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Show USDA BUREAU SEES INCREASE IN DEMAND OF DAIRY PRODUCTS Improvement in demand is expected ex-pected to more than offset the 1 effect of increased production of i dairy products on dairy prices this winter, the Bureau of Ag 'ricultural Economies reports. 1 Industrial production, employ. i ment and payrolls are expected to average higher during the winter months than for the same period last year. Expor:s of dairy products arcalso expected to be much larger than at present ol though they are now the largest since the close of the first World war. Milk production at present is about six percent larger than a year earlier, and a new high for that season of he year. Cow j numbers have been increasing ! for about three years and pro. I duction per cow was the highest on record for that date. ' Based on conditions as of October Oc-tober 1 prospects ore for a total production of 96.000,000 tons of feed grains in It! 10. This is two percent more than was indicated by conditions on September 1. The supply of feed grains and byproducts feeds per animal unit un-it for the curre.it feedhi.T. period is distinctly above average. Hay supplies are also large. |