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Show Some Surplus Goods And Land Available To Farmers of U. S. WASHINGTON. War Assets corporation, cor-poration, new agency handling surplus sur-plus war property, has announced there will be no strictly agricultural equipment declared surplus, although al-though certain types of equipment such as tractors and trucks may bp converted to farm use. The corporation has made plans to establish a small organization within the department of agriculture agricul-ture to handle surplus goods which may interest the farmer. Here are some facts which may interest farmers. At latest count there were still some 70,000 acres of surplus farm land out of an original origi-nal 100,000 acres, for sale; there is no barb wire, the demand exceeding exceed-ing the supply by about 15 to 1; there is a hemp and flax mill formerly for-merly operated by CCC at Hartford. Wis., for sale; a large quantity of telephone and telegraph material is being offered and is at depots of U. S. signal corps in Chicago; Lexington, Lex-ington, Ky.; Ogden, Utah; Atlanta, Atlan-ta, Ga.; and Bellmead, N. J. |