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Show Farm Scrap Harvest Reported a Success Farmers Can Sell fill Scrap Iron and Steel The national farm scrap harvest conducted between October 15 and November 15 has been termed a success by the steel industry, producing pro-ducing millions of tons of scrap iron and steel badly needed for making new steel. Although the drive is over, farmers farm-ers should continue to collect the scrapped machinery about their farms and sell it to dealers. It is a good way to keep the farm prem- harvest and sell yeur SCRAP (Jf to help produce the urC things you need Up ; . CRA&rt fetal, 3( tfeu, ises cleaned up and, although scrap does not sell for big prices, the fiancial return does mean something. some-thing. The steel industry continues to need the broken tractor parts, rusted and worn out implements, plow points, outdated horse drawn equipment, old cultivators, broken shovels and similar equipment that can be found on almost every American farm. There are about 25 tons of iron and steel on the average farm. Farm scrap can be a major source of the 36,000,000 tons of scrap that are needed by the steel mills this year. It takes that much scrap to produce 110,000,000 tons of steel that mills in our country have as their goal for 1951. |