938 should be about average hog pro production will wUl be further stimulated Barring the recurrence of se seere ere droughts it is expected that meat production will Increase considerably consider considerably considerably ably In the next few seas veas With larger supplies of meats expected after early 1938 retail meat prices probably will decline somewhat if incomes of at consumers do not In- In Increase increase In Increase crease above present levels le In an event with favorable weather eather and andI feed conditions the supply of meat for lor aO after I the first half o of 1938 is likely to be than in the past 3 years vears ears I Farm Purchasing 10 roster er Natures Nature s bountiful harvests and fair prices are having a marked influence on the commercial life of the nation The volume of nest agricultural machinery purchased the sale of household and farm equipment in supplying rural ar- ar areas areas ar areas are an eloquent tribute to the value of or the purchasing PO power poster er of the farm in restoring prosperity and in making it permanent Some farm sections and some crops are not net enjoying yields and prices that Tare I are satisfactory but taking the nation as a whole there will be beO beL one O n nr or or two tun extra billion bUllon dollars in the the i inners farmers pockets to spend this I fall fallI It will naturally go first to the I liquidation of debts and the pay payI payment payment payment ment of tax taxes the then should d come I repairs permanent imp impo o improved equipment on the farm and in the home It is I hoped that some farmers can make m e permanent investments but ve se challenge e every ery farmer and his family possibly afford to do so t to save a little out of ot this years vears car s har hat harvests harvests vests ests not only for the proverbial pro I rainy day ahead but aLso alo try to toIlet ret Ilet a little recreation vacation aca tl on onI and Inspiration out of the bounties I that Nature has poured into the of ot agriculture lap Rusty Wheat is your our wheat shriveled bv by rust I Feed it Tests at Missouri Experiment ment Station show that 55 heat shriveled by rust rUt is practically as valuable as good goad plump wheat heat for feeding stock A given weight of low grade wheat contains about the same amount of total digestible I nutrients as wheat of grade A larger percentage of the drs matter in the damage Cl prods predict ct is in so that less protein ment is Ls needed for feeding fe ie v ith irli it pound for tor pound the s b s in irl eld el wheat heat has hM proved to hi b h i a better hog feed than corn and it mare may mat re i-e reused used as a complete substitute for lor corn COtTI in 10 swine inc rations 1 I w mr r cattle better results fattening been S secured Cured bv by mixing torn om f hate equal parts then Iha e with Ith this cheat ia eq-ia of 01 these gi a is 13 fed fd ao aon e with t c her elI su s 1 who t were el I Dest resu then ah obtained hen the thes theah 88 cracked ir ar ground Only I with sheep Jd iii t the th h wl al I I i e grain j pio- pio rod 00 1 ie lilts nils duce as I Grass Gras B GrassBy By B Henry A Wallace Secretary of Agriculture I Some day I hope the people ot of otI the United States still become grass I conscious to at least leist the same ex- ex extent extent ex extent tent they are floss no tree conscious unusual Inter loter- interest Interest Forty Fort years vears ear ago an est in trees began to develop and 30 years vears ears ago thousands of young men became very sery ery much interested tn the Idea o of oC thill for forestry While v e e still ha hase havea e ea a long stay a to go before the nation I Ihas has sufficient appreciation of trees trees e I Ie se e have hate a much greater distance to go before It has sufficient ap- ap appreciation ap appreciation precia tion of grass humble We thin think of 01 trees in terms of beauty and shave furniture and he houses uses Trees are arc long lived and grass Is short lived lined Yet in Its hum hum- humble humble humble ble stay a grass Is perhaps just as as trees In renewing the fundamental resources re of the Unit Unit- United United United ed ed States |