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Show FARM NEWS NOTES BY LEW MAR PRICE County Agent Agricultural Adjustment News Efforts to increase facilities for slaughtering and processing to keep pace with purchases of cattle in the drouth-stricken areas are being made by the agricultural adjustment administration ad-ministration in cooperation with the bureau of animal industry and the federal surplus relief corporation. When the cattle buying program was initiated less than two months ago, processing averaged about 58,000 animals per week. Facilities have now been expanded so that the average aver-age is 110,000 per week and efforts toward further expansion of process-' ing capacity are being made. In ad-j il i t ion. thousands of cattle are being! moved to localities where pastures are still available. Assurance that the goal set for reduction re-duction of the nation's hog production produc-tion in the 1934 corn-hog program will be accomplished is seen in the government's pig report of June 1. The report prepared from returns (Continued on last page) COUNTY AGENT ITEMS (Continued from first page) from 149,500 farms indicates that the number of spring pigs saved this year was 27 per cent below the average ave-rage of 1032 and 1933. The number num-ber of sows farrowing between June 1 and October 1 is estimated to be 38 per cent smaller. Further modification of wheat and corn-hog adjustment contracts to permit planting of fodder corn and grain sorghums for forage purposes pur-poses on the rented or contracted acres now opens the way for unlimited unlimit-ed production of all forage crops on all land of farms under contracts. Wheat contract signers in Utah have received a total of $472,544.83 from the agricultural adjustment administration. ad-ministration. Proof of compliance forms have been completed and sent to Washington in preparation for the final payment of last year's crop. This forthcoming payment will be nine cents, minus local expenses. President Roosevelt has signed a proclamation declaring an emergency emer-gency and directing that import duties be suspended to enable farmers farm-ers in drouth-ridden areas to obtain enough feed to keep their livestock from starving. Treasury and agricultural agri-cultural officials are working on regulations specifying what commodities com-modities probably hay and oats may be imported duty free. The regulation also would name ports of entry and the countries from which the commodities could be imported. More than a million dollars per day lias been paid by the administration administra-tion to cooperating farmers in the corn-hog program during the past two weeks. About 80 per cent of all counties participating in the corn-hog corn-hog program have now been authorized author-ized to prepare contracts for the final signatures of producers. Farmers Farm-ers in ten Utah counties have received re-ceived a total of $40,000 up to August Au-gust 15, out of a total of nearly thirty-two million paid in the United States. I- i |