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Show Crop Prospects Favorable j Prospects are favorable for another anoth-er record-breaking year of food production, pro-duction, the department of agriculture agricul-ture has pointed out in a summary of agricultural developments. However, Howev-er, the demand for farm products is expected to increase more than production. pro-duction. Moisture conditions were favorable favor-able at me beginning of 1943 and with only average weather from now I until harvest, crop yields per acre are likely to be about equal to the ! general level in 1940 and 1941, and higher than in any earlier year. Stocks of feed grains and of wheat and numbers of cattle on feed January Jan-uary 1 were at an all-time record. rec-ord. Numbers of sheep and lambs on feed for market were only slightly slight-ly below the record set a year earlier. |