Show Agricultural tural Tools Rationing Called Off But War mar Demand Will L Limit the Supply Big Increase in ill Parts arts However vever Will i Be e Available The farmers of America are continuing as usual to do a magnificent job of producing foodstuffs In 1944 for the eighth successive year they produced a record food total despite a steadily dwindling manpower supply that reached its lowest point in 35 years Agricultural tools are arc no longer rationed but that doesn't mean that the farmer though he has the money money money mon mon- ey is going to be able to get that new tractor or combine he wishes so he can improve on the production tion miracle he has already Its It's the same old trouble weve we've had since Pearl Harbor Theres There's a war on Manufacture of farm machinery ma ma- I chinery although recognized as ns an ani i essential civilian civiJian must program has to be balanced in relation to di direct direct direct di- di war production Here Dere is the way the government govern govern- ment sums up the situation During During the 1945 crop year it is expected that American farmers will obtain approximately the same amount of oC new farm maI ma ma- I 5 a fix r k kHay kr kz z r Hay Baler Saves Labor w a f h p Y h ad f ax ao y rP es A Potato Digger That Handles Dandles Two Rows at a Time ing supplied 20 per cent of the food eaten by American troops stationed there Australia has supplied nearly nearly nearly near near- ly all the food for American troops in the South Pacific 45 1944 19 1943 44 H 3 Schedule B Actual J Production Planned ITEM ITEl 6 30 7 14 45 30 1940 IHO 7 31 7 43 7 31 7 Tractors Corn pickers Mowers ers Rakes side delivery deliver Hay lIay loaders Pick up balers 2047 2017 1315 1 Grain drills plain and fertilizer Manure spreaders 0 Disc harrows Irrigation pumps turbine Moldboard plows tractor One to three bottom Four and five bottom 2509 2066 Tractor mounted y Two bottom way One disc plows 1214 1 Deep and shallow well systems 2 Combines Milking l machines Cream separators Tractor mounted cultivators tors One row horse-drawn horse cultivators Planters horse and tractor drawn Planters tractor mounted Planters potato Includes production carried over from Crom Limitation Order L plus all production from appeals and supplemental authorizations 0 CD Production through September 30 1914 chinery and nd attachments as they did in 1944 There will be however however however how how- ever nearly more in repair parts In other words there is still not enough new farm machinery to go around Farmers in many cases are going to have to conserve and repair and get along the best they can with what they have rather than buy new replacements Approximately 90 per cent of the new farm machines except tractors tractors tractors trac trac- tors that will be made in the United States during the 1945 production year July 1 1944 to June 30 1945 will be available to American farm farm- ers About 10 per cent will go abroad approximately abroad approximately 7 per cent in commercial exports and 3 per cent through Lend-Lease Lend according to the Foreign Economic administration Lend-leased Lend farm machines that totaled only 25 per cent of the entire entire en en- tire production of U. U S. S farm machinery machinery machinery ma ma- chinery from the start of the Lend- Lend lease program from March 1941 to June 1944 had to be sent abroad to step up food production for our boys fighting overseas This farm machinery export not only helped to feed our boys but saved urgently urgently urgently ur ur- ur- ur gently needed shipping space for munitions instead of thousands of tons of food grown on the wrong side of the ocean The chief recipients recipients of Lend leased farm machines have haye been Australia New Zealand and the British Isles the latter hav- hav I I American farmers will be able to I obtain no more new tractors side delivery rakes combines or other haying and harvesting machinery A p a a a Cultivating Corn Four Rows at a Time Saves Labor I during the 1945 crop year than during during during dur dur- ing the 1944 crop year i Considering the types of machines j in use on American farms the reI replacements re- re j I placements required and the crop shifts necessitated by war current farm machinery program continues to emphasize the manufacture manufacture manufacture manu- manu facture of such saving labor-saving machinery machin machin- ery as corn pickers side delivery rakes and pickup hay balers WF A however has requested the manufacture manufacture manufacture manu manu- facture for the 1945 crop year of more planting fertilizing and tillage equipment than for 1944 Included are such items of farm equipment as corn and cotton planters listers I potato planters beet and bean drills I seeders fertilizer distributors tors tractor plows and cultivators disc harrows walking cultivators and rotary hoe hoes During the war manufacture of farm machinery although recognized recognized recognized as an essential civilian must emust program has had to be balanced in relation to direct war production When the United States entered the war production of farm machinery machin machin- ery was sharply curtailed b because cause munitions production had become an I exacting demand on this country's supply of steel The steel as well TRACTOR PRODUCTION For the Period Period July July 1 1943 to July 31 1944 Non- Non Canada FEA Army Navy Farm Total Special purpose under 30 h h. h p p. p p. p 2873 1749 Special purpose t 30 and over 66 15 2066 All purpose under 30 h h. h p p. p 45 1846 All purpose 30 and over 1209 2023 14 20 I Garden tractors 1470 89 8 1 I I as cast iron rubber zinc copper that had gone into farm machines in war pre-war days had to be diverted to make tanks military trucks landing craft guns and other war goods In 1939 American farmers were able to buy new trac trac- tors But that was a year when this country made only 2141 planes In the calendar year of 1943 when American farmers were able to buy a mere new tractors the United States manufactured more than planes planes mainly mainly for war The critical shortage of raw materials materials ma ma- that put a ceiling on manufacture manufacture manu manu- facture of new farm machines in 1942 has been superseded by a shortage shortage shortage short short- age of manpower and components During the first quarter of the 1945 farm machinery production year manufacture of new machinery machinery machinery-ex- ex exclusive elusive of wheel tractors repair parts and attachments was attachments was approximately approximately approximately 25 per cent behind sched sched- ule This lag in production was caused by manpower shortages and the difficulty difficulty dif dif dif- in obtaining components chiefly malleable and gray iron cast cast- ings In the Middle West Vest where most of American farm machinery is made the labor supply is inadequate inadequate quate a condition that will not change while war goods are still urgently urgently ur ur- ur gently needed One concern that before the war made approximately 35 per cent of Am American rican farm ma mat chines reported in October 1944 that by March 1945 it would probably ably be short workers needed to keep production up to schedule In effect during the war this country has asked its farmers to raise more crops with less men mento to do the work to keep their farm equipment in working order order order or or- der somehow without counting too heavily on replacements and to share their machines with other farmers whenever and wherever possible To help farmers keep their machines machines ma mat chines going manufacture of repair parts and attachments has been increased in creased considerably In 1944 the scheduled production of repair parts and attachments amounted to approximately approximately ap ape ap- ap proximately per cent of the total total to to- total tal farm machinery output as compared com com- compared pared with 14 per cent in 1940 Twenty-one Twenty per cent more farm commodities were produced in 1944 than in 1940 with 5 per cent fewer workers The annual employment on American American Amer Amer- ican farms decreased from in 1940 to in 1944 Approximately Approximately Approximately Ap Ap- Ap- Ap proximately workers have left agriculture for war industries or the armed forces Approximately farm men had entered the military service up to January 1 1945 American farmers have been getting more use out of individual ual farm machines during the war The exchange and cooperative cooperative cooperative co co- co- co operative use of some machines such as tractors and combines has increased markedly One corn picker for example might be used to harvest as much as 1200 acres of corn in a year Combines have been hauled a thousand miles to harvest crops on farms in county after county If |