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Show FARM NEWS NOTES I BY LEW MAR PRICE j County Agent j State Milk Consumption is Inadequate A recent survey in three cities of the state shows consumption of fresh milk is nearly 60 per cent below the diet specified as adequate by the bureau of home economics. The report shows the average purchases pur-chases of fresh milk are half a pint a day per person. Average purchases pur-chases of evaporated milk are very high, amounting to 34.9 pounds per person a year, compared with a national na-tional average of 15 pounds per year. Many families buy no fresh milk at all. The report points out that the consumption con-sumption shown is 21 per cent below the milk quantities specified by the "restricted diet" the lowest amount on which an individual should subsist sub-sist for only a limited period. Farm Prices Advance Toward Parity Better than parity prices were received re-ceived by cooperating producers on their domestic allotment or other designated portion of the production of two major adjusted farm products on July 1, 1934, and distinct gains towards to-wards parity had been made in the case of three other major products since the agricultural adjustment act went into effect. The exchange value of farm price plus benefit payments on cotton and corn on that date were well above the exchange value of these products pro-ducts during the parity years 1910-14, and farmers were receiving a few-cents few-cents short of the parity price on their allotted production of wheat. In the case of corn the payment of 30 cents per bushel is really a rental payment on about 20 per cent of the crop and this proportion of the crop is usually marketed. The farm price plus benefit payments pay-ments on wheat . and cotton were about two and one-half times the price farmers were receiving for these products just before the act went into effect, while the farm price plus benefit payments on corn was nearly four and one-half times the farm price on March 15, 1933. Benefit payments added to the farm price of hogs nearly doubled the farm price of hogs on March 15, 1933. On July 1 of this year, farmers were receiving approximately 70 per cent of parity on their allotted hog production. Xo benefit payments are made onj butterfat, and while the gain in per unit receipts for that product was! less than that for other products j -l ov ii in tlie chart, the price farmers rceeved advanced -Id per cent above1 i e f : i-i'i price on March 15, 1 ;::?. Benefit payments constituted1 .ibc.it one-third of the price farmers; were receiving on their allotted pro-1 duction of wheat, cotton, corn and! hogs. j While the increase for the pro-1 ducts on which adjustment programs are in effect varied from 100 to about 450 per cent during the period covered in the chart, the prices farmers farm-ers paid for the products they buy for use in production and living increased in-creased an average of only 22 per cent. o |