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Show Agricultural Brevities April 1 farm wage rates average 10 points above October. 1944 peak, and 33 points, or more than 10 percent, per-cent, higher than a year ago. This is 335 percent of the" 1910-1914 average av-erage . . . Prices received by farmers farm-ers for eggs in 1945 probably will average moderately above last year, when they averaged 33.8c a dozen, or 94 percent of parity . . . Nearly nine million persons out of of the supply remaining available for farm work were working on A-pril A-pril 1, as compared with S. lOO.OoO on January 1. Total farm employment employ-ment on April 1 was a little more than one percent smaller than at the same time last year ... In general, March, 1945. was among the most favorable Marches that early lamb producers have ever experienced, ex-perienced, says the Department of Agriculture. However, because of generally abundant feed and high level of lamb prices, movement to market may be no earlier than usual us-ual . . . Although allocation of controlled con-trolled materials for the production of farm machinery has been cut to 195,000 ton for the second quarter quar-ter of 1945, as against 256,000 tons in the first quarter, an increase in allotments can be expected after V-E day, a stepped-up farm machinery mach-inery program being a "must" as soon as mateirals are available. |