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Show Higher Prices Set For Alfalfa and Legume Seeds Farmers will receive special acreage ac-reage payments as an inducement to harvest legume seeds in a program pro-gram announced by the War Food Administration. In addition, payments pay-ments of 2 1-2 cents per pound will be made for alfalfa and al-sike al-sike clover seed, and 3 -12 cents per pound for red clover seed, harvested har-vested and sold into commercial channels before December 31, 1945. The program will be administered administer-ed by State and county offices of the AAA. The Agricultural Appropriation Appro-priation Act for the coming fiscal year includes $12,500,000 to stimulate stimu-late red clover, alfalfa and alsike seed production. The need for legume seed this year is particularly acute, says N. E. Dodd, chief of the AAA. With last year's production below expectations expec-tations due to unfavorable weather, and with needs in European countries coun-tries especially great, there is an extra demand on United States farmers this year. Estimates are that European countries will need 20 million pounds of red clover seed this year, as well as 5 million pounds of alfalfa and 3 million pounds of alsike clover seed. Domestic needs for legume seeds also are greater than normal because be-cause of the present excessive drain on, soils and the needs for good hay.'Xegumes plowed under help maintain productivity of the soil by offsetting soil losses resulting re-sulting from the forced effort to meet war demands. |