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Show gray iron castings. Scheduled production would furnish farmers with about the same amount of new machinery and attachments as they had in the 1944 crop year and nearly $20,000,000 more in repair parts, j About 90 per cent of the new farm machines, except tractors, will go to American farmers, with 10 per cent scheduled to go abroad, 7 per cent in commercial exports and 3 per cent through lend-lease. Farm Machinery Supply Reviewed The War Food administration Wednesday cautioned Utah farmers farm-ers that 1945 supplies cf new machinery, even if manufacturing schedules are met, will not meet essential needs and as long as the war continues, farmers will not be able to buy machinery freely to maintain their facilities at greatest efficiency. This makes it imperative that the care-to-share and repair efforts ef-forts which have pulled the farm setup through many tough spots already must be vigorously continued. con-tinued. There will be no more new tractors, side delivery rakes, combines com-bines or other haying and harvesting har-vesting equipment available than during the 1944 crop year, although al-though the demand will be heavy for this equipment. Problems which are being encountered en-countered by manufacturers in meeting farm machinery schedules are indicated by ther fact that for the first quarter of the production year, July to September, production produc-tion of new machinery, exclusive" of wheel tractors, repair parts and attachments, was about 25 per cent behind schedule. This lag resulted from manpower shortages and the diffculty in obtaining components, chiefly malleable and |
