Milford News | 1941-02-27 | Page 5 | Farmers Seek Self-Sufficiency as Exports Dwindle

Farmers Seek Self -Sufficiency as Exhorts Dwindle LOS ANGELES. American farm exports have taken a nose-dive as a result of the European war, department depart-ment of agriculture experts report, but they add that at least part of the loss is being replaced by domestic do-mestic production of farm products which were formerly imported. Although wheat exports declined from 61,165,000 bushels during the first 10 months of 1939 to only 13,-500,000 13,-500,000 bushels in the same period last year, it was explained that America's current drive for self-sufficiency is leading many farmers to use otherwise idle land for growing natively "old world" crops. Fruit growers and truck gardeners, garden-ers, specializing in such comparatively compara-tively new crops as figs, lemons, limes and tomatoes, have been among the chief beneficiaries of this new trend, foreign trade figures reveal. re-veal. Whereas 176,000 boxes of lemons lem-ons were .imported in 1932, practically prac-tically all are home grown.