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Show the eastern seaboard. The new program ranks white' beans with pork, poultry. and dairy products, canned tomatoes ' and some other canning vegetables, in providing an abundance of food for war-time needs and en.erSn cies. Programs to support prices of pork at 9 cents per pound, butter at 31 cents, eggs at 22 and poultiy ; j at 15, Chicago basis, and increases to growers of canning tomatoes of from $2.75 to $:(.00 per ton, were announced several weeks ago. Price support for the riinns, ah classified as "protective" fr.ifi a nutritional standpoint and concentrated concen-trated in food value, is made lo assure farmers their efforts to supply sup-ply necessary foods will not oi" r-ate r-ate against thoirt liauce . for a f.tir return, the secretary aiino'ii.c. ed . nge Excess acreage of other soil-depleting soil-depleting crops will not be offset : by the increased bean acreage, however. , , Farmers who have cooperated . with the AAA program by planting within special and total acreage al- tolments will he eligible to pea ; 0nd medium while, Great No. them . and small white beans to die De partment of gricul.ure at price : established at $5.00 per hundred on JHITE DRY BEANS FOOD FOR UEFENSE PROGRAM then t'h'te ')eanS werH ati(3ed t0 s of Idaho's contributions to N,l ,.'0nal aeti.se" 1 ken ,I,0n p,,gram lut week, ainniir, seci'etary of uncuitore I T mai'ket for 6 of whlte be. m or- der to encourage increased production produc-tion as much as 35 per cent. R W Geddes, chairman of tne Franklin county committee, said this week that acreage planted xo white beans over and above the usual white bean acreage on any farm will be considered "neutral in 1941 so far as soil-deplctmg acreages are concerned, and no deductions de-ductions will be made from AAA payments for the excess bean acre- |