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Show B R I E F S . . . by Baukhage Almost 10.000 rural fire-fighting companies have been organized this year to protect America's farms against destructive fires, with 100,-000 100,-000 men enrolled. Marketing, processing, and distribution distri-bution facilities are operating at capacity ca-pacity this fall, preparing the record rec-ord 1942 farm production for military, mili-tary, lease-lend, and civilian use. Prices are responding to rising demand, de-mand, and latest estimates of the U. S. department of agriculture are that the total cash farm income this year will exceed 15 billion dollars. The huge production of soybeans, peanuts, cottonseed, and flaxseed this year on American frms has greatly relieved the fats and oils situation. |