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Show FARMmfiHOMEto For the feeding season of 1950-51, 1950-51, farmers in this county have about 120 million tons of hay. Economists of the U. S. Department Depart-ment of Agriculture figure that's about as large as the record supply sup-ply of hay in 1947, compared with the number of hay-eating livestock live-stock on farms. Anyway, it's a larger lar-ger supply than in any of the past three years, and the fourth largest larg-est on record. The economists say that supplies sup-plies during the past five years have amounted to a fifth more than back in the twenties, and nearly a third more than during the thirties when drought cut down hay crops. They attribute the larger lar-ger supplies to farmers getting more hay to the acre. There are three reasons for this increase. Generally speaking, farmers have experienced good hay weather; they've used more of their hay land in alfalfa, which yields nearly near-ly twice as much to the acre as most other kinds of hay. While hay supplies have gone up in recent years compared to what they were before the war, the number of hay-eating animals has stayed close to the same number num-ber farmers had before World War II with plenty of the better types of forage, farmers will again manage man-age to feed their animals well dur ing the winter ahead. |